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50 - Advertisement Leaflet Bradbury Wilkinson & Co LTD
| Issuer | Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. |
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| Value | 50 |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by an elaborate symmetrical guilloche design printed in multiple colours — red, pink, blue, teal, orange and violet — forming concentric lathe-work lobes and scrollwork that radiate from a central horizontal panel. That panel bears the firm name in bold letterpress capitals reserved in white against a deep background, flanked above and below by fine parallel rule lines and acanthus foliate ornaments, demonstrating the full range of the printer's security-printing and colour-blending capabilities. |
| Reverse lettering | BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. LTD.. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson used printed advertising leaflets — often designed to the same dimensions as standard banknotes — as sales collateral when pitching to central banks and finance ministries. These specimens were distributed to prospective clients to demonstrate the firm's engraving quality, security printing capabilities, and available design options. New Malden operated as BW's primary production facility from the late nineteenth century until the company was absorbed into De La Rue in 1990.
Not a circulating instrument of any kind. Collectible primarily for what it reveals about the commercial side of security printing procurement.