John Frazer (Gulf of Carpentaria) 1869 Sight Note about VF
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John Frazer (Gulf of Carpentaria) 1869 Sight Note about VF
Location: Rockland - Gulf of Carpentaria
Value: One Pound 13 pence
Recipient: Uncertain - R.B. Edwins Esquire
Date of Issue: May 15th 1869
This note is an intact slice of Queensland's colonial numismatic history.
A text named "Australian Men of Mark", published in Sydney in 1889 provided the following background information on John Frazer:
"The late Honourable John Frazer, MLC, began life in the colony of New South Wales nearly fifty years ago as a penniless boy. Hard work, relieved by heroic attempts at self-culture, marked his early days. Then an attempt at a business on his own account was made, and this gradually expanded and grew until to-day we find the firm of Messrs. John Frazer and Company, which he founded and which inherits his honourable name, occupying a position in the very forefront of the great importing houses of this pre-eminently commercial city."
"The Honourable John Frazer was closely identified with many of the leading commercial and financial institutions of Sydney. He was a director, and for a long time chairman, of the Sydney Fire Insurance Company. He had served on the directorate of the Australian Joint Stock Bank, the Mutual Life Assurance Company, the Australian Steam Navigation Company, the Australian Gaslight Company, the Commercial Union Insurance Company, and other public institutions. At the time of his death, he was a director of the Commercial Bank. As a public-spirited citizen, he was known by his benefactions to the Sydney University and to St. Andrew's Presbyterian College within that University. And he has left a familiar memorial of his liberality by his gift to the people of Sydney of the two " Frazer Fountains," which stand at the entrance to the Hyde Park and the Domain."
Before his retirement in 1869, Frazer included several cattle runs in Queensland among his commercial interests. The Australian Dictionary of Biography states: "From the mid-1860s Frazer speculated in land in Queensland and by 1871 had four runs of his own and eighteen in partnership." This note relates to what I understand is a property named "Rockland" near the Gulf of Carpentaria, while other sight notes issued by him cover areas such as Caamboon and Walloon.
This is easily the most affordable sight note (in terms of the face value) issued by Frazer that we have seen.
The edges at the top and bottom both have lenghty separations, a number of small pinholes are evident on the left-hand side of the note.
It remains an intact slice of Queensland's colonial numismatic history.
SKU: 208540
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