18/1907 Bank of New Zealand Twenty Pounds

Bank of New Zealand. Third Issue £20. Printed date of 18__ but hand dated overprint ( est 1 June ) 1907. Wellington domicile. P.S194. 

Ex Spink Australia, Sale 27, Lot 1812. P&M Eccles Auction, Sale 76, November 1981, Lot 949. Ex Nobles Sale 95, estimated at $20,000. Illustrated on page 61 in 'Trading Bank Notes of New Zealand' by Alistair Robb.

Excessively rare, the earliest known Twenty Pounds of this series to survive, as well as the only known variety in private hands with handwritten date and signature.