Mulready Bankers Advice Notes
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David Marsh
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Mulready Bankers Advice Notes
Can anyone explain or point me in the direction of an article about the use of "Bankers Advice Notes" in the 1840s. A number of banks appear to have used Mulready lettersheets (and a few envelopes) as advice notes but I have been unable to work out what their exact purpose was.
I have a few in my own collection and also see others illustrated in Lowe's "The Mulready Advertisments". Most look to be sent to banks but usually these are different banks to the accounts referred to in the printed text. Most have payment amounts added in manuscript but the text of most notes is scant in terms of other information. Lowe suggest some were demands for payment and others are payment advice. If the latter were they accompanied by a cheque (if these existed in the 1840s)? All of the ones I have seen appear to lack information about who is making the payment and to which business the payment should be credited. Were they just intra-bank messages relating to payments that had been made in a customer's bank?
Any explanation or ideas on how these were used would be appreciated.
I have a few in my own collection and also see others illustrated in Lowe's "The Mulready Advertisments". Most look to be sent to banks but usually these are different banks to the accounts referred to in the printed text. Most have payment amounts added in manuscript but the text of most notes is scant in terms of other information. Lowe suggest some were demands for payment and others are payment advice. If the latter were they accompanied by a cheque (if these existed in the 1840s)? All of the ones I have seen appear to lack information about who is making the payment and to which business the payment should be credited. Were they just intra-bank messages relating to payments that had been made in a customer's bank?
Any explanation or ideas on how these were used would be appreciated.