Object number
TN.2008.493
Title
Bank of England Ten Pound Note
Date
1992 - 1992
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7.5 x 14.2 cm
Description
Ten pound sterling (£10 GBP) bank note. Portrait of Charles Dickens (right) and a cricket match Dingley Dell against Muggleton, from the Pickwick Papers 1836 (left).
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In 1861 Spiers and Pond wrote to the famous novelist Charles Dickens, who had recently conducted a successful reading tour of the United States, and offered him £10,000 to undertake a tour of Australia. Dickens never replied. Had he done so, the first English cricket tour of Australia might have been delayed for some years.
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