Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, a pair of original hand drawn design essays for the face and reverse of the $100 circulation note issued 1959 to 1972, produced by Bradbury Wilkinson, most likely by Derek Friday, the two designs on paper in pencil, ink, and watercolour, measure 9.5cms x 17.1cms, the face design is dated 1946, in good condition with a small number of minor spots and stains and minor rounding of the corners, accompanying the design essays is a coloured pencil sketch on tracing paper of the reverse a $100 note similar in appearance to the 1959 note, and may have been an earlier design idea for this note