Private Notes of Outback Australia
Lot 2805 SESSION 9 - 4.30PM Wednesday 30 July Private Notes of Outback Australia
Estimate $350
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $380
GEORGE WATSON, Rankine River, Northern Territory, S.A. via Camooweal five shillings uniface currency note, July 1st 1919 (191 printed) rubber ink stamped Cancelled, imprint Watson, Ferguson & Co Ltd Brisbane signed by Geo. Watson in ink, (this note discussed in Vort Ronald..Shinplaster..Page 111). A full note with some edge tears, otherwise good fine and excessively rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 82 (lot 2788). Only the second example to appear on the market (see Sale 79, lot 2901 for the other). A third example is in the National Library of Australia (ex John A. Ferguson) and is dated May 24th 1904, none of the survivors have a serial number (see CAB vol 8, no.11 Dec 2005 p68).
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