Lot 3136

Sale 89 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, The W.G. & L.M. Wright Collection

Description

Postal notes, Territory of Papua, no.2205, seven shillings and sixpence, issued at Port Moresby, 25 May 1936, payable only in the Territory of Papua and Commonwealth of Australia; Commonwealth of Australia, postal note, the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, no.035252, six shillings, issued at Angoram, 10 May 1965. The first note was recovered from a bombed post office during WWII, it has two triangular cut-out cancellations and is damaged across the lower edge hence graded as very good but still scarce, the second note is extremely fine. (2)

Ex Tom Hanley Collection.

Estimate
$100
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$300

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