Lot 3122
Sale 95 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, The Robb Family Collection
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Description
Solomon Islands, I.B.B.C. Port Purvis, WWII, chits for five cents, two joined; chit book cover for Iron Bottom Bay Club (Naval Officers' Club). Both chits with glue residue on back, one with top right section missing and some trace of foxing, the other very fine, the cover with piece missing at left edge, fine, all very rare. (1 + 2 joined)
Port Purvis is an anchorage in the Florida Islands (or Nggela Islands), a group of islands in the central province of the Solomon Islands and which was used as a U.S. seaplane base and a watering point for the U.S. Navy during WWII. U.S. Navy ships lost in the vicinity include seven cruisers and fifteen destroyers.
- Estimate
- $150
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $130