Lot 1661

Description

Robert R. Smith, Hotel and Storekeeper, Hall's Creek, Gallon License & General Store, Wyndham, uniface ten shillings, currency note, dated July 2 1931, (193- printed), numbered No. 229, signed R. Smith, unwatermarked, value block as 10/- in upper corners, imprint 'M.C.L. Print Ltd. Leake St, Fremantle', on front 'Payable at undermentioned addresses:- Robert R. Smith, Hotel and Storekeeper, Hall's Creek, Gallon License & General Store, Wyndham', in centre block '10/-' each side separating 'Ten Shillings', below 'On Demand I promise to pay by cheque on the Bank of New South Wales, Perth, or E.S. & A. Bank, Darwin, the sum of Ten Shillings sterling. Dated this Second day of July 1931', within rectangular border, pink central block, pink and black on white, (not noted by Vort-Ronald). Creases and folds, in ink 'Cancelled 24/11/2' across note, a few small holes along folds, otherwise fine and extremely rare.

Another rare 'shin-plaster' issue from Western Australia. Hall's Creek also saw the issue by John Inglis (in this sale). This issue, in the middle of the Depression was also made by the same printer in Fremantle, (who had changed their name from twenty five years earlier) as present on the Inglis note.