Lot 3800

Description

Allied Airmen's survival kit items, WWII, includes Allied Forces services rendered slips, with watermarks of Australian, British and American arms and English, Dutch, Malayan and Portuguese language text, for use by Allied Forces personnel in Dutch East Indies for issue to local inhabitants so they may receive payment for providing assistance to them, three unused consecutive slips; two large fold-out sheets for English translation, one titled Malay Glossary for Airmen and the other titled Tetum Glossary for Airmen; printed letter on Dutch East Indies watermarked paper and with Dutch East Indies coat-of-arms at top, for use by Allied Force personnel seeking help from local Javanese village chief (2). All with folds but unused and in remarkable condition for their age. (7)

Tetum is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor.