Lot 3643

Description

Specimen banknotes, engraved and printed by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Maldon, Surrey, England, thirty one notes c1953-1961 in blue leather presentation album (25.3x14.4cms), with initials of company gold blocked on cover, pages gold edged, print of company Head Office and Works, adhered to inside back page (stained); notes all overprinted 'Specimen' in red, hole punched and tipped in to a section of page along left side margin, includes Kuwait (P.2s), half dinar; Iran, fifty rials (P.66s); Egypt, fifty piastres (P.29s); Afghanistan, one hundred afghanis (P.34cs); Iraq, half dinar (P.52s); Tunisia, five dinars (P.60s); Libya, five Libyan pound (P.21s); Syria, fifty Syrian livres (P.77s); Ethiopia, one hundred Ethiopian dollars (P.23s); Nigeria, one pound (P.4s); Hong Kong, ten dollars (P.182as); Portugal, twenty escudos (P.153s); Iceland, twenty five kronur (P.39s); Isle of Man, ten shillings (P.24s); Scotland, one pound (P.265s); Mauritius, ten rupees (P.28s); Ceylon, fifty rupees (P.60s); Bermuda, ten shillings(P.19s); Macau, fifty patacas (P.47s); Malaya and British Borneo , fifty dollars (P.4s); Luxembourg, twenty francs (P.49s); Malta, five pounds (P.27cts); Cape Verde, one hundred escudos (P.49s); Fiji, five pounds (P.54cs); Cyprus, five pounds (P.36cts); Turkey, one thousand lirasi (P.172s); Rhodesia & Nyasaland, one pound (P.21cts); Mocambique, one thousand escudos (P.105s); Cambodia, five riels (P.10cts); Belgian Congo, fifty franks (P.32cts); South Africa, ten shillings (P.91ds). No 175 printed inside cover top left corner, some wear to album, notes uncirculated. (31)