Catalogue
Australia, military canteen chits, Sydney Harbour, HMAS Kuttabul Wardroom Mess, one cent; HMAS Watson Wardroom Mess one cent (both blackprint on white paper); Royal Australian Army Pay Corps, Decimal Currency Training Note ten dollars. Uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
Australia, military canteen chits, Sydney Harbour H.M.A.S Watson, Wardroom Mess, one cent, blackprint on white paper, five cents, black print on blue paper; Royal Australian Army Pay Corps, Decimal Currency Training note, ten dollars. Uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $90
SOLD $0
Australian Army, 19 National Service Training Battalion, Officers’ Mess, threepence coupon, c.1950. Uncirculated and scarce.
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Australia, 40 Inf. Bn., Officers’ Mess, sixpence; Navy 131, Receiving Station, Wine Mess, five dollar book with two attached tickets of five cents each, written on cover is ’Noumea’ and ’Clark J.S.’. The first with top and bottom right corners missing and water stained, the cover of the second is torn, good - very good, both scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Australia, U.S. Army Officers’ Club, American Center, Base Section 3, chits for threepence and one shilling. Piece missing at bottom of threepence otherwise fine - very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia, U.S. Army Officers’ Club Gregory Terrace, Base Section 3, WWII, chits for threepence, sixpence and one shilling. Extremely fine and very rare. (3)
Estimate $300
SOLD $0
Australia, U.S. Naval Officers’ Club, Brisbane, WWII, chit for sixpence, no.17039 and one shilling, no.17445. Nearly extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $400
SOLD $550
Algeria, American Officer’s Club, Maison Du Colon, Food Chit, two francs fifty, no.045896; Villa No.1, Bouisseville, Food and Liquor Chit, five francs; A.O.C. chit, two and half francs, Food or Liquor (for use at Maison Du Colon), Series 1. The first fine, the second nearly uncirculated, the last good very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Algeria, WWII, Naval Junior Officers Mess, Ain El Turck, Mess Ticket, 5 francs; Sicily, U.S. Navy Enlisted Men’s Club, WWII, Palermo, Sicily, chit for ten cents; another, main part of the coupon book cover for $1.00 serial no.3892, good during September, October and November 1944. Piece missing at left side of first chit, very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Canada, Officers Mess, H.M.C.S. Peregrine, five and ten cents; Naval Officers Club, 105 Yping Ave, Halifax, ten cents; R.C.A.F., Topclifte, Officers’ Mess, one shilling (John Bell, Printer). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Ceylon, R.N.Canteen, Trincomalee, 1946, chit for Issue One Bottle of Beer (Yarwood p.37), reverse stamped ’Commanding / 12 Jun 1946 / L.S.T. Q.’. Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
Ceylon, R.N.Canteen, Colombo, 1946, chit for Issue One Bottle of Beer (Yarwood p.37), reverse stamped ’L.S.T.Depot Ship (Q).1 / 19 Jul 1946 (this date upside down)’. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $300
China, Tangku (or Taku), c.1945, Comm. Officers’ Mess, GroPac 13, chits for five cents (board) and ten cents (thick paper). Extremely fine; good fine, both rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $250
Espiritu Santo Naval Officers’ Club, WWII, coupons for five, ten, twenty and twenty five cents. The first three each with one rough edge, very fine and scarce group of four. (4)
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Fiji, G.P.H. (Grand Pacific Hotel) World War II Emergency issue, cardboard tokens for one penny, threepence and sixpence, the first and second signed on the back "Chas. Brown". Extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Kong Kong, The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, 1943-49, chit for -10 Club Unit, 20 C.U.F No.0047. Uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $250
India, Calcutta American Officers Mess, WWII, Karnani Estates, four annas. A few small edge tears and a corner crease otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
India, Officers Club, 3rd Air Depot, WWII, Bar, Mess or Billet Coupon, Annas 0 - 4 - 0, no.6897. A few spots of foxing mainly on back, otherwise good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
India, Officers Club, Gushkara, chit for two annas; Post Exchange, AAF Station Bombay, Good For One (1) Coca-Cola, two francs, front stamped ’Alfred Slicer / 1st Lt., Air Corps’. Very fine - extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $260
India, Piardoba Army Air Base, WWII Officer’s Club, chits for four and eight annas. Very fine - extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $220
Iran, Abadan Officers’ Club, WWII, chits for ten and twenty rials, matching serial numbers 00433. Very fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Iran, Amirabad Officers’ Mess, WWII, Bar Coupon, One & Half Rials and Five Rials. Extremely fine - nearly uncirculated and rare. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Micronesia, Caroline Islands, Ulithi Lagoon, Fleet Officers’ Club, ten, fifteen and twenty five cents, WWII. Foxing on first two, very fine, last is nearly uncirculated, all rare.
Estimate $300
SOLD $300
Middle East, UNEF, c.1959, chits for two PT and five PT and another for cigarettes overstamped 23 in red, all with serial numbers and all punch holed (Yarwood p.44). Uncirculated and scarce. (3)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Midway Islands, U.S. base, WWII, ration coupon for month of June, 4 in each corner. Extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Midway Islands, Midway, Beer Ration Coupon, Good For One Beer, with pink underprint, 4-1. Nearly extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $100
North Africa, 301st Ordnance Regiment, Officer’s Club of North Africa, WWII, A.P.O.600 - U.S. Army, chit Good for Five (5) francs. Uncirculated and rare in this condition.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, WWII, Fleet C.P.O. Club, Good For 10 Cents in Trade, black print on white, joined vertical pair, written on reverse ’CPO / -CMM / Joseph / D. / Thomas’. Foxing, heavy at right edge, small piece of bottom right corner missing, fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, WWII, Fleet C.P.O. Club, Good For 10 Cents in Trade, red print on white, black value (26mm x 50mm); another, same detail but different design, red print on white (23.5mm x 37mm). Foxing on back of first chit, very fine, second is nearly uncirculated, both rare. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, WWII, Fleet Officers’ Club, One Chit (2) both with same detail, first a variety with spelling Officers (no apostrophe s), second with thinner lettering, club name all on one line and chit slightly larger. The second with horizontal crease, very fine - extremely fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150