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Auction: 12024 - World Banknotes
Lot: 629

Edward VII, 1906 Revised Printing, 17 shillings, no.T/2 381731, red and black, punched PAID, a fascinating piece which was paid sometime in 1908 and then stored along with 2999 other paid orders in the Money Order Department in Queen Victoria Street, London. The batch of Orders was subsequently stolen, chemically altered and the single punch hole in the King´s Head filled in with paper from another order. It was then represented and paid agan in 1909. Comes together with a 3 page typed letter from the Post Office with the full background of the Order´s history and details of two men charged and imprisoned for passing off similar Orders. This theft caused the Post Office to rethink their method of cancellation and brought about the more intricate punching of the word PAID instead of a single round hole, fine to very fine and a rare item

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£220