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Auction: 17009 - World Banknotes
Lot: 2655

Siege of Mafeking, £1, March 1900, manuscript serial number 510, dark blue text on blue card-like paper, arms top centre, value at centre and top left and right, soldiers, woman and child and howitzer 'Wolf' at centre, the seal of the Bechuanaland Protectorate omitted top right, manuscript signatures of Mr R.Urry, the Manager of the local branch of the Standard Bank low left, Capt.H.Greener, the Chief paymaster, low right
(Ineson 144, Levius BR16), good extremely fine and scarce, watermarked but most unusually the Bechuanaland seal omitted

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