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Auction: 19030 - The Ibrahim Salem Collection of British Commonwealth - Part One
Lot: 440

(x) Government of the Falkland Islands, £1, manuscript date 16 October 1899, serial number A/1 00001, uniface, blue on tan underprint, value in tablet at centre, and at low centre, left and right, ornate border, three manuscript signatures low right of Charles Hill, M.Muirfield and J.J.Felton,
(Pick A3, GFI B4a), in PMG holder 30 Very Fine, annotated on reverse "from J.J.Felton to Mansell Esq. Manager of National Bank of Argentina Port Gallegos" completely original, the Linzmayer plate note, and as a number-one of 1899 this is the first Government note ever issued in the Falkland Islands! A truly historic find and a cornerstone note for any serious collector of the Falklands, or indeed Argentina

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Estimate
£30,000 to £36,000