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Auction: 9019 - Banknotes & Coins of South East Asia, Featuring the Bill Christensen Sarawak Collection of Banknotes & Coins
Lot: 100

Treasury note, $1, 1 May 1917, red handstamp serial number 4422, black and white, value in green underprint at centre, allegorical maiden top centre, arms top right, Charles Johnson Brooke top left, two manuscript signatures below, one of George Gillan , Charles Brooke Rajah in margin low left (Tan K 1), printed date 18- and overwritten 1917, the C.C.Chan collection example is number 4423 and date exactly as this example, presumbably used due to a shortage of suitable notes of the correct issue, fresh, an original good very fine and a superb example, a most attractive Perkins Bacon engraving Estimate S$ 6,000-8,000

Sold for
SG$28,000