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Auction: CSS45 - Banknotes, Bonds & Shares and Coins of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2081

Government of Sarawak, a set of official obverse and reverse copies of a $1, blue and white, $5, purple and white (with two additional reverses), $10, red and white, $25, blue and white, $50, green and white and $100, purple-black, all portrait of Charles Vyner Brooke and arms, first two dated 1 July 1929, balance hand date '29' (1929).
(Tan SkU6, U8, U9, U10, U11, U12, Goon p.179-181 for original die proofs), These are official archival copies from the printers, a set of die proofs from which these notes have been copied are in Tan, reference SKU6ff although the colours are slightly different. In addition it is possible to feel engraving in places. A fascinating group produced by the printers Bradbury Wilkinson. (14)

Sold for
HK$140,000