Auction Catalogue

30 September 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British and World Paper Money

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 3185 x

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30 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£180

Government of Jamaica, Ten Shillings (2), both 1 November 1940, C/10 54886, C/10 54894, signatures of A. Hodges (Pick 38b) [2]. Marks on top edge, otherwise extremely fine to about uncirculated £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The André Chin Collection of Jamaican Paper Money.

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Provenance: From the wreck of SS Politician, an 8,000-ton freighter outbound from Liverpool for Kingston and New Orleans, which sank in a gale near the island of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, on 5 February 1941. The infamity of the wreck was assured by the islanders’ salvage of the vessel’s cargo of Scotch malt whisky, later recreated in Compton Mackenzie’s 1947 novel Whisky Galore and the subsequent film. The vessel also contained almost 290,000 ten-shilling notes, of which over three-quarters were recovered by the salvage company and the police and subsequently destroyed