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Auction: 14039 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1179

(†) Bank of England, J G Nairne, £5, London, 3 July 1914, serial number 7/C 05999, black and white, crowned vignette of Britannia at top left, value in black tablet at low left, together with a note and a letter detailing how this note was in the pocket of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu when the passenger liner SS Persia was sunk by a German submarine on 30 December 1915. He writes (to Portals, we presume) to congratulate them on the quality of their paper, as the note had been in his pocket for 32 hours while he was in the water, and yet remains remarkably unscathed, in contrast to all other papers on his person, which were destroyed
(B208b), about very fine, and a truly remarkable story, superb

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£800