Description and research notes
This uncut sheet of three 1 Zloty notes belongs to the 1941 issue of Bank Emisyjny w Polsce produced for circulation within the General Government during the Second World War. Preserved as a connected production unit, it documents three numbered impressions before final separation into individual banknotes.
Each position retains its complete seven-digit red serial number. From top to bottom, the sheet carries BE4460823, BE4464323, and BE4467823. The shared BE prefix and numbering characteristics identify all three impressions as the Miłczak 99b variety. Their arrangement preserves the original spacing, adjoining margins, alignment, and relationship between consecutive positions within the production layout.
The obverse of each note presents the issuing authority, denomination, Kraków issue date, and printed signatures of President Feliks Młynarski and Deputy President Rudolf Jędrzejowski within a compact typographic composition framed by geometric ornament and guilloche elements. The reverse is centred on a large numeral 1 with paired "ZŁ" denomination panels and the inscriptions BANK EMISYJNY W POLSCE and JEDEN ZŁOTY. The reverse was printed typographically in steel-grey and grey-green tones.
The paper incorporates watermark type 14, formed by a repeating geometric pattern of large light rectangular elements surrounded by smaller dark corner elements. The banknote design was created by Leonard Sowiński.
The sheet contains two circular punch holes and a red diagonal control mark extending across the printed layout. These permanent production-control features record the sheet's handling within the printing process and prevented the connected impressions from entering circulation as ordinary currency.
Miłczak identifies the 99b variety as the Warsaw printing produced by Staatsdruckerei und Münze in the former facilities of Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych S.A. The sheet preserves material evidence of the production methods used at the former PWPW security-printing works under the wartime administrative structure, including numbering, registration, spacing, control markings, paper, and typographic printing.
The original printing sheet measured approximately 650 × 555 millimeters and contained 48 one-złoty banknotes. Complete sheets were normally divided into individual notes during production, while production-control material was subject to strict destruction procedures. Wartime destruction and the loss of Bank Emisyjny material in 1945 further reduced the number of surviving production sheets.
No WZÓR examples of the 1941 1 Zloty issue are known. This surviving three-note section documents the issued Miłczak 99b design in connected production format and preserves three complete impressions, their full serial numbers, watermark type 14, punch holes, red control mark, and original arrangement before final separation.