Collection PL

Scotland 1962 - National Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited 5 Pounds Photographic Back Proof, Landscape Design (Pick Unlisted)

The image has a very different character from the Edinburgh Castle reverse. Instead of using the capital city as the central symbol, this design turns toward landscape and atmosphere. The river, clustered trees, low horizon, and distant hills create a softer national image, closer to Scotland as countryside and natural setting than Scotland as civic monument or financial capital. Read more →

Australia 1965 - Commercial Banking Company of Sydney 20 Dollars Travellers Cheque Photographic Proof (Pick Unlisted)

Its position in the surviving approval trail is especially important. The related 20 Dollars colour design proof was submitted on 23 March 1965 and carries the left-margin review annotation referring to the 12 April 1965 letter. This photographic proof, dated 31 March 1965, shows that the denomination was already being examined within the printer's review process before the April correspondence stage. It is therefore one of the earliest surviving technical records of the 20 Dollars design, standing between the submitted proof and the later sequence of revision evidence preserved across the companion 50 Dollars photographic proofs. Read more →

Australia 1965 - Commercial Banking Company of Sydney 50 Dollars Travellers Cheque Photographic Proof (Pick Unlisted)

Its date places it at a precise and important point in the surviving approval trail. The 50 Dollars colour design proof was submitted on 23 March 1965 and carries the left-margin annotation referring to the 12 April 1965 letter. The 20 Dollars photographic proof is dated 31 March 1965. This 50 Dollars photographic proof, dated 1 April 1965, follows immediately after it, showing that both higher denominations were under active photographic review within days of the original March submission. Together, the 31 March and 1 April photographic proofs preserve the printer's early technical examination of the March design stage. Read more →

Australia 1965 - Commercial Banking Company of Sydney 50 Dollars Travellers Cheque Approval-Stage Photographic Proof (Pick Unlisted)

The proof reproduces the 50 Dollars design in monochrome, but its importance lies in the visible changes that separate it from the earlier 1 April 1965 50 Dollars photographic proof. The inscription "The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited" is carried across a distinctly light horizontal reserve panel, lifting the bank title out of the dense security background and giving the central field a cleaner visual hierarchy. This treatment makes the institutional name read with immediate clarity while preserving the same high-denomination structure, corner value tablets, C.B.C. Travellers' Cheque title panel, scripted amount line, Australia map motif, circular C.B.C. medallion, and drawer's signature area seen throughout the 50 Dollars design progression. Read more →

Great Britain 1922 - Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Travellers Cheque Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

As a surviving specimen of the 5 Pounds Thomas Cook and Son Travellers Cheque, this item occupies an important position in the history of private payment media, security printing, and international travel finance. Its connection to the matching photographic proof strengthens the archival value of both pieces, preserving the movement from design verification to finished specimen presentation within one of the most influential traveller-payment systems of the twentieth century. Read more →

Great Britain 1919 - Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Circular Note Photographic Proof (Pick Unlisted)

This 5 Pounds Circular Note proof is a discovery-level survivor within the history of Thomas Cook and Son's private financial instruments. Its importance lies not only in its individual rarity, but in its place within a wider linked sequence of circular note and later traveller-payment material. When viewed beside the 1904 50 Dollars circular note proof, the alternate 1919 5 Pounds proof, and the later 1922 5 Pounds traveller-payment proof and specimen, it helps document the evolution of secure portable money for international travel from Edwardian circular notes into the mature twentieth-century travel-payment system. Read more →

Great Britain 1919 - Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Circular Note Photographic Proof, Alternate Design (Pick Unlisted)

This 5 Pounds Circular Note alternate-design proof is a discovery-level archival survivor from the history of Thomas Cook and Son's private financial instruments. Its importance rests on its denomination, its photographic proof format, its mounted presentation, its connection to the companion 1919 proof, and its place within a wider sequence of circular note and later traveller-payment design development. As part of that linked group, it helps document the transformation of secure portable money for international travel during one of the most important transitional periods in private payment history. Read more →

Great Britain 1919 - Thomas Cook and Son Limited 50 Dollars Travellers Cheques Photographic Proof, Central Eagle Vignette Design (Pick Unlisted)

As a dated photographic proof with United States and Canada payment wording, a central eagle vignette, a 50 Dollars denomination, full Bradbury Wilkinson and Company Limited imprint, identity-verification text, and direct connection to the Thomas Cook traveller-payment sequence, this piece is a museum-grade archival survivor. It stands as a distinct production-review artifact from the development of secure portable money for international travel after the First World War, and as an R9 Extremely Rare reference item within the study of private payment instruments, security printing, and Thomas Cook and Son Limited financial history. Read more →

Great Britain 1919 - Thomas Cook and Son Limited 50 Dollars Travellers Cheques Photographic Proof, Ornamental Oval Design (Pick Unlisted)

The face is dominated by a large ornamental oval structure that carries the main traveller-payment wording through a dense engraved security field. The Thomas Cook and Son name is worked into the upper design area, while the central title identifies the instrument as a Travellers Cheque for Fifty Dollars. The layout uses heavy guilloche work, broad ornamental framing, floral and geometric security devices, and repeated denomination elements to create a compact but highly controlled payment form. Read more →

Great Britain 1919 - Thomas Cook and Son Limited 50 Dollars Travellers Cheques Photographic Proof, Control Layout Design (Pick Unlisted)

The proof also belongs within the wider Thomas Cook and Son Limited transition from circular notes into standardized travellers cheques. It follows the earlier circular-note branch represented by the 1919 Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Circular Note photographic proof and the alternate 1919 Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Circular Note photographic proof, while helping explain how the firm moved toward traveller-payment instruments with clearer numbering, expiry, identification, exchange, and correspondent-bank functions. Read more →

Great Britain 1900 - Thomas Cook and Son 4 Pounds 1 Shilling 8 Pence Sight Draft Photographic Proof (Pick Unlisted)

The central wording reads "At sight pay to the order of," followed by a blank space for the named payee. This establishes the instrument as a sight draft, payable when presented according to the firm's instructions. The lower wording includes "value received at" and a printed dating line reading "this day of 190," leaving spaces for the place, day, and month to be completed when the draft was issued. At the lower left, the instruction "Sign here" guides the holder or authorized signer, showing the document's practical role in a signature-based payment system. Read more →

Poland 1938 - Ministry of Finance 1 Zloty State Ticket IB4039776 (Pick 50)

Although dated 1 October 1938, the ticket entered circulation on 26 August 1939 during the nationwide mobilization and remained legal tender until 20 May 1940. A total of 12,430,000 examples were printed. Surviving production material, including unnumbered sheets, printing trials, circulation proofs without watermark, and other manufacturing-stage material, documents the complete production history of the issue beyond the released circulation notes. Read more →