Collection PL

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

The proof reproduces the 50 Dollars design in monochrome, allowing the engraved structure and tonal balance of the top denomination to be studied without the full rose and pink colour scheme. The design shows the large corner denomination tablets, strong rectangular border, C.B.C. Travellers' Cheque title panel, central bank-name field, scripted amount line, drawer's signature area, and the repeated security underprint across the background. The central Australia map device and circular bank medallion remain visible beneath the main typography, preserving the shared visual language of the 10 Dollars, 20 Dollars, and 50 Dollars series. 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)

Specimen of the 5 Pounds Travellers Cheque prepared for Thomas Cook and Son during the early 1920s, representing the finished specimen-stage form of one of the most recognizable private travel-payment instruments of the interwar period. Printed in a rich brown security design and marked with red specimen and cancellation wording, this cheque preserves the operational format used by Thomas Cook and Son for secure international travel finance after the First World War. Read more →

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

This 1919 proof occupies an important position between earlier Thomas Cook circular note designs and the more standardized traveller-payment instruments of the early 1920s. It connects backward to the earlier Thomas Cook and Son 50 Dollars Circular Note photographic proof and forward to the later Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Travellers Cheque photographic proof. The comparison shows the continuity of Thomas Cook's identity-linked payment system while also documenting the movement from circular note design language toward the later traveller's cheque format. Read more →

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

The broader sequence connects this proof backward to the earlier Thomas Cook and Son 50 Dollars Circular Note photographic proof and forward to the later Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Travellers Cheque photographic proof. That relationship places the item within a documented evolution of Thomas Cook private payment instruments, from Edwardian circular notes through postwar design review and into the more standardized traveller-payment forms of the early 1920s. Read more →

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

Photographic proof of the 50 Dollars Travellers Cheques prepared for Thomas Cook and Son Limited in 1919, representing a production-review record from the firm's post First World War international payment programme. Mounted on cardstock and dated 20 October 1919 on the reverse mount, this proof preserves a dollar-denominated traveller-payment design created for use within a defined North American payment channel. Read more →

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

Photographic proof of the 50 Dollars Travellers Cheques prepared for Thomas Cook and Son Limited in 1919, representing a distinct ornamental design state within the firm's post First World War dollar-denominated traveller-payment programme. Mounted on cardstock and dated 10 November 1919 on the reverse mount, this proof preserves a related but visually separate 50 Dollars design from the same United States and Canada payment branch as the earlier pictorial payment panel proof. Read more →

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

Photographic proof of the 50 Dollars Travellers Cheques prepared for Thomas Cook and Son Limited in 1919, representing a highly developed control-layout design for the firm's post First World War international traveller-payment system. Mounted on cardstock and dated 29 March 1919 on the reverse mount, this proof records a more operationally structured 50 Dollars form than the companion United States and Canada design proofs, with serial-number placement, formal payment instruction text, and a detailed international exchange-rate grid built directly into the face. Read more →

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

This sight draft connects naturally with the wider Thomas Cook and Son sequence. It belongs near the earlier Thomas Cook and Son 50 Dollars Circular Note photographic proof and helps explain the payment environment from which the later circular note and travellers cheque instruments developed. It also provides an important contrast with the 1919 Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Circular Note photographic proof and the 1919 Thomas Cook and Son Limited 50 Dollars Travellers Cheques photographic proof with central eagle vignette, where the design language becomes more elaborate, more security-printed, and more explicitly tied to named redemption regions. Read more →

Great Britain c. 1900 - Thomas Cook and Son 20 Pounds Circular Note, Cancelled Unissued Note (Pick Unlisted)

The 20 Pounds denomination is particularly significant within the surviving Thomas Cook Circular Note record. Lower denominations, including 5 Pounds and 10 Pounds, are represented by surviving Thomas Cook material, while no second example of this 20 Pounds Circular Note has presently been identified within the reviewed catalog, auction, grading, or published reference record. The denomination is independently documented within the Thomas Cook payment system by the later 5 Pounds Travellers Cheque specimen in this collection, whose printed denomination information states that related instruments were also issued in 10 Pounds and 20 Pounds values. Read more →