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Help me identify two signed pieces of currency from British occupied areas during World War II - Bahamas and Egypt
Here are two notes from World War II probably kept in the scrapbook of a veteran. Walter Corbiere here, trying to discover the stories behind who signed these notes during World War II.
I got these two paper bills from the Mannix Sunday antiques fair on Boston Post Road in Guilford CT.
World War II buffs, historians, numismaticists, handwriting/signature experts and smart people with good eyes--please let me know anything you notice about them. I have typed out the letters and words that I'm confident were discerned correctly.
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Digital Photos of the two bills, front and back, are attached.
These bills were signed, probably by British occupation forces, around 1936-1943.
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I am posting these bills before doing any significant research on them and will post additional info as it comes. I'm hoping to find the stories and records of the people who signed these notes. Please comment anything you notice or message me and I will post it and give you credit :) Let's crowdsource!
The two notes may be related to each other. I got them together and they were taped on the edges in the same way. Maybe they are from the same person's scrapbook.
The first is an Egyptian Currency Note: 10 Piastres signed by at least 8 people.
"Issued under Law No. 50/1940"
The signatures include:
Penn Wilson - Kaurtoum[sp?] [Khartoum] (Signed across the top)
L R Watson (signed in the bottom right corner)
Phillip Graf (signed down the middle)
A.K. Fulton (?)
Frank Soun[ster?]
Frank F. Lewton
It looks like Penn Wilson might have signed the bill at a different time, specifying where he signed it because everyone signed it together (In Egypt perhaps?)
The second is Four Shillings issued under The Currency Act of 1936 in the Bahamas. THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT FOUR SHILLINGS
At least 10 signatures on this bill. Many are tougher to decipher, but a couple of the signatures are clearly dated Oct 24/43 and Oct 28/43 next to the same signature repeated twice.
On the front, one of the signatures is listed as "Gordon Lawrence p/o RAF TC[???]" This means he was probably involved with the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom.
The same goes for Capt Somason Raf TC signed on the back.
Below Somason's signature, it might say Patrick L. Laf
In the middle of the front, Jan Ainslie signed it in large clear letters.
I will post future discoveries in comments!
