Here is another favorite, but heck, they're all favorites. FSAT 33 from 1969, commemorating French Antartic Expeditions. I love that blue and the aircraft, an Allouette helo and the big Noratlass above..
Here are a pair of banknotes that I have been fond of for a very long time. They were both from an old collection of 1920s-WW2 banknotes that I came across at am antiques auction. The original collector had mounted them in a scrapbook with tape, and the results are obvious. The first is a Philippines 1 peso from the 1944 Victory Issue, Pick 94. These were printed and ready to go for the liberation, since the Japanese currency was already worthless and the US had promised to exchange the emergency currencies issued by the resistance groups at par. This note is also a short-snorter, a slang term for a momento piece. On the reverse are the signatures of several US servicemen, with "Pelelieu to Manus 2/21/55." Very, very special piece.
The second note is a Netherlands Indies 5 gulden. 1943 Issue, Pick 113. This was issued by the Dutch Indies Government in Exile in Australia and printed by the American Bank Note Company. As such they were a promissory note against the return of Dutch Indies rule after the war. The Indies had fallen to the Japanese in March, 1942, after that debacle in the Java Sea. Dutch rule was never really returned after the war, and the area became Indonesia. On the reverse are images of a Curtis Hawk 75/P-36 fighter and the cruiser HNLMS de Ruyter, which was lost during the Battle of the Java Sea. By the way, the de Ruyter and two other ships sunk in that fight were found in 2002, declared War Graves, and then illegally salvaged for scrap.
Finished it right down to the wire for CAPEX, the second full revision of my single frame exhibit on Jack O' Lanterns. Herewith, the last page which mimics the pumpkin festivals such as the one formerly held at Keene, New Hampshire (as does the previous page with the older issues). Revisions fall somewhere between 'a labor of love' and 'somebody please kill me.'
My trusty assistant Lucy Bouques has had to take some time off due to dental work. She's feeling fine now, as long as I can keep her drugged up, and she would like to come back to work, but because of the protective collar she cannot get close enough to the catalog to read the fine print.
I can find others, but not in pink, and not as poorly legible as this one. So I think it might be a forgery, though that's based not on this issue specifically, as I'm not a specialist, but more on experience with forgeries in general over the years.
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Really nice one there mate.
The first is a Philippines 1 peso from the 1944 Victory Issue, Pick 94. These were printed and ready to go for the liberation, since the Japanese currency was already worthless and the US had promised to exchange the emergency currencies issued by the resistance groups at par. This note is also a short-snorter, a slang term for a momento piece. On the reverse are the signatures of several US servicemen, with "Pelelieu to Manus 2/21/55." Very, very special piece.
The second note is a Netherlands Indies 5 gulden. 1943 Issue, Pick 113. This was issued by the Dutch Indies Government in Exile in Australia and printed by the American Bank Note Company. As such they were a promissory note against the return of Dutch Indies rule after the war. The Indies had fallen to the Japanese in March, 1942, after that debacle in the Java Sea. Dutch rule was never really returned after the war, and the area became Indonesia. On the reverse are images of a Curtis Hawk 75/P-36 fighter and the cruiser HNLMS de Ruyter, which was lost during the Battle of the Java Sea.
By the way, the de Ruyter and two other ships sunk in that fight were found in 2002, declared War Graves, and then illegally salvaged for scrap.
Dave, about ten years, but this page is just a drop in the bucket of my pumpkins if you include on-cover.
Your most recent video and top 10 19th WW was thoughtful and courageous!!! Just to attempt such a scan is, by definition, Courageous!!
You are an AF veteran; on this so important holiday, I salute you.
Best
Berrien
U.S. E3 with Columbian Expo. station duplex handstamp cancel.