THEFT OF NOTES
A MOST VALUABLE COLLECTION
40.000 DIFFERENT SPECIMENS
(United Press Association By Eloctin Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 2.5 p.m.) LONDON. September 22 (Received this day at 2.5 p.m.)
A famous Avoumore collection o? banknotes contained in 110 leatherbound volumes and claimed to he the world’s most representative collection, worth 0u0.0'.0. was stolen irom taie home ot the owner. Frederick falling, of Kensington. The thieves forced a steel sale. The collection which i> of a face value of £6. 000.000,0f’0. included four t hine-e over a thousand years old* Altogether There are forty thousand specimens widen took halt a century to assemble.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1937, Page 5
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