British India 5 Five Rupees George VI Shipwreck Watermark Paper Uncut Sheet
British India 5 Rupees Shipwreck Watermark Paper - Uncut Sheets. The 5 rupee uncut sheet is very very very hard to find relative to the 10 rupee uncut sheet. Each of these sheets has close to 30 watermarks enough to make 30 pieces of 5 rupees notes. If you need more pictures or any other information, please feel free to send me a message.
These have no folds and have been stored only in tubes and will be mailed to you in a tube. Wrinkles, tears, folds and excessive coloration on it. Some sheets might even be completely colored with a brown tinge. Things like these come up for sale at such a price when they are available in the market.
In a few years they will probably all sell out and the prices will increase steadily and people start flocking to it then. This is a great opportunity to own a piece of Indian history at a very affordable price.Here's some history about this. On 23rd of December 1940, two German Heinkel bombers attacked a convoy of British ships awaiting in Ardmucknish Bay, Benderloch, near Oban in Scotland. Built in 1921, Breda was 400 feet long and weighed about 7,000 tons. Bound for India to help build an air strip, her manifest included Tiger Moth motorcycles, cement, leather and a Rolls Royce.
As they tried to tow her to safety, she listed and sank, with her masts still well above water. For years, divers practiced on her, as she was a well known shipwreck. Breda lay there, dived on, but in many ways undiscovered because of the darkness of the loch. Then the Tralee Bay Diving and Watersports Club made a most amazing discovery. In one of the long hidden cargo holds was found the remains of paper, but not just any paper can survive 50 years under water.
This was fine quality paper used for the printing of banknotes! Portals, who was owned by the Bank of England, had manufactured special paper for the printing of Indian banknotes, watermarked with the portrait of King George VI.The wooden boxes had been eaten away and the edges of the uncut sheets were a little ragged, but this treasure was still intact! In order to keep the find secret, the divers refilled their air tanks at three different locations some ten miles apart. That part of Scotland is close knit and they wanted to protect their treasure find for as long as possible.
Over the years, salvage rights to the hull had been obtained but no one had thought to get the rights for the contents. This was quickly rectified and on the 11th September , 1992, when the Deputy Receiver of Wrecks, Oban, gave those rights to the diving crew. This banknote paper is an authentic relic of that shipwreck. It was originally destined to become an India 5 rupee banknote. The water mark shows a likeness of King George VI, the denomination and the words, RESERVE BANK OF INDIA. The item "British India 5 Five Rupees George VI Shipwreck Watermark Paper Uncut Sheet" is in sale since Monday, January 28, 2019. This item is in the category "Coins & Paper Money\Paper Money\ World\Asia\India". The seller is "brokencompass" and is located in Bellevue, Washington. This item can be shipped worldwide.- Country: India
- Type: Uncut Sheets