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1 Shilling RCAF Topcliffe
| Uitgever | Royal Canadian Air Force, Topcliffe Officers' Mess |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1942-1944 |
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| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | John Bell, Thirsk |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain grey paper with black letterpress text arranged in three lines: the issuing authority abbreviation at top, mess designation below, and the denomination in large figures at lower left. The printer's cartouche device appears at lower right. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | R.C.A.F. Topcliffe Officers' Mess 1/= JOHN BELL PRINTER, THIRSK. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Officers' mess scrip from RCAF Station Topcliffe, a heavy bomber base in North Yorkshire where No. 6 Group RCAF operated Halifaxes and Wellingtons throughout the campaign against occupied Europe. These notes circulated within the mess itself — a closed economy designed to keep accounting clean and limit cash handling among a rotating population of aircrew.
John Bell of Thirsk was a small local printer, not a security printing house. The grey paper and modest production values reflect wartime scarcity rather than any lapse in institutional standards. Mess scrip of this type was never legal tender and held no value outside the station; most was destroyed at the end of the war or when individual messes were wound up, which is why RCAF mess issues survive in very small numbers today.