5 Krónur Landsbanki Íslands, brown colour

Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series across a twelve-year window that included Iceland's 1944 declaration of independence from Denmark — an event that left the Landsbanki's note designs entirely unchanged, since institutional continuity was the political priority and a new currency identity could wait. The bank had been issuing notes denominated in króna since 1886, always through foreign printers, and this series continued that dependence on British security printers without interruption.

Jón Thorleifsson's design credit is relatively rare for Icelandic notes of this period. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — no thread, no UV-reactive elements, consistent with Bradbury Wilkinson's standard output for smaller issuing authorities in the 1930s.