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Voucher - 1 Shilling Hay Camp 7; Confinement Voucher
| Issuer | Camp Seven Bank, Internment Camp Hay |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#1213 |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress on card stock; the full field is filled with a repeating underprint of 25 stylised merino rams, each individually numbered "7", arranged in a five-by-five grid. Central text panel carries the camp restriction notice in bold letterpress. |
| Reverse lettering | THIS NOTE IS VALID ONLY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF CAMP SEVEN INTERNMENT CAMP HAY The bank is under no obligation to honour this Note if presented by Holders outside this Camp. |
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Hay Camp 7 was one of three internment camps established at Hay, New South Wales, to house civilian internees — predominantly Jewish refugees from Central Europe who had fled Nazi persecution, only to be classified as "enemy aliens" upon arrival in Australia. The bitter irony was not lost on the internees themselves. An internal camp economy was permitted under Geneva Convention provisions, and these vouchers were the medium through which it functioned, redeemable at the camp canteen rather than in any external economy.
George Teltscher, who designed this voucher, was himself an internee — a trained graphic artist from Vienna. The fact that the camp's own prisoners designed and presumably helped produce its scrip is the detail that makes this piece genuinely unusual. Camb#1213 is the collector reference for the 1 Shilling denomination within this series.