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Series
Post Office Savings Bank and Department: Gift Tokens Files
Catalogue reference: NSC 16
What's it about?
NSC 16
Files relating to the National Savings Gift Tokens scheme.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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NSC 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office Savings Bank and Department: Gift Tokens Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1953
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating to the National Savings Gift Tokens scheme.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Post Office Savings Department, 1861-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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23 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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National Savings Gift Tokens were first placed on sale on 11 November 1940 in order that persons could give presents which contributed to the war savings campaign. Such tokens were exchangeable by the recipient initially only for national savings certificates but from 6 December 1941 they could be used for other forms of national savings.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11326/
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