Second Indian War Loan of 1918
Until recently I’ve never seen one of those, there is no trace of such bonds in Google which pulls out very few (and poor) results related to “second indian war loan”. Considering the fact that British India paid its debts, this was short term loan and 100 rupees was quite a lot of money at that time, the chances of any such bonds surviving are very slim.
Ok, its not very decorative but for me it is much more interesting than all those so called “deco” offered at inflated prices just because the graphics was designed by Alfons Mucha or other famous artist although the underlying “economics” (the business the issuer was in and the story behind it) are totally mundane and utterly boring, while here is a piece of real history with Great War and British Empire in the background 🙂