Krueger's Men (2008)
“To inspect the bound ledgers of the Bank of England’s transactions is to enter a lost world. Until World War I, some clerks, shabby in top hats and tailcoats, still used quill pens. Even when they modernized with steel nibs, copperplate script remained the norm, elegantly recording the exchange of notes in and out, true and false. From the slump of the early 1930s until the early 1940s, barely a dozen large counterfeit notes had reached Threadneedle Street instead of being stopped in commercial... banks by tellers who were trained to spot them. In April 1941, new forgeries started appearing. They had been skillfully photographed and then printed by lithography, but were easily detected by their limp paper. Relatively few of these Type Z forgeries (as the Bank designated them) passed through the Note Office in the following months, and they caused little alarm. They were traced to the occupied territories of Belgium and France; the neutral transfer point of Switzerland; and to Palestine, then under British rule, having probably originated in occasional distributions by Operation Andreas.MoreLess
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