This set of British Armed Forces Special Vouchers were issued to troops of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in post war Germany and elsewhere from 1948 until the end of 1979 for use as currency. Their intended pupose was to stem the tide of illegal black market sales of government property to the local population in the occupied areas. The 1 and 5 pound notes, marked with the printer Thomas De La Rue are from the second issue, released in 1948 and 1958 respectively. The 5, 10, and 50 pence notes are from the 6th issue, printed by Bradbury and Wilkinson in 1972, released in conjunction with the switch to decimalization.