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5 unusual facts about De La Rue


Belizean passport

In early 2004, Belize suffered a "passport crisis" due to a shortage of blank passports when a delivery from the country's United Kingdom-based passport supplier De La Rue was delayed.

De La Rue

In 1995, the company acquired Portals Limited from the Portal family.

Osman Waqialla

In 1967 he moved to England and worked as a consultant calligrapher to the firm of banknote makers De La Rue.

Samoan tālā

In 2008 a new series in denominations of 5-100 Tala produced by De La Rue was introduced with brighter colors, new security features, and modern designs.

Ukrainian hryvnia

The banknotes were designed and printed by British De La Rue.


Bradbury Wilkinson and Company

In 1917 the company was established at New Malden in Surrey where it remained until 1986 when it was acquired by De La Rue.

Nepalese banknotes

The later issues were supplied by well known western firms such as De La Rue and Giesecke & Devrient.

Printer's sample stamp

The R.M. Phillips Collection at the British Postal Museum and Archive contains a number of sample stamps produced by De La Rue before 1900, bearing their name and demonstrating their printing abilities for the British Post Office.

Thomas de la Rue

Thomas de la Rue (24 March 1793 – 7 June 1866) was a printer from Guernsey who, from modest beginnings, founded De La Rue plc, a printing company which is now the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker.


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Alain Finkielkraut

Finkielkraut first came to public attention when he and Pascal Bruckner co-authored a number of short but controversial essays intended to question the idea that a new emancipation was underway; these included The New Love Disorder (1977) (Le Nouveau Désordre amoureux) and At The Corner Of The Street (1978) (Au Coin de la rue), as well as The Adventure (1979) (L'aventure).

Gervais de La Rue

Gervais de La Rue (7 September 1751 – 24 September 1835), French historical investigator, formerly regarded as one of the chief authorities on Norman and Anglo-Norman literature, was a native of Caen.

Les Sages Poètes de la Rue

Les Sages Poètes de la Rue (The Wise Poets of the Street): Dany Dan, Melopheelo and Zoxea, are a French hip hop band that has profoundly influenced and keeps influencing their musical genre as a band or through their solo career.

Théâtre Feydeau

Upon the Royal Family's return to Paris on 24 June 1791, after its unsuccessful flight and arrest in Varennes, the Théâtre de Monsieur was officially renamed Théâtre Français & Italien de la rue Feydeau, but by July this had been shortened to Théâtre de la rue Feydeau, or simply the Théâtre Feydeau.

Warren De la Rue

He was born in Guernsey, the son of the founder of the large firm of stationers of that name in London, Thomas de la Rue and Jane (née Warren).