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De La Rue's contract to print Swedish banknotes in London was a practical arrangement born of postwar capacity constraints — Sweden's own Tumba Bruk had handled domestic production for centuries, but the early 1950s issues were outsourced while the facility managed other demands. The relationship was not long-lived; Sweden returned to domestic printing relatively quickly, making this a narrow window of foreign production in an otherwise insular printing history.

The 1952–1953 dating reflects two distinct issue dates within what is essentially a single print run, differentiated in the catalog primarily for dating purposes rather than any meaningful design or plate change.