Jon's Hobby Collections

Last time in the 60s and 70s during my parent’s era, owning a Television was really a luxury item. Not just purchasing a television set was expensive but also the television license was expensive too. In Malaysia and Singapore, the television license was introduced back in the early 60s. Every house owner who owns a television set must apply for a television license. The best part was the license doesn’t limit to the number of televisions sets you own at home. In Malaysia, the license back then was printed on a pink coloured A5 paper showing the details of the types of television you owned. The TV license shown below is from my late grandfather’s collection and it is dated back in the year 1971. The price of the TV license in Malaysia has not changed at all. The price still remains at 24$ from the early 60s to the time they abolish on 31 st Dec 1999. In Singapore, the TV license continues until the 31 st December 2010. Back in then in the 80s in Singapore, differ...

How many of you guys out there are still keep your old television set ? Now it is very rare to find old TV collectors out there. Collecting old TV requires a lot of display space. Also due to digitization of televisions, many users will want to switch their old television for newer ones to receive better and clearer images. In Singapore, the TV broadcast is now fully digitized, whereas many parts of the world are still making effort to fully digitized their TV broadcasting. Well for me, I still have these 2 old television set from the 80s, which was passed down from my uncle. The first was a Philips TV from the early 80s The second was a Sharp TV from the late 80s Both of these TV doesn’t have RCA connector ( 3 coloured wires ). Which means you cannot connect the TV to any set up box, VHS player, VCD or DVD player. The signal received is either from the antenna of the television or the antenna of your home but normally it is from the antenn...

From the day of Malaysia's independence day until today in 2019, there is a current total of 9 governors of Bank Negara Malaysia. These governors sign various series of the Malaysian banknotes. Tan Sri William Howard Wilcox ( January 1959 to July 1962) x The first on the list is  Tan Sri William Howard Wilcox also in short, W. H. Wilcox . He is a British  man who came to Malaysia in 1958 and his duty was to be a banking adviser to the Government of Malaya. A year later, he became the first governor of Bank Negara Tanah Melayu which was the old name before it was change to Bank Negara Malaysia.  Tun Ismail Mohamed Ali ( July 1962 to July 1980) In 1962, W. H. Wilcox, handled his duty to Tun Ismail Mohamed Ali who was the first Malaysian governor of Bank Negara Malaysia.  Tun Ismail is also known for his integrity character who is always on time. His signatures is found on the first series of Malaysia banknote which was issued in 1967. Tun Ismail, h...

Welcome to my blog. Today, let me share with you the history of Malaysia banknote. You may be wondering why Malaysia banknote besides other banknotes out there? This is because, I am very familiar with the currency and I grew up using them. Malaysian Ringgit, in short terms MYR is the currency code issued by Bank Negara Malaysia which is Malaysia’s national bank. The common term “RM” which was found on the 3rd series and 4th series of the banknotes stands for “Ringgit Malaysia”. The name ringgit means “jagged” in Malay and it was initially used to refer to the sawtooth edges of the silver Spanish dollars which were being used as a currency back in the Portuguese colonial era in the 16th and 17th century. The first series of banknote of Malaysia were issued on 12th of June 1967 to replace Malaya and British dollar which was previously use before independence day. The denominations issued at that time were 1$, 5$, 10$, 50$ and 100$. 1000$ banknote was issued in Sep...