fyi: Picked up on this from coinupdate.com [9/7/10] Money on Paper: Bank Notes and Related Graphic Arts from the Collections of Vsevolod Onyshkevych and Princeton University on view in the Leonard Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts at Firestone Library on the Princeton campus. read more about this at Princeton.edu and The Art of Money at ArtInfo.com, and from CoinLink.com Other reading online: Princeton University Numismatic Collection Database
You're welcome Rick. :smile I'd like to attend the lecture they have planned but I'm not sure if I will be heading down that way this fall. I've never been to the campus either but would find the trip interesting in that regard as well. Universities have wonderful resources like this so I was glad to find out about it while it's going on. I am considering to order a copy of the exhibition companion book myself and will report back if I learn more about it.
Additional Information I received a reply from Ms. Oliveira, the contact at Princeton, regarding ordering details for the companion book, Money on Paper written by Mr. Alan Stahl, Princeton's Curator of Numismatics. She has informed me that the book is close to being finished printing and will be ready to deliver by the end of September. She provided a mail order form (no CC, checks and MO only), see attached PDF file. View attachment Money on Paper order form edited by AMS.pdf
Update I received my copy of the exhibition catalog through mail order. Shipped quickly and securely packaged. I was unable to attend the exhibition and other lectures in person but figured this publication would be quite suitable. The catalog is a lovely 9" x 12" over-sized trade paper, perfect bound book printed in full color on acid free linen paper. 78 pages. Profusely illustrated and with concise essays. Below are photos of the covers and the Table of Contents page:
The cover images are wonderful - looks like the art of Alphonse Mucha, is there a good selection of worldwide notes shown? Dave
Indeed that is Mucha's work on the cover. There's a fair amount of world paper money in the catalog with full color reproductions. Each plate depicts a single note, which I believe are reproduced to full scale. The presentation is very clean and uncluttered. While most notes shown in the catalog are U.S. Colonial, there are a couple of U.S. large size silver certificates and quite a few examples from the early U.S. National Bank period. There are single examples of old Japanese currency, older: Czech, Finnish, Belgian and Columbian notes, plus modern Swiss, Netherlands, and Faeroe Islands notes.
Very nice, I wish I were able to go see the exhibit. For fun I looked up the note, Czechoslovakia P22 (from Ron Wise site): Dave
