album;
banknote
- Museum number
- CIB,EA.266
- Description
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Leather-bound album entitled 'Kwangtung Note Redemption July 1914' containing 30 stiff-board pages. There are 2 boards with hand-written explanation of the contents, followed by 1 blank board, 20 boards each with a banknote affixed and hand-written annotation, and 7 blank boards. The 20 notes all have individual records (CIB.EA.266.1 to CIB.EA.266.20).
- Production date
- 1914 (date on album)
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres (album cover)
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Width: 273 millimetres (album cover)
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- Curator's comments
- For more information see blog post by Helen Wang: https://wordpress.com/post/chinesemoneymatters.wordpress.com/681.
Relevant information about the George Ernest Morrison collection at the State Library of New South Wales, provided by David Berg SLNSW, email, 3 May 2017:
'The papers at MLMSS 312/133 (CY4141) under the title Canton Notes is a document entitled "Proposed procedure for the redemption of the Kwangtung notes". Draft 16th May 1914. Typewritten p.2-19. No author is given, possibly written by Morrison. ... We also hold the following documents, also on Chinese currency policy, that may be of interest: MLMSS 312/153 Subject file: Currency reform 1901-1916 - includes "Memorandum on the recent order for banknotes" (p.151-157); Letter to Morrison from Hu(?) Yuen Hsu regarding Kwangtung banknotes, 24 Nov 1914 (p.159); Letter to Admiral Tsai from S C Lin re banknote holdings, 1914 (p.161-163); National coinage law, 1914 (p.165-239); Cash Redemption Bureau, 1916 (p. 275-279). ... Examples of Morrison's handwriting can be found in our digitised copies of Morrison's papers. A good example is at http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110374295. You can search for more on http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/home - click on "digital content" to view digitised online records.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Named in Inscription: Kwangtung Note Redemption, July 1914
- Acquisition date
- 2009
- Acquisition notes
- On loan from ifs School of Finance (previously Chartered Institute of Bankers) between 1987 and 2009.
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- CIB,EA.266