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I wanted to share my latest purchase it was no one of my under $50 finds and it’s not in the best condition but the provenance is really cool and historical. I see this as Asian art but it is currency also. The oldest paper banknote recorded. For any paper to last 600 years is just mind blowing. I hope you enjoy this Ming banknote ca. 1368.
It is absolutely breathtaking! Great find! Wonderful to add to your collection! Congratulations!
I would love to add that to my collection. May I ask where you found it? I may begin my search if I can find a source. Thanks
George
@gfhandel I was informed by a local estate broker I work with helping identify items she asked me how I felt about the item. I have to approach these situations very neutral because I want to keep my contacts in the market. I informed her to send it off and get all the documentation possible but she was in a time constraint and listed it for auction locally she had a reserve no one made the reserve as these things are misunderstood here. So I placed the reserve bid and now it’s mine. I have to say that it wasn’t cheap but way under the current market values that I found comps for. What makes this piece more valuable than others is the history the note was owned by a very well known Chinese educator that was involved in Chinese politics once he left China due to political prosecution he came to America and was a professor for UCLA he also was the world’s experts in Chinese currency and had many write ups about his large Ming note collections. He gifted this note to a friend that was another leading educator and chairman for the Federal reserve as he was the leading economist for the United States. When Mr Han the first gentleman became elderly he took most of his Ming collection and sent to to his dearest friends in personalized letters the rest was donated to his foundation in California and China. I love the history behind this piece. Which is truly amazing one other thing is these were most likely acquired by Han during the boxer revolution.
Good history there. I suppose you know that you can have the note professionally graded which May further verify its authenticity. I would assume you would need to carefully remove it from the frame. You could research further if you wanted to do this. The grading company is PMG.
George
That is a once in a lifetime find. Historically very important. Please protect It from the enviroment.
Anthony
I wanted to give some history of the first owner that gifted the Ming note. I greatly admire people from our past that gave so much to society.
Yu-shan Han, History: Los Angeles
Professor Han was born on May 18, 1899 in Peking (Beijing) China. His primary education consequently was in the classical tradition during the final years of the Manchu dynasty. He attended Yenching University in Peking and was awarded the B.A. degree in 1924 and the Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1926. He went on to do graduate work at Harvard and Boston universities from 1927 to 1929. He taught classes at Boston University in the summer session of 1928 and during the academic year 1928-29, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Philosophy by that institution in 1929. During the ensuing decade in China Professor Han served as associate director for rural education in the Mass Education Movement from 1929 to 1931. He then held the position of secretary of the National Christian Council in China from 1931 to 1933. In the latter year he became professor of history and government at St. John's University in Shanghai, continuing in that post until 1938 and serving as department chairman in 1937-38. His uncompromising hostility toward the Japanese after the onset of the China Incident in July 1937 led to his flight from China in 1938. He had been marked for arrest by the Japanese. He was by this time married to Edna Nona Quick, an American citizen who had been in China for many years as a teacher of English to young Chinese. In 1940 Professor Han returned to China and served as Economic Research Commissioner in the Central Bank of China in Chungking. In the following year differences on matters of principle with the Nationalist regime led to his decision to leave China once again. He was in the Los Angeles area in 1941 when the departments of History and Geography were confronted with a problem. The autumn semester was about to begin, and the professor who held a joint appointment in history and geography had failed to return from a summer in Japan. Dr. Han was quickly recruited as a lecturer to fill the void and remained in that status for six years. He received an appointment as associate professor in 1947 and was promoted to full professor in 1957. ― 171 ―
Professor Han's published scholarly output was somewhat slender despite his great interest in two fields in which he could have made an important contribution, the rise of the middle class in China and a history of legal and judicial reform, about which he began monographs, but which he never brought to completion for publication. His major scholarly publication is Elements of Chinese Historiography, published in 1955. He was also co-author with the distinguished historians Carl Becker and Sydney Painter of a textbook, The Past That Lives Today, published in 1952. He directed his major efforts to acquainting Americans with Chinese culture and explaining contemporary China. To that end he published many articles and gave lectures to various groups and organizations, pitching his remarks at the level of the educated layman. In keeping with this activity he was particularly successful in teaching undergraduates. He gave generously of his time to students, or to anyone expressing an interest in China and its culture. He remained a citizen of China until after the fall of the Nationalist regime to the Chinese Communists. In June 1953 he became a citizen of the United States. During their long residence in Los Angeles Professor and Mrs. Han accumulated a wealth of friends among the students and faculty at UCLA as well as in the wider Los Angeles community. Their hospitality was well known. With Mrs. Han's death in 1979 and his in March 1983 a unique couple and a reminder of the dislocations caused by World War II passed from our midst.
Yong-chen Chu Raymond H. Fisher Robert Wilson John Galbraith
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Great provenance and history. Here is some more history regarding my Chinese professor at San Francisco State University back in the early 1970s:
Leo Chen, the youngest son of the last emperor's tutor, was a professor of Chinese literature at San Francisco State University who recalled being brought to the palace to play with the emperor as a child. Director Bernardo Bertolucci interviewed him while making the film The Last Emperor.
He was my professor and I visited his home in San Francisco after I graduated in 1974 but at the time I didn't realize he had played with the emperor when he was a child. I can say I knew someone who had met the Qing Xuantong emperor. How about that?
George
@gfhandel so cool. That’s the thing with antiques we get to enjoy the past without ever being there.
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