Period:Unknown Production date:1900s-1910s
Materials:paper
Technique:printed
Subjects:railways tree/bush garden
Dimensions:Height: 200 millimetres Width: 114 millimetres
Description:
Banknote (issuer, date and denomination unknown). Uncirculated, probably a specimen note for a printer’s archive. Tall, thin note, printed in red (front, upper part), green (lower part) and black (text) on the front, and in red on the back. (whole)
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![图片[1]-banknote; specimen BM-1984-0605.8449-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00121644_001.jpg)
Comments:Compare the image on the reverse of this note with an image from Dianzhai Huabao, which also shows a European on the steps of a similar building. http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/dianshizhai/dsz_gal.html Yuehu diaotu is still to be identified, but possibly refers to Yuehu, an area in Suzhou. Perhaps diaotu is a reference to the 烟波钓徒 (yan bo diao tu), “the Old Fisherman of the Mists and Waters”, which is how the Tang dynasty poet Zhang Zhihe 張志和 referred to himself – he is said to have fished without using bait, with the aim of not catching any fish.
Materials:paper
Technique:printed
Subjects:railways tree/bush garden
Dimensions:Height: 200 millimetres Width: 114 millimetres
Description:
Banknote (issuer, date and denomination unknown). Uncirculated, probably a specimen note for a printer’s archive. Tall, thin note, printed in red (front, upper part), green (lower part) and black (text) on the front, and in red on the back. (whole)
IMG
Comments:Compare the image on the reverse of this note with an image from Dianzhai Huabao, which also shows a European on the steps of a similar building. http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/dianshizhai/dsz_gal.html Yuehu diaotu is still to be identified, but possibly refers to Yuehu, an area in Suzhou. Perhaps diaotu is a reference to the 烟波钓徒 (yan bo diao tu), “the Old Fisherman of the Mists and Waters”, which is how the Tang dynasty poet Zhang Zhihe 張志和 referred to himself – he is said to have fished without using bait, with the aim of not catching any fish.
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