Studio: international art (81.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

" The 'Ancient Mariner/' but few have
proved themselves so much in harmony with
the poet's vision, so competent to realize in
another medium the glamour and mystery
of Coleridge's masterpiece. R. B.

MUNICH.—In every European country
the!War produced a flood of paper
money. With the exception of Britain,
great issues were made everywhere of notes
of very low value. The more desperate the
situation, the more the recourse to the
printing-press. In Germany especially,
cities and small towns, business firms and
prisoners' camps issued emergency money,
mostly in the form of paper notes (Scheine).
Many of these notes have high artistic value,
due partly to the artists and partly to

the desire to make the notes serve a
propaganda purpose and to be attractive
generally as well as incapable of fraudulent
imitation. The interest and beauty of
these notes are so well recognised that
a literature on the subject has grown
up, collectors and dealers appear, a
society and an exhibition have already
drawn attention to the subject. The Notes
reproduced only represent a few typical
examples of local paper currency. The
illustrations are only of one side of each
note ; in most cases each side of the note
is equally interesting and elaborate ; the
originals are all in colour. 0 a a
The coloured illustrations show first
a half-mark of Deggendorf, a small town
in N. Bavaria, 7,000 inhabitants, with

CURRENCY NOTE
CITY OF ERFURT

CURRENCY NOTE
HAMELN ON WESER
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