THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STAMPS USED ON BANK （邮票的意义上使用）.pdf

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STAMPS USED ON BANK NOTES Arnold Keller and John Sandrock Note: This article was written by Dr. Arnold Keller of Berlin, Germany. From the earliest days of paper money collecting Dr. Keller has been revered as the “Dean of Paper Money Collectors”. Over the years he had written many articles on the subject for German periodicals, and indeed, was the first to publish books for collectors on the subject. In the 1950s and 1960s, I had frequent occasion to correspond with Dr. Keller in my capacity as editor of The Currency Collector, the journal of the long defunct World Paper Money Collectors Association. At that time I asked h m if he would wr te an article for us and this piece was the result. As you will see, he possessed an amazing in-depth knowledge on the subject of the various uses of stamps when applied to paper money. Many years later, I was encouraged to update Dr. Kellers work to include the new issues which had appeared in the interim. This effort will be found in the addendum at the end of the article. 0 As your collection grows in size it is not long before you run across a bank note or two with an adhesive stamp affixed to ts surface. Since these notes are not too scarce - indeed some varieties are relatively common - every collector may expect sooner or later to acquire examples for his collection. Therefore, t may be of interest to explore the significance of these stamps. Immediately our attention is drawn to the fact that stamp-notes came into issue for a variety of purposes. The most numerous of these notes are those which bear stamps indicating value. Perhaps the stamp bearing notes m