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KENNEDY COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTE DETECTOR

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KENNEDY COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTE DETECTOR
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Kennedy & Brother, Publishers. KENNEDYS' FAC SIMILE COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTE DETECTOR. SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE WESTERN REVIEW. BANKERS' ALMANAC, 1856. Pittsburgh, (1856). 4to [27.5 by 19 cm], original printed pictorial green wraps. (4) leaves, unopened at outer edges, printed on yellow stock only on one side, comprising lithographic facsimiles of 8 counterfeit bank notes with descriptive text; (12) pages following as Coin Supplement to the Bank Note Review and Counterfeit Detector, illustrating over 200 coin designs. Spine taped, with several taped repairs throughout. Generally very good. Dillistin page 150, citing a version illustrating 32 bank notes; the Bass library had a version illustrating 64 notes. Very rare. Not in Davis, the Fuld library, or the American Numismatic Society Dictionary Catalogue. Only the second copy we have handled, this is the abbreviated copy with eight counterfeit bank note facsimiles, though with an extra section illustrating current coins of the world. A most interesting if little-known attempt to help bankers and the business community identify spurious bank notes. Many engravings feature illustrations of both genuine and counterfeit design elements, usually assigned their own diminutive figure number. The bank note illustration itself is the counterfeit, and small representations of the genuine design element are to be found in various locations in the fields. The tiny numbers employed must have been hard on the eyes at the time, perhaps accounting for the ephemeral nature of this publication and its extreme rarity today. Ex Kolbe Sale 44, lot 496.