LOT DESCRIPTION OF THE WEEK

At the risk of stealing thunder from Joel Orosz' Printer's Devil Column, I can't help but give the "Most Harshly Worded Return Policy" award to lot 230 from the catalog of the September 10-11, 1999 sale of Currency Auctions of America:

"This is the remains and rejects from the winning 1992 Memphis competitive exhibit of the world's worst 24-piece Fractional Type Set. … This group contains many of the most wretched Fractional Notes to have ever been seen, including a number of notes taped together and composed of pieces of several different notes as well as a sprinkling of notes we suspect to be counterfeit. … There are no returns on this lot for any reason. Anyone attempting to return it will be shot."

The pieced-together "Frankenstein" notes remind me of a rare mythical creature described by Woody Allen as having "the head of a lion, and the body of a lion, but not the same lion…"

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 02, Number 34, August 22, 1999, Article 11

LOT DESCRIPTION OF THE WEEK

Wayne Homren, Editor