The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 25, June 20, 2004, Article 19

MORE UNCUT SHEET TALES

  Our anonymous currency collector writes: "Tales of National
  Bank officers who cut or tore notes from sheets and then
  signed them in full view of incredulous waiters or store clerks
  in the process of paying a bill have taken on an urban legend
  quality.  These accounts have been repeated so often that
  they have completely lost their novelty value, despite the fact
  that some of them undoubtedly actually occurred."

  Mark Van Winkle writes: "A couple of comments about
  cutting up sheets of bills. When I interviewed John Ford he
  said occasionally after a coin show Amon Carter, Jr. would
  get a kick out of taking sheets of bills with him to a restaurant.
  When it was time to pay the check, he would pay part of it
  by pulling out a pair of scissors and cutting up the sheet of
  bills he had folded up in his jacket pocket. Of course, the
  waiter would always be confounded by such action. He and
  Amon got a lot of laughs out of it over the years, but one time
  a waiter called the cops on them thinking they were
  counterfeiters.

  After John told me this story, Bob Merrill ran into a deal of
  32-subject sheets of $2 bills at face value. I bought one of the
  sheets and carried it around in my car with a pair of scissors.
  It was always great fun to cut several deuces from the sheet
  and see people's reaction. I remember I bought something
  once for $10 and trimmed five $2 bills from the sheet--three
  up and two across. The poor guy across the counter was
  absolutely baffled, but he accepted them (and didn't call the
  cops). I've often wondered what he did with them, did he
  cut up the five notes or does he still have the irregular-shaped
  "ten dollar bill?"

  Dave Bowers writes: "In the 1960s Jim Ruddy and I,
  trading as Empire Coin Co., bought Creative Printing, a
  printing plant, modest in size, in Binghamton, NY. However,
  Creative did have some great accounts including IBM,
  General Electric, and Link Aviation.

  Jim and I bought a bunch of small-size uncut sheets of U.S.
  currency, took them to Creative Printing, and fastened them
  with little clips (like clothespins) to a metal wire strung across
  one part of the shop -- where the bills sort of look as if they
  had just been printed and were now drying!

  For a long time people would come in, ease up to be near
  the bills, study them out of the corners of their eyes, and
  then go on to their business. No one ever asked about
  them directly!"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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