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PENNELL'S CRUIKSHANK BANK RESTRICTION DONATIONFormer American Numismatic Association museum curator Robert Hoge submitted these thoughts on a special example of the Cruikshank Bank Restriction note discussed in an earlier issue. -Editor 
Concerning the posting re: George Cruikshank's Bank Restriction note, I would like to point out that thanks to the great generosity of the extraordinary collector J. Roy Pennell, Jr., the ANA Museum owns Cruikshank's original pen and ink drawing for this famous satirical piece. (It had been sketched on a sheet of paper on which the artist also drew his original images for a couple of his engravings for the first English edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales!) This pivotal specimen was donated in a handsome Victorian album that included an original imprint of the Bank Restriction note, an example of an actual contemporary counterfeit of a Bank of England one pound note (of the kind for the passing of which Cruikshank had himself witnessed people being scandalously hanged!), and a clipping from a contemporary British newspaper giving Cruikshank's own account of the circumstances that led him to dash off and engrave this satire for the radical London publisher William Hone. I found it very exciting, among the most evocative gifts that the ANA received during my tenure. The late Roy Pennell deserves truly great recognition for his contributions to the ANA. That donation was a special delight for me because my great-grandparents had been particular admirers of the work of Cruikshank -- starting back during his lifetime -- and collected many of the books featuring his engravings. I had grown up knowing about him, and at one time even found in a used book shop a copy of the publication containing a collection of Hone's political offerings, which included the Bank Restriction note among them. Fun! As it happens, I illustrated the article with the example from the ANA collection; we had earlier discussed an article about the notes in The Numismatist by the ANA's current curator Doug Mudd. Doug informs me that the Cruikshank notebook and its contents are currently on display as part of the museum's Money of Empire exhibit. Thanks! -Editor 
To visit Cruikshank section of the current ANA Money of Empire exhibit, see:
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