Scottishmoney Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Czechoslovakia 20 Korun 1949 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Great note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted April 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Just a really cute note with young girls picking flowers, while the factory in the background spews out tonnes of cancer causing carcinogens into the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 I was gonna say: A little young for my tastes and laws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Detail from Czechoslovakia 1000 Kcs 1945. And the whole note. What is funny about the image of the girl is that it is a heavy engraving, produced quickly, as is the note. The note was ordered right after the cessation of hostilities during WWII and there were competing designs which actually made it into circulation. With successive currency reforms under the Soviet government, these notes soon were declared worthless. It is a shame the vignette in the note was not used in a note with more planning, and actual use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Yeah... she's pretty but that look just makes me think I wronged her in some way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naidu54@hotmail.com Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 Pretty notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted April 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Czech Korun unissued 1946, continuation of a 1938 design that was also unissued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scottishmoney Posted April 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Bohemia Moravia 1 Korun 1942, very similar to the Czech Korun that was supposed to be issued in 1938. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted April 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Bohemia Moravia 10 Korun 1942, with a young girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De Orc Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Great notes, wonderful designs but there again the Czechs have allways had a good rep for engraving just have a look at some of there stamps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Well, is she the quintecential European farm girl or what? I wonder if these were allegorical or if they were portraits of living persons? Great notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Czech Korun unissued 1946, continuation of a 1938 design that was also unissued. I'd give that look too if someone dropped a bowl of spaghetti on my head too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted May 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Bohemia-Moravia 5 Kcs from 1942, curiously the portrait on the reverse looks amazingly like then Princess Elizabeth of the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willemo Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 very nice notes indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De Orc Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 The lower of the 2 pic's with the profile is a very striking resemblence to a young Queeny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted July 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Alfons Mucha(1860-1939) was perhaps one of the greatest artists of the late 19th century "Art Nouveau" movement. His usage of colourful floral imagery with lovely young ladies became the rage of Paris in the 1890's. The early 20th century saw his travels to America and then his return to Moravia in what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire in the early 1910's. By this time new projects dominated his time, and political interests, namely the epoch of the Slavic people became his focus. His style of artistry evolved into something more neo-classicist by this time also. The independence of the Czechoslovakian nation in 1918 necessitated a whole new series of banknotes for the new state, and he undertook the design of many of the new banknotes, namely the 5, 10, 20, 100 and 500 Korun notes. The design of the 1919 is essentially the same with some slight modifications for the 1927 issue shown above. A unique aspect of the note is that the young girl shown on the reverse is a known person, and a young lady featured prominently in several of Mucha's later works - his daughter Jaroslava Mucha. Here Jaroslava is shown with her younger brother, Jiri in a 1919 oil by Mucha. And here in a painting from ca. 1931: Alfons Mucha had hoped that his son Jiri would follow in his stead and take up art, however it was his daughter, Jaroslava that followed her father in the realm of art. She cataloged many of his works, restored others and accomplished her own works. Jiri would become a writer, and did in fact biograph his father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 It tok me a few glances til I did see signs of Mucha's work. It doesn't look like the other notes of his you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dprice Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Very Nice Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
see323 Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 I like the painting of the lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Bohemia Moravia 1 Korun 1942, very similar to the Czech Korun that was supposed to be issued in 1938. I got one of these out of a junk bin of notes over the weekend, it's kinda rough, but it's a pretty little note! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustin43160 Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 wow.... love it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted July 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Specimen of 5.000 Korun 1920, actually a canceled note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Scottishmoney, would this note be worth $20 if it were a specimen issue? I really love this design, and the artwork, but I am not so sure of purchasing a specimen version for that much. I figured out of anyone, you would know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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