Trompe l'oeil of paper money and other printed financial ephemera

by After Nicolas Marie Gatteaux

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Gatteaux was a sculptor and medallist; among his accomplishments was the invention of a machine for duplicating sculpture. He also designed and engraved paper money, lottery tickets, tax stamps and other official and legal paper, of the sort represented here, which may be examples of his work. Included are paper currency of various issues during the early years of the Republic, centered on an amusing engraving of a beggar, a symbolic warning to those who would put their trust in such ephemeral

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