Banknote Artist J.s.g. Boggs [obit]

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My local public library had a copy of Boggs: A Comedy of Values, by Lawrence Weschler, 1999.

Mr Weschler writes about art; pretty interesting stuff.

http://lawrenceweschler.com/books/

http://www.abebooks.com/book-search...NCE-WESCHLER

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Maybe not? I'm 61 and the paper is full of obituaries of people younger than me who never abused drugs. Maybe it was diabetes? Or a car crash?

Do you have some insider information?

"Moreover, counterfeiters have apparently taken to forging Boggs notes, and a collector in Chicago has even started to specialize in these forgeries -- which...has made Boggs wonder whether he can get in on the action, by doing some of the forgeries himself."

From this article in The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...tist/308425/


Back in 2001, Boggs got permission from the German Senate for his "Making Money" exhibit in Berlin:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050403113635/http://www.jsgboggs.com/utf-8.html

(Copy and paste the URL if you have trouble getting it to work.)

This is his improvised transaction with the Berlin police:

Sorry it took me a while to find these in my stash of stuff.

Here are a couple of mine I picked up about 15 years ago.























Let me know if you wanna see more.

He made subtle, sometimes whimsical changes to words and often referenced numismatic pioneers with the signatures Shafer and Hessler.

Look again - it's "Considerate State."

I especially like that one, too.