Posted 12/05/2021 10:37 am
I'm finding more lost banknotes to the sea - LOTS more!
The number of known examples has jumped from 22 to 33!
The detective work is wild. Here's an example from yesterday. A search of "banknotes" and "lost" yielded a huge amount of "hits", but most were not related. One was a case of Bank of Canada vs. a bus company! I noticed they cited a loss of banknotes of the Banque d'algerie transported by ship. What ship? What notes? What date? I then did a search of the bank & the person who originally received compensation for the loss. The only find was a french language scan of a book on Algerian court cases - "Algerian case law from 1830 to 1876, Volumes 3-4" . That could be the oldest recorded ship loss I have to date! I couldn't copy/paste the court ledger since it was a scan of the book, so I used the translate app on my smartphone. If you haven't used this, you can view the text through your camera on your phone. It can (& did) give me multiple translations, but one proved correct. The lost ship - Atlas. The date - 1860. Even the notes - 50, 100, 500, & 1000 Francs. By the date of loss, I could pinpoint the exact issue produced by Banque de France. One is not listed in Pick, but all four are listed in BNB.
Back the way, this is NOT the oldest recorded ship loss. That belongs to an 1841 loss in Australia of Union Bank of Australia notes produced by Perkins, Bacon & Co. The paddle steamer made the trip from England to Australia only to ran aground on a sandbar close to Melbourne. I'll save the rest for the article, which now runs 27 pages.
The number of known examples has jumped from 22 to 33!
The detective work is wild. Here's an example from yesterday. A search of "banknotes" and "lost" yielded a huge amount of "hits", but most were not related. One was a case of Bank of Canada vs. a bus company! I noticed they cited a loss of banknotes of the Banque d'algerie transported by ship. What ship? What notes? What date? I then did a search of the bank & the person who originally received compensation for the loss. The only find was a french language scan of a book on Algerian court cases - "Algerian case law from 1830 to 1876, Volumes 3-4" . That could be the oldest recorded ship loss I have to date! I couldn't copy/paste the court ledger since it was a scan of the book, so I used the translate app on my smartphone. If you haven't used this, you can view the text through your camera on your phone. It can (& did) give me multiple translations, but one proved correct. The lost ship - Atlas. The date - 1860. Even the notes - 50, 100, 500, & 1000 Francs. By the date of loss, I could pinpoint the exact issue produced by Banque de France. One is not listed in Pick, but all four are listed in BNB.
Back the way, this is NOT the oldest recorded ship loss. That belongs to an 1841 loss in Australia of Union Bank of Australia notes produced by Perkins, Bacon & Co. The paddle steamer made the trip from England to Australia only to ran aground on a sandbar close to Melbourne. I'll save the rest for the article, which now runs 27 pages.
