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A HOUSE PAPERED WITH MONEY! f — : T <1 W*WMg»Si as IS B ■"■' ■ R ,? i LwfllmmigF, r«l ISKHIIwwIf' ■SkMte J a slßilsSts ffa’B] |wlkiß: f »MI 1 Sis ®«ifi Hs ss «MMI ISfcliHid! W1 I# l iillwiwgwFTe M! £3 ImM! I agJMEffi.staMi jaMB B> Ila ■ I &.g 1 j IMS>3|Mhsnr '4g| ?a.-. Bl Will 3 IS WU : fw. ' fIMI i® r ; i The First “Museum ” of German Emergency Money : Room Walls Papered An Aladdin's Cave of Illusion : A Visitor in the Museum at Tscherbeney, gazing with Bank-notes and a Ceiling Design In 10-pfennig iron coins. ° n riches beyond the dreams of Realization. “The village of Tscherbeney, in Upper Silesia, possesses a however, he set to work with paste and brush, and in two curiosity in the shape of the first museum of German bank- months pasted 34 kilogrammes of paper wealth on the walls of notes and emergency currency. Its founder was once a pros- a ground-floor room. He also decorated the ceiling with iron perous dealer, chiefly with Czechoslovakia. During the 10-pfennig bits arranged in patterns. His desire to live reinfiation of German currency he was fortunate in holding bills turned, and he showed himself a sound business man. He had instead of paper money. But he was al*so a good German. tickets of admission printed, and his labour of despair turned After every big deal in Czech kronen, he went to his bank in to profit. Later he collected more bank notes and enlarged Breslau, which paid him in paper money. His haversack would his “museum” by similarly adorning several other rooms and hardly hold the mass of notes, and many chests and baskets in * balconies. On the walls (as the above photographs show) are his house were packed with notes. Eventually they proved pasted rows upon rows of notes, and people stand in front of worthless, and in despair he attempted suicide. Presently, them to feast their eyes on millions of marks. —From “The Illustrated London News,” May 23, 1931 CAUSE and EFFECT The Final Result of Uncontrolled Inflation is Worthless Money and Loss of Savings. —lnter ted by the Associated Banks of New Zealand