Teh One Who Knocks
12-17-2016, 12:46 PM
Jen Mills for Metro.co.uk
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They were like the golden tickets in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: only a few of them, sent out into shops in secret.
But instead of getting you an audience with Willy Wonka, these £5 notes will give you an extra £49,995 of value if you manage to find them.
Now, somebody has found the first, after it was used to pay for a sausage and egg sandwich in Blackwood, South Wales.
Artist Graham Short, a micro-engraver, carved tiny portraits of Jane Austen onto four of the new polymer notes, and spent them at various locations around the country to get them into circulation.
Graham said his work usually sells for around £100,000 and each of the notes he engraved is insured for £50,000.
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Graham spent it here (Picture: BPM)
To give people a clue to help them search, he revealed where he spent them all: the shop in Wales (pictured above), a pie shop in Leicestershire, and two other shops in Scotland and Northern Ireland. None of the last three have been found yet.
The one which has been spotted includes the quote from Mansfield Park: ‘A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of’, and the serial number AM32 885553.
The lucky person who discovered the first one, an elderly art fan, wanted to remain anonymous, but confirmed it hadn’t left South Wales after it was spent at the Square Cafe in Caerphilly county on December 8.
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Graham Short with the microscope he uses in his work (Picture: SWNS)
She said she plans to keep it as an investment for her granddaughter.
‘Generally this artwork is out of reach for most people,’ Graham said. ‘I wanted an ordinary man or woman to find it in their hands.’
He spent another of the notes at a bakery in the Scottish Borders.
Alan Malone, who worked there, said: ”Since then, there has been a lot of people coming in to pay for their pie with a tenner in the hope of getting that fiver in change.
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It could be you (Picture: SWNS)
‘However, unfortunately, that particular note is long gone. I reckon it will have gone to someone in the shop who got change on Monday, between 10.30am and 1.30pm.
‘I know this because we ran out of fivers around that time. It could be in London, Aberdeen or anywhere by now.’
There are still three out there – so get checking your change.
http://i.imgur.com/Gpc2yWHh.jpg
They were like the golden tickets in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: only a few of them, sent out into shops in secret.
But instead of getting you an audience with Willy Wonka, these £5 notes will give you an extra £49,995 of value if you manage to find them.
Now, somebody has found the first, after it was used to pay for a sausage and egg sandwich in Blackwood, South Wales.
Artist Graham Short, a micro-engraver, carved tiny portraits of Jane Austen onto four of the new polymer notes, and spent them at various locations around the country to get them into circulation.
Graham said his work usually sells for around £100,000 and each of the notes he engraved is insured for £50,000.
http://i.imgur.com/6kR7Y8t.jpg
Graham spent it here (Picture: BPM)
To give people a clue to help them search, he revealed where he spent them all: the shop in Wales (pictured above), a pie shop in Leicestershire, and two other shops in Scotland and Northern Ireland. None of the last three have been found yet.
The one which has been spotted includes the quote from Mansfield Park: ‘A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of’, and the serial number AM32 885553.
The lucky person who discovered the first one, an elderly art fan, wanted to remain anonymous, but confirmed it hadn’t left South Wales after it was spent at the Square Cafe in Caerphilly county on December 8.
http://i.imgur.com/fqyTZM1h.jpg
Graham Short with the microscope he uses in his work (Picture: SWNS)
She said she plans to keep it as an investment for her granddaughter.
‘Generally this artwork is out of reach for most people,’ Graham said. ‘I wanted an ordinary man or woman to find it in their hands.’
He spent another of the notes at a bakery in the Scottish Borders.
Alan Malone, who worked there, said: ”Since then, there has been a lot of people coming in to pay for their pie with a tenner in the hope of getting that fiver in change.
http://i.imgur.com/nN71Ub9.jpg
It could be you (Picture: SWNS)
‘However, unfortunately, that particular note is long gone. I reckon it will have gone to someone in the shop who got change on Monday, between 10.30am and 1.30pm.
‘I know this because we ran out of fivers around that time. It could be in London, Aberdeen or anywhere by now.’
There are still three out there – so get checking your change.