Archives International Auctions in Hong Kong May 24 2015 (Click Lot Title for Large Image and to Bid)

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Archives International Auctions - Hong Kong
1 24 May, 2015 Archives International Auctions
CHINA - EMPIRE
2001
1368-99. 1 Kuan, P-AA10,
S/M#T36-20, Issued banknote. 10 Strings of Cash Coins at top
center on front and back center at bottom. 2 large red seals on
face and one on back. Printed on dark gray mulberry paper. Fine
to Choice Fine with a few small holes due to the type of paper
used. This is the earliest form of printed currency available in the
world. ����������������������������������������������������������������������HK $8000-16000
2002
China, Xian
Feng year 8 [1858]. 2000 Wen (Cash). Pick-A4f, S/M T6-51, VF to
Choice VF with a horizontal fold keeping this note from XF. / 大
清寶鈔. 咸豐八年. 二千文.���������������������������������������� HK $5000-9000
CHINESE & WORLDWIDE
BANKNOTES, COINS & SCRIPOPHILY
Sunday-24 May, 2015
In Conjunction with Kelleher and Rodgers Fine Asian Auctions
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FOREIGN BANKNOTES
THE POGREBETSKY FAMILY ARCHIVES OF CHINESE & ASIAN BANKNOTES
There will be an 18% buyer’s premium added to Lots 2001-2511
THE ALEXANDER I. POGREBETSKY FAMILY ARCHIVES
Alexandre I. Pogrebetsky was born in 1891 in Siberia, Russia and died in 1952 in Israel. Pogrebetsky was an Economist and Financier
by training. After the communist takeover he relocated to Harbin, China (ca.1920) where he became Head of the Board for the Chinese
Eastern Railway Company which ran fromVladivostok to Harbin. Sometime after 1935 he left Harbin and moved to Tientsin, Chi a where
he co-owned a private bank. After Tientsin, he moved the Shanghai, China where he was involved in numerous business ventures including
being a principal in the China Trading & Investment Co., Ltd, with offices in Shanghai andTientsin.
In addition to his business background, he was also a noted collector and researcher of Numismatics including banknotes and coins
which were acquired as part of his everyday business dealings as well as his seeking out interesting and scarce banknote and coin issues
from his numerous business contacts and sources.
We are proud to offer the first session of this outstanding collection that has never been offered previously in any form since the day the
notes were pulled from circulation in the 1920’s to 1940’s. There are many rarities present that seldom if ever appear at auction as well as
discovery notes that are sure to attract significant attention. This collection also allows us to peer back in time and begins to understand
the complex business, financial and political world that Pogrebetsky lived in and how he navigated through this time period successfully
including first escaping from the Communist Russian Revolution by moving to China with his family and then eventually migrating to Israel
20 years later.