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The exhibition is not closed when closed, and the exhibition is always at home.
In the face of the severe test of the epidemic, in addition to doing a good job in daily epidemic prevention work, the Bank Museum has adopted temporary closure measures, integrated the collection resources, and opened an online "cloud exhibition" to provide a financial cultural experience for the majority of audiences during the closure period.
The third phase of the collection of banknotes exhibition has been warmly welcomed by everyone, at the beginning of this issue, we will introduce the museum's many precious and rare three-dimensional collections, which will surely make you feast!
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Cloud Exhibition · Financial Instruments Exhibition (Part 1)
In the development process of more than 160 years, the modern banking industry has used countless appliances, tools and various office supplies for handling various businesses, as well as cash boxes and cabinets for storing currency and important vouchers, etc. These physical objects faithfully record the operation process of banking business and reflect the production level of banks at that time. In order to absorb savings more widely and promote business, at that time, various banks designed unique and diverse business publicity materials, and gave birth to various publications and magazines published by financial industry associations, which also reflected a lost history and became an important part of financial culture.
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U.S. National brand, Perroth brand bank bookkeeping machine
China has long used the abacus as the main calculation tool, manually transcribed the calculation results on the accounting page, until the 1930s and 1940s, some large banks in Shanghai began to introduce advanced bookkeeping tools - bookkeeping machines, to replace manual operations.
National brand bookkeeping machine for the United States in the twenties of the national cash printing company production, the bookkeeping machine with iron frame support, vertical, shape like a typewriter, with bookkeeping, calculation and other functions; Pei Luoshi brand bookkeeping machine for the United States Pei Luoshi company in the twenties production of mechanical bookkeeping machine, with bookkeeping, calculation, memory and other functions, machine button dividends, white, black three colors, the number is 1-9, the maximum calculation number is 17 digits. One of the function keys is engraved with Chinese such as "Retreat", "Rush", "Turn", "Ben", "Present" and so on. The use of this machine for bookkeeping, not only the account pages are neat and standardized, but also the total accurate reduction of errors, which was called advanced equipment at that time. In the long years of manual bank bookkeeping, this mechanical bookkeeping machine can directly calculate and print, which is both accurate and reduces the operation link, so it was used until the early 1980s, and the bookkeeping machine is now an orphan product.
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Extra-large copper reserve emblem
In 1955, the General Bank of Chinese further expanded the publicity of savings and solicited the style of the reserve emblem from the whole country. Finally, among the many manuscripts, the ingeniously conceived and profound "ancient coin, wheat ear, five-star" pattern was selected. On September 25, 1955, the Chinese Min Bank issued the "New Pattern of the Savings Emblem", which explained the meaning of the reserve emblem as follows: "The outer week is composed of ancient mainland coins, indicating industrialization, and the combination of the two words of central savings symbolizes the gathering of sporadic social funds to support the national industrial construction; the ancient coins are gathered together to form a gear in the inner layer, which is combined with the inner wheat ear to symbolize the development of industry and agriculture; the five stars symbolize the party's leading role in national construction." The theme of the entire emblem is to gather funds to support industrial and agricultural production. "The copper reserve emblem, with a diameter of 1.6 meters, is the largest copper physical reserve emblem, which is only seen.
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Touchstone with pairs of gold medals
Touchstones and pairs of gold medals are a set of tools used by banks, money banks or silver houses in the old days to identify the color of gold. Touchstone in nature is a gray-black, dense and hard siliceous rock with a chemical composition mainly silica. For gold medals, it is a slender small card made of gold of different standard colors, and the plate is engraved with the standard color of the gold medal, with a small hole drilled at one end and a chain of ropes, a group of more than twenty pieces. The gold to be identified is scratched on the touchstone 3-4 mm wide, and then a pair of gold medals with a relatively close color is selected to closely follow the previous scratch, leaving a trace, and comparing the color of the two scratches to determine the color. Since this identification was entirely based on the naked eye to distinguish nuances, most of the people who were in charge of this work at that time were employees with a wealth of experience and a high sense of responsibility. With the rapid development of gold identification technology, the touchstone and the pair of gold medals have withdrawn from the historical stage, and the complete set of touchstones and pair gold medals has become extremely rare. This touchstone is large in volume and the scratches are perfectly preserved. A total of 76 gold medals, a variety of colors are complete, but also a precious financial cultural relics.
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Money House Bill Cabinet
The bill cabinet is a cabinet used by the money bank in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period to store various types of bill vouchers. The bill cabinet is made of wood, and the upper wooden board can be turned down, and the two brackets are pushed out at the same time, and the overturned wooden boards are just flat on the brackets for bookkeeping. The planks are turned over and the brackets are automatically retracted. A checkerboard is built into the upper layer of the ticket cabinet for sorting and placing various tickets, and the lower half is a locker. The whole bill cabinet is also a very beautiful piece of furniture after being folded, the bill cabinet is exquisitely carved, the whole cabinet is decorated with Yangmen female general Xi Wutu, and the maker also has a unique ingenuity to skillfully combine the handle with the decorative pattern, seamless. Such a beautifully carved money bank bill cabinet is a product only seen.
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Faithfulness is like remembering the hammer of the seal of the money bank
This money stamp hammer is shaped like a pocket hammer. The hammer head is copper, only the size of a square inch, with the words "Faithful" on one side and "Ru Ji" on the other, connected to a slender mahogany handle. Its main function is to stamp the banknotes or passbooks and other vouchers, and "Faithful Ruji" is the name of the money house. In the old days, the money house was very particular about stamping on bills or passbooks, not only the types of seals, but also the position of each seal on the ticket face was fixed. The seal is stamped on the bill, which is a symbol of credit, and the seal was also called "seal letter" in ancient times. It not only represents the credibility of the money bank, but also plays a role in anti-counterfeiting screening. This seal hammer has a unique shape and is unique among the qianzhuang seals seen so far.
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Qianzhuang City recruits a group
Qianzhuang's market moves are generally hung on the outside of the store, perpendicular to the storefront, so that the customers can see at a glance. In addition to the name of the money house, the content of the signboard is often written on the business, such as "silver money exchange", "exchange of gold and silver currencies of various countries", "new stamp revenue stamps during operation" and so on. Some signs are also marked in Both Chinese and English, translating Qianzhuang as "Bank". Most of the names of Qianzhuang are expected to develop their careers, reflecting the concept of honest management. The money bank with deep pockets is extremely particular about the production process of the signboard. Each piece of this set of Qianzhuang signs is well-made and has a fairly high cultural relics value and artistic value. One of the pieces of black characters on a gold background is particularly exquisite, which is a double-sided bas-relief. The four-character gesture of "silver money exchange" is steady, and it is quite eye-catching under the background of gold shading. The shading is also painted with auspicious patterns such as bats, auspicious clouds, and money, which mean auspicious and prosperous.
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Citibank copper signboard
Citibank was founded in the 27th year of the Qing Dynasty (1901), with its head office in New York and a registered capital of US$3 million. It opened a branch in Shanghai on January 1, 1902, and was the first American bank to enter China. In 1927, Citibank and the National City Bank of New York were formally merged, and the English name was changed to New York City Bank. Chinese name remains with Citibank. The Citibank signboard is made of copper and has text on both sides, one is the name of the citibank Chinese and the other is the English name of the bank before the merger. This Citibank bronze sign is a see-only item.
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A set of old bank safes
Most of the old bank safes are made of copper and iron, and the appearance is solid and thick, which is shocking. This set of safes contains two german cash drawers cast in iron, each weighing about 70 kilograms. There are two open locks on the box, there are several pieces of metal on the lid of the box staggered, and there is a dark lock in the middle, which is connected to several strips of organs in the box, and only by opening the dark lock normally can the mechanism be revoked, and it is impossible to pry open it with brute force. There is also a layer of covering on the keyhole of the dark lock, and in order to remove it, you must find the button hidden in the metal sheet, trigger the mechanism, and the cover on the dark lock will automatically rise. This kind of safe is mainly used to store valuable coins and items, with good fireproof and anti-theft performance, and the amount of survival has been very small.
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Suitcase of the Fifth Joint Conference of the National Bank
Founded in 1920, the fifth session of the National Association of Banks was held in Beijing, with 31 participants, representing 23 banks in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing and Hankou. The meeting elected Zhang Jiaxuan, vice president of Bank of China, as chairman. The meeting adopted the "Resolution of the Fifth Joint Meeting of the Association of Banks of the Republic of China", which recorded all the circumstances of the meeting. As the host of the meeting, the Beijing Banking Association specially ordered a small suitcase for the delegates to keep as a souvenir, and the gilded mark of the box was clearly visible. The box workmanship is extremely exquisite, so the participants of the conference are of a very high level, almost all of them are senior managers of major domestic banks, the number is only more than 30 people, so the production at that time was very rare, which was not only a precious conference gift at that time, but more importantly, this is the history of the development of China's financial industry, the best gift left to future generations, and it can almost be said that it is the only one that exists so far.
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Jidong Bank presented Yumoto Qiuzhen Silver Commemorative Cup
Jidong Bank is a Japanese pseudo-bank, founded in November 1936, with its headquarters in Tongzhou, Hebei Province. With a registered capital of 5 million yuan, the chairman is concurrently served by Zhao Congyi, the head of the pseudo-finance department, and Takeji Muto and Toshio Nagai as consultants, who serve as entrepreneurial guidance and liaison with various branches. On May 1, 1937, the Changli Sub-branch was established, and on May 15 of the same year, the Qinhuangdao Sub-branch was established, with a maximum of 15 branches in various places. In 1945 the head office and its branches were taken over and abolished by the Central Bank of the National Government. This is a silver commemorative cup given by the bank to Yumoto Qiuzhen, engraved with the words "Mr. Yumoto's honor and return, and the head office of Jidong Bank salutes". Yumoto (1876-1941) was a Japanese TCM practitioner who was hailed as a pioneer of integrated Chinese and Western medicine in Japan. Silver commemorative cups made by banks are very rare, and there are only a few silver commemorative cups engraved with the words bank in the country.
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