Eduard Kann

Eduard Kann (1880-1962) was an Austrian banker and a specialist in Chinese numismatics.[1] His book The Currencies of China (1926) was "immediately the standard work on the subject of metallic currencies in China”[2]

Life

Kann was born in Austria. In 1902 he left Vienna to work for a London bank in China. He was employed by several banks, including the Russo-Asiatic Bank, the Banque Industrielle de Chine, and the Chinese-American Bank of Commerce, was stationed in Manchuria, then Tientsin (=Tianjin) and became manager of the Commercial Guarantee Bank of Chihli. He was general manager of the Chinese-American Bank of Commerce from 1921. Between 1925 and 1949 he was an independent bullion broker in Shanghai, but interned by the Japanese (1941-42). After 1949 he taught for a while at Loyola University, then retired to Hollywood.[3]

Kann's Collections

After his death, Kann's collections were sold:

  • Kann's Chinese stamp collection was sold by stamp dealer J R Hughes in February 1963.
  • Kann's coin collection was sold in three sales - by Quality Sales Corporation: Kreisberg & Cohen, 1971-72.[4]
  • "The Eduard Kann collection of Chinese coins and old & curious monies" - sale by Schulman Coin & Mint, Inc (1971)[5]
  • Kann's Chinese banknote collection was sold by Bowers and Merena, in New York, 27-28 October 2008.[6]
  • Kann's collection of Chinese ingots is now at the British Museum[3][7]
  • Kann's papers 1949-1963 are at the American Numismatic Society.[8]

Publications

Kann's books The Currencies of China (1926) and the Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins (1953) are standard reference works. He wrote numerous publications, including the following:

  • The currencies of China : an investigation of gold et silver transactions affecting China ; with a section on copper (Shanghai, 1926)
  • The Currencies of China (Shanghai, 1927)
  • Copper banknotes in China
  • Paper money in China and elsewhere (Shanghai, 1929)
  • The Central Bank of Canton (Shanghai, 1929?)
  • Redemption tables of China's internal loan issues (Shanghai, 1933)
  • The history of China's internal loan issues (1934)
  • Illustrated catalog of Chinese coins, gold, silver, nickel and aluminum (Los Angeles, 1954)
  • The history of Chinese paper money from the Middle Ages until 1961 (Walton-on-Naze, 1962?).

References

  1. ↑ Eduard Kann papers, Archer Archives - http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/nnan0157 - retrieved 30 July 2018)
  2. ↑ Ashley, C. A. (1926). "Review of The Currencies of China". The Economic Journal. 36 (143): 476–478. doi:10.2307/2959805.
  3. 1 2 "Term details". British Museum.
  4. ↑ Katen, Frank and Laurese (Washigton (1975). 42nd public and mail auction sale : numismatic libraries of Lee Hewitt ... the late Sol Kaplan ... Charles Affleck ... [09/26-27/1975]. American Numismatic Society.
  5. ↑ Katen, Frank and Laurese (Washigton (1975). 42nd public and mail auction sale : numismatic libraries of Lee Hewitt ... the late Sol Kaplan ... Charles Affleck ... [09/26-27/1975]. American Numismatic Society.
  6. ↑ "Bowers and Merena's Auction of International Banknotes Realizes More than $1.1M". Coin News. 2008-11-04. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  7. ↑ Joe Cribb, A Catalogue of Sycee in the British Museum: Chinese Silver Currency Ingots c.1750-1933 (British Museum Press, 1992)
  8. ↑ "ARCHER - Archives: Eduard Kann papers, 1949-1963". numismatics.org.
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