Still missing
Today’s Jane Austen happening is what hasn’t happened yet: Almost exactly three years after an artist engraved tiny portraits of Jane...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 14, 2018
Still missing
In the annals of news-that-isn’t-exactly-new, the year 1975 holds a special place. That fall, the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 7, 2017
Golden fiver on the block
How time flies. It’s been exactly a year since a Scottish art gallery announced that Graham Short, an artist known for his teeny-tiny...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 20, 2017
A fiver to Bath
The Roald Dahl-flavored tale of the four specially engraved, possibly valuable Jane Austen £5 notes continues to be The Story That Will...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 30, 2017
Jane meets Agatha
Just when you thought everyone had forgotten about the final Jane Austen Mystery Fiver – the still-missing British £5 note engraved with...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 23, 2017
And another one bites the dust
I clearly don’t have much of a future as a soothsayer. Back in December, I predicted that it could take many, many months for lucky Brits...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 5, 2017
Two down. . .
For the past month, I have attempted to cultivate an air of studied indifference to the story of the Priceless Fivers – the four British...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 16, 2016
I spoke too soon!
Just yesterday, I was expressing skepticism about whether the famous, allegedly valuable Jane Austen £5 notes would turn up any time...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 15, 2016
Golden Tickets on the loose
It’s been nearly two weeks already, but the British press cannot get enough of the Jane-Austen-meets-Roald-Dahl story of the specially...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 5, 2016
Oompa-Loompa
Someday very soon, a lucky Brit will turn a crisp new £5 note to the light, just so, and something unexpected will appear: A tiny...
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