Second Jane Austen engraved £5 note found in Scotland Christmas card

As Christmas presents go, a £5 notice value as much as £50,000 will not be so dangerous. 

That is what one fortunate scholar by accident obtained when he opened a card and out popped one in every of 4 fivers which have been engraved with a picture of Jane Austen.

The scholar from Scotland, who wished to stay nameless, checked the notice for the tiny picture 'on the off likelihood' after 'he had a serious inkling'. 

The relative who gave the cash 'did not essentially know' what they have been handing over.

The second of 4 uncommon £5 notes engraved with a picture of creator Jane Austen has been present in Scotland

The search is now on for the ultimate two remaining notes in circulation across the UK.

The photographs on the notes have been created by specialist micro-engraver Graham Brief, who travelled to totally different places within the UK to spend them.

The venture was launched by the Tony Huggins-Haig Gallery in Kelso within the Scottish borders.

Mr Huggins-Haig informed BBC WM: 'When any individual opened their Christmas card from a liked one, it was contained in that Christmas card.

'The one who put it in did not essentially know what they have been doing.

'That is two down and there is nonetheless two on the market. Hold checking your change.' 

Hinting on the background of the winners, he later informed BBC Radio5: 'Folks would immensely completely happy about the kind of those who have gained. 

'The second is a scholar and they are going to preserve it as a bit of artwork work. They're bowled away.

'The thought is to carry actual art work to actual folks. And that is anyone.'

He added: 'They got it in a card by a relative and they're delighted as nicely as a result of they did not know that is what they have been placing within the card - they knew it was a £5 however not one which might be value £50,000.'  

Every picture of the Satisfaction and Prejudice creator is surrounded by a novel quote from a few of Austen's most celebrated novels.

Anybody who finds one of many notes ought to contact the Tony Huggins-Haig Gallery in Kelso, Roxburghshire, which launched the venture. 

The search is on for the ultimate two remaining notes in circulation across the UK, with two already discovered

The photographs on the notes have been created by specialist micro-engraver Graham Brief (pictured), who travelled to totally different places within the UK to spend them

It was revealed that one of many notes was spent within the Sq. Cafe in Blackwood, south Wales earlier this month.

If the cafe proprietor didn't discover, the notice may have been given out in change and now be in somebody's pockets or circulating in South Wales.

One of many notes has now been spent in Northern Eire, Scotland, England and Wales. 

Mr Brief is most well-known for engraving the phrases of the Lord's Prayer on to the top of a pin.

The 70-year-old artist mentioned: 'I am all the time seeking to do one thing totally different and as quickly as I noticed the brand new £5 notice I believed 'would not it's good if I may engrave one thing on it?'

'I did not know what however then I came upon it was going to be the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's demise and her picture can also be occurring the brand new £10 notice, so it ties in properly with that.

'I've no thought how a lot they are going to be value however £20,000 is a conservative estimate - earlier items I've completed have been insured for greater than £50,000 and the final work, the portrait of HM The Queen on the attention of a needle fetched £100,000.

'So, we got here up with the thought of placing a notice into every of the nations and I had a pleasant journey to Blackwood final week to spend one within the Sq. Café.

'Now, I am simply hoping somebody finds it in time to get some extra cash for Christmas.'

Artwork gallery proprietor Tony Huggins-Haig (left) and Alan Malone of Granny Jean's Bakery in Kelso

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