50 francs Type 1924

Reference:

Pick: #34 , The Banknote Book: B312

Reference list

Description

Switzerland. Swiss National Bank (Schweizerische Nationalbank). Second issue (1910-1955). Banknote identical to the Pick: # 5 but with the different law text (Gesetzgebung über die Schweizerische Nationalbank). Work of Ferdinand Hodler. Printer: Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London. Dimensions: 165 x 106 mm. No watermark. No security thread. Front and back: print in green, orange and blue. Front: vignette composed of rosettes and ornaments. The numbering, the alphabet, the labels, the place and date of issue and the signatures are printed in black. The value "50" is repeated three times in the corners of the thumbnail. The texts are printed in three languages: French, German and Italian. On the left below, inset portrait of "Jeanne Charles Cerani-Cizic", model and mistress of Ferdinand Hodler and the only one having managed to constitute a large collection of works of the artist, much of which is today exhibited at the National Gallery of Sarajevo. Seventeen issue dates and twenty variants of signatures with The Cashier, The Chairman of the Board of the Bank and The Director. Back: frame composed of rosettes and ornaments with the value "50" repeated four times in medallion in the corners. In the center, Der Holzfäller (the woodcutter) of the painter Ferdinand Hodler, representing a woodcutter in a forest cutting a tree with an ax. In the context around, the texts in three languages: French, German and Italian. Other Reference: TBB (The Banknote Book): B312.

Signatures variants:
Signatures #10 : K. Bornhauser / Paul Usteri / Gottlieb Bachmann.
Signatures #11 : K. Bornhauser / Paul Usteri / Charles Schnyder Von Wartensee.
Signatures #12 : K. Bornhauser / Paul Usteri / Auguste Burckhardt.
Signatures #13 : K. Bornhauser / Paul Usteri / Ernst Weber.
Signatures #14 : K. Bornhauser / Alfred Sarasin / Gottlieb Bachmann.
Signatures #15 : K. Bornhauser / Alfred Sarasin / Charles Schnyder Von Wartensee.
Signatures #17 : K. Bornhauser / Alfred Sarasin / Ernst Weber.
Signatures #24 : Erich Blumer / Gustav Schaller / Gottlieb Bachmann.
Signatures #25 : Erich Blumer / Gustav Schaller / Paul Rossy.
Signatures #26 : Erich Blumer / Gustav Schaller / Ernst Weber.
Signatures #27 : Erich Blumer / Gottlieb Bachmann / Fritz Schnorf.
Signatures #28 : Erich Blumer / Gottlieb Bachmann / Paul Rossy.
Signatures #29 : Erich Blumer / Gottlieb Bachmann / Ernst Weber.
Signatures #30 : Erich Blumer / Gottlieb Bachmann / Alfred Hirs.
Signatures #31 : Erich Blumer / Alfred Müller / Alfred Hirs.
Signatures #32 : Erich Blumer / Alfred Müller / Paul Rossy.
Signatures #33 : Erich Blumer / Alfred Müller / Paul Keller.
Signatures #34 : Otto Kunz / Alfred Müller / Walter Schwegler.
Signatures #36 : Otto Kunz / Alfred Müller / Paul Keller.
Signatures #37 : Otto Kunz / Alfred Müller / Riccardo Motta.

Banknotes :Swiss National Bank, second issue (1911-1955)