Rare Hand Stamped Banksy Princess Di Faced £10 Note + Dismaland Entrance Wristband
Hand Signed In Ink (Middle Of Note)
Originals Princess Di Faced £10 Notes Sell for £2000 with COA (Certificate Of Authenticity)
These Princess Di Faced £10 notes are identical to originals same size, same paper, same paper weight same paper thickness & hand cut. (Rare to find this Quality)
Di Faced Tenners are counterfeit £10 notes, printed on both sides. They were printed by Banksy for a public stunt and, being ever resourceful, the artist found another use for them later down the road. “Di Faced” is a play on the word, “defaced”, and refers to the fact that Banksy altered the British currency by replacing the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with that of the late Princess Diana. The work is unquestionably a reference to Princess Diana’s estrangement from the Royal family, her critique of the British royal institution, and the hounding by the press that eventually ensued.
At least 100,000 Di Faced Tenners were printed in August 2004 – an equivalent of more than £1 million of fake currency was created. They were initially crafted as part of a public art stunt which involved dropping suitcases full of the fake notes into the crowd at the Notting Hill Carnival as well as the Reading Festival. Predictably, people scrambled to get their hands on the “free money,” and even after they realized the bills were counterfeit – attempted to use it at the festival and elsewhere anyway. The stunt was a piece of social commentary from Banksy about the lengths people are willing to go to for money, and it’s also possible he saw humor in getting his own “currency” into circulation. It’s often said that “money makes the world ’round,” and Banksy reminds us that a crowd’s instinctive reaction to “free money” is equal parts unsurprising and a bit disappointing.
Dismaland - Includes Dismaland Entrance Wristband
When: August-September 2015
Where: Weston Super Mare, England
Dismaland was a temporary art project organized by Banksy, constructed in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England.
Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana, a disused lido, was “a sinister twist on Disneyland” that opened during the weekend of August 21, 2015 and closed permanently on September 27, 2015 (36 days later).
Banksy created ten new works and funded the construction of the exhibition himself. The show featured 58 artists Banksy invited to participate. 4,000 tickets were available for purchase per day, each priced at £3 each.
It welcomed 150,000 visitors over the five-week period it was open. After it closed, the building material for the project was repurposed for shelters for refugees in the Calais Jungle.