Peter Frank adopted and named case #0017

 

He adopted it  during the Pool Art Fair in NYC. I took room 722. I took photos and made notes on persons wanting to adopt. My files are no better or worse than any other social agency. And they are open files.

 

I took a picture of  Peter with the painting.

 

He wrote the following:

 

"'Title:Runtenpfenning'"  

 

Narrative (Re Title): It defininetly has a personality, one that broadcasts across the room. But, there is was, all by itself, propped up, in the bathroom, as if it had misbehaved, or as if its expansive nature threatened to  obscure all the others! Thus isolated, it seems the runt of the litter, as it were. With the word 'runt,' my mind jumped to the German word 'Runtenpfenning,' which (as opposed to the later term 'Reichspfenning') appeared early in  the coinage of the Weimar Republic. Given the prevalence of the stamps in the "source pile' form the Weimar Germany, the macaronic (i.e. cross-lingual pun) seemed apposite. Still does.--Peter Frank"

 

Assumptions are frequently made about someones  cultural and genetic background. Classifications and labels abound. Many are  incorrect. This case was  not from a German stamp, but does it make any difference? They are from the marks from some stamp.  Maybe the engraver was German. I do not know. --10.2.05