Talk:horse blanket

horse blanket
The 1800s idiom sense. --Connel MacKenzie 17:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

It's hard to find good historical examples, since it was slang. It's definitely recognized among modern collectors of the currency notes.

Here's a decent cite:
 * 1986: William Schneider, Moses Cruikshank, The Life I've Been Living
 * And then he had those great big, what they used to call "horse blankets." You know those bills? Yeah, that's what the young man gave him.

Here's a web-forum quote:
 * 2006: BooBooBillQueen, Treasury ordered to make bills recognizable to blind people on Collectors Universe Forums
 * Right now, I am teaching my daughter about "horse blankets" and that "money used to be this big". Who knows? Maybe she will tell her kids how she can remember when dollars didn't have holes for the blind...

This one's mention, not use:
 * 2002: Ed Reiter, The New York Times Guide to Coin Collecting
 * Early paper money also came to be known by a colorful nickname: People called them horse blankets in a tongue-in-cheek reference to their size.

...as is this one:
 * 1999: John & Nancy Wilson, The History and Collecting of Large Size Notes & Deuces in FUN-Topics, vol 44 no. 3
 * Large size notes are nicknamed, "Saddle or Horse Blankets," and "Old Series Notes," and measure 7 3/8 inches by 3 1/8 inches.

Here's a site selling cases for the bills (these aren't really citable, but show the point):
 * Large, for the older U.S. notes that are sometimes called "horse blankets" by us "old time collectors" because of their larger size issued 1923 and prior.

Here's an FAQ comparing horse blankes to the smaller, more recent silver certificates:
 * Typically your small size (the same physical size as regular money, as opposed to the old horse blankets) silver certificate is worth about 5% more than face.

Here's another FAQ:
 * Ripped apart by war and teetering on bankruptcy, Congress ordered the printing of a number of notes. These Large Size Notes were commonly called horse blankets because of their dimensions.

Anyone have a few more durable cites so we can knock this out? --Jeffqyzt 18:22, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Cited on the article page and rfvpassed. -- Beobach972 00:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)