Mark of Kane

Graham Short has scratched a little picture of Harry Kane on half a dozen fivers, and they are now said to be worth £50,000 each. Of course, if someone will pay £50,000, that is what a note will be worth. Of Harry Kane we have heard. Mr Short is less famous. He has scratched images on £5 notes before, leaving four little portraits of Jane Austen in 2016. The Jane Austen sketch is to some eyes more pleasing than the image of Kane, which perhaps belongs to the same school of football art as the recent bust of Ronaldo that provided widespread amusement. Mr Short may be interested in the game of trying to spot one of his modified fivers, but it is of course illegal to deface banknotes. Burning them is apparently not illegal, though. If Mr Short likes performance art, people might even pay to see him burn money.