# Harry Kane fivers estimated at over £50,000 each on the loose

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/08/03/harry-kane-fivers-estimated-50000-loose/
- Published: 2018-08-03T08:00:09+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Birmingham micro-engraver Graham Short has released a new set of notes, engraved
with the portrait of footballer Harry Kane.**

Short last [engraved Jane Austen’s portrait on a series of £5 notes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/20/5-jane-austen-note-worth-50000-donated-children-need/)
that were then estimated to be worth over £20,000 each, and first shot to global
fame when his engraving of a portrait of HM The Queen on the eye of a needle fetched
over £100,000 at auction. He has produced numerous pieces of engraved artwork for
royalty, celebrities and art collectors here and around the world, as well as the
Jane Austen £5 notes marking the 200^(th) anniversary of her death.

After Harry Kane picked up the Golden Boot at this summer’s FIFA World Cup, leading
England to the semi-finals, Short decided to repeat the feat with Kane’s portrait.

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To create the engravings, Short only works between midnight and 5am, when traffic
vibrations are at their most limited and he can bring his heart-rate down to 30 
beats per minute, as he engraves between beats. He also has botox injections and
binds his right arm to a chair to reduce body movement.

He said:

> “I’ve done six – one for each goal he scored – for Harry himself, the FA and four
> to be spent as we did with the Jane Austen notes around the UK and Ireland.”

Originally estimated to have a value of around £20,000 each, by Thursday 3 July,
the media was estimating their worth to be around £50,000. Three of the notes have
been spent: in Meriden, in the centre of England, in Edinburgh’s Elephant House:
the coffee shop where JK Rowling started writing about Harry Potter, and in Merthyr
Tydfil, with the fourth to be spent in Northern Ireland.

[⌊Graham Short at Elephant House⌉⌊Graham Short at Elephant House⌉[

Graham Short at Elephant House

At around £50,000 each, they could be a nice earner for a charity. The hunt is 
on….