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This page is being used to collect material about the life and paperfolding of Victor Frenkil. It is not intended to be in any sense a complete biography. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

Victor Frenkil was born on Sept 14th 1908 and died on Jun 3rd 1999. He was a businessman, CEO of Baltimore Contractors, and an expert in folding dollar bills into letters, monograms and up to five-letter words.

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Sources

Information about Victor Frenkil can be found in early issues of 'The Origamian' and in 'Folding Money, Volume Two' edited by Samuel Randlett.

There is also a book about his life titled 'Get Me the White House' by Jaques Kelly and Anthony Weir which was published by Gateway Press, Inc in Baltimore in 2006. This contains a chapter called 'The Unspendable Dollar' about his folding of dollar bills and several other mentions elsewhere in the work. The full work can be accessed online here.

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Chronology

1968

'Folding Money, Volume Two' edited by Samuel Randlett, which was published by Magic Inc of Chicago in 1968 contains information about Victor Frenkil and his paperfolding and diagrams showing how to fold his designs for the upper case alphabet, the numbers 1 to 9, and the words 'Merry Xmas'

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