A couple new Vignettes to add to the collection. I had been traveling and these were waiting for me when I got home. My home PC is still down so I have been very sporadic getting online. Hopefully this weekend will change that now that I have what I need to rebuild my PC. Hope you like these two! Best Regards ~ Darryl
REALLY like that western banknote co advertisement, Darryl! May I ask, do you display all your vignettes somehow, or are they in a large stack in a box? Seems like you could cover your walls with them. Dave
Thank you all!!! Dave, It does become a challenge on a number of levels! I plan to frame everything I get if I can find wall space for it. I have 8 pieces now waiting to get framed but really need to speak to a professional framing company. I need to insure that none of the items are framed in a way that would cause any damage to the front or back of the piece. Mounting is my main concern. Obviously acid free material and non-glare glass are a must. I saw a neat concept in a magazine where each small piece hangs on the piece above and the entire set hangs on a single bar. I may try to do this with the small collection I have amassed. I am generally looking for specific types of items when I am buying and this WBNC piece is exactly in line with that desire. The Eagle was just a great buy from a seller I knew had great quality pieces. It does go well with the INBC Eagle I have so those two will compliment each other. Hard to pass up a good deal!!! Thanks again!!! Darryl
Thank you Krispy - I think this piece came from a book based on the left edge. I know there are some Stock and Bond books out there and this may have been in one of them??? The quality of the work is really nice and the coloring of the page which is pretty heavy makes me think the piece may be from the 50's maybe 60's. There was little in the way of a description but I really liked the piece. Under magnification the detail is really nice!!! Here is a closer look but still not as close as I would like to show the real detail!
I can imagine the nightmare of deciding how to hang a large number of pieces like that. Maybe a discussion with a few local art galleries regarding how they do it would help? Not only non-glare glass, but UV filtering glass to help minimize fading is available, to my understanding. Dave
Darryl, As you mentioned your WBNCo piece may have come from a book, so you might be interested to try searching the New York Public Library online or Archive.org, both are fantastic resources. For example, follow this link on Archive.org for an 1891 journal entitled Commercial and Architectural St. Louis; illustrated You can view the document online or download various formats from the left column, such as a PDF. Jump down to pages 96-97, there is a sort of advertisement for the St. Louis Bank Note Company and an nifty example engraving of their work for, Old Taylor Distillery. Your WBNCo piece may have come from just such a period journal from Chicago.
Darryl... those deserve a BIG WOW!! Thanks for sharing these with us..most excellent my friend. RickieB
Terrific pieces. I would imagine the display problem you must be dealing with. My home office walls are packed and I don't know what to do with a bunch of the things I'd like to display.
Darryl, I'm only seven years late to the party, but I can now tell you that your Western Bank Note ad originally came from the pages of a Poor's Manual of the Railroads, probably from the 1890s. They are hard to find these days, but many contain some gorgeous bank note engravings.
Very cool, thanks Greg, a little extra background to go with a nice piece! Great subject matter and great artistry!
Greg, Picked up a new Western Bank Note Piece. Looking forward to sharing it when it arrives. A little bit of mystery with it as well. You may have more information on it.
I have not seen one of these before. If it was a specimen it would be stamped that way. It may have been an empty space among the coupons of a bond that Western BN decided to fill with this. Pretty!
