Canadian Bank Note items

Per request, I'm uploading a number of items from the Canadian Bank Note Company. The first is a promotional booklet from CBN circa 1980 with a couple pages of sample vignettes. The cover also has some nice lathework. If you're familiar with American Bank Note vignettes you'll note that most of these are from ABN plates. There's also a page showing the many security items produced by CBN.

 

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More items. The Canadian Tire scrip was given out at gas stations with your purchase, in increments from 5 cents to a dollar, I think. The front is intaglio -- I can't see how they could afford to do this for the small denominations (serial numbered, too). It must have cost nearly that much to print! The sample stock came with the promo booklet. Unfortunately you can't see the latent image in the lathework, but if you tip it towards the light, the letters CBN are clearly visible.

 

The Toronto sesquicentennial souvenir card is the only numismatic one I know printed by the CBN. Great vignette of the port of Toronto. The other card is by American Bank Note, but it's the only one that shows another Canadian note (and one of the few double note cards).

 

CBN issued three souvenir cards for CAPEX '78, but only two were intaglio. The Cartier vignette was engraved from a famous painting; it also appears on a Canadian stamp and a vignette from the British American Bank Note Co., which I'll post later. "Progress" is one of American Bank Note's best known vignettes and it shows up on all manner of stocks, bonds and banknotes.

 

Wow! I'm really liking these! Thank you for starting this thread up!

 

Wow, those are all so neat. So many things to add to my wishlist now...especially since I live in Toronto! Thanks for sharing!

 

Very nice bundle of stuff! I particularly like the tire ephemera, that kind of material is always fun to see.

Regarding intaglio's cost, if I remember waaay back, riding in my parents car during long trips, we'd get S&H Green Stamps at gas stations, I think they were intaglio printed as well? Those were worth less than pennies, but I remember running my hands over them to feel the "engraving". Or perhaps I could be wrong.

Dave

 

These are very nice,I've seen a few in the ABNCo Archive Series (1990 ),nice vignettes !
The Vignette is called "Pioneer Spirit" Engraved figures,William Adolph: Etching,Louis Delnoce:Faces,Sydney Smith ABNCo.,1940.
I really like this one I cropped it from your sheet.:thumb:
Thanks for sharing this .

 

Once again very cool Bob!!!!:hail:

 

Really love that 1st group of Vignettes! Thanks for sharing!!!

 

I like all of them. Beautiful items to add to any collection of notes. Did you notice that the seal on the $2 note from Cataract City is printed sideways? That's extra neat.

 

I like all of them. Beautiful items to add to any collection of notes. Did you notice that the seal on the $2 note from Cataract City is printed sideways? That's extra neat.

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As luck would have it, that's the same vignette on a specimen bond I just bought.

 

Absolutely beautiful.:thumb:

 

Those truly are a work of art! Thanks for posting!

Regards,
Stan

 

One more

I found one more sample stock certificate from CBN that came with the promotional booklet. This one also has a latent image. I'll have to figure a way to show that.

 

Beautiful work by the engravers,about how old these ?

 

Excellent!! The images are fantastic

 

If you zoom in on the souvenir cards you can read the text, which gives background on those engravings. I think the promo booklet was printed in the '80s as were the sample stocks. But most of those vignettes were engraved in the '60s, except the Canadian architecture. The two Parliament buildings are circa 1915.

You'll find one particular book keeps coming up to reference these items: "The Engraver's Line" by Gene Hessler. He identifies hundreds of vignettes and their creators. I recommend it to any serious collector. He also wrote "The International Engraver's Line" which I haven't read, but it covers foreign engravers as well.

 

Many of us here have Hessler's books too! They are indispensable. I just cannot fathom how else I would have gotten my boost in understanding vignettes and their history without his books. CT member RickieB, who has been away for a while recuperating, has been a tremendous supporter of Mr. Hessler and those of us interested in Security Engraving. He has helped provide a number of opportunities for us to acquire Mr Hessler's books due to their acquaintance and generous extension here.