Hi Everyone,if you like Vignettes please take a look at this social group "Security Engraving Vignettes". Everyone is welcome to look or join the group. Thanks for looking & hope the group takes off.currency/mpc's/stock certificates/stamps all share one thing in common,vignettes. Link to group : http://www.cointalk.com/groups/security-engraving-vignettes/ Thanks for looking !
I like it Connor1..joined but have not contributed yet.. I will do so soon... When I return home... Regards RickieB
One of my all time favorites and Target for 2010 What an incredibile engraving feat!! enjoy... RickieB
And since we are celebrating Columbus Day... here is the vignette from my Fr#38 upper left corner of the note..The sighting of Land by Columbus. RickieB
i absolutely LOVE intricate vingettes! i am truly amazed at the artistic hand that can create such works! even more so sicne i can not even come close
New Group Me to can you imagine the nerves of steel to carve a vignette in a steel block ,hour after hours ! Come on board and join the new group I started. http://www.cointalk.com/groups/secur...ing-vignettes/ connor1
I agree with Connor..come on guy's lets expand our knowledge and join on in! The only downside will be I will have to find some different info for all future contest's So Connor... we should have a general posting of a vignette we like or have and to submit it we should have to give a synopsis on it about the Engraver..and vignette...each member of the group will be assigned "his/her turn" and lets have a weekly posting by different members.. Who says yes?? Whay say you all?? My vote is in!! Connor, since you started the Group, perhaps you should go first?? Let's first try to get 10-15 members and once we do..we can start. RickieB
Rickie, That's a great Idea,it would benefit us all in learning more about Vignettes and who engraved them ,I say "YES" count me in #1. connor1
June Cleever talks to me, yes Barbara Billingsley is still very much around even though she is like 94 years old. In the interest of keeping Theodore's innocent little mind clear of prurient thoughts I have had to block certain parts of exposed anatomical features of this young miss, titled "Morning":
For those of you who do not know "Morning" it is from the ______Bank 1863 State of _______...it features 3 wonderful vignettes!! Morning is the prominent and somewhat provacative of them all. Great note SM!! You can fill in the Blanks so folks will know..I did but felt like it was your post! RickieB
You can see her in all of her glories here: http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/usaobsoletes.html Where June's opinions are less of consequence. Reminds me I have to get off my lazy bum and put the rest of the obsolete images on there.
now one question that just now popped into my little brain ... are we talking just US notes with this whole vingette biography thing? I mean, yes, there are alot of different subjects just on US notes... or would we also include world notes??
I think we should include all notes US & World.I also think vignettes on stock certificates/military notes (mpcs) any security vignette should be included.How do the rest of you feel,lets get some feed back.
Here is a nice one (my avatar is a cropped image from it) Canadian 1937 $20, the reverse was to represent fertility, the whole 1937 series has a theme to each note.
Indeed I like those 1937 Bank of Canada notes myself, the $20's greatest attribute is not GVI, but rather the young lady on the reverse: Representing agriculture. Her compatriot on the reverse of the $50 represents "radio" which was then an important medium in communication:
