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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ycon, post: 4490847, member: 91771&quot;]Another fascinating item I came across recently: </p><p><br /></p><p>the $3 banknote featuring John James Audubon&#039;s first commercial illustration-- of a grouse! </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://media.npr.org/assets/news/2010/08/03/norwalk_custom-7e93b4c0c8657688b6bb5b34f6ca3c23221e8866-s1200.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>(photo from the Eric P Newman Education Society) </p><p><br /></p><p>The story of its rediscovery is pretty interesting. It was thought lost for years, because the notes were probably only printed as proofs. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can read a short version <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128934691" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128934691" rel="nofollow">here</a> from npr, or the full original article by Eric Newman and Robert Peck, <a href="https://dvoc.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Cassinia_74-75_Discovered-The-First-Engraving-of-an-Audubon-Bird.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://dvoc.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Cassinia_74-75_Discovered-The-First-Engraving-of-an-Audubon-Bird.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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