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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1357003, member: 24274"]<b>Excelsior Bank Note Co.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Round 2: Here are four sample vignettes from a very obscure bank note company: Excelsior BNCo. It was founded circa 1876 by John Wellstood, a former partner of Wellstood, Hay & Whiting which was one of the seven firms that united to form American Bank Note in 1858. But Wellstood apparently preferred to be his own man. He left ABNCo to launch Columbian Bank Note in 1867. This company apparently failed sometime prior to 1880. (Another Columbian was reinvented in the early 1900s.) </p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently Excelsior was Wellstood's next project, but little work is known from the company. Soon after its founding (and perhaps the reason for it) Excelsior submitted a number of paste-up designs to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the backs of $1, $2, and $5 National Bank Notes. But ultimately Excelsior was deemed too small to be a reliable supplier.</p><p><br /></p><p>These vignettes were probably salesman samples. I have yet to find them on any bank note or security. Judging by the die numbers below the titles (3, 4, 7, and 8), these were among the first and possibly only vignettes engraved for the company.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1357003, member: 24274"][b]Excelsior Bank Note Co.[/b] Round 2: Here are four sample vignettes from a very obscure bank note company: Excelsior BNCo. It was founded circa 1876 by John Wellstood, a former partner of Wellstood, Hay & Whiting which was one of the seven firms that united to form American Bank Note in 1858. But Wellstood apparently preferred to be his own man. He left ABNCo to launch Columbian Bank Note in 1867. This company apparently failed sometime prior to 1880. (Another Columbian was reinvented in the early 1900s.) Apparently Excelsior was Wellstood's next project, but little work is known from the company. Soon after its founding (and perhaps the reason for it) Excelsior submitted a number of paste-up designs to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the backs of $1, $2, and $5 National Bank Notes. But ultimately Excelsior was deemed too small to be a reliable supplier. These vignettes were probably salesman samples. I have yet to find them on any bank note or security. Judging by the die numbers below the titles (3, 4, 7, and 8), these were among the first and possibly only vignettes engraved for the company.[/QUOTE]
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