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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1358508, member: 24274"]Some more tiny works of art for you -- in fact the wee landscape is about the size of a postage stamp, only about 2 inches wide. But the detail is remarkable.</p><p><br /></p><p>The image of Mercury may be familiar to you -- it shows up on many bank notes and I've seen it on a number of early U.S. Treasury Notes, printed by Rawdon, Wright and Hatch in the 1840s (well before greenbacks). This one has an identifiable engraver: in tiny letters below one foot it says "Drawn and Eng. by Geo W. Hatch"</p><p><br /></p><p>The next one has a title: "Gen. Marian inviting British troop to dinner" -- which is also engraved in miniscule letters at the bottom, along with "painted by John B. White." You can see the original painting and read the story that inspired it here: <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/biography/fox.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/biography/fox.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/biography/fox.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, we have a couple Civil War vignettes. My favorite, though I've never seen it used on any security, is the two workman punching holes in cannonballs, so the hollow balls could be packed with gunpowder. Rough work! You can even see a cannon being prepared in the background.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1358508, member: 24274"]Some more tiny works of art for you -- in fact the wee landscape is about the size of a postage stamp, only about 2 inches wide. But the detail is remarkable. The image of Mercury may be familiar to you -- it shows up on many bank notes and I've seen it on a number of early U.S. Treasury Notes, printed by Rawdon, Wright and Hatch in the 1840s (well before greenbacks). This one has an identifiable engraver: in tiny letters below one foot it says "Drawn and Eng. by Geo W. Hatch" The next one has a title: "Gen. Marian inviting British troop to dinner" -- which is also engraved in miniscule letters at the bottom, along with "painted by John B. White." You can see the original painting and read the story that inspired it here: [URL]http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/biography/fox.html[/URL] Lastly, we have a couple Civil War vignettes. My favorite, though I've never seen it used on any security, is the two workman punching holes in cannonballs, so the hollow balls could be packed with gunpowder. Rough work! You can even see a cannon being prepared in the background.[/QUOTE]
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