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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1725190, member: 24274&quot;]If you skip back to post #3 on this thread you can read up on the Excelsior Bank Note Co. and view a few vignette samples. I recently discovered one of those, the owl, as a corner ornament on a stock certificate of the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati Railway Company. However, this certificate was engraved by the Franklin Bank Note Co., not Excelsior. Both companies operated in NYC around the same time (1870s) and FBNCo eventually was absorbed by American Bank Note. The plate ended up there, because much later the same owl appears on Commemorative Panel CP101, produced by ABNCo in 1978 for the Postal Service. But how it made its way from Excelsior to Franklin is a mystery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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