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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 2291181, member: 24274"]Back in the 1980s, when I was just getting interested in bank note engraving, a dealer friend of mine sold me an album containing about 50 of these vignette proofs. (If you do a search for "vignette" on this forum you'll find some other scans.) At the time it was a lot of money for me, but in reality it was only about $5-6 per vignette. I didn't know much about them, but I was fascinated by the artwork. This was one of the big deciding events in terms of what I now collect. Over the years, little by little, I started finding these same vignettes on obsolete currency, stocks, bonds, and other paper money. And that made me curious about the engravers and the bank note companies that produced them. I read a lot and did a lot of online research, which has always been fun for me -- kind of like an Easter egg hunt. </p><p><br /></p><p>About five years ago I stumbled onto this forum and started sharing images from my collection and bits of knowledge I've come across. That's led to some good friendships and expanded my knowledge when other collectors share what they've learned. A curious mind is always making connections and following their intuition down whatever rabbit hole they discover.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay, of course, if the easiest place to find this sort of material. A surprising number of these proofs have come up for sale just in the last year. Go to the paper money category, do a search for "vignette" in the title field in and see what you find. They aren't as cheap any more -- I'd say a reasonable price is $15 to $30 apiece, sometimes more for a well-know image that appears on federal currency. You'll also find these in auctions, particularly <a href="http://currency.ha.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://currency.ha.com/" rel="nofollow">Heritage</a>. I would recommend signing up with them (it's free) so you can look through images from past and present auctions. It's a treasure trove and there is plenty to learn from reading lot descriptions. Have fun![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 2291181, member: 24274"]Back in the 1980s, when I was just getting interested in bank note engraving, a dealer friend of mine sold me an album containing about 50 of these vignette proofs. (If you do a search for "vignette" on this forum you'll find some other scans.) At the time it was a lot of money for me, but in reality it was only about $5-6 per vignette. I didn't know much about them, but I was fascinated by the artwork. This was one of the big deciding events in terms of what I now collect. Over the years, little by little, I started finding these same vignettes on obsolete currency, stocks, bonds, and other paper money. And that made me curious about the engravers and the bank note companies that produced them. I read a lot and did a lot of online research, which has always been fun for me -- kind of like an Easter egg hunt. About five years ago I stumbled onto this forum and started sharing images from my collection and bits of knowledge I've come across. That's led to some good friendships and expanded my knowledge when other collectors share what they've learned. A curious mind is always making connections and following their intuition down whatever rabbit hole they discover. Ebay, of course, if the easiest place to find this sort of material. A surprising number of these proofs have come up for sale just in the last year. Go to the paper money category, do a search for "vignette" in the title field in and see what you find. They aren't as cheap any more -- I'd say a reasonable price is $15 to $30 apiece, sometimes more for a well-know image that appears on federal currency. You'll also find these in auctions, particularly [URL='http://currency.ha.com/']Heritage[/URL]. I would recommend signing up with them (it's free) so you can look through images from past and present auctions. It's a treasure trove and there is plenty to learn from reading lot descriptions. Have fun![/QUOTE]
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