It's been a little quiet, so I'll toss out another nice bond that arrived recently. This was from Reconstruction-era South Carolina (1874). Even the back of this one is gorgeous.
Your right gsalexan; We are in the doldrums where new members ask the same questions over and over again. I'm glad you popped in with something different. I didn't see you at the January FUN Show, were you there?
I recently got a bunch of these for like $.50 a piece. As they were printed by ABNC, many of the vignettes actually show up in random foreign banknotes!
Didn't make it this year. Wish I could have -- we were snowed under out here in Eastern Oregon! Feel free to post some of them -- in fact, I'd like to see your match-ups with foreign currency!
Several of the stock designs are on expensive bills so I don't have any of those. However, here's the same Mercury on a Collins Radio Company certificate as well as a horribly worn 1942 Curacao 1 Gulden.
This ABNC stock has the same vignette as the reverse of an old Brazil 5 Mil Reis (bill not owned by me) They just replaced the thing in the middle with whatever they needed to:
I'm going to start checking world paper money more closely for matches like this. Great stuff! This one arrived yesterday. I picked it up inexpensively on eBay, which was a little tricky since they still have the ban on anything related to Cuba. I really love the vignette of the sugar plantation, complete with a small locomotive on the left side.
This isn't a stock or bond, but it's close. It has the same arm and hammer as the 1852 Hungary 5 Forint (neither example is mine).
I found a couple more stock/currency matches among my mining certificates. Both notes are from Mexico's State Bank of Chihuahua.
The scanner and I spent some quality time this weekend! I started looking into the connections between foreign currency and the vignettes on my stocks and bonds. From the 1870s through the 1950s, American Bank Note Co. produced a great many banknotes for countries in Central and South America. Not surprisingly, their designs pulled from the same stock of engravings used for other ABNC products. Here are a batch of new matches. Although the banknotes are not owned by me, I am now seriously looking at expanding my collection in this area. The angels on this 1938 Columbian gold peso note appear on two stocks, United Stores Corp. and Chicago & North Western Railway. The vignette on the railroad stock is about 15 percent smaller and I'm guessing this is size aligns to the angels on the Columbian note. Brazil's Banco do Cafe put out an interest-bearing 100 reis note featuring a very popular vignette of two figures. I was surprised to discover this on four different stocks: Waldorf System Inc., United Retail Stores Corp., American International Corp., and Container Corp. of America. The CCA specimen stock certificate shows a reduced vignette and, again, I suspect this was the size used on the Banco do Cafe note.
This depiction of Mercury sitting atop a dynamo is the central vignette on a 1911 20 boliviano note, as well as the back of a 1 colon Costa Rican note. He bears an uncanny resemblance to Harpo Marx, imho. Mercury shows up again, flanked by globes, on a North American Edison Co. stock certificate. A re-engraved version of the figure on the back of this 10 reis Brazilian note also appears on Houdaille Industries stock. Thos. De La Rue Bank Note in England originally designed the bank note, so ABNC probably chose to engrave their own version when they got the currency contract.
ABNC produced dozens of strikingly beautiful and colorful notes for Costa Rica in the 1890s and early 1900s. This 20 colones note from the 1901 series shows a mining scene, which was also used on two stocks: Beech Creek Coal and Coke Co. and Mt. Olive Consolidated Coal and Coke. This 5 sucre 1949 note from the Central Bank of Ecuador uses an allegorical figure of Harvest. She shows up again, without so much fruit, on a stock for the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Rwy Co. The stock was printed in the 1870s, so this was most likely the vignette's original form. Lastly, one of my favorite vignettes -- I think this figure represents Literature. She appears on a rare 2 peso note from the Dominican Republic. But she is a lot more affordable on this common stock certificate of the National Tea Company.
@gsalexan : awesome! You have a great collection of notes and bonds and it's really cool to see the two next to each other!
Great collection! "The angels on this 1938 Columbian gold peso note" wow, the 1938 Columbian gold peso note gives me an excuse to attend the Baltimore Whitman Show this month. Gotta get one. Could not find any for sale on the 'net. Any idea where I can buy one?
I only found one and it's pretty far out of my price range: http://www.ebay.com/itm/COLOMBIA-1-...048166?hash=item43ff1f44e6:g:nEAAAOSwHMJYFi4l
I really like that note but not prepared to spend $650.00 for it. It's a 400 year anniversary note. I wonder if the angels were printed on other notes? Thanks
I'll keep my eye out, too. Often the same designs are shared by both common and rare notes. Sometimes the easiest solution is just to thumb through the World Paper Money catalog.