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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1208013, member: 24274&quot;]Alright, I&#039;ve obviously become obsessive/compulsive about this. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I found another related item that I just *had* to scan. This is a panel from the 1991 portfolio of the American Bank Note Archive Series. This relates to a couple earlier threads, specifically this one: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t163799/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t163799/">http://www.cointalk.com/t163799/</a> but you also see many other panels here: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t87667/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t87667/">http://www.cointalk.com/t87667/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The nice thing about this series is it that each panel comes with a detailed information sheet, with background on each vignette. The top vignette is one I posted earlier -- it&#039;s entitled &quot;Chinese Water Carrier&quot; and was engraved in 1916.</p><p><br /></p><p>The central vignette is called &quot;Pagoda Scene--Reception Hall of the Barean of Finance&quot; (sic). It appears on the back of the 1922 $50 note of the Provincial Bank of Kwangtung Province. (Anyone have this note?)</p><p><br /></p><p>The vignette of the two junks is titled &quot;HongKong Harbor.&quot; It was engraved in 1915 and appears on the back of three 1935 fractional notes, also from the Provincial Bank of Kwangtung Province. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;HongKong Cargo&quot; shows another junk, not yet at sail; it was engraved in 1916.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last we have &quot;Dragons,&quot; engraved in 1915. It appears on a stock or bond, I believe, from the Ningpo Commercial Bank of Shanghai. It may also appear on paper money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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