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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;frederick, post: 707907, member: 20756&quot;]I am going for an Ass. Degree in Business. I worked 33 years for Hershey&#039;s Chocolate. I am not an expert in collecting stocks or engraving history. My grandmother would tell lots of stories about her father. Of course the many paintings all had their Greek stories which I was told about so often. I never met my great grandfather as he died before I was born. However the family left hundreds of photographs and grandma&#039;s stories about her father stuck with me. In later years I started doing family research on the web sites. I found several 3rd cousins. It was not long ago that I saw an article from Gene Hessler and another from Mark Tomasko about Republic Banknote Co. and Security Banknote Co. that mentioned Walter A Frauz. That almost knocked me off my feet. I contacted both of them by phone last summer. Mark spoke about comming here as well. I have no interest in selling anything. These things have been in the family for all this time. I would love to share with others however. I am just amazed that his name lives on among others that know of him. I did not think he was even remembered anymore. I was not even aware of his great importance. I only knew he was one of many engravers for Western Banknote/Republic/and Security. I did know that he became a portrait engraver which was the highest level of that type of work. It was only a few months ago that Mark mentioned his importance as one of the top engravers of the time. He was very much into the &quot;Arts&quot; He also played the violin and painted as a deversion. There is one painting that is origional art that I know you will like. I bet you may know the stock. cert. which has the same image. I will try to attach it now if I can reduce it.... later if I have a problem. Fred[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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