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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 4891562, member: 24274&quot;]Three very nice BEP vignettes arrived today! These were not cheap, but each one is significant so I decided to splurge.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is the battleship USS Maine. This appears on an 1898 Spanish-American War bond, so it would have been engraved not long after the Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, which led to the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1180559[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1180560[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next is Ponce De Leon. This <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juan_Ponce_De_Leon_Statue_-_St_Augustine,_Florida.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juan_Ponce_De_Leon_Statue_-_St_Augustine,_Florida.jpg" rel="nofollow">statue still stands in St. Augustine</a>, Florida. My vignette is a progress proof that was printed for the engraver to see how his work was going. I don&#039;t know what the original purpose was for this, but the completed vignette eventually ended up on a 2005 souvenir card.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1180562[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1180563[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And last is a beautiful oval frame, with two female figures. I&#039;m calling this the Angel Frame. This one is perhaps the most significant because it appears on a well-known large-size note. Let&#039;s see if anyone can tell me which one...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1180572[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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