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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;connor1, post: 842375, member: 19521&quot;]<b>1918 $2 Federal Reserve Bank note</b></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">USS New York Battleship.</font></p><p>This Battleship saw action during both World Wars and was part of atomic bomb testing in the late 1940s.It was towed 40 miles away from Pearl Harbor in 1946 and sunk .According to historians,once WORLD WAR 2 started ,the &quot;New York guarded Atlantic convoys to Iceland and Scotland when the U-Boat menace was gravest. Later it joined in the invasion of North Africa .The Spirit of the ship lives on .The Battleship New York was the fifth ship to bore the name of the Empire State. Engraved by the BEP and engraver Charles M. Chalmers.Chalmers was a cousin of noted engraver Marcus W. Baldwin,began engraving career with ABNCo in 1922.The Battleship vignette is his only note engraving according to The Engraver&#039;s Line by Gene Hessler.</p><p><img src="http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx59/connor1_photos/vignettes/2--Battleship--FRN.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx59/connor1_photos/pictures/2-Battleship-Note.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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