Train Vignettes from Obsoletes

I have others, but there is too much cleavage showing on the feminine of the species and I cannot post such things here or June Cleaver will haunt my barm.

 

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100 rubles, from the same series (I have 50 rubles too)





Issued in 1918, September 1, by Vladikavkaz Railroad Company, in North Caucasus, in the region known as Ossetia, which has Vladikavkaz as capital.
They seem halfway between a bond and a banknote, because they pay a 5,4% interest but, on the other hand, they are listed in the first volume of World Paper Money (North Caucasus S593 and S594), that call them interest-bearing loan notes, so I think that they were used also as current money.

petronius :smile

 

I don't have many foreign notes, but this one from the Bank of Communications is one of my favorites. The colors really pop and it has both a locomotive and a ship. ABNC did a great job on this banknote series.

 

Here is an ABNC transfer die I own.

 

We've got to get that one transferred onto a plate, Darryl! I remember when you did a test printing from it with, um, marginal results. A few months back I did correspond with Mike Bean, a former BEP plate printer, to see if he knew anyone who could do a transfer. He does, but he thought it would probably cost around $200-300 to create a printable plate. I guess that's reasonable, but more than I was willing to spend.

Have you been able to pick up a stock or bond that features this vignette?

Greg

 

I agree, I have been holding off talking with Mike but think that this summer I will pull the trigger and do it. I may do this versus going to the show in Chicago this year. I really enjoy the show but want to take the opportunity to get a plate done before that option no longer exists.

 

Let me know how it goes -- I'm still considering it. Ideally, you could actually watch the transfer process and take pictures! I'd love to see those.

 

Boy, I'm really dredging up some old threads! But I always liked this one and I recently found something that deserves to be posted here. Maybe it will inspire other members to add some new items.

This isn't an obsolete note, it's a promissory note, but it was issued in the same time period -- 1851. What I really liked was the small engraving of a very early train. The passenger car looks distinctly like a stagecoach, doesn't it?



The Baltimore & Ohio was the first railroad to issue engraved stock certificates in 1835. The central vignette looks very much like the train above, from a different angle.

 

Just learned about these, now I have some

 

Here is one of mine from Westmorland Bank/ New Brunswick

 

I love the "Horshoe Curve" ABN! Nice post...

 

Nice! Thanks

 

Beautifull notes!

 

Really like the Sanford Bank obsolete! Thanks for posting, Les.