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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Philodemus, post: 1231460, member: 32246&quot;]&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I have some large drawings from the British American Bank Note Company which I&#039;ve been able to study recently. They&#039;re from the 1930s and&amp;nbsp;were purchased from someone who bought them at a Christie&#039;s auction in the 1990s which contained a lot of material from the BABN. &amp;nbsp;The first image is signed by the Canadian artist, Paul Goranson: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n527/philodemean/IMG_8942.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This image and the others I&#039;ll present in following posts seem to me&amp;nbsp;to me to be trial drawings for the vignette that appeared on the the reverse of the 1937 Canadian $10 bill and 1935 $2 bill. In other words, these seem to be submissions that were rejected in favor of the one that was finally chosen.&amp;nbsp;Here is the back of the $10: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n527/philodemean/e501c3e76bd9637c3c128efa4aa8cb60.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And there is a nice discussion on CoinTalk here by North49guy:&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.cointalk.com/t84302/&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He gives an image of the draft vignette that was revised somewhat: &amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n527/philodemean/1937billdraft.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Websites that discuss the vignette suppose that the top left reads &quot;819&quot; but I think instead that it reads B19. It&#039;s interesting that this image by Goranson has B1 in the top left corner and (scratched out) B17 in the bottom left.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More to come in other posts. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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