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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1202796, member: 24274&quot;]SM, I hope you don&#039;t mind me expanding the scope of your thread, since these vignettes are all from stocks/bonds, not strictly paper money. But I can legitimately call them &quot;bank note vignettes&quot; since they&#039;re all from firms that produced notes. I&#039;ve scanned these all at high res, so you can see the detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought I&#039;d follow-up on the transportation theme, with some other unusual pieces. I won&#039;t show the rest of these stocks in their entirety, but the United New Jersey Rail Road and Canal Co. certificate is a nice item by American Bank Note. I really like the canal scene, which brings to mind the old boatman&#039;s dirge &quot;15 Miles on the Erie Canal.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Tom Thumb railroad scene is a well known vignette from a Baltimore &amp; Ohio Railroad stock. This probably depicts a period from the 1840s. Love the carriage being transported and the double deck car. Really looks a lot like a stagecoach. Another ABNC vignette.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Eagle and US map is from a stock for The Aviation Corp, engraved by Columbian BN. So what are all those scattered dashes? Markers showing the prevailing wind direction in all the major cities. Of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>And how about a chariot? Bearing Thor, no less, with his mighty hammer. No wonder those horses are frothing! This is one of those rare images where the vignette designer &quot;broke the box&quot; with a horse hoof extending beyond the frame. (Banknote engravers were a pretty conservative lot, typically.) this is from a Pennsylvania Power Co. bond by Hamilton Bank Note.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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