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首席收藏网 > 数据中心 > Stack's Bowers and Ponterio > SBP2018年10月巴尔地摩#5-美国债券The Caine Collection

Lot:4027 Friedberg Unlisted (W-Unlisted). Circa 1894 $2 Silver Certificate. PCGS Currency Choice New 63. Sepi

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SBP2018年10月巴尔地摩#5-美国债券The Caine Collection

2018-10-26 06:30:00

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Friedberg Unlisted (W-Unlisted). Circa 1894 $2 Silver Certificate. PCGS Currency Choice New 63. Sepia Photograph.Similar to Hessler-SCE5. Sepia photograph reduced from original art, mounted on wide margin card with inscription. Essay of the $2 design submitted by Will H. Low, who also designed the successful $1 note. This design was deemed unacceptable and its history ended there. However, Low did argue later, unsuccessfully, that a fee of $800 was due to him for his rejected design. The composition features vignettes personifying Peace, seated at left, and Defense, seated to right, each facing with arms outstretched toward the other holding an olive branch and sword, respectively. Peace is depicted robed, with a scythe in her right hand. Defense wears a Roman style cuirass and bears a lightning bolt in his left hand. Painting had serial number B97738241056. The original wash painting was part of the Glenn Jackson Collection and prior to that, the Thomas F. Morris estate. More recently, it hung in the offices of 123 West 57th Street before being sold in 2008. The painting is currently in an important private collection. The lower margin is written in brown ink, "Rejected design by Will H. Low, about which he made so much fuss by appeals to the Sect. of Treasury, the President, and finally, the public press." Last offered in our 2011 Bass sale where it fetched $2,070. Though not original art, this is an important item of developmental material from the Educational series. Likely, from Robert Friedberg at one time.<p>This is the first of several reduced-to-banknote size production photographs for engravers use. Some of these are plated in Hesslers opus on proofs and essays. Gene relays that years back in the production of his first edition, the Friedbergs supplied him with some images of these production photographs. He never saw the actual items and they were not specified as photographs, which would have been difficult to ascertain under the circumstances. Though this proposed design met with approval from engravers Charles Schlecht and G.F.C. Smillie, Claude M. Johnson, the chief of the Bureau of Engraving could not be satisfied. In a letter to Low dated January 5, 1895, Johnson wrote to Low informing him that the design was unacceptable. Though the hand that penned the note below the design on the present piece is not identified, it yields some clue as to the feeling of the personal exchanges between the parties involved in the design process. Clearly, Low strongly believed that his proposed design was suitable, if not perfect for the $2 note, considering that his effort to defend it reached the secretary of the Treasury, and even the President. The mere fact that the inscription reads as it does is suggestive that an aspect of contempt drove the hand that wrote it.From our Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection Sale, Part V, August 17, 2011, lot 5006; purchased from Mrs. Louise Entriken, December 16, 1971; formerly in the collection of Robert F. Schermerhorn.

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