The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 47, November 5, 2005, Article 10

AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY SAMPLE BOOK OFFERED

Ed Krivoniak pointed out an interesting item of numismatic
Literature up for sale on eBay this week (item #6574254679).
It's an 1869 vignette book from the American Bank Note Company.
The seller offers to forward links to images of any of the pages,
so researchers may want to take advantage of this.

"Presented to Annie W. Ayer, with her name stamped in
gilt on the upper cover; engraved ex libris Charles Henry
Sanford, incorporating a map depicting the North and South
American continents, Europe, and Africa, and identifying
the cities of New York, London, and Buenos Aires la Plata.
A most remarkable American Bank Note Company promotional
sample book, issued to further expansion of the firm's

Latin American business. A panoply of South American
heroes, statesmen, and patriots are depicted on the superb,
steel-engraved plates, accompanied by evocative scenes of
Western American and South American rural life on the
range and farm, accompanied by more prosaic scenes depicting
technological progress in the New World. Such expansive
American Bank Note Company vignette volumes are extremely
rare and no two seem to be identical. Little has been found
about Annie W. Ayer beyond her 1884 presence in Buenos Aires
to witness a marriage. A native of England, Charles Henry
Sanford (1833- 1891), was a millionaire businessman who
made his fortune in Argentina."

[The auction listing includes a number of nice images of
the book and its plates.  –Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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