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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 40, September 30, 2001, Article 9

ORMSBY AD REPRINTED    

  One of the great rarities of American numismatic literature is   
  Waterman Lilly Ormsby's elaborately illustrated 1851 book   
  on bank note engraving.   (See v3n49, November 26,  2000).    

  An article by Dave Norris in the May 2001 issue of Bank   
  Note Reporter reproduces an advertisement for the book   
  which appeared in the November 1852 issue of Banker's   
  Magazine:    

  "Protection Against   
  COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES   

  A complete guide to banks in constructing their notes to   
  prevent forgery will be found in the large quarto volume,   
  elegantly bound, and illustrated with steel engravings; entitled    

  "A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF   
  BANK NOTE ENGRAVING, SHOWING ITS TENDENCY   
  TO FACILITATE COUNTERFEITING; TO WHICH IS   
  ADDED A NEW METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING BANK   
  NOTES TO PREVENT FORGERY."    

  This work is of the greatest importance to Banking Institutions   
  though out the country.  It contains the only information which   
  has been published on the subject; and reveals many startling   
  facts in regard to the easy manner in which our present bank   
  notes are counterfeited and altered.  It also suggests an official   
  remedy.  Price, $12.00 per copy.  A remittance by mail or by   
  express, will ensure its delivery free of expense.    

  W.L. Ormsby, Bank Note Engraver, 12 Vesey Street,   
  Next door to the Astor House, New York 

  Oct 1852."   

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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