SILVER CERTIFICATES
1-Dollar, "Educational" Series of 1896 (Fr. 224; Hessler p.100, bottom), face Proof in black, india paper on card, a lovely crisp impression of the classic design by Will H. Low, engraved by Charles Schlecht, perhaps three are in existence
Details
1-Dollar, "Educational" Series of 1896 (Fr. 224; Hessler p.100, bottom), face Proof in black, india paper on card, a lovely crisp impression of the classic design by Will H. Low, engraved by Charles Schlecht, perhaps three are in existence
Further details
Will H. Low (1853-1932) went to Paris at age twenty where he befriended Robert Louis Stevenson. Low received a medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition for his illustration of Keats' Lamia. He was a member of the Society of American Artists, the National Academy of Design, the National Society of Mural Painters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.