FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES
100-Dollars, Series of 1914 (Fr. 1076; Hessler p. 186), a composite paste-up of the face with red seal and serial number E0000000A, with the appropriate back Proof in green, both mounted on card, the first with peripheral glue stains, the second slightly aged, but basically sound and attractive and very rare, one of three pairs known to Hessler (2)
Details
100-Dollars, Series of 1914 (Fr. 1076; Hessler p. 186), a composite paste-up of the face with red seal and serial number E0000000A, with the appropriate back Proof in green, both mounted on card, the first with peripheral glue stains, the second slightly aged, but basically sound and attractive and very rare, one of three pairs known to Hessler (2)
Provenance
Bebee Collection, Bowers & Merena, 8/26-29/87, lot 1719
Further details
The vignette of Franklin is engraved by Marcus W. Baldwin and seems to be based on a portrait by Marion Richardson (1877-1952). Labor, Plenty, America, Peace and Commerce, on the back, is by Kenyon Cox, and engraved by G.F.C. Smillie. This was orignally intended to be a common back on all U.S. small-size paper money. Cox painted murals for the Appelate Court in New York City, and also decorated the domes of the Liberal Arts Building for the Columbian Exposition in 1893.