Fr. 747. 1918 $2 Federal Reserve Bank Note. Boston. No. A111A. PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.

Fr. 747. 1918 $2 Federal Reserve Bank Note. Boston. No. A111A. PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.，Here is another very attractive example of a very popular design. The paper is bright and the ink tones are pleasantly bold. The upper margin is just a hair tight on the face, but all of the borders are complete on both sides. <p><p>The central design of the back for which this note is best known is titled <em>Battleship New York</em>, and was engraved by Charles M. Chalmers who is also credited with the header art for the Campbells Soup stock certificate (the original steel plate of which was sold among our offerings from the ABNCo archives roughly a decade ago). It took 34 years for the <em>U.S.S. New York</em> to go from launch to complete obsolescence, but there were several notable credits to her name during that time. She is credited with being the only battleship to sink a. German U-Boat during WWI, was used at Iwo Jima and the Invasion of Okinawa in WWII, and later used to study effects of nuclear detonations at Bikini Atoll in 1946. By 1948, target practice was all she was deemed useful for, and she was sunk by Naval fire on July 6 of that year. <p>，From the A.J. Vanderbilt Collection. Earlier from Kevin Foleys Fixed Price List, May 1985; Stacks, September 1996, lot 150.，