Anyone care to guess who sketched this?
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Franklin Peale?
www.brunkauctions.com
Christian Gobrecht?
a family member?
Joe Fabeets.
William Barber for Twenty Cents Pieces, perhaps.
Jim
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I'm going with Ben Franklin cause it has a turkeyesque look about it.
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George T. Morgan. Here is page 90 in the book about his sketchbook.
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Well I'll be. Thanks for sharing.
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Napoleon Dynamite.
It took like 8 hours just to do the shading..
The guy that did the pencil sketch of Rose from Titanic?
Good one. LOL!!!
Interesting how old sketches became actual coins. I guess such applications have to start somewhere.... I recall reading about one design that started on a restaurant napkin - do not remember which one anymore. Cheers, RickO
I have his sketchbook also. I've looked thru it a couple times. Interesting book.
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