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Canadian Notes => Bank of Canada Notes => Topic started by: BWJM on May 05, 2007, 03:12:19 pm

Title: Birds $1000 notes - Can someone check?
Post by: BWJM on May 05, 2007, 03:12:19 pm

Can someone who has a Birds $1000 readily accessible please check the note to determine whether the signatures are engraved, or lithographed?

If you hold the note up to the light obliquely, the signatures will create shadows, just like the rest of the intaglio/engraved printing. Lithographed signatures will look just like the background and will be glossy with no shadows.

I need a definite answer for this question within the next 24 hours please! Thank you!

Title: Re: Birds $1000 notes - Can someone check?
Post by: Ottawa on May 05, 2007, 10:06:27 pm

An interesting question indeed!

The signatures on my note (Bonin-Thiessen EKA5843617) exhibit no three-dimensionality whatsoever and I am 100% convinced that they are NOT engraved. The signatures look flat and lifeless when viewed obliquely and I am certain that they were not part of the main printing plate but were printed in a separate process ("lithographed", "typographed" or "surface printed", whatever the correct term may be).