Chippendales of Commerce: Men on Money

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Both of these are American Bank Note Company images.  The first is from International Resistance Corporation circa 1962.  The second is from International Telephone and Telegraph circa 1982.  Opposite the Mercury on the Pennsylvania Railroad is another guy, but, as we say about the Electricity Note: too much leg.

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Men! Do not let yourself be objectified!  You do not have to take off your shirt to attract a woman.  Many women will appreciate an open and honest relationship with a man who has millions of dollars.

Top: Cornelius Vanderbilt from a New York Central Railroad stock cerrtificate, American Bank Note Company, 1941.

Bottom: William Burke Belknap -- Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing, Louisville, Kentucky; (several web resources available). From a Western Banknote & Engraving Co., certificate, circa 1930.

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You might like dividends or you might like capital gains.  You might be a capital gainer looking for a little dividend action or vice versa.  No matter: it is an axiom of capitalist economics that the marketplace is amoral -- all values are subjective and accepted.

American Dual Vest Fund.  Established December 1966 the first dual purpose fund.  "A closed-end mutual fund which as two classes of stock.  Typically one class received the dividends from the underlying portfolio, the other any realized capital gains." (The Handbook of International Financial Terms, by Peter Moles and Nicholas Terry; Oxford 2002. via Google Books.)   Engraving by Security-Columbian Banknote Company.

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There were times even in the past when men were light of foot, perhaps it was the little winglets that lessened the masculinity or something:

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Mercury is light of foot, rather flocking of a feather hither:

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Then there is Kim Jong Il's "handsome" socialist precursor from Mexico,

 

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  Then there is Kim Jong Il's "handsome" socialist precursor from Mexico,

I mentioned this elsewhere before, but it was a problem I had with the "Bay Bucks" Committee: socialists do not understand money; they do not appreciate it.  So, the doughy faced hoodlum is no uglier than the Woman with One Eyebrow.  Old money is beautiful because the revealed human form was their statement that they were (internally) worthy of Atlantis. 

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. ...   The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it. -- Francisco d'Anconia.

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Uris Building Corporation.
American Bank Note Company
circa 1970.

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(double click.  sorry.)

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The Pennsylvania Railroad
American Bank Note Company
Circa 1966
Left vingette