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• The E-Sylum: Volume 10, Number 17, April 29, 2007, Article 23
  

  ARTICLE: CANADIAN BANKNOTE DESIGNER LESLEY SAWYER DIES
  

  Also today The Gazette of Montreal published a nice obituary of Lesley
  Sawyer, an artist responsible for a number of Canadian currency designs.
  

  "Leslie Sawyer had designs on a lot of money. But he never became rich.
  

  "The British-born graphic artist responsible for the Scenes of Canada
  series of Canadian banknotes that were issued in the 1970s, died April
  15 of congestive heart failure in the Lakeshore General Hospital. He was 86.
  

  "As a child, he displayed a natural talent for drawing and at 14 dropped
  out of school to apprentice as a commercial artist.
  

  "At 19, he joined the Royal Air Force and during the Second World War
  served with 112 Squadron as ground crew in the North African Campaign
  painting the shark's faces on Tomahawk aircraft.
  

  "When the war ended, he went to work in London as a designer for the
  De La Rue Company Ltd., described as the world's largest security
  printer, which began printing currency for the British Treasury in 1914.
  

  "As a house artist, he was responsible for the design on the back of the
  $5 bill in the 1954 series of Canadian currency that introduced the
  queen's portrait on Canadian money for the first time.
  

  "In the 1970s, he designed the series of Canadian banknotes that
  featured multicoloured security tints to the basic hues of the bank
  notes."
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n17a23.html

Data di pubblicazione

• 2007-04-29

Volume

• 10

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