Show MOSAIC REAL WORK OF ART new yorker made decorative use of currency accidentally torn in banks money room greenbacks Green backs or yellow backs that we accidentally torn in the money room of a bank have been put loto into decorative use by A J dame of new york rity city in the making of a mosaic W by inches the original orle loal would have a value of it if it were made from good bills ilore than two thousand pieces art are contained in the alic design and mr bame put into the task all his spare time extending over a period of ten mouths months euch each piece ot of the mosaic had to be ironed out and cut with scissors T many of the pieces peces were so small that they hill had to be held by a pair of 0 tweezers in order to cut the them the very ivery lifelike eye of the eagle engle was made efrom the figure 2 with the bottom cut off while the beak was from the yellow back of a 20 bill the little designs found on 5 bills were used bcd for the lie fe feal aters in the engles eagles henl head and the neck feathers came out ofa bills the red ond and blue stripes in the s shield h beld were obtained from the col ored salson bals athe bills while the white stripes and vie the stars were simply a background ot of white paper the stars having been cut out oat with a penknife popular science monthly |