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Excellent additions for the topic revival!  |
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Nice stuff, @GregAlex! Can you tell me more about the flying eagle image (card #5)? I've seen that before, but just don't remember where. The "Hatch Eagle" was engraved by Lorenzo Hatch for the Bureau of Engraving & Printing around the turn of the last century. A variation appears on the back of the 1918 $1 Federal Reserve Note. But before that the original design was used on many forerunner souvenir cards that were produced for the BEP's exhibits at various World's Fairs and expositions, starting with the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition. They even printed it on silk souvenir handkerchiefs!  |
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Fantastic and beautiful examples greg. You never disappoint.
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Back in the good old days before the BEP added the word COPY in red letters.   |
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They even printed it on silk souvenir handkerchiefs!
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Back in the good old days before the BEP added the word COPY in red letters. Very nice!  |
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Collectors may or may not know that, after a 10-year hiatus, the BEP finally began featuring complete currency designs again in 2018. However, last year and very likely next year currency won't be included. If you get the chance to talk to a Bureau rep at a major coin show, be sure to mention that you'd like to see more currency on their souvenir cards.  |
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Very interesting! |
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Nice examples! |
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Hey Steve, I also have the Buffalo print from the ANA in Portland! |
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Quote:I also have the Buffalo print from the ANA in Portland! Was it the hand-signed spider press version that was only available at the show, through a raffle? Those are scarce.  |
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I only have a couple of souvenir cards. At a show once, I saw and didn't buy (weep! wail!) a book put out by ABNCo I think in the 1970s, which was all samples of intaglio printing, including many impressions from archive plates and dies, as well as a demonstration of a nifty process which used the texture of the steel plate to make a message which reads differently from different directions of view — not unlike those "lenticular" images that were so popular on products for kids in the '80s and '90s of the last century, but without the heavy cover plastic. Quote:
"Spider press proofs" (which are not technically proofs at all) are among the rarest souvenir cards. These were only available at stamp and coin shows where the Bureau brought it's demonstration press. Typically 40 to 100 cards were hand-pulled, signed and numbered; chances to buy a card were raffled off throughout the show. The cards were usually the same design as the regular BEP cards but often printed in a different color ink. I can recall standing for quite a while watching the process of printing at a show. I'm thinking the show in question was the 2010 ANA in Fort Worth. I really wanted one of those prints! But alas, I didn't succeed in getting one. Edited by publius
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This is something very like a souvenir card, an ABNCo reprint from an original plate for collectors. I guess it dates to the 1970s. Unfortunately, it had been folded at some point before it reached me.   |
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Very nice! |
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