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jbuck Moderator United States 189647 Posts	Posted 10/14/2019 11:48 am Quote: They even printed it on silk souvenir handkerchiefs! Fascinating! Quote: Back in the good old days before the BEP added the word COPY in red letters. Very nice! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
GregAlex Pillar of the Community United States 825 Posts	Posted 11/15/2019 6:33 pm 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. Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 189647 Posts	Posted 11/18/2019 12:07 pm Very interesting! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
GregAlex Pillar of the Community United States 825 Posts	Posted 06/21/2023 8:15 pm Time to bump up this topic! It's been a little disappointing waiting for the BEP to restart their Intaglio Print (souvenir card) Program. Their last card issued was in January 2020 (below) and the ongoing excuse is that during COVID most of the contract staff dealing collector products was laid off. But there has been ample time to rehire and still nothing. The Souvenir Card Collector Society has remained busy in the meantime, cataloging newly discovered cards and adding categories to the series of Image Galleries on our website: http://www.souvenircards.org/html/m...gallery.html We recently added a great many forerunner cards, put out by the International Plate Printers, Die Stampers, Plate Makers, and Engravers Union for their conventions. Some of these feature spectacular examples of banknote engraving. Here is a batch of my favorites... Report this Post to the Staff
ijn1944 Bedrock of the Community United States 19223 Posts	Posted 06/21/2023 9:25 pm Very impressive! Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 189647 Posts	Posted 06/22/2023 10:43 am Nice examples! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
suipakpaikungfu Pillar of the Community United States 992 Posts	Posted 06/25/2023 2:10 pm Hey Steve, I also have the Buffalo print from the ANA in Portland! Report this Post to the Staff
GregAlex Pillar of the Community United States 825 Posts	Posted 06/30/2023 12:22 am 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. Report this Post to the Staff
publius Pillar of the Community United States 807 Posts	Posted 06/30/2023 01:33 am 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 06/30/2023 01:40 am Report this Post to the Staff
publius Pillar of the Community United States 807 Posts	Posted 08/21/2023 10:34 pm 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. Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 189647 Posts	Posted 08/22/2023 09:42 am Very nice! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
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