Souvenir cards

beautiful cards chris, i will have a look on fleabay for some.

 

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Thanks Greg,

I actually saw that one on ebay just the other day but having just bought three, I passed on it. I have two of the three images on other cards and they are very sharp!

BR ~ Darryl

 

Sharing my latest souvenir card, a generous compliment from ziggy9 Thank you Richard!

ABNCo for 91st Annual ANA Convention - 1982:

$3 The Tremont Bank - Chartered Bank

 

Very nice Chris - Congrats!

 

That one is cool and unique. Not seen it.

 

Nice pick-up Chris

 

Just out of curiosity....are there European versions or did the American Bank Note company put any out of their foreign notes?

 

You mean repro souvenir cards of European notes?

I think the vast majority from ABNCo and BEP serve the US coin and paper shows, so they reprinted dies/plates from the US mainly as it would likely have appealed most to show attendees, and meet the theme of these US collector shows.

I would love to find some repro ABNCo notes showing the old Chinese bank notes they printed for China!!! Not sure those reproductions even exist though.

Maybe there is more info on Kenn Barr's web site about other types of souvenir cards???

 

Thanks Krispy.... apparently there were a few foreign notes done but there aren't any pics on Ken's site. I'll have to do some surfing to find them.

 

I found South American & Hawaiian Bank Note Souvenir Cards but no European, The Republic of Hawaii notes printed for Hawaii when the British were in power.,also SO86 ANA 1992 Costa Rican 100 Colones Gold Certificate.SO107 Dominican Republic ,SO 112 back side of 50 Peso Banco Minero, Chihuahua,Mexico.SO137 Uruguay 100 Peso.


If you notice under the Globe the British Flag " The Union Jack" .

 

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There were a few more yesterday but they must have ended.

 

Thanks for the links. I've checked a few of those and I have a couple of Canadian ones that are similar to the British one shown. The quality isn't anywhere near the ones I've got from the U.S.. They are more like bad photocopies. I've seen "proofs" of Canadian and European notes but they can cost almost as much as good examples of the actual notes!

 

I agree

 

As far as European notes on U.S. souvenir cards, I'm not aware of any -- at least not intaglios. ABNC did produce a lot of foreign notes in So. Amer. (Bob did a good job citing the ones on cards), but central European nations preferred to use DeLaRue or Bradbury or printers from their own country. It's entirely possible souvenir cards exist from European shows, but I don't collect that area so I can't be much help.

 

Finally got a chance to scan my latest eBay acquisition. This is a card that wasn't released to the public, so I'd never heard of it. It was given out to family members of BEP employees on Family Day, some time in December 2004.

It's kind of a two-fer: folded with engravings on both the cover and inside and die-cut so that the stamps show through. 2004 was the last year the BEP printed postage stamps and the flag stamp (an actual stamp affixed to the card) was the final design they produced.

I'm going to see if I can find out the number of cards produced, but I suspect it was a low number. I was happy to pick this up for under $20.

 

Interesting piece Greg. Nice find!

 

Thanks for sharing it with us! Very nice.

 

I'll post another card here and cross-reference to a presentation I posted last month on special tax stamps. This card was issued by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the Pacific '97 stamp show in San Francisco. This is one of the few cards I have that is show cancelled, because I attended the show and cancelled the card myself. This is my favorite cancelled card: the placement of the stamps and the postmarks turned out just right. How often do you get two first day cancellations and a first day of show cancellation (on triangular stamps) on one card?

By the way, renovated butter, according to the back of the card, was "rancid butter reprocessed by means of melting to make it fit for human consumption." Yum!

 

If you'd like to see a larger image of the stamp and learn more about these taxpaid revenues you might want to visit an earlier thread I posted:
http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=143792&p=1088249&viewfull=1#post1088249

 

Yuck! Not the card, but the concept of that business! Cripes that makes me feel so ill.

BTW, those triangular postage stamps were some of my favorite modern stamps. I used many of them, but never received any on letters sent to me.