American Banknote Company

Beautiful miniature engravings of NYC,never seen such small detail engravings by the ABNCo. Great scanning ! I have seen USPS Stamps by ABNCo but not with this fine details ! Nice pick up !

 

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Thanks! I thought you guys might really like these too. Fortunately, they are very readily available and cheap. Plus since they aren't real postage stamps with denominations they never got canceled by a post mark date and many survive. I haven't come across any sheets of them just yet, but I'd like to see what they originally looked like when not torn from their sheets or booklets.

 

Mystery solved!

Yes -- they were, in fact, issued for, or at least during the 1939-40 NY World's Fair. They were given out along with boxes of Eaton's paper. And you have the full set of 10. I think this is the envelope they came in and here's a link for more info:
http://alphabetilately.com/C3.html

 

Thank you so much for the link and info! That is incredibly cool that the site has a letter bearing these stamps canceled by the post office!

 

I love investigative Googling! :hail:

 

Same here.I find the color,very vibrant.I have only 2 foreign notes.both similar years.One os from american bank note,and the other is not,you can tell the diff.I recently became a note collector,as I found notes to more attractive when it comes to the detail that they put on them.

 

Feel free to post some images of your new notes, especially the ABNCo ones you have in this thread. We all love seeing ABNCo work.

 

Krispy - excellent "stamps", love them - just wondering if you knew whether the thistle emblems on them are related to Britannica encyclopedia - or just a coincident?

Maybe I am just seeing more than is there ...

 

Thanks and the only answer is that I haven't a clue if that happened to be the case although if we can track down the designers and/or engraver(s) of these works by name and bio, then we might be able to learn if there was any reference implied in the design and further if this emblem was meaningful and requested by Eaton, the client. Great question and something I will keep in mind as I read and search about ABNCo, Eaton, cinderella stamps, etc.

I will say that the Eaton company were from Pittsfield, Massachusetts and insomuch if you visit their website you may notice there are some honor guards(?) dressed in tartan kilts pictured on the homepage. Perhaps there are descendants of settlers from the Highlands where the Thistle is quite the historic icon. Wiki Pittsfield, Ma

 

Hmmm - The Encyclopædia Britannica was born in 18th-century Scotland - they had a thistle on a 1470 silver coin - I am starting to think the "stamp" engraver(s) were Scottish - Read a lot of interesting "stuff" while looking !!!

 

Nice! Let us know if you find a direct link. I will look in my Engraver's Line book by Gene Hessler to see if Eaton is mentioned.

 

Wonder of wonders, I was poking around at a postcard show yesterday and came across a couple nice convention tickets, both intaglio, printed by two of the smaller bank note companies: Quayle & Sons and E.A. Wright. One for the Democrats and one for the Republicans. Different years but nice bookends. I guess it's a little off-topic for an ABNC thread, but I'll post them anyway.

History quiz: which candidate was nominated at the 1948 convention?

 

very cool!!

 

ABC seemed to have done more and more then I thought...Nice pickup

 

Very nice pieces.
Thurs and Friday last week was the ABNCo fifth archive auction. An amazing auction. The most expensive pieces I saw was an Hawaiian $500 certificate of deposit that sold for $11,500.00 plus 18% commission. I bid online.

 

Link to prices paid at ABNCo auction:

http://www.archivesinternational.com/uploads/ABNVpricesRealized_04-16-10.pdf

I'm going to print it out and put it inside my catalog for referrence

 

Thanks Midas. Is the catalog somewhere as a PDF also inclusive of images that correspond to that price list?

 

Hi Krispy, here's a link to the online catalog which includes lot numbers that correspond to the lot prices link. I don't know if the catalog is available as a PDF check the web site. If you send an email to Dr Schwartz I'm sure he'll send you a catalog but it may cost. His email address is on the website.

Next ABNCo. auction I'm going to attend instead of bidding online. The auctioneer kept muting his microphone so I had to follow the bids in a little text window on my PC which caused me to lose one lot I won and I missed a ten piece MPC lot because I didn't hear the audio.

http://www.archivesinternational.com/

 

Thanx Midas!

 

That is a beautiful Note,this image is from a souvenir card,never seem the back though.