1893 Four Passes to the Columbian Exposition

Awesome stuff Duke! You're really filling up the threads tonight... keep scanning away! hya:

 

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I just figured out how to get the pictures on here
Wait til I get back from the SDB with a bunch more too...eheheh

 

Caint wait!!!

 

Love that Handel ticket -- that's the one I don't have yet. When I get back from vacation I'll scan my Franklin ticket and post it.

 

It's a beauty
I have another that looks just as good but is ungraded and will get a bunch all graded at once.
Trying to get 2 complete sets in high grade so Ill see soon.

 

cool, tickets. There were too the worlds fair? Do they still have one? Just curious.

 

Next one is Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

 

Nice souvenir cards. I've seen them offered for sale and have been tempted.

 

Okay, here's the final puzzle piece: the Franklin ticket to the 1893 Columbian World's Fair.

And while we're on the subject of world's fairs, here's another ticket -- this one to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. It was engraved by E.A. Wright Bank Note in Philadelphia.

 

The 1901 is a very interesting vignette. Do you know any background on E.A. Wright Bank Note? Did ABNCo absorb them at some point like they seemed to do with so many others?

 

I guess in a roundabout way they did eventually merge. E.A. Wright operated in Philadelphia from before 1900 until 1964, when it was sold to Jostens (I thought they only made class rings). Thomas de la Rue bought Jostens, in the mid '70s I think, and operated it as Federated Bank Note until being bought by Security-Columbian Bank Note Co. (not sure what year). The parent company of S-CBNC was the U.S. Banknote Corp. In 1990 U.S. Banknote Corp. also bought American Bank Note. so at that point it was one big, happy family. If you trace things far enough, all rivers flow into the U.S. Banknote Corp.

 

Thanks, for the background info. Yes, they all do seem to have been consolidated over time and while I don't know the details that caused each merger, this seems to have kept the industry afloat and the family together, engravers and related skills pooled and co-mingled over the years while their industry changed around them.

 

Krispy, there's an interesting book on eBay right now called "The Paper Money Of The E. A. Wright Bank Note Company" written by Fred Schwan.

http://cgi.ebay.com/E-A-Wright-Bank-Note-Company-Booklet-Schwan-/330432425906?cmd=Vie

 

GREAT scans Duke, more please...

And that Handel is a beauty. :kewl:

 

Thank you. I have seen the book in the past but was never able to get a copy for myself. I'll see about this one. :thumb:

 

Thank for sharing them!

there very nice!!!!:kewl:

 

Chris, were you successful in picking up this book? I'm considering buying one myself, but wanted to get a first-hand review.

 

Yeah, I sure did. It was a nice slim little booklet. A few black and white reproductions and historic photographs but not too too much data and background. It's a bit dated and I assume not much more is readily known to expand on the text. It was worth getting a copy for myself and interests but like I said, it's not really much of a book, more like an expanded pamphlet.

 

Thanks -- that's what I needed to know. I'll rethink my possible purchase.