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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 4911713, member: 24274&quot;]Okay, here we go. The first vignette is the Battleship Maine, which was the catalyst for the Spanish-American War. This was used on at least two rare 1898 war bonds. I&#039;m including a page from &quot;An Illustrated History of U.S. Loans&quot; by Gene Hessler.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184904[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next is the Battleship Massachusetts, shown on another BEP souvenir card, B-182. This was the initial essay for a $10 silver certificate, series 1899, which was later modified for use as the famous 1901 &quot;Bison Note.&quot; The Massachusetts engraving was never used.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.souvenircards.org/gallery/B/pics/B-182.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184903[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are two fairly large battleships that were used for souvenir cards distributed at the BEP exhibitions for various Worlds Fairs. The first one is titled &quot;USS Virginia&quot; and was given out at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition. But the same engraving was retitled &quot;USS Nebraska&quot; for the 1915 International Panama-Pacific Exposition, and left untitled for the 1926 Sesquicentennial Expo.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.souvenircards.org/gallery/FB/pics/FB-1907A(c).jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>For San Diego&#039;s 1915 Panama-California Exposition (not to be confused with San Francisco&#039;s competing IPPE the same year), the BEP engraved a similar dreadnought for use on cards distributed at that fair. But this one specifically depicted the U.S.S. San Diego. The same vignette was re-used a century later on souvenir card <a href="http://www.souvenircards.org/gallery/B/pics/B-315.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.souvenircards.org/gallery/B/pics/B-315.jpg" rel="nofollow">B-315</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.souvenircards.org/gallery/FB/pics/FB-1915Ca.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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