Souvenir cards

Nice additions! I just picked up that "Engineering and Construction" card myself. Thanks for sharing all these!

 

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I also was able to get a copy of that bare chested Victory vignette for the FMA you pointed us to on eBay. Thanks for the heads up!

 

WOOHOOOO! Great first day at FUN! I won the #1 pulled proof PPIE Award certificate and snagged a pulled proof of the eagle card. Mike Beck was pulling demo proofs from both plates all day --awesome! Oh ... and got to meet US Treasurer Rosie Rios. More pics coming soon!

 

Fantastic! You well deserve to have #1! WTG!!!!

Another thread on the FUN show, with pics of Rosie and various scenes.

 

How appropriate that you would get #1, congrats and that's a knockout print!

 

I made another discovery at the show -- the Veteran's Day souvenir cards are still being produced. (Flip back to page 21 if you want to see more of these.) These are given out each year at a special BEP ceremony and they often bring a few to shows and distribute them to veterans on request.

The 2014 card is one of best ones in the series, imho. All the images used on the Defenders of Freedom intaglio prints were combined on a single card -- at their original sizes, which are only about half the scale used on the DoF series.

 

Here's my eagle card -- #18. They did a nice job on this one, too. Ken Barr actually brought the original stamps and had several of these cancelled at the convention center post office. Unfortunately there was no official show cancel this year.

And one lucky BEP visitor got a one-of-a-kind souvenir yesterday. He asked Mike Beck if he'd ever printed an intaglio vignette on a t-shirt -- and Mike decided to go for it! He had to loosen up the press a little and crank like hell, but the result was quite eye-catching. Hmmm, maybe a new product line!

 

Greg,

Did you get that shirt? If that were mine I would have had Mike sign it and I would have it framed. That is really cool!

Speaking of really cool. The Mailman dropped off a special package for me. It's a great community that you can ask some friends to try to hook a guy up and they go out of there way to do so. A couple members said they would try and pick up one of the limited prints for me and I was lucky enough to get the Eagle and a 2014 Veterans Day card. Thank you to both of you for your time and effort. I am lucky to have such great friends!!!

Best Regards ~ Darryl

 

Darryl, I didn't know the owner of that shirt. I think he offered it to Mike as a joke and Mike took him up on it. Total spur of the moment thing. But he was duly impressed and I think he did say he was going to frame it. I just hope it made it home without smearing, since the ink doesn't dry for many hours.

 

I hope he was able to keep it safe from smearing or from contacting anything. I think I would have straight out and bought a cheap box frame to put it into to get it home. That's great that Mike took him up on the challenge. What a prize to take away.

 

Time to post some of my FUN photos!

I spent a lot of time at the BEP exhibit, which was total eye candy with all the specimen notes and demonstration presses. I snuck in a photo op early the first day with U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios who was there to sign autographs and see Mike Beck pull a proof.

It was very cool to watch the printing process, having done it myself on a much smaller scale a couple months ago. I also got to talk with Mike about how the plates were created, using electrolytic plating.

 

The Souvenir Card Collectors Society also had a table at the show and Stephen Patrick did a talk on Saturday for the group on bank notes created by noted engraver Czelaw Slania. There was also some time for show and tell with some interesting early forerunner cards, some of which I brought along.

That's Ken Barr on the far left at the table, and paper money author Neil Shafer sitting on the right.

The BEP held lotteries for their pulled-proof cards twice a day and I got very lucky, picking up three eagles and the #1 PPIE award cert.

My only disappointment at the show was that many dealers packed up early (some on Friday!) so I wasn't able to see everything on the bourse. But it was a terrific show, none-the-less.

 

Incidentally, we decided at FUN that the SCCS would also set up a table at the Portland ANA show in March, staffed mainly, I think, by myself and Ken Barr, since we are among the few West Coast members. Come one, come all!

 

Shoot Greg, I got the feeling that you were 'local' (Orlando). Portlandia?

 

And thanks to Darryl for steering me here........Sorry I couldn't 'score' a card for you my friend. Had I attended more days I am sure I could have done so but I worked on limited time indeed. One digit off in the drawing.

 

Well, I finally scored one of the big dogs of the souvenir card world, through a multiple trade. This was one I wasn't sure I'd ever add to my collection -- PS1, the very first card issued by the Postal Service at the 1960 International Philatelic Congress in Barcelona. More than 10,000 of these were printed and taken to Spain, but the show wasn't well attended and no one paid much attention to the cards. Afterwards, to avoid the expense of return shipping, the post office just tossed the leftover cards! Consequently, they are now very scarce items.

These show up on eBay occasionally, but more often than not they are lithographed counterfeits. You can usually tell by the poor quality of the Columbus vignette. I'm not worried about this copy, though -- the show cancels are a good indicator of authenticity.

 

the latest

 

Mine came today.....the battleship engraving is simply amazing.

 

I just put in my order -- can't wait! But I don't get why the BEP said they wouldn't have these on sale at the Whitman Coin Show in Baltimore (which opens today). Obviously they completed the printing! Love the write-up on the info card, even though I'd heard the story already. FYI, I have an original battleship card from the 1915 Panama-Pacific Expo that we put on display for the ANA Portland show at the SCCS table. That card got more attention than anything else!

 

I picked these up yesterday .