Souvenir cards

How did you scan/photograph these? Did you use a UV lamp for a light source or did scanning them turn them these day-glow colors?

 

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My wife is a quilter & uses a Ott Lite (true litecolor lamp) & if you put a hologram under it ,it lites up but you have to keep moving left to right looking thru the digital point & shoot LCD till you get the angle & like majic the hologram pops out almost 3D.

 

That's very cool. Learn something every day! Ott lite

 

The OTT Lite is a full spectrum light great for craft or hobby.If you shot close-up macros of vignettes it is fantastic.In most cases you don't need a flash.
The method of shooting that Statue of Liberty macro hologram close up I described is only for that hologram. The Denmark holograms were UV lighted I think ,I didn't shoot those.
I think you can get less expensive full spectrum lamps cheaper but the OTT Lights are nice.

 

I agree Rusty The $2 Battleship note is so detailed,to bad it is his only engraved note he is a fantastic engraver ,you can see the sailors on the deck !
Engraved by the BEP and engraver Charles M. Chalmers.Chalmers was a cousin of noted engraver Marcus W. Baldwin,began engraving career with ABNCo in 1922.The Battleship vignette is his only note engraving according to The Engraver's Line by Gene Hessler

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Wonderful cards.

 

So this is going to take a while to load, please forgive me but I felt you would like to see these a little bigger than normal. Hope you enjoy!

 

THOSE... ARE... FANTASTIC!!! Thank you for all the large scans!

 

Yes they are really nice. The cards are the size of a sheet of paper on very heavy cream stock. The condition is like they were just printed. Glad you like them! Best Regards ~ Darryl

 

Here is just one of the images full size. The detail is really something!!!

 

WOW!! Darryl..

You have been a busy guy! Just simply beautiful!
Maybe all of us here at CT should arrange to get together and have the CoinTalk Paper Money and Vignette Display Show..that would really be something to see :bigeyes: :bigeyes:

Congrats on these my friend.

RickieB

 

Thanks Rick! Every time I say I am going hold off on getting anything else I see something else I have to have! Really have to cut back now but really happy to have picked up what I have! One of these days I will get back to buying notes but I do have to say ~ seeing some of these souvenir cards at the cost you can get them, it's very hard to pass up!!!!!!! If you don't have a big budget but want some beautiful pieces, this is one way to do it!

Best Regards ~ Darryl

 

Darryl ,these cards & vignettes are fantastic the detail in the vignettes and the color are beautiful.The Souvenir Card Collecting Society cards are alway fantastic.Nice close ups also.

 

Great cards & vignettes. I got one of the St. Johns from ebay this past week. :thumb:

 

Yahoo! I have found my tribe! I only wish I'd come across this thread sooner.

I've been collecting souvenir cards for MANY years and I totally agree that the intaglio art on these is stunning. They were quite popular up through the '90s, but when ABNC went under the bottom kind of fell out. In the '80s there were upwards of 15-20 different cards issued each year. BEP was also actively issuing both numismatic and philatelic themed cards; now they are down to 3-4 a year.

Souvenir cards seem to have been largely forgotten for about a decade. There's a small contingent -- all members of the Souvenir Card Collector Society (including me) -- who still actively collect and the Metro chapter of the club prints cards such as the ones Darryl posted. The SCCS journal really is a pretty good encyclopedia on this stuff, particularly if you read up on the back issues. Sadly, the SCCS demographics are mostly 65 and older, with few members who are tech savvy...hence, no web site. They really could use some younger blood.

You've inspired me to post some of my favorite cards, too. I'll see if there are any Hawaiian ones that haven't been posted...

 

This is exactly the reason I started collecting these -- to get copies of notes or stamps I could never afford, or often so rare no one ever even got a glimpse of them. The prints from original dies are essentially the same intaglio engravings as originals.

Here are a couple Hawaiian philatelic cards that depict stamps you'd only find in a major auction or a museum. These particular cards are fairly pricey, but you can find a lot of the early ones in the $5-10 range.

 

A few more of the scarce ABNC cards that aren't seen that often.

 

One of the spider press cards BEP printed at the 2004 ANA show here in Portland.

 

Wonderful cards. I especially like that ANA 2004 card.