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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1571648, member: 24274&quot;]Time for a bump. In the process of looking for an interesting card to post I came across a unique detail I&#039;d never noticed before. In fact, I don&#039;t believe anyone in the Souvenir Card Collectors Society picked up on this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a scan of B226, issued by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the IMPS show in 1998. It features a really nice intaglio print of the back of a First Charter $100 National Bank Note. The central engraving of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence also happens to be one I have in my collection of BEP vignette prints. I keep these two in the same album, but hadn&#039;t studied them closely until yesterday. At the bottom of the vignette print is the imprint &quot;Eng&#039;d by the American Bank Note Co. N.Y.&quot; Upon closer observation, the souvenir card has the same imprint, but it&#039;s partially obscured by the overprint of the green frame.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much of our early U.S. currency in the 1860s was printed entirely or in part by private banknote firms, before the BEP had the capacity to take on all the printing. Several souvenir cards feature these early notes, but without mentioning that these were actually NOT the work of the BEP. To my knowledge this card is the only one that shows an imprint other than that of the Bureau.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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