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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1872178, member: 24274&quot;]I joyfully stumbled on a very early (forerunner) souvenir card for $10 yesterday at a postcard show. It doesn&#039;t have a BEP indicia, but I recognized it as a Bureau engraving. This battleship was printed both on cards and on silk handkerchiefs, as souvenirs at a numerous world&#039;s fairs from the 1907 Jamestown Exposition to the 1926 Sesquicentennial Expo. This one was originally part of a set from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expo in San Francisco. Usually the Bureau would include the name of the expo on the card (not in this case) and retitle the ship to suit the event. For the Jamestown card, it was the USS Virginia. I believe the USS Nebraska was in port for the San Francisco fair, hence the title of this particular card.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my 35+ years of collecting this is the first time I&#039;ve seen one of these outside of photos, so the price was right, even with minor scuffs and dings. And a beautiful engraving.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]316153[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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