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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 2045943, member: 24274&quot;]Back on page 23 of this thread I posted some images from an Engraver&#039;s Union convention booklet. These usually featured some impressive souvenir cards, designed to show the best work of the various companies that the tradesmen worked for. The site of the annual convention rotated, typically between NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, Ottawa, Chicago and DC. Each city was hosted by a different bank note firm and in DC it was hosted by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Booklets from DC conventions are always popular and I managed to pick up another one recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was from the 1981 convention, beautifully bound in faux leather. Ten or so intaglio cards are bound in, mostly by the BEP, which included portraits of presidents Ford and Carter, the Washington Monument (the same engraving is used on smaller cards sold at the Visitor Center), The Statue of Freedom from the Capitol, and a sheet of vignettes showing all of the BEP&#039;s historic homes. There are also nice cards from the ABNCo and Security-Columbian Bank Note among others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I may be able to pick up some more of these booklets next year, but they aren&#039;t cheap and usually only 300-400 were created. You&#039;ll have to live with photos on this one -- I wasn&#039;t about to smash these pages on my flatbed scanner.</p><p><br /></p><p>Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]374668[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374669[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374670[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374671[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374672[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374673[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374674[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374675[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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