Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings

Join the Souvenir Card Collectors Society....

Started by DepressionScripGuy (Rod) in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: And for those that don't know, I would suggest joining the Souvenir Card Collectors Society. 📷 Membership Form attached below... And yes, I already joined and I have even...
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The Most Evil Bond Coupon Thread

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: As a collector of Railroad Stocks and Bonds, the name Terry Cox is esteemed. His website (and new catalog, which one can hold in one's hands) is internationally famous. ...
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American Banknote Co - Family Scrapbook from 1860-1903

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: on eBay right now. Not mine and no relation, but I thought it was worthy of a post to make it available for all interested parties in ABNco history. Three pages, but very nice material. ...
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BEP Coin/Currency products

Started by GregAlex in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: For the past couple decades, the BEP and the Mint have periodically joined forces to issue numismatic sets that contain coins and BEP engravings, and sometimes complete currency designs. It's...
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Things that are NOT souvenir cards

Started by GregAlex in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: Collectors who are new to the hobby of souvenir cards will no doubt face some confusion about what's what when they start searching for cards to buy online or at shows. There are a lot of items that...
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ABNco Alonzo Earl Foringer Vignettes (RF 1917 Bond)

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: A captivating example of the American Banknote company rising to the occasion of elegance. The vignette is by Alonzo Earl Foringer. I found some great info on the internet about...
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Some light Summer Reading - Poor's Manual of the Railroads 1890 Edition

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: At 1500 pages it is the perfect can't put down beach book. Or actually, can't pick up. It is a bit weighty. In not too bad shape for 135 years old, the ABNco engraved piece on heavy stock...
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Armed Forces Leave - Check

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: You may have heard the term "Armed Forces Leave Bond" as there are a few posted in various threads. The corollary is the "Armed Forces Leave Check", a companion piece that paid...
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What could it be now ? ABNco cartouche vignettes and plates

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: A recent addition to my growing stock of printing plates are these two lovely specimens with their color proofs. Getting the printed image is a real plus. In color makes it even more...
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Field Guide to Bond Types - Illustrated in full color

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: After posting about sinking funds, I realized there are many different bond types. I generally lump the other half of "Stocks and Bonds" into a single category. I went through some of my...
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When the engraver cheated...

Started by GregAlex in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: I have two stock certificates with vignettes that depict the Royal Gorge, a very scenic passage of the Arkansas River southwest of Colorado Springs. Railroads have run beside the river since around...
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Sovereign/Municipal Debt - Bonds and Sinking Funds of the 1920's

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: In the Validation Board for German External Dollar Bonds thread, the focus is on German bonds of the early1920's. That interwar period was a heyday for foreign bonds issued in dollar amounts to...
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Poor's Manual of Railroads

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: I had been looking for a nice copy with the ABNco frontispiece. Here is the 1892 manual. 📷 📷
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"The Ferry" Vignette as shown on Bleecker St & Fulton Street Ferry RR Bond

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: Recently, in the "Post Your Checks" Thread, the vignette of a ferry scene was posted. @GregAlex posted the vignette. ...
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Validation Board - German Bonds (Post WWII)

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: As we are now Notgeld experts, we come to the next phase. The post war reconstruction. As currency stabilized, and markets opened, financing was critical to bring stability and a functioning economy...
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Bank Note promotional material

Started by GregAlex in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: Some of the most eye catching and ornately engraved items were those that the bank note companies produced to promote themselves. These were essentially advertisements that were either given to...
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Ilion Bank Engravings (Herkimer NY) By Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: Once again I was fortunate enough to get a nice vignette which could be matched up to an actually issued security. Other folks, @GregAlex and @lettow (who had some precient words of wisdom...
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Oddball bank note products

Started by GregAlex in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: Currency, bonds and stock certificates were the bread and butter of most bank note companies. But they also engraved and printed other products at the request of customers. I came across one today...
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Charles River Embankment Bond

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: Love that dirty water 😎 A nice piece of history, an ABNco Specimen bond from 1890. From the Cambridge Historical Website: All of present-day Cambridge east of...
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I am a lineman for the county Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Bonds

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road Searching in the sun for another overload. I hear you singing in the wire. I can hear you thru the whine And the Wichita Lineman Is still on...
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Wm Seward Official Stamp

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: I was watching this. Like all their auctions, it started at once cent. The power of being a major seller is they have the audience to properly bid up rare items. Sometimes for more than they are...
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Curious BEP card from 1987 HSNA show

Started by GregAlex in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: One of our SCCS members sent me this picture of an unusual souvenir card. At first glance, it looks like a normal B-111 card, but there are subtle differences. The card is about 1/2" wider and...
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San Francisco Bond w/ " The Great White Fleet sailing into San Francisco Bay" Vignette

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: One of the lessons learned from the Great San Francisco Earthquake (and fire) of 1906, was the limitations of horse drawn fire engines and lack of a water supply. "In 1908, Marsden...
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De Soto discovering the Mississippi - Columbian BN Vignette

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: Recently, I posted a bond from Okmulgee Northern Railway, printed by the Columbian Banknote Co. It looked like a generic type of form, and when I searched for similar looking I found this also rather...
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Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Ltd.

Started by Dan Cong in Souvenir Cards & Security Engravings: A magnificent, decorative bond by Waterlow & Son, with a history of intrigue and a landmark decision in international law. There are a few varieties of these, and they are generally not too...
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Join the Souvenir Card Collectors Society....

The Most Evil Bond Coupon Thread

American Banknote Co - Family Scrapbook from 1860-1903

BEP Coin/Currency products

Things that are NOT souvenir cards

ABNco Alonzo Earl Foringer Vignettes (RF 1917 Bond)

Some light Summer Reading - Poor's Manual of the Railroads 1890 Edition

Armed Forces Leave - Check

What could it be now ? ABNco cartouche vignettes and plates

Field Guide to Bond Types - Illustrated in full color

When the engraver cheated...

Sovereign/Municipal Debt - Bonds and Sinking Funds of the 1920's

Poor's Manual of Railroads

"The Ferry" Vignette as shown on Bleecker St & Fulton Street Ferry RR Bond

Validation Board - German Bonds (Post WWII)

Bank Note promotional material

Ilion Bank Engravings (Herkimer NY) By Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson

Oddball bank note products

Charles River Embankment Bond

I am a lineman for the county Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Bonds

Wm Seward Official Stamp

Curious BEP card from 1987 HSNA show

San Francisco Bond w/ " The Great White Fleet sailing into San Francisco Bay" Vignette

De Soto discovering the Mississippi - Columbian BN Vignette

Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Ltd.

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