Buchner Gold Coin (N284) – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Buchner Gold Coin (N284), preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Buchner Gold Coin (N284)
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The Buchner Gold Coin card, catalogued as N284, is one of the many 1887 baseball cards issued by D. Buchner & Company, a tobacco maker whose cards were packed with its products as premiums. Its title was assigned by Library staff rather than printed on the card, so the record does not name the player shown. The card is a chromolithograph, a color printing process that layered several stones, one per hue, to produce the bright detail typical of late nineteenth-century trade cards. It belongs to the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of baseball cards, which preserves these small advertising pieces as a record of how the sport was marketed to fans in the 1880s.
| Created / published | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1880-1890.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,676 × 3,786 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220569 |
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