Buchner Gold Coin (N284) – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Buchner Gold Coin (N284) comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Buchner Gold Coin (N284)
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Few 1880s baseball cards carry a brand name as bold as the Buchner Gold Coin, the tobacco firm that issued this 1887 card under the American Card Catalog number N284. Like many cards of its era, it was a chromolithograph, a color printing process that let makers produce bright, detailed images cheaply in large runs. Cards like this were usually packed with tobacco products to encourage repeat purchases and to advertise the brand. Today they give historians a window into how early professional baseball was marketed and how fans collected its images.
| 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 | 3,816 × 4,696 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220539 |
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