Buchner Gold Coin (N284) – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Buchner Gold Coin (N284). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Buchner Gold Coin (N284)
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The Buchner Gold Coin card is a tobacco card from 1887, issued by D. Buchner & Company as part of its Gold Coin brand, and it is catalogued as N284 in the standard reference numbering for early American tobacco cards. Like many cards of the period, it was a chromolithograph, a multicolor print made from stone or metal plates, and such cards were tucked into cigarette or tobacco packages as a sales incentive. The Library of Congress's title for it was devised by its staff, and the card belongs to the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of baseball cards, which documents how these small colored pictures became popular collectibles 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 | 3,792 × 4,725 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220478 |
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