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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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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Few objects from the 1880s tie baseball so closely to commerce as this Buchner Gold Coin card, catalogued as N284 and dated 1887. It was printed as a chromolithograph, a color process that let the maker render a player's portrait and team colors in bright hues on small cardboard stock. Cards like this were issued by D. Buchner & Company as part of its tobacco promotions, so they served as both an advertisement and an incentive to buy. Collectors later preserved them as early records of the game's players and teams, and this example is held in the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection at the Library of Congress.
| 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 | 3,756 × 4,691 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220559 |
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