Canada. 1916 International Steel & Copper Plate Printers Union 24th

Ottawa, Canada....., July 17th–22nd, 1916. This oblong, cord-tied souvenir album has 23 pages, including the front cover. The cover bears an intaglio lion's head within an ornate frame with the Royal Arms, and the script-engraved title page features a beaver vignette with the American Bank Note Co., Ottawa imprint. The highlight is a superb full-page intaglio advertising poster for the British American Bank Note Company, Ottawa, "Incorporated 1866." It is printed in sepia with elaborate lettering, a winged allegorical female holding a torch aloft, and a list of the firm's products, including bank notes, bonds, stock certificates, cheques, drafts, bills of exchange, and postage and revenue stamps, along with its Montreal office at 2 Place d'Armes Square. Other BABNCo intaglio plates include a mountain railway river gorge and "View Westward in Prince of Wales Sound, Hudson's Strait," after a Dr. R. Bell photo of 1884. Also included are Elbert Hubbard's "Loyalty" in engraved

Estimación:179,25€

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