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sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 11, 2019 7:52AM in U.S. & World Currency Forum

Here's a broadside listing what one should bring from England to the New World (Virginia) in 1622 in order to survive and thrive.

Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.

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  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love artifacts like this, thanks for sharing Russell.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting, thanks for posting it !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I bet that document is fairly fragile.

    Easily the coolest thing I’ve seen this year.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

    20 pounds was a lot of money in 1622. No wonder they were showing up with few provisions after having paid for the transport to Virginia by ship!

    All glory is fleeting.
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,565 ✭✭✭

    1622 - very cool

    Would've been under James I ... The reason they called it "Jamestown". Same James of the King James Bible.

    Interesting to see a document of that time. Thanks much for posting it.

  • MEC2MEC2 Posts: 86 ✭✭✭

    Did someone says Jamestown?

  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice brownback.

    This one seems appropriate for St. Patricks Day:

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • Thought I'd post this here, I picked it up a couple of years ago purely because I liked the industrial cityscape on the front. It's a Soviet loan certificate I believe, from 1952.

  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,565 ✭✭✭

    Here's something different ... Gas station blueprints from the 1940s.

    Note the second photo, which is an enlargement of the right-hand side of the station, specifically including the restrooms. The Ladies and Mens rooms were on the side and each measures 9.5' deep by 5.6' wide. Each had a partition in front of the toilet for privacy. The 'Colored' room was around back and was 8' deep by 4' wide - no partition.


  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 31, 2019 1:17PM

    Mid year 1928 and the new small-size currency started entering circulation. Many local banks handed out leaflets the exact size of the new small size paper money to help customers familiarize themselves with the change. This example also listed the different denominations and who was pictured on the note.


  • Got another Soviet-era loan certificate, from the 1980s, the other day.

  • coinfun31coinfun31 Posts: 28
    edited April 7, 2019 11:49PM


    Got this at the flea market love the eagle design on the top

  • PipestonePetePipestonePete Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, it looks familiar.

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  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool Pete.

    The list of associate banks reads like small town USA in the Northern Mid-West.
    E.W.Davies had many irons in the fire in the late 19th Century, banking being one of them.

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 3,832 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 4, 2019 2:55PM
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,565 ✭✭✭
    edited May 12, 2019 11:45AM

    CSA Orders, November 1, 1863, Nacogdoches. Issued under the command of General John B. Magruder, this order reads:

    "Maj. F. B. Sublett, Cmdg Nacogdoches, will order five commissioned officers from the Infantry at Nacogdoches to report to Capt. L. T. Barret, A. Q. M. Nacogdoches, for duty in the Quartermasters Department in concentrating supplies at points on the route from Belts Ferry to Cherino and from Cherino to Sabinetown.
    A.Q.M.s of Battalions at Nacogdoches who are [turned?] out by the organization of Regiments and Battalions will be ordered on this duty.
    "

    By this point in the war, Union forces had gained control of the Mississippi, effectively dividing the Confederacy in half and cutting off support for Magruder's 'District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona' (The Trans-Mississippi region). The forces in East Texas were in constant fear of invasion by Union troops, and it was very important that Confederate and State troops be able to operate effectively in the area. This order - to release officers so that supplies could be stationed along important routes - is evidence of the constant need to operate strategically in the face of the Union threat.

    (Belt's Ferry was the Neches River crossing near the former Fort Teran in what is now Tyler County. Three important trails, the Coushatta Trace, the Alabama Trace, and the Nacogdoches-Orcoquisac Road, crossed the Neches River at this point, underscoring the significance of this strategic site.)

  • Walt_AltmenWalt_Altmen Posts: 184 ✭✭✭

    Too cool!

  • Walt_AltmenWalt_Altmen Posts: 184 ✭✭✭

    And the blue prints show that an item can be cool but very uncool at the same time. That’s history though. Can only hope to learn from it, I guess.

  • gsalexgsalex Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

    Let's bump up this fun thread! Here's some interesting stuff I've had tucked away in an oversized album.

    This is my oldest newspaper, The Athenium Mercury, a London one-sheet from 1692.

    A 1794 land grant for a 400-acre tract in Northumberland, Pennsylvania

    And an 1842 advertising broadside for a play at the New Strand Theatre in London

    These are all fairly fragile, which is why I don't pull them out very often.

    Intrigued by all things intaglio.
  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A ticket to the 1936 Democratic National Convention being held in Philadelphia Pennsylvania at Franklin Field. These were printed by Quayle and Son Corp. out of New York City and features a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I like the bright red ink used on the back.


  • EagleScout2017EagleScout2017 Posts: 238 ✭✭✭
    edited August 10, 2021 12:59PM

    When my Great-Grandmother died back in 2017 at the age of 93, I found a pair of documents from the First National Bank of Ceredo, WV, tucked away in a piece of antique furniture. She never spoke much of her early life, but while growing up, her family operated a small dairy farm during the Great Depression near Ceredo, West Virginia. It should make for an interesting display provided I can find a nice appealing Type 2 National Bank Note from Ceredo.

    delenda est WitterU

  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Anyone familiar with the work of J S G Boggs or Tim Prusmack will appreciate this artist’s rendering of the 1896 $1 Silver Certificate drawn by artist Jackson Robinson. It’s massive. It’s 24” by 10”, and the details are phenomenal.

  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Check out this wonderful "Wanted" poster done by Asher B. Durand, bank note engraver and Hudson River school artist. Apparently, this guy ran out on Mr. Durand's sister and he prepared this broadside in response. Done very early in his career, you can see his talent.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • Serial_no_8Serial_no_8 Posts: 418 ✭✭✭

    That is really an interesting broadside (very talented artist/excellent portrait). Gives a bit of insight into how Victorian society was back then (1823). "Ran out" probably means proposed & took advantage of her? People knew people & word got around. Last sentence state he's "not only an infidel in Religion but in every Moral Principle of Society." (Note the capitals/the outrage).

    So many writers of today's mass entertainment industry fudge/mess around with historical contexts to suit today's audience (our new values). I get it, (it has to be done) but it can be frustrating (If one has actually studied history) & know how cautious women had to be, how they never entered saloons without escort, travelled alone, etc back then (that sort of thing).

  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very interesting. And if anyone wants to know what a Lecturer of Mnemonics is, it’s sentencing that helps an individual remember how to spell words, among other things.

  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 18, 2021 1:36AM

    When you live in a city who’s nicknamed Cigar City, you just might collect vintage cigar boxes and cigar box labels. Some can be very interesting and colorful. One of my favorites is the Tampa Life label produced by the Preston Cigar Company which coincidentally had its factory blocks from where I live. The embossing on these is amazing which you can see on the back of the label. The large building is the former Tampa Bay Hotel which is now the University of Tampa along the Hillsborough River.


  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have always been drawn to these, too.

    The variety of designs and subjects available is amazing as are many of the graphics.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • cinchcinch Posts: 127 ✭✭✭

    I have a bit of paper related to the banks of Rhode Island, but I also find old articles and images of my hometown of Narragansett, Rhode Island, to be interesting. Here are a couple I've picked up over the years:

    Delinator Magazine, 1904

    Frank Leslie's Illustrated, July 14, 1888

    The Illustrated American, August 15, 1891

    My website: RICurrency.com
  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looking at those bathing suits, I think that I understand why there is so much more skin cancer these days.

    Narragansett was just as crowded as Coney Island.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m really fond of this little engraving. This is the Heritage auction description - The National Bank Note Co. engraved this portrait card of Lincoln's first Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase. It measures approximately three-and-three-fourths inches by five inches and is printed on India paper mounted on card stock. A pencil notation on the back relates this vignette to the $1 Legal Tender notes, Fr. 16 & 17. The card is in nice condition, but it has mounting spots on the back.


    This is an Fr.16 note I own where the engraving was used.

  • cinchcinch Posts: 127 ✭✭✭

    Here are a few more contributions to this thread, some coin savers from the 30s or 40s I think:

    A pamphlet from Rhode Island Hospital Trust, which, as a national, issued small-sized notes under Rhode Island Hospital National Bank:

    And a newspaper from 1888 that discusses a fire gutting the Niantic National Bank of Westerly, RI:

    These are the sort of things I use to add a little color to the short histories of local banks that I have on my site.

    My website: RICurrency.com
  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The American Bank Note Company printed labels for the Atlantic White Lead Company and these are a couple of printers proofs approved in May 1897. White lead was a base pigment used in lead paints.


  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When and/or if you purchase the six edition set of the American Bank Note Company Archive Series, a special treat is in store for you. A reprint of the Republika Czechoslovakia 1000 Korun note is included.


  • gsalexgsalex Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

    How about a nice grammar school diploma from 1902? Do elementary schools even give these out anymore?

    Intrigued by all things intaglio.
  • Steve_in_TampaSteve_in_Tampa Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I won this at auction several years ago because I thought it was interesting. It's a print of an American Bank Note Company vignette. Dated to the 1890's and labeled Quadriga #82.

    I did a closeup of the are gnarly looking Horses.

  • gsalexgsalex Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

    @Steve_in_Tampa said:
    When and/or if you purchase the six edition set of the American Bank Note Company Archive Series, a special treat is in store for you. A reprint of the Republika Czechoslovakia 1000 Korun note is included.

    I finally nabbed one of these -- woot!

    Intrigued by all things intaglio.
  • slimiesslimies Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Two manuscripts added to my collection . they are dated 1427 and 1591 .


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