Post Your Scrip Notes!!!

Tookybandit

I have recently become a big fan of scrip notes. It's wild that some of this stuff has survived at all.



Here's one I just picked up. I have not received it yet and I am looking forward to checking out the embossed seal that you can see hints of in the pics.









J.J. McKever was an Express man (Think FedEx) originally from Philadelphia. He opened an Adams Express of NY office in Memphis around 1859 and very soon after relocated to an office in New Orleans. He left his position in New Orleans in 1864 to start his own business The Commercial Express. In 1866 his company merged with the Texas Express where he was named superintendent.



The address on the note 96 Camp Street is now smack in the middle of a traffic lane on Canal St. The New Orleans street cars were established in the 1860's and over the years as Canal St. expanded some of these buildings disappeared! Pretty cool that Google Maps could still reference the location when I searched for it!



How ironic that there is a FedEx office just a stones throw away next to Starbucks!!









Post your scrip notes, background info. not required!

sellitstore

I'll start with a few New York City scrip notes but I'll be happy to take requests by state, city, subject, period, etc. I have many.

J.L. Brower Mahogany Yard, 1838, great custom vignette.



California Segar Store, 1862, seated quarter reverse



Corporation of the City of NY, 1 Pence, 1790, Colonial style note



Corporation of the City of NY, 2 Cents, 1814, No Effort is Lost




The famous Delmonico Hotel, 1862



Dodd's Express, 1862, globe on face, coins on back

techwriter

These are about the only ones I have. Apologies for the disparity in sizes.

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sellitstore

Here's a few more:

Staircoins

1817 Michigan Territory - Brewster & Dorr



(not my note, unfortunately!)

chiefbob

Fascinating history behind those notes. Thanks Tooky for the map and history. I hate seeing things like these - makes me want to start yet another mini collection.

Staircoins

Collected as an obsolete note, but technically merchant scrip ...

1840 $3 Kelsey Douglass of Nacogdoches, Texas

dtreter

Script notes but also fractional look-a-likes

Jim61

Just a general comment.



I am so grateful that there are so many other members that collect other things than I do, so I get to see them all. Thanks for sharing.



This thread is a great example. I enjoy seeing all the script.

MAM0912

Tookybandit

Thanks Bob!



Jim, it's kind of a double edged sword. The forum has been the root cause of my collecting interests expanding over the past couple of years.



Great notes everyone, keep 'em coming!!!

TigerTrader

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oklahomadanny

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Guess TigerTrader beat me to the punch. John, hope you don't mind sharing those extra pictures.



Edit to add: This sorry software also screwed up sellitstore post. I'd ask for a refund.

TigerTrader

Thanks for the help Danny! Somehow when I put them in as pictures they all turned into links... I didn't have time to fix them all so I salvaged a couple.

gsalex

This represents my entire scrip collection, old and new. Vick was eventually bought by Burpee Seed Co. I bet they would still accept this!

techwriter

Here's one from early Mississippi:

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cinch

Beautiful notes, everyone!



Here's a sheet of scrip from the Panic of 1837. Durand has a page of biography on Cozzens, who ran a dry goods store at the time. Later, he was president of the Rhode Island Union Bank of Newport.







For me, the Holy Grail of Rhode Island scrip would have to be the William Newton & Co. postage stamp notes. A bit out of my price range, however. A 5-cent piece sold at Heritage for $10,925 in 2008.