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Re: Obsolete US notes, Civil War era
Hey, I found my cherubs! Last year I picked up a couple tiny proofs of these little guys without knowing anything about them. And here they are on the back your your Gosport note. Now I know they wer… (View Post)3 -
Re: Smoothing out banknotes
I'll offer up another illustration, although this is not apples-to-apples because the paper here is thicker than the example posted above. I picked up a pretty wrinkled bank check and decided to expe… (View Post)1 -
Re: Obsolete United States Paper Money
I'm going to give this thread a bump and maybe @sellitstore or another obsolete collector can help me out. There's a particular vignette, engraved by James Smillie, that I believe has some hidden mic… (View Post)2 -
Re: Ephemera Newp: Amon Carter, Jr. Helps Walter Breen With National Gold Bank Notes
Fascinating! Back in the era before easy access to census data, this is how it was done. In 1976 paper money was just becoming widely collected and there was still lots of information that had not be… (View Post)2 -
Re: Obsolete United States Paper Money
Before Texas obsoletes got expensive, I picked up this one from 1840, as representative note. The cut cancel is a little off-putting, but I probably couldn't have afforded it otherwise. (View Post)5