Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Oh boy...that's all I need... I can see this becoming my next obsession... My first attraction to any note has always been aesthetic... I only collect notes I think are beautiful, I don't collect them for their signature combinations and I don't want more than one of the same note etc... I've seen a bunch of obsoletes that I really like and have already downloaded images of them for future reference...

Not sure how I'd collect them (assuming I started). Might just stop with the one I have just to have an example of an obsolete, but can definitely see collecting a theme, like railroads etc... Maybe I'll just try and get one note from each state (like an Obsolete version of the State Quarters) which I think in the 1860s was about 35 states at the time...

 

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Try Hard Times Tokens. They come in lots of varieties and each one reflects the satire and political issues of the 1830s and 1840s.

 

Well, here's a couple of new acquisitions that were just "there",
$10 note received in change at local donut shop
$20 note right out of local bank ATM
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Thats a beauty!

 

Mat, it is indeed a real beauty.

 

A couple more acquisitions from latest Lyn Knight auction. I'm not familiar with World Banknote Grading service. Anyone have experience with them? your thoughts and/or opinions.
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== and a nice PMG note
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Oh great.. another cool thing to explore... And away we go!!!!

 

OK... the Obsolete train has officially left the station on the way around the country to destinations unknown... Just picked up another one and actually just received the first one in the mail today and I have to say, I had no idea they were printed on such thin paper... saying they were printed on tissue paper is being generous... the fact that any of them survived for a hundred and fifty years in such great shape is nothing short of a miracle... Next stop...????

 

A couple more from the latest Lyn Knight auction:
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My recent acquisition. It was found during the renovation of an old building in downtown Moscow.

 

Sort of just "found" this one while trolling the Bay, good price too.
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In terms of engraved banknotes, there were a small number of bank note firms that specialized in this type of printing. Most were in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. In 1858, eight of the major players merged to form American Bank Note Company. You can find a sort of "family tree" of these companies on Terry Cox's website.

 

Nice note techwriter. Are you a block collector?

 

MitchBailey, no, not a block collector, unless it's a really scarce block and I just happen upon it AND the $$$ don't stress my budget.

 

An upgrade to a really pretty series.....$100 Legal Tender




Love the "lipstick" red seals and serials used on these notes.

 

Just picked up this amazingly cool note and what makes the note so special (aside from me just loving the layout and multiple portraits) is that it's from Norristown, PA, the town that my wife is from and her family still lives. Her dad was also a Montgomery County Court Judge for thirty years.



In researching the note I discovered that the bank building is at the top center, Washington bottom center and that the four figures on the note were either from Norristown lived, or were laid to rest there.

Here are short bios for each of them.

Brigadier General Adam Slemmer (top left) was from Norristown, was a West Point graduate/teacher and Seminole War fighter and just so I wasn't left out of the connections to the note, he and I share the same birthday ... Very cool

General Winfield Scott Hancock (top right) was a war hero at Gettysburg, his troops bore the brunt of Pickett's Charge, one military historian wrote, "No other Union general at Gettysburg dominated men by the sheer force of their presence more completely than Hancock and was known as "The Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac.At the close of the war, Hancock was assigned to supervise the execution of the Lincoln Assassination conspirators and he later became a presidential candidate (defeated by James A. Garfield)

John Frederick Hartranft (right bottom) was the 17th Governor of Pennsylvania and a UnionMajor General who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during theAmerican Civil War and was a contender for the presidential nomination that eventually went to Rutherford B. Hayes

He briefly worked for two railroads in eastern Pennsylvania before returning home to Norristown. In 1854, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Montgomery County.

Hartranft was active in the Norristown fire company and the local Freemason Lodge and was admitted to the bar in 1860, and rose to the rank of Colonel in the Pennsylvania Militia. An equestrian statue next to the Pennsylvania Capitol Building in Harrisburg honors him.

Colonel John Schall (bottom left) Civil War Union Army Officer. He was educated in private schools at Trappe and Norristown, In 1890 he was appointed postmaster at Norristown by President Harrison and served as such until 1894. He served as inspector of the National Guard under General John F. Hartranft, and after the latter's election to the governorship was appointed an aide on the General's staff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. While General Hartranft was still in command of the division, in September 1879, General Schall was elected colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and was re-elected several times


These Obsoletes are a treasure trove of history just waiting to be opened. I'm having such a great time learning about all of it and I have a feeling This note is going to make a great conversation piece over the egg nog when we go down there for the holidays

 

My new Obsolete Note Desk Accessory/Paperweight

 

I assume these are two separate pieces. One note and one information placard. If so, where did you find the information placard? It's very nicely done. An actual note wouldn't have this printed on the back.

 

This is the front and back of the same lucite holder, the note has no image printed on the back so I created the "info sheet" in Photoshop and put in inside facing the back with the note facing front

 

I got a couple of new things recently










And a couple of previous ones I got grades.