I just checked the Smithsonian's digital collection of certified proofs. Doesn't look like any large size were issued under that charter.
I have to agree with Steve on souvenir cards. These are printed by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, sometimes from the very plates used to...
Here in Oregon that's around the low-end cost of the actual product. Or so I've read. Quick a striking stamp -- what was it applied to?
Oh, and these two went for $393 (Stills) and a whopping $798 (Lab Marihuana)! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's a couple more modern special tax stamps that sold recently on eBay for crazy money -- and I wasn't even bidding. You don't see them often,...
Nobody bit on my "coins on cards" challenge, so I'll post the the other three myself. Most collectors have probably seen B54, which has been...
I'll try to get in touch and have him check his messages.
Hopefully you won't mind me posting a couple CSA bonds among these notes. :-) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Btw, Les, here's some background on your banknote reprint. Souvenir cards
This one should be of interest to any Ohio collectors out there. It's an 1871 check from the Vinton County Bank in McArthur, Ohio. It was printed...
What's the name? Might be someone interesting.
A good day, indeed - well done!
Great book -- the engraving I first posted is from that. If you got it for $5 you made an excellent buy. It's hard to find them anywhere for under...
Extra, extra! Read the latest real estate news -- the historic headquarters of American Bank Note Co. at 70 Broad Street in downtown Manhattan is...
Let's see, we've had recent Broadway musicals about Andrew Jackson and Alexander Hamilton. They need to get one on stage about U.S. Grant next or...
And getting back on topic, I finally picked up the third and hardest variety of Brewer's Permit taxpaid stamps, series 1878. This is a scruffy...
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A scan or photo would help.
Three beauties! Welcome to the world of obsolete note collecting! Btw, you find some interesting details about that Egg Harbor note on this...
Guess it's time to throw something new up on this thread. I picked up an interesting card a couple weeks back from the BEP's 2000 series of...
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