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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 2122418, member: 24274&quot;]Been meaning to post several new checks I picked up recently. All three of these were made out by Mark Skinner, a prominent lawyer, jurist and later real estate tycoon in Chicago. From the 1850s to 1886, Skinner acted as financial correspondent -- sort of a personal banker -- for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, signing some sizable checks for loans, legal services and other company business.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first two checks were engraved by Western Bank Note. I really like the Indian buffalo hunt vignette and this would have been from a time when bison still ran on the plains. The check also shows Skinners monogram -- typically the spot where they pasted the revenue stamp, so I&#039;m glad this one got stuck in the corner. The other, for the hefty sum of $10,000 in 1874, shows an allegorical figure of Trade holding a ship.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]402534[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]402535[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]402536[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]402537[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]402538[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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