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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 892579, member: 19065"]<b>August Gast Banknote Company of St. Louis</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoy a mystery and I very much like to search and learn via Google. I'm also currently working on a St. Louis FRN <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t98370-9/#post889850" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t98370-9/#post889850">district collection</a> plus I have a personal connection to St. Louis. From that perspective, I very much wanted to see what I could find online about: "<b>August Gast Bank Note Co. of St. Louis and New York.</b>" </p><p><br /></p><p>In the recent past<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t92432/#post811080" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t92432/#post811080"><b>†</b></a> I have searched for information about the <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/commercialarchit00orea#page/202/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.archive.org/stream/commercialarchit00orea#page/202/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">St. Louis Bank Note Company</a> [<b>PDF link</b> at Archive.org, <i>Commercial and Architectural St. Louis</i>, ©1888/91, from pages 202-203], a bank note company which began in 1870. However, <b>August Gast</b> was a new (old) company and personage from that city for me so I was eager to learn about him and his corporation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Below are some links of possible interest to others that I dug up while reading about the <b>August Gast Banknote Company of St. Louis (& New York)</b>:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="http://www.asccinfo.com/FACS/facs.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.asccinfo.com/FACS/facs.htm" rel="nofollow">The Check Collector</a> </b>web site reproduces a letter on August Gast and Co. Steel Plate & Lithography letterhead dated 7.1.1883</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=bIunKvCkyB&sig=nmuM0vekNXsIxDQ4H_hAVcTtu2g&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=august%20gast&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=bIunKvCkyB&sig=nmuM0vekNXsIxDQ4H_hAVcTtu2g&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=august%20gast&f=false" rel="nofollow">The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 12</a></b> includes a bio of Wade J. Festus (illustrated portrait), who held position with August Gast for 2 years in the late 1880s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another book<b> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tgsvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=August+Gast+BankNote+Company&source=bl&ots=43fUqN4NVl&sig=Vfr3fa_-7sSTaUiJZhXWinJm6uA&hl=en&ei=e1DxS4XkHsP7lwf5_pS2CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tgsvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=August+Gast+BankNote+Company&source=bl&ots=43fUqN4NVl&sig=Vfr3fa_-7sSTaUiJZhXWinJm6uA&hl=en&ei=e1DxS4XkHsP7lwf5_pS2CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">The Makers of St. Louis</a></b> features bios of Wade J Festus (photographed portrait)</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MD8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=9SXxsNEaDg&sig=eGF-Qak_ikHhTVPKUZyj55y05Zg&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MD8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=9SXxsNEaDg&sig=eGF-Qak_ikHhTVPKUZyj55y05Zg&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">The book of St. Louisans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of</a></b> <b>...</b> By Albert Nelson Marquis [Google Books] includes a bio of Ferdinand Gast, son of August Gast, President, worked in the lithographic business from 1888-1892</p><p><br /></p><p>Auction site with lithographic <a href="http://www.dsloan.com/Auctions/A21/item-birds_eye-velasco.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dsloan.com/Auctions/A21/item-birds_eye-velasco.html" rel="nofollow"><b>maps</b> </a>by the August Gast company</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.telcomhistory.org/stocks.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.telcomhistory.org/stocks.shtml" rel="nofollow">Telecommunications History Group, Inc.</a></b> web site has a company stock certificates printed by A. <i>Gast</i> & Co. Lithographers, St. Louis, Mo. for <font size="2"><b><a href="http://www.telcomhistory.org/images/main/stocks/m-rmb.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.telcomhistory.org/images/main/stocks/m-rmb.jpg" rel="nofollow">Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company</a></b> [image link] --Ogden, Utah Territory.</font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p><p><font size="2"></font><b><a href="http://www.murphyenterprises.com/ltrgast.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.murphyenterprises.com/ltrgast.jpg" rel="nofollow">August Gast calendars</a></b>, letterhead with vignette from 11.16.1901 on <a href="http://www.murphyenterprises.com/collectible_paper.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.murphyenterprises.com/collectible_paper.htm" rel="nofollow">Murphy Enterprises paper collectibles </a>web site</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=50&ved=0CDsQFjAJOCg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mohistory.org%2Ffiles%2Farchives_guides%2FGuideS_Z.pdf&rct=j&q=August+Gast+BankNote+Company&ei=ZVHxS_roMMSclgfYu6y3CA&usg=AFQjCNEjCsRHg2h4cV4vycuS9DMy5YQQpg&sig2=kZFUzZmmt1LS3_Pt0xFGWQ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=50&ved=0CDsQFjAJOCg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mohistory.org%2Ffiles%2Farchives_guides%2FGuideS_Z.pdf&rct=j&q=August+Gast+BankNote+Company&ei=ZVHxS_roMMSclgfYu6y3CA&usg=AFQjCNEjCsRHg2h4cV4vycuS9DMy5YQQpg&sig2=kZFUzZmmt1LS3_Pt0xFGWQ" rel="nofollow">Guide to the Archival Collections</a></b> <b>[PDF link]</b> below quote from, Missouri History.org PDF:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Missouri Historical</b> <b><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/Guide%20to%20Photographs%20and%20Print%20Collections" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/Guide%20to%20Photographs%20and%20Print%20Collections">Society </a></b><i><b><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/Guide%20to%20Photographs%20and%20Print%20Collections" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/Guide%20to%20Photographs%20and%20Print%20Collections">Guide to the Photographs and Prints Collections of the Missouri Historical Society</a></b> </i><b>[PDF Link] </b>from 5.4.2003</p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Bw08AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA474&lpg=PA474&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=SXksM264a5&sig=vGHklGxIFE9YsjEmO86fU6hKRMA&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Bw08AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA474&lpg=PA474&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=SXksM264a5&sig=vGHklGxIFE9YsjEmO86fU6hKRMA&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Southwestern Report</a></b> Court of Appeals records from 1903 [Google Books]</p><p>There are numerous old court documents online which you can find information about almost anything that transpired in the past record.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And this from freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com for a <b><a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejtenlen/efwittler.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejtenlen/efwittler.txt" rel="nofollow">Mr. Edward F. Wittler</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please post more links if anyone has other information. Enjoy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 892579, member: 19065"][b]August Gast Banknote Company of St. Louis[/b] I enjoy a mystery and I very much like to search and learn via Google. I'm also currently working on a St. Louis FRN [URL="http://www.cointalk.com/t98370-9/#post889850"]district collection[/URL] plus I have a personal connection to St. Louis. From that perspective, I very much wanted to see what I could find online about: "[B]August Gast Bank Note Co. of St. Louis and New York.[/B]" In the recent past[URL="http://www.cointalk.com/t92432/#post811080"][B]†[/B][/URL] I have searched for information about the [URL="http://www.archive.org/stream/commercialarchit00orea#page/202/mode/2up"]St. Louis Bank Note Company[/URL] [[B]PDF link[/B] at Archive.org, [I]Commercial and Architectural St. Louis[/I], ©1888/91, from pages 202-203], a bank note company which began in 1870. However, [B]August Gast[/B] was a new (old) company and personage from that city for me so I was eager to learn about him and his corporation. Below are some links of possible interest to others that I dug up while reading about the [B]August Gast Banknote Company of St. Louis (& New York)[/B]: [B][URL="http://www.asccinfo.com/FACS/facs.htm"]The Check Collector[/URL] [/B]web site reproduces a letter on August Gast and Co. Steel Plate & Lithography letterhead dated 7.1.1883 [B][URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=bIunKvCkyB&sig=nmuM0vekNXsIxDQ4H_hAVcTtu2g&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=august%20gast&f=false"]The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 12[/URL][/B] includes a bio of Wade J. Festus (illustrated portrait), who held position with August Gast for 2 years in the late 1880s. Another book[B] [URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=tgsvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=August+Gast+BankNote+Company&source=bl&ots=43fUqN4NVl&sig=Vfr3fa_-7sSTaUiJZhXWinJm6uA&hl=en&ei=e1DxS4XkHsP7lwf5_pS2CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q&f=false"]The Makers of St. Louis[/URL][/B] features bios of Wade J Festus (photographed portrait) [B] [URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=MD8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=9SXxsNEaDg&sig=eGF-Qak_ikHhTVPKUZyj55y05Zg&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false"]The book of St. Louisans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of[/URL][/B] [B]...[/B] By Albert Nelson Marquis [Google Books] includes a bio of Ferdinand Gast, son of August Gast, President, worked in the lithographic business from 1888-1892 Auction site with lithographic [URL="http://www.dsloan.com/Auctions/A21/item-birds_eye-velasco.html"][B]maps[/B] [/URL]by the August Gast company [B] [URL="http://www.telcomhistory.org/stocks.shtml"]Telecommunications History Group, Inc.[/URL][/B] web site has a company stock certificates printed by A. [I]Gast[/I] & Co. Lithographers, St. Louis, Mo. for [SIZE=2][B][URL="http://www.telcomhistory.org/images/main/stocks/m-rmb.jpg"]Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company[/URL][/B] [image link] --Ogden, Utah Territory. [/SIZE][B][URL="http://www.murphyenterprises.com/ltrgast.jpg"]August Gast calendars[/URL][/B], letterhead with vignette from 11.16.1901 on [URL="http://www.murphyenterprises.com/collectible_paper.htm"]Murphy Enterprises paper collectibles [/URL]web site [B][URL="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=50&ved=0CDsQFjAJOCg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mohistory.org%2Ffiles%2Farchives_guides%2FGuideS_Z.pdf&rct=j&q=August+Gast+BankNote+Company&ei=ZVHxS_roMMSclgfYu6y3CA&usg=AFQjCNEjCsRHg2h4cV4vycuS9DMy5YQQpg&sig2=kZFUzZmmt1LS3_Pt0xFGWQ"]Guide to the Archival Collections[/URL][/B] [B][PDF link][/B] below quote from, Missouri History.org PDF: [B] Missouri Historical[/B] [B][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/Guide%20to%20Photographs%20and%20Print%20Collections"]Society [/URL][/B][I][B][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/Guide%20to%20Photographs%20and%20Print%20Collections"]Guide to the Photographs and Prints Collections of the Missouri Historical Society[/URL][/B] [/I][B][PDF Link] [/B]from 5.4.2003 [B] [URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=Bw08AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA474&lpg=PA474&dq=%22August+Gast+BankNote+Company%22&source=bl&ots=SXksM264a5&sig=vGHklGxIFE9YsjEmO86fU6hKRMA&hl=en&ei=OkzxS9-3E8P_lger5_m0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]Southwestern Report[/URL][/B] Court of Appeals records from 1903 [Google Books] There are numerous old court documents online which you can find information about almost anything that transpired in the past record. And this from freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com for a [B][URL="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejtenlen/efwittler.txt"]Mr. Edward F. Wittler[/URL][/B] Please post more links if anyone has other information. Enjoy.[/QUOTE]
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