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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USS656, post: 1062591, member: 6641&quot;]Here is some additional information about the company.&nbsp; Also Names George Taylor as President - His signature is on my note.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">Pottsdale Furnace, New York and East Tennessee Iron Co., Greeneville,</font></span></p> </p><p>&nbsp; <p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><font face="Arial">Greene County. One stack, 32 x 8J, built in 1862; cold blast; water-power; open top; annual capacity, 2,500 net tons. George Taylor, President, and F. A. Potts, Secretary and Treasurer, 110 Broadway, New York; J. A. Trim, Superintendent. Out of blast since February, 1874.</font></span></p> </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>There seems to be 7 notes that have been documented in various places: .5, .10, .25, .50, $1, $2, $5</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is some additional information I have found:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<b><font face="Arial">From:</font><font face="Arial"> Standard paper money catalogue: including colonial and continental notes</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; <p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"> By Scott Stamp and Coin Company, Inc</p> </p><p>&nbsp; <p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><font face="GalliardStd-Roman"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA71&amp;lpg=PA71&amp;dq=%22East%20Tennessee%20Iron%22%20%22Cove%20Creek%22&amp;sig=pzU24iuiJXGhe7HNpgEi7iy5T4c&amp;ei=UFQTTdSuG4et8Ab_x9C0Dg&amp;ct=result&amp;id=fyVKAAAAMAAJ&amp;ots=p5s1U6UtIg&amp;output=text" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA71&amp;lpg=PA71&amp;dq=%22East%20Tennessee%20Iron%22%20%22Cove%20Creek%22&amp;sig=pzU24iuiJXGhe7HNpgEi7iy5T4c&amp;ei=UFQTTdSuG4et8Ab_x9C0Dg&amp;ct=result&amp;id=fyVKAAAAMAAJ&amp;ots=p5s1U6UtIg&amp;output=text" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA71&amp;lpg=PA71&amp;dq=&quot;East Tennessee Iron&quot; &quot;Cove Creek&quot;&amp;sig=pzU24iuiJXGhe7HNpgEi7iy5T4c&amp;ei=UFQTTdSuG4et8Ab_x9C0Dg&amp;ct=result&amp;id=fyVKAAAAMAAJ&amp;ots=p5s1U6UtIg&amp;output=text</a></font></p> </p><p>&nbsp; <p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"> </p> </p><p>&nbsp; &quot;WILD CAT&quot; ISSUES.</p><p>&nbsp; The following issues, popularly known as &quot;Wild Cat&quot; Currency, comprise notes of cities, corporations, etc., issued in the form of Bank Bills, and generally resembling them in style of engraving, and, with a few exceptions, in size. They are arranged, similarly to the Bank Bills, according to States and places, with the denominations known to us of each issue. The greater part of them bear date prior to the War of the Rebellion.</p><p>&nbsp; As in the case of Bank Bills, some specimens are common, and are to be had in large quantities, in good condition, at very moderate prices. Many on sale between 10 and 15 cents.</p><p>&nbsp; Figures in larger type denote the particular denominations that have passed through our hands, or may be found in the most important collections in the country, to which we have had access.</p><p>&nbsp; <p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"> </p> </p><p>&nbsp; Cove Creek. </p><p>&nbsp; 1 New York &amp; East Tennessee Iron Co., 1, 2, 5.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For all four fractionals:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.stacks.com/Lot/ItemDetail/28644" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stacks.com/Lot/ItemDetail/28644" rel="nofollow">http://www.stacks.com/Lot/ItemDetail/28644</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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