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  1. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Another American manufacturing example:
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    An excerpt from Mr. Vornbrock's obituary:

    Otto H. Vornbrock president of the Holtgrewe Vornbrook Furniture Company of St. Louis, Mo. passed away August 11 after an illness of several weeks duration, age 55.

    Mr. Vornbrock was one of the first to engage in the manufacture of furniture in St Louis. He learned the trade under his father in the old Vornbrock Furniture Company and upon the death of his parent he took charge of the business. In 1898 he was instrumental in organizing the Holtgrewe Vornbrock Furniture Company and in 1902 he bought out the Holtgrewe interest. He has been president of the company for twenty years. His loss is deeply felt by the business fraternity of St Louis as he has always been one of the progressive spirits in his home town. He is survived by the widow a son Ernest a daughter Ella his mother two sisters and a brother
     
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    Nice check with a train vignette and a bonus--it's a radar number :)
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  5. techwriter

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    Another fine example of American manufacturing; this one precedes the Buckley-Douglas I posted earlier.
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  6. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Love these old machines:
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  7. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Well, it's not a check but a deposit receipt from a well-known New York bank. Plus the artwork is rather nice I thought.
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  8. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    A genuine check this time; looks like some sort of distilling system; and it just happens to be a radar number.
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  9. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    chk_CA_CalStElectricRailroad_Nov1890.jpg
    chk_CA_vignette_CalStElectricRailroad_Nov1890.jpg
    Background

    In 1874, Leland Stanford set out to promote the idea of a cable car for California Street, the principle ascent of Nob Hill from the east, with a more reasonable grade than Clay Street. In 1876, in collaboration with several associates in the Central Pacific Railroad, he secured the franchise, and construction was begun on July 5, 1877. The line ran between Kearney Street at the foot of Nob Hill to Fillmore Street in the Western Addition, a distance of about 1.7 miles, and a power house, designed by W.W. Hanscom, was put in at Larkin Street. Initially, the line operated with 25 grip cars and trailers built by the Kimball Manufacturing Company and the Central Pacific shops.
     
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    techwriter Well-Known Member

    The Basic City Mining, Manufacturing, and Land Company was organized and designed so that Basic City would become the “little Pittsburgh” of the Shenandoah Valley. Due to the many boom and bust cycles that occurred in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Basic City never became the success that it was designed to become. Early Basic City/Waynesboro sported many industries including a pencil factory, furniture manufacturers, an automotive plant, vinegar plant, stove factory, and supporting industry for the railroad – which boasted a major intersection of north/south and east/west lines.
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    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Nice elk vignette and a bonus radar check number:
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  14. MitchBailey

    MitchBailey Active Member

    That Elk has two noses! It's an error. JK. Seeing those large creatures up close and personal is truly amazing.
     
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  15. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Here's an interesting comparison:
    1. Thomaston Bank vignette:
    ckh_rdr_ME_May1900_vgnt_Thomaston_National_Bank_deer.jpg
    2. Another bank vignette:
    chk_bristol-milling_July1896-vgnt_elk.jpg

    Investigations and "hunting" continues.
     
  16. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    Could a piece of another check have gotten glued over the original nose? Or was it really printed that way?
     
  17. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Well, I know I've posted this before but I've learned about the machine pictured on the check. Did some research on Wickes Brothers on the http://www.vintagemachinery.org site. Here's what the historian had to say:

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    That is a lovely cheque!

    The machine pictured is a gang sawmill. The picture is hard to understand because the bottom of the machine—where the man is standing—would be one storey below the saw carriage, which isn’t shown. At the top of the machine is a frame containing a set of a dozen or so vertical sawblades. A cant, which is a squared-off saw log, is fed into the blades between the two horizontal rollers, reducing the cant into a bunch of boards. This type of saw was used mainly for making boards for flooring and siding.
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  18. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    This seems appropriate this time of year:
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  20. techwriter

    techwriter Well-Known Member

    Here's a nice Oklahoma (Indian Territory) with a famous vignette -- Chief Ouray; who appears on a $20 MPC.
    (check Oklahoma Territory 1900)
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    (MPC $20 example, not mine)
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  21. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    Nice one, Les.
     
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