Old Check Collectors Share Your Checks!

Gee, this thread got a bit stale, so let's warm it up.
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== new one from eBay

== nice wildlife scene on this Minnesota check

== the artwork certainly tells you the business of the owner

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== technically this Montana check should be classed as a "Territorial" check since
== Montana didn't become a state until November 8, 1889
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== a nice old check from our Canadian neighbors

 

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Love the Merchant's National check with the Reapers vignette. Are you finding these all on eBay?

 

gsalexan, yep eBay is a treasure trove IF you're willing to troll and troll and troll. It is a nice check isn't it? and as I mentioned I'm surprised it did not indicate Montana Territory since it's dated more than a year before Montana statehood.
The Canadian 'beaver' check came from a Canada auction house.
The other three we eBay finds.

 

Les has seen this one already, but I'll share my latest eBay find here. The Shirley Temple look-alike is very cute.

 

This is new for me and I thought it just nearly exquisite in its simple beauty; and besides the number is a FLIPPER: 906 :
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A few interesting ones for your enjoyment:
== a first for me -- MEXICO

== really like the railroad theme checks

== and of course a radar

 

Nice 'territorial' check from New Mexico, dated 1890. New Mexico was not granted statehood until Jan 6, 1912.
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http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/17476

 

It's always exciting and rewarding to collect checks from a business or person that sort of follows them along through the years. So here's a few from James A Manly, Lawyer from North Dakota.
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Great deal of history associated with the vignette on this small Oklahoma bank.
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https://www.gilderlehrman.org/histo...est/resources/indian-wars-battle-washita-1868

 

Here's a check that has more history and interesting details than one could relate in a post here on the forum. Just a few:
1. it is a radar check number
2. it has an English 2 pence revenue stamp
3. it has English and American endorsements
4. payee is a very famous English stamp dealer
5. the company is still in business
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== history link Whitfield King & Co
http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/morpethhouse.html
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Another of those checks with a rather unique vignette; love these type of checks.
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And a link to a little bit of history about the firm. Notice this check is signed by the Treasurer: T.F. Hand,Jr
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http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=7353
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Found these two checks: same bank, four years apart, different vignettes, different clearing banks.
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A magnificent vignette on this old check from Pennsylvania. As an aside notice the seal in the upper left with the Latin motto "Dum Vivimus Bibamus" -- "While we live, Let us live".
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== http://www2.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=54134
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Actually, I think "bibamus" means drink or imbibe. So maybe a better interpretation would be "While we live, let us live it up!"

Interesting to note that this check was written during Prohibition. So whatever beer they were producing at that time could have no more than 0.5 percent alcohol. I shudder to think what their ale and porter tasted like!

 

I need a new Latin dictionary, I think it means "while we live, let us drink" or
something to effect. Oh well, think I'll go back to Greek.

 

A nice Idaho territorial check, 188_; (statehood July 3,1890)
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Technically this is not a check. I liked the size and great artwork so I never redeemed it. Oh, they are still in business.
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Another from our numismatic friends:
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Technically not a check but has nice vignette and printing, so why not?
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I believe this could be considered "vignette sharing" and from many states between them.
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Posted this check from Reno Water Co., Reno, Nevada; Litho byGazette-Journal of Hastings, Nebraska as few weeks ago.
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Now look at this one from Aaron Wilcox & Co., Painesville, Ohio; printed by John Gibson 32 Beekman St. New York
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== by the way did you notice the Dec 7 date?