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2650 Colonial Banknote Assortment.
Lot of 4 notes, Includes
Virginia, Oct. 7, 1776, $6, VG, partially repaired; New Jersey, March
25, 1776, 3 Shillings, VG with reinforced split and Continental
Currency, February 17, 1776, 1/6th of a Dollar, VG with edge faults,
small tears and high wear. Also included is a 1789 Connecticut
Comptrollers Certificate, 2 Pounds, POC’s, VF. . . . . . .
Est. $100-200
Virginia
2651 Virginia James River Bank, Sept.1, 1775 Issue Banknote.
Virginia, September 1, 1775. 5 Pounds, Issued banknote, S/N
120/17999, mounted on thin card that could possibly be removed,
Signed by Norvell; Nicholas and Johnson, VG condition with edge
tears, small splits and small pieces missing from bottom middle
margin, still a rare note in very collectible condition. .
Est. $500-1000
2652 Virginia James River Bank, Sept.1, 1775 Issue Banknote.
Virginia, September 1, 1775. 12 Pounds, Issued banknote, S/N
144/14094, mounted on thin card that could possibly be removed,
Signed by Norvell; Nicholas and Johnson, VG condition with edge
tears, small splits and small pieces missing from top left margin, still
another rare note in very collectible condition. . . . . . .
Est. $500-1000
Ephemera - Lottery Tickets
Rhode Island
2653 Providence Great-Bridge Lottery, 1790 Ticket.
Providence,
Rhode Island, Class Fourth, Lottery Ticket, S/N 169, Issued lottery
ticket, Black on tan paper with light toning, XF condition, Early
Rhode Island Lottery Ticket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Est. $120-240
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New York
2654 State of New York, Literature Lottery, 1825, Issued lottery
ticket.
New York, NY, 1825, Issued lottery ticket, 6.3 x 2.75 inches,
black without underprint, Lottery # 1-8-13, S/N 374, eagle on left,
Class #2, payable 40 days after the drawing. AU to Uncirculated
condition. Scarce early New York City lottery ticket. .
Est. $100-2
Pennsylvania
2655 African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in the City of
Philadelphia, 1805 Lottery Ticket.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
March 1, 1805. Issued lottery ticket #254, Black on light off white
bond type of paper mounted on lower border to white thin card that
could possibly be removed, Excellent and almost uncirculated con-
dition. The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas was founded in
1792. The original African Church was an outgrowth of the Free
African Society -a mutual aid organization established in 1787 by
Absalom Jones, Richard Allen and others -to assist the Black popu-
lation in Philadelphia. Rare and early African American Lottery tick-
et. (Stacks Philadelphia Americana Sale, September 2010, Lot
#801) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Est. $500-10
Encased Postage
2656 Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 3 Cents Stamp Encased Postage.
Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla “To Purify the Blood”, 3 cent stamp, mica intact
but with crazing, slight silvering on the back, VF to XF
condition, attractive encased postage in better condition than usu-
ally found. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Est. $250-4
U.S. Obsolete Banknotes
Arkansas
2657 Bank of the State of Arkansas at Batesville, ca.1830’s
Obsolete Proof.
Batesville, Arkansas, 18xx (ca.1830’s), $10, Plate
A, AR-10-G122, Unlisted in Census, Proof banknote, black on india
paper on thin white card with 3 jumbo margins on top and sides and
normal margin on bottom, Woman on horseback top right, young
woman in water on right and farm women resting on left with small
steamboat on bottom, Au to Uncirculated with light wrinkles on the
edges due to glue, No.5 written on the lower left signature block,
POC’s, Rawdon, Wright & Hatch, New York imprint. (Silver City
Collection, Part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Est. $500-8
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