Archives International Auctions - Auction 109 December 16, 2025

Archives International Auctions - Sale 109 69 December 16, 2025 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 361 361 CT. Connecticut Pay-Table Office, 1782, Tax Warrant Trio. Hartford, Connecticut, 1782. Lot of 3 Tax Pay Orders Issued by the Pay-Table Office, Black print with black handwriting and signatures, All are signed by William Moseley and Oliver Wolcott. WilliamMoseley (1755-1824) later would serve in the Connecticut state senate. Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833), who was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut. The Pay-Table (also known as the Committee of Four) managed Connecticut’s military finances during the Revolutionary War. Financing the Revolution laid a heavy burden upon each colony, especially those which balked at levying taxes. In order to meet immediate needs, such as wages, the colonies relied upon wealthy revolutionists, foreign loans, and taxes and gifts from abroad. Issuing notes such as these was only a temporary solution. All are in VF condition. (3). �������������������� Est. $160-280 362 362 CT. Connecticut Pay-Table Office, 1785 and 1787 Tax Pay Order Pair Hartford, Connecticut, 1785 & 1787. Lot of 2 Issued Tax Pay Orders from the Pay-Table Office. Black text with black handwriting and signatures, The pair includes signatures from Early Connecticut Figures Eleazer Wales, Stephen Mix Mitchell, and Oliver Wolcott Jr. Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833), who was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut. Eleazer Wales was graduate of Yale and Presbyterian Minister who also later served as a Justice of the Peace in Hartford. He remained involved in state politics, acting as State Controller after the war. Stephen Mix Mitchell, also a Yale graduate, served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1778-1784, an associate Justice of the county court, delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1788 and a member of the Connecticut Convention which on January 9, 1788 ratified the U.S. Constitution. He was also a U.S. Senator from 1793 to 1795. The Pay-Table (also known as the Committee of Four) managed Connecticut’s military finances during the RevolutionaryWar. Financing the Revolution laid a heavy burden upon each colony, especially those which balked at levying taxes. In order to meet immediate needs, such as wages, the colonies relied upon wealthy revolutionists, foreign loans, and taxes and gifts from abroad. Issuing notes such as these was only a temporary solution. Both are in VF condition. (2). ����������������� Est. $140-200 363 363 CT. HarwintonCommittee, 1780, State Pay-TableOrder Connecticut, Feb 29, 1780. Revolutionary War, State of Connecticut, Pay-Table Office Order directing Treasurer John Lawrence Esq. to pay Harwinton Committee seven hundred pounds nineteen shillings and eight pence L money and charge the State Pay-Table Office; manuscript-signed by Samuel Lyman and John Church, with cross-signature approval by Samuel Wyllys, Auditor; classic Revolutionary War financial form used to reimburse towns for wartime expenses, fully handwritten on laid paper with period ink, showing typical docketing and endorsement. Designs feature bold colonial penmanship and treasurer’s notation. Conditions range from VF to XF with expected folds and minor stains, handling, and minor edge wear consistent with eighteenth-century fiscal use. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $90-140 U.S. Obsolete Banknotes California 364 364 CA. San Francisco Clearing House Certificates and Reference Pamphlet, 1907 to 1908 Panic Currency Collection. San Francisco, California, 1907-08. Lot of 9 items including 8, I/C circulating emergency certificates and one contemporary reference pamphlet. The group consists of 3 distinct types or series featuring denominations from $1 to $20, all issued by the San Francisco Clearing House Association during the 1907 banking panic. The first type includes $1 (brown), and $2 (gray) with ornate design and undertint and very ornate designed backs in the color of the fronts; the second type includes $5 (blue cycloid undertint), $10 (green cycloid undertint), and $20 (orange cycloid undertint), all 3 have ornate cycloid denomination counter on the backs; and, the third type which has simple black frames and text on gray paper), all with plain backs; signatures of the association’s officers, and punched “PAID” cancellations. Accompanied by Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History, Vol. I, No. 1 – The San Francisco Clearing House Certificates of 1907–1908 by Carl Copping Plehn (University of California, 1909). VF to XF condition. (9). Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $500-750