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PIERRE G.T. BEAUREGARD Pierre G. T. Beauregard fills out and signs a check for $58.88 to pay Louis Barnett. Partly Printed Check signed: "G.T. Beauregard", 8¼x2¾. New Orleans, 1880 August 10. Two-cent Internal Revenue stamp affixed at upper right corner. Check No.Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
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PIERRE G. T. BEAUREGARD Check signed by Beauregard in 1878 for $16 Check signed "G. T. Beauregard". With pencil notations on verso in unknown hand. 8¼x2½. Dec. 20, 1878. Check no. 107 for $16, made out to "[illegible] Oressend" and drawn on Beauregard's account at the Mutual National Bank.Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
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SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER He signs an 1898 sight draft on Standard Oil Company form for $6.50. Check signed: "S. B. Buckner/Ria, Ky", 8¼x3½. Louisville, Kentucky, 1898 September 21. Standard Oil Company bankers' acceptance form no.Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER $297.95 check signed by Union General Benjamin F. Butler in 1877, when he was a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts Check signed "B. F. Butler". With unknown endorsement on verso. Pencil notations in unknown hand on verso. 7¼x2½. May 23, 1877. Check no.Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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BENJAMIN F. BUTLER $260 check signed by Union General Benjamin F. Butler in 1876 Check signed: "B.F. Butler". Unknown endorsement on verso. 7¼x2½. Nov. 2, 1876. Drawn on his account at Merchants National Bank, payable to H. M. Bissell or order for $260.Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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DANIEL BUTTERFIELD Union General Daniel Butterfield signs a check to pay ourselves $20.00. Partly Printed Check signed: "Daniel Butterfield", 8½x3¼. Cooperstown, New York, 1859 May 1. Drawn on the Wells, Butterfield and company sight draft, payable to ourselves for $20.00.Sale Price $595.00
$700.00
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EUGENE A. CARR The Medal of Honor recipient wrote and signed this Riggs National Bank check for $40.50 to A. V. Thornton in 1910, less than four months before his death Check signed "E. A. Carr". 7¼x2¾. Sept. 10, 1910. Check no. 739, made out to A. V. Thornton for $40.Sale Price $573.75
$675.00
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EUGENE A. CARR. Partly Printed Check filled out and signed: "E.A. Carr", 7¼x3. Washington, D.C., 1910 October 3. Drawn on The Riggs National Bank, payable to "W.B. Moses and Sons" for $13.75.Sale Price $573.75
$675.00
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EUGENE A. CARR. Partly Printed Check filled out and signed: "E.A. Carr", 7¼x3. Washington, D.C., 1910 November 17. Drawn on The Riggs National Bank, payable to "Treasurer Army &/Navy Club" for $1.50.Sale Price $324.00
$360.00
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JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN Check to a local stonecutter. Partly Printed Check signed: "J.L. Chamberlain", 7x2¾. Brunswick, Me., 1867 October 12. Drawn on the First National Bank of Brunswick. Payable to D.M. Melcher for $65.00. Affixed at left is a 2-cent U.S. Internal Revenue stamp picturing Washington. D.Sale Price $2,337.50
$2,750.00
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1834 check for $2,500, signed by four commissioners of New York State's Erie Canal Fund, including John A. Dix, President James Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury in 1861; Azariah C. Flagg, New York State secretary of state and comptroller; Abraham Keyser, Jr., New York State Treasurer; and Greene C. Bronson, New York State attorney general and Chief Justice of the state supreme courtSale Price $427.50
$475.00
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1834 check for $2,500, signed by four commissioners of New York State's Erie Canal Fund, including John A. Dix, President James Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury in 1861; Azariah C. Flagg, New York State secretary of state and comptroller; Abraham Keyser, Jr., New York State Treasurer; and Greene C. Bronson, New York State attorney general and Chief Justice of the state supreme courtSale Price $427.50
$475.00
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1837 check for $200, signed by three commissioners of New York State's Erie Canal Fund, including John A. Dix, President James Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury in 1861; Azariah C. Flagg, New York State secretary of state and comptroller; and William Campbell, New York State Surveyor GeneralSale Price $427.50
$475.00
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GENERAL JOHN ADAMS DIXHe signs with the other Commissioners of the Erie Canal (1837). Check signed: "John A. Dix", 6½x5. Albany, N.Y., 1837 July 6. Check no. 363, drawn on the Canal Fund account at the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank, payable to E. E. Kendrick $2,600 in cash.Sale Price $427.50
$475.00
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1837 check for $5,904.63, signed by three commissioners of New York State's Erie Canal Fund, including John A. Dix, President James Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury in 1861; Azariah C. Flagg, New York State secretary of state and comptroller; and William Campbell, New York State Surveyor GeneralSale Price $427.50
$475.00
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PAT DOLAN1891 check bearing the rare signature of the Texas lawman Check signed: "Pat Dolan" in pencil, 7¼x2¾. Marfa, Texas, February 3, 1891. Un-numbered check, drawn on Humphris & Co. General Merchandise and Ranch Supplies.Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
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DAVID G. FARRAGUT. Partly Printed Promissory Note endorsed on verso: "D.G. Farragut", 7½x3½. Washington, D.C., 1866 September 28. In full: "Fifty months after date I promise to pay to the order of David G. Farragut Forty Dollars with interest for Value received.Sale Price $807.50
$950.00
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REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM M. FOLGER While in command of the battleship USS Kearsage, he signed this check to the Metropolitan Club of Washington. Check signed: "W. M. Folger", 7x2¾. Washington, D.C., 1900 December 16.Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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JAMES A. GARFIELD Check filled out and signed as Congressman, drawn on his House bank account. Partly Printed Check filled out and signed: "J.A. Garfield" as Congressman, 1p, 7½x3¼. Washington, 1873 June 2. On his Congressional account: "Sergeant-at-Arms U.S.Sale Price $1,020.00
$1,200.00
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JAMES A. GARFIELD Congressional check signed by the only incumbent Congressman elected President. Partly Printed Check filled out and signed: "J.A. Garfield" as Congressman, 8x3¼. Washington, 1873 December 31. Printed "Sergeant-at-Arms U.S. House of Representatives".Sale Price $1,190.00
$1,400.00
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JAMES A. GARFIELD Garfield, as President, signed the day before his 1881 assassination Right portion of a blank check signed: "J.A. Garfield", 4½x2¾. Washington, D.C., 188_.Riggs & Co. check most probably signed as President. Left edge ragged. Horizontal fold crease above signature.Sale Price $5,737.50
$6,750.00
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BENJAMIN HARRISON Check written and signed by the future 23rd U.S. President three years before he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Indiana. Check filled out and signed: "Benj Harrison", 7¾x3. Indianapolis, Indiana, 1873 June 4. Not numbered.Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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JULIA WARD HOWE Howe endorsed this $5.50 check with her agent in 1892. Check endorsed "Julia Ward Howe." And "H. E. Turner. Agent". 8½x3. Jan. 29, 1892. Check no. 444 for $5.Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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THORNTON A. JENKINS. Partly Printed Check signed: "Thornton A. Jenkins/Rear Admiral USA", 8x2¾. Washington, D.C., 1879 April 3. Drawn on the National Metropolitan Bank, payable to "Proceeds" for $100. Two cent revenue at left. Union Rear Admiral Thornton A.Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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J. WARREN KEIFER. Partly Printed Check signed: "J. Warren Keifer", 8½x3 inlaid to 9x3¾. Springfield, Ohio, 1910 November 5. Drawn on his personal account at Layonda National Bank, payable to Swartzell, Rheems & Hensey Co. for $35.00.Sale Price $270.00
$300.00
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WILLIAM McKINLEY A check signed by the President for the amount of $30.00, dated 1898, just eleven days before the end of the Spanish American War Check signed: "William McKinley", 7x3. Washington, D.C., 1898 August 1. Drawn on the American Security and Trust Company, the President pays L.M.Sale Price $1,275.00
$1,500.00
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THOMAS G. PITCHER $50 check signed by American Civil War General Thomas G. Pitcher in 1880 Partly printed check signed: "T.G. Pitcher," 6½x2½. Washington, D.C., 1880 January 21. On the National Metropolitan Bank payable to Mrs. M. Pitcher or order for $50.00. Endorsed: "M. Pitcher" on verso.Sale Price $270.00
$300.00
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GENERAL THOMAS G. PITCHER $398.75 check signed by General Thomas G. Pitcher in 1877. Accompanied by a biography and b/w photocopied photo of Pitcher mounted to a sheet of blue paper. Partly printed check signed: "T G Pitcher." 7½x2¾. July 11, 1877. On the National Metropolitan Bank payable to "Mrs D.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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GEORGE M. ROBESONThe congressman writes a personal check for $500 during the year he left Congress Partly Printed Check signed: "Geo. M. Robeson", 8½x2¾. Washington, D.C., 1883 May 7. Drawn on the National Metropolitan Bank, payable to Moses Bradshaw or order for $500.Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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WINFIELD SCOTT Partly Printed Check filled out and signed: "Winfield Scott," 6x21/4. Washington,1852 November 17. Drawn on the Corcoran & Riggs bank, payable to "John J. Joyce or order" for $84.88.Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
