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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. read more...
Sale Price $722.50
$850.00
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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. read more...
Sale Price $722.50
$850.00
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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. read more...
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. read more...
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. read more...
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. read more...
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. read more...
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 court read more...
Sale Price $1,742.50
$2,050.00
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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 court read more...
Sale Price $1,742.50
$2,050.00
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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 General read more...
Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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GENERAL JOHN ADAMS DIX He 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. read more...
Sale Price $722.50
$850.00
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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 General read more...
Sale Price $722.50
$850.00
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PAT DOLAN 1891 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. read more...
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. read more...
Sale Price $807.50
$950.00
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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. read more...
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 read more...
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. read more...
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. read more...
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. read more...
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. read more...
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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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: read more...
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. read more...
Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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GEORGE M. ROBESON The 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. read more...
Sale Price $488.75
$575.00
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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. read more...
Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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PHILIP SHERIDAN He signed this check for $128, drawn on a Chicago bank, in 1871. Check signed: "P. H. Sheridan/USA", 7¼x2½. Chicago, Illinois, 1871 November 18. read more...
Sale Price $595.00
$700.00
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MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL E. SICKLES 1885 check filled out by hand and signed by the Major General, with unsigned envelope printed with Union army badge Two items: 1) Check signed: "DSickles". 8¼x2½. Dec. 18, 1885. Check no. 2335 for $4.50 made out to "D. read more...
Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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CADWALLADER WASHBURN The year after he left the governorship of Wisconsin, he signed this $63.90 personal check in Madison. Check signed: "C. C. Washburn", 8x3¼. Madison, Wisconsin, 1875 August 4. Un-numbered check, drawn on The State Bank for $63.90, payable to "Ross" read more...
Sale Price $234.00
$260.00
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CADWALLADER C. WASHBURN He filled out and signed this check for $27.90 in 1880 and sent it to New York. Check signed: "C. C. Washburn", 8½x3¾. Minneapolis, 1880 October 4. Check #73, filled out by him and drawn on his personal account at a bank in Minneapolis, payable to Charles E. Brass, Esq. read more...
Sale Price $252.00
$280.00
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CADWALLADER C. WASHBURN Check signed: "C.C. Washburn," 7½x3. Minneapolis, 1880 October 18. The Security Bank of Minnesota check payable to O.A. Pray & Co. for $3,087.41. read more...
Sale Price $234.00
$260.00
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GIDEON WELLES - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED CHECK 01/09/1869 CO-SIGNED BY: WILLIAM W. CORCORAN - HFSID 176101GIDEON WELLES and W.W. CORCORAN The Secretary of the Navy writes a check to philanthropist and bank founder, W.W. Corcoran. Partly Printed check filled out and signed: "Gideon Welles" as Johnson's Secretary of the Navy, 7½x3¼. Washington, D.C., 1869 January 9. read more...
Sale Price $405.00
$450.00