1852 Check From The Post Office

I was rummaging through archives at Cornell and found this check. I thought folks would appreciate the image.



I, for one, don't see these very often.

See here: https://goscf.com/t/90244#839274 alub.

Edit: 5th & 6th posts down

are you saying this is a receipt and not a check?

Review my two recent posts here...
https://goscf.com/t/90244&whichpage=1#839319

MikeL

Thanks for the info.

too bad it was glued down, I wonder if there is anything on the back.

The back of this particular series of drafts has no printing. Most have the endorsement signature of the payee on the reverse.

The format (design) provided by the original poster was used between 1849 and 1858. It was replaced by the following design, which was used between 1858 and 1865, and it had some additional printing on the reverse. This image is not mine, harvested from ebay.

Front...



Reverse...



Another variant of this draft was used by the Post Office Department beginning in 1837, and continued through 1849. It looked like this.

Front....



Reverse...



These appear regularly on ebay, and most of those I have seen and recorded during the past decade are from a small number of post offices. Newark, NJ, New Bedford, MA, Hartford, CT, and Middlebury, VT are the origin of some of the more frequently seen examples.

I suspect that the postmasters at these offices preserved these drafts in their archives rather than destroying them after the designated period of retention.

MikeL

The draft I photographed went to the town historian for their archives

alub:

I'm glad to learn that it will be preserved.

But a little concerned when you mentioned that it had been glued down. I hope it was that way when the historian received it. That is not good archival practice.

From time to time, I get these old POD papers which have been pasted into a scrapbook. Sometimes, I am able to separate them with minimal or no damage, other times I can't do a thing.

MikeL

No archival practice on this one.

It was the town historian in the late 1800. He took an old ledger and glued clippings, handbills and other paper items into it. None of the clippings have dates or sources. You can see the ledger writing bleeding through in my photo.

Still there is some great information in those volumes.