Nothing earth shattering, just a nice variety of documents.
A pair of nominally illegal usages (proprietary stamps were not intended for documentary use).
I thought this check itself was attractive with the background logo.
An agreement for sale of a "two-horse machine".
A bill of lading from the "Steamer Lena May".
An attractive bold strike of a double lined oval handstamp cancel.
Two #68 used illegally as revenues on a chattel mortgage of half interest in the boat Mary Elianor and its furnishings.
An attractive revenue-stamped check then repurposed at some point in the mid-20th century as a stamp dealer price list.
A very scarce solo use of R77c on document. Per Mike Mahler, there are fewer than 10 reported examples of R77c still on document.
And lastly one more of interest due to the aesthetics: a Massachusetts dog license with an appropriately themed vignette. More scarce than one would think, as payment of an annual fee for a dog license would have been a comparative luxury at the time, and moste documents of this kind did not have vignettes.
Posted 01/15/2017 6:40 pm
