Alabama. Bank of Mobile. Mobile, Sept. 8, 1841. Check to the cashier of Merchants Bank, New York payable in the amount of $591.07. Engraved vignettes of sailing ships at both corners. Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New Orleans. Pen cancelled and Very Fine.

Baltimore, Jan. 28, 1880. Mauve. Partly-printed check payable in the amount of $89.83. Vignette of a steam locomotive at left. Couple of folds. Litho. Fine.

Baltimore, March 4, 1878. Blue. Partly-printed check payable in the amount of fifty-six cents. Vignette of a steam locomotive at left. Litho. EF.

1883, Hagerstown Bank Check. Vignette of an allegorical female blowing a horn sitting atop a globe with a vignette of the bank at right corner. Dated Aug 20, 1883. Measuring 7 3?4” x 3 ¾”. Very Fine.

James Russell Lowell (1819 – 1891). American poet, editor and diplomat. One of the “Fireside Poets”. DS. Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 5, 1877. 1 page. 8” x 3”. Partly-printed bank check drawn on the Charles River National Bank payable to J. H. Wyeth & Co. in the amount of $51.00. Accomplished in Lowell’s hand and signed by him as maker. Couple of bank punch cancellations not affecting the manuscript text. Excellent.

Rupert Hughes (1872 – 1956). Historian, novelist film director and composer. Uncle of Howard Hughes. DS. 1 page. 6 ¼” x 3”. New York, March 20, 1931. Partly-printed bank check drawn on The Fifth Avenue Bank payable to Porto Rico Child Feeding Committee in the amount of $25. Signed by Hughes as maker. Bank punch cancelled. Fine.

186-. Wytheville, Virginia. Black on blue paper. Vignette of an American Indian at left. Printed by D. A. St. Clair’s Power Press, Wytheville, Virginia. Litho. In excellent condition

Unissued remainder. 186-. Virginia. Printed by Bacon & Company. Excellent