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[Early American paper money]

Title: [Early American paper money] [realia].
Publication: 1773-1780.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Artifact	Permit needed	Schlosser 648a	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

3 bills : letterpress, engraving, black and red; 87 x 69 mm., 56 x 101 mm., 71 x 93 mm.

Subjects

Money > Pennsylvania
Watermarks (Paper) > Currency
Paper money > New Jersey > Specimens
Currency papers (Paper) > United States > 18th century
Money > Rhode Island
Paper money > Rhode Island > Specimens
Paper evidence (Paper) > Mica flakes
Watermarks (Paper) > United States > 18th century
Nature prints > Specimens
Paper money > Pennsylvania > Specimens
Money > New Jersey

Genre/Form

Money – Pennsylvania.
Money – Rhode Island.
Money – New Jersey.
Watermarks (Paper) – United States – 18th century.
Watermarks (Paper) – Currency.
Currency papers (Paper) – United States – 18th century.
Paper evidence (Paper) – Mica flakes.

Note

Title devised.
For detailed discussion, cf. The early paper money of America / by Eric P. Newman. Bicentennial ed. 1976. p. 190-191, 253-254, 295.

Contents

[Pennsylvania, Oct. 1, 1773 issue] : fifteen shillings ([Philadelphia] : Printed by Hall and Sellers). Printed on mica-flaked paper with blue fibers. Ill. include farming scene with rainbow (cast cut). Signed: Benjn. Morgan, W. Fisher jur., B. Barnes. No. 19,234 -- [New Jersey, Mar. 25, 1776 issue] : three shillings (Burlington in New-Jersey : Printed by Isaac Collins, 1776). Printed on mica-flaked paper; watermark: "New Jersey." Ill. include leaf (nature print). Signed: Rob. Smith, Jona. Deare, John Smyth. No. 30151 -- [Rhode Island, July 2 (i.e. July 24), 1780 act] : seven dollars ([Philadelphia] : Printed by Hall and Sellers). "The United States ensure the payment of the within bill ... according to a resolution of Congress, of the 18th of March, 1780." Watermark: "Confederation." Ill. include ornaments engraved by Henry Dawkins. Signed: A. Comstock, M. Bowler, Jona. Arnold. No. 1199.

Call Number

Schlosser 648a

OCLC

NYPG91-F269

Title

[Early American paper money] [realia].

Imprint

1773-1780.

Added Author

Dawkins, Henry, -1786? Engraver

Collins, Isaac, 1746-1817. Printer

Hall & Sellers. Printer

Research Call Number

Schlosser 648a

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