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Title: Facsimile of 1850's bank note Accession Number: 1999.128.1 Category: CURRENCY - PAPER MONEY Type: bank note Maker: DOTY & BERGEN Place: USA, NY, New York Date: Circa 1890 Materials: paper Description: Bank note; facsimile of an obsolete bank note with excellent engraving work, nice vignettes, and printed on the same, thin paper as the notes of the 1850s; J.T. Johnson ship broker & commission merchant; $100 bill; bill has engraving of Mercury seated on a beach with a man pointing to a schooner in the background; note reads from to bottom "J. T. JOHNSON/ INSURANCE/ EFFECTED/ ON/ VESSELS/ &/ CARGOES/ Ship Broker & Commission Merchant/ No. 34 BURLING SLIP, NEW YORK./ Vessels Freighted, Chartered, Bought or Sold"; signed on bottom by Johnson and another person (illegible); "DOTY & BERGEN 122 WILLIAM ST. N.Y." |
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