1856, Illinois. Bank check. Black. Vignette at top right of an allegorical child with dog and a safe. Vignette at left of a sailing ship. Payable to Wadsworth & Wells for $76.00. Cut cancelled with all paper intact. Fine.

1890, Pennsylvania. Bank check. Black. Vignette of ranchers herding cattle at top right and small vignette at left of a sailor, farmer with sickle and blacksmith. Payable to T. Mellon & Sons (banking house established in 1869) for $17.35. Stamp, hole punch and cut cancelled with all paper intact. 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.

Milwaukee, October 31, 1882. Black. Partly-printed check payable in the amount of $3.15. Vignette of a steam locomotive and steamship at left. Litho. Stamp cancelled at right. Light bank cut cancellation at center VF.

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.

Battle Creek, Michigan. Oct. 21, 1873. Partly-printed check payable in the amount of $125.00. Vignette of standing liberty at left. Litho. Pen cancellations on front. Couple of folds. Fine.

Buffalo, March 7, 1884. Green. Partly-printed check payable to American Express Co. in the amount of $297.82. Vignette of a steam locomotive at left. Litho. Stamp canceled. Small margin tear at bottom. Fine.

May 11, 1872. Partly-printed check drawn on the account of the Chicago Union Stock Yard Station. Payable to the Union Stock Yards & Transit Company in the amount of $802.24. Attached two cent adhesive revenue at upper right. Vignette of a female figure at left. Folds. Litho. Fine.

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.

1845, New York. Draft payable to “Jas. Iglehart or order $535.19 and charge to the account of this Department. Vignette of an early horse and rider at top center. Litho. Nice early Post Office Department draft. Very Fine.

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.

1881, Nevada. Mineshaft at left, miners at work at left top right vignette of a locomotive traveling through the countryside. Stamp and cut cancelled and Measuring 10 ½” x 5 ½”. Very Fine.

1851 Pennsylvania. Certificate from the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania. Multi vignetted certificate of a teacher and student at left, children playing in an old school yard at top center, and a statue of George Washington with the State seal at top right and left. Measuring 8 ¼” x 4” Very Fine.

1861, Pennsylvania. Measuring 8 ½” x 4” Multi vignetted check top left vignette of a male teacher and child right side vignette of State Seal with an Indian family and a woman sitting with children a book and a globe with bottom left vignette of Lady Liberty. Pay to William Satimer Treasurer –Common School District in the County of Bradford or to his order Seventy Six Dollars being the portion of State Appropriation due said district for the School year Eighteen hundred and Sixty one to be accounted for according to Law. Measuring 8 ½” x 4”. Very Fine.

Baltimore, 18--. Uncut sheet of three remainders of a printed check for D. Tanners Stereograph, Philadelphia account. Litho. Excellent.

Omaha, Nebraska. July 6, 1872. Partly-printed check payable for $1,00l.05 for the may balance due to the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway. Vignette of a steam locomotive at left. Attached adhesive revenue at upper right. Litho. 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