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Lot 2344    Session 8 (2.30pm)    Documents

Estimate $80
Bid at live.noble.com.au

WORLD CHEQUES, Australia, Tooth & Co. Limited, Kent Brewery, Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Feb 1922, perforated paid; Tooth & Co. Limited, Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Feb 1922, perforated paid (both large forms with company horse logo), also includes an unused Meat Ration Coupon Change Docket; Canada, N.Smith Belting Works Limited, Imperial Bank of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 1943; Canadian Hospital Council, Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Ontario, 24 August 1951, perforated paid; Scotland, P.R.Jefferies, The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, Stornoway, 8 February 1957; another but Edinburgh branch, 29 January 1937; USA, The H.B.Smith Company, Hampden National Bank, Westfield, Massachusetts; Pleasant Valley Wine Company, Steuben County Bank, Hammondsport, N.Y., 30 January 1875; Atlantic Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance Co, First National Bank Provincetown, Massachusetts, 18 June 1878; State of New York, The Central National Bank of Rome, 5 February 1874; L.V.F.Randolph, American Exchange National Bank, New York, 3 July 1883; Seamen's Savings Bank, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 12 April 1884; Estate of Chas. M.Reed (see footnote), First National Bank of Erie (Pennsylvania), 25 April 1873. Fine - extremely fine. (14)

Charles Manning Reed was the grandson of the first settler of Erie, Pennsylvania. He qualified as a lawyer and was a Colonel of militia in 1831 rising to the rank of Brigadier General. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1837 and 1838 and was elected as a Whig to the twenty-eighth Congress. He died in 1871.