Lot 3466

Description

Thomas Edison signature, in ink on cheque number 323 of Savings Investment & Trust Company of East Orange, for Edison Botonic Research Corporation, West Orange, N.J., dated Feb 10 1928 (date stamped) for $3.00 payable to Eastman Kodak Co., written in a separate hand and signed by Thos Edison as President and J. Miller as Treasurer, and with bank stamp, on back is a Pay to Order bank stamp, punch hole cancelled 'PAID/+2 17 28/55-158'. Crisp, bisecting vertical fold, a couple of diagonal creases slightly affecting signature, otherwise fine.

With certificate of authenticity of RR Auction.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. He was such a prolific inventor that he held 1,093 patents in his name.