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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 28, July 9, 2017, Article 13

1970 SOTHEBY SALES SOUGHT FOR CHASE PEDIGREE

Peter Huntoon is requesting assistance in some pedigree research. Can anyone help? -Editor

I am in need of copies of the auction lot descriptions for two lots from a 1970 Sotheby sale that were reported by currency census guru Martin Gengerke as the numismatic debut for two notes that were once owned by Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase. Specifically, Gengerke claims that both notes passed through the Sotheby sale, although the exact date and name of the sale was not detailed by him.

Figure 2. LT-1861-$10-1-A

One lot consisted of the very first $10 1861 Demand Note, serial number 1. The second, the very first $5 Original Series National Bank Note, Treasury serial 9, bank sheet serial 1, upon which Salmon P. Chase penned on the back "First National Bank Note Issued, S. P. C.."

There is ambiguity that the two notes did, in fact, even pass through a 1970 Sotheby sale.

I have turned over every rock available to me to locate this particular sale catalog, but with no success. Certainly some E-Sylum bibliophile will have 1970 Sotheby catalogs who can verify or disprove the claim.

Please contact both Wayne and me at peterhuntoon@outlook.com to share the lot descriptions for these most significant historic notes if they did indeed pass through the sale as claimed. Both notes grace private collections today, but the pedigrees for both are not adequately documented. I am trying to flange up those pedigrees.

Figure 4-face. DC-Washington-26-Orig-$5

Figure 4-back. DC-Washington-26-Orig-$5-back

These are two incredibly historic notes. Please help with this pedigree research if you can. -Editor
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