The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 5, February 3, 2002, Article 6

AMERICAN BANK NOTE DOCUMENTS SURFACE

  Wendell Wolka writes: "A (very) belated report on a neat
  purchase in a recent auction.  One of the lots caught my eye
  because it contained "documents" from the American Bank
  Note Company.  Since I couldn't attend the auction in person,
  I had a friend bid for me with orders to "keep the paddle up
  until we were the only ones left standing."  For the documents
  were, in fact, the American Bank Note Company's original
  printing contracts with the State Bank of Ohio for 1851, 1856
  (Draper, Welsh & Co.) and 1861 (American Bank Note
  Company) along with the file envelope.  The only other copy
  known to me is the bank's copy of the 1861 document, safely
  stored in the state archives.  Before the appearance of this
  auction material, no surviving copy of either the 1851 or 1856
  contract was known to have survived.

  The details of the 1861 contract were researched with a
  resulting article written for Paper Money, the official Journal
  of the Society of Paper Money Collectors.  The 1851 and
  1856 contracts will be similarly researched and written up
  in future issues of the Journal."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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