American Bank $10
1830s-50s Proof. Durand 933, Haxby RI-240 G32
“Imprint of C. Toppan & Co. N. York & Philad. India paper mounted on original archive book card. Top center, early locomotive with stagecoach style car of passenger in the open; frivolity abounds. End panels, three dies, the center with female Liberty profile engraved by Perkins and seen on British Perkin’s Bacon notes and Liberia small change bills (citation, 1990 ABN Sale 2, Lot 1043, page 199 plate). One example sold in lot 1818 from the 1990 ABN sale.”
Ex Coll. Herb and Martha Schingoethe
Detail of the vignette.