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Choice Uncut Sheet.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 140.00 USD
Choice Uncut Sheet.
Strikingly attractive uncut sheet of four partly printed 1789 Connecticut receipts, "Received of Oliver Wolcott, Comptroller of the Public Accounts...Lawful Money...being the the interest on State Notes...." Hartford, Apr. 11, 1789 - three days after the just-organized First Federal Congress began discussion of revenue for the new government. Overall 7 1/2 x 12 1/4. Each signed by P.J. Egleton, Comptroller's-Office. Consecutively numbered. Ornamental printer's border separating each. Wolcott is presumed the son, who led troops in New York in 1776; later in 1789 he ascended to auditor of the U.S. Treasury, soon succeeding Alexander Hamilton as the second Secretary of the Treasury. Fine toning at fore-edges, imparting an almost drop-shadow effect, and pristine. Elusive thus. (sheet of four)