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Downieville,CA - Sierra County - Lamping Exchange Book :

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Banks, Registers & Vending Start Price:375.00 USD Estimated At:750.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Downieville,CA - Sierra County - Lamping Exchange Book :
Exchange book consisting of 23 uncut, unissued original and duplicate pairs (first's and second's) bound with brown, black, red marble paper boards and blue leather spine. 166 numbered and dated stubs issued July 12, 1864 to Nov. 17, 1868. Dates, names and values listed on all but one stub. "Value received and placed to account of MeSsr.s Lees & Walker" (New York). Britton &Co. Lith. San Francisco. Vignette of seated crowned woman with key at left of original and duplicate. Inner hinge tight but showing wear. P.A. Lamping & Co. ran a banking and gold dust business in Downieville, the central gold camp in Sierra County and also the county seat, in the 1860s (REF: Holabird). Little is documented on the banking in Sierra County during this time. This book shows a significant amount of banking business in the Downieville area during the mid to late 1860s which coincides with the mining boom from the same time period. Fine.