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Heath Pocket Counterfeit Detector with Folding $100 Boston Plate

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Heath Pocket Counterfeit Detector with Folding $100 Boston Plate
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Heath, Laban. HEATH'S GREATLY IMPROVED AND ENLARGED INFALLIBLE COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR, AT SIGHT… Boston, 1866 (Pat'd July 2, 1867 on cover). Second edition. 16mo, original blindstamped blue cloth, front cover vertically lettered in gilt. 39, (1) pages; (4) pages featuring four Heath microscope illustrations printed one per page; double-page plate of impressions of genuine and counterfeit fractional currency notes following the title; folding counterfeit $100 First National Bank of Boston note, in green and black, preceding introduction; 17 finely engraved numbered plates of bank note design elements, with original tissue guards, interspersed out of numerical sequence in the text, plates 2 and 5 serving as frontispieces, plate 5 printed in green ink, several plate numbers overprinted. Lacking rear blank flyleaf. General wear from use; a bit shaken; very good. Newman 2-P-s-4. Though used, a very nice copy with all of the plates including the popular counterfeit $100 First National Bank of Boston note that is often missing. (See rear cover.)