Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Partial check, 2.5 x 1.5, filled out and signed by Adams, “J. Q. Adams,” for $500.00, April 3, 1833. Check portion is affixed to a 5 x 4 off-white sheet. In very good condition, with trimmed edges and diagonal top left corner, paper loss to center, and scattered toning and soiling. On April 3, 1833 John Quincy Adams wrote a check to a John A. Smith for $500. According to his diaries, on April 2, John Quincy Adams ‘received an order from John A. Smith for the payment of 500 dollars of the bequest from my father to him-which I accepted.’ The following day Adams records how he walked ‘to the U.S. Branch Bank where my son had paid the draft of J. A. Smith for 500 dollars; and where I took my Bank Book that the entry might be made both to my debt and credit for a record of the transaction.’ Partially printed examples of early presidents are significantly rarer than their manuscript counterparts, with this check made even more desirable by being mentioned in his personal diary.
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