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NV - Nevada Checks Collection - Gil Schmidtmann Collection

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NV - Nevada Checks Collection - Gil Schmidtmann Collection
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
58 unissued checks from various Nevada banks. Some of the best of the group are: 1: Austin Manhattan Consolidated Mining Company, Bank of Austin, Nos. 2329/2330; mining vignette. 2: Bullfrog Ban and Trust Company, Beatty; 8 green, 2 pink. 3: Churchill County Bank, Fallon, with Wingfield logo. 4: John S. Cook & Co., Bankers, Goldfield; checks 1161/1162/1163. 5: Con-Virginia Mining Company, agency of the Bank of California, Virginia City, two checks. 6: Day Silver Mining Co., Royal City; check nos. 1710/1711/1737/1737/1738; artistic vignette on left side, all charged to the account of J.W. PEW in San Francisco

#7: First National Bank of Nevada: Tonopah: two varieties: Manhattan Consolidated Mines Development; 3 checks 964-6; First National Bank of Nevada: 3 green, three gold; not numbered. 8: First National Bank of Goldfield, three checks not numbered; no vignettes. 9: Goldfield Consolidated Mine Co. payable through Crocker National Bank; check no. 1861 with attached distribution sheet. 10: Highland-Pioche Mines and Smelting Company payable through Lincoln County Bank, Caliente; four checks 253-256; labeled “time check” on left side. 11: Nye and Ormsby County Bank, Manhattan; two varieties: Type 1: 8.25”x3.5” 2 checks on cream paper with black ink, stamped “customers draft” on face; Type 2: 7.75”x 2.75” 6 checks with serrated edges; cream paper with brown ink. 12 Savage Mine, Virginia City; original and duplicate on cream paper with black ink. 13: Tonopah Banking Corporation, Tonopah; aqua paper with mountain scene; three checks serrated on three sides; not numbered.