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Very Early Jay Cooke & Company Signed Check - Just 2 Months After The Legendary Financier Opened His

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Very Early Jay Cooke & Company Signed Check - Just 2 Months After The Legendary Financier Opened His
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JAY COOKE (1821-1905). ) Railroad magnate and Financier. Document Signed, “Jay Cooke & Co,” by Jay Cooke. One page, 8” x 3 ½”. March 15, 1861. Check drawn from the “Banking Office of Jay Cooke.” Payable to Tyler Stone & Company “in Bankable Funds” atop “Messrs. Riggs & Co.,” a large Banking firm. This is perhaps the earliest example found of Cooke signing a check on his newly formed banking company that was about to profit wildly from the Civil War. With cross punch cancellation not affecting signature on blue paper in mostly fine condition. A superlatively rare example of the magnate in his early years.