Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1632

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7 October 2004

Hammer Price:
£45

United States of America, Ingraham, private scrip for Five Dollars, Providence, 1856, no.430, promising to repay One Hundred Dollars once the proceeds of an estate in Leeds, England are realised. Very fine (£40-50)

The ‘Great Ingraham Estate’ the alleged heir to which was Gilbert R. Gladding, was said to be worth ‘from Six to Ten Millions of Dollars’