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Auction: 349 - US & World Banknotes e-Auction
Lot: 470

New York. Jay Cooke Check Pair. Sterling Iron & Railway Company. Promise to pay Jay Cooke $1800, NY Nov. 19, 1871. Autograph signature of Jay Cooke on back; and Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers check for $25,000, Oct. 12, 1868, ABNC with secretarial signature for Jay Cooke. Acknowledged as the first major investment banker in the United States and creator of the first wire house firm, Jay Cooke helped finance the Union war effort in the Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwest. First with small piece out of top blank margin, light stain, second bottom left corner missing; both with punch cancels. VF. [2]

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