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Lot 150
Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$1,260
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Lot Description
[Presidential] Polk, James K. Signed Bill of Exchange
New Orleans, March 20, 1846. 4 x 7 13/16 in. (101 x 198 mm). Partially printed bill of exchange, from W.S. Pickett & Co., made payable to "His excellency James K. Polk", for $2,700, drawn on Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs of Washington City, and endorsed by Polk as president, on verso. Creasing from original folds; inlaid. Lot includes an engraved portrait of Polk, as well as one clipped biographical profile of him.