Consisting of banknotes and ephemera as follows: Extremely rare Hillsborough, NC, Academy 20¢ note, November 1, 1816 (2.75 in. x 4.25 in.)(split down center into halves); Greensboro (NC) Mutual 50¢ note (creases); (2) $5 Virginia Treasury Notes (Very Fine and Very Good); North Carolina 10¢ note, October 1, 1861(Good); North Carolina 10¢ note, January 1, 1863 (Good); (5) Confederate notes, 1863 and 1864, 50¢, $1, $2, $5, $10 (Fair to Fine); Receipt from "Standard Office, Raleigh," March 12, 1841, for "Printing 500 Tickets 'Van Buren & Equal Rights," with early locomotive vignette (Fine); Calling card reading "FOSTER'S SLAVE DEPOT, No. 157 Common Street, New Orleans. Keeps constantly on hand and for sale, Mechanics, Filed Hands, Cooks, Washers, Ironers, and General House Servants; also buys and sells slaves on commission" (light browning and chips to edges); Partially printed arrest warrant for C. G. Strayhorn, one page with verso docketing, oblong 8vo, Orange County, NC, April 27, 1861,signed by Justice of the Peace Lemuel Lynch (some loss on vertical fold).

4 x 8.5 in.

This grouping is fresh from an old plantation home in Person County, NC.

The New Orleans slave trader Thomas Foster, whose card is offered here, was a well-known Deep South importer of surplus slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas. His "depot" could accommodate 500 unfortunates awaiting sale.

Crazing and wear to the still pliable leather.

$200 - 400