THE EPHEMERA OF BUSINESS

I purchased a ledger from an auction in January that included some specimen cloth labels for the UK. I think the printer was  Maclure & Macdonald lithographers of Glasgow Scotland  -lots of examples of this in the ledger. Here are the cloth labels. There is a great US resource for cloth labels online at the American Textile Museum .

Here are some goodies. 1841 promise to pay Philadelphia nice left side border graphic with partial shield. 18__ Tradesmen's Bank check of New York with nice graphics. 1859 billhead Stephen Brown & Sons stock and exchange brokers and auctioneers for Boston & Providence Railroad stock. This is the second billhead in my collection of a Boston stock broker. See the Joseph Henshaw billhead January 2009 blog