1861 $1 The Red River Packet Company note from New Orleans, Louisiana.
This attractive Civil War era scrip features a Vignette of steamboats passing a cotton field above the title with a large "ONE" protector in green below. The Vignette is signed "CHILDS". John V. Childs was a New Orleans engraver and printer who also worked on Arkansas Treasury notes and provisional stamps for the New Orleans Post Office shortly after the war.
This note grades Fine with a hole on the left from ink burn on the reverse.
It measures ~ 6.5" x 3".
1861 $1 The Red River Packet Company note from New Orleans, Louisiana.
This attractive Civil War era scrip features a Vignette of steamboats passing a cotton field above the title with a large "ONE" protector in green below. The Vignette is signed "CHILDS". John V. Childs was a New Orleans engraver and printer who also worked on Arkansas Treasury notes and provisional stamps for the New Orleans Post Office shortly after the war.
This note grades Fine with a hole on the left from ink burn on the reverse.
It measures ~ 6.5" x 3".
