Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Invoice for engraving Connecticut's Continental currency. Document Signed, 5 x 8 1/4 inches, receipted and docketed on verso, signed by John Hallam, Benjamin Payne, and Jesse Root (later a member of the Continental Congress); minor wear. (MRS) Np, May 1775
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The currency issued by Connecticut during the war was elaborately engraved, including an escutcheon reading "Connecticensis sigillum coloniae." This is apparently the engraver's bill, submitted to the colony by silversmith John Hallam of New London, for "cutting 2 new escutcheons & repairing the rest of the money decorations," for a total of £3. On verso, it is ordered to be paid on 3 August, and then signed for by Hallam.