Apr 29, 2004 - Sale 2004

Sale 2004 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BUSINESS.) MILLS, DARIUS OGDEN. Letter Signed, "D. O. Mills," to A. A. Low, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, letter of introduction for Leon Level who has invented a system to more quickly deploy rescue boats, relating the success of a recent trial which he witnessed and advocating its use on the Atlantic. 2 pages, two 4to sheets glued together along the left margin, Bank of California stationery; usual folds. San Francisco, 28 November 1865

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Letters by Mills (1825-1910) the American financier, philanthopist and founder of the Bank of California, are uncommon at auction.