Oct 29, 2009 - Sale 2192

Sale 2192 - Lot 15

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SIGNER CLYMER, GEORGE. Autograph Letter Signed, "GC," to his brother-in-law Samuel Meredith, transmitting two "notes" [banknote moulds? not present], thanking him for news of Harry and the family, and writing out the costs of "the usual indispensable banking articles" including banknote moulds from [Nathan] Sellers, watermarking letters, paper, and printing serivces. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on the first and third pages of a single folded sheet; address and docketing on verso of first page with some bleed-through, hole from seal tear affecting some text, short closed tears at edges and folds. Np, 29 December 1804

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Clymer (1739-1813), a merchant, was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the U.S. Constitution, as well as serving as a member of both the Continental Congress and the first U.S. Congress.