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Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’

Adalbert Volck

Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’

After 1860

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Adalbert Volck

Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’

After 1860

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (wove): 284 × 350 mm. (11 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.) Sheet (chine): 155 × 204 mm. (6 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.) Image: 136 × 179 mm. (5 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number 1950.181.54
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 68, ill. p. [69]. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 507, ill. p. 506. The Baltimore Sun, March 31, 1912, ill. Part 4 p. 2.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): '25 Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the 'City of Brotherly Love'.'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.

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Adalbert Volck

American, born Germany, 1828-1912

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