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Partially printed, filled out in ink, with vignette of a steamship. 4¼x8½.

Attractive little exchange note used for transferring funds from the California gold fields back east, usually to relatives. The present example is for $300, to be paid to John Perry, Esq., by a Boston bank. It is tipped to a sheet of notepaper, to which a label is affixed on which is typed “This Exchange for $300.00 came from his son John Perry who went to Calif., to live. He died there in 1907.”