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Lot #502
Charles Dickens

Signing a scarce handwritten check

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Signing a scarce handwritten check

Manuscript check, 7 x 3.75, filled out and signed by Dickens, payable to Messrs. Coutts and Company for £8.12.6, June 9, 1862. Part of Dickens’ last name is signed atop an affixed lavender one-penny revenue stamp. Matted and framed with an unsigned nineteenth-century portrait engraving to an overall size of 18.75 x 11. Mild wrinkling, pen cancellations touching writing, and bank stamp very slightly touching first name, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.

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