Newton St. John
Mobile, AL
1872
$25.00
This is a slight variant of the cataloged variety of this check where “Newman” is lined out, but here the name change was made with a wavy line instead of several straight lines. Also, unlike the Castenholz listing, the color is decidedly gray, not purple.
Tiny vignette of a dog safeguarding the key to a lockbox. Small faults, cut cancel through imprint is all but invisible.