San Francisco, CA
1873
$135.00
Unlisted in Castenholz, which lists very few Type C imprints on California checks
Violet on pink paper. Black manuscript crosses out “The Bank of California” and inserts H.D. Bacon Treasurer Cal. Steam Plow Co.
Marvelous vignette of an allegorical female figure. Notation below the amount line reads “$500 on shop cost and 175.00 in advances to O.H. Housecom [?]