Found money in book

[Drew]

Fun stuff.

I see it's dated March 10, 1863. It says over the top:

"Twelve Months After a Definitive Treaty of Peace Between the Confederate States and the United States"

What was that about?

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

It's a cool find, regardless of original or repro!!......Finding it makes you appreciate how the previous owner embraced learning.....

 

[frankconrad]

I found a miniature Framing Square, That the Nichols MFG co made for a giveaway at the 1903 Worlds Fair. in St Louis. About 3/4x1 inch in a book.

 

[E_just_E]

Fun stuff.

I see it's dated March 10, 1863. It says over the top:

"Twelve Months After a Definitive Treaty of Peace Between the Confederate States and the United States"

What was that about?

That's the fun stuff. Here is an original bill, with the same wording (click to enlarge) :

You got to read the whole thing staring from the bottom left and ending on half way right:

Receivable for sales of public lands and for all public dues, twelve months after a definitive treaty of peace between the confederate states & the united states. Receivable for state parish and municipal taxes.

So: Unless there is peace and the CSA is recognized, this bill is good enough only to pay your Louisiana taxes

 

[kevikens]

That's the fun stuff. Here is an original bill, with the same wording (click to enlarge) :

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You got to read the whole thing staring from the bottom left and ending on half way right:

Receivable for sales of public lands and for all public dues, twelve months after a definitive treaty of peace between the confederate states & the united states. Receivable for state parish and municipal taxes.

So: Unless there is peace and the CSA is recognized, this bill is good enough only to pay your Louisiana taxes

Essentially Confederate currency consisted of promissory notes. If the Confederacy won its independence the bills would be redeemable for something of tangible value, land or specie. In the interim they could be used to pay taxes and buy goods from anyone willing to take them. Northern state banks suspended specie payment for their notes early in the war while the US issued Greenbacks were really another example of, promissory notes, again acceptable for paying taxes, buying land from the federal government or buying US bonds. Of course the big difference was that the North won and its Greenbacks were eventually retired (despite the screams of the Post War Greenback Party) and the owners paid off in specie.

 

[alan polk]

Well, I found this in one of our family's old homes when I was a kid and have just assumed it was real. But after reading some of the posts here, I'm wondering if I just have some old reproduction or fake that was sitting around for me to find.

Any help would be appreciated. It's on thin "old looking" paper. There is nothing on the back. Have I been hoarding a fake?

Thanks.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Well, I found this in one of our family's old homes when I was a kid and have just assumed it was real. But after reading some of the posts here, I'm wondering if I just have some old reproduction or fake that was sitting around for me to find.

Any help would be appreciated. It's on thin "old looking" paper. There is nothing on the back. Have I been hoarding a fake?

Thanks.

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That appears to be an authentic State of Mississippi note that was backed by funds derived from cotton that belonged to the state government.

 

[alan polk]

That appears to be an authentic State of Mississippi note that was backed by funds derived from cotton that belonged to the state government.

Whew!! Thanks!! Now I feel better!!

 

[FarawayFriend]

I once found a genuine $50 bill tucked in a copy of John Toland's biography of Adolf Hitler in a used bookstore!

Not bad! Maybe only a 50 Reichsmark bill in a copy of "Mein Kampf" would top that!

I've read hundreds of books, never found anything other than a dried up old flower pressed between the pages. I might have to ask myself if it's worth reading all those pages just for a dried up old flower.

Same here! Minus the flowers. Just plain nothing besides a shopping list from the Deutschmark era. But my preference for pre used books over brand new ones is relatively new. Maybe the best is yet to come...

 

[István.AT]

I once found a genuine $50 bill tucked in a copy of John Toland's biography of Adolf Hitler in a used bookstore!

I once lost the 5000 rubles bill (~= 133$ in those times). After some fruitless search I decided that I dropped it accidentally somewhere in store or on the station when paying for something.
What actually happened is that I placed it into the book that was intended to be a birthday present for a friend of mine. Since we lived really far from each other, I couldn't present it in person. And we decided that I'd drop it at our mutual acquaintance's place in Moscow and she will pick it up as soon as she gets there.
It took her almost a year.

So imagine my astonishment when a year after that I got a call:
- Hey, what's that 5000 bill doing in my present book? Are you plain crazy?!
That was a good laugh.

 

[kevikens]

Looks good. Notice the "2" in the 1862 date. The first digits, 186 are printed while the 2 is hand written as was the case for these notes. Same with the hand written signatures. Only the rarer pieces are counterfeited on the right paper, using a colored ink, hand signed and numbered. A three dollar note in May of 1862 was about a week's pay for a Confederate soldier in 1862.

 

[Gentizzy]

I seem to remember my Grandfather or uncle showing me one of those back in the 60s. Fake, most probably, but an interesting conversation piece.

I haven't found anything valuable from any used books bought. The most interesting and poignant was a little prayer book that belonged to a young Catholic girl in New Orleans. It had her name and address with a bit of writing by her on the front page. The inscription was dated in May, 1891.
In turning the pages, a piece of paper fell out. It was a newspaper clipping of her death in 1920. Gave me the chills. And a wish to be able to find out more about her.

 

[2/241]

is there a list of / site dedicatedto those "reprinted notes (regardles of States money, US$, CS$)?

 

[2/241]

I haven't found anything valuable from any used books bought.

a lot of cash and expensive postcards used as bookmarks

best thing was a book for 50 Pfennig (0,5 DEM), bookmark: 100 DEM I shake any book before I lay it on the "sell" pile

 

[donna]

I have found handwritten recipes in some old cook books. They are interesting and nice to have.

 

[2/241]

German cookbooks of age have blank pages for own notice or recipes (250 page cookbook -> 20-50 blank pages)
never saw one which hadn't blanks left

I also know a lady who writes in any cookbook how she had "improved the recipe" and how her husband hat "swallowed" it
both are a year older than my parents

 

[Waterloo50]

German cookbooks of age have blank pages for own notice or recipes (250 page cookbook -> 20-50 blank pages)
never saw one which hadn't blanks left

I also know a lady who writes in any cookbook how she had "improved the recipe" and how her husband hat "swallowed" it
both are a year older than my parents

Better not let Gordon Ramsey know about that, as far as he's concerned he's the best chef out there.

 

[donna]

I have seen notes too in cookbooks and recipes handwritten on the inside covers.

 

[Waterloo50]

I have seen notes too in cookbooks and recipes handwritten on the inside covers.

I guess that old American cook books used the same weights and measurements as you use today today, If I find an old cook book then I have to convert pounds and ounces to kilos and grams, we went from Imperial to metric years ago and I still can't get to grips with it. It the same measuring fluids, if the recipe says use a third of a pint of stock, I then have to convert that into 189mls because measuring jugs and weights are all in metric.. and don't even get me started on converting from miles to kilometres.

 

[James N.]

I guess that old American cook books used the same weights and measurements as you use today today, If I find an old cook book then I have to convert pounds and ounces to kilos and grams, we went from Imperial to metric years ago and I still can't get to grips with it. It the same measuring fluids, if the recipe says use a third of a pint of stock, I then have to convert that into 189mls because measuring jugs and weights are all in metric.. and don't even get me started on converting from miles to kilometres.

Some fools in the Government here "decided" that in a show of kinship and support for our European friends and a tentative nod to today's noisome Globalization that the U.S. would also convert to the metric system. This stupidity occurred after I had left my primary education so I now no longer remember exactly when it was, but after a very few years of total indifference by the general population it was allowed to quietly die the death it so richly deserved!