J.H. Moose
Corporal
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2021
- Location
- Salisbury, North Carolina
Picked up this wallet at the Richmond Show recently. For what it is, I felt it was a bargain.
According to the seller, the wallet was originally found in an estate with around $300 in confederate final-issue notes inside, a majority of which has been sold off individually. Also included are two slips of paper, one used for calculations and the other seems to be a crude identification tag, reading "I am David J. Tucker, this is my pocketbook"
On the inside of the "pocketbook" itself is the inscription of D.J. Tucker's name, as well as a few other calculations jotted down
What I found odd is on the slip of paper and the inside of the wallet itself, the inscriptions are dated to June of 1825, quite a few years before anyone was putting Confederate money in their wallets. I'm assuming that this means D.J. Tucker was likely an older gentleman by the time of the war, in his mid 50s at least. Naturally I've been trying to track down any information I can about Mr Tucker, more than likely he was not a soldier due to his age but I think it would be interesting to know what his background was, or his profession. I tried scouring the 1860s census for any "D.J. Tuckers" or "David Tuckers" that fit the age. Yet due to the lack of any real information about this man, not even knowing what state he may have lived in, I wasn't able to find anyone that fit his exact age or name. I'm content with the fact that I'll probably never know anything more about this man, but if any of you internet sleuths could find something I haven't been able to I would be very grateful!
According to the seller, the wallet was originally found in an estate with around $300 in confederate final-issue notes inside, a majority of which has been sold off individually. Also included are two slips of paper, one used for calculations and the other seems to be a crude identification tag, reading "I am David J. Tucker, this is my pocketbook"
On the inside of the "pocketbook" itself is the inscription of D.J. Tucker's name, as well as a few other calculations jotted down
What I found odd is on the slip of paper and the inside of the wallet itself, the inscriptions are dated to June of 1825, quite a few years before anyone was putting Confederate money in their wallets. I'm assuming that this means D.J. Tucker was likely an older gentleman by the time of the war, in his mid 50s at least. Naturally I've been trying to track down any information I can about Mr Tucker, more than likely he was not a soldier due to his age but I think it would be interesting to know what his background was, or his profession. I tried scouring the 1860s census for any "D.J. Tuckers" or "David Tuckers" that fit the age. Yet due to the lack of any real information about this man, not even knowing what state he may have lived in, I wasn't able to find anyone that fit his exact age or name. I'm content with the fact that I'll probably never know anything more about this man, but if any of you internet sleuths could find something I haven't been able to I would be very grateful!
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