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Parrott & Co. Banking House Second of Exchange, San Francisco, 1865

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Parrott & Co. Banking House Second of Exchange, San Francisco, 1865
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This item SOLD at 2018 Mar 26 @ 12:23UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Rare. Dateline San Francisco, April 12th, 1865. Issued to Wheeler Martin for $1,000 in gold coin. Signed Parrott & Co. $2.00 California State Tax Stamp and blue 2 cent IR stamp attached in left corners, both with tied cancels. To be drawn on Duncan, Sherman & Co., New York. Folds, soiling. 4 x 8.75" John Parrott built a 3 story brick and stone building in Gold Rush era San Francisco with Chinese workers. Adams & Co. moved into the building in 1852. Parrott started his own bank in 1855 in the Parrott Building; he opened this venture in the wake of a series of bank failures that occurred in San Francisco earlier in 1855 that wiped out Page, Bacon and Company and other leading banking houses of the time in the city. An advertisement for Parrott and Company's bank ran in the Daily Alta California on 10/20/1855. It read: "We have this day [09/10/1855] opened our Banking House for the transaction of business, and prepared to draw Exchange at Sight and time on Messrs. Howland & Aspinwall of New York; to purchase Exchange, Gold Dust, Bullion and Mint Certificates at current rates; ship Treasure for account, under our policies of insurance, and make liberal advances on Gold Dust sent to our charge for coinage or assay. We shall have our credits established at an early day on all the other principal Atlantic Cities, Europe and China, of which due notice will be given."(Potter Collection) Date: Location: San Francisco, California HWAC# 59189