Letter from G. H. Thompson to Benheim Bros. & Co. in Savannah, Georgia, dated October 6, 1884. The letter, contained within an envelope with advertising for Benheim Bros. & Co. as "Sole Agents for Lorillard & Co.", concerns a sight draft. The invoice for the sight draft is enclosed within the letter.
Subject: Sight Drafts
No additional authority information available for Sight Drafts.
Printed sight draft check drawn on September 23, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The check is signed by Joseph Abrams and involves the firms Nesbit, Sellers & Co. and James, Kent, Santes & Co.
Sight draft check issued by Heidelbach, Bauer & Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, to L. M. Rosenthal on November 18, 1867. The check is drawn on a bank in Berlin, Germany, a branch of Espy, Heidelbach & Co. The check is written in both German and English.
Sight draft for $2800 issued by Mordecai & Co. to Tobias Hendrick & Co. of New York City on August 19, 1859. Tobias Hendrick & Co. was a well-known copper firm. The draft is graphically striking. Additional historical notes from an unknown source claim that Mordecai paid to have Confederates killed at Gettysburg and brought them back south on his ship in 1870.
Sight draft check for $100 issued by Stein Brothers in Baltimore, Maryland on December 16, 1889. The check was payable to Fock and charged to the account of Jacob Isaac Weiller Sohne in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.