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by these Presents ... partly-printed Pennsylvania General Loan Office obligation and warrant, issued to Jacob Ber in the amount of £100 by Franklin Imprint

$6,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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2pp. on folded bifolium. Accomplished in manuscript, the warrant signed by Ber with his black wax seal and witnessed by C. Brockden and Samuel Gifford. Small folio. Old folds, repairs to separations. cf. Miller 10. Barnhill, “Benjamin Franklin’s Job Printing,” The Ephemera Journal, 8 1998 , pp. 10-15. Item #378077 An early Pennsylvania Loan Office obligation certificate and warrant, attributed to Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia press.

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