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Mongo only pawn in game of life4/2/2023 I’ll leave some spoiler space below before I elaborate. See if you can guess what aspect(s) of the document made me purchase it, beyond the fact that pawn tickets from this period are rare. He caters to a very specialized clientele and his merchandise is priced accordingly nothing wrong with that in the least.Ĭandidly, even had it been priced at double or triple the asking price, I probably would have purchased it, as I believe there are a few interesting aspects to this pawn ticket even beyond normal scarcity of the type of document. I did a double-take… and then a triple-take… and promptly purchased it.įor one, I believe it was underpriced… which isn’t something I frequently get to say about Eric’s inventory. So last week I was browsing new inventory at Eric Jackson’s website and saw that he had listed a Civil War-era stamped pawn ticket. The paper color is highly unusual as well. In my opinion, it is the most aesthetically appealing of all of the pawn tickets reported to date, primarily because of the cancel. Prior to last week I had only seen one example in person, shown following, that I acquired from Denny Peoples almost exactly 2 years ago. Revenue Stamped Documents of the Civil War Era” is ephemeral, meaning “lasting for a very short time”. The word that Mike Mahler uses to describe them in his book “U.S. The pawnbroker had their own ledgers to track their end of the transaction the pawn ticket was only needed to regain the pawned items.Īlso, pawn tickets tended to be small in size, typically smaller than a quarter of a modern-day letter-sized sheet of paper. Stamped legal and financial transaction documents, on the other hand, were retained by court houses, financial institutions, or citizens for long-term reference or reconciliation. Once a pawn loan was repaid or the decision made to give up the pawned items, there was no longer a reason to keep a pawn ticket. Why is that? Well, simply put: nobody saved them… there was no reason to. Stamped pawn tickets from the Civil War era are extremely rare only a handful are known to exist.
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