Hokiefan's Collection Of Arkansas Obsoletes, Scrip And National Bank Notes

Excellent group of notes Hokie!

I have a number of Arkansas obsoletes gradually showing up, but thought I'd go ahead and post this one I received today. It's a 25 cents note issued by James Patterson in Waldron, Arkansas. Waldron is a small town in western Arkansas which is the county seat of Scott County. Rothert lists 50 cents, $1 and $2 notes from this issuer, all the same design except for the denomination, but this 25 cents note is unlisted. The paper used for these notes is extremely thin and delicate, very similar to tissue paper.

I already own a 50 cent ungraded note from this issuer, Rothert 671-1, and when I received it one corner was folded over and tightly pressed but I managed to carefully get it unfolded without damaging it. This note, which I won on Stack's, had a lot of folds along the left edge. I spent over an hour tonight carefully working each of the little folds out. There are a few small wrinkles remaining, but I figured I'd pushed my luck far enough! Though it's still a very worn and stained example, I think it looks a bit better now. First image is my scan after I finished, the 2nd is the image from the Stack's website (the color on my image is more accurate).

Excellent addition.

Charter number 4066 was chartered on July 2, 1889 as The Camden National Bank. The title was changed to The First National Bank of Camden on Feb. 19, 1923, and the bank went into receivership on April 16, 1934.

Under the original title, the bank issued 1882 Brown Back notes and 1902 Date Back notes in denominations of $5, $50 and $100, as well as $5 denomination 1902 Plain Back notes.

Under the 2nd title 1902 Plain Back, 1929 Type1 and 1929 Type 2 notes were issued in only $5 denomination.

I already own a 1929 Type 1 $5 note for The FNB of Camden title, of which there are 17 listed in the NBN census. I was happy to recently acquire this 1929 Type 2 note, as there are only 5 of these in the census. Also, it's the highest graded by far - the next highest is a PMG VF25 example.

Signatures of cashier James Bartee and president Henry L. Berg.

wonderful notes Hoki!

Here are a few new additions to my Arkansas note collection. The first is a $100 treasury warrant from the city of Eureka Springs. This note is unlisted in Rothert.

Another unlisted note is this city of Pine Bluff 25 cents note. Rothert lists a number of notes issued by the city, but all those have the state seal as part of the design.

Finally, four different notes from M. Mayers & Bro. in Fort Smith. They operated a general mercantile business and drug store, and had a trading alliance with a number of other merchants. There are about 20 different notes listed in Rothert for this issuer; some have different designs and denominations, some are very similar except for a different number of redemption locations or partially hand-printed dates.
This first $1 note I found interesting due to the backwards "$" symbol.

Another $1 note.

The following two $2 notes are virtually identical except for a different number of redemption locations (even though both notes have the same date).

Thanks, jbuck!

Thank you, scopru!