Gas Light Company of Syracuse - Salt Springs National Bank, 1890s Sample Blank Check Historic Paper Ephemera, Syracuse, New York. Check has a Handsome Portrait of the Historic Round Gas Light Co. Brick Building

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This is a Handsome Late Victorian Era Antique Sample Check from Syracuse, New York for The Gas Light Company of Syracuse, drawn on the Salt Springs National Bank of Syracuse, N. Y. CIRCA 1890 - 95. What a handsome check! The old Gas Light Company building, a monumental round brick or stone structure, no longer stands. The Gas Light Company, which was organized in 1849, had two locations, both on streets that also no longer exist in Syracuse: Mechanic Street and Fulton Street. I do not know for sure, but think the building pictured was likely on Mechanic Street. A past president of the company was Mr. Elias Warren Leavenworth. Leavenworth had been President of the Village of Syracuse , 1838 - 1840, and 1846 - 1847; Mayor of the City of Syracuse, 1849 & 1859. He was on the board of many businesses, was a trustee of Syracuse University and Hamilton College and a member of the House of Representatives for New York State. A busy man. This sample check is a handsome historical item and one will likely be hard-pressed to find other specimens. Single engraved or lithographed blank check, green on beige paper, stamped "SAMPLES", measuring approximately 8 3/8" x 2 7/8" Printed circa 1890 - 1895 CONDITION - NEAR FINE - Just discernible is a bit of surface rumple, else clean and presentable. This is museum-quality ephemera. N° de ref. del artículo 291

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