Westport

         

Bell & Sanford      Fairfield County Bank
Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Hufty N. York & Philda.
$2.00 handwritten 18 woman standing lft. , rt. black (R)

 

 

 

F. J. Betts      Fairfield County Bank
Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Hufty N. York & Philda.
$3.00 handwritten 18 view of Westport River ctr. Ships lft. & rt. (R)

 

 

 

E. J. Jesup      Fairfield County Bank
Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Hufty N. York & Philda.
$2.00 handwritten 18 woman standing lft. , rt. black (R)

 

 

 

Lipton & Barnes      Fairfield County Bank
Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Hufty N. York & Philda.
$2.00 handwritten 18 woman standing lft. , rt. black (R)

 

 

 

Morgan, Ketchum & Son      Fairfield County Bank
Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Hufty N. York & Philda.
$5.00 handwritten 18 (R)
sheet $1.00 , $2.00 , $3.00 , $5.00.

All 5 Westport issuers could have used these designs. (R)
However, only the issued denominations listed above have been confirmed.

 

Windham

 

 

Windham Turnpike Road
1¢ undated black (R)
3c undated black (R)
4c undated black (R)
5¢ undated black (R)
12 & 1/2c undated black (R)
17¢ undated black (R)
25c undated black (R)
sheet 5¢ , 25¢ , 17¢ , 12 ½¢ , 1¢ , 4¢ , 3¢ , 1¢ (R)

 

 

Winsted

 

Clifton Mills Co.      Hurlbut Bank
10¢ printed Oct. 15, 1862 red (R)

 

 

Wolcottville

 

Alvord & Brother
Dealers in Boots & Shoes
Denomination ? undated 3 vignettes lft. , rt. , ctr. color ? (R)

 

Woodbury

Beardsley & Peck

25¢ same Dec. 6, 1862 man holding sheath of grain lft. black on yellow paper (R)

 

 

 

5¢ handwritten Dec. 12, 1862 black (R)

 

Woodville

 

 

F. Chittenden      Bridgeport Bank

3¢ printed Nov. 26, 1862 woman ctr. black (R)

5¢ same (R)

25¢ same(R)

 

3¢ printed Nov. 26, 1862 woman in oval ctr. black (S)

5¢ same black(S)

10¢ same black w/ red 10(R)

 

F. Chittenden Phoenix Branch Bank

3¢ printed Nov. 26, 1862 man standing ctr black & bank name in red (R)

10¢ same unissued w/o bank name in red (R)

 

 

Sutler Issues

Sutler

 

 

1^St Conn. Heavy Artillery      A. H. Daniels sutler

W. H. Moore, Print.

paymaster order handwritten 186 unissued black paper (S)

 

 

 

4th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers      E. Bliss Jr. sutler

Cutter, Tower & Co. Stationers 7 Beekman St. N.Y.

paymaster order handwritten Dec. 3^rd , 1861 $2.00 handwrittenblack, on paper(R) 

 

 

6^th Regiment Conn. Volunteers overprint      Samual A. Cooley Sutler

10 undated Redeemable in goods only. Until next pay dayblack on green cardboard overprint red (R)

 

 

6^th Reg’t. Conn. Vols.      E. D. Cardner sutler

10¢ undated good for 10 cts in goods back 10 black on yellow cardboard (R)

 

 

8^th Regiment Infantry C V      Geo. H. Moore sutler

paymaster order handwritten Dec. 17, 1861 $2.00 handwritten black paper (R)  

 

 

This listing is most likely not complete but should represent the greater amount of issues available.  A sincere effort has been made to canvass the known specialists of this collecting field representing well over 200 years of collecting. As a service to collectors a complete and periodically updated listing may be downloaded at no cost from the website of the Mansfield Numismatic Society, www.MansfieldNumismaticSociety.org. Collectors locating examples of Connecticut Merchant Scrip not yet listed are encouraged to contact the authors for future inclusion.  To contact either of the authors please e-mail to: oldmoneyinfo@yahoo.com or mail to C. John Ferreri  P.O. Box 33  Storrs, CT 06268.
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors would like to acknowledge the following collectors for their unselfish help in supplying copies or descriptions of scrip notes in their possession.  Thanks go to: Richard Ulbrich, Joseph Nye, Robert Galiette, James Ference and Bruce Hagen for supplying information and / or images of many notes not previously encountered by the cataloguers, and to the Connecticut Historical Society for access to its archives.  Also, to the Mansfield Numismatic Society for allowing space on it’s web page for this listing.   It is appreciated that Mr. Fred Reed, Editor of Paper Money Magazine and the Society of Paper Money Collectors gave us some guidance and provided a platform with which to launch this endeavor.

 

 

REFERENCES

Obsolete Bank Notes, 1782-1866, James A. Haxby.  Krause Publications, 1988.

Early Michigan Scrip, Harold L. Bowen.  Privately printed, (1950’s?)

New York State Scrip and Private Issues,   Gordon Harris, 2001. Privately printed.
Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Merchant Scrip,  Kevin Lafond….Privately printed….(100 well illustrated pages of a lecture given before the Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society..May 23rd, 2006).

Massachusetts Scrip,  John A. Muscalus, 1974.   Historical Paper Money Research Institute.  A 35 page illustrated monograph.

Sutler Paper Money, Kenneth Keller.  Rockford, 1994.  World Exonumia Press.
Richard Hartzog,  www.exonumia.com.

History And Catalogue of Minnesota Bank Notes And Scrip, R. Shawn Hewitt.              R. M. Smythe & Co., Inc., 2006.

The Early Paper Money of America, Fourth Edition.  Eric P. Newman,  Krause Publications, 1997.

The Numismatist,  December,1937.  Cardboard Money Of The Civil War.  C. Albert Jacob, Jr.

The Numismatist,  September, 1940.  Necessity Paper Money Issued in the U.S.,  D.C. Wismer  Hatfield, PA.

Various auction catalogues,  R.M. Smythe, NYC and Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, TX.

Various auction catalogues and scanned images,  Stack’s, NYC.