5000-Dollars, "Act of 28 January, 1847, Sixty days", Toppan Carpenter and Co. and American Bank Note Co. (KL P52, this piece illustrated; Hessler --; Loans p. 144, X113, this piece illustrated), red and black face Proof on india paper mounted on card, punch cancelled on signature lines, top left hand corner slightly untidy "47" written in pencil, overall remarkably fresh and attractive and extremely rare, one of the extraordinary group of antebellum Federal Proofs for the collection of Alexandre Vattemare and quite probably created at his instigation around the time of the outbreak of Civil War, probably unique

Details
5000-Dollars, "Act of 28 January, 1847, Sixty days", Toppan Carpenter and Co. and American Bank Note Co. (KL P52, this piece illustrated; Hessler --; Loans p. 144, X113, this piece illustrated), red and black face Proof on india paper mounted on card, punch cancelled on signature lines, top left hand corner slightly untidy "47" written in pencil, overall remarkably fresh and attractive and extremely rare, one of the extraordinary group of antebellum Federal Proofs for the collection of Alexandre Vattemare and quite probably created at his instigation around the time of the outbreak of Civil War, probably unique
Provenance
Alexandre Vattemare Collection, Christie's New York, 4/1-2/82, lot 690