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Note Description: $5 1902 Red Seal National Bank Notes
Grade: AU 53
Country: US
Note Number: 587
Seal Type: Red
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 Lyons
Roberts
Certification #: 5012810-002  
Owner: ddr70
Sets Competing: ddr70s 1902 Type PA #1  Score: 1811
ddr70's Large NBN Type Set  Score: 1811
ddr70s $5 Lg Type Set  Score: 1811
Date Added: 1/11/2019
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

Catawissa, PA The Catawissa NB Ch. # (E)7448 $5 1902 RS Fr. 587R PMG 53 SN 1/B144561 pp D/16 dtd. Apr. 30, 1904. Assistant Cashier Nelle P. Vastine and Vice President C. P. Pfahler signed on this SN 1 Red Seal that also happens to be a pre-star replacement note. The only serial number 1 Red Seal reported from this Columbia County bank. This lightly circulated note features nice embossing and beautiful penned signatures. C.S.W. Fox was cashier (1905-1922) while C.J. Fisher was president (1905-1935). N.P. Vastine briefly appears as cashier in the CoC report for 1923. W.M. Vastine was cashier at Catawissa's FNB.

The area around Catawissa was originally owned by William Henry in 1769. Catawissa was laid out in 1787 and at the time was referred to as "Hughesburg" or "Catawissey". The town is on the southeast side of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River about 5 miles south of Bloomsburg. The Catawissa Deposit Bank was incorporated in 1871. The First National Bank (4548) was chartered in 1891 and the Catawissa NB charted in 1904 in time to issue this $5 Red Seal.

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