United States of America Authorized Bond Seller’s Financial Ephemera. Lot of Three (3) Items. Fine.Agents sold bonds during the Civil War and after officially on behalf of the United States. There are two Fisk and Hatch items. The first is a folded card "Telegraphic Key" with code phrase for bond selling abroad via telegraph and relevant phrases used to deal with those particular countries and bond denominations ("Choctaw" = $1,000,000). This code kept the transactions discrete; scarce 1881 reference "Memoranda Concerning Government Bonds," clothbound, small octavo, nearly square. With fold-out map. Fine; also Puffer & Co. Bankers proofed title block on thin card. All interesting and rare.
