拍品描述： The American Colonization Society, [at] Monrovia, [Liberia]. Three Dollars. Uncirculated.Plate A. Printed on India paper, mounted on original archive page sheet. Imprint of Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Hufty, Philad./Danforth, Underwood & Co., N. York. Top center, flanked by George Washington and Henry Clay portraits, The Presentation of the Declaration of Independence. Left end, sailor standing in oval "Lord Byron." Right end, boy with rake. Bottom center, small coconut palm tree. "Payable at their Store in Monrovia." Haxby-Not listed. Pick S103 (under Liberia, specialized volume). Type of Roper, 2nd Sale: Lot 251 (Pick Plate Note). Rarity-7. As a Proof, we believe this a unique example from the UBSH archive book from the American Banknote Company. The second we have catalogued (the first being the Roper issued note which brought $632.50 in 1984) and the only proof observed by us. Once part of four subject, nearly complete sheet. Those four denominations, aligned on an interesting style copper plate, fetched $3,520 at the November 28-29, 1990 sale. This very rare issuer engraved and printed these notes from the United States for use at the newly formed Republic of Liberia, capitol Monrovia. The imagery is quite iconic on this very historic note. Interestingly, the founding fathers depicted on the central vignette were laden with slave owners including Thomas Jefferson. Social equality and moral equality were different matters. This society, which was founded in 1816 at the Davis Hotel in D.C., was not about abolition and anti-slavery or about integrating freed blacks into America. Instead, the idea was that Monrovia was to be a place to "expel" the freed black population to avoid social integration, risk of slave rebellion assistance, and competition with white labor. Prominent Quakers, who were among many of the founders, benevolently believed that this repatriation would be better for these newly freed blacks, socially and economically. Among the societys founders was Henry Clay (pictured on the note) of Kentucky, who held an extreme view regarding the integration of freed blacks into American culture and the risks it would pose to the white populace and economy. The society sold memberships and even received $100,000 of funds from Congress. This extremely well engraved proof comes from an exceedingly rare series of notes with few survivors properly filled in and actually used in Liberia.