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Auction: 19024 - World Banknotes
Lot: 2040

Jean-Baptiste Gérard, Engraver, ALS to the French Finance Ministry, 12 May 1792, concerning payment for Gérard's engraved 15 and 25 livres plates for which he asked 5,000 livres, contemporary annotation (13 May 1792) in a Ministry hand details that he ultimately accepted the 3,000 livres offer,
26.x19.8cm, very good condition, Annonay paper watermarked 1774, a fine letter from a crucial moment for French paper money

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Estimate
£400 to £500

Starting price
£280