Partly-printed manuscript bank check, No. 2941, drawn on the Bank of the Metropolis, 17 Union Square, New York, and dated New York, Aug. 31, 1886. Made payable to the order of Bradley & Co. in the sum of $391.50 ("Three Hundred Ninety-one 50/100 Dollars"), the check is boldly signed at lower right by Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles (1819-1914), the controversial Union corps commander who lost a leg at Gettysburg and later chaired the New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefield of Gettysburg, a post to which he was appointed in 1886 — the same year this check was written, placing it squarely within that active chapter of his postwar life as he worked to place New York's regimental monuments on the field.

The bank's printed address, 17 Union Square, corresponds to the Bank of the Metropolis's second home, occupied from 1877 until its 1888 move to 29 Union Square — consistent with the 1886 manuscript date. The check stub bears the printer's imprint of Stewart, Warren & Co., 470 Broadway, N.Y.

CONDITION: Expected fold lines from a checkbook stub; a cancellation hole punched near the check number; light toning and a small area of paper loss/separation near center with an old repair; a small piece of archival tape or mounting remnant at the lower right corner. Sound and fully legible overall.

Size: approximately 6.25 x 2 inches.  [ss][ph:L]

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