I am in need of copies of the auction lot descriptions for two lots from a 1970 Sotheby sale that were reported by currency census guru Martin Gengerke as the numismatic debut for two notes thatwere once owned by Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase. Specifically, Gengerke claims that both notes passed through the Sotheby sale, although the exact date and name of the sale was notdetailed by him.

One lot consisted of the very first $10 1861 Demand Note, serial number 1. The second, the very first $5 Original Series National Bank Note, Treasury serial 9, bank sheet serial 1, upon whichSalmon P. Chase penned on the back "First National Bank Note Issued, S. P. C.."

There is ambiguity that the two notes did, in fact, even pass through a 1970 Sotheby sale.

I have turned over every rock available to me to locate this particular sale catalog, but with no success. Certainly some E-Sylum bibliophile will have 1970 Sotheby catalogs who can verifyor disprove the claim.

Please contact both Wayne and me at peterhuntoon@outlook.com to share the lot descriptions for these most significant historic notes if they did indeed pass through the sale as claimed. Both notesgrace private collections today, but the pedigrees for both are not adequately documented. I am trying to flange up those pedigrees.