Original Bechtel Album for Confederate Notes with Many Rarities
There are rare moments in collecting when treasures that you have only heard of or read about miraculously appear, offering the opportunity to own a true piece of numismatic history. This offering isone of those opportunities. Tonight we are pleased to offer an original C.H. Bechtel Confederate Currency album which contains most of the great rarities of the Confederate series in generallyexcellent condition.

The Album - C.H. Bechtel was a New York City coin dealer with two claims to fame from a paper money perspective. In 1879 he held a sale of the Confederate Paper Money collection of J.E.Barratt which included, among other things, all four Montgomery notes. Bechtel also created an album to house Confederate notes. As J. Wayne Hilton, widely respected Confederate collector andresearcher, relates in his book, Collecting Confederate Currency: Hobby and Investment:

The album is in excellent condition, with just the slightest rubbing at the corners of the covers and binding. It is solidly bound and tight without any loose pages or other problems. The albumbegins with an introduction page and a four page index of Confederate type notes, as Bechtel identified them, that could be accommodated in the album. This is followed by ninety pages of Confederatetype notes that have been affixed to the pages, mostly with stamp hinges. The album concludes with five pages that the owner used for Republic of Texas notes (one note has been removed) and two pagesthat were used for Colonial Bank of Canada obsolete notes.

To read the complete lot description, see:
Original Bechtel Album for Confederate Notes with ManyRarities. (https://currency.ha.com/itm/confederate-notes/original-bechtel-album-for-confederate-notes-with-many-rarities/a/3551-20471.s)

To read the some related earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
THIAN MASTER CONFEDERATE CURRENCY ALBUM OFFERED (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n38a15.html)
SECOND THIAN MASTER CONFEDERATE CURRENCY ALBUM (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n43a12.html)
KOLBE & FANNING OFFER THIAN CONFEDERATE CURRENCY ALBUM (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n50a02.html)