United States: Autographs, Manuscripts, & Ephemera Glenn Curtiss, 1898 signed cheque, Farmers...

United States: Autographs, Manuscripts, & Ephemera
Glenn Curtiss, 1898 signed cheque,
Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Bath New York, cheque dated Sept 28 1898, signed G.H. Curtiss at lower right, typical filing folds, fine, an early Curtiss autograph, signed when he was only twenty years old, three years before he began manufacturing motorcycles, and six years before his Curtiss 9 HP-V twin motor engine would power the first successful dirigible in America, the California Arrow.