Nice surprise in a late 1800's book daughter found

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Meryl and I were at GW one day looking at books. She finds this really sweet looking book. The cover has pretty intricate embossing on it. Published in 1888 (1st impression because she revised it)..still hard to find this copy...
Did some research and found out that it was quite the book in it's day.
Anna Kingsford wrote it. She's pretty interesting..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kingsford

I was leafing through the book and found a hand written receipt.

It's a purchase order/receipt from Brown Brothers Co., Continental Nurseries in NY.
A business up here in Ishpeming, Mi purchased 875$ worth of stuff... in 1899...COD...
thought it was a sweet little find...

here are the pics...first one is the top half...

 

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bottom half...

i like how the date line on the top left hand side of the upper portion has 189_ printed.

 

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ORIGINAL: ironmountain
It's a purchase order/receipt from Brown Brothers Co., Continental Nurseries in NY.
A business up here in Ishpeming, Mi purchased 875$ worth of stuff...

$8.75 no? I imagine you could buy the trees and the land they grew on for $875 back then... []

 

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i was looking at the top $ amount and didn't see a . so figured it was a nursery/business buying them. especially if it ran 875 bucks...

I would agree... 8.75 is a bit more reasonable.