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Original Standard Oil Company financial draft/payment order dated January 28, 1881, issued from the company’s Cleveland headquarters during the height of the Rockefeller era.
This engraved corporate form represents an internal financial instrument used by Standard Oil to transfer funds between offices and accounts.
Documents like this illustrate the financial infrastructure of the Standard Oil empire just before the famous 1882 Trust formation, when the Cleveland office served as the administrative center of the company.
The piece features the large engraved “Office of the Standard Oil Company” script header that collectors seek.
• Location: Cleveland, Ohio
• Date: January 28, 1881
• Type: Corporate draft / payment order
• Amount: $83.00
• Printed wording: “Pay to our own order with current rate of exchange on New York”
• Signed on behalf of the company
• Reverse contains period endorsement signature
• Approximate size: long narrow draft format
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