biografia di AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. (XIX)

Addresses: NYC and Philadelphia

Profession: Banknote engravers

Comments: Organized in 1858 and still in existence in 1997 (in NYC and Horsham, PA). Although the name was sometimes used by Jocelyn, Draper, Welsh & Co. from 1854 to 1858, the larger company was formed in 1858 at New York by a merger of the leading bank note firms of the east, viz.: Toppan, Carpenter & Co.; Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson; Danforth, Perkins & Co.; Jocelyn, Draper, Welsh & Co.; Wellstood, Hay & Whiting; Bald, Cousland & Co.; and John E. Gavitt of Albany (see entries on each firm).

Sources: G&W; NYCD 1854-60; Phila. CD 1858-60; Toppan, A Hundred Years of Bank Note Engraving.