Bank check, 7 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Field, payable to his daughter, Miss Alice D. Field, for $50, February 11, 1878. In very good condition, with a few vertical folds (two passing through signature), some chipping to edges, toned tape remnant to upper left, and expected bank notations, cancellation cuts, and holes. As reported in the New York Times in 1892, Alice Field, heir to her parents’ fortune, was later declared insane after making such claims that she was abducted as an infant, was actually a member of the French royal family, and was destined to be beheaded. RR Auction COA.
