Edison Botonic Research Corporation business check, 8.5 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Edison, payable to The Rubber Age for $2.00, stamp-dated August 8, 1929. Memo area indicates this is for a year’s magazine subscription. In very good to fine condition, with an unobtrusive central vertical fold, and cancellation holes and stamp over signature.
During World War I, Edison became concerned that the cost of rubber was going to drastically rise. In 1927, he and friends Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford contributed $25,000 each and created the Edison Botanic Research Corporation in an attempt to find a solution to the rubber crisis. In 1928, a laboratory was constructed in Fort Myers, Florida, and it was here that Edison performed the bulk of his research into the creation of latex and the vulcanization of rubber. However, the lab was never able to produce rubber from a plant on a large enough scale to deem it economically feasible or commercially successful, and the project became one of Edison’s few unsuccessful endeavors. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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