 VIRGINIA. H. Prince, Sutler, Staunton Hospital. 25 Cents in Trade. Printed in black on green cardboard. 45mm by 25mm. Simple two line frame, the inside darker than the outside. At the top, '25 Cents'. In the centers, 'IN TRADE.' Sutler printed below and at lower right 'Staunton Hospital'. One of the most charming Sutler chits in the Ford Collection and from the Boyd Collection. This is an important medical topical note and one of the few hospital issued scrip notes of any kind we know of. It might rank with the ''Deaf and Dumb Institute'' imprint seen on the extremely rare North Carolina State Criswell 23 note
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Estate.
The Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton became a Confederate Hospital thorough June, 1864. The town itself became a rail and commissary center for the CSA as well.
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