I didnt think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

[Mighty_Mouse]

I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

(This is a today find for me thats why i posted it here) This is something out of my dad's collection was going to post pics. of everything when i got done going through it but just had to share this bill with everyone. The bill's back then had so much going for them, just look whats printed on this one ( i know why they had to make em this big now lol) Hope everyone injoys the pics. HH

 

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[Africa]

Re: I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

I also have one in the 2nd photo also a one $

 

[NGE]

Re: I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

Because of the size of the OLD bills, wallets back then were carried in inside jacket pockets near yer chest area. Some people actually called them old bills..." HORSE BLANKETS "

 

[Nana40]

Re: I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

That is so neat, Mouse! Everything was so much more back in the day.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing~

Nana

 

[treasurefiend]

Re: I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

Nice, yep they were large bills!!!

 

[wizard]

Re: I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

Thats cool!

 

[ivan salis]

Re: I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

yep old GOLD STANDARD dollars when a buck was a buck~~~~(pre 1933)~~~~~ they were big jokers no doubt about it --still folks liked their silver dollars back them---lots of folks being burnt by "paper money" in the civil war did not like paper money they wanted "real" money --gold or silver-- many folks refused to take paper and insisted on silver / gold money in payment--- thus the term "legal tender for all debts public AND PRIVATE" were put on paper money -- forcing "real money" folks to accept them in "payment" for debts.

 

[Admiral de Salee]

Re: I didn't think they made wallets that big...( 1917 dollar bill )

Thanks for posting those pics. I didn't have a clear recollection of what the oversize dollars looked like.

I had a distant relative who was a Michelson (sp?), one of four or five sons of a Michigan 1880's lumber baron. On the occasion of his marriage, each son got a million dollars (this was in the early 1900's). When they changed the money to the smaller bills, he had a troop of relatives line up in the basement of his house. As with our MPC (Mil. Pay Certificates / 'play money') in 'Nam, you could only change over a certain amount of money. Mr. Michelson made each relative sign for a sum of $$ that he took out from behind some bricks in the basement. Don't know what each person got paid to change over their chunk.

I wish I had had some contact with that branch of the family.