Important handwritten bank ledger dedicated to banking operations and commercial credit. The first pages contain detailed instructions regarding warrants, surety bonds, guarantees, protests, requisitions, and associated fees, accompanied by templates for deeds and interest calculation tables. The volume also includes a nominal list of employees, with their positions, addresses, dates of entry, and subsequent entries up to 1893.
✦ Period: Circa 1874, with updates until 1893 ✦ Provenance: Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France ✦ Dimensions: Approximately 31 × 24.5 cm ✦ Material: Paper, old cardboard binding ✦ Content: 104 pages, including 78 handwritten ✦ Condition: Binding worn, with rubbing, losses, and bumped corners; interior legible, showing foxing, small stains, and traces of use.
An exceptional 19th-century banking document, a concrete witness to the credit and guarantee practices of a historic bank in Bar-le-Duc.
