A First National Bank of Boston authorized signature manual of flexible black grained wrappers? with silver-stamped lettering. The front cover is marked THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of BOSTON / Boston, MASSACHUSETTS U.S.A. and AUTHORIZED SIGNATURES. The interior is designed as a verification directory for correspondent banks, featuring printed names and titles of bank officials accompanied by their original specimen ink signatures. Legible signatures include J E Nilsson (Assistant Manager—Foreign Division), W. Latimer Gray (Vice President), G. W. Hyde (Vice President), Wilbur F. Lawson (Vice President and Comptroller), and T. Marean. A typed update sheet tipped-in at the front, dated May 1, 1937, provides a list of page replacements and cancellations for officials D. G. Wing, M. L. Beals, and J. G. Long, and notes the book was originally issued November 15, 1934.
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