1835 Havana Cuba Bill of Exchange £202 Sterling – Reid Irving & Co. London
Original 1835 Cuban bill of exchange, issued in Havana on February 24, 1835, for £202 Sterling.
The document orders payment at sixty days after sight to the order of Ignacio Ponce del Soto and is drawn on Reid, Irving & Co. of London, an important 19th-century British merchant house with established commercial connections to Cuba and the Caribbean.
Marked as the Third of Exchange, the document retains numerous original handwritten signatures and endorsements from its circulation.
An appealing early piece of Cuban commercial and financial history, documenting the international trade network linking Havana and London during the Spanish colonial period.
Condition: Original used document with age-related toning, fold lines, staining, edge wear and handwritten endorsements. No restoration observed. Please review photographs carefully for exact condition.