Confederate bonds at the Old School History Museum

  • A pane featuring a sheet of coupons for Georgia’s share of bonds sold to investors during the Confederate war effort. RUFUS ADAIR/Staff
    A pane featuring a sheet of coupons for Georgia’s share of bonds sold to investors during the Confederate war effort. RUFUS ADAIR/Staff
    At first glance, it looks all over the world like a large pane of funky old postage stamps. Today the pane, roughly 18 inches square, lies on a display case in the “history room” of the Old School History Museum (OSHM) in Eatonton’s Plaza Arts Center on Madison Avenue. (Actually, what visitors see is a laminated copy of the artifact, which is securely held elsewhere.) Regardless...

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