Vintage JACK LONDON personal check drawn on his account at The Merchants National Bank of San Francisco – dated “Dec 8, 1909.” Check “No. 115” made payable to “Will L. Greenbaum” in the amount of Three Dollars.  Check was handwritten and signed by London in fountain pen.  Of course, Jack London is the famous American novelist (The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and many others). What makes this check so interesting is that it is made payable to and was endorsed on the reverse by Will L. Greenbaum.  Greenbaum was a famous impresario who brought musical, theatrical, and operatic events to San Francisco in the 1890s through 1910s. So – two collectible signatures on one item!

Check measures 6 ½” x 2 ¾”. See scans for overall condition. Watermark “ebay” does not appear on the actual item.

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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.  London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Will L. Greenbaum (1864/1865 – 1917) was best-known as a concert impresario in California and one of the best known in the country.  For over twenty years Greenbaum devoted himself to the management of theatrical, operatic and concert attractions in San Francisco. As an impresario he brought to the city the world's most famous singers and musicians.