Where other archivists were reverently accumulating the papers of Lincoln or Dickens, he wanted Myrna Loy's dry-cleaning bills, Freddie Ayer's cheque stubs and Basil Rathbone's phone bills, if he could get them.
"He gave his life for all of us, " said Josh Behun, another Pennsylvania friend of Cheque's from school.
Contrary to common belief, banks have always been able to recoup money from a customer's account if a cheque bounced or proved to be fraudulent.
This image can be reconstituted into a paper cheque by the drawer's bank.
As now, anyone paid by cheque will deposit it in their bank, to be sent on to various clearing houses, which route the cheque back to the issuer's bank for payment approval and the transfer of funds.
Mr Miliband may be genuniely relaxed about post-devolution policy differences between Westminster and Wales but as Labour MPs voted to cut the EU budget, it's difficult to see the Westminster coalition writing a cheque for the Welsh government.
Mr Saib then paid the cheque into his own account at National Westminster Bank's Cromwell Road branch.
SNCF's problem: the euro will still lack a pan-European cheque-clearing system.
Lehman's chief executive, Richard Fuld, may one day be tempted to flourish his cheque book.
The Dundalk anecdote brought this into focus, whilst the mention of an envelope containing a cheque stirred memories of previous inquiries into corruption and the stories of Bertie Ahern's famously puzzling financial dealings.
But what caused even more of a stir was Mr Pearson Wright's vehement attack on Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, the day after picking up his cheque.
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