Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--BROADSIDE.) Resolved, that the Resolution . . . Relative to Subsistance Money to be Allowed to Officers in the Continental Service, be Extended to all Militia. Letterpress broadside, 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches; minor foxing and wear. (MRS) York, PA, 6 June 1778

Additional Details

Printed at the temporary headquarters of the Continental Congress in "York-town" during the British occupation of Philadelphia. Evans 16127. 2 copies listed in ESTC; none known at auction, though Goodspeed offered a copy in 1953.