Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CALIFORNIA.) The Miners, No. 3 * Sundry Amusements in the Mines. Pair of lithographed letter sheets, each 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches plus attached blank leaf; minor foxing, minor edge wear, inked numbers in upper right corners. San Francisco: Quirot & Co., [1851-52]

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"The Miners" is one of the few California letter sheets which was apparently done from a daguerreotype. See Palmquist, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West, page 451. "Sundry Amusements" contains four humorous vignettes of camp life.