(CALIFORNIA LETTER SHEETS) Miners Weighing their Gold Dream

Sale 2344 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(CALIFORNIA LETTER SHEETS.) Miners Weighing their Gold / Dream of a Prospecting Miner. Lithographed letter sheet, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches plus attached blank leaf; minor foxing, minor edge wear, inked number in upper right corner. San Francisco: Quirot & Co., [1851-52]

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At the top, two well-armed miners look at the assayer with anticipation. The bottom image shows a miner asleep in the open air by a campfire, clutching a rifle, and dreaming of himself at the dock, directing laborers carrying sacks of his gold onto a ship. Peters, California in Stone, page 76 and plate 33 (showing a later printing by Britton & Rey).