?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CARICATURE.) Charles, William. The Ghost of a Dollar or the Bankers Surprize. Hand-colored engraved caricature, 375x265 mm, ample margins. Philadelphia: Charles, circa 1808
"Charles pays satirical respects to the famous Philadelphia merchant and banker Stephen Girard. He is portrayed as being amazed at the appearance of a Spanish Dollar, and conjuring it to drop into his till that he may hear it chink"--Murrell, A History of American Graphic Humor, volume 1: page 84; Weitenkampf pages 13-14.
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