?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
THE CLASSIC WALLPAPER NEWSPAPER (CIVIL WAR--NEWSPAPER.) The Daily Citizen. One page, 19 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches, on verso of a sheet of wallpaper; moderate foxing, small early ink stain, slight loss of text at intersection of folds, tasteful archival repairs at folds. Vicksburg, MS, 2 and 4 July 1863
Union troops entering Vicksburg on Saturday, 4 July after the long siege found a full set of type for Thursday's newspaper. They added their own mocking paragraph on the demise of the Daily Citizen: "No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule-meat and fricassed kitten--urge Southern warriors to such diet never-more. This is the last wall-paper edition, and is, excepting this note, from the types as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity." The 4 July wallpaper edition has been frequently reprinted over the years, but the present copy is correct on all points, being the second issue with "Citizen" spelled correctly. A comma follows the editor's name and also the first sentence of the 4 July note, and the misspellings "secossion" and "whisttle" can be found in column 4. It is printed on one of the known original wallpaper patterns as seen in the Library of Congress's own copy, with pink and red flowers and green leaves over a cream and blue background. Provenance: Christie's sale, 9 December 1994, lot 14.
