Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) John Brown. Leader of the Harper's Ferry Insurrection. Hand-colored lithograph, 14.5 x 10.5 inches; very minor blemishes, remnants of cello taper mount on verso. [New York: Currier & Ives, ca. 1859]

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The abolitionist hero is depicted after his famous October 1859 raid holding a New York Tribune, with a map of Kansas behind him. A very nice copy. Peters, Currier & Ives, 1721.