Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CRIME.) Last Words and Dying Speech of Samuel Smith, who was Executed at Concord, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the 26th of December, A.D. 1799 for the Crime of Burglary.<> Broadside, with an image of a coffin in the upper left corner, with text in 3 columns surrounded by thick black lines, 420x310 mm; considerably chipped with loss, with expert restoration repairing separations at folds; matted and housed in an elaborate cloth folding case. Evans 36321. [Boston, 1799]

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Evans locates copies at the American Antiquarian Society in two editions, with and without a coffin in the upper right corner (this copy without).<