Oct 27, 2005 - Sale 2054

Sale 2054 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(CURIOSITY.) "What Is It?" Now Exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, The Wild Man of the Prairies. Letterpress advertising broadside with wood-engraved vignette; corner mounted to a flexible sheet. 131/2x41/2 inches (34x11.5 cm). Lacks about 6 lines of the text and with several additional small holes affecting a few letters of text. Circa 1845.

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Broadside does not identify what the creature is, but suggests that it might be the missing link.