Oct 21, 2002 - Sale 1947

Sale 1947 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(CUSTER, GENERAL GEORGE) <>
Portrait of Custer. Albumen print, 5 1/2x4 inches (14x10.2 cm.), with the J. A. Scholten, St. Louis, Mo. printed credit on mount recto along with Scholten's logo and the Mercantile Library, New York hand stamp. 1872
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This rustic portrait of Custer, who was then familiar to most Americans as the leader of the great buffalo hunt in honor of the Grand Duke Alexis, shows him in his trapping suit. The picture originally appeared in "Photographic World," Sept. 1872, vol. II, no. 21.<