Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
UNRECORDED BROADSIDE (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Swissher, John. Four Dollars Reward. Letterpress broadside, 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; unrelated 1818 tax receipt inscribed in lower margin, edge wear, dampstained, tacked to backing board. Not examined outside of period frame. Lancaster, PA: Francis Bailey, 5 November 1774

Additional Details

Offers a reward for the return of a horse which had been stolen from the door of Matthias Slough, a Lancaster tavern-keeper who later served as a Revolutionary War colonel at the Battle of Long Island. Not in Evans, ESTC, or WorldCat.