Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 156
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ENGLAND--1727.) Mist's Weekly Journal. 4 pages, 13 x 10 inches, on one sheet; disbound, inked duty stamp on front page. London, 17 June 1727

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Features an early report on the 11 June death of King George I in his native Hanover: "On Wednesday about three of the Clock in the Afternoon, Mr. Crew, one of his Majesty's Messengers, arrived here with the News that his late Majesty departed this Life . . . of a Fit of an Apoplexy."