Jun 22, 2023 - Sale 2642

Sale 2642 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(MISSISSIPPI RIVER). Myron Coloney; and Sidney B. Fairchild. Ribbon Map of the Father of Waters. Hand-colored lithographed strip map on five joined sheets reeling into its original wooden cylinder case. 2x132 inches map size, 4x2 inches case size; original linen backing, minor soiling and insect fleck. St. Louis: Gast, Moeller & Co., [1866]

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A nicely surviving nineteenth-century Mississippi River steamboat promotion piece; unspooled, the artifact charts the river's entire 2,600-mile course from Lake Itasca, Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.