(NEW YORK CITY) Broadside for Jas D Traphagen Agent for Supe

Sale 2600 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 469

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(NEW YORK CITY.) Broadside for "Jas. D. Traphagen, Agent for Superior Pale, Amber & Brown Ale, and XX Porter." Broadside, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches to sight, in blue and gilt on white coated stock; minor soiling; not examined out of original frame. New York, circa 1854

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This attractive broadside for a Manhattan beer distributor offers "hogsheads, barrels and half barrels, for shipping, bottling & city use." If you like beer, and like to keep things simple, that's probably all you need to know.

An ad in the 1853 New York directory shows James D. Traphagen at this 117 Warren Street address as one of two wholesalers for the Albany brewery of Eggleston & Mix. The New York Times of 9 December 1854 reported a fire at this address, where the lower two stories were occupied by "Mr. T. Traphagan, agent for Eccleston & Mise, manufacturers of Albany ale." Sadly, "a considerable amount of ale was lost." In the 1857 and 1859 New York directories, James D. Traphagen was reported as a dealer in ale and porter at another address. He was apparently the James Dickerson Traphagen (1825-1863) from Ulster County who lived with his parents in Manhattan through the 1850s.

The frame bears a worn but nearly complete label from G.B. Owen & Co., "Manufacturers and Dealers in Clocks, Looking-Glasses, Portrait and Picture Frames." George B. Owen was at the 325 Hudson Street address in Manhattan only from about 1854 to 1859, so this broadside was framed circa 1854.