Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NEW YORK CITY.) The Jack Knife War. Lithograph, 13 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches; minor wear and a bit of dampstaining on edges, caption note in pencil. [New York: Currier & Ives?, circa 1871]

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A gruesome image protesting the rampant corruption of Boss Tweed's New York. Tweed raises a hatchet to decapitate a victim, with three heads already hanging from his belt. Reilly, American Political Prints 1871-2.