Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NEWSPAPERS.) The American Weekly Mercury. 4 pages, 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, on one sheet; stitch holes, worn at edges, two short tears, early ink stain in lower margin. Philadelphia: Andrew Bradford, 19 May 1737

Additional Details

A later issue of the first newspaper in the Middle Atlantic colonies, founded in 1719. No other issues have been spotted at auction since 1921.