(OHIO) George M Woodbridge Gold Has Never Been Found on the

Sale 2580 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 1,250

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(OHIO.) George M. Woodbridge. Gold Has Never Been Found on the 320 Acres Land! in Vinton County, Ohio I Propose to Sell. Letterpress broadside, 18 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches; a few ink spots, minor dampstaining, wrinkling, folds, a few short tears at edges. Marietta, OH, 24 November 1869

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This land auction broadside gently satirizes the gold frenzy which had lured so many of Ohio's men west over the past twenty years, most recently to Montana and Idaho. "Don't go west to shake with chills and fever, and raise crops without a market." This land in south-central Ohio is "near Churches, School Houses, Saw and Grist Mills . . . in a healthy region, and good market at your doors, and in the midst of an old settled country." None traced in OCLC or elsewhere.