Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(OHIO.) Stark, J.N. Good News for All: New Cash Store at Olive Green, Fresh Goods at Prices Suited to the War Times. Illustrated broadside, 25 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches; small dampstain in upper right corner, horizontal fold, minimal wear. Cincinnati, OH: Times Print, circa 1861
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A charming advertisement for a new general store opening in Olive Green in Delaware County, in central Ohio. A crowd gathers around an arriving train, exclaiming "A large stock has been received by J.N. Stark. It is astonishing at what low prices he is now enabled to sell Goods. . . . Well this arrival beats them all; I'll give him a call." Stark promises (with apparent contradiction) that "Country Produce of all kinds taken in payment for Merchandise. . . . Buying and selling for cash alone, I am enabled to give customers as good bargains as they can find anywhere else in the country."
The engraving firm of Frazer & Denis which produced the woodcut was active mainly in the early 1850s; the "Times Print, Cincinnati" imprint was used from about 1861 to 1880. James N. Stark (1823-1899) was listed as a wealthy merchant in Delaware County in the 1860 census. None in OCLC, and none traced at auction. Provenance: from the stock of Ernest Wessen's Midland Books; see his 1959 catalog #74, item 390.