Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 388

Price Realized: $ 27,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
(REVOLUTION.) By the Honourable Joseph Wanton . . . A Proclamation . . . a Number of People, unknown, boarded His Majesty's armed Schooner the Gaspee . . . Broadside, 13x81/2 inches; browned, minor separations along folds, contemporary manuscript notations on verso relating to the account of a Mr. Handley. [Newport, 1772]

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incredibly scarce reward poster for the capture of the revolutionaries who burned the gaspee, the most important armed insurrection prior to lexington & concord.