Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 373

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(RHODE ISLAND.) New York & Boston Steam-Boat Line, for New-Port and Providence . . . the Splendid Steam Boat President. Illustrated broadside, 17 1/2 x 12 inches, with the blanks for the departure time completed in manuscript; wear at folds and closed tears reinforced on verso, foxing. [New York?], 30 April 1834

Additional Details

An advertisement for a ship plying the Long Island Sound from Courtland Street in Manhattan to Newport, RI, continuing up the bay to Providence. This steamer line broadside advertises the ship President under Captain E.S. Bunker, but the illustration is for the steamboat Benjamin Franklin.