Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(RHODE ISLAND.) Rhode Island General Assembly. An Act Establishing Martial Law in this State. Small letterpress broadside, 6 x 9 inches; wrinkled, edge wear, minor foxing, mount remnants on verso. [Providence, RI], June 1842

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Issued in response to the Dorr Rebellion, an effort by landless Rhode Islanders to gain suffrage by force. Signed in type by secretary Henry Bowen.