Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 1,375
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.) Newspaper extra sharing the historic first transatlantic cable messages. Letterpress broadside slip, 10 x 4½ inches; folds, 2-inch repaired tear, minor wear. No place: Standard Office, 17 August 1858

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Under the headline of "Atlantic Telegraph Correspondence," we are given the previous day's exchange of letters between Queen Victoria of Great Britain and President James Buchanan concerning the completion of the first transatlantic telegraph cable--the first official messages relayed across the ocean by cable.