?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SPORTS--YACHTING.) Pair of early New York yachting prints. Hand-colored lithographs, each 10 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches to sight; minor foxing, one-inch repaired tear to Dauntless; not examined outside of frames. New York: Currier & Ives, circa 1870
The Yacht Dauntless of N.Y. 268 Tons, Owned and Commanded by Vice Commodore Jas. G. Bennett Jr. Yacht Sappho of N.Y. 310 Tons, Owned and Commanded by W.P. Douglas Esq., Rear Commodore, N.Y. Yacht Club. The Dauntless is depicted breaking the trans-Atlantic speed record upon its arrival in Ireland. Sappho raced for the New York Yacht Club from 1868 to 1876, winning the America's Cup in 1871.
