Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(VIRGINIA.) E. Sachse & Co. Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. Hand-colored lithograph, 22 x 32 inches; some foxing, faint dampstaining on top edge, uneven browning along edges. Washington: C. Bohn, copyright 1861

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"This was a famous resort and hotel for honeymoon couples from New York, who reached it by the Old Dominion Line, and so was a rival of Niagara Falls"--Peters, America on Stone, page 348.