Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 406

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Mount Vernon, the Tomb of Washington, and Fort Washington: The Steamer Thos. Collyer. Illustrated broadside, 12 x 6 1/4 inches; wrinkling and folds, several tasteful early paper repairs, minor foxing. Washington: H. Polkinhorn's Steam Job Press, circa 1858-62

Additional Details

An advertisement for an excursion steamer running twice weekly from the District of Columbia to Mount Vernon. The Baltimore Sun ran a similar advertisement on 11 July 1859. None in OCLC, though the Library of Congress holds another example; none traced at auction. with--a cabinet card photograph by Luke C. Dillon, "Tomb of Washington," showing the same view. Washington, 1886.