BARNUM P T Autograph Letter Signed

Sale 1930 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 690

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350

BARNUM, P. T. Autograph Letter Signed, to S. E. Burger, his tailor?, concerning the collars and cuffs he was sent and arguing that they are no longer fashionable, and instructing him on the type of linen thread to use for insertions and edgings. 2 pages, single 8vo sheet, elaborate Barnum's American Museum stationery. New York, 8 January 1865

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"Your letter with the collars and cuffs came to me in due course of mail. My wife has made inquiry and can find no purchaser for them as they are not fashionable now . . . people will not pay for the trouble taken to work such fine & beautiful articles. They wear ruffles & linen collars now a days, Mrs. B says."<