BARNUM PHINEAS TAYLOR Check Accomplished and Signed

Sale 1912 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 1,610

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

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

JENNY LIND'S PAY CHECKBARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR. Check Accomplished and Signed, "P. T. Barnum," payable to Jenny Lind, on Chemical Bank of New York for $2895.63. Annotated by Barnum in the upper left corner "13th concert" and endorsed by Lind on verso. 2 1/2x6 3/4 inches; cancellation slices; framed with a playbill for her premiere performance in America on 11 September 1850 at Castle Garden.<\t>New York, 22 October 1850

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Lind, the famed soprano, was brought to New York in September 1850 by Barnum for an American tour, earning more than $175,000 for her performances.<