Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CATLIN, GEORGE. Catlin the Artist & Hunter Shooting Buffalos with Colt's Revolving Rifle. Very scarce three-stone tinted lithograph from the original Colt promotional series. 460x635 mm, wide margins. A beautiful example. [London]: Day & Son, [circa 1850]

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Subtitled: He says, "with my two hired men Ba'tiste & Bogard, I took a position where a numerous herd of Buffalos were crossing a deep ravine, and being unobserved I shot down eight or ten in succession leaving their carcases for the wolves to devour."