?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WRITTEN IN WEEKS PRIOR TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF EIFFEL TOWER'S COMPLETION EIFFEL, GUSTAVE. Letter Signed, "G. Eiffel," to press agent Henri Houssaye, in French, apologizing for the delayed reply and accepting his invitation to allow the Haras Agency to publish communications for Eiffel. 2 pages, 8vo, personal stationery, written on the first and terminal pages of a folded sheet; collector's ink stamp below signature ("Autograph Collection of Dr. Max Thorek Chicago"), cataloguing number written in unknown hand at upper left corner of first page. Paris, 12 March 1889
