Mar 09, 2023 - Sale 2629

Sale 2629 - Lot 103

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

HAROLD HAVEN BROWN (1869-1932)

POSTER SHOW / QUINCY . . MASSACHUSETTS. 1895.


28x22 1/4 inches, 71x56 1/2 cm. Courier, Buffalo.
Condition B+ / A-: minor creases, repaired tears, and darkening at edges.

For a poster show in Quincy, Massachusetts, Brown presents a town crier addressing the assembled citizenry of a Revolutionary era town, an indication of the old fashioned way of disseminating information before posters came along and made the process so much more simple and colorful. Exposons p. 43, Reims 126.