Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
DECORATING A FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE. Partly-printed Document Signed, "Lafayette," in French, awarding a gold medal [not present] to French Guard member Marc Antoine Salet for brave and patriotic service. Additionally signed by Paris Mayor Jean-Sylvain Bailly. 1 page, 4to; folds, even toning, minor staining to left edge, wax seal intact; framed and matted with portraits of Lafayette and Bailly. Paris, 30 September 1789

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Signed two months after the storming of the Bastille.