Nov 11, 2002 - Sale 1951

Sale 1951 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
LESNON BERMUDA.
38x24 inches. Mardon, Son & Hall, Bristol.
Condition B+: creases and tears in margins, some affecting image. Paper; tape on verso.
Discovered in 1503 by the Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez (from whom the island takes it name), it wasn't until 1609 when a British ship on its way to the New World was wrecked off the coast of the island that a political claim was laid to the 21 square mile land mass.