Mar 19, 2015 - Sale 2376

Sale 2376 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WHALER'S PAPERS PIERCE, FRANKLIN. Partly-printed Document Signed, as President, 4-language ship's papers for the whaling ship Benjamin Tucker. Countersigned by Secretary of State William L. Marcy. 16 1/2x21 1/2 inches; mounted along edges to sheet trimmed to size, few faint ink drawings of whales and fish by previous owner near bottom edge, complete separations at folds repaired with tissue verso, uneven toning overall, soiling at lower right corner and lower edge, some chipping and short closed tears at all edges, 2 paper seals mostly intact. sold as is. New Bedford, 1 September 1855