Nov 30, 2006 - Sale 2095

Sale 2095 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
REMINGTON, FREDERIC. Autograph Letter Signed, in full, with several small illustrations of a stretcher within the text, to Joel Burdick, detailing changes to the design of their improved stretcher. 3 1/2 pages, folded 8vo sheet; usual folds, minor staining at bottom corners. Np, nd

Additional Details

". . . It wants to be cut out for a 5 ft 8 inch man or have a system of pins in the bearing irons which will make it adjustable to any man's height - simple. Second, we want it made with a platform, so that a stretcher will set on it and can be taken off at will . . . then the cross peice must be bent slightly so that the canvas won't fall on it with weight of patient &c. . . "