?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
ROBERT FULTON. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, with an ink drawing Signed, "R.F," on verso. The manuscript, 14 lines of notes written beside a column of numbers calculating the cost to build and maintain a steam-powered machine to beat and clean rice. The drawing, sketch showing a scene in which two women peer out from a farmhouse door. Each 1 page, 9 1/2x8 inches, notes on recto and drawing on verso; faint bleedthrough overall. Np, circa 1813
"Notes on a Steam engine to beat and clean Rice / a 33 inch cylinder will clean 200 Barrels a day / on which the profits is 20 barrels at 18 per B . . . 5 Cord of wood for 12 hours 2 per cord 10=200 dgs . . . / Engineer 365 days 500 / . . . fireman 300 / 20 men, 20 dollars a day 200 days . . . / Interest on 40,000 capital 10 per an. / Two Boilers 16 tons . . . 12,000 / Cylinder . . . 5,000 . . . / Machinery 24,000 / Buildings 15,000 / 40,000."
