May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SCHANILEC, GAYLORD. Cohoes Falls. Color wood engraving carved and letterpressed by Schanilec on Mohawk Superfine, Softwhite High Finish 80lv text with printed tissue overlay by Hopf and Hopf Printing. Plate measures 280x355mm; 11x14 inches, sheet, wide margins, numbered, signed, and titled in pencil, lower margin. Laid into cloth-tied portfolio handmade by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. (IO). Cohoes: Mohawk Paper Mills, 1993

Additional Details

number 131 of 150 copies printed for the mohawk paper mills in cohoes, new york. A scarce item by Schanilec and a lovely promotional piece by the Mills which states that it was in Cohoes that Hiawatha met with Mohawk Chief Daganoweda and formed a neutral and peaceful confederation between the Mohawk and Iroquois Nations and thus honors them with their Mohawk Indian logo.