Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TIFFANY SALES DURING THE GREAT BLIZZARD OF '88 TIFFANY, CHARLES LEWIS. Autograph Letter Signed, "C.L. Tiffany," to H.A. Spaulding, relating the total value of goods sold by Tiffany & Co. during the Great Blizzard of 1888. 1 page, 8vo, "Tiffany & Co" stationery; horizontal folds, faint toning at edges. (MRS) New York, 20 March 1888

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". . . [T]he amount of Tiffany & Co sales on that memorable blizzard day, the 12th of the present month . . . . amounted to only eighty cents, the smallest of any day since their commencement more than fifty years ago."