Will be Sold Before the door of the Eagle a Number of Val

Sale 1998 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 20,700

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000

SLAVE SALE BROADSIDE WITH A WOOD-ENGRAVED VIGNETTE Will be Sold, Before the door of the Eagle . . . a Number of Valuable Slaves . . . Letterpress broadside, 141/2x111/2 inches, with a wood-engraved vignette of slaves in a tobacco field (11/2x53/4 inches); evenly toned, some scattered foxing, early archival repair in lower left corner replacing lost paper (with no text lost), few nicks at edges; with an early manuscript note on the provenance of the piece in the lower right corner ("Found near the Painunkey(?) River in the House of a Dr Brockenbro, Wrote to Lynch was it received? H.") An additional manuscript note on the verso reads, "H. D. Hurst from brother Nov. 5th, 1909." Richmond, VA: John O'Lynch, 17 February 1812

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A highly unusual slave sale broadside in that it is illustrated. Unknown to Hummel (Southeastern Broadsides before 1877).