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Description:
Currier & Ives, publishers (American, 1857-1907)
AMERICAN FIELD SPORTS. "On a Point.," 1857 (Conningham, 150). Identified in inscriptions in the matrix. Large folio lithograph with hand-coloring on paper, sheet size 22 3/4 x 30 1/4 in., in a period molded bird's-eye maple frame. Condition: Margins 1 3/4 in. or more, toning, foxing, repaired margin tears, not into image, mat burn.
Estimate $1,000-2,000
There are four approx. 1/2 in. old repaired tears on margin edges, then touched up with white paint.
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