03-12-201403-13-2014
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
March 12, 2014 02:00 PMCalender
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Eight Framed American Historical Prints

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$369$300
Auction: Discovery - 2712MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: March 13, 2014 10:00AM

Description:

Eight Framed American Historical Prints, three broadsides, one advertising a "REPUBLICAN GRAND RALLY!," for the candidate Major James Gillette of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, the Republican delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880, and two prints in a common frame, one announcing that "James Gillette! Is the Regular Republican Nominee!" and "Republicans Beware," a notice from the same campaign; a first issue front page of the New York SUN, dated September 3, 1833; an "Order of Performance at the Whig Celebration, July 4, 1834"; a reproduction engraving depicting The South Prospect of the City of New York in North America; an engraving depicting the North Granville Female Seminary, North Granville, New York, C. Meadows, engraver, Windsor Vermont, ac. 1850-55; and a page from Illustrated Proverbs depicting "None so Deaf as those that wont Hear"; sight sizes 6 3/8 x 3 5/8 to 16 3/4 x 11 in.
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

James Gillette, Alabama, Major, Mobile County, Republican delegate, candidate, North Granville