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Item Details
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| Heading: |
AAA(Autograph Collecting) |
| Author: |
Spring, Robert |
| Title: |
Autograph Letter signed by Robert Spring, to a collector in Britain, offering him autographs of George Washington and others |
| Place: |
Baltimore, MD |
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| Date: |
Sept. 18, 1863 |
| Item # : |
202676 |
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| Sale Number |
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403 |
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4 |
| Sale Name |
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| Americana with Manuscript Material; Travel & Exploration; Maps; Photographs |
| Sale Date |
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05/14/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 510 |
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| Description: |
| 34 lines, in ink, on single sheet 7½x4¾, the verso of which is Springs printed advertisement and want list. |
| Robert Spring, Baltimore dealer in autographs, rare books, and other antiquarian items, writes to a collector across the Atlantic, "...Some time since I was so fortunate as to obtain possession of the papers belonging to the branch of the old U.S. Bank in this city. Among them I found many autographs of distinguished men and quite a number of the immortal Washington..." Of great interest is the printed notice on the back asking for autographs and other material. Provenance: A West Coast institution. |
| Condition: |
| Fine condition. |
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