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Lot 1309
Six (6) Items of Historical Ephemera
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: Signed receipt for "portraits of the children" from well-known artist Alvan Fisher, Boston, July 24, 1841 (Fair condition);... an unused postal cover with a vignette of a camping party at Lake Lila (New York) (excellent condition); ...an invitation from the Mayor of Boston to meet the President of the United States (Chester A. Arthur) at the Hotel Brunswick, October 11, 1882 (Very Fine condition);...a paid receipt for a Rhode Island beach cottage rental for the season (Fine condition);...a 1960 envelope inscribed "opened in error - A. Huxley." (Fair condition); a fine 20th century reproduction of The Boston and Country Gazette, Journal, March 12, 1770, being the famous issue that covered the Boston Massacre (Good condition, some foxing).

From the Collection of the Lyman Family, Massachusetts