Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2412Location: BostonDate / Time: June 08, 2008 11:00AM
Description:
Currier & Ives, publishers (American, 1857-1907)
The Royal Mail Steamship Australasian..., 1861 (Conningham, 5237). Identified by inscriptions in the matrix. Large folio lithograph with hand-coloring on paper, sheet size 23 1/2 x 32 in., in a period molded wood frame. Condition: Margins of 2 1/2 in. or more, laid down onto thin card, tear u.c. margin and l.r. corner, toning, stains.
Estimate $700-900
four vertical darkish streaks with associated whitened areas from former wood backing, a few spots in the background and margins whitened, light mat stain, few scattered fox marks.