Currier & Ives, publisher (American 1857-1907) American Coast Scene. Desert Rock Lighthouse, Maine.

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Currier & Ives, publisher (American 1857-1907)

American Coast Scene. Desert Rock Lighthouse, Maine., undated (undocumented Conningham, Gale 0131). Identified in inscriptions in the matrix. Medium folio lithograph with hand-coloring on paper, sheet size approx. 17 x 22 1/2 in., in a contemporary bird's-eye maple veneer frame. Condition: Margins 1 1/8 in. or more, fairly unobtrusive restoration, laid onto thin card, addition to lower margin, two small tears into image c.l., margins repaired and whitened.
Estimate $300-400

about 1/2 in. strip of paper applied across lower margin, the two small tears at c.l. are about 1/2 in., several repairs to top and side margins, all restoration fairly unobtrusive unless under very close inspection out of the frame.

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