Stars & stripes
Philadelphia: 1861? Broadside (approx. 18 x 14"); adorned with 32 small circular mustard-colored vignettes engraved in black, each depicting the seal of a state of the Union; some offsetting due to having been previously folded, else a fine example. Attractive advertisement for the Philadelphia weekly illustrated newspaper, which "contains 8 Pages, 40 columns of reading matter, from the pens of the best American authors; national and not sectional; it is emphatically the best literary paper in America. It has no equal." Contents also include a review excerpt from the Philadelphia Weekly; terms of subscription; and a call for agents. Subscribers are additionally bribed with the promise of certificates being sold at $1 and redeemable for various goods, the most luxurious of which is a gold chronometer hunting watch valued at $200. "Address all communications to Kendrick & Co. publishers, 337 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa." Includes "Terms of subscription. ... Every subscriber will receive certificates placed in sealed envelopes at the above rate, and each certificate will call for some one of the following articles, which he can have for $1. each. ..." [and] "Our terms to agents." The firm of Kendrick & Co., publishers, is listed only in the Philadelphia directory for 1861, published in Jan. 1861. However, the Stars and Stripes is not listed among the newspapers and periodicals for that year and there are no known surviving issues of this publication" (OCLC) -- but not true, as a single issue survives at N.Y. Historical. AAS only in OCLC. Item #45862
Price: $750.00
