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Lot 164
Sale 6163 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Apr 26, 2017
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$16,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Two Walt Whitman (1819-1892) memento gold hair rings and Carte-de-Visite New York, 1881 and 1878
Carte-de-Visite photograph of Walt Whitman with Kitty (Katherine Devereux) and "Harry" (Harold Hugh) Johnston, taken in July of 1878 by W. Kurtz, photographer, Madison Square, New York; together with two gold rings enclosing hair from Walt Whitman.
4 1/2 in. x 3 in. (sight)