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Lot 346
Sale 6431 - American Historical Ephemera & Early Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 11, 2025
Lots Close
Nov 24, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$4,270
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Lot Description
[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Mammoth California Grizzly Bear. Liverpool: S.A. Hurton, n.d.
17 1/2 x 7 in. (sight) printed broadside featuring 4 x 7 in. illustration of a bear near the top, followed by additional details about the "Great Grizzly Bear of California, weighing 19,881 lbs.," being exhibited for a short time under a pavilion on Great Homer Street, opposite Haymarket, Liverpool, by a Mr. Bartholomew, the gentleman that captured him. Also included in the broadside is an article from the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer of September 3, written after the bear was exhibited. Details about admission and publication information printed in lower margin. Matted and framed, 20 1/2 x 10 in. overall.
The Emily T. and Adolphus Andrews Collection of Native American Art
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
