Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1910 — PAY $500 FOR RARE PRINT [ARTICLE]

PAY $500 FOR RARE PRINT

“Bloody Massacre In King Street, Boston,” Is Sold at Auction in New York. New York.—The Hire Paul Revere print, "The Bloody Massacre in King street, Boston, on March 5, 1770, by a party of‘the Twenty-ninth regiment,” brought SSOO, the highest price at the Edwin Babcock Holden sale in the American art galleries. An even rarer print, the contemporary piracy of the Revere engraving, published at New Bury Port, sold for $150; a collection of portraits by St Memln and others, made by St Memin’s soot and bound in a quarto volume, $310; “Battle of Bunker Hill” and "Death of Montgomery,” indorsed by Colonel John Trumbull, $160; two original colored copies of the battle between the British ship Shannon and tl > United States frigate Chesapeake, $162; the victory of the United States frigate Constitution over the British frigate Guerriere, $160; explosion of the British frigate Guerriere, sl3l. The capture of the British frigate Java by the Constitution brought $114; battle between the British frigate Endymion and the United States ship President, $170; capture of the British sloop of war Frolic by the United States sloop of war Wasp, $135; the American ketch Intrepid, commanded by Decatur, boarding and burning the Tripolitan frigate (late the Philadelphia) in the harbor of Tripoli, $117; a mezzotint of Lord Cornwallis, slls, and mezzotints of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, S4B.