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Clipper Ship Sailing Card for Franklin by Nesbitt
Clipper Ship Sailing Card for Franklin by Nesbitt
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Description
Heading: (Clipper Ship Sailing Card)
Author:
Title: FRANKLIN
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Nesbitt & Co., Printers
Date Published: c.1860
Description:


Clipper ship sailing card, on porcelain coated stock, with large color wood-engraved illustration. 16.7x10.4 cm. (6½x4").



Attractive card featuring the famed inventor/statesman verifying that lightening is electricity with his famous kite, connected to a large storage battery and a telegraphic instrument, with telegraph lines overhead. Somewhat ironically, a wood-burning steam locomotive chugs by, foreshadowing the demise of the clipper ships when the transcontinental was completed in 1869. The Franklin "Has made four Passages, and never damaged her Cargo." The captain was D.P. Bursley. This is a variant of the card in the American Antiquarian Society. SST II, pp. 30-32.

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Fine, clean condition, the colors rich.
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Clipper Ship Sailing Card for Franklin by Nesbitt

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