March Estate Catalogue Auction (March 13th & 14th)
AUCTION OF FRAMED NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES AND RELATED EPHEMERA (March 14th Session, 11am)
Sloans & Kenyon is pleased to offer a collection of framed newspaper front pages and related ephemera in the March 14 session of the March Estate Catalogue Auction.
Consigned by a retired journalist, each is a reflection of the collector’s life-long passion for the unique way newspapers and other objects bring history to life each day. The collector is a lively 82-year-old journalist whose 65-year career arc stretches from the hot type of a high school newspaper to the digital printing of his trade publication created 43 years ago and is still going strong. He has enjoyed the opportunity to gather and savor these wonderful objects over the past 50 years. And now, in offering these items for sale, expressly looks forward to others having the same pleasure in their homes.
These front pages span the United States’s history. Read of Alexander Hamilton’s fatal encounter with Aaron Burr, or experience how “Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco in Ruins” was brought to readers in 1906 by the city’s three dailies – one time only – working in concert.
Ephemera ranges from a souvenir of the Brooklyn Bridge’s ribbon cutting to a rare California gold stamp box that was a Christmas gift given to San Francisco clothier Levi Straus by his young friend newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Many of the front pages are framed with related photographs, letters and/or autographs; artifacts from those in the news; making them even more personal and unique.
11am
EXHIBITION:
Sat, Mar 8th 11am - 4pm
Mon, Mar 10th 10am - 5pm
Tue, Mar 11th 10am - 5pm
Wed, Mar 12th 10am - 3pm
Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers & Appraisers
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Chevy Chase, MD
