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Sheriff's Sale! St. Louis 1848. [Broadside]

St. Louis Court of Common Pleas

St. Louis: St. Louis Court of Common Pleas, 1848. First Edition. Unbound. Tall folio. Very good condition. Item #016745

Large broadside (11-3/4" x 18-1/4") announcing an auction. It reads "Sheriff's Sale! Jonathan W. King, Daniel W. Corwin, and William M. Cones, Partners, &c., vs. John Abbott, and John C. Chadwick. Attachment in the St. Louis Court of Common Pleas, returnable to Sep't Term, 1848, of said Court. No. 184, to said term. By authority of an order of sale made by the St. Louis Court of Common Pleas, on the 20th day of September, 1848, ordering and directing the undersigned late Sheriff of the county of St. Louis, to sell the property attached in the above entitled cause, in the manner prescribed by law. I will on Tuesday, the 10th day of October next, between the hours of nine o'clock, in the forenoon, and five o'clock in the afternoon of that day, at the State Tobacco Warehouse, on corner of Washington Av., and Sixth street, sell the said attached property to the highest bidder for cash, pursuant to said order of sale, which said property consists of the following articles of Dry Goods, to wit: 1 piece Black Coburg; 2 pieces Mode do.; 3 Embroidered Delane Shawls; 1 Black Berage Shawl; 2 Thibet Wool do,; 1 Delane Mode do.; 1 Black Embroidered do.; 1 Satin Stripe Berage do.; 6 Doz Thimbles, silvered; 1 piece Florence Silk; 1 do. Black Cotton Lace; 1 do. do. do. do.; 1 do. White Silk do.; 1 Box Laces; 1 do. do.; Ladies' Gloves, Silk, Picknit and Cotton; Lot Embroidered handkerchiefs; Braid; Gents' Gloves Silk and Cotton; Buttons; Velvet Ribbon; Tuck Combs; Coat Binding; Lot Berage Dress Shawls; Lot Cravats for Ladies; Swiss Muslins; and 1 Black Leather Trunk. Samuel Conway, Late Sheriff. St. Louis, Sep't. 1848." Folded into 10 sections, with some wear to folds; several small tears at edges. Minor foxing throughout; two minor water-stain marks in margin just touching text, each about 2 square inches. Ephemera, Broadsides, Western Americana.

Price: $1,500.00