The Great Match at Baltimore, Between The “Illinois” Bantam, “And The Old Cock” of the White House

by Louis Maurer

$1,800 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St., 1860. Lithograph, 11” x 13.5” plus margins. CONDITION: Good, slight marginal loss to lower-left corner, section at upper right corner torn away and repaired on verso with document repair tape. A rare political cartoon staging the divisive competition of the 1860 Democratic convention as a cock fight.Stephen A.

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