[Horse Stud Broadside]:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

AMERICAN CLYDE. WILL MAKE THE SEASON OF 1884, AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES.... An attractive, illustrated broadside, advertising the stud services of American Clyde, "five years old the 7th of May, 1884, Weighs 1300 pounds. He is a well bred horse, rangy, has fine style, good traveler, and a good work horse; works either single or double, true to pull and a kind disposition." American Clyde is pictured here, in a large engraved illustration, trotting in a field. The broadside gives a brief review of Clyde's pedigree: "Grandsire, Black Prince, imported Clydesdale; Dam, a fine Messenger brood mare. Granddam, Kentucky Diomede, a thoroughbred mare." Space is given for the locations where Clyde will "make the Season of 1884" to be accomplished in manuscript. They include "the following places," handwritten in red ink, all in Sutter County: in Yuba, with S.S. Mitchell, April 3-5; at Gridley Station on April 8; and at the North Butte Zarlog Ranch, April 10-12. The price given is $15 for the season. The broadside is signed in type by George L. McDaniels, and was printed by the Appeal Print newspaper in Marysville.Apparently unrecorded, we find no copies on OCLC at the time of cataloguing. An attractive, rare, and perhaps unique California horse stud broadside, with manuscript annotations specifying the location of American Clyde's services.

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