American Bank Note Company
Black on India on Card
ca. 1870
$125.00
Black on India on Card
Die 591
Provenance: The William A. Keegan family scrapbook, spanning 1856 to ca. 1903. Three members of the Keegan family worked for the American Bank Note Company, one of whom was employed as a plate printer.
Description: Stately portrait of Columbus gazing upward at Providence while a Native woman offers him gifts. Incredibly detailed, high contrast engraving. American Bank Note Company imprint and die number at bottom.
The proof was trimmed from a brittle, brown page of the Keegan album. Card toning inherited from the paper has not affected the India. Card is slightly buckled, as was the album page itself, but nevertheless presents extremely well.