There’s gold in them thar hills…

Published jointly by Kellogg & Comstock of New York and D Needham of Buffalo, c.1849-50, the rare and amusing hand coloured lithograph shown below is titled The Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California: I Neither Borrow nor Lend.

Appropriately enough, it was part of a Californian sale of January 25 held by PBA Galleries (20/15…

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