$1,998
Black Painted Cast Iron Eagle Printing Press Counter Weight, Columbia Printing Press, Philadelphia, 1813, spreadwing eagle in full relief with its talons grasping a branch and cornucopia, mounted on a black metal stand, rare small size, total ht. 14 5/8 in. Literature: Wendy Cooper, Classical Taste in America 1800-1840, (New York, 1993), p. 193, fig. 148.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-08-10