SOLD Early 1850s Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map of South America wood truck pencil on ruled paper

pencil on ruled paper

I'm not certain

Hands down my favorite transfer image I've ever seen on a piece of Staffordshire

it's pretty amazing  that a series of postal workers would see to it that a stamped shirt cuff with handwritten address would make it from New York to Philly - in the 1860s

The cards are in great shape but the box--which measures 3 3/4" wide x 1 3/4" deep x 2 1/2" tall--shows its age

SOLD Early 1850s Hand-drawn Ink and Watercolor Map of South America wood truck pencil on ruled paperI managed to find the published map this hand drawn one was based on, printed as a engraving in Samuel Augustus Mitchell's(1792 1868) Mitchell's School and Family Geography, 1839. Though interesting now to see Chili spelled with an "i" and Buenos Ayres as a country, etc., this hand drawn version is pretty true to the published one except a million times better for being hand done! Excellent hand lettering in a young hand all over, and wonderful