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Lot 379: c.1800 Broadside, Soldier Stockings

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Lot  379: c.1800 Broadside, Soldier Stockings
<b>War of 1812</b><hr><b>America Prepares for the War of 1812</b>

<b>180? Broadside, 'Fulled Half Stockings,' Choice Extremely Fine or better.</b>
6.75' x 8,' nice and bright, with some very light edge toning and a faint fold along the left and bottom edges. Perhaps in preparation for the upcoming hostilities against the British, Tench Coxe, the Purveyor of Public Supplies, prepared this form to advertise the nationÕs need for stockings for American soldiers. It reads, in full: 'Fulled Half Stockings, OF Carded (not Combed) Wool, of any dyed color, or of the natural colors of the Sheep, are occasionally purchased for the Army. They should weigh three pounds and one half per dozen. Each half stocking should be twelve inches long in the leg, with a foot of a good size for soldiers, or for men used to labor. Proposals for the certain delivery of parcels of not less than 100 pairs in each parcel, at Philadelphia, on or before the first day of March next for cash, with the prices, will be received at this office, with a sample, per mail.' This is an unissued remainder and the first weÕve ever seen.