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Lot 546:1870 Engraving of Christopher Gadsen

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Lot  546:1870 Engraving of Christopher Gadsen
<b>Prints</b><hr><b>'DonÕt Tread On Me'</b>

<b>CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN. Revolutionary general and patriot; his personal standard, depicting a rattlesnake about to strike, with the "Don't Tread on Me!" underneath, gave his name to the Gadsden Flag. </b>
Engraving by H.B. Hall, Morisania, N.Y., 1870. Uncolored. 6.5' x 9', with margins extending to 11' x 14.5'. Choice Extremely Fine; the ragged right margin is easily matted or cropped. A fiery radical, Gadsden was one the first members of the Continental Congress to call for independence - and yet, at a time when popular feeling against the Loyalists was at a peak, was also one of the few who opposed confiscation of Tory property. 'DonÕt tread on me', indeed.