THE TEA ACT – To the Delaware Pilots. We took the Pleasure, some Days since, of kindly admonishing you to do your Duty; if perchance you should meet with the (Tea) Ship Polly, Captain Ayres; a Three Decker which is hourly expected. [Philadelphia: 27 November 1773.]

Letterpress broadside, 351 x 216mm, untrimmed (toned and a little spotted, light restoration along central vertical fold with about 6 letters in neat facsimile, discrete tissue reinforcement at edges). Float-mounted and framed.

The Rosenbach Galleries, Philadelphia (old label preserved from prior framing), by family tradition sold to:
Isadore Schwaner Ravdin, prominent Philadelphia surgeon, 1894-1972
by descent to the current owner

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