Lot 342 · Important Americana
Clandestine Poker Game in the Corn Field: The Preacher, the Mayor and Friends
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- Estimate
- $5,000–$8,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Americana, New York · 19 January 2008
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3725291
- Record
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Max Saxon, Dated 1912, Clandestine Poker Game in the Corn Field: The Preacher, the Mayor and Friends. Sotheby's, 19 Jan 2008, lot 342. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3725291.
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Max Saxon, Dated 1912, Clandestine Poker Game in the Corn Field: The Preacher, the Mayor and Friends. Sotheby's, 19 Jan 2008, lot 342. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3725291.
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