On lightly yellowing paper, measuring 16.75 x 12”. Exhibits fold-marks & slight chipping at the margins. Also neatly reinforced width-wise w/ narrow length of beige museum tape. Else VG & entirely legible. Text:

$7.000/ WORTH OF GOOD/ FOR SALE.

By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me as Trustee, by Thos. J. Boner and Livingston Clinard, for the purposes therein specified, I will proceed to sell to the highest bidder, at their Store House in Salem, on MONDAY the 9^th of next month, February) all their STOCK OF GOODS……CONSISTING OF Hardware, Cutlery, Patent Medicines, Paints, Hats, Bonnets, Shoes, and a great variety of Dry Goods…

READY-MADE MEN’S CLOTHING; several first rate STOVES, and very superior IRONSAFE, and a great many articles too numerous to mention in an advertisement…

I will sell on the premises to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 10^th of next month, at 1 o’clock, THE STORE-HOUSE AND LOT belonging to the said Boner & Clinard….and also a field in cultivation, containing about five acres, a short distance west of Levin Brietz’, adjoining Alexander Ackerman and others. The said Boner & Clinnard hold this field by lease , and the terms of sale will also be made known at the time of selling.

C.L. Banner, Trustee.

Salem, January 9^th, 1857

Salem, is located in the vicinity of Morganton in western North Carolina. Superb ante-bellum broadside for Carolina antiquarians.  [jp]

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