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Description: This is a limited edition fine art print. Only 254 copies are available (representing the 254 counties in Texas). Very few people have ever seen this image. It was produced by an unknown artist in 1886 for the cover of a piece of sheet music published by Thomas Goggan, a Galveston music mogul.
He was obviously trying to catch the coattails of Charlie Siringo's huge success with his book, A Texas Cow Boy, published the previous year.
It's incredibly rare. There are only nine known original copies. If artwork sold music, that might be a different story. For whatever reason the song was not a hit. From what we can discern 130+ years later, a single batch was printed and that was that. Item Value: $800 |
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