[Rarebooks] OFFER: "COLD WATER ARMY PLEDGE" AND MEMBERSHIP.

[Laderman]

COLD WATER ARMY PLEDGE. / CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP. This certifies, 
that__________ having taken the above Pledge, is a Member of the 
Connecticutt Cold Water Army [Countersigned Leader of the New Haven 
Division, 1842. Broadside 10" x 8" within a very complex decorative 
frame. A wood engraving 5 " x 3 " of a group of children, boys first, 
carrying signs saying "Cold Water Army;"  "No Alcohol." The parade 
goes on into the distance and fades away very far away from the 
foreground. They are walking passed a confirmed drunkard, to whom a 
boy hands a form for signing declaring "Total Abstinence", with a 
quill pen. A skeleton stands near the drunkard with lightning and 
burning buildings behind both the skeleton, which is pointing onward, 
no doubt to a ghastly end. There is an emblematic American Eagle 
centered above which has temperance messages on either side. Although 
the engraving is not signed, there is not the slightest doubt that is 
the work of John Warner Barber, our only original emblem book 
maker.The MWA has my first copy. There also is a copy at Yale. 
However a production for similar use, for Massachusetts, seems to 
have remained less rare. There is one at Brown, and at several other 
colleges. None of these make OCLC. Unnoted in Hamilton who collected 
Barber assiduously. I have had another copy, noted here some years 
ago. That and this one are the only ones I have seen. It is not noted 
in the Walpole Society's monograph on Barber, nor in Sinclair 
Hamilton, who collected him assiduously. This copy is as near mint as 
one could desire. $500.00

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