Engraved: Palisade Boat Club 1883, Fours, Time (never engraved with winner), opposite side engraved with two fours racing, base stamped: Mfg & Plated By, Reed & Barton, Gilt P
Advertisement or promotional manual for paper boats, documenting race wins by paper boats since their introduction in 1868. Issued as part of a collection of printed material about the 1870 Yale-Harvard Boat Race.
Enacted in 1728, printed in 1729, "Acts passed relating to Watermen, Wherrymen, and Lightermen, rowing on the River Thames... title page and pages 463 through 470 removed from bound volume