JOSH BILLIONGS HENRY WHEELER SHAW AMERICAN HUMORIST SIGNED CARD For Sale

Henry Wheeler Shaw, a post -Civil war era explorer, writer and humorist and a contemporary of Mark Twain was best known by his pen name "Josh Billings". .An Original 3.5 x 2" card signed in sepia ink "H.W Shaw and Josh Billings". The card has edge wear, age stains, and on the reverse traces of glue, likely affixed to and early autograph album page . Overall VG condition. John Billings is buried in Monterey, California.