Join or Die Franklin Snake Five Panel Cap Color:Olive 9 cm to 60 cm)

9 cm to 60 cm)

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but it was more likely made in the mid Nineteenth Century according to the expert explaining the piece to me

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Join or Die Franklin Snake Five Panel Cap Color:Olive 9 cm to 60 cm)Join, or Die is Benjamin Franklin's political cartoon published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. It's the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America. The original was actually a woodcut showing a snake severed into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initial of a British American colony or region. The cartoon appeared along with Franklin's editorial about the "disunited state"