Wax Seal. These three documents are joined at the top by a small circle of sealing wax. Each leaf measures 7.75” x 12.5”. A Howard County Circuit Court stamp is embossed at the bottom of one leaf. Old tape repair to two storage fold splits.. The first document is..... More
Washington, D.C. The National Intelligencer, 1822. Newspaper. “The Pirate Fight (The Action of 9 November 1822)” by “An Officer on board the Schooner Alligator” in The National Intelligencer. Washington, D.C.: December 5, 1822. This article, which is included in the entire four-page newspaper, recounts in detail the battle between..... More
Marfa, Texas: 1919. Unbound. This 5.5” x 3.5” photograph shows soldiers looking at the wreck of an army airplane that had crashed into a pond at Fort D. A. Russell. It is captioned in the image, “Air Plane / Wrecked / at Marfa Tex / June 26th /1919”. In nice..... More
Various: 1932-1940. This lot contains around 65 Great Depression foreclosure documents: Administrator’s Deeds, : Master’s Deeds, Sheriff’s Deeds, Special Master’s Deeds, Trustee’s Deeds, Trustee’s Deeds Under Sale, and Warranty Deeds. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company was listed as the plaintiff or complainant in all of the foreclosures and..... More
Paris: L. Vivien Geographe, 1834. Unbound. Approximately 20.5” x 13.5” including the margins. Text in French. A nice map with a strong, clear image. Minor wear and soiling at lower left tip of margin; top margin is a little rough where the map was removed from the atlas... More
Philadelphia: O. W. Gray & Son, [1877]. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17” including the margins. Strong, clear image with hand-coloring. This attractive map of St. Louis shows the streets of the city in detail. Additionally, locations of several historically important sites are shown: Lafayette Park, where Jere..... More
New York City: 1912. The medal is approximately 7" long. The pale blue ribbon has faded printing that reads "Dedication of / Washington's Monument / Feb 22 1912 / New York City." A hanging medallion, featuring a color illustration of a firemen saving a woman as flames blaze around him..... More
Jacksonville, Florida: 1913. Unbound. A colorful handdrawn comic illustration on a red 1-cent U.S. postal card featuring Commodore Perry in a bathtub, named The Niagara, writing his memoirs which begin “We have met the enemy and he is ours, Perry”. More
El Paso, Texas, 1847. Unbound. This one-page stampless folded letter written on “Tuesday 26th” [January 1847] by Captain John T. Hughes, Company C, 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers is a postscript to a letter he had written newspaper editor the day before while at El Paso, Texas, shortly after seizing the..... More
New Orleans: 1807. Envelope or Cover. This 1807 two-page stampless folded letter, measuring 16” x 11¾“ unfolded, was sent by Dr. Robert Dow, a long-time Scottish immigrant, living in New Orleans, Louisiana Territory, to John Watkinson at Middletown Connecticut. The letter was carried to New York as indicated by the..... More
Sevastopol [Sebastopol], California: 1857. Unbound. This two-page letter measures approximately 7.25” x 12.5.” It is datelined “Sevastopol April 11 -57”. Although there were several Sebastopols/Sevastopols in California, the letter’s description of weather and lumbering indicate that this was probably written from the one in Nevada County. No mailing envelope. In..... More
London to New York and Boston: 1813. Unbound. This two-page stampless folded letter measures 15.75” by 10” unfolded. It is datelined “duplicate London 30th January 1813.” The letter was forwarded to New York after originally having been addressed to Boston. It bears a straight-line “SHIP” handstamp and two receiving postmarks..... More
New York City to West Point, New York: 1848. Envelope or Cover. This one-page stampless folded letter measures approximately 16” x 9.75”. It was sent by John Moorhead in New York City, to Captain Brewerson, an engineer stationed at West Point. The letter bears a manuscript annotation “Post Paid,” a...... More
Most from Nevada mining towns: Most from 1900-1910. Collection of forty-eight western tokens plus other exonumia composed mostly of merchant "good for" tokens, several Pony Express commemorative ‘so-called-dollars’, a tool-check, and a ‘dog house’ license. These were issued at various locales, mostly in Nevada with a couple from California. The..... More
Savannah, Georgia and the Brig Troup: 1813-1817. Envelope or Cover. This correspondence consists of three stampless folded letters. The first two letters were favor-carried and have no postal markings. The third has a circular Savannah, Georgia postmark and manuscript “75”, three times the normal postage indicating it had two enclosures..... More
Atlantic Gulch, Wyoming: 1872. This manuscript letter measures 5”x8”. It is in nice shape but was laid-down years ago on a period marbled bookboard. There is no mailing envelope since it was given in person by a father to his ten-year-old son along with “½ gr of native gold taken..... More
Alnwick, Northumberland, England: 1794. Envelope or Cover. This two-page stampless folded letter measures 14½” x 8¾” unfolded. It was sent by George Egdell in Alnwick, Northumberland, England to his brother, William, in New York City. The letter is datelined “Alnwick Decr. 10th 1794” and bears an Alnwick postmark and a...... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17.5” including the wide margins. Includes three inset maps of Pensacola, Tallahassee, and the St. Augustine Harbor, as well as “water route” distance tables for Pensacola and St. Augustine. Strong, clear image with attractive hand coloring. Very light soiling... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841. Unbound. Approximately 14” x 17.5” including the wide margins. Includes an inset map showing the western part of the Upper Peninsula and a distance table for Detroit Steam Boat Routes. Strong, clear image with attractive hand coloring. Very light soiling. This very attractive..... More
New Orleans: 1802. Unbound. This stampless folded letter from James (Santiago Pablo Francisco) Carrick in New Orleans to Messers Charles & Olivier Durand in Bordeaux is datelined “Nouvelle Orleans a 15 Novre 1802”. It bears a handstamp reading “Poste / Maritime / Bordeaux” and a manuscript rate marking. Written in..... More
Washington DC: 1853. Unbound. This one-page letter is datelined “Navy Department / June 1st. 1853.” It is addressed to the Honorable Solon Borland of Hot Springs, Arkansas and signed by James C. Dobbin, the Secretary of the Navy. There is no mailing envelope. The letter is in nice shape with..... More
U.S.S. Independence at New York: 1843. Envelope or Cover. This three-page stampless folded letter, measuring 16.5” x 9.5”, is datelined “U. S. Ship Independence / New York, Nov. 21st. 1843.” It bears a manuscript “12½” rate mark (the cost to send a letter from 80 to 150 miles) and a...... More
Petersburg, Virginia and Knob Noster, Missouri: 1864 & 1868. Envelope or Cover. The first of these three letters contains four pages and is datelined “Annapolis Maryland / April 8th 1864. Although unsigned, it is in the same hand as the other two letters and was found in the same lot..... More
Dumfries, Virginia to Geneva, New York: 1815. Unbound. This three-page stampless letter measures 12.5” x 7.5”. It is dated “Elm Wood 19th Sept 1815” and bears a manuscript “Dumfr 19 Sept” postmark applied at Dumfries, Virginia along with a “37½” postal rate mark, the cost to send a letter over..... More
Camp Lucas (St. Louis), Missouri to Warren Court House, Pennsylvania: 1847. This one-page stampless folded letter measures 15.5” x 10” unfolded. It is dated “Camp Lucas May 30th 1847.” The cover must have been delivered by hand, outside of the postal system, as it is unfranked and bears no postmarks..... More
