Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Docketing signature, “Wm Ellery,” dated 1776, and notation on the reverse of an extraordinarily rare 13.25 x 16.75 partly-printed land deed for land being sold to William Channing. Document reads, in part: “To all people to whom these presents shall come William Channing of Newport in the county of Newport and colony of Rhode Island send greeting, KNOW YE, that the said William Channing for and in consideration of the sum of eighty pounds lawful money to me. In Hand, before the ensealing hereof, well and truly paid by William Ellery of Newport aforesd Esq. The receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and myself therewith fully satisfied, contented and paid; and thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof . . . lot of land . . . two acres and one quarter be the same more or less and bounded Northerly on a driftway Easterly on a high way Southerly on land of George Gibbs and Westerly on the land of Christopher Ellery.” Docketed on the reverse, “Deed Wm. Channing to Wm Ellery opa Baker’s Spring…1776.” Document has been professionally backed restoring several areas of paper loss. Aforementioned repair and restoration, intersecting folds, uniform toning over docketing panel, backing applied over docketing and signature, and scattered toning and creasing, otherwise very good condition. We know of only three other existing documents, and all sold almost 15 years ago at Christie's. A similar endorsement, Lot 47, sold for over $8000.
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