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Fine Selection of Autographs and Manuscripts

Auction CurrencyUSD Auction LocationUnited States In Person PreviewBy Appointment Friday, March 1st 11:00am - 5:00pm; Saturday March 2nd 9:00am - 11:00am

Auction Details

We are pleased to announce our latest auction catalog featuring fine autographs and manuscripts in all fields of collecting. The auction will be in two parts and will include a live auction to take place at the Shelburne Murray Hill Hotel, 303 Lexington Ave. (@37th. St.) New York, NY on March 2, 2002 with an absentee auction closing March 6, 2002 at 10:00pm Eastern Time.

Dozens of lots shall include prominent figures and events of the Civil War and the American Revolution, including a proposal in the hand of Signer Arthur Middleton calling for the death penalty for people caught trading with the British; fine Civil War correspondences and images; a letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson detailing the faculty recruitment efforts for the University of Virginia. Of particular interest are documents from the estate of Judge Irving Kaufman who tried and sentenced Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to death for espionage in 1951 including his appointment as District Judge for the Southern District of New York signed by Harry Truman as well as his appointment to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals signed by John and Robert Kennedy. We are also pleased to offer a fine selection of material concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy including candid snapshots taken on November 22, 1963, suits worn by Jack Ruby, as well as fine content documents and letters of Kennedy, Oswald and Ruby. As usual we will also offer lots sold on an absentee basis, closing Wednesday, March 6, 2002 at 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time.

We will hold a public viewing for lots offered in the live auction on Friday, March 1, 2002 at the Shelburne Hotel from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. and Saturday, March 2, 2002 from 9 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. Viewings at our offices may be arranged by appointment.
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(NAVAL SALT PRINT)151 - (NAVAL SALT PRINT)
Alexander Autographs
"A nice salt print measuring 5 3/4"" x 7 1/2"" on paper mount, showing a naval officer wearing a regulation July 1862-July ...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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(STEREOVIEW OF GENERAL GRANT)152 - (STEREOVIEW OF GENERAL GRANT)
Alexander Autographs
"A great outdoor stereoview card bearing a double 6"" x 3"" photograph showing General Grant sitting in a homemade chair at...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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(1ST MASS. HEAVY ARTILLERY carte-de-visite)153 - (1ST MASS. HEAVY ARTILLERY carte-de-visite)
Alexander Autographs
"A great outdoor carte-de-visite of a 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery color guard with field officers present, showing seventeen men near a single ch...
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
 
 
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(TINTYPE CIVIL WAR SAILOR)154 - (TINTYPE CIVIL WAR SAILOR)
Alexander Autographs
"A good war-date 1/6th plate tintype of a sailor with rank insignia on sleeve, showing him in regulation shirt with scarf with lightly tinted c...
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
 
 
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(YOUNG, BRIGHAM)155 - (YOUNG, BRIGHAM)
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(1801 - 1877) Leader of the Mormon church who succeeded Joseph Smith as head of the church and led the mass migration to Salt Lake Valley. Young was
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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(RUNAWAY SLAVE BROADSIDE)156 - (RUNAWAY SLAVE BROADSIDE)
Alexander Autographs
"A fine broadside, measuring approximately 9"" x 12"", Liberty, [Mo.], Mar. 7, 1860, in which John S. Majors offers "&...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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(SLAVE AUCTION BROADSIDE)157 - (SLAVE AUCTION BROADSIDE)
Alexander Autographs
Exceedingly rare broadside advertising the sale in New Orleans of 28 named slaves, 1p. 5 1/4"" x 13"", ""Gravier Stre...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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(SLAVE AUCTION POSTER)158 - (SLAVE AUCTION POSTER)
Alexander Autographs
Uncommon poster advertising the auction of the estate of a Lincoln Co., Kentucky man, to include land, a mill, and his slave, 1p. 11 1/2""...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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(RUNAWAY SLAVE REWARD POSTER)159 - (RUNAWAY SLAVE REWARD POSTER)
Alexander Autographs
Excellent, rare poster advertising a reward for the capture of a runaway slave, 1p. 9"" x 12 1/4"". The boldly-printed poster re...
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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(GRAPHIC SLAVE ARREST WARRANT)160 - (GRAPHIC SLAVE ARREST WARRANT)
Alexander Autographs
A rather graphic early slave arrest warrant, 1p. sm. folio, Warren Co., NC, Dec. 22, 1798, a proclamation in which Justices of the Peace William Johns
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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