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GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD SOUVENIRS.

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD SOUVENIRS.
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD SOUVENIRS. A fine group of ephemera, including a walnut plinthe mounted with a piece of grapeshot, a Union button, a piece of granite, a fossil blastoid, and the tip of a minnie. Inked on base "From Gettysburg" along with a grapeshot, three minnie's, a bullet from a handgun, a peach pit, and several pieces of granite, all wrapped in a sheet of paper "From Little Round Top". PLUS an 1880s cabinet card showing the interior of Danner's Battlefield Museum. WITH a lump of fused tacks in paper labelled "Widerich's Battery...(Unreadable)." Provenance: From the effects of Captain W.H. Mickle, 134th New York, who was wounded at Gettysburg and participated in several GAR reunions at the battlefield. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD ON EBAY LIVE AUCTIONS BETWEEN 4:00-5:00pm EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME ON MAY 10, 2002. REGISTER NOW TO BID LIVE ONLINE THE DAY OF THE SALE! (EST 300-400)
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