Historic Americana

GROUP OF EARLY CAMPAIGN TORCHES. Lot of 4. Includes two small parade torchlights one of which is complete and original. The lot also includes a &q...

PARADE TORCH & TORCH CANE. Lot of two canes, including a novelty tin torchlight cane. The knob at the top is removed to reveal the wick of the ...

GREAT FLAMBEAU TORCH. A two sectioned parade torch having two burners and oil spout on one section and a spout to fill with sawdust on the other sect

LOT OF POLTICAL AND PATRIOTIC CANES. First is hard to find bronze head of Cleveland with "St. Louis" embossed on front at base and "...

THREE CANES FROM THE GRAND OLD PARTY. Lot of 3. Includes white metal figural cane with Grover Cleveland. Gusset band below collar area, nickel and st

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN TRIVETS. Lot of two cast iron campaign trivets. One each of Garfield and Cleveland. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD ON EBAY L

GREAT REFERENCE BOOKS FOR PINBACKS & AMERICANA. Hake and King, Price Guide to Collectible Pin-Back Buttons, 1896-1986, HAC Press, 1986; and Su...

GREAT REFERENCE "BIBLE" FOR POLITICAL CAMPAIGN COLLECTIBLES. Lot of 3. Encyclopedia of Political Buttons by Ted Hake. This is the three-v...

SCARCE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN REFERENCE BOOK. H.E. Collins, Threads of History. American Recorded on Cloth. 1775 to the Present. Smithsonian Press, 1979.

SLAVE BILL, MARCH 13, 1856. March 13, 1856 receipt for the$1000 sale of "a negro boy Charles about forty years of age....a slave for life.&quo...

SLAVE BILL OF SALE. Large 8vo, 1p, 184_. Receipt for the sale of Juliet, "about twenty two years age....sound in mind and body, a slave for li...

BILL OF SALE FOR 15 VIRGINIA SLAVES. Quarto, 1p, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, June, 1825. Bill of sale for 15 slaves sold by George Boyd to Thomas

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING BROADSIDE. Broadside, 10.50 x 16, n.d., n.p., announcing a fair to be held in conjunction with a local anti-slavery meeting to r

LOT OF 3 ABOLITION PUBLICATIONS. "The Radical Abolitionist." New York, Vol. 1, No. 8. Mar. 1856. A publication of the American Abolition ...

E. LOVEJOY BROTHER'S LETTER, SLAVERY. A 3pp. ALS from Joseph Lovejoy addressed to Mr. Samuel Silsbee(?), Charlestown, Maine, from Old Town, Mai...

ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER OF THE HANGING OF A BLACK MAN. Miami-Union--Extra, Troy, Ohio, Friday September 17, 1880, column one "HANGED!" Ter...

RACIST EARLY CHROMOLITHOGRAPH. Hand-colored lithograph entitled "Flowers or Ugliness No. 9," publ. by G.S. Tregear, London, 1836. This pr...

RACIST STROBRIDGE MINSTREL POSTER. This poster is 30.5 x 39.25" and has been professionally restored and mounted on linen. The poster is entit...

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE PINBACKS AND FOB. Lot of 4. Includes two "Votes for Women" buttons, a 7/8" black on brown, fine, and a 1.25&qu...

CARRIE NATION PROHIBITION CAST IRON HATCHET. Classic cast iron Carrie Nation anti- temperance replica hatchet. The image of Nation is pressed into th