Historic Americana

DATED 1776 BEDFORD CARVER POWDER HORN--EX. DRESSLAR. A finely carved priming horn, circa 9.5" in length, engraved with three lines of text: &...

WAR OF 1812 HANDBILL. This handbill is 4.5" x 7.5", entitled "Extract of a Letter." It quotes a New Hampshire Federalist who ur...

RELIC FROM PERRY'S FLAG SHIP, USS NIAGARA. Mahogany and glass vitrine, 19.12 x 9.6 x 8" containing a large piece of oak and an iron spike ...

IMPORTANT WAR OF 1812 MANUSCRIPTS FROM OHIO. Elijah Wadsworth Papers. 1807-1866, 26 items. A Major General in the Militia from the turn of the cent

PORTRAIT OF GENERAL SAMUEL HOUSTON, GRAPHITE AND INK WASH ON PAPER. Anonymous, graphite and ink on paper, 7.25 x 6" (sight), framed with mat an...

EARLY LEATHER-COVERED POWDER OR SHOT JUG. Great carved wood jug, 7" tall x 2.5" wide covered with split and polished harness leather tack...

AMES POWDER FLASK. This Army powder flask is one of the variants of the mid-19th century (1830s-40s) Ames "Peace Flasks." It has the shie...

RARE ELLSWORTH/BROWNELL FERROTYPE PENDANT. A fabulous 1" ferrotype brass shell with portrait of the Elmer Ellsworth, the first casualty of the...

TINTYPE OF TRIPLE ARMED YANK. A sixth-plate tintype of a seated soldier drawing an Enfield saber bayonet from his scabbard ready to fix onto the Brit

TINTYPE OF CIVIL WAR AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENLISTED MAN IN GREATCOAT. This unvarnished sixth-plate tintype recorded an unidentified private of short statu

QUARTER PLATE TINTYPE OF MOUNTED CAVALRY OFFICER. Anonymous, quarter plate tintype of a dashing bearded Union Captain on his mount. He sports a tam-

TINTYPE OF PVT. PERRY FRY, 94TH ILLINOIS, KIA. A sixth-plate tintype of a fresh recruit with musket and silver-hilted English bowie knife tucked into

RARE TINTYPE OF UNION WINTER QUARTERS. An intriguing outdoor sixth-plate tintype offering a rare candid glimpse of military life in the field. The r

QUARTER PLATE TINTYPE OF YANKS AND FLAG. A quarter-plate tintype of two newly minted infantry non-commissioned officers photographed against the back

TINTYPE OF A YANK WITH A STARR REVOLVER. A sixth-plate tintype of an early war unidentified cavalryman cradling an M1840 "wrist breaker" ...

GREAT AMBROTYPE OF MOUNTED UNION CAV OFFICER. Very rare quarter-plate ruby ambrotype of an armed cavalryman brandishing his saber against the backdro

TINTYPE OF ID'D YANK WITH SABRE AND REMINGTON .44. A quarter-plate tintype of an effeminate-looking trooper boasting a classic saber up, pistol...

GREAT AMBROTYPE OF BOSTON LIGHT ARTILLERYMAN. A pristine sixth-plate ruby ambrotype of a Boston Light Artillery enlisted man, circa 1860. An elite c

TWO TINTYPES OF ID'D 4TH WI LIGHT ARTILLERYMAN. A pair of sixth-plate tintypes taken at the same sitting and identified with period ink inscrip...

TINTYPE OF CIVIL WAR PRIVATE WITH ENFIELD. A loose sixth-plate tintype of a private wearing a pork-pie hat and holding an Enfield rifle in full leath