Historic and Military Autographs, & Militaria

Union soldier's drawing on an oblong 8vo. sheet, shows an officer in full dress and with his sword, asleep in his tent, with the next panel show...

A unique item, a 5" x 7 1/2" Civil War-period oval watercolor painting of an unidentified Union officer standing with sword in one hand wi...

A fine objet d'art, a color print of the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, 6 1/4" dia., intricately hand-colored in oil ca. ...

Fine 1887 L. Prang & Co., Boston chromolithograph depicting The battle of Kenesaw Mountain", 23 1/2" x 17", bearing two nominal 1...

English import knife with tortoiseshell grip (chipped near handguard) which is inlaid with an oval metal tag, 10" long overall, the blade marke...

Civil War era field glasses, 6 3/4" long, 5 1/4" wide, brass body, japanned, focus smoothly operable, optics unscratched and clear. With r...

Regulation Civil War infantry eagle drum, 16 1/2" diameter, 13" tall, all parts original and authentic including skins. Bottom skin shows ...

Civil War -era bass drum, 31" dia., bird's eye maple with red painted trim, new ropes, skins and fittings but original leather tabs, some p...

A neat Civil War relic, a 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 3/8" section of wood bearing a Union corps badge carving in relief. The relic is accompan...

Pair of pre-1861 enlisted man's shoulder scales, excavated, an unmatched pair in good condition. Estimate: $50 - 75. Download Our Current P...

Original Union 1861 pattern leather cartridge box complete with sling and eagle plate, manufactured to accommodate forty .58 caliber minie ball cartri

Original Union 1861 pattern leather cartridge box complete except for the leather shoulder strap, originally manufactured to accommodate forty .58 cal

A fine and rare relic from the Gettysburg battlefield, a delicate 35" pyro-designed knobby wood cane with a 4" gnarled grip marked with th...

A fine relic from the Gettysburg battlefield, a 36" pyro-designed knobby wood cane 1" brass tip at bottom, from a local collection. This c...

A fine Gettysburg battlefield relic, a 34" knobby wood cane with brass tip bearing a red wood inlaid Army of the Potomac corps badge and hand-c...

Civil War-era navy blue wool (Union) kepi, private contract manufacture, eagle buttons, 3 1/2" high at front, 5 1/2" high in rear, 1 3/4&q...

Dark blue broadcloth kepi, 2 1/2" tall at front, 3 1/2" tall at back, 1 3/4" black leather visor reinforced at edge, brass eagle butt...

Red wool Maryland Civil War-era kepi, possibly C.S.A. militia, bearing Canfield, Bro. & Co., Baltimore imprinted makers label within, bears staf...

Lot of four Civil War insignia produced post-war, includes: 15th Corps "40 Round" insignia, brass, 1 3/8" sq., with two fixed pins on...

An exceptional knife made by R. Bunting & Co., Sheffield, ca. 1850, 17 1/2" overall with a 12" blade bearing etching in capital letter...

Ramrod from a Model 1855 Springfield musket, the end intentionally bent upwards 2 1/2" inches to form a hook. Many believe that such hooks, mos...

A fine trio of items related to the decisive Civil War battle between the Union sloop of war Kearsarge commanded by John A. Winslow, and CSS commerce

A nice grouping of relics from the two historic battles: a group of four minie balls and a bullet casing with period note identifying them as being fr

Fine group of uniform relics from the battle of Cold Harbor, namely a 4" x 4" (irregular) section of Confederate butternut uniform in a re...

Nice example of the Union "bullseye" canteen, the brown cloth cover entirely intact but likely a replacement, bears the original strap but...

U.S. cartridge box plate, excavated, 3 3/8" long, loops on lead-filled verso, with three raised areas of oxidized iron coming through the face....

A neat relic from the desperate battle at Cold Harbor, an approx. 3" x 4" section of uniform, likely Union, recovered by a digger on or ne...

A dog bite leads to an international incident… Superb content L.S. " Brunet " as secretary to the French Legation to the United States, 3...

(1797 - 1883) Black American abolitionist born a slave, she became the first black woman to speak out against slavery and lectured throughout the East

A highly-unusual and rare ink drawing on an oblong 4to sheet of lined paper c. 1860-80 depicting three black dancers, two women and a man by an unknow

Extremely rare hand-forged slave collar, ca. 1840’s, approximately 18” in length and likely used on a child on a plantation. The collar is composed of

Extremely rare hand-forged slave collar, ca. 1840’s, approximately 14 3/4” in length and likely used on a child on a plantation. The collar is compose

Scarce manuscript D.S., 1p. 8vo., Bourbon Co., Ky., June 7, 1841 in which James M. Allen and William Parker agree to: "...manumit and forever s...

JAMES ALFORD (c. 1769 - 1842) was born enslaved in Elizabethtown, N.J. who early in life had a spiritual awakening at age eighteen that compelled him

Written on his auctioneer's letterhead Very rare slave auctioneer's letter on his auction house letterhead with imprinted transmittal envel...

Partly-printed slave bill of sale, 1p. legal folio, Savannah, Georgia, Jan. 25, 1789, for the purchase of "Will", a mulatto man, "Dav...

Slave bill of sale, 1p. 12mo., [n.p.], Oct. 24, 1853, in part: "Received of R. B. Kyle eight hundred and fifty dollars in full payment for a ne...

Manuscript D.S., 1p. 4to., Gallatin, Ky., Nov. 14, 1836 in which a father deeds a four year-old slave boy to his son. In part: "...in considera...

Unusual A.D.S., 1p, oblong 8vo., [n.p.], Jan. 14, 1836, in which a man buys a slave, "Ned", from the "Slate River Company" for t...

Manuscript document 1p. 4to., Wake County, North Carolina, Sept. 10, 1849, an Indenture in which Sarah Edwoods sells to Carbon [?] Edwoods "......

Partly-printed D.S. 1p. 8vo., Vicksburg, MI, Mar. 1, 1853, in which S. Edwards, the Sheriff and Tax Collector, bills the heir of one Silas Hilson for

Fascinating last will and testament of Stephen Goggin, 2pp. legal folio, Madison Co., Kentucky, Mar. 24, 1841 in which the rather bitter writer cuts o

Fascinating manuscript D.S. 50pp. legal folio attached with ribbon at top margin, Austin, Tex., Jan. 13, 1869 detailing a suit in which the executors

A large selection on slave advertisements, including the auction of an entire riverfront plantation with about 600 acres and 71 named slaves, all cont

A copy of the Springfield Republican, Springfield, Mass., Nov. 1, 1860, 8pp. folio, which reports among other things, "...Another slaver captur...

Three ca. 1918 hard mount photographs of a Jefferson County, Tenn. family playing doctor with their black friend. One depicts a woman with her child t

An issue of the newspaper Negro World: A Newspaper Dedicated to the Interests of the Negro Race", founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914. This copy i...

A small broadside printed on pink paper measuring 6" x9", published by the White Supremacist Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans ...

Muhammad Speaks, Outside Illinois, Oct. 20, 1967, 28 pp. Cover pictures the leader of the Nation of Islam with the quote "Warning Black Politic...

An amazing relic of an extreme arm of the Civil Rights movement, a 17" x 21" poster printed by "Jihad Productions" - clearly hav...