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40,000.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2004 Oct 12 @ 16:37UTC-5 : EST/CDT
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IMPORTANT LOT OF CUSTER PHOTOGRAPHS. This lot consists of fifteen original early photographs of or related to George Armstrong Custer. A photocopy of a letter from Larry Wilson accompanies this lot, and it traces the provenance of the photos directly back to the Custer family, from which it was acquired in the 1960s. It was originally sold out of the family with Custer’s fabulous cased pair of Tiffany-decorated S&W pistols, which now reside in the Autrey Museum of Western Heritage. Accompanying this lot is a two-page letter from Larry Wilson dated July 11, 2004 wherein he states that this collection of photographs and the above mentioned Smith & Wesson revolvers were purchased by the late John Solley and stored the entire lot in Mr. Wilson’s vault until the revolvers were sold to King Hussein of Jordan’s trust. At that time, the photographs and other items from the Solley collection, were sold elsewhere. The photos are: 1) CDV of Custer in classic pose in uniform of a Major General. The back has a pencil notation "Custer" and also an Internal Revenue 2¢ stamp dated Goldin & Co, June 27, 1865, Washington, D.C. - Fine. 2) CDV of Custer in uniform wearing a cape with fur collar with six other general officers including Sheridan. - Fine. 3) A stereoptic viewer card of Custer in buckskins holding a rifle posed with a huge grizzly bear, two Caucasian hunters and an Indian holding a Sharps carbine. Card is marked "Lovejoy and Foster, Chicago, Ill." - Yellowed but fine. 4) A 8" x 10" print with oval image of young Custer in the West Point uniform. - Yellowed with water stain in the upper left corner, not on Custer's image. Gelatin silver print photograph - copy of daguerreotype taken circa 1858. 5) Fine cabinet card of Custer in buckskins and mid-calf boots wearing a foraging cap holding a Springfield pre-Officer's Model Trapdoor rifle in a studio posed picture. It is an oval image 6-1/2" x 4-1/2", stamped on the picture and the cardboard frame "BARRY" and signed "Barry / Phila" in white ink just behind Custer's image. - Very fine, slightly yellowed. 6) An 8-3/8" x 6-1/8" vertical image of Custer in buckskins wearing a Hardee-type hat seated on the ground with a Remington Rolling Block Sporting rifle that has a short heavy barrel. His right hand is holding the antler of a large bull elk. There appear to be tent guide ropes in the background. - Extremely fine, sepia toned, sharp image wet-plate albumin photograph. 7) Matching photographs of Libby and George Custer that have 6-3/8" x 4-3/8" images mounted in original Barry cardboard frames. Both photographs and frames are stamped Barry. The backs of the frames have Barry's paper stamp in the upper left corner and have pencil notations "Gen Custer" and "Mrs. Custer". - Both photographs are glossy, slightly toned with sharp images. 8) A hand tinted cabinet card of a young Libby Custer with 4-3/4" x 3-1/2" oval image of Mrs. Custer with elaborate hairdo, a scarf around her shoulder, and a mantilla on her hair with a heavy chain and cross around her neck. The bottom of the card is marked "Cabinet Portrait W.W. Washburn, New Orleans, LA". It has the printed signature and 113 Canal Street of Washburn. - Slightly toned but fine. 9) A 8-13/16" x 5-3/4" horizontal image of an Army camp scene with several rows of tents, wagons, horses and an ambulance. Apparently camped near a waterhole somewhere on the prairie. - Yellowed but with clear image. Wet plate albumen photgraph in oval mat. 10) Two 8" x 10" card weight photos, one with 7-1/8" x 5-1/8" vertical image of a bay window with numerous house plants, a Victorian chair, a birdcage, and a guitar with heavy drapes surrounding. Marked on the back "Bay window in quarters of General Custer at Fort A. Lincoln D.T." The other has a 7-3/4" x 6" horizontal image of the same room with numerous items of furniture including a parlor grand piano, fireplace with statuary, a harp, a table and sideboard, a large antelope head, and a three lamp chandelier. Marked on the back "Mrs. Custer's house, Fort Lincoln D.T." - Both photos slightly yellow but good images. Wet plate albumen photographs, probably from photographer O.S. Goff. 11) A cabinet card by D.F. Barry of a chubby Indian man with breechcloth, long braids, and an eagle feather in his hair with a large cross and abalone shell decoration around his neck. He is studio posed with a sea shore backdrop. The bottom edge of the image is stamped "Chief Gall" copyrighted by D.F. Berry, West Superior, Wisconsin. - Slightly yellowed but fine. 12) Cabinet card of Custer’s father Emmanuel in a 3-pc suit with white shirt wearing a long white beard. It bears the company name of C.W. Hills, Monroe, Michigan. - Slightly yellowed but fine, image a little faint. 13) Large photograph, 8" x 10" with 8-3/4" x 6-1/2" horizontal image of Emmanuel Custer in his suit wearing a top hat, gauntlets and spurs sitting in the saddle of Custer's famous battle horse Dandy. Dandy had been injured in a previous cavalry charge and was unable to serve at the Little Big Horn so he survived his Indian Wars service. He was returned to the Custer family home, where he lived the rest of his life. The saddle blanket is definitely a 7th Cavalry item with light color border and a darker interior with a metal "7" in the rear corner. Emmanuel and Dandy are posed in front of a clapboard house with covered porch, shaded by ivy and a pine tree, presumably the Custer family home. - Fine, slightly yellowed with chipped corners and small water stain not effecting the image. This is a fabulous lot of photos Custer traceable directly back to the Custer family. 4-53319
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