Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

Letter of firearms salesman E.S. Parmenter, Utica, N.Y., June 23, (18)97, 2 pp., 7 3/4 x 10. To Percy Bowker, Wakefield, Mass. "I have severed ...

Length letter of Mississippi River town settler N. Lynch, Rock Island (Ill.), Apr. 17, 1849, 8 x 9 1/2, 4 full pp. + 2 pp. postscript on half-size blu

Manuscript legal A.D.S. of Justice William Imlay, stating that "Martha Blackwell of the Township of Upper Freehold...single woman, hath by her ...

Letter on pictorial stationery from G. Rundle, local agent of Singer Manufacturing Co., "89 Canal St., Opposite the Fountain," New Orleans...

Letter with splendid Grange Movement content, from Theodore Seinscott, Eagleport, Morgan County, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1875, 6 1/2 x 7 3/4, 2 full pp. To Sing

Group of six letters from Cyrus Stedman, the first penned aboard ship departing Boston harbor, "Sat. Night," postmarked Oct. 1, (1836), an...

Highly interesting A.L.S. of Sir Frederick Treves, English physician and surgeon to Royal family, physician to and friend of the Elephant Man, author

Splendid lettersheet "Merchants and Planters Prices Current," Mobile, Feb. 21, 1846, 9 x 11, 2 pp., closely printed with exhaustive inform...

Tall glass-domed radio broadcasting tube, salvaged from one of the first radio stations in America. Made c. 1925, one foot high, Western Electric #212

Old handmade dagger, 16" long, carved bone handle, hand-engraved steel. Probably mid-nineteenth century, North African origin. Blade tooled wit...

Petit "Allen Thurber & Co." double-action bar hammer percussion muff pistol. An interesting example, with uncommon, original cream ivo...

Camshaft assembly from 1905 Reo, 2-cylinder engine, their first model, made by Ransom E. Olds, namesake of Oldsmobile. With large gear and some fittin

Solid bronze nameplate from a greenhouse "Built by Lord & Burnham Co., Irvington, N.Y." Judged c. 1900-10. 1 1/2 x 10 1/2. The preemin...

Significant suite of five original, antebellum drawings (four signed), by John Henry Dunnell, one of the Forty-Niners, adventurer, California's ...

Splendid A.L.S. of colorful Western swashbuckler, mining stock promoter and engineer John D. ("One-Eyed") Burgess, on his professional let...