Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Manuscript DS, signed “Paul Revere & Son,” one page, 7.75 x 2.75, February 1, 1810. An invoice and receipt for copper, supplied by Revere, for two lighthouses, one at Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard, the other at Clark’s Point in New Bedford, Massachusetts, stating that $122.52 is owed to Revere for 217 pounds of sheet copper. Written below the calculation is: “Rec’d payment of…Weston, Superintendant by the hand of J. Clapp,” and signed at the bottom by Revere. A notation at the lower left indicates this is a “Duplicate” receipt. Several light vertical folds (one through a single letter of signature), small chip to left edge, a uniform shade of mild toning, a couple brushes to writing, small tape remnant to reverse, and closely trimmed edges, otherwise fine condition.
The Gay Head lighthouse was authorized by Congress during George Washington’s administration and went into service in 1799. In 1797, at Clark’s Point, local merchants built the first lighthouse, overlooking Buzzards Bay. The federal government took control of it in 1800, and after a fire, erected a new lighthouse in 1804. During this same period, Revere had invested heavily in the development of the first copper-rolling mill in America, located in Canton, Massachusetts. The operation supplied the material for the dome of the Massachusetts State House and for the roof of New York’s city hall, for the re-coppering of the hull of the U.S.S. Constitution in 1803, and for the boilers in several of Robert Fulton’s early steamboats. As early as 1801, the business was referred to as Paul Revere and Son, as noted in the offered document. It is most likely that this 1810 document refers to Revere’s copper operation being used to repair and refurbish the Gay Head and Clark’s Point structures.
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