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Percival Drayton

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Percival Drayton

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Auction Date:2013 Mar 21 @ 18:00 (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
Union navy officer (1812–1865) who commanded naval forces against Confederate forts defended by his brother Thomas F. Drayton in the capture of Port Royal, South Carolina in 1861. Two items: one Civil War–dated original 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of Drayton in uniform by Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries of New York, signed in the lower border in black ink, “P. Drayton, Capt. US Navy,” and on the reverse, “P. Drayton, Captain US Navy, Jan’y 18, 1865”; and one partly-printed DS signed “P. Drayton,” one page, 8.25 x 2.5, September 1, 1865, a receipt for a payment of $127.19. In overall fine condition, with silvering to dark areas of the carte-de-visite image and a revenue stamp affixed to the reverse.