RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 21.25 x 16.75, November 16, 1853. Four-language ship’s papers issued to “Joseph K. Green master or commander

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 16 x 19.5, April 16, 1860. President Buchanan appoints Samuel Franklin Mills as “Brevet Second Lieute

ALS, one page both sides, 6.25 x 8, November 8, 1864. Letter to Jeremiah S. Black, who had served in Buchanan’s cabinet as both attorney general and s

Crisp hand-addressed free frank panel, 5 x 3, addressed by Buchanan to “Roberts Vaux Esquire, Philadelphia,” and franked in the upper right, “Free, Ja

Civil War–dated handwritten endorsement, signed as president, “A. Lincoln,” dated September 9, 1861, on the reverse of the second integral page of a l

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 14.25 x 18.25, August 1, 1864. President Lincoln appoints George F. Browning as “First Lieutenant in

An engraved broadside memorial of Lincoln, 9 x 12.5, designed using the text of the Emancipation Proclamation in a calligraphic manner in the form of

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 16.75 x 11, August 12, 1865. President Johnson appoints Moses F. Odell a “Naval Officer for the District of

Eye-catching DS, one page, 14 x 17, August 28, 1865. Document bears several vignettes including Abraham Lincoln surrounded by clouds, rays of light, U

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 7.5 x 10, February 6, 1871. President Grant orders the secretary of state to “affix the Seal of the United S

Choice ink signature, “U. S. Grant, General,” on an off-white 3 x 1.5 card. Beautifully double-cloth-matted and framed with a portrait of Grant and a

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 18 x 14, March 21, 1870. President Grant appoints Wickham S. Havens as “Collector of Customs for the Distric

Two 2.25 x 5 carte-de-visite photos of Grant, one featuring a bust portrait and the other showing him seated outdoors in an ornately carved chair. Sca

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “R. B. Hayes,” one page, 15.5 x 19, March 7, 1879. President Hayes appoints Robert C. Walker as “Paymast

Boldly penned AQS on an off-white 5 x 7.75 lightly lined sheet, signed at the conclusion, “Rutherford B. Hayes.” Hayes quotes from Hamlet, Act III, Sc

Civil War–dated ALS signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, December 22, 1862. Letter to a colonel, in part: “Allow me, though late to o

Partial free frank, measuring 5.5 x 7.75 unfolded, with center panel measuring 5.5 x 3, addressed in another hand to “H. T. Gaylor, Esq., Whitehall, N

LS signed “J. A. Garfield,” one page, 8 x 10, July 19, 1880. Letter to John A. Bingham, the US minister to Japan. In full: “I have just received your

ALS in pencil as president, one page, 9 x 5.5, October 27, 1887. Handwritten draft for a telegram to Hon. W. Barclay McMerrick of Haverford College. I

ALS, one page, 5.25 x 6.5, personal Westland letterhead, January 28, 1898. Letter to the Arbitration Committee in Philadelphia. In full: “I must be pe