Winter Auction 2013

(1735 - 1786) American soldier, colonel of the 1st Pennsylvania regiment, served in Canada and at Ticonderoga, and after the battle of Long Island wa

(1741 - 1804) Irish born physician who served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army and later as a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental C

(1746-1807) Revolutionary War brigadier general and clergyman who served under von Steuben and aided in the assaults on Stony Point and Yorktown. Man

(1746 - 1825) American diplomat and general, an aide to Washington at Brandwine and Germantown, member of the Constitutional Convention and first to

(1754 - 1834) Massachusetts officer, aide-de-camp to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln from 1777 to 1780. Second in command to Alexander Scammell at Yorktown and

(1753 - 1831) Revolutionary War officer, aide to Benedict Arnold and appointed by Washington to be Secretary for Continental Army records. A.L.S. 1p.

Unusual manuscript D.S. "N. Otis Cler " 1p. 4to., , Oct. 21, 1729, an affidavit concerning the case of man who attempted to offer a l

A painstakingly-drawn rebus copied from Benjamin Franklin's "The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket; by Doctor Franklin&q...

Interesting manuscript document, 1p. legal folio, Boston, [n.d.], titled: "New manner of forming a company in order of Battalion as practiced b...

Ornately decorated French-style 18th century military flintlock musket, .69 caliber, 55" long, possibly an 1808 pattern. The musket, still oper...

Powder horn, 13 1/2" long, bearing inscriptions and fanciful drawings by an upstate New Yorker, likely a militiaman, daing back to 1777. The la...

Revolutionary War powder horn, 11", once owned and used by a Pennsylvania Revolutionary War militiaman. The horn bears an image of two rearing ...

Unusual A.L.S. "Isaac Peirce" 2pp. legal folio, Jamestown, [R.I.], July 15, 1771 to Edward Hull, President of the town council of Jamestow...

An excessively rare piece of Confederate headgear, the surgeon's kepi once belonging to Lt. James W. Claiborne of the 12th Virginia and one of o...

(1833 - 1864) Confederate major general of cavalry who circled McClellan's army twice, was late to the battle of Gettysburg, and in 1864 was mo...

(1816 - 1873) Confederate major general who served with distinction in the Valley Campaign of 1862. Johnson led Stonewall Jackson's old division...

(1821 - 1904) Confederate major general who commanded Lee's right wing at Antietam, and the left flank at Chickamauga. Longstreet has been accu...

An excessively rare U.S. Captain of Rifles frock coat, one of only a tiny handful known to be in public or private hands. This dark blue single breast

(1833 - 1916) Confederate officer, "The Grey Ghost" led his Partisan Rangers on numerous troublesome raids against Union forces and suppl...

Excessively rare broadside, 1p., 5 1/2" x 10 1/2"., Austin: [printer unknown], headed: "REPORT. COMMITTEE ROOM, January 31st, 1861&q...