Winter Auction 2013

A trio of items related to the Crow Creek Agency, post Civil War. Includes: manuscript D.S. 4pp. legal folio, Sept. 16, 1865, a ledger sheet with a li

Hand-woven belt from the Chimu culture of northern coastal regions of Peru, a people that grew and flourished from 900-1400 AD. The cotton belt measur

Manuscript D.S. 1p. small folio parchment, New York, May, 1696, a deed in which Heyttie Clopper, widow of prominent New Amsterdam landowner Cornelius

SAMUEL WARD (1814 - 1884) "Uncle Sam". American politician and lobbyist for financiers seeking legislation in their favor, brother of Juli...

A small scale for gold manufactured by W. &. T. Avery of Birmingham, housed within a wooden. The scale appears to be intact with plates, cord an...

An interesting war-date A.L.S. of J. C. C. Hoskins, a Dartmouth engineer, who headed west to Leavenworth and Sioux City 1857. In 1863, he served as Co

A curious piece, a 34" bone walking stick with what appears to be an ivory knob at top, the ivory bearing several separating disks of an unknow...

A quirky piece of oenophilia, a recipe for wine penned ca. 1850 on a small blue sheet. The concoction calls for, in part: "...1 Bushel Currants...

Large brown glazed earthenware pitcher, 8" tall, 6" diameter at top, bears swastikas encircling top and bottom with two larger swastikas o...

A very rare partly-printed D.S. 1p. oblong folio (16" x 20"), Alcatraz Island, Jan. 15, 1883, a "Descriptive List and Account of Pay ...

Good lot of 12 childrens alphabet blocks from the late 180os, each about 5" x 2 1/2" x 1 1/4", hollow cardboard construction with qua...

Lot of five items from the Cleveland Fire Department, past and present, includes three chief's badges, one quite early ca. 1920, a ca. 1940 hat ...

An interesting pair of letters of George W. Smith of "Black and Tan Pit Games" in Washington, DC, on his firm's letterhead, Sept. 18, ...

A fine ca. 1850s watch fob, 12" long, composed of hundreds of tiny multicolor glass beads strung on thin wire and braided into a square pattern...

A great group of documents related to prohibition (and ways around it!) in Louisville, Ky., 1930. It contains the printed application of one Dr. Myron

Pair of posters issued by the Young Socialist Alliance, New York, ca. 1968, each about 17" x 22. The Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) was a Trots...

WALTER R. BENJAMIN Newspaper reporter turned autograph dealer, possibly the most influential of the nineteenth-century. A.L.S. on his firm's let...

(1821 - 1861) Great grandnephew of George Washington and the last Washignton to own Mount Vernon. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the staf

(1752-1810) Officer in the Continental Army during Revolutionary War, commander of the Light Dragoons, nephew of George Washington. A.D.S., 1 p., 2 3/

(1735 - 1826) Second President of the United States and a drafter of the Declaration of Independence, which he also signed. He later joined Franklin