Winter Auction 2013

Fascinating manuscript D.S. 50pp. legal folio attached with ribbon at top margin, Austin, Tex., Jan. 13, 1869 detailing a suit in which the executors

(1727/8 - 1804) Virginia planter and grandson of Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman. After a religious awakening in 1787, Carter rejected s...

One of the earliest known contracts documenting the sale of a slave in the Western Hemisphere, 2pp. legal folio, Arequipa (Peru), Apr. 24, 1550, only

Printed sheet music boldy entitled: "LITTLE EVA; Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel…Composed and Most Respectfully Dedicated to MRS. HARRIET BEECHE...

Interesting printed broadside 8 1/2" x 13" on blue sheet, Mohawk Parsonage, Mill Point, May 15, 1879 printed by the Missionary and Rural D...

A manuscript L.S. of Indian Agent WILLIAM P. WYMAN, 1p. 4to., Crow Agency, Montana Territory, Aug. 5, 1889, to A. M. Quivey, Esq. Wyman forwards paper

Partly-printed document, 1p. oblong 8vo., "Cherokee Nation" District, Sept. 1, 1893, in which: "Permission is hereby granted to D. W....

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, ...