J Russell & Co Green River Works Knife Collection: For your consideration is a collection of three Northern Plains Indian trade knives. These knives are manufactured by J. Russel & Co. from Green River Works and would have typically been traded to the Northern Plains Indians during the 19th Century. Each knife shows the "J. Russell & Co. Green River Works" hallmark parallel with the hilt. John Russell founded his namesake cutlery circa early 1830's; by 1836, he moved the factory location to the Green River, Massachusetts area. A fire delayed the factory’s success, but by circa 1840, with the help of Henry Clapp, the factory was rebuilt and christened the "Green River Works", with all knives produced here hallmarked, "J. Russell & Co. Green River Works. " Each of these pieces show a nice patina on the blade and a hardwood handle with copper rivets. This collection shows good condition overall, considering age and use. These knives measure approximately 9", 10. 5" and 11" in overall length.
Letters Between the Sturges Brothers Most Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield Co. CT. He arrived in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary war although the exact date is uncertain. They were in Georgia by 1801 and in Waynesborough (now Waynesboro) by 1804. In May of 1804 he married Rachel Lowery (1786-1837). Samuel became one of the leaders of the community one of five members of the Board of Town Incorporators and was elected in 1813 as one of the first five commissioners. He held other town positions through his lifetime there.Samuel and Rachel had three children: Jane Robinson (1809-1817) William Urquhart (1816-1884) and John Reynolds (1827-1862). In the 1830 Census Samuel lists 10 slaves. William seems to have spent most of his career as a hotel keeper although he occasionally became something of a merchant picking up items for townspeople when he or his agents went to New York for supplies. Samuel died in 1831 when his youngest son was only three. Rachel followed but six years later.About this time the U.S. government was moving native peoples off their lands and the Cherokee had prime farm land in Georgia. The tribe appealed to the Supreme Court and won but President Andrew Jackson had the U.S. Army move them off their land anyway in what would be known as the "Trail of Tears". The Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832 indicates that the orphans of Samuel Sturges received lottery number 115 for the 8th District 1st section and Rachel (Rachael) received 143 for the 6th District 3rd Section. William would have been an adult at the time of Rachel's death so presumably he continued raising his younger brother John and the brothers remained close for life. William appears in the mid-century censuses as a hotel keeper but may have been a merchant earlier (implied in some of his letters).By 1844 John had made his way "up east." In the first letter in the collection William writes to John [4 Sept. 1844] in Princeton NJ passing along brotherly advice particularly about health issues: I am glad you took the step you did by entering on your studies soon after your arrival and congratulate yourself & John Shewmaker upon your success in entering the Sophomore class. I trust neither of you will flag yet I would advise that you keep an eye on your health. In that climate the constitution is easily undermined by leading too sedentary a life. Provide yourself with some means of bodily exercise perform some daily labour or take pedestrian exercise. Exercise with the "dumb bells" will tend to expand the chest and develop the muscles of the arms. These may seem of no importance now and may make seemingly no very great improvement in your feelings while you continue the use. They may be used as preventions. He also suggests that the young men enlist an agent to cash checks sent up to them and to hold any monies which were not immediately needed.On occasion William discusses politics in his letters. November of 1844 is one of those occasions being a presidential election year. (reconstructed letters in brackets.) The news political of this State is that sh[e] has cast her vote for Mr. Polk for president. The lat[e] [re]turns indicate that Mr. Polk will be our next President Much [to] the surprise of all politicians. I must feel as an American citizen should feel no little mortification at the result of this [con]test. I do heartily rejoice however that it is over. We have been from one end of this union to the other in a perfect stew and as the Whig "Pot" has boiled over and spilt all the fat in the fire (excuse this sentence) & we cannot make amends I trust we will have a little quiet & a little more trade and I truly hope a good deal more good feeling from our neighbors to another. The people will now return to their uniform Christian feelings. He goes on to note that the local medical college has resumed with an overflow class of 125 students and describes the amusements in town - the theater circus a ventriloquist / magician.William seems to have gone "all out" into Whig politics. The party formed largely in opposition to Jacksonian policies. It advocated investment in roads and railroads to tie the country together economically. Henry Clay one of the better known leaders of the party advocated returning proceeds from the sale of public lands to the states to make these improvements. This would certainly have been an attractive position for these members of the "merchant class " increasing the availability and decreasing the price of goods. At one point William writes referring to the folks in Burke and Waynesboro: Those people are to be envied somewhat for their quiet (seeming) happiness. But truly is a life of that kind to be objected to because of the excess of doing naught that tends to the usefulness or benefits of the human family. They have no meetings or gatherings but for frivolous amusement. He goes on to say that Augusta is determined to turn itself into a manufacturing town but so far "all talk no action." [30 Jan. 1845] In October 1845 William notes that Georgia elected a Whig governor [George Crawford] and would likely elect a Whig senator.Other Whig party leaders included William Henry Harrison and Daniel Webster. After Harrison's death John Tyler became president and his stand on states' rights was even stronger than most particularly attractive to the South as abolition issues were heating up. In 1847 Webster made a trip to this small southern town which William describes in his letter of 29 May: The very distinguished Mr. Webster of Massachusetts has been among us for some time near a week. He being detained on a/c [account] of health. He received from men of all parties the most marked attention and I hope will return well impressed with Southern hospitality and the better understanding our institutions particularly that of slavery. He says he will go home and tell his people what pleasure he derived from this time. He spent one day and night in Waynesboro when all the village visited him except Mr. Douglass.William seems to be a bit mistrusting of politicians generally. In a postscript to his letter of 20 Feby. 1845: A Duel which took place on the morning of the 20th (yesterday) terminated in the death of one of the combatants. They were double Brothers-in-Law and citizens of So. Ca. They fought at a distance of ten paces with muskets. From report there is another hostile party making preliminaries now in the city. They are to fire at 10 feet distant with pistols. This party are men who have been in high confidence in State Offices. It does not speak well of their morals without which no man can be safely trusted or truly great.By late in 1845 John and his friend decided that they did not really like Princeton although specific reasons are not indicated. They seem to have decided on Yale. In December 1845 William advises his brother: After conversation with John T. Shoemaker who had just reached here I have reconsidered your proposition to leave Princeton and now give my consent that you do so if you wish; the only advice I can give you is that you make the best possible use of your time while in any college.. I hope you will get into as few quarrels with the abolitionists in and about New Haven as possible for you must know that this is the hotbed of abolitionism and constant subject for conversation even among the old maids of which that place abounds in confused numbers. And abolition isn't the only issue to be considered [6 Jan. 1846]: I cannot know myself how or why either of the institutions may be the better for your education and would have preferred your graduating at Princeton only because it is know[n] as a "Southern institution "[emph. added] and I had presumed that you were as pleasantly located there as at any place except home.There was also a family connection to the area and it appears that John was curious about the family history and that may have attracted him to New Haven. William writes [18 Jany. 1846]: I am unable to give you as yet any clue to any members of our family. As to our Fathers family I can only say that within the state of Connecticut there must still some reside and very probably many near New Haven. Our Father was I think a native of Fairfield and presume that there was none of his immediate progenitors (?) living at or about the time of his death. I know only of one Brother to him and he died in this place now many years since.. [Nathaniel Sturges Sr. died in Waynesboro 7 Nov. 1826] We have no relations in the north but upon the Father's side and our Mothers being now nearly extinct.. However a number of times William emphasizes that John's education is more dependent on his efforts than on the school he chooses [4 Jany. 1846]: I have no objections to the change [of schools] and leave it entirely to your own discretion to stop at either of the institutions. .There is I think little depending on the institution you may pursue your collegiate course in or at least much less than upon your own industry and pursuit after knowledge. [18 Jany. 1846] I cannot deem it necessary or even prudent to lay out any path for your future course through life.. I desire you if it suits you to study Law. He is for any education that can be obtained - for anyone. It appeared that John's friend John Shewmaker could no longer afford to live in the East and continue in college. [8 Nov. 1845] If I were John I would exact the sum sufficient from my guardian to take me [through the] course - It might infringe a little upon my estate but the "value recd." would doubly compensate for the expenditure so made.William makes another interesting recommendation to his brother. [18 Jany. 1846] I will propose one thing which in after I think you will not repent(?) of following and this is that you look about when you return home for a good wife with a comfortable little fortune not however for her fortune alone. Earlier he warned of marrying in haste. He notes that there are six weddings in the next few weeks and hopes those who "act in haste" may not have cause "to repent at leisure" [8 Nov. 1845]. He also relates the story of a friend Nancy W. who became engaged to a gentleman she knew only a short time [20 Octr. 1845]. Her guardian persuaded her to wait a bit to marry. Two days later the man was engaged to her sister according to William proving the adage "one of the name was as good as the same." William does however suggest the man would have made a good husband. He had been twice widowed and had 3 children including an infant of only three months probably explaining his "rush to the altar."Along with the "states' rights" issues of the Whig party abolition was rearing its head as William's comment about New Haven indicates: A rumour is at present being circulated from Burke that Saml. Russell has run off with some several Negroes the property of different person near Waynesboro. Sam has very mysteriously disappeared from Burke and since the Christmas Holiday the negroes have not been heard of and further proof of his guilt by the testimony of a gentleman returning from the ??? part of this state that he saw him on board of some Steam Boat bound westward. The supposition is that he has [illeg.] his course for Texas via New Orleans and steps have been taken to follow him. We can only hope that justice may reach the offenders of the Law so speedily as to be to others a good warning . A letter from his niece Abby indicates the general attitude of this family toward "the help." She went to Savannah for a visit and [11 Feb. 1846]: On my way home I stopped at Waynesboro for three or four hours. While there I went round to see Cousin Betsy Douglas whom I found quite well. .I saw all the servants they were all quite well and want to see you very much indeed. Whenever they see me the first question is when did you hear from Mas. John and how is he. You know they are all to be sold next month. Uncle William is going to try and buy them all in as he hates to have them separated. Old Aunt Beckey hated it very much she can scarcely speak of it without tears coming into her eyes. A letter from William a month or so later indicates that he did just that. [9 March 1846] I remained in the village [Waynesboro] until after the sale which resulted in my purchasing all the negroes except little Becky who Mr. Dowse bot [bought] for Abby & Mary Ann and her daughters who was bot by Sid Dowse as was previously agreed upon. The servants are all now well satisfied and hope not to be harassed by the fear of being sold again soon. For the present they will all remain in Waynesboro but I presume soon to find a good situation for Lizzy here. Eliza will remain with Dr. Mst. and Celia will remain as a kind of nurse to Old Aunt Becky. In nearly every letter the servants send their regards and William reports their health status as well as that of the family.Health was a major concern especially in Georgia summers. The end of May brought the end of the school term and the end of the social season especially as that segment of the population would generally leave for the worst of the summer. In May 1845 William wrote: I . commend your contemplated tour on foot. I cannot advise however to make the tour if you must expose yourself to the sun through the month of July. Having been shut up in coledge [sic] regulation for many months previous I should think you are but ill prepared to much exposure to the sun and the consequent fatigue of such an undertaking. . I would advise.a trip as a manner of recreating the mind and seeing something of the many places of renown of which our glorious land abounds. He notes there was a party for a newly married couple This party winds up the gayiety of the village at least for this season. Many of those who move from Burke left the same week for their summer residences and the village is now left with its usual number of "Summer inhabitants " and entirely rid of its young folks. .I am sorry to say that old Aunt Becky's health is fast declining though she yet continues to go about. The rest of our servants are all well. Apparently William followed other residents of Burke County and went to Madison Springs: I am at quite a delightfull place being one of the fashionable resorts for the gay and fashionable of this State & SoCa. I have been drinking freely of the medicinal water here and find from it a great benefit induced thus far. I feel my strength much recovered & can see a decided improvement in fullness of person. After a period he writes John again apologizing that he has not written sooner but he did not want to be thought unsociable. [8 Sept. 1845] I have recovered in a very considerable degree the strength that a debility of two summers had rid me of. I consider the water here efficacious & the air fine and bracing but the constant exercise the spirits are compelled to take in part with the company goes a greater ways in the restoration of many visitors than anything else. .I think I have come in for my share of the good benefits of very agreeable society and do offer up my thanks for the advantage enjoyed. Indicates (at end of the letter) that it has been a dry year: So far as I can learn the health of that part of Georgia considered sickly in summer is better than I've known and the people have nothing to complain of but the shortness of the crop. They will make a sufficiency of provisions and a ? crop of cotton. This will for those who are out of debt but those - and they are many - who presumed to pay old debts from the proceeds of this crop must be disappointed. In the counties of the state from this to the Tennessee line the crop of provisions promises to be so short that many have made arrangement to leave the country and seek some place where corn is plenty. There has been quite a flood of emigrants from Carolina to Tennessee in search of cheap provisions. I am glad to know that they will find it quite low there. Considerable distress must be experienced among the poor of some sections as they have neither provisions or the means to buy them. Yet we feel assured that there will be no starving as the sympathies of the more independent class will move them to the relief of the needy. Even into October he notes the relative health of the area during the summer but with the dry weather comes "insufferable heat."As winter came around however he recommended to John that he find a doctor up in New Haven: I would advise that you get a good Medical person to vaccinate you as the Small Pox seems to be traveling the "country all over" - and you are by necessity associated with persons from every part of the land. Of course smallpox vaccinations were used even by George Washington during the Revolutionary War and William understood exposure risk to the disease in those urban population centers. Less clear seems to be their understanding of other "tropical diseases." In 1848 [3 July] he writes to Johns that there is much sickness in Augusta. Germans were working on a canal living in filthy conditions and the doctor was reporting cases of yellow fever. We now know that neither "Germans" nor "filthy conditions" (per se) would have been responsible for this outbreak - but more likely the canal itself since this would have been an excellent breeding ground for the mosquitoes that carry this disease (although that knowledge did not come until construction of the Panama Canal though suspected somewhat earlier).Besides politics slavery and other moral issues late in John's college career William addresses the other "third rail." You must excuse me my dear Brother that I have never mentioned the subject of Religion when writing to you. . That I know a just part is for us to perform which upon this earth and that we will have to account for all the deeds done in the body to a just God is sufficient to warn me always to a proper course through life. He goes on to say that he has not joined a church because he finds many of the "code of laws governing them" impossible for mere mortals to follow and many of them are "petty and unnecessary." However a couple years earlier when niece Abby joined the Presbyterian church William commented [28 April 1845] I consider the garb of Religion gives peculiar beauty to the female (young particularly) character.Another view of the Southern social scene comes from Abby's letters. Abby married 20 May 1846 and several letters from William deal with John's preparations to return home for both the wedding and summer break. In the autumn Abby writes that she and her new husband left Bath shortly after John did (presumably to return to school) and they went to the seaboard then on to Mr. Jones' family home. Although worried about how she would be received by his family she was received warmly as a member of the family. She tells her cousin [30 Sept. 1846]: ...for nothing is more pleasant than to be beloved particularly in the circle in which we are to move and I sincerely trust that hereafter my actions will not be such as to forfeit the confidence and esteem of these kind friends.You can readily perceive my dear Uncle that my situation at first upon arriving at the home of my husband was peculiarly delicate and embarrassing. A few weeks had wrought a strange and sudden revolution in my existence. A young girl surrounded by her family circle engrossed with maidenly occupation and concerned only with the passing events of the home was transformed into the wife the home of her childhood forsaken and a new train of duties attendant upon this change opened to her view. This responsibility for a time was felt very acutely but the cordial reception of which I have spoken of before in a short time banished these feelings and I felt not only reconciled to but delighted with my future prospects. Every member of the family welcomed me to their midst and I already feel identified with them in every particular. Later she adds: I have been busily employed preparing for housekeeping which I hope to commence about the last of November. I look forward to the time with a great deal of pleasure and yet with fear to [sic] for I have so little experience in the mysteries of housekeeping. I dare say I will do many things that is wrong yet all had to learn by experience .I suppose that I will have to do the same. She then suggests that she will have William or someone pick up items for her that are cheaper in the North than at home another reality of Southern life even antebellum.John graduated from Yale in 1847 but seems to have remained in the north for a bit. There is one letter from William addressed to John in New Haven with a postal stamp for July 1848. William for his part married Georgia Ann Ward (1826 - 1905) on 10 Aug. By 1850 John had returned to Georgia where the 1850 census shows him as a 22-year-old schoolteacher living with William plus just over a dozen single men two couples and a widow with two daughters in the hotel/boarding house. John seems to have also been studying law in Augusta at the same time. In 1852 John became County Surveyor for Burke County and there are about 20 letters from the 1850s relating to this role. One of the early ones is to another surveyor asking what they charge for surveying etc. apparently trying to determine his rates in this new occupation. Another letter relates to measurements of the variation in magnetic deviation from true north. A few of the requests become rather insistent: I am getting in a hurry about that surveying and I wish you to come over tonight - so that you can make an early start as I wish you to do some surveying in different places.Most of the letters contain requests for surveys or documents from earlier surveys but one contains political opinions along with a request for paperwork on a property. Sam P. Davis [9 July 1852] suggests that political excitement is waning and only a 3rd candidate is likely to get people interested again. He notes that if the election is only between the present candidates he would vote for Pierce since "Pierce can show a clean hand on the n---er question [his underline]. This is more than can be said of Scott." The question of slavery was foremost in the minds of local "movers and shakers." Scott had come out as anti-slavery (a problem for southern voters) in spite of the Whig pro-slavery platform (a problem for northern voters). Daniel Webster rejected by his Whig party as their candidate ran as a Union Party (basically Southern Whigs) candidate and despite the fact that he died before the election still received several thousand Georgia votes!In 1860 John was still living in William's hotel/boarding house along with 15 men many of whom were also law students or lawyers and an older woman and her adult son. He never seems to have found his "good wife with a comfortable little fortune" suggested by brother William but he did seem to be building his own home. After the November election South Carolina seceded and several other states called their own conventions. Georgia's election of delegates to the convention that would determine her course occurred on the second day of the new year. These delegates then convened in Milledgeville on the 16th to begin debating the issue. By the 19th George Crawford convention president and former Whig governor declared Georgia officially seceded from the United States. Within two more weeks the infant Confederate States of America formed and two months later the offspring nation was at war with her northern parent. The last six letters are war da Condition: Variable as expected. Only one with insect/rodent damage extensive enough for loss of text.
SET OF TEN CHIPPENDALE STYLE MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS STAMPED BY H.C. GULDEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, ASPERS, PENNSYLVANIA in the Philadelphia style. Each having a shaped crest rail over a pierced splat over a yellow upholstered slip in seat with a carved front seat rail and raised on carved cabriole legs terminating in ball and claw feet, The rear seat rails stamped H.C. Gulden Mfg. Co./The Gulden Gallery/Aspers, Pa - h:38.50 w:23.75 d:16.50 in. Provenance: William W. Sauer Associates, Ltd., MD Acquired from the above by the present owner, a Northern Virginia Collector, in 1984
Hayden & Gregg marked French bronze mantel clock Hayden & Gregg, Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1838-43
French bronze-dore mantel clock of Southern interest
figure of Joan of Arc embracing sword standing beside draped altar table top with plumed Medieval helmet and gauntlets, fitted with Roman numerated dial surmounting monument base laden with acanthus and caps, and design enclosing cartouche mounted with trophies of war; 8-day time and strike movement with count-wheel strike and silk thread suspension; dial marked: Hayden Gregg & Cie.
H17 1/2" W13 1/2" D5 1/2"
Other Notes: William Gregg, jeweler, watchsmith, champion of industry, and founder of the Graniteville Company, was known as the father of Southern cotton manufacturing.
Gregg was born February 2, 1800, in western Virginia, the son of William and Elizabeth Webb Gregg. His mother died when he was 4 years old, and he was reared by a neighbor woman until he was about 10. He was then sent to live with an uncle, Jacob Gregg, a successful watch and spinning-machine maker in Alexandria, Virginia.
A few years later, his uncle established a cotton mill in Georgia, one of the South's first. The mill did not survive the War of 1812. In 1814, William Gregg was apprenticed to a friend of his uncle, a Mr. Blanchard, a watchmaker and silversmith in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1821, Gregg moved to Petersburg, Virginia, to perfect his profession.
Gregg undoubtedly formed a strong friendship with Mr. Blanchard. A decade after leaving his employment, Gregg stopped at the Blanchard's new home in Louisville, Kentucky, to pay his respects. Sitting at Blanchard's bench, Gregg made a silver pitcher of the treasured first coins he ever earned. It became an heirloom that was handed down from first son to first son in the Gregg family.
After completing training, he moved to South Carolina and established a jewelry business in Columbia. On a sales trip, he called on Colonel Mathias Jones, who operated a store at Ridge Spring in Edgefield District. There he met Jones' eldest daughter, Marina, and they were married in 1829.
Gregg was prosperous in Columbia, and during the 1830s, he not only traveled extensively throughout the United States, but he retired with a large amount of discretionary capital. In 1838, he bought an interest in what became Hayden, Gregg and Company, a jewelry and silversmithing firm in Charleston and moved his family to the Lowcountry.
Also in 1838, he bought into the Vaucluse Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in Barnwell District. His experience with Vaucluse taught him two things: first, how cotton manufacturing in the South should not be conducted (the plant was a model of inefficiency), and, second, in his words, "a settled conviction . . . that manufacturing is a business that ought to engage the two Carolinas and Georgia."
In 1844, William Gregg traveled to New England to inspect its textile districts, and the trip, coupled with the lessons of Vaucluse, prompted him to write a series of essays for the Charleston Courier that would become known as the ESSAYS ON DOMESTIC INDUSTRY, a visionary call for the active development of mills in the South.
While corporations were not commonplace in those days, shortly after publishing the essays, Gregg and a group of mostly Charlestonians applied for and, in 1845, received a charter from the state Legislature for the Graniteville Manufacturing Company.
The Graniteville Company relied on local people to build the mill as well as operate it, employing farmers, tenant farmers, and the poor at wages commensurate with those paid to Northern mill workers. Granite quarried about a mile from the plant site was used in the construction.
Gregg provided quality housing for his workers, as well as a church and a small library. They received medical care for a small fee. They had gardens and woods from which to harvest timber.
Gregg also created what was perhaps the first compulsory education system in the United States. He built a school for children from 6 to 12 years old, furnished teachers and books, and fined parent workers five cents a day, withheld from their wages, for every day their children were absent from classes.
Gregg was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1856, and he continued to argue passionately for internal industrial development. He believed that there was little reason to look to the expanding West or the industrialized North when so much of the treasures of South Carolina, in his eyes, lay untapped.
Graniteville Manufacturing Company barely survived the Civil War. Immediately after the war ended, Gregg worked diligently toward the continued modernization of his company through travel, research, and the investment of about $120,000 in personal capital for more modern machinery.
In April 1996, Graniteville Company was sold to Avondale Mills, Inc.; it currently operates as Graniteville Fabrics.
The University of South Carolina-Aiken Library features the Gregg-Graniteville Memorial Rooms, which contain The Gregg-Graniteville Collection. The collection has proven of primary value for scholars in Southern economic, social, and labor history for the period 1845 to 1985, as well as for cultural historians of the South as it moved into the 20th century.
William and Marina Gregg were the parents of three children, Mary, William, and James. Gregg died on September 13, 1867. He was inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame in 1985.
Courtesy: South Carolina Business Hall of Fame.
Clock in excellent condition with minor imperfections consistent with age, original gilding is in very good condition, movement is complete.
Northern Brewing Watertown Cream Ale TrayReference: n/aBrewery: Northern Brewing Co. Inc. Watertown, New YorkManufacturer/Plant: Novelty Advertising Co., Coshocton, OhioDate of manufacture: circa 1930sCanning Code: n/a Contents/Type: N/ACondition/Comments: Excellent example of this large tray. 14 Inches. All original. Condition comments intended to point out defects not apparent in photos. Rely upon photos for primary assessment of condition. For more info or questions regarding this lot contact Dan via email.
A PITCH PINE FRAMED ORKNEY CHAIR, BY ROBERT H. TOWERS, KIRKWALL LATE 20TH CENTURY with woven straw cowled hood and curved back, above open arms and seagrass drop-in seat, raised above single drawer on square supports 63cm wide, 148cm high, approx. 40cm deep Estimate £ 300-500 Literature: Cotton, Bernard D. 'Scottish Vernacular Furniture', London 2008, pp. 250-261 Note: Orkney chairs are thought to have been made on the islands since the 19th century and the majority have wooden frames although they were also made entirely of straw although few of these survive. On the largely treeless northern isles straw became an important alternative material for the manufacture of furniture and other useful items. The straw in Orkney chairs, known locally as 'gloy' needed to be unbroken so was dried in kilns after harvesting rather than being threshed. The skilled makers then formed the backs of the chairs by eye. The current chair was made with a cowled hood, designed to exclude draughts. . Sold for £575 (buyer's premium included)
Northern Watertown Cream Ale Tray RedReference: n/aBrewery: Northern Brewing Co. Inc. Watertown, New YorkManufacturer/Plant: Novelty Advertising Co., Coshocton, OhioDate of manufacture: circa 1940sCanning Code: n/a Contents/Type: N/ACondition/Comments: Excellent example of this large tray. 14 Inches. All original. Condition comments intended to point out defects not apparent in photos. Rely upon photos for primary assessment of condition. For more info or questions regarding this lot contact Dan via email.
Northern Beer Cone Top OUTSTANDING 175-20Reference: USBC 175-20Brewery: Northern Brewing Co., Superior, WisconsinManufacturer/Plant: Continental Can Co.Date of manufacture: circa 1950sCanning Code: n/a Contents/Type: 12 ozCondition/Comments: Wonderful near mint example. This is the version with no alcohol statement. All original. Condition comments intended to point out defects not apparent in photos. Rely upon photos for primary assessment of condition. For more info or questions regarding this lot contact Dan via email.
AMON GILES CARTER SR. COLLECTION OF US WWII HIGH RANKING GENERAL AND ADMIRAL’S HATS. Amon Giles Carter, Sr. was born in 1879 of humble means in a one-room log cabin in Crafton, Texas. By 1923 he had risen to president and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and five years later he was the director and part owner of the Aviation Corporation, later to be a major part of American Airlines. He was highly influential in the development of the discovery of oil in North Texas and persuaded many oilmen to move to his home city of Fort Worth. By 1935 his first successful oil well was drilled in New Mexico. Carter was an avid collector of Western art, among other things, and in 1961 the Amon Carter Museum was opened in Fort Worth. One of his most unusual collections, officer’s hats of prominent generals and admirals of World War II, is now offered by James D. Julia Auction Company. This collection grew to 24 examples from Carter’s habit of exchanging fine quality Stetson hats for the uniform caps of the various commanders, his friends and visitors to his famous “Shady Oaks” ranch and estate near Fort Worth. 1) EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D., FIVE-STAR GENERAL, U.S. ARMY. Olive-drab visor cap labeled “Extra quality Ayres & Smith, London. On label in ink “Eisenhower Gen of A”. Included is a piece of personal notepaper bearing five stars and the initials DDE with the inscription “14 Dec 1945. Here’s my Hat! And proud I am that you will put it with the pile in your Club. Ike Eisenhower.” CONDITION: Slightly crumpled, but generally fine. 2) KENNEY, GEORGE C., GENERAL, U.S. AIR FORCE. Summer-weight gabardine 50-mission-style crush visor cap by Brooks Bros., New York. Initialed “G.C.K.” on sweatband. Signed “Gen. George C. Kenney U.S. Air Force” on the underside of the visor. Kenney commanded the 4th Air Force, the 5th Air Force, and the 5th and 13th Air Forces called the Far East Air Force, or FEAF. CONDITION: Cap is crumpled and stained in places caused by the bleeding of the sweat lining. 3) RICHARDSON, ROBERT E., GENERAL, U.S. ARMY. Summer-weight khaki covered visor cap “Fly-weighter by Lewis”, English manufacture. CONDITION: Excellent, like new. 4) NIMITZ, CHESTER W., FLEET ADMIRAL, U.S. NAVY. Fine quality cap of silk-like material, sterling silver and gold wash insignia with bullion oak leaves and acorns over felt-covered brim. Cap is a “Bancroft Zypher Navy” from the Haas Tailoring Co., Baltimore, MD. Nimitz’s calling card under the sweatshield is signed “Honolulu-Texas Bound, July 1943. To Amon Carter, Greetings to a fellow Texan. C. W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, USN, 7 Dec 46”. Nimitz was the overall commander of the combined U.S. and Allied Forces of the Central Pacific area. CONDITION: In fine condition with minor storage staining. 5) ARNOLD, HENRY H. (HAP), GENERAL OF THE AIR FORCE. Summer-weight khaki visor cap by an unknown manufacturer. Signed on the underside of the visor “H. H. Arnold 1942” and on the inside crown “To Amon Carter from H. H. Arnold 1942”. Arnold, 1886-1950, was the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II and the only air commander to hold the five-star rank of “General of the Army”. CONDITION: Leather sweatband is partially detached and the top bears some staining from the protective liner; otherwise in very good condition. 6) HALSEY, WILLIAM FREDERICK “BULL”, FLEET ADMIRAL, U.S. NAVY. Summer-weight tan visor cap by N. S. Meyer, Inc., New York. Embroidered Naval cap device, with acorns and oak leaves on a felt visor. The inscription on the inside of the sweat protector reads “To Amon Carter. Thanks for your hospitality. My hat’s off to you. W. F. Halsey – Admiral, U.S. Navy”. Dated “5-26-44”. Halsey commanded the South Pacific area in 1942. Promoted to Commander and Chief of the Third Fleet and Five-Star Admiral in Dec. 1945. CONDITION: Fine condition indicating moderate wear. 7) HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE BERNHARD OF THE NETHERLANDS. British-style General’s visor cap, red band and cloth covered visor. Embroidered Netherlands royal lion with legend below “Nederland”. Cap was made by “Walter Barnard & Son, 97 Jermeyn St., St. James’s, London”. A slip of wrapping paper containing a return address states “From H.R.H. The Prince of the Netherlands, c/o Netherlands Embassy, Washington, DC”. The Prince, a staunch anti-Nazi, was a pilot with the RAF from 1942 – 1944. In 1944 he became commander of the Dutch armed forces. CONDITION: Some damage to the left front of the brim either by abrasion or mothing; otherwise in good condition. 8) BROWN, R. GORDON, GENERAL, ROYAL PARACHUTE REGIMENT. Maroon Parachute Regiment beret marked “Kangol Wear Limited 1944”. A post-war, 19 April 48 note in Brown’s handwriting accompanies the beret stating “To Amon Carter of Fort Worth. This beret from North Africa, Normandy, Arnheim and the Rhine – the only respectable hat I have. Gordon Brown”. CONDITION: Moderate moth damage along the edge of the leather binding. 9) ROYCE, RALPH, MAJOR GENERAL, U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS. Crusher-style tan gabardine visor cap, made in Karachi, India. Originally ordered by General Pat Hurley and then given to General Royce in Cairo, Egypt. Royce claims it was his “favorite hat” as indicated in a note pinned to the inside of the hat. The front eagle ornament is woven with gold thread into the cloth. General Royce commanded the 1st Aero Squadron in World War I, all U.S. forces in the Middle East, was Deputy Commander 9th Air Force and Senior Air Officer afloat during the Normandy Invasion. CONDITION: Quite good with one moth nip and some wrinkling from storage. 10) YOUNT, BARTON KYLE, SR., LT. GENERAL, U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS. Summer-weight gabardine 50-mission-style visor cap by Superior Uniform Cap Co., Chicago, Illinois. Signed inside the visor “To Mr. Amon Carter. Good Luck. Barton K. Young, 8 May '46.” General Yount, commander of various Air Corps training centers, became Commanding General, Army Air Forces Training Command in July 1943. CONDITION: In very good condition with a small moth nip on the right front and slight rumpling from storage. 11) EAKER, IRA CLARENCE, LT. GENERAL, U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS. Olive-drab visor cap made by Bancroft Uniform Headwear, Inc. of imported English fur felt. Titled on the headband “The Wales” and Bancroft pak-cap. Written inside the visor “To Amon Carter with every good and admiration for a great Texan. Ira Eaker, Lt. Gen USA. 10-29-45”. General Eaker commanded the 8th Air Force, commanded the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, and in 1945, was named deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and Chief of the Air Staff. CONDITION: High-grade cap in fine condition with the exception of one moth hole and minor tracking. 12) SPAATZ, CARL “TOOEY”, MAJOR GENERAL, U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS. Summer-weight tan gabardine visor cap. Unidentified maker. Signed on the underside of the visor “To Amon Carter. Forwarded with reluctance since it is my last really good cap. Tooey Spaatz”. Inside the cap is noted: “This belongs to Tooey Spaatz. If lost, return to Amon Carter”. General Spaatz, as a Captain in World War I, commanded the 31st Aero Squadron. In World War II, he was given command of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces – Europe from before the invasion until final victory. CONDITION: Fine with the exception of a hair oil stain in the center of the crown. 13) VANDENBERG, HOYT SANFORD, GENERAL, U.S. AIR FORCE. U.S. Air Force blue general officer’s visor cap. This cap is decorated with clouds and lightning bolts both on the visor and band. The cap was manufactured by Superior Uniform Cap Company, and bears a silk label “Vandenberg USAF”. Holds a signed ink label “To Amon Carter, staunch supporter of Air Power from his friend, Hoyt S. Vandenberg – Aug. 17, 1953”. In World War II, Vandenberg was first assigned to the United Kingdom and assisted in the organization of the Air Forces in North Africa. He commanded the 9th Air Force, and was made assistant chief of air staff. In 1945 he was made Director of the CIA. Back to the Air Force in 1947, Vandenberg became Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force in April 1948. CONDITION: Excellent in all respects. 14) DOOLITTLE, JAMES HAROLD “JIMMY”, LIEUTENANT GENERAL, U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE. Olive-drab overseas cap with general officer’s gold piping and three embroidered rank stars of Lt. General. The high quality cap was made by Woodrow, Piccadilly, London. Doolittle is well-known for his air racing and his raid with 16 B25 bombers on Japan. He commanded the 12th Air Force, the 15th Air Force, and the 8th Air Force in March 1944. CONDITION: Excellent. 15) ANDREWS, ADOLPHUS, VICE ADMIRAL, U.S. NAVY. A WHITE SUMMER LINER NAVAL VISOR CAP WITH AN EMBROIDERED BADGE AND COPIOUS “SCRAMBLED EGGS” ON THE VISOR. Made by the H. V. Allien Company of New York. A card attached to the inside of the cap indicates “Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, U.S. Navy, Commanding Scouting Force, United States Fleet”. CONDITION: Shows use and some storage and wear stains. 16) CLEMENT, WILLIAM TARDY, MAJOR GENERAL, U.S. MARINE CORPS. Summer-weight khaki visor cap with the Marine officer’s quatrafoil design on the cover. Made by Kuenzel Bros, Philadelphia, Pa. The insignia is a fine example of the Eagle, Globe and Anchor design. The inscription states: “To Amon G. Carter with regards of Wm T Clement, Major General of Marines”. Clement was evacuated from Bataan on board the U.S. submarine Snapper in April 1942. He served as assistant division commander at Okinawa and commanding general of the 3rd Marine Brigade. CONDITION: Very fine. 17) HARMON, HUBERT REILLY, LT. GENERAL, U.S. AIR FORCE. Blue U.S. Air Force visor cap made by Christenson, New York. The felt-covered visor is decorated with lightning bolts and clouds. General Harmon’s calling card is attached with the typed message “To Amon Carter in appreciation of much kindness and many courtesies. My first Air Force (rather than U.S. Army Air Force) cap and one of the first made”. General Harmon commanded the 6th Air Force and was promoted to Lt. Gen. on February 19, 1943. In November 1943 he was appointed deputy commander Air Forces South Pacific, then in June 1944, commander Caribbean Air Command. CONDITION: Good, lightly worn condition. 18) STARK, HAROLD RAYNSFORD, ADMIRAL, U.S. NAVY. Navy blue winter service visor cap. High quality cap device with a silver eagle and gold wash anchors, fine embroidered oak leaves and acorns in gold wire on the visor. Manufactured by H. V. Allien & Co., New York. Sweatshield contains Stark’s calling card naming him “Commander, United Stated Naval Forces in Europe”. Stark served as Chief of Naval Operations with the rank of admiral in 1939 and in April he went to England as Commander U.S. Naval Forces Europe. He was commander of the 12th Fleet and supervised the U.S.N. participation in the Normandy landings. CONDITION: Exceptionally fine. 19) HARTLE, RUSSELL. P. (SCRAPPY), MAJOR GENERAL. An overseas cap in olive-drab. General’s gold braid and major general’s rank stars are attached to the cap. It is not maker-marked, but it is named “Gen. Hartle L.R.T.C.” on the silk lining. On the leather sweatband is written “To Amon Carter, a remnant of our United Kingdom Campaign together. R. P. (Scrappy) Hartle”. Commander of the 34th Infantry Division, and a commander of all Army forces in Northern Ireland and responsible for the creation of the U. S. Army Ranger Battalion. CONDITION: Worn with a few snags in the material. 20) WAINWRIGHT, JONATHAN MAYHEW, IV, GENERAL, U.S. ARMY. Most unusual visor cap of soft felt with large gold embroidered eagle as well as oak leaves and acorns on the headband and felt-covered visor. The cap was manufactured by Luxemberg Military and Civilian Tailors, New York. The underside of the visor is printed “To Amon G. Carter, Sincerely, J. M. Wainwright, General U.S.A., 1945”. Additionally, “Wainwright” is written in ink on the tailor’s label. Wainwright was the senior field commander under MacArthur, and was pushed back by the Japanese to the Bataan Peninsula, and ultimately to the fortress of Corregidor where he was forced to surrender. In August 1945 he was liberated by the Russians in Manchuria. CONDITION: There are two moth holes and some separating of the felt, but they are not terribly detracting from the dazzling effect of this cap. 21) WILBY, FRANCIS BOWDITCH, MAJOR GENERAL, U.S. ARMY. Light khaki Model 1942 tropical helmet with officer’s style insignia attached to the front. Handwritten under the brim is “To Amon Carter, in memory of many pleasant visits to Fort Worth. F. B. Wilby, 6-17-43”. Also: “Maj. Gen. F. B. Wilby, Supt., U.S.M.A.”. General Wilby served as Superintendent of West Point from 1942-1945. CONDITION: Headband is loose, but otherwise in good condition. 22) SMITH, CYRUS ROWLET (C.R.), MAJOR GENERAL, U.S. AIR FORCE. Olive-drab gabardine overseas cap with gold general’s braid and two silver general’s rank stars. The cap is marked “The Lee Flight, A Berkshire Product”. Marked in ink on the lining “To Amon, CR Smith, Maj Gen USA, 2/24/45”. General Smith was president of American Airlines, elected to that position in 1934. In World War II Smith joined the Army Air Force as a Colonel assisting in the organization of the Air Transport Command. Promoted to Major General, he served as deputy commander of the Air Transport Command at the end of the war. CONDITION: Fine. 23) FELDWAY, HERMAN, MAJOR GENERAL, QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, U.S. ARMY. Overseas cap in olive-drab wool with the gold braid of a general and two embroidered rank stars. The interior of the cap is pinkish silk lining with a label embroidered with the quartermaster insignia and “Custom Tailored Frankfurt Main”. Professionally printed on the sweatband “To: - Amon Carter for his unusual and outstanding cordiality and hospitality”. Then signed by Herman Feldway, The Quartermaster General. CONDITION: Excellent. 24) LUTES, LEROY, LT. GENERAL, U.S. ARMY. Overseas cap of gabardine wool with gold general’s braid and three general’s rank stars. Attached to the cap is a black leather patch embossed in gold letters “To Amon Carter, the most courteous of hosts. From Roy Lutes, Lieut. General U.S.A. This cap flew 17 overseas flights and 360,000 miles”. General Lutes was Director of Operations, Headquarters, Services of Supply and also Acting Chief of Staff, Headquarters Services of Supply. CONDITION: Excellent, but with no maker’s identification. 4-59025 CW24 (38,000-45,000)
WONDERFUL AND RARE FAMILY COLLECTION OF CONFEDERATE MEMORABILIA, CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG, WEAPONS, PERSONAL AND VETERAN OBJECTS ALL WITH WONDERFUL UNBROKEN PROVENANCE TO AUGUSTUS PITT ADAMSON CORPORAL COMPANY E 30TH GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. An incredible collection of firearms, photographs, flags, letters, documents, and personal accouterments, veteran’s memorabilia, uniform items, all with the proverbial family trunk. Strong provenance exists through years of careful family retention to Corporal Adamson. Corporal Augustus Pitt Adamson was the author of the work Brief History of the Thirtieth Georgia Regiment published in 1912 by the Mills Printing Company of Griffin, GA. An inventory and evaluation of the collection is as follows: A spectacular photograph of Adamson in uniform accompanies this group. Photograph is a post-war cabinet card – most likely copied from an ambrotype - measuring 5" x 7" and stamped "Wilson’s Studio/41 Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia". The photograph shows Corp. Adamson in a 3/4 seated pose wearing a battle shirt with dark collar, epaulettes and cuff decoration and holding a large D-guard Bowie knife. This photograph clearly shows the youthful face of a young Confederate warrior, eager to serve the cause. The transcript of Corp. Adamson’s diary details that he was captured toward the rear of Gen. Johnston’s army on the morning of May 17, 1864 by the 5th KY Cav. Taken to the prison camp at Rock Island, Ill. and remained there until his exchange in March, 1865 in Richmond, VA. The Confederate Battle flag of Co. E 30th VA Vol. Inf. as well as the 2 inf. guidons and the United States flag taken from the Warren House in Jonesboro, GA, all a part of this amazing collection, were extensively examined by H. Michael Madaus, America’s foremost authority on American and Confederate flags and his description of these marvelous flag follows: CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG, ATTRIBUTED TO THE 30TH GEORGIA INFANTRY. Adamson Collection. According to the letter of provenance from Mr. Adamson, the flag as well as the other relics were inherited directly from his aunt Faye Adamson E.E. C.I.K., his father’s sister. Also in the trunk of relics was an old copy of a letter dated "December 2, 1865, Rex, Georgia. This flag belonged to The 30th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Company "E". It was made by the ladies of Clayton county and presented to the regiment by Miss Ella Callaway and accepted by Private J.H. Huie, April 18, 1862. this flag represented the 30th Georgia in the following battles: Jackson, Chickamauga, …A.P. Adamson, 1866." With letter of authenticity from Les Jensen. This flag was found (falling apart according to the family descendants) in the trunk of "relics" belonging to Corporal Augustus Pitt Adamson, Company E, 30th Georgia Infantry. Close examination of the reconstructed flag shows fragments of the original stitching which was believed to be silk and thus explains the deterioration of the stitching only. The Adamson descendants had the flag "reassembled" by a conservator in the late 20th century using deliberately large stitches and synthetic thread to distinguish any modern re-stitching from stitching that remained contemporaneous to the Civil War. This flag was produced by a "home" sewing group (as opposed to being spec-made at a government clothing depot), very possibly by first disassembling an older, large U.S. flag for its components. The flag itself conforms to the general design of the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag, but measures 54-1/2" on its staff by 57" on its fly overall. The red, wool, bunting field is pieced in each quadrant.. The outside sections measure between 4-1/2" and 6" in width and the inner triangles having a height between 8-1/4" and 9-1/2". A dark blue, wool, bunting St. Andrew’s cross is inset into the field, 8" to 8-1/2" wide, and pieced from rectangles of bunting 8-1/2" to 9" long (with each end piece about 16" so as to extend fully to the corners). The cross is bordered on each side with a strip of white, wool bunting, 2" to 2-1/8" wide. Each of the thirteen sections of the cross bears a white, cotton, 5-pointed star averaging 8" across their points on the obverse and 7" across their points on the reverse. These stars are sewn to the obverse side with a running stitch with white (yellowed with age) thread. The dark blue bunting behind each star was then cut away and under-hemmed and secured with a whipstitch of a different (black aged brown) thread (a technique for lightening the flags not uncommon during the Civil War and earlier). A 4" wide, white, wool, bunting border (formed by doubling over an 8-1/2" wide piece of bunting) was then added to all four sides. An additional pc of linen canvas, 2-1/2" wide, was then folded and dbld over the leading edge of the flag to serve as a 1-1/4" diameter sleeve for a cord that protrudes into loops at two cuts along the staff edge and at each end of the flag’s heading, which secured the flag to its staff. CONDITION: Flag is in overall good condition, although, as noted, all but the stars have been extensively re-stitched with a heavy synthetic dyed thread to replace what was the orig, (probably silk) and now missing, construction thread. Aside from these distractions, one of the quadrants shows minor separation of the bunting fabric and two of the stars are holed - one with a small hole - the other with a major deterioration due to a contact with some acidic liquid, possibly blood. (Note, the 30th Georgia Infantry reportedly lost a flag at Nashville, Tennessee on 16 December 1864,which was torn into pieces by the capturing unit ( the 5th Minnesota Infantry). However, that flag is not the same flag as described here). HMM PAIR OF CONFEDERATE VARIANT 1ST NATIONAL ("STARS & BARS") FLANK MARKER FLAGS OF THE 30TH GEORGIA INFANTRY. Ex-Adamson collection. Mating pair of small (12"-12-1/2" on the staff by 17-1/2" to 18-3/4" on the fly - to points) wool, bunting, swallowtail, flank markers. (The "general guide sergeants" at each end of a line of battle to mark the locations of the flanks of the regiment carried these small flags). Design of each is a variant of the Confederate 1st National flag (a.k.a. "Stars & Bars"), which consisted of three horizontal bars: red-white-red, and a blue canton with stars equal to the number of states in the Confederacy. In this case, the stars have been replaced by a single, white, cotton, 5-pointed star, 6-1/2" to 7" across its points & sewn to the reverse side of the dark blue wool bunting canton, which has been cut away on the obverse side to expose the white from the opposite side, in the same manner as the regimental battle flag. This suggests that all three flags (battle flag and pair of markers) were made at the same time and by the same sewing group. Five marker flags have been retained and preserved over the years by the Adamson family. The three remaining flags remain with the Adamson family. CONDITION: Individually framed and in excellent condition with little shows of wear or use. However, the markers have been re-sewn by the same conservator that reattached the pieces of the unit’s battle flag with the resultant, wide, synthetically dyed stitching in evidence. HMM CIVIL WAR U.S. ARMY CONTRACT RECRUITING FLAG, FLOWN OVER REX, GEORGIA (TORN DOWN BY PVT. A. P. ADAMSON IN 1865). U.S., Q.M. Dept., contract recruiting flag that served as headquarters and hospital flag for the 52nd Illinois Infantry during their occupation of Rex, Georgia in 1865. Typical regulation (4’4" by 9’10") 34 star (1861-1863+) "recruiting flag", which was flying over the Warren House in Rex, Georgia when Private A.P. Adamson of Company E, 30th Georgia Infantry returned to his home at the close of the Civil War. According to a note attached to this flag, written in March of 1866 and signed by Adamson, "I removed this Union Flag from the Warren House that was used as the headquarters and hospital for the 52nd Illinois Regiment." Flag has been torn off its canvas heading and, accordingly, now measures 47-1/2" on its hoist by 110-1/2" on its fly. The flag’s field is made from thirteen, alternating, red and white, wool, bunting stripes, all joined by sewing machine stitching. A dark blue, wool, bunting 2-pc canton, 25-1/2" wide and 40-1/4" long, is inset into the upper, hoist corner. It bears thirty four (34) white cotton, 5-pointed stars, set in five horizontal rows: 7-7-6-7-7, each 3-1/4" across its points and appliquéd to each side of the canton by hand stitch. The heading that once secured to its halyards or staff is now missing as a result of Adamson’s actions. CONDITION: In addition to the torn leading edge, the field of stripes shows considerable loss of material, both to typical wear in the field and to post-War insect damage. Canton shows almost no damage other than its separation from its heading and minor mothing, while all stars are intact and in good condition. HMM Many of the smaller items have, for years, been stored in an American made pine wood dome-topped trunk measuring 31" wide x 19" tall x 16" deep. CONDITION: Soft wood trunk, perhaps once covered in leather, shows extensive worm damage to exterior surfaces. Outside has been refinished a number of times and some reinforcement added to the interior. On either side of the trunk are 2 iron bale handles. Bottom portion of the locking mechanism is present, top is missing. Within the trunk, for many years, was stored letters, papers, personal items, and Adamson’s Colt Model 1851 Navy revolver, SN 114229 (all matched). His Colt revolver is a standard Colt Navy .36 Cal. with 7-1/2 oct bbl, iron frame, brass trigger guard and back strap. CONDITION: Very good. Pistol has dark uncleaned patina overall. Cylinder has numerous nicks and scrapes. Right grip is cracked and repaired. Mechanics are very good. Also with group is Corp. Adamson’s musket, being a US Model 1863 Contract rifled musket, manufactured by Bridesburg and dated 1864. The .58 Cal. musket has a 41" rnd bbl on a walnut stock with iron furniture. The lock plate is marked "U.S./Bridesburg" surmounted by an American eagle and dated 1864. Bbl is dated 1864 with appropriate proof marks and an American eagle stamped on the face of the bolster. The iron buttplate is stamped "U.S.". The musket is accompanied by a brass tipped cork tompion. Attached to the musket is a late 19th C. military leather sling, not orig to the gun. CONDITION: Very good. All metal has a light gray patina. Stock shows moderate to hard use. With the musket is its orig triangular socket bayonet and scabbard. Bayonet has an 18-1/2" blade marked "U.S." with the inspectors mark "J" near the socket. CONDITION: Very good. Gray uncleaned patina with light surface rust. Scabbard is of leather in US regulation style with 8 copper rivets on the belt frog. Belt loop is stamped "E.A. Crossman & Co./Newark/NJ" within an oval cartouche. CONDITION: Scabbard is excellent. Belt loop is flexed. Group also includes a Civil War period side knife having a 7-1/2", single-edged, thin blade measuring 1-1/2" at its widest point inset in a walnut hand-carved grip with a brass collar. CONDITION: Very good. Blade has a light gray patina which has been cleaned some time ago. Grip is cracked and the knife is accompanied by a late 19th or early 20th C. heavy leather scabbard, not orig to the knife. Adamson’s percussion cap box is manufactured of black russet leather being of somewhat crude manufacture following the Union regulation style. It is marked only with 2 tool rosettes on the front flap, one on the secondary flap, one on the front of the cap box body and two on the reverse. The Box has dbl sewn belt loops and a brass finial with a somewhat unusual collar at the base. This cap box could be of Confederate manufacture. CONDITION: Very good. Leather is stiff, unclean. Wool and pick are missing from the interior. Corp. Adamson’s Holy Bible and Psalter are included, published in London in 1858 with a tooled leather bound cover and brass clasp. CONDITION: Very good. Small group of Civil War period personal objects attributed to Adamson include: a 3-1/2" tall tin drinking cup, a small oil lamp measuring 3" in diameter with a single wick, a cased straight razor marked "Francis Albert & Co./Baltimore," a boxed set of Civil War period ivory and ebony wood dominos, a tinned case set of spectacles, an oval mirror in a soft wood case with a swivel lid, a tin of Goldmark’s percussion caps, a Japanned percussion cap tin marked "Eley, London", 6 American coins including a half dollar dated 1864, a quarter dollar dated 1861, a dime dated 1859, a half dime dated 1861, a 3 cent piece dated 1860, and a 1 cent coin dated 1848, and a wooden cased compass of probable English manufacture. CONDITION: All of the smaller items are in good to very good condition showing moderate to heavy use. An extensive archive of photographs, letters and documents accompany this group which chronicles the Adamson family and Corp. Augustus Pitt Adamson’s service in the American Civil War. Items include 1 orig printing of his history of the 30th GA Regiment. CONDITION: Very good, no wraps. A later printing c. 1925. CONDITION: Fair, front paper wrap present with losses, and of the work. A 1993 reprint. CONDITION: Very good. In addition, there is a copy of the book Sojourns of a Patriot; The Field and Prison Papers of an Unreconstructed Confederate by Abell and Gecik (Murfreesboro, TN, 1998) written around the prison diary and approx. 80 letters of Augustus Pitt Adamson (a number of these letters are included in the archive offered here). A genealogy of the Adamson family dated 1918, numerous identified photographs of Adamson and various family members, a series of war time letters to and from Corporal Adamson, including several written to him while a prisoner at Rock Island, numerous post war letters among family members, hand written recollections of the Civil War, census papers, newspaper articles, poetry, photographs of Adamson’s gravesite, and an original copy of the book, Georgia in the War; 1861-1865 by Chas. Edgeworth Jones of Augusta, Georgia dated 1909. CONDITION: Letters, papers, and remaining pcs of the archive are strong. Some letters are faded but readable. Other papers and letters have tattered edges and breaks at folds. A number of Confederate veteran related items are also included. A 1910 photograph of the reunion of 30th GA veterans at Forest Park, GA, and another taken on July 29, 1894 of veterans from his unit, a certificate from the Atlanta Battlefields Reunion to the Survivor’s Association of the 30th GA, and a couple of "Confederate Veteran" ribbons and a paper ticket to the Atlanta Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg. What follows is an interesting grouping of items that date to the period 1890-1920 that were fabricated during Corp. Adamson’s lifetime in order to replicate his appearance in the c. 1861 photograph showing him as a young soldier ready for battle. Adamson recreated his gray battle shirt style jacket, which is made of lightweight gray flannel with a tabby weave with a 10-button front having a fallen collar trimmed in black wool, 2 shoulder straps and 2 black wool vertical strips running from shoulder seam to the bottom of the jacket. Each cuff has a Brandenburg batwing style appliqué with 3 buttons. The jacket has an exterior pocket below the right breast and is lined in a blue and cream-colored check wool material. Buttonholes are hand sewn. The entire jacket, except for shoulder straps, is adorned with 10 Civil War period general service eagle buttons down the front and 3 on each cuff. The epaulettes are secured with 2 brass coin buttons. The replicated battle shirt is clearly not exactly the same as the one Adamson is wearing in the historic photograph. It is, however, a plausible copy made during his lifetime. Along with the jacket is a low crowned kepi fashioned of the same material as the jacket, approx. 2-1/2" in front, 6" high in rear with a crown that is 4-1/2" in diameter. There is a black band on the base of the exterior, a tarred leather visor and chin strap secured by 2 Indian War period general service eagle buttons. The interior of the kepi has a 1-1/2" wide leather sweatband. The kepi is lined in black cotton. An extensive letter from noted Confederate uniform authority Les Jensen accompanies the jacket and kepi, which pronounces this as a rare post war period reproduction of a veteran’s orig uniform. Jensen states, "It is, so far as I am aware, the only known instance in which a Confederate veteran reproduced his first uniform for wear at reunions and other veterans occasions. As such, it is a unique and important survival". CONDITION: Jacket and kepi are in reasonably good condition, showing light use. No mothing is present, however some edges are worn and stitching loose. Also in this group is a handmade Confederate style D-guard knife with a 16" dbl-edged spear pointed elliptical blade. There is an oval brass counterguard, cast brass D-guard style knuckle bow with a flat black walnut grip. It is similar but not identical to the one in the photo (which obviously he lost when captured). The knife replicates the one Adamson holds in the historic photograph. CONDITION: Very good. Blade shows small areas of deep pitting. Finally, accompanying this group of post war materials is a copper and brass, cavalry sized bugle with a copper body, applied brass rim at the bell, and an excavated Civil War period mouthpiece. CONDITION: Excellent. No dents or dings. Mouthpiece is not orig. to the bugle but an excavated example. This incredible grouping of Confederate objects all related to the consignor’s family have been gathered carefully over a period of some 100 years by relatives, making this one of the most important groupings of personal and regimental objects related to a hard fought Confederate unit ever to be offered at public auction. 4-56160, 4-56106-1, 4-56160-2, 4-56160-3 CW1 (100,000-250,000)
Twisted wire shoe shine chair / stool / shoeshining stand manufactured 1906 by Great Northern Plating in Chicago, Ill. Comes with two barber brushes. 48"H x 22"W.
19th C. English Silver Repousse of King Charles IX: Northern Europe, England, Birmingham, ca. end of 19th century. How exciting! A lustrous silver repousse portrait medal of the bust of King Charles IX of France (1550 to 1574), modelled after a piece made by Germain Pillon in 1573 (British Museum, M. 8720) and fixed with a modern circular frame carved from wood. Dressed luxuriously with a lavish lace collar, striped buttoned vest, vegetal decorated overcoat, feathered beret, and 2 beaded necklaces, the French monarch faces right, staring at the viewer through slender squinted eyes above high cheek bones, a prominent nasal bridge, a pointed nose, and closed lips flanked by a long moustache and short pointed beard. Below a dotted border encircling the lovely portrait is engraved lettering reading, "CAROLUS. IX. FRAN REX. CHRISTIANISS. 1573", which translates to "Charles IX, most Christian King of the French". Silver quality: 95% silver, 4. 3% copper; Weight with wooden frame: 178. 6; Size: 6. 25" in diameter (15. 9 cm); 7" in diameter (17. 8 cm) on included custom stand. . A petite hallmark over his proper right shoulder featuring sideways anchor and lion passant indicates that this beautiful piece was manufactured in Birmingham, England and met the standards for fine silver (over 92. 5%) in the late 19th-century United Kingdom. . . Born to Catherine de' Medici (the last of the Medici family in Florence) and King Henry II of France, Charles IX ruled from 1560 to 1574 and oversaw a turbulent country in the throws of the French Reformation. Having an Italian Catholic mother, Charles sided with French Catholics and is perhaps most known for allowing the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1562, during which all French Huguenot (Protestant) leaders were invited to Paris for the royal wedding and were then killed. Possibly inspiration for the Red Wedding of the popular Game of Thrones novels/series, this event marked the beginning to the French Religious Wars, which were concluded the following year by the signing of the Peace of Amboise. . Modelled after a lead medal made by Germain Pillon in 1573 at the British Museum (accession number M. 8720). A bronze version of this piece (also a 19th century copy) was sold by Christie's London as lot 145 during The Collection of a Distinguished Swiss Gentleman auction on 8 July 2015 for 875 GBP (equivalent to $1, 343. 39 at that time). . . Provenance: ex-Estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA acquired before 2000. . All items legal to buy/sell under U. S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. . . A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. . Replace: PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship Replace: most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage Replace: firm. . Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping. . #157999 Condition Modern frame with a few stable fissures. Light fading to detail. Fixed with a metal wire on back for suspension. Otherwise, intact and excellent with rich patina.
2009 US Mint Territory Quarter Silver Proof Set
Issued in 2009 six quarter set - 90% silver - with Box and COA - includes District of Columbia and U S Territories Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
Era or Time Period: 2009
Color: silver
Size Dimensions: standard
Manufacturer: U S Mint
A HISTORIC CAPTURED UNION OFFICER’S SWORD WITH PRESENTATION TO AN OFFICER OF THE 1ST SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS. The sword is a non-regulation US staff and field officer’s sword having a 30-1/2" lightly curved, sgl edged blade with etching covering about 60% of its face. The sword is unsigned of European manufacture. The etching includes an American shield, eagle, and "US" surrounded by floral and military decorations. The hilt is of cast brass having a basket style hilt with a down turned wing American eagle perched on top an American shield set upon a stand of flags. The opposite counter guard is decorated with a circle having a pierced quatrefoil. The pommel has a band of oak leaves at its border. The grip is of wood covered in leather with triple strand brass wire wrap. The scabbard is of German silver with a brass throat, two ring mounts, and drag. Between the two sword mounts is inscribed, "Taken near Winchester, Va./Presented by/The members of Co. F/to 2nd Lt. Josiah Cox 1st S.C.V". CONDITION: Good. Blade has a dark gray patina, the surface of which has been cleaned. Etching is visible. Tip is deeply pitted. Remnants of old glue are present at the ricasso. Hilt is slightly loose. Grip is fine. Scabbard has numerous dents and dings with one large dent about 5" above the drag. The 1st S.C. Inf. was one of the regiments raised in S.C. to lay siege to Fort Sumter, after which they were sent to VA. By the spring of 1862, the enlistments of the first draft of men had expired. The unit was reorganized in the spring of 1862 combined with the Darlington Guards to become the Pee Dee Light Artillery. Lt. Josiah Cox is listed as the junior officer in Company F. The unit was under the command of Brigadier General Maxey Gregg and later C.W. McCreary. The Pee Dee Light Artillery fought throughout the eastern campaigns of the Army of Northern VA, most notably at Antietam, Fredericksburg, & Chancellorsville, and formed a unit of the Confederate artillery that opened the Battle of Gettysburg. Its rare indeed to find a union sword captured and presented to a Confederate officer. 4-57338 CW77 (3,500-5,500)
SPECTACULAR CASED ENGRAVED WINCHESTER MODEL 1866 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. Cal. 44 RF Henry. SN 46027. Beautiful rifle with 24-1/4" oct bbl, full magazine, 1/2-nickel front sight and Henry style ladder rear sight. Winchester and King's markings on the top flat. It has highly figured, about 4X, American walnut stock and forearm, uncheckered with straight grip and crescent buttplate with trap containing a 4-piece brass and iron-wiping rod. The receiver, forend cap, carrier and buttplate tang are beautifully engraved in Nimschke style with full coverage foliate arabesque patterns with punch dot background. The front flats of the receiver have about 95% coverage and the engraving extends completely over the top of the receiver, around the hammer and down the top tang. The front of the ejection port is engraved with an oval leaf shaped pattern. The buttplate tang is full coverage engraved with geometric, foliate and arabesque patterns with punch dot background and the forend cap has about 50% coverage arabesque patterns. The receiver, forend cap and buttplate are silver plated while the lever, hammer and trigger are gold washed. It is accompanied by an original Schuyler, Harley & Graham French fitted rosewood case that measures 46-1/2" long x 10-5/8" wide x 3" deep. It has silver bound top corners with silver reinforcing bands around the bottom corners and an unmarked 2-1/2" silver shield in the center of the lid. It has mortised sliding locks on each end of the front of the case and a mortised key lock with silver diamond escutcheon in the center. The case is lined with red and green velvet, French fitted with compartments for the rifle and ten boxes of ammunition with a lid compartment in the rear and a mahogany cartridge block containing 41 rnds of mixed original ammunition. The boxes are all of Winchester manufacture, eight of which are marked for the 1866 rifle, two are not marked for which model. There are three full boxes, one of which is still sealed, and another box which contains twelve original rounds. The other six are empty. One of the boxes has an overlabel "SHOT CARTRIDGES". According to family history this rifle was presented to James J. Hill. James Jerome Hill was born September 16, 1838 in Canada and died on May 29, 1916 of an infection. During his life Mr. Hill is credited with building the Great Northern Railroad and, along with J. Pierpont Morgan, also acquired the Northern Pacific and the Burlington lines. He was also a steamboat magnate and ran a shipping line from the Columbia River down to San Francisco and to the Orient. When he died he reportedly left an estate of 53 million dollars. Accompanying this rifle is a book Highways of Progress by James J. Hill (1910), a 2-volume set The Life of James J. Hill by Joseph Gilpin Pyle (1917) and a paperback book James J. Hill / Empire Builder of the Northwest by Michael P. Malone (1996). CONDITION: Extremely fine, possibly unfired. Bbl and magazine tube retain about all of their bright original factory blue with a light spot from a rack storage and another small spot of flaking with a few scattered pinpoints of surface rust. Receiver, forend cap and buttplate also retain virtually all of their original silver plating and most of the screws retain generous amounts of their original bright blue. Lever retains about 50% original gold plating with the balance a medium patina. Trigger and hammer retain about 85-90% gold plating. Wood is sound with a few scattered surface nicks and scratches and a series of small bruises on the right side of the forearm with some finish flaking near the right side of the top tang. Otherwise it retains most of its beautiful bright piano varnish finish. Loading gate retains most of its bright niter blue. Mechanics are crisp with a brilliant shiny bore. Case is sound with numerous small grain checks in the lid and faded interior with moderate wear around the areas of the sights and hammer. Boxes are mostly intact with light to moderate soil and some wear. An extraordinary rifle in exceptionally fine condition worthy of the highest level of collector. 4-52482 JR745 (75,000-125,000)
Grand Curio Cabinet Commissioned for Mark Hopkins San Francisco Residence: Pottier and Stymus Aesthetic Movement Grand Curio cabinet commissioned for the Rosewood Music Room (which was adjacent to the Library) in the Mark Hopkins residence, San Francisco, CA. The mixed metal marquetry inlay design and other decorative elements relate to a rosewood cabinet from the same room formerly in the collection of Warner Bros Studios now in a Northern California collection as well as the Lady's Secretary in the Newark Museum. The intricately carved oak leaf frieze is nearly identical to a desk commissioned for the adjacent library that had descended in the Washington St. home of Timothy Hopkins until it was sold at auction in 1997 for $96, 000. The Grand Curio cabinet was not acquired by the Studios and is in near new original condition. Circa 1875-1880. Dimensions: 95"h x 84. 25"w x 17. 25"d. Provenance: Sacramento Bishop's mansion thence to private collector. One of the most prominent and largest American design and manufacturing firms of high quality furniture of the Victorian period, Pottier & Stymus produced furniture in the Neo-Greco, Renaissance Revival, Egyptian Revival, and Modern Gothic styles. The company supplied furniture to the President's office and the Cabinet Room in the White House in 1869, and for the homes of such well-to-do families as the Rockefellers and railway baron Leland Stanford. For shipping quote: (California) Delbert McCrea 831-566-6088; (outside of California) 203-324-4012. Condition Silvered mirrored glass in upper cabinet sides and lower right are bubbling otherwise very good condition. Original finish, keys and locks. Very minor fading and small scratches. Witherell's strives to provide as much information and photographs as possible but encourages in-person inspection by bidders. Condition statements are only for general guidance and should not be relied upon as complete statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty or assumption of liability by Witherell's. All lots are sold "AS IS" under terms and conditions. Please be advised we do not provide porters nor packing materials for pick ups.
Property from the collections of James C. Garner and Beatrice Medicine, Southern California
Including a Carrier belt on buckskin, fully quilled and edge beaded, Mrs. Euphrasia Prints, Fort St. James, B.C., 1933; a Northern Athabascan belt of similar manufacture, sparkly beads along the perimeter; and Northern Athabascan wrist bands, all extremely finely woven.
length 31 1/2, 29 3/4 and 5 1/2in
Edward Curtis, The North American Indian Volume IX, 1913: Edward S. Curtis. (1868 - 1952). The North American Indian Volume IX, 1913. Individual volume on Holland Van Gelder etching stock . Salishan Tribes of the Coast, Chimakum, Quilliute, Willapa. . The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Volume IX. Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass. ], 1913. . . LIMITED EDITION: Quarto-sized (313 x 239 mm): This volume is numbered 48 of an unfulfilled edition of 500, on handmade Holland Van Gelder etching stock, quarto, top edges gilt, original ¾ brown crushed levant by H. Blackwell of Boston, over beige linen-covered boards, original gilt lettered, raised paneled spines, ribbon bookmarks, with photogravure plates by John Andrew & Son of Boston after photographs by Edward S. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. . . TEXT VOLUME: 75 photogravures, including 1 hand-colored print. Over 220 pages of text and transcriptions of language and music. Hand letterpress printed on hand-made paper. Hand-bound. . Provenance:. Edward S. Curtis Studio. Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. By descent to family. The Christopher G. Cardozo Collection 2019. . This set of “The North American Indian, ” number 48, by Edward Sherriff Curtis comes directly from the hands of the photographer, through four generations of the Moore (Close) family, to the hands of the buyer. The books keenly represent that period in American history when industrialization conquered the nation’s wild lands and clashed with its indigenous peoples, and for purposes of provenance it should be known that the man who acquired them from Curtis himself embodied both industry and a deep reverence for nature and the American West. The books were purchased from Edward S. Curtis by the seller’s great grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. of Greenwich, Connecticut. Moore was a Greenwich native, a humanist, and an industrialist who became president of his father’s metal products manufacturing company Manning Maxwell & Moore that built parts such as gauges, valves, and hoists for cranes and trains. Moore’s New York City office was in the Chrysler Building just below the gargoyles. Born 23rd of June, 1880, in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Charles A. Moore, Sr. and Mary Campbell Moore, his siblings were Mary Elsie Moore who married Italian prince Don Marino Torlonia, 4th prince of Civitella-Cesi; Eugene Maxwell Moore who married Titanic survivor Margaret Graham; and Jessie Ann Moore who married US Navy Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester. Moore married twice, first to Annette Sperry of Nashville with whom he had three children and divorced in 1919, then to Elizabeth Hyde (1897-1983), daughter of Seymour Jairus Hyde and his wife Elizabeth Worrall. The Hyde’s were also wealthy industrialists whose company, A. G. Hyde & Sons Co. manufactured dry goods such as the Heatherbloom petticoats, and advertised with the first moving sign on Times Square. Charles and Elizabeth, who was known as Betty, had two children: John Campbell Moore (1921-1943), who died in active service with the 853d Engineer Battalion while being transported on the H. M. T. Rohna in World War II; and Bettine Moore, to whom the Curtis books later belonged. Moore was educated at St. Paul’s school and graduated Yale class of ’03. He was with the Montenegrin Army for some months during the Balkan War, then served throughout WWI, commanding in France the Old Twelfth Company of Greenwich attached to the 56th Artillery, A. E. F. He retired at the conclusion of the war with the rank of Major. A life member of American Museum of Natural history, Moore contributed specimens to the institution, like a mountain goat he shot in northern Rockies near the Columbia River in 1904, among others. He was also a member of New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) and the National Geographic Society, as well as many manufacturing groups. Moore was a physically imposing man, a great lover of nature, a deeply devoted father, and the owner of a self-sustaining 168-acre farm/estate in Greenwich called Mooreland, on Mooreland Road, at which he hosted the Highland Games every summer. He had a wide and eclectic circle of friends of many ethnicities. An avid photographer, he shot both stills and movies, a collection of which the family retains. Many photographs depict beautiful natural scenes, or holidays to places like Cuba and dude ranches in the west. The reels of black and white film that he shot portray his family life (Johnny and Bettine as children, the Highland games, etc. ), and travels during the 1920’s – 40’s. . EARLY INFLUENCE & LATER EXPEDITIONS:. In the fall of 1883, at the tender age of three, Arthur, as Charles, Jr. was known to his family, made a trans-continental trip by train on the Northern Pacific Railroad from New York City to Portland, Oregon with his parents. This was the very year the tracks were laid. One of his father’s letters from the journey, dated September 29, 1883 reads, "Yesterday Arthur shook hands through the window with an Indian Brave in War paint. ” This telling scene took pace in Billings, Montana, which at the time was still a territory. The Indian man was most likely Cheyenne, Crow, or Lakota Sioux. To put it into perspective, the Battle of the Little Big Horn/Battle of the Greasy Grass, otherwise known as Custer’s Last Stand, which took place just south of Billings, had happened only a few years prior, in 1876. Although the Indians won that battle, it was a symbolic win. In a mind-bogglingly short period of time their world had been forever altered. The last wild herds of buffalo had recently been obliterated from the landscape. Tribes were being force onto reservations. Settlers and miners were staking their claims. Who was he, the mystery “Indian brave”? We wish we knew, because his touch likely sparked in young Arthur a deep admiration for indigenous Americans and the west that eventually inspired him to sign onto the young Edward Curtis’ courageous venture in photography in 1906. Arthur’s early travels—and his father’s international travels and extensive political connections—also inspired him to become an explorer. Besides venturing west, he went north and east. He became dear friends with Captain Bartlett and 1897 journeyed with Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. to find the geographic North Pole. Moore then took charter of the steam whaler Algerine and spent the summer of 1901 in the Hudson’s Straights and Hudson’s Bay. His expedition north and with Peary succeeded in charting new waters and bringing back trophies, like Inuit artifacts and the Cape York meteorite, which is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It is likely that befriending Inuit peoples also compelled him to support Curtis’ work. Later, in 1906, Mr. Moore traveled to Arabia, lands then controlled by the Ottoman Empire, including into what is now modern-day Syria, with the day’s most famous political cartoonist, Homer Davenport, whose drawings satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The purpose of the expedition was to bringing back Arabian horses to the United States. Davenport had fallen in love with the breed at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, the first time Arabian horses were on US soil. Moore, also a keen horseman, photographed and documented their expedition to Arabia, playing a key role in bringing some of the earliest desert-bred Arabian mares and stallions to America. Moore’s love of animals, wild lands, native peoples, art, and the west, he passed on to his daughter Bettine, wife of Dr. William Taliaferro Close, and mother of actress Glenn Close and her three siblings, and, through them, to his great granddaughter who made the difficult decision to sell the books. Dimension Condition This original volume is in very good to excellent condition overall. A formal, detailed condition report is available upon request. . The condition reports for the lots offered by Santa Fe Art Auction (SFAA) are provided as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers. The reports are not intended to nor do they substitute for physical examination by a buyer or the buyer's advisors. The condition reports are prepared by SFAA staff members who are not art conservators or restorers, nor do they possess the qualifications needed for comprehensive evaluation. Each condition report is an opinion of the staff member and should not be treated as a statement of fact. The absence of a condition report does not imply anything as to the condition of a particular lot. Buyers are reminded that the limited warranties are set forth in the Terms and Conditions of Sale and do not extend to condition. Each lot is sold as-is.
ITALIAN FLORENTINE BAROQUE REVIVAL TWO PART VITRINE ON STAND, BY ANGIOLO VALDINOCI, CA. 19TH C. 62 ½" x 32 ½" x 18 ½" overall Baroque style relief gilt finished frame, two interior shelves, upholstered brocade silk textile backing and top, slanted hatch door, openings with glass, heavily ornamented ornate gilt finish stand, electrified. Vitrine 37" x 26" x 14", stand 25" x 32 ½" x 18 ½". Original Angiolo Valdinoci "Gallery of Fine Arts / Manufacturer of Articles in Wood and Gilt / Florence" maker’s paper label attached on the back, with armorial presentation, including of Kingdom of Italy, Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and depicting of medals at Paris Expositions, dated 1885, 1889 and 1891. Original key.
Provenance: old private collection, Estate of Kenneth and Marlene Brand, Pittsburgh, PA; by descent in the family to the current owner.
BLACK DIAMOND MINING CO. STOCK CERTIFICATE BOOKPresented in this lot is a Scarce Black Diamond Mining Company, Snow Creek, Montana Stock Certificate Book. The Black Diamond Mining Company was located in the mining area of Neihart, Montana. Rich veins of silver were mined in the Historic Neihart Mining District for a fifty-year period beginning in July 1881. Remnants of the first claim, the Queen of the Hills mine, are located just a few hundred yards north of where you are standing. During the peak of silver mining here (late 1800s and early 1900s), the Silver Dyke Mine was one of the world’s largest producers of silver ore. J. L. Neihart helped discover the district and soon founded the town bearing his name. In 1891, the Belt Mountain branch of the Great Northern Railroad was constructed, connecting Neihart to the Anaconda Company smelter at Great Falls. The line remained in operation until 1945. At one time, Neihart had fourteen saloons in one block, all of them located on the same side of the street. Respectable stores were located on the opposite side, and ladies never crossed over. By 1887 most of the richest and easy-to-reach veins of ore had been exhausted. By 1890, Neihart was almost deserted. In 1891, a spur of the Montana Central Railway reached Neihart, and a strong mining boom began. Neihart went through a series of booms and busts over the next half-century. Portions of Neihart have been abandoned, and ghost town ruins can be seen in the city's outer limits. Stock certificate book includes ninety-nine (#1-#99) issued certificate stubs, #100-#102 stubs were not recorded, #103-#499 certificates are unissued. #1-#39 were all issued on September 12, 1890, last recorded certificate was issued October 20, 1892. Stationer stamp located on inside cover, "John Morris Company, Stationers, Job Printers, Blank Book Manufacturers and Lithographers, Nos. 118 and 120 Monroe Street, Chicago, Job No. C14808 Ordered 8/26 1890. When another Book like this is wanted, it will be only necessary to send the above number and date. Order Duplicate Of This Book Three Months Before Wanted. To Prevent Warping Keep Under Weights Two Weeks. Books Should Season Three Months Before Using." Stock certificates have front face illustrations of mining operations and of the mining camps, a gold gilt emblem is surrounded by the illustrations. "Black Diamond Mining Company Mines Located at Snow Creek, Montana". is printed at the top, "incorporated under the laws of the state of Montana" is printed inside the upper decorative border. The leather / red cloth bound hardcover stock certificate book exhibits damage to spine hinges, scuffing noted to cover edges, soiling. Intact certificates and stubs exhibit age tanning and slight foxing. Book measures 8.5"W x 15.25"L x 1.5"D
General Robert E. Lee 12" Action Figure
"CSA Commanding General Army Of Northern Virginia"
2004 New in the Box item #74003 - Manufactured by Dragon Models Ltd. - Authentic 12" replication with accessories.
Era or Time Period: Modern era Depicts 1861-1
Color: Brown Box / Grey Uniform
Size Dimensions: 12' Tall / 13 1/2" ox
Manufacturer: Drago Models Ltd.
Northern Pacific Dressel Short Globe Lantern: For your consideration is this marked Northern Pacific clear, short globe lantern in red, manufactured by Dressel. The lantern has a modern globe marked "CNX" (corning no-nex), "Made in U. S. A. ". The lantern is marked "Dressel/ Arlington, N. J. " on the chimney. It is marked "N. P. " (Northern Pacific) on the brim. The lantern dates to around 1939-1960. It is in very good condition. It measures 8. 5" wide x 13. 5" tall with handle up. Condition For a complete representation of condition and for additional images please call 800-686-4216. It is the buyer
Gettysburg Hero General Joseph B. Carr Cabinet Card Photograph by Sarony, NY: Civil War CDVs. Gettysburg Hero General Joseph B. Carr Cabinet Card. Civil War Union General Bradford Carr, Cabinet Card Photograph, by "Sarony, New York", Choice Extremely Fine. Joseph Bradford Carr (1828 - 1895), was a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Minor rubbing of the lower left corner with slight loss to albumen to the left of right shoulder, overall in quite good condition. Identified in pencil on the blank back. Carr was Distinguished for Gallantry at Gettysburg, where he was wounded and his men stubbornly held their ground near the Peach Orchard. He commanded the 3rd Division of III Corps in the Autumn campaigns of 1863. Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant reassigned Carr to the Army of the James, under Major General Benjamin Butler. Carr Commanded a division of African-American Soldiers in the XVIII Corps and briefly Commanded the Defenses of Yorktown, in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina. A nice Cabinet Card for display. A rare Cabinet Card Photograph. Joseph Bradford Carr (1828 - 1895), was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Carr was born in Albany, New York, the son of Irish immigrants, and worked as a tobacconist. While living in Troy, New York, he became interested in military affairs and by 1861 was a colonel in the New York militia. At the start of the war, Carr was instrumental in the recruitment of the 2nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was appointed its colonel on May 14, 1861. Assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia, the regiment took part in the engagement at Big Bethel. Carr served in the Army of the Potomac throughout the Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days Battles as well as the Northern Virginia Campaign. As a brigade commander in the III Corps, General Carr participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Carr was promoted to brigadier general on September 7, 1862, for gallantry at Malvern Hill, but this promotion was plagued by procedural difficulties. His first appointment was returned to the president on February 12, 1863. He was reappointed on March 30, 1863, but the United States Senate failed to confirm the commission in the session in which he was nominated and it expired on March 30, 1864. He was renominated on April 9, 1864, and confirmed on June 30, 1864, with a date of rank of March 30, 1863. He was distinguished for gallantry at Gettysburg, where he was wounded and his men stubbornly held their ground near the Peach Orchard. He commanded the 3rd Division of III Corps in the autumn campaigns of 1863. Because of the difficulties with his brigadier general appointment, he was technically junior to his own subordinate brigade commanders and on May 2, 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant reassigned Carr to the Army of the James under Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler. Carr commanded a division of African-American soldiers in the XVIII Corps and briefly commanded the Defenses of Yorktown in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina. On March 13, 1865, Carr was appointed a brevet major general of volunteers, and he was mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24. After the close of the war, Carr became a manufacturer in Troy, New York, a Republican politician in New York State. He was Secretary of State of New York from 1880 to 1885, elected in 1879, 1881, and 1883. In 1885, he ran on the Republican ticket for Lieutenant Governor of New York with Ira Davenport, but was defeated by Democrat Edward F. Jones. Carr died in Troy, New York, and is buried there in Oakwood Cemetery.
CAREY, Matthew - Thomas JEFFERSON; Library of.The New Olive Branch: or, an Attempt to Establish an Identity of Interest between Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1820. [6], x, 17-248 pp., 8vo (212 x 133 mm). 2 printed tables bound before the title. 4 pp. publisher’s ads bound in between pp. 238 and 239. Later half crushed olive morocco, spine stamped in gilt. Housed in a morocco clamshell case. Condition: minor browning and staining. Provenance: Thomas Jefferson (inscription on title, “Presented to Thos. Jefferson Esqr. / as a mark of respect / By the Author”; ownership initial “T” next to signature mark 1); Oscar Benjamin Cintas (bookplate); Sotheby’s New York, 12 December 2001, lot 227.thomas jefferson’s copy of an important early work on the economy of the american republic.Receiving the book in the spring of 1820, Jefferson wrote to Carey on 11 April: “I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your New Olive Branch, which you have been so kind as to send me. You have taken the right road to solve the great question which is the subject of it, by bringing it to the test of figures. Age and ill health have obliged me to abandon all such speculations, and to resign myself to the care of the authorities of the day, which I do with equal cheerfulness and confidence.”The “great question” addressed in this work was the worsening relationship between the southern agrarian society and the northern manufacturing one. Rather than siding with one, Carey here promotes the argument that the two are mutually dependent and advocates a protective tariff on foreign imports. “Carey took a leading part in forwarding a protective policy for this country. [His writings] are recognized as the classic American argument in favor of the protective system … He did more than anyone else, if we except Hamilton, to found the American nationalist school of economic thought” (DAB).Carey was a great admirer of Jefferson, and routinely sent him books from his press. Indeed, it was Carey who published the first American edition of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. Although in the early years of the republic Jefferson was noted for his staunch agrarian vision, in his later years he realized the necessity of both economic systems. In this work, Carey praises Jefferson for his revised position, though admits that his original views did much toward creating the dichotomy, writing on pp. 52-53: “There is a magic in great names which renders their errors highly pernicious. That Mr. Jefferson is a truly great man, is now, I believe, universally admitted, since the baleful passions, excited by party, have subsided, and the atrocious calumnies with which, in the days of faction and delusion, he was overwhelmed, have sunk into deserved oblivion.”Although the vast majority of Jefferson’s library was sold to the Library of Congress, a few copies of his books have surfaced on the market. Regarding his ownership mark, Rosenbach explains that "Jefferson never possessed a bookplate” and “only occasionally he wrote his name on the title-pages of volumes." However, Jefferson would consistently place his initial “T” in advance of the signature marks J or I, or place a “J” following the signature mark T if the work were that long. In this case, as the signatures were numbered instead of lettered, Jefferson has “signed” his initial “T” next to signature mark 1. a wonderful association.Rosenbach, "The Libraries of the Presidents of the United States," in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October 1934; Sabin 10873. Not in Sowerby.
Magnificent Pair of 18-inch Newton Library Globes, the terrestrial with cartouche Newton's New & Improved Terrestrial Globe, Accurately Delineated From the Observations of the Most Esteemed Navigators and Travellers to the Present Time. Manufactured by Newton & Son, 66 Chancery Lane, London. Published 1st January 1867, made up of twelve engraved paper gores on plaster sphere, with continents lightly shaded, countries outlined, coasts hatched and colored, densely labeled with major towns, rivers, lakes, mountain ranges and deserts, North America divided into states and territories, California shown as a peninsula, Northern California labeled New California, the Russian Empire spanning Europe and Asia, the oceans marked with the tracks and dates of various expeditions including the three voyages of Cook, Biscoe and Gore, Clerke's voyage on the Resolution additionally marked with sightings of fauna in the North Pacific Ocean, the names of Pacific islands and the dates of their discovery labeled, the Antarctic labeled with observations of ice during Biscoe's 1831 expedition, the Equator or Equinoctial Line calibrated in degrees, hours and fractions, the Ecliptic by days of the month and Zodiacal signs, with Improved Analemma, and Meridian passing through Greenwich; the celestial with cartouche Newton's New and Improved Celestial Globe, On Which All the Stars, Nebulae, Ascensions & Declinations, Having Been Recalculated in the Year 1830 by W. Newton, Manufactured by Newton & Son, 66 Chancery Lane, London & 3 Fleet St., Temple Bar. Engraved by T. Starling, Temple Bar, made up of twelve gores depicting the constellations as mythical figures, beasts, heraldic emblems and instruments of science and navigation, to magnitudes of the fifth degree, nebulae and clusters, the gores lightly shaded, labeled in Latin with explanations in English, the Equinoctial calibrated in days, hours and degrees, the Ecliptic in days of the month and Zodiacal sigils, the colures Aequinoctiorum and Solsistorium in degrees 0-90 though four quadrants, illustrating the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, the Circles of Perpetual Apparition and Occultation at London, and the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn with explanation "The Tropical lines are here represented in compliance with custom, although unnecessary upon the Celestial Globe, the Tropics being circles generated upon the Earth's surface by the vertical sun at the time of the Solstices"; both globes with polished brass polar rings twice calibrated in hours, and full meridian rings divided 0-90 degrees through four quadrants, paper horizon circles credited Newton and Son, 66 Chancery Lane, London, showing Amplitude and Azimuth, the compass points, equinoxes, Gregorian and Zodiacal calendars, edged with black Greek key motif and red-painted rim, on matching Renaissance Revival carved walnut tripod stands with lion's paw feet joined by turned stretchers supporting 6 3/4 in. dia. compasses with engraved paper cards of Newton & Son, Chancery Lane, London, ht. approx. 43 x dia. 24 in., (professionally conserved by Green Dragon Bindery, both horizon rings with splits and old foxing).
Provenance: By descent from William L. Clements (1861-1934), founder of the Clements Library and Regent of the University of Michigan, industrialist and rare book collector who purchased the globes early in the 20th century.
Both globes have been recently conserved by Green Dragon Bindery in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Work included removing old lacquer, cleaning and re-lacquering the gores. Globes have an attractive mellow surface and retain old craquelure, and are in overall good condition.
Terrestrial has splits and old foxing at North Pole, and severeal scattered areas of foxing / staining across the globe, most noticeably off the North West coast of Australia. There is an approx. 5 in. repaired split below the Equator in the Southern Pacific. There are also areas of unobtrusive retouch in the Indian Ocean, in the ocean above New Zealand, and around the Sandwich Isles. Horizon ring has three old splits and some medium / heavy staining over December, part of January, February and a segment of March. Red paint renewed on rim.
Celestial has some light splits in the North pole and a few areas of light scattered foxing, with a concentration over Hercules and Scutum among other places There are three or four darker marks of approx. 1 - 1 1/2 in. Horizon ring has an old split, some wear (including approx. 1/2 in. chip) aound the cut-outs for the Meridian. Red paint on rim renewed.
Osage Missouri War Axe Dunlap & Florer c. 1860: The lot features a fantastic Dunlap & Florer Trading Post attributed, blacksmith forged American Indian Tomahawk, referred to by the collecter as a “Missouri War Axe”. This example is attributed to being made at the Osage Indian Reservation at Pawhuska, Oklahoma by the Dunlap & Florer Trading Post and sold to the Osage Indians in the 19th Century. Missouri War Axes that were made by Dunlap & Florer for the Osage have been documented by Baldwin, Francis, and Peterson from Pawhuska in the 1850-1860’s era. Some Dunlap and Florer war axes have been known to originate from the Pawnee, Sauk & Fox, and the Comanche in northern Texas. This example shows a forged iron traditional Missouri War Axe head with a weeping heart cut out in the center, an old Osage orange wood haft that is adorned with brass trade tacks, and a frilly fringe wrap drop hanging. The term "Missouri War Axe" was coined by American Indian weapons collectors to describe this particular style of tomahawk. They were first discovered by Lewis & Clark on their 1804-1805 expedition financed by Thomas Jefferson, which sent them exploring up the upper Missouri River basin. Meriwether Lewis wrote about these weapons and sketched one in his journal, stating that the local Indians were fervently requesting the expedition blacksmith to make additional examples for them. He went as far as to state that it was the only item the Indians were willing to trade corn, grain, and other expedition necessities for and that manufacture and trade of additional axes is what solely got the explorers through the winter of 1805. For more information regarding Dunlap & Florer Osage tomahawks, see “The Missouri War Axe: War Tomahawks of the Plains and Prairies” (2010) by Mark Francis, John Baldwin’s 2001 book “Indian War Clubs of the American Frontier”, and “American Indian Tomahawks” (1965) by Harold Peterson. This example is very similar to the piece shown in Harold Peterson’s 1965 book, “American Indian Tomahawks”, in figure 50 page 92, referred to as an Osage Missouri War Hatchet with Bleeding Heart cutout. It is also similar to the piece sold in our April 2019 sale, which was attributed as a Dunlap and Florer Osage Missouri War Axe and documented in Museum of the Fur Trade Newsletter Volume 44 issue #4 Winter 2008, "Indian Tomahawks and Frontiersmen Belt Axes" by James Hartzler & Daniel Knowles (1995), "The Mark Francis Collection of American Indian Art" by Mark Francis (2009), and "The Missouri War Axe: War Tomahawk of the Plains and Prairies" by Mark Francis (2010). This pieces measures 7 ¾ inches long, with an iron head that is 4 ¼ inches long across the blade and overall 20 inches long with the wood haft.
FROM THE OFFICE OF SENATOR JOHN WARNER - GROUP OF 22 MISC. GLASS PRESENTATION PIECES/AWARDS Presented to Senator Warner by various groups, including the National Association of Manufactures, the Civil Air Patrol, the World Board of Governors, the Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Center for National Policy, and many more -
Provenance: Proceeds to benefit the University of Virginia.
American Indian Dag Knife & Beaded Sheath c1850-60: This is a wonderful, original American Indian Dag knife and extraordinary beaded sheath, both likely from the Cree or Blackfoot Native American Indians and dating to circa mid-19th Century. This “Chief’s Grade”, or “Presentation Grade”, knife features a solid wood, nicely figured grain handle/grip that is secured with seven silver pins and rivets. The knife is paired with an amazing, beaded Buffalo Bison hide sheath in the typical geometric pattern seen on other documented Cree and Blackfoot (Blackfeet) examples, with a triangular diamond-like drop that is beaded at the bottom. This style of ornate dag knife is referred to as a “Chief’s Grade” or “Presentation Grade” knife, as they were given to Chief’s and tribal dignitaries during trade negotiations and treaty signings. The forged iron knife shows a raised median ridge running down the center of the blade, a documented early weapon feature also seen on dag knives dating to pre-1860. The dag fighting knife is adorned with brass trade tacks at the pommel or end, along with two at the bolster on one side and one with a silver pewter crown emblem on the other. The crown emblem indicates that the dag knife was likely of British manufacture for the fur trade. American Indian, early dag knives are commonly referred to as “Beaver Paddle/ Beavertail” dag knives. This is due to the fact most dag knives were traded on the frontier along the Great Lakes region through the St. Lawrence Seaway, westward by early fur traders. From the Great Lakes region on westward, the knives became very popular among the Northern Plains/Upper Plateau tribes, such as the Cree, Metis, Blackfoot, Nez Perce, Chippewa/Ojibwa and Shoshone. These were made to be killing weapons; this is why dag knives show a clean, long, double-sided blade without any serration—they were for battle. Unlike other knives worn by Indian Warriors, the dag knife would have been worn around the Indians neck on his chest. The knife shows a rich, original patina and signs of age and use with minor nicks and expected wear; otherwise, the piece displays very well. The sheath shows a large presentation size, as well, with exceptional beadwork all being period correct, early glass trade seed beads sinew sewn in a geometric pattern in colors of sky padre blue, medium blue, greasy yellow, greasy red, cobalt, and medium green, amongst others. A similar sheath is digitally photographed in the lot for comparison; this example is on the cover of James Johnston’s book, “Accouterments Volume 4”, and is noted as being sold to a private collector for $40, 000. Another similar example, which was attributed to the Blackfoot Indian “Crow Foot”, sold in Cowan’s September 2013 sale for $65, 000; another example sold in a different Cowan’s sale for $24, 000. Provenance: From the Ben Thompson Collection, a noted war club and tomahawk collector and author/expert, along with Tom Hardy. The piece comes from the same collector as the Dag Knife sold by our company on 4/29/2017 for $10, 200 (with premiums) that was authenticated by the Sotheby’s expert, David Roche, and from the same collection as the Cree Dag Knife with Sheath that sold for $12, 300 (with premiums) at our company’s 8/25/2018 sale. The piece shows the proper signs of age and use, with minor dings and scratches and a fine patina. The dag knife measures overall 13”L and the sheath is 20 inches in length by 4 inches wide.
BOOK, BUDDHIST SCULPTURE OF NORTHERN THAILAND: Hard cover 430 pp. , hundreds of illustrations. Dust jacket. . Artist: Carol Stratton Issued: 2004 Dimensions: 11. 25"L x 8. 5"W Manufacturer: Buppha Press Country of Origin: United States Provenance: Collection of John J. Lanzendorf
Edward Curtis, The North American Indian Volume VI, 1911: Edward S. Curtis. (1868 - 1952). The North American Indian Volume VI, 1911. Individual volume on Japanese Vellum etching stock. Piegan, Cheyenne, Arapaho. . The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Volume VI. Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass. ], 1911. . . LIMITED EDITION: Quarto-sized (313 x 239 mm): This volume is numbered 48 of an unfulfilled edition of 500, on handmade Holland Van Gelder etching stock, quarto, top edges gilt, original ¾ brown crushed levant by H. Blackwell of Boston, over beige linen-covered boards, original gilt lettered, raised paneled spines, ribbon bookmarks, with photogravure plates by John Andrew & Son of Boston after photographs by Edward S. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. . . TEXT VOLUME: 75 photogravures, including 1 hand-colored print. Over 190 pages of text and transcriptions of language and music. Hand letterpress printed on hand-made paper. Hand-bound. . . Provenance:. Edward S. Curtis Studio. Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. By descent to family. The Christopher G. Cardozo Collection, 2019. . This set of “The North American Indian, ” number 48, by Edward Sherriff Curtis comes directly from the hands of the photographer, through four generations of the Moore (Close) family, to the hands of the buyer. The books keenly represent that period in American history when industrialization conquered the nation’s wild lands and clashed with its indigenous peoples, and for purposes of provenance it should be known that the man who acquired them from Curtis himself embodied both industry and a deep reverence for nature and the American West. The books were purchased from Edward S. Curtis by the seller’s great grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. of Greenwich, Connecticut. Moore was a Greenwich native, a humanist, and an industrialist who became president of his father’s metal products manufacturing company Manning Maxwell & Moore that built parts such as gauges, valves, and hoists for cranes and trains. Moore’s New York City office was in the Chrysler Building just below the gargoyles. Born 23rd of June, 1880, in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Charles A. Moore, Sr. and Mary Campbell Moore, his siblings were Mary Elsie Moore who married Italian prince Don Marino Torlonia, 4th prince of Civitella-Cesi; Eugene Maxwell Moore who married Titanic survivor Margaret Graham; and Jessie Ann Moore who married US Navy Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester. Moore married twice, first to Annette Sperry of Nashville with whom he had three children and divorced in 1919, then to Elizabeth Hyde (1897-1983), daughter of Seymour Jairus Hyde and his wife Elizabeth Worrall. The Hyde’s were also wealthy industrialists whose company, A. G. Hyde & Sons Co. manufactured dry goods such as the Heatherbloom petticoats, and advertised with the first moving sign on Times Square. Charles and Elizabeth, who was known as Betty, had two children: John Campbell Moore (1921-1943), who died in active service with the 853d Engineer Battalion while being transported on the H. M. T. Rohna in World War II; and Bettine Moore, to whom the Curtis books later belonged. Moore was educated at St. Paul’s school and graduated Yale class of ’03. He was with the Montenegrin Army for some months during the Balkan War, then served throughout WWI, commanding in France the Old Twelfth Company of Greenwich attached to the 56th Artillery, A. E. F. He retired at the conclusion of the war with the rank of Major. A life member of American Museum of Natural history, Moore contributed specimens to the institution, like a mountain goat he shot in northern Rockies near the Columbia River in 1904, among others. He was also a member of New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) and the National Geographic Society, as well as many manufacturing groups. Moore was a physically imposing man, a great lover of nature, a deeply devoted father, and the owner of a self-sustaining 168-acre farm/estate in Greenwich called Mooreland, on Mooreland Road, at which he hosted the Highland Games every summer. He had a wide and eclectic circle of friends of many ethnicities. An avid photographer, he shot both stills and movies, a collection of which the family retains. Many photographs depict beautiful natural scenes, or holidays to places like Cuba and dude ranches in the west. The reels of black and white film that he shot portray his family life (Johnny and Bettine as children, the Highland games, etc. ), and travels during the 1920’s – 40’s. . . EARLY INFLUENCE & LATER EXPEDITIONS:. In the fall of 1883, at the tender age of three, Arthur, as Charles, Jr. was known to his family, made a trans-continental trip by train on the Northern Pacific Railroad from New York City to Portland, Oregon with his parents. This was the very year the tracks were laid. One of his father’s letters from the journey, dated September 29, 1883 reads, "Yesterday Arthur shook hands through the window with an Indian Brave in War paint. ” This telling scene took pace in Billings, Montana, which at the time was still a territory. The Indian man was most likely Cheyenne, Crow, or Lakota Sioux. To put it into perspective, the Battle of the Little Big Horn/Battle of the Greasy Grass, otherwise known as Custer’s Last Stand, which took place just south of Billings, had happened only a few years prior, in 1876. Although the Indians won that battle, it was a symbolic win. In a mind-bogglingly short period of time their world had been forever altered. The last wild herds of buffalo had recently been obliterated from the landscape. Tribes were being force onto reservations. Settlers and miners were staking their claims. Who was he, the mystery “Indian brave”? We wish we knew, because his touch likely sparked in young Arthur a deep admiration for indigenous Americans and the west that eventually inspired him to sign onto the young Edward Curtis’ courageous venture in photography in 1906. Arthur’s early travels—and his father’s international travels and extensive political connections—also inspired him to become an explorer. Besides venturing west, he went north and east. He became dear friends with Captain Bartlett and 1897 journeyed with Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. to find the geographic North Pole. Moore then took charter of the steam whaler Algerine and spent the summer of 1901 in the Hudson’s Straights and Hudson’s Bay. His expedition north and with Peary succeeded in charting new waters and bringing back trophies, like Inuit artifacts and the Cape York meteorite, which is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It is likely that befriending Inuit peoples also compelled him to support Curtis’ work. Later, in 1906, Mr. Moore traveled to Arabia, lands then controlled by the Ottoman Empire, including into what is now modern-day Syria, with the day’s most famous political cartoonist, Homer Davenport, whose drawings satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The purpose of the expedition was to bringing back Arabian horses to the United States. Davenport had fallen in love with the breed at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, the first time Arabian horses were on US soil. Moore, also a keen horseman, photographed and documented their expedition to Arabia, playing a key role in bringing some of the earliest desert-bred Arabian mares and stallions to America. Moore’s love of animals, wild lands, native peoples, art, and the west, he passed on to his daughter Bettine, wife of Dr. William Taliaferro Close, and mother of actress Glenn Close and her three siblings, and, through them, to his great granddaughter who made the difficult decision to sell the books. Condition This original volume is in very good condition overall. A formal, detailed condition report is available upon request. . The condition reports for the lots offered by Santa Fe Art Auction (SFAA) are provided as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers. The reports are not intended to nor do they substitute for physical examination by a buyer or the buyer's advisors. The condition reports are prepared by SFAA staff members who are not art conservators or restorers, nor do they possess the qualifications needed for comprehensive evaluation. Each condition report is an opinion of the staff member and should not be treated as a statement of fact. The absence of a condition report does not imply anything as to the condition of a particular lot. Buyers are reminded that the limited warranties are set forth in the Terms and Conditions of Sale and do not extend to condition. Each lot is sold as-is.
Chinese ,Northern Song Dynasty, the steep sides rising to a shallow groove below the gently everted rim, covered overall with a black glaze suffused with fine russet striations,the warm orange amber tone concentrating around the rim trailing to fine lines towards the base, the glaze pooling above the foot revealing the dark brown stoneware body
H: 2.2"(5.5cm) D: 5.4"(13.8cm)
Provenance: Estate of Ted Lerner, Founder of Lerner Enterprise, Annapolis, MD
Condition: in overall good condition, with minute speckles and bubble blast (manufacture flaw)
Robert Seabeck (B. 1945) "1929 Station Wagon": Robert Seabeck (Wyoming, B. 1945) "1929 Model a Station Wagon" Signed lower left. Original Mixed Media painting on Paper. . . Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. . This painting is the original painting which appeared on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 60c 1929 Model A Station Wagon stamp issued June 4, 1996. . . By the beginning of 1929, Ford Motor Company was producing enough Model A's to meet the high customer demand. External door handles were available for the first time, and brighter colors and trim were available. America was prosperous and set a record-breaking year in its demand for cars. One million Model A's were built by February 1929; and two million by July 1929. Like the Model T, the Model A varied in type and body style, and included pickups, mail trucks, ambulances and fire engines. Prior to introducing its own station wagon in 1929, Ford Motor Company had supplied the Model A chassis to aftermarket manufacturers to install a station wagon body type. In January 1929, using the Model A platform, Ford manufactured the first mass produced station wagon. These partially wooden Model A's were built by Murray Corporation of America from maple/birch subassemblies supplied by Ford's northern Michigan lumbermills. These unique vehicles were also known as "woody wagons" and sold for $650. . . Image Size: 6. 5 x 13. 75 in. . Overall Size: 15 x 22. 25 in. . Unframed. . (B15417) Condition . - By registering to bid for this auction either in-house or online and/or placing a bid in this auction the BIDDER/BUYER agrees to all the terms and conditions of Helmuth Stone Gallery Auctions. . - All silver, gold and/or jewelry lots or invoices containing said lots MUST be paid for via WIRE TRANSFER, no other forms of payment will be accepted. . - All items are sold as-is where-is and no guarantees are made of any kind. All sales are final; no refunds will be given under any circumstances. . - Helmuth Stone Gallery provides condition reports as a courtesy to our clients and assumes no liability for any error or omission. Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client and is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Descriptions are our opinions and should in no way be construed as a guarantee of any kind as to age, condition, mater. The bidder assumes responsibility for ensuring that the condition of the item(s) meets with their satisfaction prior to bidding. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. . - Online images can sometimes be low quality due to the uploading process, original high-resolution images can be requested via email at HelmuthStone@gmail. com . - We recommend looking into shipping quotes prior to bidding, shipping quotes can take up to a week or more post-sale as we host our auctions through multiple online platforms and shipping can become backlogged, if you would like a list of local shippers please email us directly. . - Our auction catalogs are hosted through multiple online platforms along with phone and in-house bidding. Bids placed on other platforms are not shown through this catalog. Because of this, even if it appears you are the only absentee bid or bidder on a lot, you may already be outbid or may have placed a bid equal to another bidder. Therefore, we always recommend bidding live. . - Unless otherwise stated in the description, all items are sold without additional documentation or COAs. If any supporting documentation is available an image will be available online via the catalog listing.
Rare 1781 VERMONT Revolutionary War Navy Related Payment in Continental money!: American Revolution. Sylvester Rhodes Revolutionary War Privateer March 10, 1781 Payment for Conveying the Charter fees of Navy to Vermont for me. March 10, 1781-Dated Revolutionary War Period, Manuscript Document Receipt Signed, "Nich(olas) Field, " Conveying the Charter fees of Navy to Vermont per war(ant). ", Very Fine. This original Revolutionary War Period Manuscript Document measures about 6. 5" x 2. 25". It is well written and easily readable with light traces of prior hinge mount traces at each corner tip. Overall, boldly and clearly written in deep rich brown ink on period laid paper. Being an unusual payment receipt in "Continental money" and mentioning noted American Privateers. It reads, in full:. . "March 10, 1781 - Received of Silvester (sic) Rhodes (its symbol) "$"19 Continental money it being his part of a Ballance (sic) Due to me for Conveying the Charter fees of Navy to Vermont per war(ant). - (Signed) Nich(olas) Field". . Nicholas Field is listed as having been taken prisoner by the British of the Privateer Ship "Carolina" was placed into The Old Mill Prison at Plymouth in England on either the charge of 'treason' or 'piracy'. . . Sylvester Rhodes (1742-1782), mentioned for this payment, was the Sailing-Master of the American Privateer "Chance". Rhodes was descended from one of the early settlers of New England, named Zachary Rhodes, who came from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts at an early day, and subsequently settled, with his wife Joanna, daughter of William Arnold, one of the original settlers of the State, at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island. He entered the public service at an early period of the American Revolutionary War and he continued to serve his country, sometimes at sea, at others ashore, until his death in 1782. Rhodes was with American Revolutionary War Continental Navy Commander Commodore Abraham Whipple on his first cruise. For Commodore Whipple, it proved to be one of his most incredible achievements that he destroyed the British Customs Schooner "HMS Gaspee. . Vermont actually played an important Naval role during the Revolutionary War, including the Battle of Lake Champlain. After the British Campaign of 1777, the British controlled Lake Champlain for the duration of the Revolutionary War. The British naval fleet provided transportation and support for raids into the Champlain and Mohawk Valleys from 1778 to 1780, and served as supply vessels for the British posts at the northern end of the lake. When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the British fleet was laid up at St. John's, Newfoundland, except for the Schooner Maria, which continued to patrol the northern end of the lake. More research should be accomplished on this intriguing Vermont Naval related document. Sylvester Rhodes was with American Revolutionary War Continental Navy Commander Commodore Abraham Whipple on his first cruise. For Commodore Whipple, it proved to be one of his most incredible achievements that he destroyed the British Customs Schooner "HMS Gaspee. ". . The Gaspee Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a British Customs Schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet Ship Hannah on June 9 near Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, and torched the ship. . The event increased hostilities between the American colonists and British officials, following the Boston Massacre in 1770. British officials in Rhode Island wanted to increase their control over trade-legitimate trade as well as smuggling-in order to increase their revenue from the small colony. But Rhode Islanders increasingly protested the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and other British impositions that had clashed with the colony's history of rum manufacturing, maritime trade, and Slave trading. . This event and others in Narragansett Bay marked the first acts of violent uprising against the British Crown's authority in America, preceding the Boston Tea Party by more than a year and moving the Thirteen Colonies as a whole toward the war for Independence. . Rhodes, as Prizemaster, carried into Boston the First "Prize" a British Ship captured by that officer in the military operations in Rhode Island, he also served with honor and usefulness. . He was subsequently one of the eight Prize-Masters on board the Privateer General Washington, which sailed in May, 1780; and he was at the head of the list of Prize-Masters on board the Privateer Stlitariiu, when she sailed from Boston and was captured and carried to New York, in 1781. . In 1782, he was Sailing-master on board the Privateer Chance, of which his brother-in-law, Daniel Aborn, was the commander; and, with the crew of that vessel, he was again carried to New York, and confined on board the British Prison Ship the Jersey. . When the crew of the Chance was exchanged, it is supposed that Sailing-master Rhodes was among those invalids on Blackwell's Island who were left in captivity, 3 and his brother-in-law, Captain Aborn-, subsequently renewed his exertions to obtain his release, as he had done that of his shipmates. . As Rhodes was an officer in the army, as well as on the Privateer, the enemy refused to release him as they had released his associates- man for man ;' and not until his father had secured the interposition of a family in Newport whose connections in New York were friendly to the Government, was any progress made in effecting his discharge, notwithstanding the very feeble state of his health. . At length, through the kind offices referred to, his parole was secured, and Captain Aborn proceeded to New York to convey him to his family ; hut so far had disease performed its work, he never saw, in life, the home and family which were so dear to him. He died on board the cartel, while on her passage through the Sound, on the third of November, 1782; and his body having been taken nshore at New Haven, it was interred at that place.
19TH CENTURY 5-FOOT SQUARE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG MARKED ON HOIST BY THOMAS ALEXANDER BRANDER WHO WAS ARTILLERIST IN THE VIRGINIA ARTILLERY, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA. This is a most unusual and perplexing flag as the materials all appear contemporaneous to the Civil War as does the machine stitch used to assemble this flag. There are only minor differences noted as to construction of Civil War flags and this slightly later example. This cataloger is fairly certain that this flag and another that is no doubt related which was donated to VMI in 1923 as the battle flag of the Letcher Artillery and used at the battle of Newmarket. Thomas A. Brander was an officer in this unit. The flag at the Virginia Military Museum collection is identical in construction as the flag here though a different size 40" x 44", it also has the same inked inscription "T.A. Brander" on the hoist but also "$2.00". Thomas A. Brander (1839 - 1900), not only was a Confederate hero commanding artillery at most of the major battles fought under Robert E. Lee including Gettysburg where a plaque commemorates his position. Brander was also very involved in post war commemorations of Confederate Veterans, by time of his death he was Major General and Commander of Virginia division of the United Confederate Veterans. Most likely this flag is commemorative and not war time, though until this flag surfaced the VMI Military Museum flag was thought to have been war time, but it is now listed in archives as commemorative. This flag has family provenance dating it back to the Brander family according to our consignor which we do not doubt. Overall dimensions are 60-1/4" on fly 59-1/4" on hoist, the Saint Andrews cross is 8-3/4" wide, the cotton stars are 6-1/2" across. Flag is totally machine sewn with cotton hoist with sleeve retaining mounting cords that appear contemporary to its manufacture. Regardless this is a great opportunity to buy a Confederate battle flag at least 118 years old with a moderate estimate. A detailed research letter is available, written by Confederate flag historian Greg Biggs. CONDITION: Very good to fine overall with scattered areas of mothing to bunting. Flag has excellent color with soiling especially the hoist. 50780-1
Great Northern Railway Inspection Lamp: Included in this lot we have a Great Northern Railway inspection lamp originating from 1925. The rail road lamp was manufactured by Armspear MFG. The lamp shows a metal frame and lid with a glass globe at the center. The lid is marked "Armspear Man F G Co. "1925" - New York - G. N. RY. ". The globe is marked "CNX" across the top and "Made In USA" across the bottom. The piece shows brass internals with an adjustable lamp wick. The lamp shows good condition overall with some dents and wear. The lamp measures 14 1/2" tall with handle and 8" wide. Condition For a complete representation of condition and for additional images please call 800-686-4216. It is the buyer’s responsibility to view each image and preview the item to determine condition.
18th C. Dutch Porcelain Tiles w/ Biblical Scenes (7): **Originally Listed At $350**. . Northern Europe, Holland (the Netherlands), probably manufactured in Delft, ca. 18th century CE. A charming group of seven black-on-white porcelain tiles, each decorated with a different Biblical scene. Five of these also include the chapter and verse that the scene depicts. The ink - made from manganese - fired to a dark purple color but the artwork of each remains strongly displayed. The two scenes of ships approaching cities are particularly fine. These tiles were used to decorate the interior of Dutch homes during the Dutch Republic period, and are known as "bijbeltegels". They were also widely exported throughout Europe, used to decorate the walls of aristocratic palaces, university buildings, rich houses, and even churches. Size of largest: 5" W x 5. 15" H (12. 7 cm x 13. 1 cm) . . Provenance: private Ventura County, California, USA collection, acquired in the 1980s to 1990s. . All items legal to buy/sell under U. S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. . . A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. . We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. . #148425 Condition All have been removed from whatever they were attached to, and have deposits on their backs from adhesive. One is repaired from two or three large pieces, the others all have a few have small losses to their corners but are overall in nice condition. All artwork is nicely preserved.
An Important Miami Pipe With Ties to the 1795 Treaty of Greenville delicately carved curly maple stem with engraved bands of German silver and diamond-shaped inlay; brass mouthpiece and German silver tip; stem where silver tip affixed has been whittled to accommodate bowl; elbow-shape catlinite pipe with flared bowl is decorated with bands of concentric circles; the stem of bowl with a pierced crest and semicircular decorations. The interior of the bowl blackened from heavy use. The rim of the pipe on either side of the bowl flattened from repeated use.?Surrounding the opening of the pipe bowl where it joins with the stem is the inscription ?Nov. 20 1819?followed with the possible name Hery Dubois.length of bowl 6.25 in.; length of stem 21 in.; total length 26 in.late 18th to early 19th century?Collection HistoryThis pipe and stem were collected by Dr. Perry G. Moore (1845-1931) of Wabash Indiana. Family history indicates that Moore graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College and began his practice around Wabash in 1860. Wabash sat squarely in the ancestral lands of the Miami Indians and while most had been "removed" during the first half of the 19th century a number remained in their traditional homeland and gradually became acculturated. Throughout the last half of the 19th century Moore ministered to a number of these families and was keenly interested in their history. It was through his practice that he acquired this pipe as well as a more well-known artifact: the flag given to the Miami tribe by General Anthony ("Mad Anthony") Wayne at the Treaty of Greenville in 17951.In an affidavit written in 1923 Moore discusses how he first saw the flag in the summer of 1868 and how he later obtained it from descendants of the Miami chiefs She-Moc-E-Nish and Little Turtle. Moore and learned of its history from Kil-So-Quah (1820-1915) the last of the full-blooded Miami and the granddaughter chiefs She-Moc-E-Nish of Thorntown and Little Turtle both signers of the Greenville Treaty. According to the affidavit Kil-So-Quah told Moore Before the Treaty of Peace was held at Greenville Ohio in 1795 George Washington ordered Anthony Wayne to have the flag made and after the Treaty of Peace was signed to present it to the Chief of the Miami Nation (She-Moc-E-Nish - spelled Shamekunnesa on the Treaty) and say "keep this flag in sight and as often as you see it remember we are friends". The flag descended in the possession of Kil-So-Quah until it was loaned to a cousin from whom Moore obtained it sometime prior to 1887.Though not the pipe and stem offered here are not specifically mentioned in Moore's 1923 affidavit the document refers to seeing other items in the possession of Kil-So-Quah's cousin from whom he obtained the flag including clothing parchment manuscripts and silver medals from George Washington. And the last line records a tantalizing and frustrating clue about the present artifact: "The foregoing items (emphasis added) were all given to me by Kil-So-Quah herself." One of these "items" may have been the pipe discussed here.A later affidavit signed in 1991 by Moore's grandson Perry M. Cook provides further history about the pipe. Cook records his childhood memories of the pipe and how his grandfather Dr. Moore as well as his mother related that the pipe had been smoked at the Treaty of Greenville in 1795.The Pipe and Its Similarity to A Greenville Pipe TomahawkThe Moore pipe stem is finely crafted of highly figured maple decorated with thin pieces of silver cut into diamonds and bands and affixed using tiny silver pins. The style and decoration of the stem is similar to the handle of a pipe tomahawk curated by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and in fact both may have been made by the same hand. The DIA tomahawk was collected in the 1920s by Milford Chandler from Camellius Bundy a Miami Indian living near Peru Indiana. Bundy was a direct descendant of the Miami Chief She-Buk-O-Nah who was present at the Treaty of Greenville. Bundy related to Chandler that family tradition held that the tomahawk was presented by Anthony Wayne.2Both the stem and bowl of the present lot clearly date to the late 18th century. The bowl however is mismatched with the stem; it is too large and heavy to have been the pipe originally associated with the bowl though the stem has been modified to fit. While manufactured in the late 18th or early 19th centuries the stem of the pipe bears the inscription Nov. 20 1819. This date 24 years after the signing of Greenville may point to another important event: the creation of the Big Miami Reserve.?Treaty of Greenville and the Big Miami ReserveThe Treaty of Greenville was concluded after several failed attempts by the United States Government to wrest control of the Ohio Country from the Native populations of Miami Shawnee and smaller groups. For a sum of $20 000 and other gifts the Indians ceded a vast tract to the control of the Federal government that included much of Indiana Ohio and Illinois. The treaty largely put an end to the war in the Northwest Territory added Ohio to the Union and created a clear boundary which separated Indian lands from lands available to white settlers.Like all such treaties that established boundaries between Indian and non-Indian land it was constantly broken by encroaching whites. On October 6 1818 the Treaty of Saint Mary's was signed ceding more land from the Miami Nation to the United States starting at the Wabash River and extending west through central Indiana. Subsequently the removal of the Miami necessitated a survey to establish the Big Miami Reserve a new area for the Miami nation. This area was located south of the Wabash River.In 1819 surveyors Joseph S. Allen and Henry P. Benton were charged with the responsibility of marking the borders of the Big Miami Reserve located primarily in present day Indiana counties Howard Tipton Miami and Cass. After an arduous trip they along with their Indian guides reached the northern corner of the reserve where they began marking the land. Allen in ill-humor noted several times that the "Indians held council" over the month of November where My provisions were much wasted here as we had to accompany their chiefs to the town where the Indians made free with my bread. On the seventh they added another chief to my party which I had to support with bread and meat.3 It appears the surveyors continued marking the perimeter throughout November until The Indians told me in an imperious manner that I was going wrong and said that I should go no further that way saying I was going to their town. 4While Allen and Benton were in frequent contact - and in the company of - Miami Indians during the entire month of November 1819 their field reports record nothing occurring on the 20th the date inscribed on the present pipe.?Who Was Henry Dubois?As noted in the description of the pipe the possible name Henry Dubois is engraved around the opening of where the stem is inserted. The Dubois name is well known in Indiana history. The Frenchman Toussaint Dubois (1750-1816 was born in Montreal and fought with Lafayette in the American Revolution. At war's end he emigrated to Vincennes in the Northwest Territory married in 1788 and became a fur trader. In 1811 he served as Captain of Spies and at the Battle of Tippecanoe and later during the War of 1812 served with the Kentucky Militia as a major. Toussaint drowned in 1816 crossing the Little Wabash River in Illinois. Married twice Toussaint had seven children with his first wife one of whose name was Henry born in 1792. Like his father Henry is also served in the Indiana Militia and is listed as having been present at Tippecanoe in 1811 as part of Captain Benjamin Park's Company of Light Dragoons.Less is known of Henry's history and he is listed in the 1820 United States census as residing in Lawrenceville Illinois across the river from Vincennes Indiana.Given this history it is possible that the pipe might have been collected by Henry Dubois during the sacking of the village of Prophetstown at the conclusion of the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. Alternatively the pipe may have been collected by his father Toussaint and then passed down to his son. Neither scenario explains how the pipe was collected by Moore or how it ended up in north-central Indiana. Its striking similarity to a pipe tomahawk supposedly used at Greenville may also indicate that the Moore family history may have some credence. Unfortunately the complete history of this remarkable pipe and stem have been lost in the aftermath of the tumultuous frontier years of the Northwest Territory.??1The Anthony Wayne Flag is currently curated at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis Indiana and is property of the State of Indiana.2 Pohrt Richard. 1989. "Pipe Tomahawks from Michigan and the Great Lakes Area". In David W. Penny (Ed.) Great Lakes Indian Art (95-103). Detroit MI: Wayne State University Press and the Detroit Institute of Arts.3Wilson Grorge R. "Early Indiana Trails and Surveys". In Indiana Historical Publications (p433). Vol. 6 1919 .4Leiter Carl Richard. "The Big Miami Reserve. 1818-1840". M.A. Thesis Ball State University 1954 (pg. 28-29) Descended through the Moore Family of Indiana Condition: Pipe stem missing a few pieces of silver inlay; pipe stem has been broken and repaired.
Cheyenne Wolf Clan Dog Soldier Pipe Bowl c. 1800's: The lot features a historic and important carved wolf effigy pipe bowl from the Cheyenne Native American Indian Wolf Clan dating to circa mid to late 1800’s. The piece shows an expertly pipestone catlinite material with a full standing wolf’s body. The Dog Soldiers or Dog Men were part of the Wolf Clan of the Cheyenne Native American Indian tribe and were historically documented as one of the elite highly skilled groups of warriors. The Dog Soldier military society was the highly aggressive and effective militaristic arm of the Northern and Southern Cheyenne and were established in circa 1838. The pipe is believed to be from this Wolf Clan Dog Soldier select group of warriors, making it a truly rare and unique item. The relic shows an excellent original condition with no breaks, cracks, or visible repairs with the appropriate manufacture techniques and wear for its early age. Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman which was both part museum and gallery. Measures overall 3 inches in length by 1. 75” deep at the head and having a 5/8 inch opening at its widest. Condition For a complete representation of condition and for additional images please call 800-686-4216. It is the buyer’s responsibility to view each image and preview the item to determine condition.
A group of Native American items
Including six stone pipes, two with stems, one of those a Great Lakes example, two elbow varieties, a soapstone bowl and one in the style of a Northern California tube pipe; two tobacco or snuff containers, one of commercial manufacture the other an Athabascan birchbark example; two Plains bone game pieces with a basketry game tray.
length 1 3/4 - 9 1/4in
19TH C. SCOTTISH COPPER MARITIME LAMP W. HARVIE & CO.Northern Europe, United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. Stamped "W. HARVIE & Co. LTD. / 24 McALPINE ST / GLASGOW." A fascinating copper and glass maritime lamp featuring a cylindrical form, a conical roof, and a tubular top finial. The broad globe is adorned with 3 horizontal ridges on top and bottom, as 3 boils connect the roof to the circular base. A hinged loop is at the top for hanging and a lengthy cord extends from the bottom for lighting. A maker's plaque on the roof states the name and location of the company by which it was manufactured. Flip the toggle switch at the bottom and this lamp still produces a brilliant light! Size: 11.5" Diameter x 25.3" H (29.2 cm x 64.3 cm)
Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, acquired before 2010
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Still functions! Some indentations to roof and base. Otherwise, intact and excellent with lovely patina.
Nampeyo of Hano (1859-1942) Hopi Pottery: This is an outstanding authentic early Hopi pottery polychrome jar attributed to renowned master potter Old Lady Nampeyo of Hano (Hopi, 1859-1942). The jar dates to late 19th Century early 20th Century. Provenance: From a 90-year collection out of Central Arizona in the Coconino National Forest. The piece shows a fantastic three-color polychrome geometric traditional pigment painted design with unique no shoulder olla tall pottery jar. Nampeyo (Tewa name Num-pa-yu, meaning “snake that does not bite”) was a Hopi-Tewa potter who is one of the most renowned master of her era with works in the National Museum of American Art, Museum of Northern Arizona, Spurlock Museum and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. The piece shows a wonderfully executed geometric finely stylized pattern of red, brown and black all displayed on a cream-colored slip background. The piece shows wear and signs of use consistent with its very early age. The works show the correct manufacture and fine craftsmanship along with being unmarked, which is consistent with other authentic Nampeyo pieces of an early age such as this piece. The piece is of a nice large size and shows an overall good condition with no visible cracks or chips with slight paint loss and pitting at the top edge. Measures overall 8. 5”H by 5. 25”W diameter. Shown are several digital photographs of Nampeyo which are not included. Condition For a complete representation of condition and for additional images please call 800-686-4216. It is the buyer’s responsibility to view each image and preview the item to determine condition.
GRAND CURIO CABINET COMMISSIONED FOR MARK HOPKINS SAN F...Pottier and Stymus Aesthetic Movement Grand Curio cabinet commissioned for the Rosewood Music Room (which was adjacent to the Library) in the Mark Hopkins residence, San Francisco, CA. The mixed metal marquetry inlay design and other decorative elements relate to a rosewood cabinet from the same room formerly in the collection of Warner Bros Studios now in a Northern California collection as well as the Lady's Secretary in the Newark Museum. The intricately carved oak leaf frieze is nearly identical to a desk commissioned for the adjacent library that had descended in the Washington St. home of Timothy Hopkins until it was sold at auction in 1997 for $96,000. The Grand Curio cabinet was not acquired by the Studios and is in near new original condition. Circa 1875-1880. Dimensions: 95"h x 84.25"w x 17.25"d. Provenance: Sacramento Bishop's mansion thence to private collector.
One of the most prominent and largest American design and manufacturing firms of high quality furniture of the Victorian period, Pottier & Stymus produced furniture in the Neo-Greco, Renaissance Revival, Egyptian Revival, and Modern Gothic styles. The company supplied furniture to the President's office and the Cabinet Room in the White House in 1869, and for the homes of such well-to-do families as the Rockefellers and railway baron Leland Stanford.
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Silvered mirrored glass in upper cabinet sides and lower right are bubbling otherwise very good condition. Original finish, keys and locks. Very minor fading and small scratches. Witherell's strives to provide as much information and photographs as possible but encourages in-person inspection by bidders. Condition: statements are only for general guidance and should not be relied upon as complete statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty or assumption of liability by Witherell's. All lots are sold "AS IS" under terms and conditions. Please be advised we do not provide porters nor packing materials for pick ups.
Alaskan Thule Wood Anthropomorphic Effigy Figure: Native American, Northwest Alaska, Brevig Mission, Thule culture, ca. 1200 to 1700 CE. An incredibly rare hand-carved wooden effigy idol figurine of a miniature size long preserved in the frozen earth of northern Alaska. Standing on gently bent legs, the figure has a simplified body with separated legs, a bulging belly, and sloped shoulders with short arms, and a minimalist visage of sunken eyes, a prominent nose, and a straight mouth presented on an ovoid head. The wonderful state of preservation of this figure is accentuated by the smooth patina which covers the exterior. Size: 1" W x 3" H (2. 5 cm x 7. 6 cm); 4. 5" H (11. 4 cm) on included custom stand. . The Thule people were the ancestors of modern Inuit whose advanced culture and technology made them a part of the global economy during what we in the west call the medieval period. This figure was carved during a dynamic time in Thule history; recent research indicates that sometime after ca. 1200 CE, perhaps in a span of just a few years, the Thule people spread from their Bering Strait homeland all the way to Greenland, likely driven by the search for iron, both from meteoric deposits they may have heard about from the Dorset people to their east and from trade. They traded with the Chinese to their west - metal beads and a belt buckle of Chinese manufacture and dating to 1100 to 1300 CE have been found in in the Seward Peninsula - and interacted with the Vikings to their east, who describe them in the Vinland Saga as the Skraelings. . . Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection. . All items legal to buy/sell under U. S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. . . A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. . PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm. . Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping. . #166457 Condition Indentation to side of head. Repairs to feet. Some very light scratches. Otherwise, excellent with rich patina.
Vintage Contempra "Talia" tone dial telephone, c.1970s, wrapped in stitched brown leather, manufactured by Northern Telecom Limited, approx 3.5"h, 6"w, 5.5"d, 2lbs
ITALIAN CARVED FRUITWOOD RENAISSANCE STYLE CABINET-ON-STAND, WORKSHOP OF MICHELANGELO GUGGENHEIM
LATE 19TH CENTURY the cabinet with a pierced and carved cresting with putti flanking an armorial shield, above a fall front with an oval relief-carved reserve with bacchic putto and a goat, opening to a plain mirrored interior and flanked by herms; the separate stand with a frieze drawer raised on garland hung scrolled legs headed by terms and joined by a shaped pierced and carved stretcher centred by a female mask; the reverse with partial label 'M. GUGGENHEIM ... VENICE'90cm wide, 184cm high, 48cm deepProvenance: The Bellamy Collection, County Down, Northern IrelandNote: The designer, manufacturer and art dealer Michelangelo Guggenheim was active in Venice from the middle until the end of the nineteenth century. Working primarily in adaptations of historical period styles, Guggenheim was responsible for the decoration and furnishing of a number of prominent Venetian palaces during his career.
Edward Curtis, The North American Indian Volume XI, 1916: Edward S. Curtis. (1868 - 1952). The North American Indian Volume XI, 1916. Individual volume on Holland Van Gelder etching stock . Nootka, Haida. . The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Volume XI. Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass. ], 1916. . . LIMITED EDITION: This volume is numbered 48 of an unfulfilled edition of 500, on handmade Holland Van Gelder etching stock, quarto, top edges gilt, original ¾ brown crushed levant by H. Blackwell of Boston, over beige linen-covered boards, original gilt lettered, raised paneled spines, ribbon bookmarks, with photogravure plates by John Andrew & Son of Boston after photographs by Edward S. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. . . TEXT VOLUME: 75 photogravures, including 1 hand-colored print. Over 230 pages of text and transcriptions of language and music. Hand letterpress printed on hand-made paper. Hand-bound. . . Provenance:. Edward S. Curtis Studio. Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. By descent to family. The Christopher G. Cardozo Collection, 2019. . This set of “The North American Indian, ” number 48, by Edward Sherriff Curtis comes directly from the hands of the photographer, through four generations of the Moore (Close) family, to the hands of the buyer. The books keenly represent that period in American history when industrialization conquered the nation’s wild lands and clashed with its indigenous peoples, and for purposes of provenance it should be known that the man who acquired them from Curtis himself embodied both industry and a deep reverence for nature and the American West. The books were purchased from Edward S. Curtis by the seller’s great grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr. of Greenwich, Connecticut. Moore was a Greenwich native, a humanist, and an industrialist who became president of his father’s metal products manufacturing company Manning Maxwell & Moore that built parts such as gauges, valves, and hoists for cranes and trains. Moore’s New York City office was in the Chrysler Building just below the gargoyles. Born 23rd of June, 1880, in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Charles A. Moore, Sr. and Mary Campbell Moore, his siblings were Mary Elsie Moore who married Italian prince Don Marino Torlonia, 4th prince of Civitella-Cesi; Eugene Maxwell Moore who married Titanic survivor Margaret Graham; and Jessie Ann Moore who married US Navy Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester. Moore married twice, first to Annette Sperry of Nashville with whom he had three children and divorced in 1919, then to Elizabeth Hyde (1897-1983), daughter of Seymour Jairus Hyde and his wife Elizabeth Worrall. The Hyde’s were also wealthy industrialists whose company, A. G. Hyde & Sons Co. manufactured dry goods such as the Heatherbloom petticoats, and advertised with the first moving sign on Times Square. Charles and Elizabeth, who was known as Betty, had two children: John Campbell Moore (1921-1943), who died in active service with the 853d Engineer Battalion while being transported on the H. M. T. Rohna in World War II; and Bettine Moore, to whom the Curtis books later belonged. Moore was educated at St. Paul’s school and graduated Yale class of ’03. He was with the Montenegrin Army for some months during the Balkan War, then served throughout WWI, commanding in France the Old Twelfth Company of Greenwich attached to the 56th Artillery, A. E. F. He retired at the conclusion of the war with the rank of Major. A life member of American Museum of Natural history, Moore contributed specimens to the institution, like a mountain goat he shot in northern Rockies near the Columbia River in 1904, among others. He was also a member of New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) and the National Geographic Society, as well as many manufacturing groups. Moore was a physically imposing man, a great lover of nature, a deeply devoted father, and the owner of a self-sustaining 168-acre farm/estate in Greenwich called Mooreland, on Mooreland Road, at which he hosted the Highland Games every summer. He had a wide and eclectic circle of friends of many ethnicities. An avid photographer, he shot both stills and movies, a collection of which the family retains. Many photographs depict beautiful natural scenes, or holidays to places like Cuba and dude ranches in the west. The reels of black and white film that he shot portray his family life (Johnny and Bettine as children, the Highland games, etc. ), and travels during the 1920’s – 40’s. . EARLY INFLUENCE & LATER EXPEDITIONS. In the fall of 1883, at the tender age of three, Arthur, as Charles, Jr. was known to his family, made a trans-continental trip by train on the Northern Pacific Railroad from New York City to Portland, Oregon with his parents. This was the very year the tracks were laid. One of his father’s letters from the journey, dated September 29, 1883 reads, "Yesterday Arthur shook hands through the window with an Indian Brave in War paint. ” This telling scene took pace in Billings, Montana, which at the time was still a territory. The Indian man was most likely Cheyenne, Crow, or Lakota Sioux. To put it into perspective, the Battle of the Little Big Horn/Battle of the Greasy Grass, otherwise known as Custer’s Last Stand, which took place just south of Billings, had happened only a few years prior, in 1876. Although the Indians won that battle, it was a symbolic win. In a mind-bogglingly short period of time their world had been forever altered. The last wild herds of buffalo had recently been obliterated from the landscape. Tribes were being force onto reservations. Settlers and miners were staking their claims. Who was he, the mystery “Indian brave”? We wish we knew, because his touch likely sparked in young Arthur a deep admiration for indigenous Americans and the west that eventually inspired him to sign onto the young Edward Curtis’ courageous venture in photography in 1906. Arthur’s early travels—and his father’s international travels and extensive political connections—also inspired him to become an explorer. Besides venturing west, he went north and east. He became dear friends with Captain Bartlett and 1897 journeyed with Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. to find the geographic North Pole. Moore then took charter of the steam whaler Algerine and spent the summer of 1901 in the Hudson’s Straights and Hudson’s Bay. His expedition north and with Peary succeeded in charting new waters and bringing back trophies, like Inuit artifacts and the Cape York meteorite, which is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It is likely that befriending Inuit peoples also compelled him to support Curtis’ work. Later, in 1906, Mr. Moore traveled to Arabia, lands then controlled by the Ottoman Empire, including into what is now modern-day Syria, with the day’s most famous political cartoonist, Homer Davenport, whose drawings satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The purpose of the expedition was to bringing back Arabian horses to the United States. Davenport had fallen in love with the breed at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, the first time Arabian horses were on US soil. Moore, also a keen horseman, photographed and documented their expedition to Arabia, playing a key role in bringing some of the earliest desert-bred Arabian mares and stallions to America. Moore’s love of animals, wild lands, native peoples, art, and the west, he passed on to his daughter Bettine, wife of Dr. William Taliaferro Close, and mother of actress Glenn Close and her three siblings, and, through them, to his great granddaughter who made the difficult decision to sell the books. 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2009 US Mint Silver Proof Coin Set w/ 18 Coins #1
Issued in 2009 with 18 coins which includes the Sacagawea Dollar, Silver Half Dollar, Silver Dime and Nickel - 4 Presidential Dollar set - 4 Lincoln Commemorative Lifetime Penny set and Silver 50 State Quarter Set of that year. - 90% silver - with Box and COA. Presidential Dollars include William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K Polk and Zachary Taylor - the State quarters include District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa the Lincoln cents include all 4 lifetime events.
Era or Time Period: 2009
Color: silver
Size Dimensions: standard
Manufacturer: U S MInt
HISTORIC CAPTURED AND CARVED CONFED. RICHMOND RIFLED-MUSKET AND BAYONET TAKEN AT FORT FISHER. A marvelous identified and captured Confed. musket-probably the best I’ve ever encountered. The musket is a mid-war production Richmond Rifled Musket that is undeniably authentic and complete in every way. This Richmond musket has a 40” rnd bbl in .58 cal, measuring 55 ½” overall. Iron lock plate marked: “C.S/Richmond, Va.” and dated “1863” behind the hammer. The musket has the correct brass butt plate and nose cap and retains its orig rear sight and ramrod-so often missing or replaced. The walnut stock is correct for this model and has the distinctive Richmond pattern “cut” inside the lock plate mortise. On the left side of the musket’s rear stock is the bold incised carving “TAKEN AT FORT FISHER, JANUARY 15, 1865”. Additionally, on the stock’s face opposite the lock plate is the captor’s name “W. REID” carved in the same hand. Some research needs to be complete among the rosters of the Union forces in this critical battle to determine the unit and service of the Confed. musket’s captor. Collins & Co. manufactured its accompanying bayonet and is surcharged “U.S.” surmounting the numeral “25”. Fort Fisher, known as the Gibraltar of the South was a critical part of the Confederacy’s defenses-protecting the South’s last major seaport Wilmington, NC. The Christmas Day attack in 1864 by a joint army/navy Union force on Fort Fisher fizzled when Gen. Benjamin F. Butler pulled out his troops, and returned to Hampton Roads, Va. Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant wrote that he would "be back again with an increased force and without the former commander". The new commander assigned to the task was Gen. Alfred H. Terry, one of Butler's former division commanders, and the increased force arrived composed of 8,000 men in three white divisions and one African-American division. Located at the end of a long peninsula, Fort Fisher was a massive L-shaped earthwork that stretched 682 yards across the neck of land and another 1,898 yards down the beach. Armed with 44 heavy cannon to protect the approaches to the Cape Fear River and 125 other cannon to be used in its defense, and manned by 1,500 soldiers, the Fort was a formidable target. Terry and Porter devised a plan of attack, and on Jan. 13, 1865, under cover-fire from Porter's 44 ships, Terry's men went ashore and established a beachhead five miles north of the Fort. Terry set his African-American troops to work building and manning a strong line of works across the peninsula to hold off any Confed. threat to his rear. Terry scouted the land face of the fort and decided to make his attack there. To aid in the attack, Porter recruited 2,000 sailor and marine volunteers to storm the Fort from the ocean side simultaneously with the army's assault. Confed. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting, planner and builder of the fort, was unsuccessful in his efforts to get reinforcements and returned to Fort Fisher on the morning of the 13th. All day and night on the 13th and 14th of Jan, the navy continued it ceaseless attack preparing the way for an assault by Union Inf., sailors, and marines. At 2:30 P.M. on Jan. 15, 1865, the great ship-borne guns suddenly fell silent, signaling the Union soldiers to attack. The Rebels rushed to defend the parapets with rifles and whatever artillery was still serviceable. The Yankee sailors and marines were repulsed in their attack on the Fort's northeast face, but on the other end of the land face, Union troops gained a footing and progressed from one gun emplacement to another in vicious hand-to-hand fighting. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting, who had spent almost two years planning and building the great fort was mortally wounded. One by one, each traverse on the land face fell to the attackers, and the outnumbered defenders falling back and regrouping to contest every inch. Col. Lamb fought valiantly to save Fort Fisher only to be severely wounded himself. Once the northern wall of the fort had fallen, the rest of the bastion was doomed. The Confed. forces continued the struggle down the beach, finally surrendering at around 10:00 P.M. that night. A marvelous, complete and orig Confed. Richmond rifled-musket and bayonet further enhanced by its historic and orig carving and its relationship to one of the last heroic struggles of the Confederacy. CONDITION: All of the iron furniture has a pleasing brown uncleaned patina. Some old tool marks are visible here and there and the stock has traces of old varnish. Carving appears authentic and of the period. Musket is in good, solid condition complete with sights, sling swivels and orig ramrod with the expected wear from battlefield use. Bayonet has a gray patina and is in fine condition. 4-58268 CW30 (12,000-15,000)
PRESENTATION SWORD OF MAJ. CHARLES P. CHANDLER, 1ST MASS. INFANTRY, "KILLED IN ACTION", ACCOMPANIED BY HIS 3-VOLUME INSCRIBED INFANTRY TACTICS. This sword is featured on pp. 38-40 in Inscribed Union Swords 1861-1865, David V. Stroud. This sword is a fine example of an Ames model 1850 foot officer’s sword, even if it did not have such a wonderful history. Mr. Stroud describes this sword in his book as follows: "The sword carried by Major Chandler is a 1850 Foot Officers' model with wood grips wrapped with sharkskin and one strand of twisted brass wire. The brass pommel is decorated with flower and leaf decoration and the counter-guard has the pierced floral design. The sword knot is secured to the knuckle-bow through the hole pierced near the pommel. The reverse side of the brass counter-guard is inscribed: 'Maj. C.P. Chandler, Boston, Mass. / April, 1861'. The blade is etched on the obverse with floral motif, a shield and crossed cannons as well as a trumpet and a flag. There is an eagle with a Union Shield on its breast and a ribbon with the motto 'E PLURIBUS UNUM.' The reverse is etched with similar floral motif but the eagle is replaced with the letters 'U.S.' The ricasso is etched with 'Ames Manufacturing Co. / Chicopee / Mass.' in script. The scabbard is black leather with brass mounts. The top mount is inscribed on the obverse with the same inscription as the counter-guard while the reverse is marked 'Ames Mfg. Co. / Chicopee / Mass.' Charles P. Chandler was commissioned Major in the 1st Massachusetts Volunteers while it was organizing in May, 1861. The unit was recruited in Boston and was the subject of several newspaper articles which kept the public informed of military activity in their city. In the column describing the 1st Massachusetts field and staff officers, Major Chandler was described as 'universally popular' and the reporter believed he would 'distinguish himself in his new capacity.' Once the regiment was formed they moved to Washington, D.C. to help defend the capital. While moving from their quarters on Pennsylvania Avenue to Georgetown, Colonel Cowdin sent his adjutant to the President offering to give their commander-in-chief a passing salute: President Lincoln acknowledged the compliment, and returned an answer through his Private Secretary, Mr. Nicolay, that he would be happy to review the Massachusetts boys. The excellent order with which the regiment marched, their stalwart, healthy look, and their abundant and thorough material for transportation and camping, elicited the warmest praise of the President. He remarked to General Morse, of Massachusetts, that he thought it was the finest looking regiment and most thoroughly prepared for the service, that he had seen, if he might except Colonel Tappan's New Hampshire Regiment, which seemed to be as well provided. The regiment is the first under the three years, requisition from Massachusetts. Before the crowd departed the President had his joke; and it was quite a significant one. Some one was speaking of the intense feeling of the Massachusetts people on the present question, that this regiment, so splendidly provided and sent forward, was but an evidence of the thoroughness with which the people of the State are determined to do their part in putting down the rebellion. The President, after complimenting the Old Bay State for the surprising promptness with which she responded to the first call, and the bravery with which her troops received and returned the first fire in the war, and the endurance and skill they exhibited in opening the great northern gateway to the Capital, and, 'It is evident that the Massachusetts people have got riley and from what we just saw they appear to be coming down here to settle.' This play upon words produced considerable merriment. The President took his leave, saying that he was very busy preparing for the assembling of Congress. The 1st Massachusetts became part of the Army of the Potomac and advanced on Manassas in July, 1861. After the Union defeat the regiment did not see significant action again until the siege of Yorktown. After Yorktown, the unit fought at Williamsburg, Fair Oakes, and Seven Pines. During the 'Seven Days before Richmond' Major Chandler was killed in action. His death occurred at the Battle of Nelson's Farm, Virginia, on June 30, 1862. There was come confusion as to whether Chandler was killed, wounded, or captured in the fight. According to Colonel Robert Cowdin of the 1st Massachusetts, 'Major Chandler and Lieutenant Sutherland were wounded and fell, and were probably taken prisoners.' The action was also reported in the Boston newspaper: Letter From the Massachusetts First - A member of Co. G, Massachusetts First, writes the following letter to his brother in this city, under the date of James River, July 4th: 'This is the roughest Fourth of July I ever experienced . . . The First went into the fight on the first of July only 300 strong, and made a charge upon the rebel regiments drawn up in line. They succeeded in forcing us back with a loss of seventy-five to one hundred killed, wounded and missing. We formed again and stood our ground. It was an awful sight. The ground we charged across was completely covered with rebels killed or wounded. They lay so close that we had to step upon them to get along. In this charge we lost our Major (Chandler), a fine man, and we miss him sorely. The soldier's letter did not mention how Major Chandler was lost. In August, 1862, another letter was written which included the fate of the major. Chandler's sister was informed by a settler who had met a surgeon of the 6th Maine that her brother was alive and a prisoner in Richmond. The letter added that he had two wounds, one in the arm and a more serious one in the thigh. Chandler's record simply carried him as missing until August, 1864 when his status was changed to 'killed at the Battle of Glendell, June 30, 1862.'" Sword still retains two partial sword mounts still attached to rings on scabbard. Maj. Chandler's 3-volume Casey's Infantry Tactics were obtained by him March, 1862 just three months before he was killed. All three volumes are beautifully inscribed & dated in frontis or inside cover in contemporary brown ink. These three books, as can be seen, are in excellent condition. Books are all complete & all fold out plates are intact. There is an orig photograph of Capt. Chandler holding this sword in the U.S. Army History Institute. Also included in this lot are a group of photocopied service records & a copy of David Stroud's excellent limited edition book showing this sword. CONDITION: Sword is in excellent condition overall. Hilt & scabbard mounts retain 95% orig gilt. Leather scabbard body is fine retaining almost all its orig black finish, several scratches & scuffs & crazing occur on leather body. Sharkskin grip shows only minor wear to high spots. Gilt wire wrap is intact as is gilt sword knot. Blade is excellent, retaining almost all of its orig finish & frosting. This sword is as fine a specimen of an 1861 issued & used Ames foot officer's sword that can be found. 4-56630 JS6 (12,000-15,000)
2009 US Mint Silver Proof Coin Set w/ 18 Coins #2
Issued in 2009 with 18 coins which includes the Sacagawea Dollar, Silver Half Dollar, Silver Dime and Nickel - 4 Presidential Dollar set - 4 Lincoln Commemorative Lifetime Penny set and Silver 50 State Quarter Set of that year. - 90% silver - with Box and COA. Presidential Dollars include William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K Polk and Zachary Taylor - the State quarters include District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa the Lincoln cents include all 4 lifetime events.
Era or Time Period: 2009
Color: silver
Size Dimensions: standard
Manufacturer: U S Mint