- VICTORIAN STYLE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY
VICTORIAN STYLE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY DESK, 20TH CVictorian Style California State Assembly Desk, 20th c, with closed gallery, red tooled leather writing surface and carved medallion, column and panel base. 38"t x 40"w x 29 1/2"d. Very good condition
- KELVIN & HUGHES BINNACLE, 56" TALL.Kelvin
KELVIN & HUGHES BINNACLE, 56" TALL.Kelvin & Hughes Binnacle, 56" tall. Teak base with replacement top brass cap and oil burner assembly. Very good condition.
- VICTORIAN WALNUT CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY
VICTORIAN WALNUT CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY DESK, 19THVictorian Walnut California State Assembly Desk, 19th c., with closed gallery, red tooled leather writing surface and carved medallion, column and panel base. 38"t x 40"w x 29 1/2"d. Very good conditi
- PERSIAN TURQUOISE STONES FOR NECKLACE,
PERSIAN TURQUOISE STONES FOR NECKLACE, BRACELET,Persian turquoise stones for necklace, bracelet and earring set. Purchased from the Vafadar Meshed Bazar in 1969. Stones are placed on paper in shape of jewelry pieces for assembly. One stone is loose
- Seven Rookwood Pottery Articles
20th
Seven Rookwood Pottery Articles
20th Century
comprising one mug, a flower dish, and five vases, including a commemorative First Scientific Assembly example.
each with impressed manufacturer's mark, date mark, and shape number to underside.
Height of tallest 9 3/4 inches.
- A Large Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres
A Large Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Urn
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
signed Haxant in lower left of the image; needing assembly.
Height overall 49 inches x width over handles 18 inches.
- MIGUEL BERROCAL MINI ZORAIDA PUZZLE
MIGUEL BERROCAL MINI ZORAIDA PUZZLE SCULPTUREMiguel Ortiz Berrocal (Spanish, 1933-2006). Nickel plated Mini Zoraida puzzle sculpture, homage to Paloma Picasso. Signed and numbered 2549 on the underside, and with the Instructions for Assembly book, numbered 2549. Sculpture 3 1/4"W x 3"H including base. Book with translations and other notations written in pencil, some wear to corners of covers and spine.
- AUTOGRAPH BOOK W/ J.W.C. PENNINGTON,
AUTOGRAPH BOOK W/ J.W.C. PENNINGTON, OTHERS, 1860S Presented is an autograph album of Mr. H. Baylies of Taunton, Mass of which his name is gold leafed onto the cover, containing 147 signatures, date of signing and location on most. Many historical religious leaders of the northeastern United States and many more of which most have not been researched fully. There is a list of people which seems like some kind of an assencion with a few notable individuals such as that of J.W.C. Pennington (1807-1870), author of "The Fugitive Blacksmith" and now known as the first black graduate of Yale University. Pennington attended Yale in 1834 to 1837. On April 22, 2023, Yale awarded Pennington a posthumous M.A. Privatim. He was ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church, later also serving in Presbyterian churches for congregations in Hartford, Connecticut and New York. Another page is inscribed from Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign? (1794-1872), who nicely inscribed to the owner of the book with provenance signed by him stating, "The above autograph, on the (assembly general's stationary for the Societe Evangelique), was written for me at his house in Geneva, September 1860 and had his wife, at his request write in the date." Many other notables such as Nathaniel Fellows, senator from Rhode Island; James Woodward Strong, the first president of Carleton College and theologian in Minnesota and author of the Strong Concordance of 1890 or index to the Bible. Others include Chester Hubbard (1814-1891) US representative and founder of West Virginia; George C. Bancroft; Daniel Steel (associated with the Methodist Holiness movement and many more); lastly a later piece of church history written on ledger paper. A financial plan to fund and build a new church and parsonage in Davenport, Iowa thus financed through subscribers of with the verso has a small list stating the names and dollar amounts given, dated August 17, 1865. Including Hiram Price and 4 others. Hiram was a nineteenth-century banker, merchant, bookkeeper, bank president, railroad president, and five-term Republican congressman from Iowa's 2nd congressional district and as commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1881 and later the same year was appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs by President James A. Garfield, serving from 1881 to 1885. His donation to his hometown church was $2000.00.
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR BROADSIDE W/ WRITTEN
REVOLUTIONARY WAR BROADSIDE W/ WRITTEN ORDERS One page broadside, ?At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of October, A. D. 1780, order for raising of troups for the militia, 2500 men, per George Washington, will be formed into 5 regiments. Verso has a handwritten order by Colonel Obadiah Johnson (1736-1801), dated June 26, 1780, ordered by General Douglas, thus ordering Captain Joseph Raynoford to provide one sergeant and two privates to be ready to fight being fully equipped?out of the state?whenever needed. An unusual piece being orders written on orders as paper was scarce at that time. Mounted in a double-sided glass frame, giving access to observe the whole document both front and back. Bristol B5063; Evans 16741
- 6PCS ENGLISH MAGAZINES, AMERICAN COLONIES
6PCS ENGLISH MAGAZINES, AMERICAN COLONIES NEWS Six English periodicals with news items about the colonies. Examples date from 1733 to 1783. #1: The Gentleman's Magazine dated April 1733 containing a descriptive letter from General Oglethorpe to the trustees describing Savannah and how they will set it up. With much other news spanning pages 165-220. #2: A supplement of The Gentleman?s Magazine for 1742, with pages 665-698 containing 5 pages describing the Spanish invasion of Georgia with the last page categorizing complete mortality rates, numbers and causations in London. #3. then on to The Gentleman?s Magazine for January 1756, containing 2.5 pages of text describing New Georgia and an account of news between the governor and the assembly of Philadelphia. With much more news. #4. The Gentleman?s Magazine dated April 1779, pages 161-216, with discussion concerning Georgia in a Lieutenant Colonel Campbell?s letter to Lord George Germaine as well as General Provost?s letter to the same, with a wonderful fold out map of the attack plan on St. Lucia with much detail. #5. An appendix to the London Magazine for 1783 with a strong and very early account of the Treaty of Paris which was signed September 3rd, 1783, and state papers. #6. The Gentleman's Magazine of 1779, month unknown because of a missing cover, with a great deal of detail describing Major General Provost?s "Journal of the Siege of Savannah" with almost 5 pages of strong details.
- AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CONTINENTAL ARMY
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CONTINENTAL ARMY BROADSIDE A broadside 1p, 1781, At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1781: An act, in further addition to an act, intitled, "An act for filling up this state?s quota of the Continental Army, signed: A true copy of record, examin?d by George Wyllys, secretary. Excellent content regarding the need to enlist more soldiers. Text, in part: "At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut...An Act...intitled 'An Act for filling up this State's Quota of the Continental Army.' Be it enacted by the Governor...That the several towns within this State, who have not yet obtained their full compliment of Recruits for the Continental Army...do proceed in manner as is directed...to procure the number of such recruits...the commanding officers...in such deficient towns...are hereby directed...to detach peremptorily...as many able bodied effective men as such town be deficient...muster said detached men...appoint a place of rendezvous...give the necessary orders for marching...to the army...if any person so detached...voluntarily inlist...he shall be entitled to receive...a bounty or premium...six pounds in gold or silver." Evans 17121
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR, INDEPENDENCE HALL
REVOLUTIONARY WAR, INDEPENDENCE HALL PAY DOCUMENT Revolutionary War pay order for repairs to the Assembly Room of the Statehouse, later to be named Independence Hall. ADS, 1 page. Dated February 13, 1779 in Philadelphia to State Treasurer David Rittenhouse (1732-1796), famous astronomer and clockmaker. To pay Charles Schultz on order sixty pounds, two shillings and six pence, in full for sundry iron work for the Assembly Room. Darkly signed by John Bayard (1738-1807), as Speaker of the House of the Assembly. Schultz receipt at lower right. Both Bayard and Rittenhouse were members of the Committee of Safety and the Constitutional Convention. Bayard was a member of the Sons of Liberty and as Colonel served at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Princeton. The fledgling American government returned to the State house in July 1778 after the British occupation seven months earlier. The State house later became known as Independence Hall due to the keen interest shown by the Marquis de Lafayette in his visit to Philadelphia during his farewell tour in 1824, wanting to see the 'Hall of Independence' which he deemed sacred to the cause of liberty. The Assembly Room to which this document refers, so important to American history, is pictured on the reverse side of the US two-dollar bill, from the original painting by John Trumbull entitled 'Declaration of Independence.'