Eight (8) Tennessee and Kentucky slave-related documents, including bills of sale pertaining to William James (1794-1864), Register for Davidson County, TN, dated circa 1840-59. 1st item: Slave bill of sale between Thomas C. James and William James, stating that Thomas had received "…two hundred & seventy-five dollars in full for George, about seven years old, […]
Lot 640: Political Collection incl. Rare Truman button, Plush Animals
Mid 20th c. plush Gund Donkey in boxing gloves and Jee-Bee "I am a Republican" Elephant, plus 17 buttons, 2 plastic campaign whistles and 1 plastic GOP donation piggy bank. Political buttons include 1 rare 1949 President Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley Tennessean Inaugural button with ribbons, plus 1 Forward With Truman button, […]
Lot 641: Signed Art & Mystery TN Furniture Book and Rare Grand Ole Opry Pamphlet, 2 items
Autographed Tennessee Furniture Book plus rare pamphlet, BIRTH OF THE GRAND OLD OPRY. 1st item: Author Signed, THE ART AND MYSTERY OF TENNESSEE FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS THROUGH 1850, by Nathan Harsh and Derita Coleman Williams, published by the Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, 1988. Octavo, 344 pages with photographic illustrations, hardbound in brown cloth with […]
Lot 637: Wells Fargo & Co. $250 Reward Broadside, 1875
Wells, Fargo, and Company Reward broadside, issued by John J. Valentine, General Superintendent, San Francisco, CA, dated 1875, reading "REWARD! Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express Box, containing $160 in Gold Notes, was robbed this morning, by one man, on the route from Sonora to Milton…$250 And one-fourth of any money recovered, will be paid for […]
Lot 638: Presidential Memorabilia, incl. Hayes/Wheeler Ribbons, Reagan TLS, 50 Pcs.
Fifty (50) Assorted United States Presidential related items and ephemera including pins, buttons, letter, postcards, and playing cards. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) President Rutherford Birchard Hayes and Vice President William Almon Wheeler 1876 campaign woven silk jugate ribbons, both depicting portraits of the candidates surrounded by red, blue, and black lettering against a cream background. […]
Lot 639: JFK Inaugural Invitation, Calendar and Rare Political Button
Invitation to the January 20, 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and rare 1961 Nashville Tennessean Special Train to the Inauguration Button. Invitation is embossed and stamped with a gilt seal. Comes with the original envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Speights, postmarked 30 December 1960 from Washington, D.C. A calendar of inaugural […]
Lot 635: 2 Prints of Baltimore including Sachse Bird's Eye View
2 early prints of Baltimore, including a rare early lithograph view by Edward Sachse. 1st item: "BALTIMORE, Drawn from Nature and On Stone by E. Sachse," printed by Sachse & Co., Baltimore, depicting the city from the north with the Washington Monument in the foreground. Framed under glass in an antique veneered wooden frame with […]
Lot 636: 1876 Centennial Exposition & Philadelphia Souvenirs plus 4 CDVs, 14 Items
A collection of ten (10) souvenirs from Philadelphia and the 1876 Centennial Exposition, plus four (4) Civil War era CDVs with Revenue Stamps, fourteen (14) items. Souvenirs include one (1) unused soap cake depicting Memorial Hall; two (2) Rowland & Sprogle Carbonated Stone Centennial Exposition salt cellars with labels on bottom advertising that they were […]
Lot 632: 7 Keuffel & Esser Slide Rules
Seven (7) Keuffel & Esser (K&E) duplex slide rules, including two (2) 4160 Chemist's slide rules; one (1) N4081-5 20" Log Log Decitrig slide rule; one (1) 68-1200 Log Log Duplex slide rule; one (1) 4080-5 Log Log Trig slide rule; one (1) 4093-5 Log Log Vector slide rule; and one (1) 68-1308 20" Log […]
Lot 633: William Birch engraving, Preparation for War to Defend Commerce
William Russell Birch (Pennsylvania/United Kingdom,1755-1834) hand-colored, copperplate engraving on wove paper, titled "Preparation for War to Defend Commerce." Depicts the building of the Frigate Philadelphia in dry-dock in Joshus Humphrey's shipyard in Pennsylvania, just before the war between the United States and Tripoli (also known as the First Barbary War). Signature, title, and publication information […]