Colt Python .357 magnum revolver, made 1965, Navajo made turquoise inlaid sterling silver aftermarket grips. Has trigger shoe. Serial # 43056. Later case included. Barrel length – 2 1/2". Overall length – 7 3/4". Case – 2 1/4" H x 9 1/2" W x 6 1/2" D. Provenance: private Nashville collection. NOTE: Most firearms made […]
Lot 692: WWI 1917 German Erfurt Luger P08 w Holster
1917 World War I German Luger Semi Automatic Pistol with holster. 9 mm. pistol, 4" barrel length, serial #7778 , with all matching visual serial numbers, including 2 proper wooden based clips, both numbered to gun. Take down tool still present, marked SA in rectangle. Leather holster, 10"L, has name "Don Connolly" scratched into it […]
Lot 691: U.S. Navy Morse Mark V Dive Helmet 1942
U.S. Navy Morse Dive Helmet, copper and brass, manufactured by the Morse Diving Equipment Company, serial number 4301. Plaque to front of helmet reads "US Navy Diving Helmet/Mark V/ Morse Diving Equipment Co. Inc. /Boston, Mass/No. 668/Date 4/6/42". Collar marked "DROP 311 USN 018528". Inside of helmet marked MORSE BOSTON and MADE IN U.S. 4. […]
Lot 689: 8 Political Ephemera Items, incl. Third Party
Eight (8) Political ephemera items, including Socialist and Prohibition party. 1st item: Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin Hanford socialist party campaign pinback button, 1904, depicting jugate portrait vignettes of the candidates with name banners and a central banner with black lettering reading "1904" with two men against a seascape and a factory with black lettering […]
Lot 690: WWII Archive, incl. Flying Tigers AVG "Blood Chit"
World War II related archive pertaining to John B. Rogers of the Flying Tigers American Volunteer Group (AVG), including one (1)Transitional "Blood Chit" or back flag. 1st item: Flying Tigers American Volunteer Group (AVG) Transitional "Blood Chit" or back flag, numbered 3169. Comprised of a silk top layer with printed China Republic National flag at […]
Lot 688: Group of 20th Cent. Political Buttons
Forty-eight (48)presidential or gubernatorial campaign and political party ephemera items, dated 1896-2016, with two (2) advertising pinback buttons, including "Blue Jay Splits" button, 50 items total. 1st-24th items: Twenty-four (24) presidential or gubernatorial campaign and political party ephemera items, including pinback buttons and pin, dated circa 1896-1941, including three (3) Silas Comfort Swallow and George […]
Lot 687: Group of Prohibition/Temperance Related Ephemera, incl. Campaign Buttons
Thirty-eight (38) prohibition/temperance related ephemera items, including presidential campaign items. 1st-23rd items: Twenty-three (23) pinback buttons, dated 1900-2008, including one (1) John G. Woolley presidential campaign button, 1900, two (2) James Hanly and Ira Landrith presidential campaign buttons, 1916, and one (1) Lincoln Legion button. Seven (7) retain back papers. Ranging in size from 5/8" […]
Lot 686: 52 Prohibition & Women's Suffrage Related Ephemera Items
Fifty-two (52) prohibition/temperance and women's suffrage related buttons, badges, pins, ribbons, and postcards. 1st-29th items: Twenty-nine (29) prohibition/temperance and women's suffragerelated pinback buttons, includingseven (7) presidential campaign buttons, dated circa 1916-2008. Ten (10) retain back papers. Ranging in size from 5/8" to 3 1/8" dia.30th-41st items: Twelve (12)prohibition/temperance and women's suffragerelated badges, pins, and ribbons, […]
Lot 685: 13 Women's Suffrage Buttons, incl. WSPU Trumpeter Button
Thirteen(13) Women's Suffrage related pinback buttons, including one (1) Women's Political Union Trumpeter Button. 1st item: Button depicting asuffragette in green armor and a sword blowing a trumpet on castle ramparts while holding a flag emblazoned with eleven stars, representing the states which allowed women to vote, with a banner reading "WOMEN'S POLITICAL UNION", surrounded […]
Lot 684: 5 Wendell Wilkie Buttons, incl. Willkie McNary and Chemurgy Button
Five (5) Wendell Lewis Willkie and Charles L. McNary presidential campaign pinback buttons, 1940. 1st item: "WILLKIE McNARY AND CHEMURGY" button, depicting a green and yellow landscape with images of a factory, plane, car, and house with a field below red lettering against a blue background. Maker's marks, lower edge. Does not retain back paper. […]