Lot of 61 pieces Steiff Sterling flatware. Includes 38 pieces in the Williamsburg Queen Anne pattern: 6 iced teaspoons, 8 teaspoons, 6 place spoons (6 3/4"), 8 salad forks, 10 dinner forks. Plus 7 dinner knives, 8 steak knives, and 8 butter knives in a different but complementary Steiff pattern. 57.55 troy oz. total weighable […]

Lot of 7 assorted silver novelties and table items. 1ST ITEM: perfume flask in the shape of a mandolin with Repousse floral and figural decoration, unmarked, polish residue, 4-1/2". 2ND ITEM: miniature bellows, Chinese marks, excellent condition, 2-1/2" length. 3RD ITEM: Repousse perfume flask, marked Sterling 5638, monogrammed, 3-1/4". 4TH ITEM: miniature Windsor chair, marked […]

First American edition of Jane Austen's "Persuasion," 1832, Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, publishers, Griggs & Dickinson, printers. 2 vol. Original boards with muslin spines and paper labels, all in fair to poor condition with significant losses, wear and staining. Foxing to pages. Original owner inscription "Abram Maury" on fly page and front page of vol. […]

Grouping of Western American Indian related items including Congressional Indian Affairs reports and Indian cabinet card photos. Congressional Indian Affairs reports or imprints including 1890 report on Geronimo and the Chiricahuas, 1842 report on listing of persons in the Indian Department, and an 1878 report on the Ute Indian Nation. Condition: fraying to edges of […]

Grouping of 31 American political autographs including Henry Cabot Lodge, two signed cards by Secretary of State John Hay, Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, U.S. Attorney General John W. Griggs, Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, NY Congressman and recipient of the Medal of Honor Amos J. Cummings, Missouri Senator George Graham […]

Grouping of women's autographed calling cards, women's suffrage movement era. Includes signatures of Susan B. Anthony, Anna H. Shaw, Francis Cleveland, and Margaritta Manning. 1ST ITEM: Signed women's suffrage autograph card by Susan B. Anthony, "Equal rights for all- women included – is the basic idea of a republic – Susan B. Anthony/Rochester/July 23, 1900". […]

Lot of 2 Presidential signed documents, Framed: Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Both documents nominate James A. Fowler as Assistant Attorney General of the United States and are signed by the Attorney General and President. The Theodore Roosevelt document has a bold signature of the President and Attorney General, Charles J. Bonaparte, dated 01-12-1909. […]

President William Howard Taft (1857-1930) signed photograph. Taft was the twenty-seventh President of the United States (1909-13) and chief justice of US Supreme Court (1921-30). He was also Theodore Roosevelt's secretary of war (1904-08). Black and white photograph marked Harris & Ewing Washington D.C. Autograph reads, "For Assistant to the Attorney General, J. A. Fowler […]

Photograph picturing President William Howard Taft with the U.S. Supreme Court justices including the signatures of each justice as well as the President. Black and white photograph is marked Harris & Ewing. Signed in lower margin: William H. Taft, Louis D. Brandeis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Willis Van Devanter, Pierce Butler, Joseph McKenna, George Sutherland, Edward […]

Automation Music Box with bird, engraved brass lid with bird and floral decoration, all set in a tortoiseshell case and in a fitted jeweler's case from A. Lancet Jewelers, Paris. Condition: the music box is not completely functional. Retains key. Case is missing some screws but otherwise is in very good condition. late 19th c./early […]