Uncut sheet of three (3) T-20 $20 twenty dollar bills, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Vignette of Industry seated between a winged Cupid holding a staff of Mercury and a beehive, top center, Hope leaning on an anchor, top right, bust portrait of Alexander H. Stephens, CSA Vice President, lower left. Printed […]
Lot 660: 6 CSA Currency Notes, incl. $100 Train, $100 Lucy Pickens
1st item: T-39 $100 one hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, Virginia, dated August 4, 1862. Vignette of a steam train, foreground, with warships in the background, top center, vignette of a milkmaid in a naturalistic setting, lower left. Printed by J. T. Paterson and Company, Columbia, SC. Serial number 29324. For Register/For Treasurer signatures. […]
Lot 658: 9 CSA 50 Cent J. Davis Fractional Notes, Sequential Serial Numbers
Nine (9) T-72 fifty-cent fractional notes, First Series, issued in Richmond, VA, dated February 17, 1864. Bust profile vignette of Jefferson Davis, CSA President, top center. Engraved by Archer and Halpin, Richmond, VA. Serial numbers 2191-2199. Signed by Registrar of the Treasury Robert Tyler and Treasurer Edward Carrington Elmore. PROVENANCE: By descent from the estate […]
Lot 659: 5 CSA 1861 $10 Currency Notes, incl. T-30 Sweet Potato Dinner
1st item: T-30 $10 ten dollar bill, First Series, issued in Richmond, VA, dated July 25, 1861. Vignette of the painting General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal by John Blake White, also referred to as the "Sweet Potato Dinner," top center, portrait of Robert M.T. Hunter, CSA Secretary of State and […]
Lot 656: 4 1st Ed. Ulysses S. Grant Related Books, incl. Personal Memoirs, 1885-86
1st-2nd items: PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT, First Edition, Vol. I- II, by Ulysses S. Grant, published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1885-86. Hardcover octavos, 1,231 total marble-edged pages, including engraved frontispieces with tissue paper guards, additional illustrations, maps, a tipped-in facsimile of Civil War era letters dated 1862, and a […]
Lot 657: 5 CSA 1864 Currency Notes, incl. $500 Stonewall Note, $50 J. Davis Note
1st item: T-64 $500 five hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, February 17, 1864. Vignette bust portrait of General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, lower right, vignette of the Confederate flag and seal, left. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC. Serial number 4379. For Register/For Treasurer signatures. 2nd item: T-66 $50 fifty dollar bill, […]
Lot 654: 3 Civil War Confederate Items, incl. 1863 Slavery Related Letter, 2 1st Ed. Books, 5 items
1st item: Civil War era ALS. Four and-one-half page letter written on lined bifolium documents, written by A Daughter of Virginia, Richmond, VA, addressed to Miss Stevens, no location, possibly Baltimore, MD, dated January 22, 1863. The letter, written in response to other letters that the Daughter had found addressed to Miss Stevens' brother, expresses […]
Lot 652: Civil War Union POW Oscar Spelman Letter, Andersonville, 2nd Regt. MA Heavy Artillery, 4 items
1st-3rd items: Civil War era ALS. One page letter from Union soldier Private Oscar F. Spelman, 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company G, written as a Prisoner of War at Camp Sumpter, commonly known as Andersonville, located near Andersonville, Georgia, dated May 2, 1864. Written shortly after Spelman's capture during the Battle of Plymouth (fought […]
Lot 651: 5 TN Civil War Related Political Items, incl. Gov. Harris ALS, Gov. Brownlow ALS
1st-2nd items: Civil War era ALS. One page handwritten letter signed by Tennessee Governor and Confederate sympathizer Isham Green Harris (1818-1897), 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862 and U.S. senator from 1877 until his death, Nashville, TN, written to an unknown recipient, dated February 26, 1861. The brief letter, written on stationary with […]
Lot 649: Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson ALS to His Sister Laura, New Orleans Barracks, 1848
One page handwritten bifolium signed letter from Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863), written in the New Orleans Barracks, Louisiana, during his career as a Second Lieutenant in Company K of the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment, addressed to his sister Laura Ann Jackson Arnold (1826-1911), Beverly, Randolph County, [now West] Virginia, dated July 19, [no year […]
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