HOLD THE FORT | Pricing Guides Dictionary & Values (2024)

TWO EARLY BOARD GAMES, CA. 1900Two Early Board Games, ca. 1900, to include Parker Bros. Hold the Fort , with built up game board and side compartment to hold the colored wood game pieces and Milton Bradley War of Nations , with inset board and game implements, larger - 15" x 13". Provenance: The Collection of Bud & Judy Newman.Competitive in-house shipping is available for this lot.Condition: Fort - box is missing three aprons, most pieces are original including the three officer pieces, several others missing. Other - some bowing to lid.

FORT FAMILY OF NC/TN ARCHIVE, 19 ITEMS INCLUDING SLAVE ...Archive of documents and letters related to the Fort Family of Tennessee, primarily Elias Fort (1730-1819) of Edgecombe, NC who came west on a Revolutionary War land grant and settled in Robertson County, TN, and his son, Josiah Fort (1762-1848). Includes an 1811 slave receipt for $350 paid by Josiah Fort "by the hands of David Smith for the "sale of a negro girl named Ansy"; 1817 deed signed by Elias Fort giving his son Josiah "one negro man named Moses Jim (or Jr) and one negro boy named Hezekiah to have and hold after my death"; a 19th c. copy of a 1791 land survey document with hand drawn map, signed by S. Williams and Mart. Armstrong, for Elias Fort, assignee of Timothy Manner, concerning 228 acres in Sumner County TN; 1 related 19th c. copy of a 1793 Revolutionary War land grant signed by NC Governor Richard Spaight awarding Elias Fort 228 acres in Sumner County; 1 fragmentary State of North Carolina 1789 land grant document; 1 transfer of land in Robertson County in 1809 from Elias Fort to Josiah Fort, signed by Elias Fort; 1 fragmentary 1805 letter signed Charity Bunn, relating family news; 1813 land indenture signed by Josiah Fort, Matthew Murphree, and David Smith of Kentucky (note inscription in pen beneath his name, identifying him as grandfather of Col. Frank Terry of the Texas Rangers); four (4) Tennessee land grants to Josiah Fort for land in Robertson County, signed by Governor Willie Blount and dated between 1802-1810; and other assorted post Civil War Fort family documents and correspondence up through 1882.Condition: A few items have been professionally lined using semi-transparent tissue supports including the "Ansy" Slave receipt, NC Land grant copies, copy of 1791 survey, and Charity Bunn Letter. Other items encapsulated (not laminated) in protective transparent plastic coverings. All with expected toning, creases, some with minor foxing, small losses and chipping.

A LATE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR ERA MAP, "MAPA DE LOS ESTAD...A LATE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR ERA MAP, "Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico, Revised Edition," JOHN DISTURNELL, NEW YORK,1848-1850, hand colored copper plate engraving on paper, the Gulf of Mexico with four inset maps, "Map Showing the Battlegrounds of (Palo Alto) the 8th and 9th, May 1846, by J.H. Eaton," "Plan of Monterrey and its Environs," "Chart of the Bay of Veracruz," and "Tampico and its Environs," at far right, "Diagram of the Battleground (of Buena Vista) February 22nd and 23rd 1847," in the lower left, "Table de Distancias.," "Tabla Estadistica.," and "Carta de los Caminos & Desde Vera Cruz Y Alvarado a Méjico," accompanied by two profiles of the routes "...between Mexico and Veracruz," and "...between Mexico and Acapulco," the upper right with engraving of Mexican eagle with snake in its beak, perched on cactus with names of Mexican states lettered on pads, above a bow and arrow; the hand coloring ordered as follows: Green-Spanish Boundary 1786, Blue-Boundary Proposed by Mexican Commissioners, Yellow-Boundary Claimed by the United States," with quotation, "Prior to the Revolution Texas and Coahuila were united to form one of the Federal States of the Mexican Republic," Red- Route of Gen. Taylor in south Texas and north Mexico, and Gen. Kearny's Route in the north tracking his "March of the 1st Dragoons" from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Pink-Boundary Proposed by Mr. Trist U.S. Commissioner, presented with a gilt embossed green cloth cover board, "Map of the Republic of Mexico, Published by J. Disturnell, New York." 30" x 42" Note: The particular map noted for numerous editions with notable mistakes; this map is a rare example of a map that both has gross inaccuracies and served as an important tool for the United States and Mexican governments during land disputes and negotiations at the end of the Mexican American War. The present map includes detailed hand-drawn routes and boundaries that formed the face of the modern American landscape.The red route indicated in the Southern Texas/Northern Mexico area tracks future President Zachary Taylor's military expeditions during the Mexican-American War. "In the summer of 1845, Taylor, now sixty years old and stationed again at Fort Jesup, was ordered by the Polk administration to defend the recently annexed Texas republic. Commanding what would now be called the "Army of Occupation," Taylor moved his troops to Corpus Christi, at the mouth of the Nueces River, where he awaited reinforcements. By March 1846, with an army that now numbered 4,000, he moved further south, to the Rio Grande. When Mexican troops attacked U.S. forces in late April, President James K. Polk used the attack to ask Congress for a declaration of war. On May 18, though heavily outnumbered, Taylor defeated Mexican forces at Palo Alto; the following day he engaged the Mexican army again at Resaca de la Palma, driving it back to Matamoros. With the United States and Mexico now at war, Taylor established a base of operations at Camargo, on the Rio Grande, while he awaited reinforcements from the War Department, which had issued a call for volunteers. In September 1846, his army now numbering 6,500, Taylor marched south to lay siege to Monterey, Mexico's largest northern city, which was garrisoned by the 5,000-man Army of the North, commanded by General Pedro Ampudia. After three days of fighting, Taylor took the city, signing an eight-week armistice with Ampudia, who was allowed to withdraw. The news of the victory was offset in Washington by President Polk's belief that Taylor had missed an opportunity to end the war by allowing Ampudia to evacuate the city. The War Department ordered Taylor to terminate the armistice immediately, and pointedly refrained from congratulating the general on his victory. This brought an immediate chill to relations between Taylor and the Polk administration, which was undoubtedly aggravated by reports that the general was being courted by the Whig Party as a possible candidate for the presidency in 1848. The rift between Polk and Taylor became even wider when Washington decided at year's end to open up a new theater of operations in the south, under the command of Winfield Scott. Ordered to assume a defensive position and place a large portion of his army under Scott's command in anticipation of an amphibious landing at Vera Cruz, Taylor refused to be relegated to a secondary role. In defiance of orders from both Scott and the War Department, Taylor pushed south, encountering the Mexican army at Buena Vista, below Saltillo. Taylor's army repulsed several Mexican assaults on February 22 and 23. Although both sides claimed victory, the battle ended in a stalemate. Nonetheless, Taylor's Army of Occupation remained firmly in control of northern Mexico, and the battle was hailed as a great victory by the American press. The Battle of Buena Vista added further luster to Taylor's political fortunes. Known as 'Old Rough and Ready' for his simple manner and modest appearance, Taylor was now the most celebrated hero of the war. Still bristling at his treatment by the Polk administration, Taylor agreed to accept the nomination of the Whig party, despite the fact that he had not been active in politics, nor did he appear to hold particularly strong political convictions. Indeed, Taylor did not share many of the core Whig beliefs, such as support for a protective tariff, the national bank, and internal improvements. Nonetheless, the war hero easily defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, whose support in the North was undercut by the Free Soil party, headed by long-time Democratic standard-bearer Martin Van Buren." - an excerpt from UT Arlington Library's Special Collections, A Continent Divided: The U.S. Mexico War, and with special thanks. The route of General Stephen W. Kearny in the north indicated, also in red in the north, established for the first time the United State's military control of the lands spanning from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas westward to Los Angeles. "The start of the U.S.-Mexico War found Kearny at Fort Leavenworth, where in May 1846 he gathered troops charged with conquering New Mexico and California. Kearny's forces left Fort Leavenworth in June 1846. Numbering 1,558 men, the "Army of the West" consisted of a battalion of Missouri Volunteers, two companies of regular infantry, five squadrons of the First Dragoons, Doniphan's Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, an interpreter, about fifty Indian guides, and a small body of Army Topographical Engineers. On July 22, the army reached Bent's Fort. Soon afterward, Kearny sent word to New Mexico Governor Manuel Armijo that the Americans intended to take possession of New Mexico. On August 15 the Americans entered Las Vegas, New Mexico, and three days later entered Santa Fe without opposition, Armijo having fled. Promising to respect New Mexican property and religion, Kearny established a legal code for New Mexico and installed Charles Bent, an American trader, as territorial governor. Kearny now received new orders from Washington, promoting him to the rank of brigadier general and instructing him to aid in the conquest of California...As Kearny headed west, resistance to U.S. rule flared in California. As his small force approached San Diego, where it planned to link up with Commodore Robert F. Stockton's marines, Kearny's weary dragoons encountered a force of 150 Californios. At the Battle of San Pascual on December 6, Kearny was seriously wounded and 18 of his men killed. The force was rescued the following day by the timely arrival of a relief column led by Stockton. While the dragoons rested, Stockton prepared to retake Los Angeles. In late December he and Kearny led a joint Army-Navy force of about 600 men out of San Diego. Defeating Mexican and California troops at the battles of Rio San Gabriel and La Mesa, Stockton and Kearny's troops entered Los Angeles. Signing the Treaty of Cahuenga, which ended Californian resistance to U.S. occupation, Stockton turned over military command to Kearny and appointed John C. Fremont governor."- an excerpt from UT Arlington Library's Special Collections, A Continent Divided: The U.S. Mexico War, and with special thanks. Layering each territory boundary by color gives the viewer an instant look at the intense negotiations that took place between Nicholas Trist in pink and the Mexican government in blue. The University of Texas at Arlington writes, "Nicholas P. Trist, the American diplomat who negotiated the treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexico War...Just as he was beginning to enter into negotiations with the provisional Mexican government that had been hastily organized at the town of Querétaro under a new President, Manuel Peña y Peña, Trist received word from Secretary of State James Buchanan that he (Trist) had been recalled by an impatient President Polk. Buchanan's dispatch stated further that if the Mexicans wanted peace, they would have to send an emissary to the United States. Realizing that to abandon his work and leave Mexico at that crucial juncture would almost certainly have negative consequences for both countries, Trist decided to ignore the recall, which General Scott and all three Mexican negotiators, Luis G. Cuevas, Bernardo Couto, and Miguel Atristain, encouraged him to do. On February 2, 1848, Trist signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on behalf of the United States while Cuevas, Couto, and Atristain signed for Mexico. The treaty's most far-reaching provisions included recognition by Mexico of the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas, the United States government's assumption of $3 million Mexico owed to private U.S. citizens, and Mexico's agreement to sell Upper California and New Mexico, a vast expanse that makes up the present-day states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and part of Colorado, for $15 million. When the treaty reached Washington, Polk was outraged that Trist, who technically had no authority to make an agreement with Mexico on account of his recall, had ignored the President's order. At first, Polk considered discarding the agreement but realizing that all his principal war goals had been accomplished and that the country was in no mood to prolong the conflict, he sent it to the Senate, which ratified the treaty on March 10, 1848. Both houses of the Mexican Congress ratified it on May 19." -an excerpt from UT Arlington Library's Special Collections, A Continent Divided: The U.S. Mexico War, and with special thanks.Attributed as an eighth edition or later, with special consideration to the appearance of the inset maps in the Gulf of Mexico. This revision containing the inset maps in the Gulf coinciding with the Presidential term of Zachary Taylor and the end of the Mexican-American War. The inset maps celebrate Zachary Taylor's many military achievements. The present map with special hand coloring notes the fundamentally transformative time for the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War, which effectively established the United States of America from coast to coast, fulfilling Manifest Destiny. No longer would the United States boundary ever change or waver as much as this map with hand color indicates it once did. An invaluable and education addition to any American map collection.Condition: Some stains, losses, creases, joined neat line, tears at edges, float mounted with repairs and indrawing, waving, Simpson Galleries strongly encourages in-person inspection of items by the bidder. Statements by Simpson Galleries regarding the condition of objects are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or assumption of liability by Simpson Galleries. All lots offered are sold "AS IS." NO REFUNDS will be issued based on condition.

Pair of Nimschke-Style Engraved Smith & Wesson Model No.2 Revolvers Inscribed to D.B. Dyer .32 caliber RF 6'' octagonal barrels S/N 19189 S/N 17780. Nimschke-style engraving with nickel finish and pearl grips; both with custom pearl grips and contemporary hand-tooled Slim-Jim-style leather holsters. One gun originally cased in fancy rosewood box with brass corners and lined in maroon velvet lining. A near matching pair of the acclaimed rimfire No. 2 Army Smith & Wesson revolvers that first saw widespread service during the Civil War as a reliable personal weapon and later carried on the Western frontier by the likes of George Armstrong Custer and ?Wild Bill? Hickok. These guns were exquisitely engraved by the shop of superlative firearms engraver Louis D. Nimschke (1832-1904) and illustrate the perfect symmetry of his distinctive scrollwork design harmonious and masterfully executed albeit on the Smith and Wessons. Both pistols were originally cased in rosewood boxes and are identically inscribed ?D.B. Dyer? on the back strap. One gun bears the serial number 17780 and is confirmed by Jinks as having been made in 1864 and retailed by Smith & Wesson??Ts exclusive agent J.S. Storrs of New York City. The other pistol numbered 19189 was made slightly later and shows a variant pattern of Nimschke??Ts work on the frame barrel cylinder and butt strap. That both handsome pistols were once carried by Daniel B. Dyer (1849-1912) as a pair is evidenced by the matching black leather ''Slim Jim'' holsters custom-made with an identical flower-over-star pattern tooled into the leather with aesthetic reverse hook trigger guard. The right holster shows more wear than the left. Family recollection says that the Smith & Wessons were purchased by patriarch Captain George Randolph Dyer then serving as Quartermaster at Pilot Knob Missouri as a gift ??" possibly a birthday present ??" for his second son Daniel B. Dyer sometime after 1864. Parenthetically the family retains a gold cased pocket watch inscribed and presented to the older brother Captain George Dallas Dyer on the occasion of his 18th birthday in 1862 lending substance to gift story. Even though Daniel Dyer was a fifteen-year-old civilian he had been present at Fort Davidson ??" staying with his father ??" during the battle of Pilot Knob on September 27 1864 where Sterling Price sought to overwhelm the thin Federal defenses en route to St. Louis. Family history relates that young Daniel was captured at Pilot Knob and managed to escape after a few weeks. A plausible supposition is that Captain Dyer purchased the guns for his young son in recognition of that harrowing occasion. The pistols must certainly have accompanied Daniel Dyer to Baxter Springs Kansas in 1870 where he built a successful hardware and dry goods business in the sprawling cattle town. In 1880 Dyer took up a Federal appointment as Indian Agent at the newly created Quapaw Agency in the nearby Indian Territory. He had earlier accompanied General Sherman with William Cody as their scout to the Klamath Reservation in the Oregon Territory to relocate the remnants of the defeated Modoc tribe--about 165 men women and children held as prisoners of war--to the distant Oklahoma reservation. It is thought that during this time D. B. Dyer and the flamboyant plainsman who would be regaled as ''Buffalo Bill'' became lifelong friends and business associates. The Dyers moved to the Darlington Agency in 1884 near the newly constructed Fort Reno and walked into the middle of a simmering dispute between the restive Cheyenne and Arapaho bands and local cattlemen. The ranchers had purchased limited and cheap grazing rights on the reservation that provided income for the tribes but now began to encroach directly on Indian camps. Rejecting Dyer??Ts officious demands that they take up farming the hungry Indians began to steal cattle causing the angry ranchers to clamor for army intervention. Brow-beaten by the whites arrayed against them the Cheyenne led by the Dog Soldier faction grew surely and aggressive and ?threatened to go on the warpath.? The whites at the Darlington Agency immediately fled to safety of nearby Fort Reno while the Indians watched the darkened Dyer homestead for signs of the despised Indian Agent. Dyer only survived the incident thanks to a friendly half-breed who had convinced the cautious warriors that Dyer had ?already gone to the fort.? Unquestionably the pair of Smith and Wesson??Ts were co*cked and ready as the Dyer family remained secreted until the cavalry came to the rescue. By the summer of 1885 Dyer??Ts days as an government Indian Agent were over. Dyer moved to Kansas City Missouri where he and a partner engaged in the real estate business reaping significant wealth and social status in relatively short order. The Dyers had brought with them a massive collection of Indian artifacts from the Darlington Agency ??" then regarded as little more than curiosities ??" which was displayed at the National Agricultural Exhibition in Kansas City in 1887. Today the Dyer collection is held ??" but not displayed ??" by the Kansas City Museum and is said to be the largest collection of period Cheyenne-Arapaho artifacts in the world. Lured to the newly opened Oklahoma Territory in 1887 by the prospect of fresh business opportunities Dyer dabbled briefly in territorial politics and was elected the first mayor of Guthrie Oklahoma before abruptly returning to Kansas City. Dyer had caught wind of a more promising venture in Augusta Georgia. Having lined up investors and secured capital he moved to Augusta in 1890 and quickly chartered the Augusta Street Railway Company. Financial reward was immediate and Dyer would go on to successfully parlay his railroad company into a multitude of holdings that included utilities real estate and the venerable Augusta Chronicle newspaper. Dyer soon commissioned an opulent twenty-seven room mansion in Augusta he named ?Château Le Vert? and thereafter alternated between his Georgia estate and the 41 acre river front manor in Kansas City called ?Clarendon.? In 1911 Dyer sold all of his Augusta interests and returned to Kansas City Missouri. On December 23 1912 at age sixty-two Daniel Dyer died of pneumonia. Woven into the rich tapestry draping the Gilded Age of Industrialists is the illustrious Daniel B. Dyer ??" a Captain of Industry. In describing his life??Ts success Dyer preferred a baseball metaphor stating matter-of-factly: ?Business is like playing baseball. I??Tve been lucky in hitting the ball.? He was brought back to the home of his father in Joliet Illinois where he was buried in Oakwood Cemetery the pair of Smith and Wesson??Ts a lasting legacy of his frontier roots and successful ascendancy in the West. Along with the pistols is a large cross section of intriguing ephemera ??"newspaper clippings letters pamphlets genealogy and photography??"relating to D.B. Dyer??Ts eminent life as a business mogul and respected philanthropist during the Gilded Age. The paper reflects Dyer??Ts privileged status during the last decade of his life and touches upon some of personal relationships he cemented with similarly high profile individuals including the American icon ?Buffalo Bill? Cody. Born on his father's rustic farm near Plainfield Illinois on March 21 1849 Dyer as a successful man expended considerable energy in documenting the extensive genealogy of his long and illustrious family tree an impulse not lost on his survivors who likewise compiled several files of florid newspaper clippings and printed obituaries after their patriarch??Ts demise and funeral in 1912. There are twelve different cabinet cards of the heavily bearded Dyer ranging from 1884 through at least 1911; all are obligatory formal poses mostly by Augusta photographers. Three of the portraits show the regal Major Dyer wearing a Georgia National Guard dress uniform GAR medals and presentation sword. From a historical perspective the most interesting photograph is the portrait of a younger D.B. in civilian suit wonderfully inked on verso ?D.B. Dyer/US Indian Agent/Cheyenne and Arapaho/Agency. I.T./May 2. 1884? with Kansas City MO imprint. Mrs. Ida Dyer??Ts later frontier classic Fort Reno does not even include her then-husband??Ts photograph from his time as Indian Agent. Two more photographs depict showman extraordinaire William Cody. One is an undated picture of the ubiquitous ?Buffalo Bill? and D.B. Dyer standing side-by-side ??" looking like twin brothers ??" with matching moustaches and goatees now aged silver-white. The other is a glossy contemporary print of Cody mounted in full regalia a later 20th century copy of an original photograph made up with a fabricated autograph by ?Buffalo Bill? to ?Col. Dyer dated Arizona Feb. 26 1911.? The extensive ephemera consists of fifty-eight large file folders dated 1898-1912 each tab having a brief handwritten description of the generally sparse contents contained therein. Twelve more folders are undated and comprise otherwise uncategorized drafts notes inventories clippings and letters. Among the most interesting material is a highly collectable engraved $1000 gold bond certificate for the Augusta Railway Company an interurban founded by Dyer in 1890 as his first business venture in that city. This fine example of scripophily is printed in rust and black with fabulous graphics the uncut document measuring 21 x 17 in. unfolded retaining all of the redeemable coupons. Dated February 1911 is a typed two page communication on the business letterhead of the Edison Storage Battery Company informing D.B. Dyer that ?converting existing carriages and wagons into electric vehicles? is ?impossible to carry??| into effect? from a cost standpoint. The iconic inventor Thomas A. Edison is listed as ?Company President.? From Mrs. William F. Cody and family is an actual black bordered death notice still in its original envelope dated January 16 1917 addressed to Miss Mabel E. Green a niece of D.B. Dyer. Also a large file relating to ?Buffalo Bill??Ts? gift in 1912 of his ?old Deadwood coach? to the local Kansas City Missouri DAR chapter. Two typed letters dated July 1911 (one a typed transcription of an original hand written letter) on the colorful heading of William F. Cody??Ts Campo Bonito Mining & Milling Company in which D.B. Dyer responds to Lieutenant jg. Robert. L. Ghormley USN giving the officer formal permission to marry his favorite niece Lucile Lyon. Vice Admiral Ghormley USN (1883-1958) later took command of SOPAC in April 1942 and planned the initial operation at Guadalcanal during the early days of World War Two. Another folder contains Daniel B. Dyer??Ts official paperwork related to his 1889 membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) a prestigious post-war organization populated exclusively by successful Civil War veterans and their male offspring. Lastly a selection of poems and illustrations by an obscure artist named Frank C. Roberts (1861-after 1924) that appears to have descended by marriage. The handwritten collection is bound in a modern folder (1997) and lists nineteen pieces of verse on a contents page written between 1895 and 1897 in Kansas City and Chicago. Frank Roberts is a virtual unknown who seems to have specialized in ?outdoor verse ? particularly ?the wild but restful forests of Canada? according to the only reference found on the Internet. Descended Directly in the Dyer Family Condition: Both revolvers have been lightly cleaned. Still retain some of the original nickel finish. Case is in excellent condition. Holsters show wear and use but are in excellent condition. Paper documents and photographs showing expected age and minor handling wear else undamaged.

AMERICAN PINE PAINTED DOCUMENT BOX, EARLY 19TH C.swag, garland, and laurel original painted motifs. Original metal handles and lock. Original period wallpaper liner. 7" high, 20" wide, 10" deep. Shows age appropriate wear to paint. The latch for the lock has a broken tip, some splitting near nail holes on top. Found in an old Marion home with a collection of diaries, primarily from the Robbins family, Lydia Hammond, Lucian Hammond, and Benjamin Robbins. The diaries span from 1862 to 1917, skipping some years, 20 total diaries. In 1862, Lydia Hammond's diary states, "Dr. Breck of Springfield, sent to assist in the surgical care of the wounded soldiers after the Battle of Pittsburg Landing" (Shiloh). Another entry states "terrible battle, ground was a continuous sea of mortar two feet deep". She also writes that there were "nearly 8,100 buried on the field, and two-thirds were judged to be rebels. Joseph was wounded 3 times, shot 3 times in the leg", and he walked himself to the hospital. One of the last entries states that rebel prisoners were taken to Fort Warren, Nov. 1861. The Mason Slidell incident is mentioned, and they are taken to Fort Warren as prisoners, Nov. 24, 1861. The most important diary is Lucian Hammond's (Carver, MA), 1862. He was a member of Company C, first Battalion, stationed at Fort Warren in 1862. Fort Warren is in Boston Harbor. He talks about guard duty, weather, and taking lessons in artillery tactics. Then he leaves for Washington at Camp Alexander, one half mile from the capital, and he writes about other camps nearby. He then marched and joined McLellan's army 20 miles from Richmond and camped and slept on the ground. In another entry he was given a rifle taken from a rebel in battle. The June 21st entry mentions that it is a wet snowy day, rum is brought in, several soldiers drank too much and they were put in the guard house. The commotion caused such a disturbance that the captain drew his sword and slashed one of the drunken men in the head. In July, he moved South by boat to an unknown location. July 20th he mentions feeling unwell due to dysentery ("diarrhea"), and July 26th was his last entry, it reads "my health poor, have not been on duty for one week". Lydia Hammond mentions in her 1862 diary that they received his remains, and he is recorded as having died. Trunk also contains a letter from Lucian Hammond, April 18, 1862, while stationed at Fort Warren, Boston. There is a pamphlet titled "The Poetic Present", dated 1842, dealing with Creation. There is a partial early 19th c. catechism, a book titled "Select Remains of the Reverend John Mason" 1812, an early 19th c. handwritten recipe book, a 17th or 18th c. book titled "The Dreadful Justice of God in Punishing Sin with Sin". "An Introduction to Spelling and Reading" by Abner Alden, 1824. Also found in the same estate is a soldier's record, 6th Regiment, Company E, Mass. Infantry. It lists all participants. Colored lithograph of a saddened archetypical Lady Liberty holding the Constitution. Shows a 4 1/2" tear to the bottom, a 1" tear at top. Sight size 18 1/2" x 14", overall with modern frame and UV glass 25" x 20".

HE DOG OGLALA - CA. 1878 WINCHESTER MODEL 1873 SRCThis is a rare Winchester Model 1873 Saddle Ring Carbine serial number 16399 ordered by He Dog, marked “Crazy Horse rode with He Dog” and B.F. Flower 1879. The piece comes accompanied by a signed document from Wendell Grangaard from The Guns of History, Inc. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The firearm was examined by Wendell Grangaard, author and historian on Custer, the Battle of the Little Bighorn as well as the Togia language. Wendell noted the firearm being marked as such in Togia and English: On the left side of the receiver cover is marked He Dog with an illustration of a dog, below this is “B.F. Flower 1879” and in front of the dog, Crazy Horse rode with He Dog (illustration 1); On the left side of the stock is marked son of He Dog – Eagle Hawk (illustration 2); On the right side of the stock is the signature mark of Standing Bear (illustration 3). It is noted in the signed document that in July 1877, General Crook told Crazy Horse he could have one last buffalo hunt, with the date set for August 15, 1877. Crooks notified the trading post and traders that they were permitted to sell weapons to anyone participating in the buffalo hunt. He Dog ordered and purchased a Winchester from Long Joe Larrabee a French trader from St. Cloud on the Missouri River who had a trading post at Fort Robinson. The hunt was delayed when Crazy Horse was arrested and killed at the Fort on September 5, 1877. After returning from Washington in October 1877, He Dog formed a breakout of Soreback band members and they fled into Canada to join Sitting Bull. He Dog brought his first wife, and left behind his 13-year old son Joseph Eagle Hawk with his second wife, Rock mother to He Dog’s daughter They Keep Her Horse. She stayed with her people the Soreback Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux in the White Clay District on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The gun was delivered to Long Joe Larrabee at his trading post Fort Robinson in the spring of 1878 to He Dog’s wife, Rock. Rock knew the way of the Togia and that “lemita” (my possession) must be placed on the new Winchester carbine, so she asked Standing Bear to inscribe the rifle with her husbands name. The winter of 1878-1879 was long, cold and turbulent causing Rock to need to sell the firearm for necessary supplies for her family. She sold it to a teamster who was hailing supplies to the new Pine Ridge Agency. As part of trading the Winchester , Rock told B.F. Flowers, the teamster, to put his name below her husbands in the tradition of Togia. So he marked the gun B.F. Flowers 1879 below He Dog’s name. B.F. Flowers or B. Franklin Flowers was born on August 2, 1819, and was employed by the Department of the Platte for General Crooks. Flowers hauled supplies out of Fort Omaha, Nebraska. He died on December 21, 1889, and is buried on Lot 079 Pacific Cemetery, Pacific Township, Columbia County, Wisconsin. It is believe He Dog’s son, Joseph Eagle Hawk used the carbine before it was sold to Flowers, as his name is written on the stock in Togia. The Winchester is accompanied with a Winchester Factory Letter noting that this firearm, serial number 16399 as a Carbine shipped May 2, 1878 in Order Number 11740. The firearm is accompanied by the Cody Letter, Signed Provenance Document from Guns of History, and illustrations. The carbine exhibits the saddle ring on the left side, marked on the bottom of the straight grip, “16399”, on the top of the barrel in a two line address “WINCHESTER’S – REPEATING - ARMS. NEW HAVEN, CT / KING’S – IMPROVED – PATENTED – MARCH 29, 1866, OCTOBER 16, 1866” and on the back of the frame tang “MODEL 1873”. Has a tilt up site on the barrel and front barrel band site. Hammer exhibits some case hardening and the receiver some original color. Has a 20 inch long round barrel with full length loading tube. Butte plate is a crescent metal with sliding brass window exposing the metal and brass three piece cleaning rod. The lever lock tab functions. The lever works correctly, rolling down pushing the brass ejector up which loads the next round while also co*cking back the hammer. The hammer independently will also click back twice holding into place. The trigger releases the hammer appearing to work correctly. The dust cover is present with oblong oval checkered thumb spot. This is an Antique Firearm that does not require an FFL.

GEORGE A. CUSTER'S OWN S&W NO. 2 ARMY REVOLVERThis is a fine, historic Smith and Wesson Model 2 Army Tip-Up Revolver owned personally by George Armstrong Custer from the Dr. Lawrence A. Frost of Monroe, Michigan Custer Collection, marked, “GAC” by Custer and accompanied by a signed document from Wendell Grangaard from The Guns of History, Inc. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The firearm was examined by Wendell Grangaard, author and historian on Custer, the Battle of the Little Bighorn as well as the Togia language. Wendell noted the firearm being marked as such: On the left grip carved GAC (George Armstrong Custer) illustration 1,; On the bottom of the frame JAE (Jubal Anderson Early) and GAC (George Armstrong Custer) illustration 2; On the back of the frame JAE (Jubal Anderson Early) illustration 3; On the inside of the left grip GAC (George Armstrong Custer) illustration 4. The paperwork also includes the iconic photograph of General George Armstrong Custer and his wife “Libby” Elizabeth Custer in their temporary quarters at Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory circa 1874 showing the entire photograph with the pistol rack on the right side. Dr. Lawrence A. Frost noted this revolver as being the last pistol on the right-hand side. According to the historic research this firearm, marked with General Jubal Anderson Early of the Confederacy’s initials, (Tom Custer wrote letters to his sister-in-law Elizabeth “Libby” Custer) this firearm was captured on March 2, 1865, by Tom Custer led by George Armstrong Custer and was in General Jubal Anderson Early’s personal war headquarters’ wagon. They recovered Early’s map books, his orders for the Spring offensive, his guns which included a Spencer sporting rifle 56-46 serial number 61391, a Smith & Wesson Model No. 2 Army Tip-up in 32 long RF serial number 34528 (this firearm), a 12 GA Lefeavor shotgun as well as Early’s personal chess set, shaving mug and razor, a small collection of pipes, a good supply of chewing tobacco, his uniforms, clothes and many sets of boots and hats. Custer gave Tom Early’s personal records; he sent the chess set to his wife Elizabeth. On March 28, 1865, George sent a letter to his wife from Petersburg, Virginia: “I am sending by Mr. Stires a black dress pattern, captured with other dry goods in one of Gen’ Early’s wagons. All desire you to have it. I think it will make a very nice dress.” In Lacrosse, Wisconsin in 1973 Wendell Grangaard was with Dr. Lawrence Frost and was shown this Smith & Wesson No. 2 Army serial number 34528 (at the time the right grip broke and was replaced with a grip bearing the serial number 37774). Lawrence noted the pistol has been at the bottom of a leather travel trunk that belonged to Elizabeth Custer. After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Elizabeth Custer packed up and left Fort Lincoln and moved back to Monroe, Michigan, moving to the farm George had bought from Nevin Custer back in 1871. She put all of George’s possessions in the special barn Nevin called “The Armory”. Libby sold the farm and moved to New York leaving behind most of Custer’s belongings. Lawrence bought the contents. It is documented by Heritage Auction that Dr. Lawrence A. Frost of Monroe, Michigan, had the most extensive private collection of Custer artifacts and relics ever assembled, such as the Spencer Model 1865 serial number 3658 that Heritage sold in December 2012 for $179,250 (shown w/ bp). Dr. Lawrence Frost started collecting in the 1930’s collecting mostly directly from the Nevin Custer’s family, the only direct relatives of George A. Custer. Frost’s neighbors included Col. Brice Custer who, along with Col. Charles A. Custer who sold a notable bulldog to Frost in 1956, he also purchased the Custer guidon made by Libby Custer which sold at auction for over $900,000. The sale includes the signed provenance, several copies of Custer images, several of the denoted illustrations showing the faint marks, a Flayderman’s Guide print-out showing a write up of this model of gun as well as noting Custer as being documented to use one, and the Fort Lincoln image showing this firearm in the corner. The pistol hammer clicks back and holds into place and correctly rotating the cylinder, the spur trigger releases the hammer, appearing the function as well as the barrel releases tipping or swinging up allowing the cylinder to be completely removed quickly for quicker loading. Top of the gun is marked “Smith & Wesson Springfield, MASS.” The JAE and GAC marks are very faint, with the documentation showing written mark ups to better identify. From the Dr. Lawrence A. Frost Monroe, Michigan collection, the most notable Custer collection to ever exist comes with signed paperwork from Wendell Grangaard. Wendell Grangaard was pivotal in identifying the Custer Battlefield firearm sold many years ago by Holabird, as well as the notable Custer and Little Bighorn artifacts which were written about by Cowboys and Indians Magazine and sold in the Little Bighorn auction in this year. This is an Antique Firearm that does not require an FFL.

Circle of Jose Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (Mexican, mid-1700's-1802; Active New Orleans ca. 1782-1802) "Portrait of Don Estevan (Stephen) Minor", oil on canvas, unsigned, 35" x 27". Presented in a period carved giltwood frame. Provenance: The estate of Charlotte Minor Payne, New Orleans, Louisiana. Reference: This portrait is illustrated on page 187, Louisiana Portraits, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Stephan Minor was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, on February 8, 1760, and first ventured to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1779. He joined the Spanish army and participated in a military expedition against Fort Charlotte, located near Mobile in British West Florida. Arriving in the Natchez District in the early 1780s, Minor received a commission as a captain in the Spanish army, and served as adjutant at Fort Panmure, Natchez. During this time, Minor assisted Spanish governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos in various administrative duties. He also served as liaison between Spanish official and the the Anglo-American settlers and Natchez Indians. In that capacity, he came to be referred to as "Don Esteban." After Gayoso was appointed governor of Louisiana, Minor briefly served as acting governor until the Spanish evacuated Natchez in 1798, following the creation of the Mississippi Territory by the United States Congress. From Governor Gayoso, Minor purchased Concord in Natchez, the only Spanish Colonial style manse in Natchez, a three story structure with galleries on each side. Under Gayoso�s, and Minor�s administrations, Concord served as the governmental and cultural hub of the territory. Estaban Minor�s second wife, Katherine, was reputedly known as �Yellow duch*ess� reflecting her fondness for things golden. Among Minor�s holdings were plantations in Adams county Mississippi producing tobacco, indigo and ultimately cotton , and about 40,000 acres of east of the Pearl River in Louisiana. Minor died in Natchez in 1815, and his spouse followed him in death in 1844. Concord fell into disrepair, and burned in 1901. The grounds of Concord are now the part of Natchez referred to as �Minorville�.

Capt. George Randolph Dyer AQM--Lincoln-Signed Commission and Pilot Knob Archive Comprising an early eagle mast head commission partially printed on vellum 12.25 x 15.75 in. matted framed and glazed 14.25 x 17.25 in. dated 21 February 1862 appointing George R. Dyer as Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers with the rank of Captain. Signed by Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) as President and Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869) as Secretary of War (1862-1868) with a later conveyance letter from the Adjutant General??Ts Office; plus the earlier formal appointment letter to George R. Dyer signed by Secretary of War Simon Cameron (March 1861-January 1862). The archive portion consists of 31 file folders 24 of which contain primarily wartime personal correspondence coinciding with Captain Dyer??Ts assignment as Assistant US Quartermaster at the Pilot Knob Missouri post. The letters span January 1862 to July 1865 but are scant on details regarding the quartermaster operation at Pilot Knob (in fact Geo. Dallas Dyers??T letters are more illuminating). Additionally there are several pieces of interesting ephemera including Captain Dyer??Ts original 1885 GAR membership certificate from the Baxter Springs Kansas Post No.123 an 1864 dated military railroad pass original telegrams and two manuscript documents written and signed by noted abolitionist and educator General Clinton B. Fisk (1828-1890) a personal friend of George R. Dyer. Rounding out the lot are eleven civilian portraits (five are duplicates) of George Dyer taken between the late 1870s (a cdv) and 1892 (mostly cabinet cards) including one view of the regal old gentlemen wearing his MOLLUS medal. A file of 19th century manuscript Dyer biography and George??Ts printed 1895 MOLLUS ?In Memoriam? pamphlet complete the lot. George R. Dyer??Ts Pilot Knob letters contain no battle content and very little concerning the day-to-day operations of the quartermaster department at the post. There are large gaps in the letters and most consist of newsy correspondence between various friends and family members living back in Chicago Elgin and Plainfield Illinois. Even at the Pilot Knob post the presence of family is evident??"the captain??Ts son George Dallas Dyer worked as a clerk and died there in 1863 while Mrs. Dyer seems to have visited her husband with some regularity during the war. As the tempo of operations moved further south after 1862 Pilot Knob became something of a Missouri backwater albeit for sporadic guerrilla warfare that flared in a region dotted with Rebel sympathizers. The letters hint at legitimate business dealings as the buying and selling of ?contraband horses and mules? became a reoccurring theme. The quartermaster seems to have also speculated locally in food supplies and animal fodder systematically ?hauling it in teams? from a radius around the post. Captain Dyer who frequently complained of ill-heath was able to take leave on occasion and just happened to be absent ?in the North on sick leave? in September 1864 the one time Pilot Knob came under attack during Sterling Price??Ts ill-fated Missouri Invasion. After 1863 Captain Dyer hinted once or twice at pursuing loftier goals ??" a staff position with General Fisk ??" but remained at his post until his resignation from the army on May 15 1865. A few excerpts from the letter collection: September 10 1861 from Patience Huntington Dyer??Ts sister: Not all in Illinois were stirred by the prospect of war and buoyed by patriotism. George sister was terse in her feelings: ?I am about to employ all my powers of argument and persuasion to prevent you joining the army. Under other circ*mstances it might be your duty. Were your wife in vigorous health and your children (not so young) and your own health firm I would say no word to prevent it??|but our patriotism must not make us forgetful of the virtues we owe to those for whom none can be a substitute??|? Having reconciled his conscience with family responsibilities George Dyer enlisted on October 31 1861. The centerpiece of that decision is the Lincoln signed commission and accompanying War Department paperwork rarely found together after 150 years. January 8 1862 to his wife Elizabeth (Howell Kimball) a long letter: Already Captain Dyer confesses his loneliness writing that the pain of being separated from his children is ?harder than I thought it would be.? He hopes to return home ?some time next month? if he can get a leave of absence. George briefly describes his duties ?I have a vast amount to attend to? and tells Elizabeth that ?George (their eldest son George Dallas) arrived the 2nd day of this month and has done very well since he came??|? He offers some insight into business matters ?We sold 52 horses & mules that had been taken from the enemy I had to sell them. They brought 1300. They were very poor and small (and) sold rather low. Some were good but I did not buy for I thought I would rather send all the money home I could for you.? The letter includes a lengthy list of goods that Elizabeth should bring to Pilot Knob ??" ?towels butter tea a lamp or two? ??" as ?some items can??Tt be had in this country.? He will express his pay ?Only 156 dollars instead of the 200 as I expected but I hope to have George have 60 per month which will help pay for being scattered all over the world.? The family might have been experiencing some financial difficulties as Capt. Dyer then rationalizes the quartermaster job lamenting ?If I can stand it for one year it will help my family some and that is all I am at work for.? He gives some instructions relating to the livestock management at the Plainfield farm and concludes by asking Elizabeth to send ?my cane for it would help me to get through the mud which is very deep.? September 15 1862 to sister Patience: Young George Dallas Dyer has left his Pilot Knob clerkship and joined the army. A proud but fearful Captain Dyer writes ?My poor boy only 17 years old gone to defend his country. Sister he is a fine boy manly as most men of 25 years (see George??Ts military cdv) & capable of doing any kind of business??| He has gone & I hope he will do his duty. He is the youngest man in his company & is the captain. They all like him & I hope he will return the confidence of his company??|? November 2 1862 from Lt. W.F. Crain 5th Illinois Cavalry: A mundane request asking Captain Dyer for his help in locating and recovering ?a dozen lost or stolen horses? from the regiment. The animals were left at Pilot Knob and were due to be returned by cavalrymen convalescing in the hospital. A newspaper article dated January 8 1863 reported on an abundance of new from Pilot Knob giving scope to the quartermaster operation there as well as featuring the approbations of Captain Dyer??Ts peers who had presented him with a ?superb gold watch? on New Years Eve. The correspondent noted ?An air of unusual bustle and activity pervades this usually quiet town caused by the arrival of 300 wagons from General Davidson??Ts Division Army of Southeast Missouri. They are now loading with commissary stores for his army??|? destined for Little Rock. The article quoted the lengthy testimonial ?engraved on the case? and showered platitudes ?Our Government has been blessed and cursed with many faithful and unfaithful disbursing officers but few who stand so noble and deservingly high as Captain Dyer where is known and appreciated.? The author noted that Captain W. L. Banning was ?relieving him (Captain Dyer) of the duties of the Commissary Department from January 1st.? What follows in an extended gap in the letters. The next two letters written to Captain Dyer at Pilot Knob date to June 1863 from a Joliet friend named Willis Danforth formerly Captain Company F. 13th Illinois Cavalry. June 1 1863: Danforth writes at length conveying the conditions in Joliet and mentioning ?speculators and traitors.? He is spiteful of ?Vallandigham Copperheads? and complains that soldiers and those serving in the army get no respect. He mentions Colonel (Frederick A.) Bartleson of the 100th Illinois a local Joliet hero later killed at Kennesaw Mountain and finally asks Captain Dyer to intercede on his behalf with General Davidson as there are ?charges pending? against him ostensibly having to do with a forged signature for payment. Captain Danforth had resigned from the army on February 7. A prominent Chicago homeopathic doctor and medical instructor Danforth would be exonerated and restored as surgeon of the 134th Illinois. He later gained notoriety as one of the five physicians who gave testimony at Mary Todd Lincoln??Ts insanity trial in May 1875. Danforth??Ts testimony was said to be ?particularly damning? to Mary's cause ultimately forcing her into Bellevue Place a private mental institution in Batavia Illinois. In a follow-up letter dated June 9 1863 Danforth wrote of a little known incident in Chicago that fundamentally challenged the very basic First Amendment principle of free speech. The Democratic leaning Chicago Times newspaper had published articles supporting the controversial Clement Vallandigham who had been arrested and convicted by a military court of ?uttering disloyal sentiments.? District commander General Burnside ordered the paper suppressed and publication was suspended under armed Federal guard. Groups of armed citizens from rival political factions begin congregating and troops from nearby Camp Douglas patrolled the streets in the midst of rising tensions and vocal threats by angry Democrats to ?gut the Tribune office? (the Chicago Tribune the Republican mouthpiece). Chicago was a tinderbox and Danforth an eyewitness inferred that ?a single pistol shot fired by some disorderly drunkard would have exploded the whole machine & cost at least 900 lives??"fortunately the occasion passed without any accident.? Danforth added that ?W.B. Ogden (Chicago Mayor) and some few Republican friends joined the terrified Democrats in petitioning honest old Abe to revoke Burnsides order??"which was done the next day & freedom of the press restored and (indignantly) such freedom!? He ended the letter with the observation that ?Chicago is standing still no growth but money is plentiful ? adding that the city is in the midst of ?diphtheria? outbreak. September 19 1863: The long summer gap in Dyer??Ts letters is unexplained. However this original double-sided telegram exchange between Captain Dyer and General Clinton Fisk reinstated Captain Dyer to duty at Pilot Knob. Dyer requested that he be reassigned to the post and General Fisk quickly accommodated ?BG Allen/CQM/St. Louis Mo./ If agreeable to yourself I would be glad if you would relieve Capt. S.H. Moore AQM from duty at this post (Pilot Knob) & assign to the vacant place Capt. Geo. R. Dyer again./(signed) Clinton B. Fisk/BG.? On the same day son George writes his father from Pilot Knob with the news that the captain had been reinstated to duty and included a verbatim transcription of the earlier telegram from General Fisk to General Allen. Attached to the letter is a small 3.50 x 2.25 in. printed ?St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad Pass? filled out to ?Captain G.R. Dyer & family? good for 1864. Also a missive entitled ?4 Rules of Live.? October 20 1863: A extemporaneous tongue-in-cheek three stanza rhyme written on the front of a large envelope by General Fisk to Captain Dyer from ?Head Quarters D.S.E. Missouri/Pilot Knob.? One stanza will serve to convey some unknown but deliberate frivolity at play ?Respectfully returned to Captain D./Who smokes his pipe from dinner to tea/With information from General Fisk/ That playing with sick is attended with [risk].? The playful rhyme hints at some shared secret and underscores the bond between the two officers and friends. November 2 1863: A two-sided letter from brother Dr. Charles V. Dyer who writes from Geneva Switzerland with much travel news from the past several months indicating that he ?had been to Africa to establish my court.? Charles Dyer had been appointed by President Lincoln in 1863 ?as judge of the mixed court at Sierra Leone for the suppression of the slave trade.? November 17 1863: Young George Dallas Dyer died at Pilot Knob on November 13 of gastroenteritis. Captain Dyer was devastated by the loss of his son and this heartfelt letter from S.J. Kimball the husband of Dyer??Ts sister Patience offers sympathy and advice for finding solace ?Look to God for support for the Bible alone can direct us in time of affliction.? December 11 1863: To Capt. Dyer from Uncle Alonzo Huntington. Another condolence letter in the wake of George??Ts untimely death offering what else but more Biblical support. September 17 1864: After another long gap a parting letter from Clerk Charlie Price to Capt. Dyer as he leaves Pilot Knob traveling back to Plainfield on business or sick leave. Price relates an interesting bit of news saying ?the photographer Hunt at Ironton (was) arrested & put in the Guard House last night for feeding secreting & assisting Rebs.? There is no suggestion that Confederate General Sterling Price is poised to invade Missouri later in the month with his Trans-Mississippi Army. Captain Dyer missed the battle of Pilot Knob (September 27) where Price captured Fort Davidson while suffering crippling casualties that allowed the Union army to escape. September 19 1864: Another short letter from Clerk Charlie Price informing the absent Captain Dyer of the state of affairs at Pilot Knob. Price assures Dyer that everything is well and that he will update and keep him ?informed as necessary.? Still no hint of impending battle. September 20 1864: Another short communication letter from the ever efficient Charlie Price ?Everything running in pretty good shape. Rice still acting as Forage master and speculating in hay. We posted in shops this morning the following Order: -NOTICE-/It is hereby positively prohibited to manufacture or repair any other than Government Stores at this shop. Except by Special Order from this Office. All employees transgressing this rule will be discharged without pay and will be reported to the Commanding Officer for severe punishment./Geo. R. Dyer/Capt.AQM.? November 4 1864: A short note on ?Head Quarters St. Louis? letterhead from General Fisk acknowledging Capt. Dyer??Ts request for a letter of recommendation to be forwarded to Secretary Stanton ?in securing advancement for you.? Fisk adds ?I would be glad to see you promoted and trust that you may be signed Clinton B. Fisk/Brig. Gen?. March 8 1865: A full page manuscript letter from General Fisk answering Captain Dyer??Ts earlier inquiry regarding a position on Fisk??Ts staff. The general responds ?I would be much pleased to be able to confer upon you my former faithful staff officer any position of honor or trust within my gift ? but Fisk doubts that he will get another command and demurs without offering a firm answer. ?Colonel Beveridge and the officers of the 17th Illinois Cavalry? are mentioned in closing. Fisk had been brevetted and the letter is now signed as ?Maj. Genl.? The last letter from July 1866 illustrates Captain Dyer??Ts transition from military to civilian life. Captain Dyer resigned from the army on May 15 1865 and returned home to Joliet Illinois. George Randolph Dyer??Ts original hand written biography later edited and published in the 1878 History of Will County is included as is the MOLLUS ?In Memoriam? pamphlet printed at the time of his death in 1895. The first is by far the most comprehensive history of Dyer while the second ??" composed by committee ??" focuses necessarily on his military service and bears annotations in the hand of cousin Mabel E. Green. George Randolph Dyer was born in Clarendon Rutland Country Vermont on June 3 1813 from a lineage of illustrious ancestors going back to 13th century England. Among his early Colonial brethren were Roger Williams of Rhode Island and the unrepentant Quaker Mary Dyer martyred on Boston Common in 1660. Dyer??Ts father Daniel Dyer had served in Revolutionary War and George Randolph later inherited the commission signed by John Hanco*ck. Educated at Rutland Academy in Vermont George trekked westward in 1834 to Chicago then little more than a small settlement and trading post on Lake Michigan followed by his older brother Dr. Charles V. Dyer who later served as post surgeon at Fort Dearborn. George then moved to Milwaukee and during that time aided in the organization of the territory of Wisconsin in 1838. George surveyed ?the Fox River with a view to using that stream as a feeder for the Illinois canal.? In 1841 he sold his Chicago holdings and relocated to Will County Illinois becoming one of the earliest settlers in the area. There he acquired farmland near present day Bolingbrook-Plainfield. For the next decade George and his wife Elizabeth H. Kimball of Elgin Illinois engaged in farming and stock-raising adding to their modest wealth while raising six children. The other characters in our story of our lots sons George Dallas Dyer and Daniel B. Dyer were both born on the Will County farm. Both boys helped to work the property as dark war clouds descended across the land. Sometime during the 1840s George Dyer befriended a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln who was then traveling the state as a circuit rider (1840-1847). There is reason to believe that Lincoln occasionally stayed at the Dyer farm during the decade thus the source of an undefined friendship that survived into the Civil War years. George and brother Charles Dyer became committed Abolitionists during the 1850s and fairly early on family story relates that the George Dyer??Ts Plainfield farm was surreptitiously used as a way station on the Underground Railroad. In 1856 George Dyer was elected Sheriff of Will County residing in Joliet the county seat where he became acquainted with like-minded politicians and influential power brokers of the anti-slavery Republican Party founded in 1854. By 1860 George and Charles could claim sufficient stature as party loyalists to be named electors in the Republican nominating convention where all energy was focused on launching the states??T favorite rustic son Abraham Lincoln ??" soon to be known as the ?Rail-Splitter? ??" on a course toward the Whitehouse. Captain Dyer??Ts war years as Assistant Quartermaster at Pilot Knob are well documented by the important Lincoln signed commission and the letter archive offered for sale here. Following the war Captain Dyer returned to Joliet and according to the History of Will County ?entered the hardware trade continuing in that until 1870 since which time he has not been engaged in active business.? Dyer??Ts earlier letters suggest lifelong health problems yet he lived until 1895. In retirement he must have spent long hours adding to the Dyer family genealogy and perfecting his Will County biography. In March 1880 his younger son Daniel B. Dyer then serving as Indian Agent at the Quapaw Agency saw fit to write and entice his father and mother with a government job teaching at the Indian school. Despite Daniel??Ts solid economic persuasiveness George Dyer apparently declined. By 1884 George and Elizabeth had relocated to Baxter Springs Kansas closer to Daniel where the captain became a charter member of the local GAR Post No.123 parenthetically once more listing his occupation as ?farmer.? George R. Dyer died at Excelsior Springs Missouri on July 13 1895 age 83. He was suitably memorialized by friends and fellow citizens for his ?loyal nature and esteemed service to country? and buried in Joliet Oakwood Cemetery. Descended Directly in the Dyer Family Condition: Lincoln commission is complete and intact without damage or noticeable fold lines. The ink is somewhat lighter than desirable but both Lincoln's and Stanton's signatures are strong enough to read without assistance. The blue seal is undamaged and vibrant. A hint of brown toning is noticeable around the edges. The commission was not removed from the frame for inspection. Except for expected fold lines all letters and documents are undamaged and completely readable. The photographs show varying degrees of wear else fine.

Early 20th Century Generals Group of Autographs Including James Harbord & Malin Craig Lot of 6 including: Malin Craig (2) Brigadier General Army Cuba Boxer Rebellion World War I and II ALS 1905 and TLS 1921; James Harbord TLS 1932; Leonard Wood MOH TNS 1923; and Frederick Funston (2) MOH TNS 1906 and TLS 1907. TNS 1p 6 Sept. 1923 Manila on Office of the Governor-General of the Philippines letterhead. Signed by Leonard Wood. Leonard Wood (1860-1927) was trained as a physician and took a position as an Army contract physician in 1885. He was stationed in Arizona and participated in the last campaign against Geronimo. He received the Medal of Honor in 1898 for carrying dispatches through enemy territory and taking command of a unit whose officers had been lost. Wood was personal physician to Cleveland and McKinley until 1898 when the Spanish-American War broke out. He had developed a friendship with Teddy Roosevelt and together they organized the ''Rough Riders.'' Wood remained as Military Governor of Santiago in 1898 and of Cuba 1899-1902. He proceeded to the Philippines in 1902 and was appointed Army Chief of Staff by Taft in 1910 the only medical officer to hold that position. While in this position he started developing a ''preparedness'' program similar to today's ROTC. He became embroiled in politics at the start of WWI and spent most of the war training at Camp Funston. He retired from the Army in 1921 and spent the next six years as Governor-General of the Philippines. He died from complications of surgery for a recurring brain tumor. TNS 1p 20 Nov. 1906 St. Louis MO on HQ Southwestern Division card. and TLS 1p 4 April 1907 St. Louis MO on HQ Southwestern Division letterhead. Both signed by Frederick Funston. Funston (1865-1917) was too short and underweight to qualify for West Point. His military career began in the service of Cuba fighting for independence from Spain. Two years later he would be fighting with the 20th Kansas in the Spanish-American War this time in the Philippines. He was again denied a commission but his capture of Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo changed all of that. Funston received an appointment as Brigadier General and a Medal of Honor for his actions. 1906 found him in command of the Presidio of San Francisco when the earthquake hit. Although martial law was never declared it was Funston who decided to save what he could of the city by creating a firebreak. He also order that looters be shot on sight. It probably did not eliminate looting and there are reports of honest citizens being shot trying to rescue some of their belongings but many think that things probably would have been worse without this heavy-handed approach given the state of affairs in the city. Funston indirectly worked himself to death preparing for the U.S. entry into WWI in 1917 succumbing to a massive heart attack in San Antonio TX. ALS 1+ pp 25 April 1905 Fort Leavenworth KS U.S. Staff College letterhead. and TLS 1p 8 Dec. 1921 Fort Riley KS Cavalry School letterhead. Both signed by Malin Craig. Malin Craig (1875-1945) graduated from USMA in 1898 and served in the Spanish American War immediately after graduation. He was sent to China during the Boxer Rebellion and later was sent to the Philippines. Attended the Infantry and Cavalry School and Army War College between postings. He went to France with the AEF during WWI. He had a variety of postings before being appointed as Chief of Staff of the Army from 1935 - 1939 then retiring in 1939. However the advent of WWII resulted in him being recalled to head the Personnel Board for the Secretary of War. He died in Washington in July 1945 just before the war ended. TNS 1p 5 Dec. 1932. Probably a response to a request for an autograph. Signed J.G. Harbord. James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947) enlisted in 1889 and received a commission in 1891. He also served in the occupation of Cuba and then was sent to the Philippines. He chased Pancho Villa around with John J. Pershing and went to France as Pershing's chief of staff. He was sent on fact-finding missions to the Middle East to investigate the feasibility of a Jewish state and to report on the Armenian genocide. Harbord retired in 1922 and put in another 25 years - another whole career! - as president of RCA. He retired shortly before his death in 1947. Condition: Most with tape and/or water stains; the typed Funston letter with ink bleed which is on the second Funston letter with small spots on both Craig letters.

EDDIE DIXON, AMERICAN 1950-, BRONZE 'BUFFALO SOLDIER', PRESENTED TO GENERAL POWELL BY THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, 1993, BRONZE, OVERALL HEIGHT: 11 3/4 IN. (29.85 CM.), WIDTH: 10 1/4 IN. (26.04 CM.), BIN DEEPEDDIE DIXON, AMERICAN, 1950- BRONZE 'BUFFALO SOLDIER', PRESENTED TO GENERAL POWELL BY THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, 1993, Bronze Depicting an African American 'Buffalo' soldier holding a gun and the reins of a horse. Signed at back and numbered 3/20. On a conforming wood base with brass plaque with the title of the work 'Presented to General Colin L. Powell. US Army/by the Joint Chiefs of Staff/with respect and admiration for your inspirational leadership/24 September 1993.' Catalogue note: This sculpture is a reduction of a larger version of the Buffalo Soldier Monument at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. General Powell was the proponent of the monument. When he noticed there was little recognition of the 9th & 10th Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth while he was stationed there, he helped establish a campaign to raise funds for the construction of a monument. In his memoir, "My American Journey," page 268-69, he writes "I'd like to see a statue here [Ft. Leavenworth] honoring the Buffalo Soldiers... I believed I had a duty to those black troops who had eased my way. Building a memorial... became my personal crusade." In 1992 he dedicated the monument, then as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bronze Dimensions: Overall height: 11 3/4 in. (29.85 cm.), Width: 10 1/4 in. (26.04 cm.), bin deep Provenance: Estate of General Colin L. Powell, to benefit America's Promise Alliance and the Colin Powell School at City College of New York.

2 JOHN CHUMLEY WORKS OF ART1st item - John Wesley Chumley (Virginia/Tennessee, 1928 -1984) watercolor on paper of farmer holding a cradle scythe or corn reaper, signed lower left, "Chumley". 22" x 23" sight, 31 1/4" x 33 1/4" framed. 2nd item - John Chumley framed study of the same subject matter in item 1 with the figure and scythe drawn in pencil and the end of the scythe completed in watercolor. 21" x 20" sight, 30 1/2" x 30" framed. Biography (courtesy Askart/J.C. Tumblin): John Chumley was born in Minnesota and grew up in Tennessee. His interest in realism flourished while studying under Walter Steumpfig at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; he also studied at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida and was Artist in Residence at the Fort Worth Center of Art in Texas from 1958-1961. Chumley moved with his family to the Shenandoah Valley in 1961. Scenes from his native East Tennessee were a frequent source of inspiration. He had one man shows at the Dulin Gallery of Art (predecessor of the Knoxville Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Norfolk, Va., Pennsylvania and New York. His New York exhibits were very successful and earned him national recognition and comparisons with Hopper and Wyeth. He is buried in Winchester, Virginia. Provenance: Blount County, TN Living Estate.Condition: 1st item - scattered foxing throughout. 2nd item - some foxing lower half of work.

SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH WITH RICH PATINA MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 6.25".SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH WITH RICH PATINA, Mid-19th Century, Obverse depicts a contemplative woman reclining beneath a willow tree on the banks of a shoreline, with a mountain and a castle or fort in the distance. She is resting her head in her left hand and holds open a book with her right hand. At the lower right corner of the scene is a rectangular panel containing abstract designs and a spiky plant. Reverse depicts a couple holding hands, the woman standing and the man seated. She is wearing a cap with a long tail tucked into the waist of her dress, and he is holding a hat and a cane in his left hand. "J E W" in faint lettering above scene. Dimensions: Length 6.25".

William R. Carr 12th Massachusetts Vols. KIA Gettysburg Civil War Archive 9 letters from Sgt. William R. Carr 1861-1863. Plus 6 related family letters. The war letters start with Carr??Ts May 17 1861 admission to his father that yes he had run off and joined the militia. You said that Uncle Daniel let the cat out of the bag about my Enlisting in my Country??Ts Service; myself and eight others enlisted... I enlisted for three months at first but if they want us longer while we shall go... we are styled Company D 7th Reg. Mass Volunteer Militia H.J. Herve Captain. Liman Dike is Colonel of the Regiment. Lyman Dike prominent Stoneham resident had been colonel of the 7th Massachusetts Militia since 1858. In 1861 he was detailed by Governor Andrew to command a camp of instruction at Lynnfield to prepare the state militias for Federal service. The 7th was incorporated into the 14th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during this time. Note that this letter contradicts Carr??Ts service record which gives his enlistment date as June 26 1861 into the 12th Massachusetts Infantry. Carr??Ts letter of August 11 from Pleasant Valley Maryland explains what happened: I left that Regt about five weeks ago and joyend the 12th Massachusetts Regt. Commanded by Col. Fletcher Webster son of Daniel Webster. the reason why I left the 14th was because the Governor took our Captain away from us and we would not stand for it and so we broke up the Company and went into the Webster Regt... We have got a very fine Regt. I suppose you have seen Accounts in the Newspapers about the Webster Regt. Carr gives a detailed account of his first month in the 12th and relates how his company had to make a reconnaissance of the overgrown mountain at Maryland Heights where Rebel troops had built a fort: Three weeks ago the Secessionists had possession of the Mountain. there is About fifty Logg Huts which they Built besides a large Stockade built of loggs. We did not find anything worth of note. The November 3 1861 letter from Camp near Seneca Hills [Maryland]gives a harrowing story of a storm so powerful that flash flooding extinguished all fires and soldiers had to stand outside in the torrential downpour and hold on to the tents to keep them from being blown away! Carr had an ever-positive attitude and a gift for describing camp life in entertaining detail throughout these letters. In this one he explains to his brother how the soldiers dug a stone-lined fire pit with underground flue and sod chimney to warm the large tents. December found Carr in Camp Hicks near Frederick. Maryland. On the 22nd he writes his father: I have been very busy of late... We are building logg houses to live in. we expect to quarter here this winter... We are encamped about three miles from the City of Frederick one of the Oldest Cities in the Country; some of the soldiers are quartered in barracks built by the English. On December 30 1861 Carr wrote his sister from Camp Hicks Maryland proudly giving a detailed description of the construction of the 16 x 14 ft. log cabin he and 14 others would be spending the winter in and how Army life had helped some of their friends straighten up their lives: Some people have an idea that the Army is a great place for all kinds of vices. It is not so at all events it is not so in this Regt. for I know of fellows in this Regt. who were regular Drunkards at home that are as steady as you could wish out here. I think it is a good school for such! The January 15 1862 letter is another vivid portrait of camp life. We shall have a boiled dish for dinner to day composed of Corned Beef Poark Potatoes Cabbage and Turnips.... We are very fortunate in our mess in having a good cook.... We have boards we put up for a table at meal times and Chairs are an unknown luxury for a Soldier. On January 21st Carr wrote his father that the regiment had been put on alert: Orders came into camp last night for us to be ready to march at an hour??Ts notice with two days rations. At 9 oclock in the evening orders came to have our Blankets ready to march at a moment??Ts notice without knapsacks... Reports said that we should go to Hanco*ck or Winchester... I understand that the Rebels are collecting there in large numbers.? The next morning he adds: ?We have not had any further orders about Marching... I should hate to march now the roads are so bad. There is no snow here but a great abundance of mud! Carr wrote his sister on January 28 1862 explaining that he couldn't come home to visit because all furloughs had been cut off. So many men had left on leave that no one else was being allowed to go. This could not have happened at a worse time for one of the men in ?I? Company: he received a letter last night from a Doctor in North Bridgewater stating that his wife was very sick. they did not expect her to live but a short time and told him that if he wanted to see her alive that he must come home immediately and requesting him to show it (the letter) to the Officers he went to the Col. and handed him the letter and asked him for a furlough the Col told him at first that there was no possible chance for him to get home then after thinking it over a short time he told him that he would do the best he could for him he gave him a pass to go to Washington and see Gen McClellan his pass has got to be signed Genl Abercrombie Genl Banks and Gen McClellan. I don??Tt know whether he will get it or not but I hope he will for he is a good steady fellow and it would be to bad if they did not let him go. In September 1862 the regiment had been nearly destroyed at Antietam fighting the Louisiana Tigers in vicious combat in the infamous Cornfield and capturing the colors of the 1st Texas Infantry. The 12th Massachusetts suffered 67 percent casualties in that battle the highest of any unit. Only 32 men of an original 334 answered muster that evening. The last letter of this archive is dated May 30 1863 and covers the actions of the 12th Massachusetts at Chancellorsville. Carr writes his sister explaining why he hasn??Tt written in so long: Dear Sister Please excuse me for not writing to you before this late day. the reason that I have not written before is that I have had a very lame hand... I sprained my hand the day that we recrossed the River after the Chancellorsville fight. We left our position about three oclock in the morning [May 6] and marched towards the River. It was dark and rainy so dark and so many troops on the march we could hardly pick our way along. We came to a fence and we commenced to scramble over it. there were some eight or ten on the length that I was on. Our weight proved to much for the fence and down we came all in a pile. I threw out my hand to save myself and caught hold of a rail and at the same time that my hand struck the rail a comrade??Ts gun struck my hand and a pretty hard blow too... Our Regt was not in any regular engagement across the River but acted as skirmishers. We were out one day & one night. As skirmishers we had two men wounded and some eight to ten taken prisoners. There was only 75 of us in the Regt all told and we took one hundred and two prisoners. A pretty good day??Ts work don??Tt you think so? A month after this letter the 12th Massachusetts was one of the first Union infantry regiments to reach Gettysburg on July 1st as the Confederate Army closed in. With the rest of Baxter??Ts Brigade they surprised Iverson??Ts brigade of Confederates at Oak Ridge annihilating them. Facing the brunt of Ewell??Ts Second Corps Baxter??Ts Brigade were forced back to Cemetery Hill in vicious fighting. Sergeant William Carr was severely wounded in the left leg during this action. His leg was amputated and he died of his wounds July 14 in Gettysburg. He is buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery in gravesite MA-C-13.

Archive of Documents Associated with the Sturges Family Including John R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA The lot contains a variety of items including over 100 receipts and other ephemera an early indenture and the will of John R. Sturges. Among the receipts are several for supplies for the Confederacy as well as other sales of local products. The earliest item is an indenture for land dated 26 Jan. 1838 purchased by Nathaniel Sturges from Thomas Owen. Nathaniel Sturges Sr. was the brother of Samuel Sturges the father of William and John Sturges. The senior Nathaniel came to the Waynesboro area about the same time as his brother although the exact date is unclear. However he died in 1826 but his son Nathaniel Jr. was born about 1816. Records list him as a merchant possibly with his cousin William who was a witness to this indenture. Unfortunately Nathaniel died of pneumonia on 25 Dec. 1841. Mourning Ribbon 2.5 x 8.5 in. In Memory of Alexander H. Stephens Governor of Georgia Citizen Augusta GA. with albumen image of Stephens affixed to circle in center of ribbon. Alexander Stephens was Vice President of the Confederate States of America 1861 ??" 1865 and Governor of Georgia 1882-1883. He also represented Georgia??Ts 8th district before (1843-1859) and after (1873-1882) the war. Receipt 7 x 9.75 in. for $50 to be paid to Daniel Carter To Services as nurse and for burial of three Small Pox Cases Waynesboro July 15th 1866. The court was ordered to pay the above account to W. U. Sturges who is authorized to act for it (William Urquhart Sturges). Services rendered 15 July 1866; statement dated 31 Aug. 1866. Receipt from The Ladies??T Southern Aid Association printed on back of a cdv (2.5 x 4 in.) of Jefferson Davis for $1 to aid the Davis family. This part of Georgia was still agriculturally productive and Waynesboro is just a few miles from Savannah the most important port in Georgia even though the port town fell early in the war and Federal troops occupied Fort Pulaski. Apparently a large quantity of goods was still sold to the Confederate Army in spite of the presence of Union troops nearby as receipts in the Sturges documents indicate. One receipt is from Thos. A. Rogers Agent Quarter Master at Waynesboro GA for 29 lbs bacon and a bushel of corn for Lieut. V. Fulcher Burke Co. 9 May 1865. And a second receipt from Rogers for 450 pounds of bacon tax in kind signed as Q.M. Agent May 1864. Receipt 2.75 x 6.75 in. $1000.00 due W U Sturgis in Conf. money Oct. 21 1864 ??" Nathl. Scales(?). 5 x 8 in. Received Burk County Ga of R J Morrison (2) Two Beeves on foot Estimated to weigh five 500 pounds net for the use of the Confederate Government [sic] for which I have given certificate of Indebtedness for impressments Commishener. Price the same having bin delivered under paragraph IV of General Orders No. 26 from A. & I Generals office ??" This delivery entitles said Morrison to a credit of 25+ per cent on above amount provided his exemption has bin applied for. April 1st 1864 Ged. Alexander Com. Agt. Receipt from Thos. Pierce to W. Sturgis Esq. Waynesboro 2 Sept 1864 for 471 bushels of corn. I owe you a balance of 9 ?? bushels which I will ship any day I can get the sacks. Please send me a receipt for the 470 lbs of Bacon. The lot contains more than 100 receipts and notes. One group contains 20 pre-war and war date receipts plus 16 loan receipts. There are also 30 post-war receipts many addressed to William Sturges as Clerk of the Superior Court of Burke County. In addition there are 6 promissory notes dated 1859 to 1862 and 16 tax receipts from the same period plus one each from 1876 and 1881. Two of the receipts in this group are from Wm. Holmes. This was a period when the Sturges family was building. John was home from college and starting his career. Another group of nearly 3 dozen receipts cover everything from shipping agricultural products primarily corn and cotton to the purchase of household goods such as hairbrushes and Venetian blinds. There is certainly more information to be gleaned from these tidbits by the historians of the war. One item also included in this group of receipts is from prospective builder E.C. Conner (?) dated 13 Feb. 1879: If you let me build that house I can save you at least five hundred less than the bids you git??|. There are also the odd recipes stuck in the papers ??" one for white wash one for pickling beef pork etc. Also included are a couple of receipts for labor at least one of which is for a Cold. Man. Both date during the war 1862 and 1863. It was common to rent out slaves for large projects even before the war but as the conflict progressed it became more and more difficult to feed and clothe them so any cash they could generate went to help in their support. And for the hiree it was certainly less expensive to rent the slaves than to buy them. One somewhat curious group is 8 receipts and 3 letters from the Cotton States Life Ins. Co. for a policy on William Sturges. They date from 1877 to 1882 and the signer is difficult to read but appears to be ?Wimberly.? By 1880 and presumably earlier the elder Sturges was institutionalized so this may be a legal representative. Another group of receipts gives a view other aspects of the community. There are three receipts for annual payments from the estate of Miles Roberts for the support of two minor children ??" 1861 1863 1864. It is not clear why William Sturges is administering the account other than possibly as an employee of the courts. Another note is a request for a pair of shoes for ?William ? although it is not clear whether this is one of the minor children or possibly another dependent of the court. 10 pp approx. 5.5 x 7.5 in. Letter from William R. Holmes to ?Cousin John? ??" (Is this John Sturges??) Castleville Camp Georgia 18 January 1862. Holmes tells John that they are planning to form a regiment from Burke County (and surrounding counties if necessary) when their current terms expire. He notes that he has been asked to be Colonel of the new regiment but would rather not be in charge of all of those men. He would however accept a Lieutenant Colonelcy and suggests Cousin John might make a good Colonel of the unit or Capt. Musgrave if John does not want it. He has the entire group mapped out ??" Herman Perry for adjutant etc. And he notes: Camp fellowship develops what men are as we know our family friends failings so we learn the faults of those we associate with in Camp. We have some noble fellows in our company unfortunately we have lost one noble fellow..[illeg.] Holmes as so many others during the war has his complaints about superior officers. He has a particular problem with Colonel Paul Jones Semmes. He notes that at one point he resigned his commission: The cause of it was Semmes not giving me permission to leave camp when I was sick as I desire to go to a house 1-1/2 miles from camp that I might take mercury which I needed since confined to my tent for three weeks & am just now able to do duty; We do not intend to enlist again before we return home as we are not willing to put ourselves in the power of the Infernal Tyrant that governs the Army of the Potomac. You can??Tt form any idea how very badly we have been treated & what we have had to go through. Col Semmes backed by Johnston & Smith is as damned a tyrant as ever lived. The Old Hell Cat & myself are at sword??Ts point now. I told him at Fairfax C.H. what I thought of his conduct & since then he & I just speak. I expect him to court martial me as I left without & against his orders Camp & went to Warrenton to get some cloths [sic] as I was naked & was determined not to die a natural death from disease but chose rather to be shot so let the old Cuss rip now he has a chance at me. Capt. William R. Holmes enlisted in Co. D 2nd Regt. GA Vol. Infy (Burke Sharpshooters). He was promoted to Lt. Col. 28 Apr. 1862. He was killed at Sharpsburg MD on 17 Sept. 1862 while trying to hold a bridge over the Antietam River against far superior numbers of Union troops while waiting for the main body of Confederate forces to reach it. There is a small group of receipts in this collection from John R. Sturges. There are two promissory notes two receipts for materials one from 1861 for laths presumably associated with the building of his house. A receipt for Jany. 1 1862 is interesting being the account of Col. John R. Sturges for Jan. to April 1861 from R.E.J. Thompson Dealer in Pure Drugs Medicines Oils Brushes Chemicals Perfumery Fancy and Toilet Articles &c. &c. in Waynesboro. The account is for 4 bottles of brandy matches and candles. And certainly the brandy was medicinal??| But John purchased nothing after April ??" the war was on. Three other receipts are interesting even though that they are after John??Ts death. Two are for Frank Barton and the third for Henry Moore. One of the Barton receipts notes that it is to money put in his hands for safe keeping while in Camp during the year 1862. And while the receipt for Henry Moore does not specify that this is the case it is implied that it might be something along these lines. The officers of these units often held pay for the enlisted men if asked to do so. One of the most significant items in the group is the will of John R. Sturges. It was made out in Virginia 17 June 1862. It is actually a fairly simple instrument but has some telling conditions. I John R. Sturges a citizen of the County of Burke State of Georgia now in the service of the Confederate States of America make this my last will and testament??|. I direct that my Executor sell at private or public sale ??| that tract of land lying in Burke county State of Georgia adjoining lands of John R. Whitehead John Scott Mrs. Martha Boyd and others being the tract on which John Owen late of said County of Burke lived and which was bought by me at his administrators sale in the fall of 1858 or 1859. If the proceeds of such sale exceed the principal and interest of the consideration money I paid for the said tract of land??| I direct one half of such excess to be paid to Mrs. Catharine M. Owen of Burke County aforesaid in pursuance of a promise I made to her shortly after the death of her husband John B. Owen that she should share the next profits of the sale of the land. All my property real or personal except the one half of the excess before mentioned I give and bequeath to my beloved brother William U. Sturges of the same County of Burke to have and hold forever. If my niece Mrs. Abby S. Jones wife of Henry H. Jones of Liberty County State of Georgia should wish to have any of my personal effects as a keepsake my Executor will permit her to have whatever she may select??|. Two weeks later he was dead. The question certainly comes up ??" why did he wait a year or more before making a will? Why now? The ?Burke boys? signed up in 1861. Much of the paper associated with the will relate to legal considerations in getting the will recognized in Georgia. But the concern for the Owen family is clear as is his recognition of the widow as deserving of a share in the profits from the land she was working. (Although it raises the obvious question ??" was he merely in favor of women??Ts rights or did he have other designs on this young widow? John Sturges never married.) Overall a varied group of items relating to the period just before the Civil War to the period after. One encounters the same individuals in these receipts and letters ??" the interwoven lives of those in a small close-knit community. Condition: Variable as expected particularly the little receipts and notes.

Civil War Autograph Book of the 96th New York Infantry Standard 12mo autograph book second leaf with A.E. Howard in elaborate calligraphy. The autographs are mostly in rank order and those dated are from Feb. 1866 around the time the unit was mustered out at City Point VA. The first name is Colonel Stephen Moffitt followed by Lt. Col. George W. Hindes; Alexander M. Stephens Adjutant; Courtlandt G. Babco*ck Major; Allen Babco*k 1st. Lieut; and Robert W. Brady Surgeon. The Captains follow: Henry C. Buckman Co. H; Moses E. Orr Co. A; William B. Brokaw Co. F; Moses Gill Co. I; Earl Pierce Co. A; Oscar B. Colvin Co. B; Marvin H. Bumphrey Pvt. Co. K; Thomas Emmet Allen Co. K; Merlin C. Harris Co. C and James McCarty Co. E. On the page before Merlin Harris and continuing around his name and ending before McCarty is a 2+ page entry from J.M.C. Harris Acting Inspector Capt. Bvt. Major. The entry describes the condition of the unit its equipment its flag and ends with: My mouth waters at each attempt to describe my appreciation of the services of the cook in charge of the Mess room - and even my pen stammers when I write of her good qualities & graces. I recommend that she be commissioned to a rank one grade above the Post Commander & that she be brevetted for patient and Meritorious Services and I hereby order the Post Commander to double her contingent funds - this order to take effect immediately. The First Lieutenants: Thomas Burke Co. B; George S. Cady Co. D; Lyman Bridges Co. C; Alonzo E. Howard Co. K; Orlando P. Benson Co. G; Curtis Bly Co. A; and Chas. H. Hogan Co. F. The Second Lieutenants: Amos S. Richardson Co. D; Ilias Finch Co. H; Judson C. Ware Co. K; Charles S. Sharron Co. E (in database as Sherrow); Alexander McMartin Co. A; G. Washington Harris Co. F; and Stanford H. Bugbee Co. B. A few other privates follow: Curtis Clements (Co. K); Sewell Bunker (Co. K). There is one name in the middle of the 1st. Lieuts. G.A. Johnson Jackson Co. Wis. Scattered in the back are about 20 more names most with dates of 1874 1877 1880 1886 and 1891 and most from Wisconsin. It is the latter date that may hold a clue since two gentlemen George Kidder and A.F. Adams both noted they were from the Y.M.C.A. District Convention Feb. 20-22 1891. Not much is known of Alonzo Howard. He enlisted as Sergeant of Co. A 96th New York Infantry on Oct. 10 1861 at Potsdam to serve 3 years at the age of 23. He veteranized with his unit in January 1864 and was promoted to 2nd Lieut. (Co. D) and then 1st. Lieut. (Co. K). The 96th was known as the ''Plattsburg Regiment '' since many of the men came from that part of the state. The 96th was mustered into federal service in March 1862 and left for Washington on the 11th. It went to the Peninsula with the Army of the Potomac. The unit saw action at many battles - Williamsburg Seven Pines Fair Oaks Richmond Bottom's Bridge White Oak Swamp Malvern Hill. It then moved to Fortress Monroe. The unit's Colonel James Fairman was discharged and Charles Gray put in charge only to lose his life at Kingston in December. They moved to North Carolina where they spent most of 1863 returning to Virginia the next year to see action at Bermuda Hundred City Point Swift Creek Fort Darling Drury's bluff Cold Harbor Petersburg Chaffin's Farm Fair Oaks. They were involved in the occupation of Richmond and remained on guard/peace-keeping duties until Feb. 1866 when they were mustered out at City Point. The unit lost 70 men in battle and 160 from other causes including 36 in prison. Condition: Wear to edges of covers front hinge splitting. One page torn and repaired not affecting autograph. Binding is loosening but holding.

7 BARBARA VAN CLEVE PHOTOS - RANCH LIFE, 1980SBarbara Van Cleve (American, b. 1935). "Filly Chasing" "Running Before the Storm"; "Noon Break"; "Running Horses"; "Team Roping Motion"; "Tough Hombres" and "Barbara Page VanCleve - Photographer and Horsewoman", 1980s. A fabulous ensemble of 7 black and white photographs - 6 depicting ranch life by Barbara Van Cleve - and one depicting a portrait of Van Cleve holding her camera below an antlered skull. Born and raised in Montana on the Lazy K Bar Ranch beneath the Crazy Mountains, Van Cleve has shot photographs on horseback, traveling from Montana to New Mexico, chronicling the ranchers' way of life she has known since childhood. Van Cleve shot on horseback, because she aimed to give the viewer that privileged vantage point, as if we too are on horseback taking in all the action of ranch life, watching cowboys move cattle toward the corrals as the animals kick up dust from the earth and the sun glows early in the morning. Through her photography, Van Cleve shares the ranchers' commitment to preserve this way of life. Size of each sheet: 10" L x 8" W (25.4 cm x 20.3 cm)Van Cleve's words capture the beauty that she sees in the Montana landscape, even in simple, oftentimes overlooked details, such as the dust kicked up by the animals. "To see the dust. So many people think of dust as just dirt, you know, airborne dirt, but it isn't. It's a wonderful diffusion screen for the light. It softens things; it outlines things; it indicates a direction of where either horses or cattle are moving in this vast landscape of ours. And that's part of everything that I'd like people to see and that I try to make them see through my photographs." ("Capturing Grace: A Portrait of Barbara Van Cleve," 1993)Artist Biographical Statement: "Barbara Van Cleve’s heritage is rich with family history and firsthand experience. Her family’s ranch, the Lazy K Bar, was founded in 1880 on the east slopes of the Crazy Mountains near Melville, Montana. As a photographer, she has held a camera since she was 11 years old when her parents gave her a 'Brownie' camera and a home developing kit. Her youthful interest in photography soon grew into a lifelong commitment. Ranch work also began early for Barbara. Barely six, she could be found helping at the corrals or sitting astride a horse. Ever since she has been documenting the 'true grit' and romantic beauty of her experiences on the ranch and on other ranches in the West. Along the way, she earned an MA in English Literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; she has been a Dean of Women at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois; and she taught English Literature, and later photography, for over 25 winters at DePaul University, Loyola University and Mundelein College, all in the Chicago area. At the same time photography continued to be a passionate avocation. In her free time, she worked for Rand McNally as a textbook photographer and also established her own stock photography agency. The long summers were usually spent on the family ranch in Montana. She moved to Santa Fe in late 1980 to concentrate on photography full time and had her first major exhibition in the fall of 1985. Since that time she has had over 60 one-person shows and has been in over 100 group shows. Her work is in public and private collections in the United States as well as internationally. Her photography has been published in Roughstock Sonnets, (with poetry by Paul Zarzyski), Way Out West, and Cowboys: A Horseback Heritage. KOAT-TV, an ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico produced and aired a thirty-minute video documentary, 'Barbara Van Cleve: Capturing Grace', in 1993. In the Fall, 1995 her book, 'Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women' was published by Museum of New Mexico Press, and she was inducted into the Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas. 'All This Way for the Short Ride' (with poet Paul Zarzyski) was published by the Museum of New Mexico Press in 1997. 'Holding the Reins' written by Marc Talbert and illustrated with her photographs about ranch girls was published by Harper Collins in February 2003. She moved back to Big Timber, Montana, her home town, where she has her studio and is close to the family ranch. Her most recent book, 'Pure Quill' published in 2016, encompasses her remarkable photographic career including a generous selection of photographs and the stories behind them." (artist's website)Provenance: private Idledale, Colorado, USA collection; ex-Ginny Williams collectionAll items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.#171299Condition: Handwritten titles and artist's labels/stamps on the verso of ranch photos. Portrait has "BARBARA PAGE VanCleve - Photographer and horsewoman. 7-86" handwritten at bottom. Notes "CROP OUT" ON "Filly Chasing" and the size of these photos suggest that these photos were used for a publication.

PORTRAIT OF JOHN WOOLFOLK, ATTR. PEALEAttributed to Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), oil on canvas bust length portrait of John Woolfolk. Late 19th century script en verso reads "painted by Rembrandt Peale son of Charles Peale, who painted the portrait of George Washington" in addition to biographical information on Woolfolk and three generations of sons in script. This portrait is illustrated in the book, "Columbus on the Chattahoochee". Housed under glass in a carved black and gilt wood frame. Frame with old Chicago framing label en verso. Sight - 29 1/2_H x 24 1/2_ W. Framed - 38_ H x 33_ W. Mid- 19th century. John Woolfolk (1781-1861) was a native Virginian known for his extensive property and slave holdings in Columbus, GA. His real estate assets included plantations on Upatoi Creek and both sides of the Chattahoochee River, including Woolfolk's Bend and Jenny's Island. Part of these lands later became the headquarters of the Fort Benning military post. Additional holdings of John Woolfolk included "Dinglewood", one of the most prominent homes in Columbus. Provenance: The Greene Museum, Phenix City, Alabama, acquired from the subject's great-great grandson, William G. Woolfork of Detroit.Condition: Overall very good condition with light craquelure evident to canvas. Frame with minor losses to molding.

1 vol. American Sheet Music Album. Mostly Popular Music, 1850s & 60s - Folio, contemp. 1/4 morocco, joints & extremities rubbed. Holding 20 pieces, 2 with color pictorial covers: "Fort Hamilton Polka"; "Drums & Trumpets." Scattered light foxing.

13 vols. Poultry: Cooper, J.W. Game Fowls, Their Origin and History. West Chester, Pa., (1896). Standard edition. 8vo, orig. gilt-pictorial green cloth; light edge wear, slightly scuffed. * Another copy of the preceding, terra-cotta cloth; worn & scuffed, 2 chromolithographic plates. * Another copy of the preceding, Fort Gaines, Ga., ca. 1920, 8vo, contemp. 1/4 morocco & cloth; head of spine gone, frontis. * Pearson, Leonard; Warren, B. H. Diseases of Poultry; Enemies of Poultry. [Harrisburg], 1897. Thick 8vo, orig. 3/4 purple calf & marbled bds.; rubbed & worn, but holding. Chromolithographic plates. * The Poultry Keeper. Parkersburg, Pa., April 1885 - March, 1889, vols. 2-5. 4to, orig. gilt-pictorial green cloth; scuffed. Illus., adverts. Bound annual vols.: Vol. 3, 1885-1886; Vol. 4, 1886-1887, 2 copies; Vol. 8, 1891-1892. All 4to, orig. cloth, illus., adverts.; occasionally scuffed, some dust soiling.

LADY JAYNE BY JO MEAD (ILLINOIS 1919-2000). Plaster. Classical figure holding a book and a wreath of roses. Textured and painted to imitate pear wood. 60''h. This work was named after Jayne Spillson of Fort Wayne Indiana a friend of the artist.

CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ARMORIAL SOUP DISH With gilt scroll and blossom cavetto and shield with three cow heads flanked by a figure holding a rifle above motto ''Manu Forte '' the arms are of Lord Reay of the MacKay Clan c.1730. Provenance: Sarah Potter Conover Inc. 9 in. diam.

Will Soule Cabinet Photograph of Arapaho Camp Albumen print on cream cabinet card mount family sits outside large buffalo skin tipi brave stands behind wearing bone breastplate and holding heart cutout tomahawk. With Soule's Fort Sill block studio imprint and pencil identification verso ca 1870. Condition: With some soiling and crease upper left corner; excellent contrast with hide seams visible.

Early 20th Century Generals Group of Autographs Including Malin Craig Lot of 5 including: Malin Craig ALS 1922; Frederick Funston TLS 1907; Leonard Wood MOH TLS 1925; R.L. Bullard TLS 1920; and Hugh L. Scott TLS 1909 on West Point letterhead. TLS 1p. 15 Jan. 1907 St. Louis MO (HQ Southwestern Division letterhead). Frederick Funston Brig. Gen. Funston (1865-1917) was too short and underweight to qualify for West Point. His military career began in the service of Cuba fighting for independence from Spain. Two years later he would be fighting with the 20th Kansas in the Spanish-American War this time in the Philippines. He was again denied a commission but his capture of Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo changed all of that. Funston received an appointment as Brigadier General and a Medal of Honor for his actions. 1906 found him in command of the Presidio of San Francisco when the earthquake hit. Although martial law was never declared it was Funston who decided to save what he could of the city by creating a firebreak. He also order that looters be shot on sight. It probably did not eliminate looting and there are reports of honest citizens being shot trying to rescue some of their belongings but many think that things probably would have been worse without this heavy-handed approach given the state of affairs in the city. Funston indirectly worked himself to death preparing for the U.S. entry into WWI in 1917 succumbing to a massive heart attack in San Antonio TX. TNS 1p 29 Jan. 1925 Manila on Office of the Governor General letterhead. Signed by Leonard Wood. Leonard Wood (1860-1927) was trained as a physician and took a position as an Army contract physician in 1885. He was stationed in Arizona and participated in the last campaign against Geronimo. He received the Medal of Honor in 1898 for carrying dispatches through enemy territory and taking command of a unit whose officers had been lost. Wood was personal physician to Cleveland and McKinley until 1898 when the Spanish-American War broke out. He had developed a friendship with Teddy Roosevelt and together they organized the ''Rough Riders.'' Wood remained as Military Governor of Santiago in 1898 and of Cuba 1899-1902. He proceeded to the Philippines in 1902 and was appointed Army Chief of Staff by Taft in 1910 the only medical officer to hold that position. While in this position he started developing a ''preparedness'' program similar to today's ROTC. He became embroiled in politics at the start of WWI and spent most of the war training at Camp Funston. He retired from the Army in 1921 and spent the next six years as Governor-General of the Philippines. He died from complications of surgery for a brain tumor. ALS 2pp 5.25 x 7 in. on Cavalry School Fort Riley KS letterhead 21 Jan. 1922. Malin Craig (1875-1945) graduated from USMA in 1898 and served in the Spanish-American War immediately after graduation. He was sent to China during the Boxer Rebellion and later was sent to the Philippines. Attended the Infantry and Cavalry School and Army War College between postings. He went to France with the AEF during WWI. He had a variety of postings before being appointed as Chief of Staff of the Army from 1935 - 1939 then retiring in 1939. However the advent of WWII resulted in him being recalled to head the Personnel Board for the Secretary of War. He died in Washington in July 1945 just before the war ended. TNS 1p 5 x 8 in. 16 Mar. 1920 on HQ Eastern Division letterhead Governor's Island NY. Signed by R.L. Bullard as Lieut. General. Bullard (1861-1947) graduated from USMA in 1885 and while he served in the later Indian Wars and Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars he seems to be best known for his actions during WWI. He quickly rose to Maj. General and command of the ''Big Red One'' (1st ID). When Pershing created the Second Army he put Bullard in as its first commander with the rank of Lieutenant General. Bullard retired in 1925 to write. TNS 1p 15 June 1909 on USMA letterhead West Point NY. Signed by Hugh Lenox Scott as Superintendent of the Academy. Letter to the Mayor of Newburgh NY sending regrets that the cadets cannot participate in the Hudson-Fulton commemoration since they have a previous engagement on that date. Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934) graduated from West Point in 1876 in the heat of the Indian Wars in the west. One of his first postings was to mark out the graves for Custer's men on the Little Big Horn battle site. In 1890-91 he was sent to suppress the Ghost Dance movement commanding the last Indian Troop in the Army composed primarily of Kiowa Comanche and Apache Indians. He had post-war positions in Cuba and the Philippines before being appointed superintendent of USMA. He was Chief of Staff of the Army from 1914-1917. His major roles in these later years were diplomatic ones especially along the Mexican Border. After retirement in 1919 he served for a decade on the Board of Indian Commissioners. Condition: Three have tape remains. The Bullard letter has ink from the Funston letter on it and the Funston letter has ink smear apparently from water damage.

COUNTRY STORE BAG RACK WITH STRING HOLDER Pat. 1884 P.V. Fort & Sons Albany NY made of wood holds nine bag sizes features top mounted cast iron string holder painted in yellow overall. 15 1/2'' w x 21'' overall height. (Exc. Cond.) for age.

Tintype of a Civil War Union soldier holding a musket, mounted in a felt lined gutta percha case with fort, American flag and a frigate. Case made by Littlefield, Parsons & Co.4" x 3.25"Condition: Wear consistent with age.

DUNCAN MCFARLANE (1834-1871, MA, UK) OIL PAINTINGON CANVAS DEPICTING PACKET SHIP "CITY OF MONTREAL", OF WHOM THE MASTER WAS ELI COOLEY BLISS. SIGNED LOWER LEFT AND DATED 1862. THE SHIP IS LEAVING THE HARBOR WITH LIGHTHOUSE AND FORT IN THE BACKGROUND. COMES FROM A DIRECT DESCENDENT OF THE BLISS FAMILY, WILLIAM SAVERY, A MERCHANT AND BUSINESSMAN FROM CARVER, MA WHO MANUFACTURED CANNONBALLS. VIRTUALLY UNTOUCHED ORIGINAL CONDITION AND HAS RESIDED IN THE SAVERY MANSION IN CARVER UNTIL THIS YEAR. SIGHT SIZE 24" X 36", OVERALL 34" X 46". IN THE ORIGINAL GILT AND GESSO FRAME SHOWING SEVERAL AREAS OF LOSS AND WEAR. COMES WITH A PERIOD CARTE DE VISE OF CAPT. ELI COOLEY BLISS, AND SOME INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT THE PAINTING FROM 1947 WITH A FINE ARTS DEALER. THE SHIP THE CITY OF MONTREAL, AND CAPT. BLISS SAILED FROM LONDON BOUND TO BOSTON WITH 500 TONS OF RAILROAD IRON IN THE HOLD, AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE BETWEEN DECKS. IT ENCOUNTERED A TERRIFIC GALE AND NEARLY ALL OF THE CANVAS SAILS WERE BLOWN TO SHREDS. THE DECKS WERE FULL OF WATER, CAPT. BLISS AND HIS CREW FOUGHT FOR THEIR LIVES, NONETHELESS THEY WITHSTOOD THE ONSLAUGHT AND MANAGED TO RECOVER, DESPITE CAPT. BLISS BEING WOUNDED.

FIVE DESK ACCESSORIES, INCLUDING: SILVERCREST BRONZE BOX WITH TOP HINGED LID, BOX HAS TWO WOODEN COMPARTMENTS, TRADEMARK IS STAMPED ON BASE AS WELL AS THE NUMBERS "506-133", BOX IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH ONLY MINOR WE...Five desk accessories, including: Silvercrest bronze box with top hinged lid, box has two wooden compartments, trademark is stamped on base as well as the numbers "506-133", box is in good condition with only minor wear and scratches from use, 1 1/2" h. x 3 3/4" w. x 6 1/4" l., art deco Roycroft penholder with fountain pen, pen and holder are black painted with brass lines, pen has a 14k gold plate near tip, base is solid copper, pen is marked "Schaefers, made in USA" on gold plate, as well as " WA Schaefers Pen Co. Fort Madison, Iowa, USA" on main body, pen and stand have minor use wear, 8 3/4" l., green onyx penholder with bronze duck statues and pen, pen holder has brass and black plastic components, while the pen has a 4k gold plate at tip and brown/black plastic body, onyx has a natural design with ridges and cracks, and the ducks appear to be drinking, minor wear and scratches from use, 8" l., ornate brass frame with fabric lining, has reef and christmas designs at top, wear to base stand, as well as staining of fabric and blemishes to brass, dents, 9 3/4" h. x 7 1/2" w., green glass inkwell with brass base, glass is in the shape of a cube with brass holding it in place, brass has leaf designs, use wear and minor blemishes, 2 1/2" h. x 4 1/2" l. x 4 1/2" w.

SIXTH PLATE AMBROTYPE OF IDENTIFIED AND ARMED VIRGINIA CONFEDERATE In half case, the tinted silhouette image shows a youthful volunteer holding a massive bowie knife while wearing a gray frock coat and conforming kepi. Benjamin Tisdale enlisted as a Private in Co. "C," 21st Virginia Infantry at Christiansville, Mecklendburg County on June 20, 1861. His regiment fought in the major campaigns from the Peninsula to the Valley before turning north to Pennsylvania. Private Tisdale was taken prisoner at Gettysburg on July 5, 1863 and found himself in the wretched confines of Fort Delaware less than two weeks later. He was released at war's end, taking "the Oath" back home in Southside Virginia on June 21, 1865. The inside back of the case is pencil inscribed "B. N. Tisdale / July 18 - 1865," which likely marks the end of his incarceration; below is an undated inscription simply reading "Benjamin N. Tisdale / Christiansville / Virginia."

EGYPTIAN LATE DYNASTIC FAIENCE BEAD MASKETTE**Originally Listed At $400**Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A wonderful and attractive mask composed of hundreds of faience seeds beads glazed in hues of turquoise, russet, and chocolate brown. The stylized vizard presents with large, trapezoidal eyes beneath thin brows and features a broad nose, a slender mouth accentuated with cream-hued teeth, a tapering jawline, and a collar with red and cream stripes. The beads are bound with modern stringing as is typical with ancient beaded construction, however it still holds the same form and function as it held over 2000 years ago! Size: 4.75" W x 4.5" H (12.1 cm x 11.4 cm)Provenance: private Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA collection; ex-Minerva Gallery; ex-Benjamin Vega, California, USA, acquired in 2006 to 2007; ex-Gene and Virginia George, brought to the USA from 1961 to 1966All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.#177927Condition: Restrung in modern times as shown. Faience beads are ancient; stringing is modern. Minor abrasions, chips, and areas of roughness on some beads, otherwise beads are intact and very good. Nice remains of color on beads.

LURISTAN BRONZE SHORT SWORD - 15"L**Originally Listed At $400**Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran and Southeastern Turkey, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A cast-bronze short sword with a slender, petaloid blade projecting from above a rectangular handle. The handle features raised flanges intended to bend inward to hold tactile inlays, and the pommel is crescent-shaped with tapered ends. Size: 15.125" L x 1.25" W (38.4 cm x 3.2 cm)Provenance: private Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA collection; ex-Minerva Gallery; ex-Benjamin Vega, California, USA, acquired in 2006 to 2007; ex-Gene and Virginia George, brought to the USA from 1961 to 1966All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.#177935Condition: Chips to blade edges and handle flanges, with abrasions and light earthen deposits, otherwise intact and very good. Nice patina.

GROUP OF 6 COLIMA REDWARE FIGURESPre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Coahuayana Valley type, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A wonderful ensemble of 6 pottery figures: 2 archaic "gingerbread" form, 2 standard, and 2 Coahuayana Valley subtype. Dressed in loincloths, the 2 gingerbread figures stand with legs apart and arms spread outwards, as they each present flat bodies, jutting feet, and elongated, triangular heads with pointed headdresses, prominent noses, and low-set ears with annular drill holes for suspending ornaments. The larger is adorned with incised decoration, while the smaller boasts nice remains of black-painted stripes. Next, the pair of standard figures depicts a male and a female standing with legs together, each displaying thick legs, delineated genitalia, a flat body, square shoulders, and an ovoid head with an open mouth, a protruding nose, and circular eyes, all capped by a headdress and flanked by large ear adornments. Size (of largest): 3.4" W x 7" H (8.6 cm x 17.8 cm)Both wearing necklaces, the male holds his arms to his side showcasing stippled shoulders of ceremonial scarification, while the female bends her arms at the elbows and places her hands on her chest to boast a pair of bangles on each arm. The final 2 figures are of the Coahuayana Valley subtype. The smaller figure stands with hands together on the belly, showing broad shoulders, tubular arms, and a large head with round cheeks, a triangular nose, and incised eyes. He wears an incised loin cloth, a cap, and annular earspools. Last, the larger figure is shown seated in a pose reminiscent of Nayarit mourning figures, displaying legs bent before him, arms folded, elbows resting on knees, and chin on arms. Hunching forward, his visage presents applied, ovoid eyes, a wide nose, an open mouth, and coffee bean-shaped ears, all topped by a broad headband.Provenance: private Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA collection; ex-Minerva Gallery; ex-Benjamin Vega, California, USA, acquired in 2006 to 2007; ex-Gene and Virginia George, brought to the USA from 1961 to 1966All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.#168052Condition: Larger gingerbread figure repaired with restoration. Restoration to proper left arm of smaller gingerbread figure. Standard female repaired from 3 pieces with break lines visible. Right arm of standard male reattached with break line visible. Smaller Coahuayana figure intact with resurfacing. Repair and restoration to larger Coahuayana figure. Otherwise, all are excellent with nice earthen deposits throughout.

TWO CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PORCELAIN TEAPOTS, FREDERIC...comprising: circa 1724, teapot with arms of Frederick, depicted with two thirds gilt ground, top one third cobalt, having three white doves, centered with an iron red hand (the badge of a baronet), the whole surmounted with a helmet above which a dove holding in the beak a sprig, the opposite sides with a pagoda bearing two waving flags, above rolling seas with two fish, foliate, scroll, fungus, and shell decoration throughout, gilt acorn finial, 5-1/8 in.; circa 1712, teapot with Walker arms, three white crescents on a central black chevron between three pellets, surrounded by gilt, iron red and cobalt leaves, the teapot decorated further in the Imari taste, 4-7/8 in.Note: Frederick: "Sir John Frederick, who was created a baronet in June 1723, was born in March 1678. He was the son of Thomas Frederick and Leonora, the heiress of Charles Marescoe and grandson of Sir John Frederick, the opulent London merchant, who rebuilt the Hall at Christ's Hospital after the Great Fire at a cost of 5,000 GBP. With a number of others he was a promoter of the South Sea Company. He married in July 1727 Barbara Kinnersley, by whom he had two sons, the elder of whom succeeded him at his death in 1755. The title is at present held by the descendants of his brother, Sir Thomas Frederick, Governor of Fort St. David in the East Indies."Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I , David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p. 202.Walker: "These are the arms of Walker, originally of Lancashire, and the service has always been ascribed to 'Dr. Walker'. In 1633 Segar testified to these arms as those borne by William Walker 'descended out of Lancashire', and it was probably his grandson who was Dr. William Walker of Bushey, Hertfordshire, Doctor of Laws and Judge Advocate.The service is also ascribed to Dr. John Walker, D.D., son of Thomas Walker of Huddersfield, born in 1693 and educated at Wakefield Grammar School and Trinity College Cambridge which he entered in 1710. He went to Paris in 1719 and traveled on the continent. He was Archdeacon of Bocking is Essex from 1725 to 1741, where there is a monument to him high on the chancel wall. Dr. Walker, who was a chaplain to George II, married in 1727 Charlotte Sheffield, daughter of John Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave.Whether Dr. John Walker was related to Dr. William Walker is not known, but it seems more probable that Dr. William would have ordered a service from China at that date."Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I , David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p. 177.Provenance: Arms of Frederick teapot, Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection; Christie's New York, 23 January 2008, Lot 389, sold for $1,500; Walker teapot Flather Collection, Washington, D.C.; Heirloom & Howard, Ltd., UK; Christopher M. Weld, Essex, MassachusettsCondition: Frederick teapot scratching, wear to paint and gilt decoration, anomalies (as made), accretion, discoloration, blacklight fluoresces with restorations all over lid, to two cracks on handle, one near middle, other near base, and to tip of spout, labels to base; Walker scratching, discoloration, anomalies (as made), blacklight fluoresces indicating restorations to majority of handle, allover lid, 1/3 of body surrounding handle, parts of base

CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL PORCELAIN PLATE, FREDERICKcirca 1724, plate centered with the arms of Frederick, baronet of Westiminster, shield having three white doves on a blue reserve above base with gold ground, iron red hand (the badge of a baronet), surmounted with a helmet and dove holding sprig of laurel in beak, the whole within fleur de lis and diaper borders, rim with dove crest, pagoda, scrolls and fruit, 8-3/4 in.Note: "Sir John Frederick, who was created a baronet in June 1723, was born in March 1678. He was the son of Thomas Frederick and Leonora, the heiress of Charles Marescoe and grandson of Sir John Frederick, the opulent London merchant, who rebuilt the Hall at Christ's Hospital after the Great Fire at a cost of 5,000 GBP. With a number of others he was a promoter of the South Sea Company. He married in July 1727 Barbara Kinnersley, by whom he had two sons, the elder of whom succeeded him at his death in 1755. The title is at present held by the descendants of his brother, Sir Thomas Frederick, Governor of Fort St. David in the East Indies."Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I , David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p.202.Provenance: Christies, New York, January 2001; Christopher M. Weld, Essex, MassachusettsCondition: spotting, discoloration, anomalies (as made), scratching, labels to base, wear to paint and gilt decoration, chipping to foot ring, labels to base, black light fluoresces and reveals repaired hairline crack approximately full diameter of plate, in-painting to white doves and rim

CIVIL AND SPANISH AMERICAN WAR RELATED ARCHIVECivil and Spanish American War era CDVs and Spanish American War era photograph albums. 1st grouping - Grouping of Naval Academy CDVs from the Civil War era including images of a uniformed midshipman - verso in pencil "Perkins", another midshipman in uniform - verso "My roommate Finley - committed suicide", two midshipmen in uniform, verso in pencil "Bomfils & Finley", and a midshipman in coat uniform, verso in pencil, "Dillman". All midshipmen CDVs with F.M Zuller, Richfields Springs, and U.S. Naval Academy markings verso. Large CDV of older gentleman in full uniform, lower margin, "Perry B. Dawley, Ens. Sergt. N.A. 1887" (Served in Company F 1st Regiment Volunteers Rhode Island as a private in 1861, post war served in the Newport Artillery - Rhode Island). Two large CDVs of the same gentleman, Bob Mitchell, one showing him in a naval uniform. Another post Civil war CDV with a soldier holding a rifle (possible 1873 Springfield trapdoor?), and a photographic print of a gentleman in uniform, verso in ink, "New dress uniform compliments C. E. Nelson D. Co. 23rd". Archive also includes a small tintype of two gentleman in formal attire (prob. Rhode Island), a large cabinet card of a seated dog similar to a collie, and a CDV showing a harbor (possibly Boston area). 2nd grouping - Three (3) Spanish American War era photographs books. 1st book includes an encampment scene from Camp Fornance and several photographs of Camp Meade showing various training activities with soldiers, four pages (approx. 16 photographs) showing a visit to Gettysburg, additional photographs of Camp Fornance in South Carolina, and a page showing pictures of the end of the 1st Rhode Island Vol. Infantry and the lowering of the flag, dated 1899. Last page titled, "Returning home". 2nd photographic book has the first page showing Brigade Camp, Difficult Run, June 28-30, 1898 - 1st Rhode Island, 2nd Tenn, 3rd Missouri. Following pages show Camp Dyer, Quonset Point, Difficult Run with photos of poor blacks and whites, Camp Alger, Camp Meade, Newport Artillery at Fort Adams 1898. 3rd photographic book - domestic scenes from Columbia SC, Christmas 1898, additional scenes of South Carolina including black families, and possibly a 4th of July parade with flags and ribbons draping the town, one arch with the words, "Sampson Santiago".Condition: 1st grouping - some Naval Academy CDVs have a pinhole where hung, minor toning and some corners bent. 2nd grouping - covers to albums frayed, at least one is detached.

PAIR OF PORTIEUX FRENCH GLASS SOLDIER CANDLESTICKS2 frosted white figural candlestick holders depicting the columns as soldiers hold a flag. The base is molded as a fort with canons. Portieux embossed on the base.Issued: c. 1870-1880Dimensions: 4.25"L x 4.25"W x 10"HManufacturer: PortieuxCountry of Origin: FranceProvenance: Collection of Edward FlowerCondition: Age related wear.

TRAJAN DUPONDIUS ANCIENT BRONZE COINDESCRIPTION: A Trajan Dupondius ancient bronze coin IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P. Bust of Trajan, radiate, draped, right. Reverse: SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS S C FORT RED Fortuna, draped, seated left on low chair, feet on stool, holding rudder set on ground in right hand and cornucopiae in left. RIC:653Â CIRCA: AD 114 - AD 117 ORIGIN: Rome, Italy DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 26 MM Total Weight:12.9 Grams CONDITION: Great condition. See lot description for details on item condition. More detailed condition requests can be obtained via email (info@akibaantiques.com) or SMS (305) 333-4134. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Akiba Antiques shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.