- MARK TWAIN, SIGNED PAMPHLET OF THE GYROSCOPE
Signed on the second page by Mark Twain, this pamphlet is titled The Gyroscope, with Experiments and Explanations. Published 1857 by Holbrook Apparatus Company, Hartford Connecticut....
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HAMILTON(British, 18th century)
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities From the Cabinet of The Hon. Wm. Hamilton His Britannik Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary...
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[more like this] - PAIR OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL CARVED WALNUT
FOOT STOOLSBoston, Massachusetts, circa 1830, each with black horsehair upholstered seat over a leaf and anthemion carved trestle form frame with turned stretchers, of modified...
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[more like this] - A CASED SET OF FOUR ENGLISH STERLING
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MEDALLION' BY JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
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[more like this] - A circular silver bowl, Page, Keen &
Page, London 1934, on a low foot with a gadrooned rim, 20.5cm diameter, approximately 565g...
[more like this] - An American Sterling Silver Thermometer
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[more like this] - Ten Derrydale Press books, horses and
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[more like this] - Will Henry Stevens (American/Louisiana,
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