- Famous Fights. An Historical Record
of the Ring. Bound issues of the Police Budget Edition of Famous Fights Past and Present. Starts with Volume V, Number 53. More Information Good....
[more like this] - 5 HUNTING AND FISHING BOOKS, 19TH C.1st
item: STRETTON, Charles. Sport and Sportsmen: A Book of Recollections. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866. 8 3/4" H x 6 1/8" W (Octavo). 319 pages. First Edition in original...
[more like this] - TATUM DAVIS ARCHIVE, TEXAS C. 1850SA
group of about 70 letters from 1828-1850s related to Howell Tatum Davis (b .1813-d. 1861, brother of John Davis, son of Frederick Davis, who moved to Texas circa 1840s). The...
[more like this] - TIM THOMPSON OIL ON CANVAS "PARADE OF
SAIL"Tim Thompson (English b. 1951) Oil on Canvas "Parade of Sail" , signed lower right Tim Thompson, gold leaf carved frame
16 in. x 20 in. Overall 22 in. x 26 in.
Born...
[more like this] - SHARPS NEW MODEL 1859 .50-70 CIVIL WAR
CARBINESharps New Model 1859 Civil War Carbine, serial number C25823, converted by the Sharps Company in 1867 from percussion ignition to take the more modern center fire...
[more like this] - WHITE GOLD RING W/ ROMAN RUBY INTAGLIO
OF EAGLE & SNAKE...Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd CE. A dazzling ruby intaglio of ovoid form skillfully hand-carved with the image of an eagle holding a snake and...
[more like this] - TED SHAWN & HIS MEN DANCERS PHOTOGRAPHS
(5)Set of 5 historical photographs circa 1930s of dance troupe members from "Ted Shawn & His Male Dancers", likely photographed at Jacob's Pillow: a dance school, retreat,...
[more like this] - TED SHAWN & HIS MEN DANCERS PHOTOGRAPHS
(3)Set of 3 historical 4" x 5" photographs circa 1930s of dance troupe members from "Ted Shawn & His Male Dancers", likely photographed at Jacob's Pillow: a dance school,...
[more like this] - CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL YELLOW FEVER1929
Congressional Gold Medal for the Conquest of Yellow Fever. Awarded to John Kissinger. In 1900, Kissinger was the FIRST person to step up and volunteer to be infected in order...
[more like this] - 1777 PENNSYLVANIA LAND INDENTUREHandwritten
indenture on vellum, dated June 6, 1777. Measures 19" x 24" overall, including frame. What's historically significant about this Bucks County parcel of land is that the person...
[more like this] - (23) BOOKS: HISTORICAL KNIVES, BOWIE,
BAYONETS(lot of 23) Collection of books, comprising: (1) "Edmund Davidson: The Art of the Integral Knife," David Darom, 2008, colored illustrations, 143 pages; (1) "Blades...
[more like this] - 5 VOL)HISTORICAL BOOKS: FIGHTING MEN
OF TEXAS WWII(5 volumes) Collection of books: "The Fighting Men of Texas: A History of the Second World War, A Memorial, A Remembrance, An Appreciation," 1948, Historical...
[more like this] - GROUP OF BOOKS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTGROUP
OF BOOKS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, titles include: The Measure of a Man; Orangeburg 1968: A Place and Time Remembered; Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther...
[more like this] - GROUP OF GENERAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY
HISTORY HISTORY, titles include: Segregation in Death: Gettysburg's Lincoln Cemetery; Buffalo Soldiers: African American Troops in the US Forces 1866-1945; Whence They Came:...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF (4) HISTORICAL VOLUMES
Includes: 1) An Authentic Account of All the Proceedings on the Fourth of July, 1815, With Regard to Laying the Corner Stone of the Washington Monument, Now Erecting in the...
[more like this] - FOLLOWER OF JACQUES COURTOIS (FRANCE,
1621–1676) Matched Pair of Historical Scenes from the Great Turkish War of 1683-1699, depicting Ottoman cavalry fighting Europeans outside Fortified Towns, probably in Hungary,...
[more like this] - 5 PHOTOS TED SHAWN & MEN DANCERS, JACOB'S
PILLOWSet of five 5x7 and 4x5 John Lindquist photographs (circa 1930s) of dance troupe members from Ted Shawn & His Male Dancers, likely photographed at Jacob's Pillow, a...
[more like this] - CONFEDERATE FLAG FRAGMENT These silken
colors of the battle flag of the Confederacy have been fashioned by a Virginial girl whose father, before she was born, was wounded while fighting under them. Yet she, with...
[more like this] - Two French Historical Bronze Medals,
the first by Rene Gregoire (1871-1945), 1917, commemorating the entrance of the United States into World War I, the obverse with a bust of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) between...
[more like this] - Books, U.S. Military Arms and related:
James E. Hicks, 1971, dust jacket, Notes on U.S. Ordnance: Volume II ; two copies, Gluckman, 1948 and 1959 with dust jacket, United States Muskets, Rifles and Carbines ; Green,...
[more like this] - Two French Historical Bronze Medals,
the first by Rene Gregoire (1871-1945), 1917, commemorating the entrance of the United States into World War I, the obverse with a bust of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) between...
[more like this] - Brevet Brigadier General James M. Ruggles
1st & 3rd Illinois Cavalry Civil War Archive 69 letters and documents; 1 diary; 2 presidential appointments; Veteran's hat; 2 shoulder straps; and coin purse with 19 coins....
[more like this] - Thirty-One Volumes of New Orleans and
Louisiana Interest, including H. C. Warmouth, War, Politics and Reconstruction, Guy Caldwell, Early History of the Ochsner Medical Center (with presentation inscription from...
[more like this] - ROCHOLL Theodor (German 1854-1933):
Soldiers on Horseback Crossing a Stream Oil/Canvas 21'' x 23'' signed lower right dated 1913 encased in a later gold frame with minor wear 25 1/2'' x 27 1/2''. Rocholl was...
[more like this] - [Historic Newspaper: Battle of Antietam
Emancipation] New-York Tribune September 24 1862 containing extensive reporting of the fighting in Maryland and on other fronts together with news of the preliminary Emancipation...
[more like this] - QUILT. American found in Kansas mid
20th century. 54-40 or fight pattern. Excellent unused condition. 87' x 70'. This quilt was displayed at the Kansas Historical Society's 1986 ''Kansas Quilt Project''....
[more like this] - Cayuse Chief Poor Crane Also Known as
Cutmouth John Quarter Plate Tintype Remarkable quarter plate tintype of American Indian chief identified as?Yehtiinwic or?Poor Crane?(ca 1814-1891) whose name indicates that...
[more like this] - Fight or Buy Bonds 3rd Liberty Loan
Forbes Boston.Condition: Professionally conserved & linen backed.Dimensions: 40'' x 30''Provenance: Rochester Historical Society.E...
[more like this] - 4 WWI Marine Posters First in France
27 1/2'' x 20 1/2''; US Marines want you 28'' x 21 1/2''; First to Fight for Democracy US Print & Litho Co. 40'' x 30 1/4''; Tell that to the Marines 40'' x 30''.Condition:...
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