- KY CAPITOL PRESENTATION DOCUMENT & PLATE1st
item: Ink on vellum calligraphy presentation document for the Governor of Kentucky, referencing the construction of the state's Capitol Building. Calligraphy by Kentucky historian,...
[more like this] - 1900S ARCHITECTURAL ETCHINGS BY J. PENNELL,
R. LOGANJoseph Pennell (American, 1860-1926). "Stock Exchange" etching, ca. 1904. Hand signed in pencil at lower center. Hand titled in pencil at lower right. AND Robert Fulton...
[more like this] - MESOPOTAMIAN POTTERY CUNEIFORM TABLETMesopotamia,
Sumer, ca. late 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A fascinating pottery cuneiform tablet displaying one of the oldest known writing systems in the world upon both sides of the large...
[more like this] - DIARY NOTEBOOKS AND FIELD NOTES FEB
- JULY 1936The personal archive of Louis-Pierre Ledoux (1912-2001), who was the second person (and first trained anthropologist) to record significant data on the Murik people...
[more like this] - THREE LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
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[more like this] - DETAILED STAGE COACH MODEL, SIGNEDHighly
detailed miniature Overland Stage Coach model by Fred Schuessler. Wood and metal with hand painted accents. Model measures approximately 24" x 16" x 10" in a case measuring...
[more like this] - DETAILED FIRE ENGINE MODEL, SIGNEDHighly
detailed miniature of the Stem Fire Engine "Fred Gund" by Fred Schuessler. "Fred Gund" is from Chicago Engine Company 14 circa 19th century and was involved in fighting The...
[more like this] - GROUP OF LIONEL TRAIN ACCESSORIES All
in original boxes. Includes Lionel Operating Lighthouse 6-14087, Lionel "The Scrambler" 6-24179, Lionel Play World Amusement Park Swing Ride 6-1417, Lionel No. 213 Lift Bridge...
[more like this] - (VIEW) PENNSYLVANIA: 88 POSTCARDS EARLY
TO MID-20TH CENTURY(VIEW) PENNSYLVANIA: 88 POSTCARDS, Early to Mid-20th Century, Real photo: '08 Founders Week with "Thomas Flyer New York to Paris" automobile on float,...
[more like this] - GUY CARLETON WIGGINS, AMERICAN (1883-1962),
"5TH AVE AT 42ND STREET", OIL ON CANVAS, 25 1/4 X 30 1/4 INCHESGUY CARLETON WIGGINS, American, (1883-1962) "5th Ave at 42nd Street", oil on canvas signed lower right "Guy...
[more like this] - Train accessories, people, buildings
to include several miniature automobile corporation of America figures and accessories, road signs, stop lights, railroad crossing sign, assorted shrubbery, washed gravel...
[more like this] - Richard Clague (French/New Orleans 1821-1873)
"Idyllic Landscape with a Maiden and Young Man along a Path" oil on canvas unsigned 18 in. x 22 in. in a gilt frame. Provenance: Estate of the artist; to his cousin Augustus...
[more like this] - Texas & New Mexico Military Correspondence
of Jonas P. Holliday Lot of 3 ALsS. 1850-1857.Appointed to West Point from New York Jonas P. Holliday graduated 24th in the class of 1850 and remained in the military service...
[more like this] - American Colonial silver spoons by Alexander
Crouckeshanks Boston circa 1768 pair teaspoons one reduced in size and engraved No. 6 and the other engraved with initial D and No. 2; marked: AC spaced by pellet and with...
[more like this] - Letters Between the Sturges Brothers
Most Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield...
[more like this] - Charles Hook Armco Steel Company Lot
of Manuscripts & Documents Lot includes letters photographs pamphlets mostly from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Born in 1880 the youngest of four children of Henry and...
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