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2008 Schedule
Some Highlights From Our
Recent March 22, 2008 Auction:
“The iron horse,” LOU GEHRIG
PASS-CO Certified Lou Gehrig signed souvenir laurel card from the 1939 World Fair. Souvenir cards like this were presented to each student who attended the daily sports clinics sponsored by the Academy of Sport at the 1939 World’s Fair. Led by 200 leading sports figures who volunteered their time, these clinics offered youngsters instruction on the finer points of the great American pastime.
a framed Four language ship’s paper
signed by Thomas Jefferson
dateline:
san francisco, 1849
Writing from San Francisco in October 1849, our author, a doctor from Dayton, speaks of the “real” California Gold Rush: “ … I felt like cursing the whole country , & every body in it, that had anything to do with giving circulation to the Gold Stories- there they were tugging & toiling, some with picks, some with crowbars, some with shovels, some with iron & some with horn spoons, some with their knives, and others with their fingers, in the mud & water up to their knees, they looked more like criminals in the Penitenary [sic] than any thing I could compair [sic] them … where one makes money in the mines there are a hundred or more that don't make anything- this gold digging has been the ruin of thousands I have no doubt—Men who had good moral charactors [sic] in the states have come here- and the disappointment has been so great that they gave themselves to disapation [sic]- some have committed suiside [sic], some have died in the sheets from exposure … I don't like the country nor the people in it at all -in a word, I consider it a God-Forsaken- Devils- Own- Country … ” This is only a small portion of our seven page letter, one of the finest Gold Rush content letters we have offered.
a Beautifully framed document Signed by Paul Revere
This document acknowledges payment for a bell forged by Revere for use in the Baptist Religious Society in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Following the American Revolution, Paul Revere opened an iron and brass foundry in Boston's North End. Working with his sons Paul Jr. and Joseph Warren, Revere, who cast the first bell ever made in Boston, soon became one of the best-known metal casters of that instrument in the nation.
A fine assortment of civil war pieces, including correspondence from prisoner-of-war camps and the front lines as well as relics from the infamous Libby prison and Lincoln's funeral train
A rare, Historic 1826 broadside Commemorating the
passing of two seminal American figures,
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
Apart from newspaper obituaries, period ephemera pertaining to the deaths of Adams and Jefferson is prohibitively scarce. Although undated, this broadside notes it was issued about 30 days after the passing of the two ex-presidents and appears to have had very limited circulation. Praising these two Founding Fathers, the document compares these two men to those illustrious rulers" and "pious patriots" whose deaths are recorded in the Bible and asks, "Will not the American people say, that these words are with particular force, applicable to the illustrious dead, who departed this life on the memorable 4th of July, 1826?" To our knowledge, the only other example of this broadside is held by the Library of Congress.
As always, this auction will contain much more, including a diverse array of documents, Americana as well as stocks & bonds.
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