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Confederate Cloverleaf Pike
Lot: 91Sold for: $2,091$1,700Confederate Cloverleaf Pike, c. 1861-65, wooden haft with iron cloverleaf-shaped blade and an iron ferrule around the attachment straps, blade lg. 10 3/4, overall lg. 85 in. Provenance: Sold to more ...
Burger and Brothers Richmond Pike
Lot: 92Sold for: $1,230$1,000Burger and Brothers Richmond Pike, c. 1861-65, wooden haft with iron double-edged blade stamped with a W, a brass ferrule around the attachment straps, blade lg. 12 5/8, overall lg. 96 in. more ...
Confederate Retractable Blade Pike
Lot: 93Sold for: $1,968$1,600Confederate Retractable Blade Pike, c. 1861-65, two-piece wooden haft with iron double-edged retractable blade, two brass ferrules and two iron ferrules holding the two piece haft together, and iron more ...
Confederate Georgia-style Pike
Lot: 94Sold for: $1,107$900Confederate Georgia-style Pike, c. 1862, wooden haft with iron double-edged blade stamped with a star shape near the base, and an iron ferrule around the attachment straps, blade lg. 11 3/4, overall more ...
Confederate Georgia-style Pike
Lot: 95Sold for: $1,046$850Confederate Georgia-style Pike, c. 1862, wooden haft with iron double-edged blade stamped with a round punch mark near the base, and a brass ferrule around the attachment straps, blade lg. 12 3/8, more ...
Confederate Cloverleaf Pike
Lot: 96Sold for: $1,722$1,400Confederate Cloverleaf Pike, c. 1861-65, wooden haft with iron cloverleaf-shaped blade and an iron ferrule around the attachment straps, blade lg. 10 5/8, overall lg. 81 1/4 in. Provenance: Sold more ...
Model 1840 Light Artillery Officer's Saber and Scabbard
Lot: 97Sold for: $2,460$2,000Model 1840 Light Artillery Officer's Saber and Scabbard, c. mid-19th century, brass hilt cast with foliate designs, wire-wrapped shagreen grip, ricasso marked on one side PHILADELPHIA, and more ...
Horstmann Cavalry Officer's Sword
Lot: 98Sold for: $2,583$2,100Horstmann Cavalry Officer's Sword, c. mid to late 19th century, gilt-brass hilt with foliate designs, wire-wrapped brown horn grip, steel blade with gilt, marked above ricasso W.H. HORSTMANN & SONS more ...
Horstmann Model 1872 Cavalry Officer's Sabre
Lot: 99Sold for: $523$425Horstmann Model 1872 Cavalry Officer's Sabre, c. late 19th century, brass hilt with eagle, laurel, and foliate motifs, shagreen grip with brass wire wrap, steel blade with foliate designs and more ...
Collection of Continental Iron Armor and Arms
Lot: 100Sold for: $4,305$3,500Collection of Continental Iron Armor and Arms, a mace with seven tapered flanges, a spontoon head with Germanic markings, a sword marked ME FECIT/SOLINGEN on both sides of the blade, a hand spike more ...
French and Indian War Powder Horn of Rufus Hill
Lot: 101Sold for: $7,380$6,000French and Indian War Powder Horn of Rufus Hill, mid to late 1750s, engraved horn with birds, animals, and foliate designs, marked on the side BY POWDER & BALL/THE FRENCH SHALL FALL/RUFUS HILL, pine more ...
Oration Delivered at Watertown, March 5, 1776
Lot: 102Sold for: $984$800Oration Delivered at Watertown, March 5, 1776, printed oration by Peter Thacher to commemorate the Boston Massacre, handwritten on the front is the name W. Jenn/ison's, and on the back is a more ...
Hancock-signed Congressional Commission and Documents of Reverend Hezekiah Smith
Lot: 103Sold for: $3,321$2,700Hancock-signed Congressional Commission and Documents of Reverend Hezekiah Smith, c. 1777-78, commission dated 1777 for Reverend Smith to be appointed Chaplain of Nixon's Battalion, signed by John more ...
Six Letters from British Major General Phillips to Major General Heath
Lot: 104Sold for: $3,998$3,250Six Letters from British Major General Phillips to Major General Heath, dated April through October 1778, from Major General William Phillips to Major General William Heath written from Cambridge, more ...
Bowles/Brown Family Letters
Lot: 105Sold for: $2,583$2,100Bowles/Brown Family Letters, c. 1775, three letters between two sisters, Miss Bowles and Miss Brown, which describe some of the events going on in and around Boston from June 10th, 1775 to November more ...
Two Revolutionary War-era Fabric Swatches
Lot: 106Sold for: $800$650Two Revolutionary War-era Fabric Swatches, c. 1775-83, remains of a pincushion fabricated from an American and a British coat with two notes, and a fragment of an American flag from the more ...
Levi Lawrence Revolutionary War Pension Papers
Lot: 107UnsoldLevi Lawrence Revolutionary War Pension Papers, c. late 18th/early 19th century, a December 1780 document about not drawing a blanket from public stores, a September 1781 document for payment to more ...
Militia Cartridge Box
Lot: 108Sold for: $369$300Militia Cartridge Box, c. late 18th/early 19th century, black leather box and flap with stamped designs around the border, and heart-shaped stamp in the center, pine block with twenty-four holes, more ...
American Officer's Sash
Lot: 109Sold for: $461$375American Officer's Sash, c. early 19th century, crimson sash woven in a fishnet style, with macrame-style knot slides on each fringed end, fringe lg. 9 in., overall lg. 9 ft. Provenance: From more ...
Two Framed Oliver Hazard Perry Documents
Lot: 110Sold for: $1,046$850Two Framed Oliver Hazard Perry Documents, c. 1814-15, a document from Newport, dated February 7, 1815 to John Cahoone regarding the return of iron ballast, signed "O.H. Perry", and a document from more ...
U.S. Model 1841 Naval Surgeon's Dress Coatee
Lot: 111Sold for: $2,583$2,100U.S. Model 1841 Naval Surgeon's Dress Coatee, c. 1840s, blue broadcloth body, lined with white kerseymere, cuffs have two small buttons, and two large, with three rows of half inch metallic braid, more ...
Sword, Images, and Letters of Captain David D. Bard and Rodolphus Bard
Lot: 112Sold for: $2,583$2,100Sword, Images, and Letters of Captain David D. Bard and Rodolphus Bard, c. mid to late 19th century, Model 1850 foot officer's sword carried by Captain Bard, images of Bard in uniform, family more ...
Ulysses S. Grant Silk Memorial
Lot: 113Sold for: $523$425Ulysses S. Grant Silk Memorial, c. 1880s, a wood-framed, embroidered silk memorial of President Grant in his casket, draped in an American flag, an angel directing two women, one representing the more ...
Reins, Bit, and Belt of General Francis S. Dodge, and a Commercial Haversack
Lot: 114Sold for: $1,845$1,500Reins, Bit, and Belt of General Francis S. Dodge, and a Commercial Haversack, c. mid to late 19th century, steel bit with US marked rosettes, leather and brass bridle with brass rosettes marked with more ...
Group of Civil War-era Accoutrements
Lot: 115Sold for: $1,169$950Group of Civil War-era Accoutrements, c. 1861-65, a Model 1855 cartridge box and shoulder strap with a lead-filled oval brass plate marked US, a Model 1864 cartridge box, a carbine cartridge box more ...
Five Civil War Canteens
Lot: 116Sold for: $861$700Five Civil War Canteens, c. 1861-65, three with jean cloth covers, and two without covers. Provenance: From the collection of the late Peter F. Frazier and M. Prudence Fleck. more ...
Cased Militia Officer's Half Plate Ambrotype
Lot: 117Sold for: $523$425Cased Militia Officer's Half Plate Ambrotype, c. 1850s, standing image with a plumed shako sitting on a table, soldier with his arms crossed in a frock coat with epaulets, sash, sword, and sword more ...
Sibley Stove and Accessories
Lot: 118Sold for: $677$550Sibley Stove and Accessories, c. 1850s-60s, black sheet iron cone-shaped stove, double-hinged door with latch, half-round plate with L shaped brackets, and the vent for the ceiling of a Sibley tent, more ...
Twelve-pound Spherical Case Shot with Base from Gettysburg
Lot: 119Sold for: $2,952$2,400Twelve-pound Spherical Case Shot with Base from Gettysburg, c. 1863, twelve pound iron shot with the fuse removed, engraved on the ball Gettysburg/1863 with an old accession number glued to the more ...
Printed Thirty-six-star American Flag
Lot: 120Sold for: $1,230$1,000Printed Thirty-six-star American Flag, c. 1865-67, white plain-woven glazed cotton with printed red stripes, and a printed blue canton with a large central star, ht. 27, lg. 43 in. more ...