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Four Wooden Coopered Canteens
Lot: 121Sold for: $356$300Four Wooden Coopered Canteens, two with iron and two with wooden bands, dia. 6 1/2 to 10 in. more ...
Four Wooden Rundlets
Lot: 122Sold for: $296$250Four Wooden Rundlets, circa 1800, including two coopered examples, the first in a natural finish, ht. 10, the other in a resin finish, ht. 8 1/2, and two turned examples in old surface, ht. 7 1/2 to more ...
Large Company Canteen
Lot: 123Sold for: $207$175Large Company Canteen, cooper-made with wooden bands and side stopper hole, dia. 12 1/2 in. more ...
Five Wrought Iron Camp Stoves and a Footed Pot with Handles
Lot: 124Sold for: $889$750Five Wrought Iron Camp Stoves and a Footed Pot with Handles, 18th and early 19th century, of various designs, all with hinged cooking grates, wooden handles (one lacking handle),and decorative more ...
Group of Eating Utensils, a Trivet and a Knife
Lot: 125Sold for: $533$450Group of Eating Utensils, a Trivet and a Knife, 18th and early 19th century, including a hand forged trivet with spike end, folding bone and brass spoon and fork with tooled leather holder, a cup, more ...
Group of Early Lighting-related Items
Lot: 126Sold for: $652$550Group of Early Lighting-related Items, 18th/19th century, including a turquoise blue-painted tin chamberstick, two hanging betty lamps, a twisted iron hook, and a small pair of brass tongs. more ...
Cast Brass 18th Century Wig Stand
Lot: 127Sold for: $178$150Cast Brass 18th Century Wig Stand, base dia. 3 3/4, ht. 6 1/2 in. more ...
Iron Coehorn Mortar
Lot: 128Sold for: $2,015$1,700Iron Coehorn Mortar, 18th century, with 9-inch barrel, 2 1/4-inch bore, trunnion, oak bed with elevation adjustment, as shown, ht. 13 in. more ...
Iron Cannon
Lot: 129Sold for: $2,015$1,700Iron Cannon, circa 1800, 29-inch muzzle loaded barrel with English Crown cast mark and 1, 2-in. bore, on a bench-made pine carriage, overall lg. of cannon 34 in. more ...
Cast Iron Cannon
Lot: 130Sold for: $1,896$1,600Cast Iron Cannon, circa 1800, 36-inch muzzle loading barrel with cast English crown and 2, 2 3/4-inch bore, on a bench-made wooden carriage, overall lg. 48 in. more ...
Cast Iron "Bar Shot"
Lot: 131Sold for: $1,007$850Cast Iron "Bar Shot", early 19th century, a projectile used to foul a ships rigging, consisting of a bar and two half balls at each end, lg. 11 in. more ...
Collection of Five Iron Cannonballs
Lot: 132Sold for: $415$350Collection of Five Iron Cannonballs, of various sizes and weights in a bench-made wooden holder. more ...
Four Excavated Iron Cannonballs
Lot: 133Sold for: $1,126$950Four Excavated Iron Cannonballs, 18th and early 19th centuries, the first, a British cannonball reportedly from the Battle of Valcour Island, 1776 and found by Dr. Keith Wilbur at Valcour Bay in more ...
Cherry Grease Bucket for Cannon Maintenance
Lot: 134Sold for: $119$100Cherry Grease Bucket for Cannon Maintenance, probably 18th century, the hand-hewn wooden grease container reportedly used for the lubrication of cannon axles in the field, ht. 10 1/2 in. more ...
Swivel Cannon Pattern, Tent Pole Remnant, and Peg
Lot: 135Sold for: $326$275Swivel Cannon Pattern, Tent Pole Remnant, and Peg, 19th century, the cannon pattern made in two parts, both with decorative turnings, lg. 16 1/2 in., the tent pole remnant marked with an old label, more ...
Six Items of Antiquarian Interest
Lot: 136Sold for: $504$425Six Items of Antiquarian Interest, including a brass-cased pocket sundial, brass quill pen holder, horn carrying case, small oval splint container and steel calipers. more ...
Mary Mason's Maple Busk
Lot: 137Sold for: $1,896$1,600Mary Mason's Maple Busk, dated 1776, the slightly convex busk with serpentine end depicting three sailing ships and a heart ornamented with triangular punch work decoration, signed on the reverse more ...
French and Indian War Document from William Pepperrell to Colonel John Storer
Lot: 138Sold for: $593$500French and Indian War Document from William Pepperrell to Colonel John Storer, Kittery, Maine, 1756 ordering that every man be "well provided with arms and ammunition". more ...
Two Massachusetts Pre-Revolutionary War Documents
Lot: 139Sold for: $533$450Two Massachusetts Pre-Revolutionary War Documents, including Commission of Thomas Gage of Captain of the First Company of Foot Infantry for Rowley (Revere),dated 1761 and signed by Francis Bernard, more ...
View of the Town of Concord
Lot: 140Sold for: $652$550View of the Town of Concord, A. Doolittle, sculpt. depicting a Revolutionary War scene of "Companies of Regulars drawn up in order" in the center of Concord, Massachusetts, ht. 17 3/4, wd. 22 in. more ...
Etched View of the Landing of British Troops at New York
Lot: 141Sold for: $207$175Etched View of the Landing of British Troops at New York, and two views of Boston and an engraved portrait of William Johnson, Major General of British forces in North America. more ...
Military Print of Prince Louis Joseph de Bourbon
Lot: 142UnsoldMilitary Print of Prince Louis Joseph de Bourbon, titled Louis Joseph de Bourbon Prince de Conde, ne a Paris le aout 1736, ht. 11 3/4, wd. 9 in. (sight). more ...
Two Revolutionary War Receipts from the Connecticut Treasury Office
Lot: 143Sold for: $267$225Two Revolutionary War Receipts from the Connecticut Treasury Office, dated 1780 and 1781. more ...
Three Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Revolutionary War Documents
Lot: 144Sold for: $474$400Three Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Revolutionary War Documents, including an order for muster pay, Hadley, 1781, requisition for beef, Hadley, 1780, and requisition for supplies, Hadley 1780; more ...
Framed Pay Warrant to Henry Gardner Signed by John Hancock, Governor of Massachusett s
Lot: 145Sold for: $2,133$1,800Framed Pay Warrant to Henry Gardner Signed by John Hancock, Governor of Massachusett s, dated, May 28, 1782, partially printed document with endorsements on the reverse, (creased),ht. 7 1/2, sight more ...
Group of Three Revolutionary War Invoices and a Receipt
Lot: 146Sold for: $474$400Group of Three Revolutionary War Invoices and a Receipt, including two Pay-Table Office invoices from the Continental Army dated December 1783 and an invoice for Captain Edes company for flour more ...
Two Framed 18th Century Boston Newspapers
Lot: 147Sold for: $148$125Two Framed 18th Century Boston Newspapers, the New England Weekly Journal dated April 8, 1728, and The Independent Chronicle dated January 17, 1782. more ...
Two Framed Groups of Continental Currency
Lot: 148Sold for: $474$400Two Framed Groups of Continental Currency, 1776-78, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Massachusetts. more ...
Six Framed Collections of Colonial and Continental Currency
Lot: 149Sold for: $2,133$1,800Six Framed Collections of Colonial and Continental Currency, 1775-82, issued from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Maryland; together with two Connecticut colonial pennies (auctori more ...
Framed Bill of Exchange Signed by Robert Morris
Lot: 150Sold for: $563$475Framed Bill of Exchange Signed by Robert Morris, Philadelphia, October 23, 1784, partially printed document. more ...