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Two Early Shot Molds
Lot: 121Sold for: $499$425Two Early Shot Molds, American, 18th century, an unmarked brass four-cavity step-down mold casting shot from approx. .69 to .50 caliber; and an iron single-cavity mold casting a ball of approx. .56 more ...
Six Musket/Gunsmith's Tools
Lot: 122Sold for: $999$850Six Musket/Gunsmith's Tools, 18th century, including a hand vice, a small hammer with a gun worm, a forged screwdriver, a spring vice, and combination vent pick and flint knapping tool, and a more ...
Three Knives and a "Rifleman's" Axe
Lot: 123Sold for: $411$350Three Knives and a "Rifleman's" Axe, 18th/early 19th century, including a knife with a deeply curved blade and turned wood handle; a knife with a straight triangular blade and turned wood handle; a more ...
Five Hatchet/Ax Heads
Lot: 124Sold for: $2,233$1,900Five Hatchet/Ax Heads, 18th century, including a boarding ax head with a crown over indistinct letters marked on the blade; two spiked hatchets/tomahawk heads; a miniature halberd with diamond more ...
Four Early Bladed Tools
Lot: 125Sold for: $470$400Four Early Bladed Tools, 18th/early 19th century, a forged iron hatchet with rectangular mark on the blade and an old hickory haft; a spiked hatchet with rounded ears and old hard wood haft; a more ...
Red-painted Canteen
Lot: 126Sold for: $588$500Red-painted Canteen, America, fourth quarter of the 18th century, staved construction with iron hoops, the spout with carved lip, hardwood heads, one with lightly carved initials "MB," (wear and more ...
Blue-painted Cheesebox Militia Canteen
Lot: 127Sold for: $646$550Blue-painted Cheesebox Militia Canteen, New England, late 18th/early 19th century, the single band side closed with three iron tacks, te thin heads secured with wood pins, three wide iron staples more ...
Small Blue-painted Barrel Form Canteen
Lot: 128Sold for: $558$475Small Blue-painted Barrel Form Canteen, America, late 18th/early 19th century, staved construction with two iron hoop at each end, spout with attached wood fitting secured with four pewter rivets, more ...
Small Cylindrical Canteen
Lot: 129Sold for: $382$325Small Cylindrical Canteen, America, late 18th/early 19th century, the body turned from a single piece of maple with turned band decoration at the ends and pine heads set in the chamfered ends, (a more ...
Large "Holland" Canteen
Lot: 130Sold for: $558$475Large "Holland" Canteen, late 18th/early 19th century, staved with narrow iron hoops and bent wood swing handle secured to the spout stave with two wood screws, one side stencil marked "HOLLAND.," more ...
Early Coconut Flask
Lot: 131Sold for: $441$375Early Coconut Flask, 19th century, the body consisting of a polished coconut with an attached tall pewter spout with a narrow lip, ht. 5 3/4 in. more ...
Collection of Five Stirrups and Five Spurs
Lot: 132Sold for: $646$550Collection of Five Stirrups and Five Spurs, 18th/early 19th century, five wrought iron stirrups of varying styles; a pair of iron spurs with buckles and fine rowels; a pair of silvered iron spurs more ...
Bone Handled Razor and Bone Handled Folding Fork
Lot: 133UnsoldBone Handled Razor and Bone Handled Folding Fork, England/Europe, second half of the 18th century, the flat ended razor blade on a case with bone scales and brass bolsters marked in wriggle work more ...
John Jordan Flame Stitch Pocket Book
Lot: 134Sold for: $1,998$1,700John Jordan Flame Stitch Pocket Book, America, c. 1770-80, stitched in shades of red, purple, blue green, and yellow with red worsted binding tape, the interior lined in pink silk and inscribed in more ...
Three Early Leather Wallets
Lot: 135Sold for: $499$425Three Early Leather Wallets, 18th century, including a small European wallet with metallic thread embroidery in the form of a stylized fleur-de-lis on the flap opening to a red Morocco-lined more ...
Pair of American Officer's Silver Shoulder Straps
Lot: 136Sold for: $8,225$7,000Pair of American Officer's Silver Shoulder Straps, c. 1780, with fine woven silver shoulder straps with remnants of six-pointed stars bordered by silver twist and sequins, crescent shoulder more ...
Miniature Portrait of a British Engineer
Lot: 137Sold for: $1,175$1,000Miniature Portrait of a British Engineer, c. 1780, the figure dressed in a red coat with black facings trimmed in narrow gold braid with gold buttons, in a gold case, the reverse with braided hair more ...
Pair drumsticks, a Fife, and Two Whistles
Lot: 138Sold for: $558$475Pair drumsticks, a Fife, and Two Whistles, 18th/early 19th century, the turned drumsticks with weighted copper ends; the rosewood fife with brass ferrule; a carved bone whistle; and a cast pewter more ...
Two 18th Century Compasses
Lot: 139Sold for: $764$650Two 18th Century Compasses, the small likely English brass case compass with threaded lid, brass indicator ring, printed paper compass rose and blued steel needle; the likely American wood case more ...
Two Brass Calipers/Ruler and Brass Gauge
Lot: 140Sold for: $2,585$2,200Two Brass Calipers/Ruler and Brass Gauge, 18th century, a British gunner's caliper signed "M. Berge London" noting caliber, proof, and service charges for iron and brass guns, mortars, and more ...
18th Century Cased Drafting Set
Lot: 141Sold for: $470$40018th Century Cased Drafting Set, the compartmented shagreen case with bright yellow paper lining housing a fruit wood ruler, two brass and steel dividers, two pens, a point and holder, ht. 6 7/8, d. more ...
Small British Leather Covered Document Box
Lot: 142Sold for: $264$225Small British Leather Covered Document Box, c. 1750, dome-top box covered with brown leather with tooled floral decoration, iron lock, hasp and handle; the interior with original English newspaper more ...
Isaac Elder Document Box
Lot: 143Sold for: $558$475Isaac Elder Document Box, Foster & Barton, Boston, Massachusetts, early 19th century, rectangular box covered in leather and with brass tack decoration, the lid with brass handle and engraved more ...
Four Connecticut Militia Company Reimbursement Documents for Service on the Boston/Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775
Lot: 144Sold for: $2,938$2,500Four Connecticut Militia Company Reimbursement Documents for Service on the Boston/Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, each written at Hartford; one dated May 29, 1775, for 153 Pounds, 11 1/2 Pence to more ...
Four Connecticut Militia Company Reimbursement Documents for Service on the Boston/Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775
Lot: 145Sold for: $2,468$2,100Four Connecticut Militia Company Reimbursement Documents for Service on the Boston/Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, each written at Hartford; one dated July 27, 1775, for 2 Pounds, 2 Shillings, 6 more ...
Five Siege of Boston/Roxbury Camp Pay Orders for Sick or Invalid Connecticut Soldiers
Lot: 146Sold for: $1,645$1,400Five Siege of Boston/Roxbury Camp Pay Orders for Sick or Invalid Connecticut Soldiers, one dated August 26, 1775 ordering to pay Doctor Samuel Flagg 4 Pounds, 4 Shillings, 1 Pence for "Allowance & more ...
Four Orders to Pay Connecticut Officers' Expenses
Lot: 147Sold for: $999$850Four Orders to Pay Connecticut Officers' Expenses, one dated September 21, 1775, ordering to pay Lt. Col. Experience Storrs 50 Pounds "for the use of his Company mow at Camp at Cambridge" signed by more ...
Two Siege of Boston Provision Receipts/Pay Orders
Lot: 148Sold for: $823$700Two Siege of Boston Provision Receipts/Pay Orders, a receipt dated Medford, [Massachusetts], October 5, 1775, for 15,915 pounds of fresh beef "for the use of the Army" received from Mr. James more ...
Mills and Hicks's British and American Register, 1775
Lot: 149Sold for: $4,406$3,750Mills and Hicks's British and American Register, 1775 with Mention of General Thomas Gage's Return to England, printed by Mills and Hicks, Boston, 1775, 108 pages with pencil notation a front more ...
Five 18th Century New England Almanacks, One with Inscription Regarding the British Evacuation of Boston and One with Inscription Regar
Lot: 149ASold for: $2,585$2,200Five 18th Century New England Almanacks, One with Inscription Regarding the British Evacuation of Boston and One with Inscription Regarding the Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, including more ...