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Lot Number: 112
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U.S.S. Constitution “Old Ironsides” Ship’s Pay Document
c. 1825, USS Constitution, a.k.a. “Old Ironsides,” Partially-Printed Navy Pay Document, Unused Form, Choice Crisp Near Mint.

An original Partially-Printed Payment Document, measuring about 7.5” x 3.25” being a pay receipt for those sailors who reenlisted for 1 year on the USS Constitution from “Lieut. E.A.F. Vallette”. Elie Augustus Frederick Vallette was the USS Constitution’s First Lieutenant. He served in the Navy from 1812-1863. The USS Constitution was called “Old Ironsides” because broadsides could not penetrate her tough oak sides, often bouncing off.

This frigate warship was one of the first of the original six frigates that were built by Act of Congress in 1794 and made up the then modern U.S. Navy in 1797. This rare, historic document is crisp, clean and well printed upon laid period paper. We have been able to track a single November 1826-Dated Bound book of pay receipts for reenlisting on USS CONSTITUTION, that was kept by Lieutenant E. A. F. Vallette in the Naval archives.
“Old Ironsides” served in the undeclared naval war with France (1798-1800) and was the Flagship in the Mediterranean squadron, in the Tripolitan War (1801-05). In the War of 1812, the Constitution won battles with the British frigates Guerriere and Java; The Constitution made its last combat tour in 1814-15. The ship was scheduled to be scrapped in 1830, but Oliver Wendell Holmes’s poem “Old Ironsides” inspired a public movement to save it. Restored in 1925-27, the USS Constitution is now the oldest commissioned vessel in the US Navy. Presently serving as a museum ship at the Charleston Navy Yard, Boston.
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Lot Number: 112
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