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Lot	Image	Description	Estimate Range	Bidding Status
1		Thomas Abernethie’s Own Personal Autographed Book titled, “The History of the Revolution of South Carolina...” With His Historic Engraved Fold-out Map of Charleston Harbor Contained Within, Engraved by Thomas Abernethie! Colonial South Carolina’s Paper Money and Map Engraver THOMAS ABERNETHIE (1783 - August 20, 1795). 18th Century Land Surveyor, Printer, and Engraver active in Charleston, South Carolina who arrived in Charleston during American Revolutionary War, about 1783.	$4,000 - $6,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
2		1799 Acting British Consul General in New York City “Thomas Barclay” Prior "Loyal American Regiment" British Tory Major & Attorney Signed “Loyalty Oath of Military Service” American Patriot Col. James Holmes, 4th NY Regt. THOMAS BARCLAY (1753-1830). Colonial New York Attorney, Protg of New York Governor and Continental Congress President John Jay, who had served in the British Tory “Loyal American Regiment” through the Revolutionary War. Barclay was removed to Nova Scotia as a Loyalist, later led the British Committees to Determine United States and Canadian Border.	$1,500 - $2,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
3		1762 Francis Bernard Signed French and Indian War Military Commission to Raise Troops but: “.... being careful not to enlist .... any Negroes, except one only to a Company, as a Servant to the Captain” and Beautifully Display Framed SIR FRANCIS BERNARD (1712 - 1779). British Colonial appointed Royal Governor of New Jersey in 1758, and Governor of Massachusetts-Bay in 1760 and who could not control the riotous town of Boston.	$3,000 - $4,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
4		Daniel Boone & Rebecca Boone Signed Land Sale Deed Daniel and “his Wife” also being Named Ten Separate Times DANIEL BOONE (1734-1820) & REBECCA BOONE (His Wife, 1739-1813). American Pioneer, Explorer, a Woodsman, and a Frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the First True Folk Heroes of the United States. Together with Rebecca Ann (Bryan) Boone an American Pioneer and the Wife of famed Frontiersman Daniel Boone.	$15,000 - $20,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
5		1792 AARON BURR Autograph Letter Signed With Integral and “FREE” Franking Signature "A Burr" Transmittal Leaf AARON BURR (1756-1836). Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Lawyer and Politician, United States Senator (1791-1797) from New York, and Third Vice President of the United States (1801-1805), under Thomas Jefferson, chiefly remembered and reviled as the man who shot and killed rival Alexander Hamilton in the famous 1804 Duel of Honor.	$2,800 - $3,600	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
6		Marine Corps Major General SMEDLEY D. BUTLER Only Marine Awarded the Brevet Medal & Two Medals of Honor! SMEDLEY D. BUTLER (1881-1940). Marine Corps Major General and American Military Hero who fought in the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, and World War I. He is the Only Marine to be Awarded the Brevet Medal as well as TWO Medals of Honor, all for separate actions!	$600 - $800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
7		John A. Campbell former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Later Appointed Assistant Secretary of War by CSA President Jefferson Davis 1863 Civil War, ALS Re: Prisoner Release JOHN ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL (1811-1889). American Jurist in Georgia and Alabama, where he served in the State Legislature; Appointed by President Franklin Pierce to the United States Supreme Court in 1853; Resigned at the beginning of the American Civil War, and became an Official of the Confederate States of America; in October 1862, Appointed Confederate Assistant Secretary of War by Confederate President Jefferson Davis; Served six months in a military prison at war's end; Secured a Pardon and resumed his law practice in New Orleans, where he opposed Reconstruction.	$600 - $800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
8		1893 Admiral & Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, Francis M. Ramsay’s Original Vellum Appointment as "Chief of the Bureau of Navigation." Signed by Grover Cleveland, 23rd & 24th United States President GROVER CLEVELAND (1837-1908). Twenty Second and Twenty Fourth President of the United States. (ADMIRAL FRANCIS MUNROE RAMSAY) (1835-1914) in the United States Navy who distinguished himself in the American Civil War, and who later served as the Commanding Officer Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy (1881-1886), Appointed “Commodore in the Navy” (1889) and the Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation (1893).	$2,800 - $3,200	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
9		1865 13th Amendment Printed Broadside Freeing Slaves Previously Unlisted & Apparently A Unique New Discovery (13TH AMENDMENT - UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION) c. 1865 13th Amendment to the Constitution of United States of America, Important Unlisted Contemporary Broadside Printing, Abolished Slavery, Freeing the Slaves and Ending Involuntary Servitude.	$18,000 - $24,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
10		1758 Seven Year’s War Pay Order :...for Sundrys to Thomas Cranston he hath bot for the present Expedition...” Signed by Thomas Cranston THOMAS CRANSTON (1710-1785). Thomas Cranston was an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from August 1763 to May 1764, and served as Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives at the time; the town of Cranston, Rhode Island was created in 1754 and historians believe either Cranston or his grandfather (or father) Samuel Cranston may be the namesake of Cranston. The first page of the first town record book of Cranston bears the inscription "the gift of Thomas Cranston to the town called Cranston."	$800 - $1,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
11		John Dahlgren Discusses Building Specifications of His Gun and the Ship “Niagara” Under Construction New Armaments JOHN ADOLPH DAHLGREN (1809-1870). Union Admiral, Inventor of the “Dahlgren Gun,” a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in naval gunnery. A friend President Abraham Lincoln, Dahlgren devised a smoothbore howitzer, adaptable for many sizes of craft and shore installations, known as the "father of American naval ordnance”.	$1,200 - $1,800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
12		Large Clipped Signature “Jefferson Davis” on Partial Sheet JEFFERSON “JEFF” DAVIS (1808-1889). American Statesman, President and Leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as the Confederate States of America President for the CSA’s entire Civil War Period history.	$400 - $600	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
13		Revolutionary War Patriots Henry Dearborn & James Lovell Signed Ship’s Customs Declaration for the Port of Boston HENRY DEARBORN (1751-1829). Continental Army General; Member of General George Washington's staff; present during the British Surrender at Yorktown; later U.S. Secretary of War under president Thomas Jefferson. JAMES LOVELL (1737-1814). A “Founding Father” of the United States; educator and statesman from Boston; a Delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress (1777-1782); a Signatory to the Articles of Confederation.	$500 - $600	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
14		Stephen Decatur Commander of the U.S. Frigate “United States” Certifies Prize Money Due a Deceased Sailor’s Wife STEPHEN DECATUR, Jr. (1779-1820). American Naval Officer notable for his heroism in the Barbary Wars and in the War of 1812; President Thomas Jefferson recommended he be promoted at age 25 on February 16, 1804, Decatur became he the Youngest Seaman to reach the Rank of Captain in the history of the United States Navy; Decatur was given Command of the frigate USS Constitution (October 28 to November 9, 1804); served under Three Presidents, and played a major role in the early development of the U.S. Navy; rising in rank to Commodore.	$3,500 - $4,500	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
15		1859 Declaration Independence Plaque by Samuel H. Black An Extremely Rare Large First Seen, Likely Unique, Major Variant “Negative Plate” Production Process Type (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - Dated 1859). The original “Negative Plate” Production Process Embossed Copper Metal Plaque, with the obverse of C. C. Wright's “Declaration of Independence” medal at center, elegantly engraved after the famous John Trumbull Painting of the occasion, by Samuel H. Black.	$3,000 - $4,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
16		1859 Declaration Independence Plaque by Samuel H. Black An Extremely Rare First Seen, Large Major Variant Type (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - Dated 1859). “Positive Plate” Final Production Process Completed Embossed Copper Metal Plaque, with the obverse of C. C. Wright's “Declaration of Independence” medal at center, elegantly engraved after the famous John Trumbull Painting of the occasion, by Samuel H. Black.	$2,000 - $3,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
17		Four “Hero of the Spanish-American War” 1899 Photos (GEORGE DEWEY) (1837-1917). Admiral and the “Hero of the Spanish-American War, wiping out the Spanish Fleet at Manila Bay with virtually no American casualties, less than a year before these photos were taken. His heroics jumped him in grade so that on March 2, 1899, he became the senior Admiral in the U.S. Navy with the rank “Admiral of the Navy” for life. His popularity also resulted in his becoming a presidential candidate in 1904.	$400 - $500	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
18		Rare 1772 Autograph Receipt Signed “Samuel Elbert” later Georgia militia Major General & Continental Brig. General SAMUEL ELBERT (1740-1788). Major General in the Georgia Militia; Brigadier General of the Continental Army 1783; American Merchant, and Politician from Savannah, Georgia; Fought in the Revolutionary War Commanding the Victorious American Colonial Forces in a Naval Battle near St. Simons Island, Georgia on April 19, 1778; an Original State of Georgia Member of the Society of the Cincinnati; Governor of Georgia in 1785.	$600 - $800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
19		July 31, 1776 Oliver Ellsworth Signed Connecticut Payment “for Arms bot. for the Troops...” Post “Declaration” Signing OLIVER ELLSWORTH (1745-1807). A Founding Father of the United States, attorney, jurist, politician, and diplomat; a Framer of the United States Constitution, United States Senator from Connecticut, and the Third Chief Justice of the United States; he received 11 electoral votes in the 1796 Presidential election.	$400 - $600	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
20		1780 Benjamin Edes Signed Extremely Rare Revolutionary War “Boston” Town - Treasury Interest Bearing Tax Loan Certificate: “for the Purpose of carrying on the War.” Signed by “David Jeffries” Deacon of Old South Church as Town Treasurer - Unknown Fiscal Form, Not Listed in Anderson BENJAMIN EDES (1732-1803). Benjamin Edes instigated and paid for the Boston Tea Party - and, to his death, guarded the secret list of all who participated, a.k.a. “FATHER OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY”; A FOUNDING MEMBER “THE SONS OF LIBERTY”; Bookseller, Printer, Publisher, Journalist, and Patriot; maintained the most radical of Boston newspapers in the period leading up to the American Revolution; a Founding Member of the “Loyall Nine” -- the group that eventually became “The Sons of Liberty”. DAVID JEFFRIES (1714-1784). Deacon of Old South Church and Town Treasurer of Boston during the Revolutionary War.	$6,000 - $8,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
21		Rare “J. Ericsson” Carte-de-visite Photograph Inscribed and Signed Engineer Designed and Built the Ironclad "Monitor" JOHN ERICSSON (1803-1889). Swedish-born American Naval Engineer Who Designed and Built the Civil War Union Navy Ironclad "Monitor."	$2,000 - $3,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
22		1852 Future Admiral and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy Francis M. Ramsay’s Original Ornate Vellum Commission as “Midshipman” Vividly Signed by “Millard Fillmore” as United States President MILLARD FILLMORE (1800-1874). 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. (ADMIRAL FRANCIS MUNROE RAMSAY) (1835-1914) in the United States Navy who distinguished himself in the American Civil War, and who later served as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation and as the Commanding Officer Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy (1881-1886), Appointed Commodore in the Navy (1889).	$3,500 - $4,500	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
23		1744 Benjamin Franklin Printed Book of Cicero’s “Cato Major, or his discourse of Old-Age: with Explanatory Notes” (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN) (1706-1790) Printer. 1744-Dated Colonial America, True First Edition Book titled, “M.T. Cicero’s Cato Major, or his discourse of Old-Age: with Explanatory Notes.”, Printed and Sold by Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, by Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.), Translated by Franklin’s old friend and secretary to William Penn, James Logan, Considered the “Pinnacle” of Franklin's Press, Complete, Very Fine.	$14,000 - $18,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
24		Major General Horatio Gates Signed Revolutionary War Autographed Orders Signed “Horatio Gates / Maj Genl” and “Given at the Camp at Bemis Heights 21st September 1777” A Call for Reinforcements that lead to American Victory at The Battle of Bemis Heights and Saratoga a “Turning Point” HORATIO GATES (1727-1806). American Major General during the Revolutionary War who took credit for the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga only after General Benedict Arnold, who led the attack, was finally forced from the field when he was shot in the leg and was blamed for the defeat at the Battle of Camden.	$3,000 - $4,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
25		1889 Future Admiral and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, Francis M. Ramsay’s Original Ornate Vellum Commission as “Commodore in the Navy.” Vividly Signed by Benjamin Harrison as United States President BENJAMIN HARRISON (1833-1901). Twenty-Third President of the United States (1889 to 1893); Grandson of the Ninth President, William Henry Harrison; Civil War brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers in 1865. (ADMIRAL FRANCIS MUNROE RAMSA,Y) (1835-1914) in the United States Navy who distinguished himself in the American Civil War, and who later served as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation and as the Commanding Officer Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy (1881-1886), Appointed “Commodore in the Navy” (1889).	$1,800 - $2,400	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
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