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Autographs
Lot	Image	Description	Estimate Range	Bidding Status
51		“America” Samuel Francis Smith Signed and Dated First Four Stanzas of American Patriotic Song “My Country 'Tis of Thee” SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH (1808-1895). American clergyman and poet, author of our nation hymn "America" (1832), otherwise known as 'My Country 'Tis of Thee'.	$3,000 - $4,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
52		Revolutionary War General “Walter Stewart” Signed 1793 Insurance Policy for the Cargo of the Schooner “Fly” WALTER STEWART (1756-1796). Continental Army and Pennsylvania Brevet Brigadier General in the Revolutionary War; Aide-de-Camp to Gates; Stewart’s full-length Portrait shown within the famous historic Oil Painting by Colonel John Trumbull of the “Surrender of Cornwallis” at Yorktown, his image on the left of the line of the American officers.	$600 - $800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
53		Military Appointment Signed “Wm H Taft” as President WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930). 27th President of the United States, 42nd Secretary of War (1904-1908) and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930), the Only Person to have held both offices.	$550 - $650	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
54		Rare “Hidecki Tojo” and “Mamoru Shigemitsu” Signed Post-World War II Photographs a Collection of Four Items HIDECKI TOJO (1884-1948). Japanese Major General of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for most of World War II. "The Japanese Admiral who approved the attack on Pearl Harbor. He attempted suicide in September 1945, but was arrested by the Allies, tried as a war criminal, convicted, and executed" -- W.M.	$1,000 - $2,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
55		Japanese Major General HIDECKI TOJO who served as Prime Minister of Japan & BARON HIRANUMA KIICHIRO Senior Advisor to Emperor Hirohito & MAMORU SHIGEMITSU Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs & SHIGETARO SHIMADA Japanese Admiral who Approved the Plans for the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Signed Japanese Flag by Four top World War II Japanese Officials HIDECKI TOJO (1884-1948). Japanese Major General of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for most of World War II. BARON HIRANUMA KIICHIRO (1867-1952). Senior Advisor to Emperor Hirohito during World War II. MAMORU SHIGEMITSU, (1881-1957). Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs at the end of World War II, One of the Signers of the Instrument of Surrender September 2, 1945. SHIGETARO SHIMADA (1883-1976). Japanese Admiral, Approved the Plans for the Attack on Pearl Harbor.	$3,500 - $4,500	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
56		Exceptional Content Captain of the Confederate States Navy Flag Ship “Charleston” John Randolph Tucker’s Autograph Letter Signed to CSA General P.G.T. Beauregard Dec. 1864 JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER (1812-1883). Captain, Confederate States Navy, Commander Tucker resigned from the U.S. Navy when Virginia Seceded from the Union in April 1861, becoming a Commander in the Virginia Navy and, in June, the entire Confederate Navy; became Commander of the Confederate warships at Charleston in March 1863, remaining in that post until the City of Charleston fell in February 1865.	$1,800 - $2,400	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
57		“Canvass White” Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Erie Canal, he later Provided the Foundation for the Statue of Liberty and the West Wing of the White House, American Pioneering Engineer, Inventor of a superior quality Waterproof Hydraulic “Rosendale” Cement widely Used CANVASS WHITE (1790-1834). American Engineer and Inventor, he was Chief Engineer at the Delaware and Raritan Canal; Erie Canal, he patented Rosendale Cement, which became the dominant superior quality cement used in the United States until 1900, Engineer on the Erie Canal.	$800 - $1,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
58		“Woodrow Wilson” as President “It is with deepest and most genuine regret that I accept your resignation from the Federal Trade Commission...” WOODROW WILSON, (1856-1924). 28th President of the United States (1913-1921).	$600 - $800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
59		Inscribed & Signed Photograph of JOHN A. WINSLOW, Commander of the Union Ship “Kearsarge” Which Sank the Confederate Ship “Alabama” in 1864 JOHN A. WINSLOW (1811-1873). Commander of the Union Ship “Kearsarge” Which Sank the Confederate Ship “Alabama” in 1864.	$1,800 - $2,400	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
60		January 13, 1791 Oliver Wolcott, Jr. Signed Treasury Document as Treasury Department Auditor Confirming that “Certificates of Public Debt” of $7,286.49 are Genuine per “Loan proposed by the Act of Congress of the 4th of August 1790 - To be settled at the Treasury or by the Commissioner of Loans for the State of Maryland” OLIVER WOLCOTT, JR. (1760 - 1833). American politician from Connecticut who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury (1795-1800) after Alexander Hamilton and the long serving 24th Governor of Connecticut (1817-1827).	$800 - $1,200	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
Colonial America
Lot	Image	Description	Estimate Range	Bidding Status
61		Rare 1726 Colonial Boston Printed Book: “Practical Discourses on Death, Judgement, Heaven & Hell...” by John Webb, 1726-Dated, Hardcover Book fully titled: “Practical Discourses on Death, Judgement, Heaven & Hell. In twenty-four sermons. By John Webb, M.A. Pastor of a church in Boston. By John Webb (1687-1750), Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726], Boston, Fine.	$1,800 - $2,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
62		1745 Reference Book “An Historical Account of English Money From The Conquest, to the Present Time; Including Those of Scotland, from the Union of the Two Kingdoms in King JAMES I.” By Stephen Martin-Leake, Esq; LONDON Stephen Martin-Leake, Author, Reference titled: “An Historical Account of English Money, From the Conquest to the Present Time; Including Those of Scotland, From the Accession of James I to the Union of the Two Kingdoms.” London, Complete, Fine.	$1,200 - $1,600	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
63		“A Prospective View of the Town of BOSTON, the Capitol of New England ; and of the Landing of ---- Troops in the Year 1768, in Consequence of Letters from Gov. Bernard, the Commissioners, & c. to the British Ministry. - EDES & GILL’s North - American ALMANACK For the Year 1770” Paul Revere’s Historic Engraved Print of the British Troops Landing at Boston Harbor per the British “Intolerable Acts” REVERE, PAUL (1735-1818, artist). Edes & Gill's North-American Almanack, and Massachusetts Register for the Year 1770. Boston: sold by Edes and Gill in Queen Street and T. & J. Fleet at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, 1770, (printed in 1769 for the coming year 1770).	$15,000 - $20,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
64		1797 History Book Titled “A Complete History of Connecticut...”, by Benjamin Trumbull, D.D., Hartford, CT. 1797-Dated Federal Period, First Edition Hardcover Book titled, “A Complete History of Connecticut Civil and Ecclesiastical from the Emigration of its First Planters from ENGLAND, in MDCXXX to MDCCXIII ..” (1630 to 1713), by Benjamin Trumbull, D.D., Vol I of II, Published in conformity to Act of Congress, Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, Complete, Fine.	$300 - $400	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
65		“Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall Market or, Peter Faneuil and his Gift” Embellished with 36 Illustrations a First Edition 1900-Dated, First Edition Book “Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall Market or, Peter Faneuil and his Gift”, by Abram English Brown, Very Fine.	$120 - $180	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
66		NGC Certified 1595G F Spain 4 Reale Very Fine Details 1595G F Spain Silver 4 Reales, Granada Cayon-3867, NGC graded VF Details Damaged.	$600 - $800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
67		“An Act to prohibit the Selling of Rum, and other strong Liquors, to the Indians; and to trevent the Abuses that may hapen thereby.” Pennsylvania Act, William Penn Mentioned c. 1734 Colonial America Printed, “An Act to prohibit the Selling of Rum, and other strong Liquors, to the Indians; and to trevent the Abuses that may hapen thereby.,” Pennsylvania, Choice Crisp Very Fine.	$600 - $800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
68		1724 Boston Property Taxes for “Robert Dobney” Known for His Piracy Related as Executioner Assistance Activities (ROBERT DOBNEY). Boston “Executioner” Merchant (of death), paid by the Province: “To Makeing of the Chaines for John Rose Archer one of the (two Executed) Pyrats and hire of a man to help fix him on the Gebbet att Brid (Bird) Island. Assisting in the Chaining and Execution of documented Pirate(s), with the Executed Quarter Master then hung by his chains for a week, placed on display as a deterrent to others considering Piracy.	$1,800 - $2,000	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
69		“Account of Subsistance 18th Royal Regiment of Foot of Ireland Philadelphia October 24, 1767” This Regiment Participated at Lexington & Concord and at Bunker Hill October 24, 1767-Dated, “Quartering Act” a British Stamp Act Period, Manuscript Document Signed, Account of Subsistance (sic) 18th Royal Regiment of Foot of Ireland, while Garrisoned at Philadelphia, Choice Extremely Fine.	$1,200 - $1,800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
70		(1773) British Act of Parliament “Museum - Lottery” Ticket (1773) British Museum “Museum-Lottery” Ticket Signed, “Jasper Jay”, Plate A, Britain, Choice Extremely Fine.	$400 - $500	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
71		Ornate Hand-crafted Six-Sided Panel Tin Candle Lantern c. 1800 Federal Period, Large Ornate Hand-crafted Six-Sided Glass Panel Tin Candle Lantern, Fine.	$400 - $500	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
72		Important 1770 BOSTON-GAZETTE Referencing the “Non-Importation Act” with PAUL REVERE’s Masthead September 10, 1770-Dated Newspaper, “BOSTON-GAZETTE And Country Journal” with a Masthead Engraved by PAUL REVERE, Referencing the Non-Importation Act, Monday, No. 805, Printed by Edes & Gill (Boston), measuring about 9.25" x 15.5"; 4 pages, Complete, Fine.	$1,800 - $2,800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
73		16th Century "RAVEN'S CLAW" Iron Torture Tongs 16th Century, "RAVEN'S CLAW", Iron pinching jaws TORTURE TONGS, used for horrific torturing women and men by applying the 10.4 inches long device’s metal pinching “jaws or claw” like clamps onto various exposed areas of the body, Choice Very Fine.	$1,400 - $1,800	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
74		Horrific 16th Century Iron Torture Tongs with Fang Jaws 16th Century, Rare Hand-Wrought Iron Torture Tongs with Fang Jaws, fully about 29.5” long with the fang jaws 1.25” wide, Choice Very Fine.	$1,000 - $1,500	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
75		Museum Quality American English Oak “Fall Front” Box Identified from the Thomas Huckins House Barnstable, MA. c. 1700 Early American Colonial Era, Hand-Carved and Built English Oak, Fall Front Box, Identified as being from the Thomas Huckins House Barnstable, MA., Choice Very Fine.	$1,800 - $2,400	Bidding is OPEN for this lot. Click HERE to place your bid.
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