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American History: Live Salesroom Auction

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., Este Ave 6270, Cincinnati OH 45232, United States
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Date of the auction: 18.11.2016

Lot number 1
Eleazar Huntington, Declaration of Independence

Single sheet, 18.5 x 24 in., at bottom "Engraved by E. Huntington." At present framed and glazed...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$2,460
Lot number 2
John Hancock Signed Commission Appointing Clement Biddle an Officer in the...

Hancock, John (1737-1793). President of the Continental Congress (1775-1777); first signer of the...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
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US$18,000
Lot number 3
Clement Biddle ALS, 1778

Biddle, Clement (1740-1814). Philadelphia merchant, liberal Quaker, and early supporter of the...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$360
Lot number 4
Francis Lightfoot Lee, Revolutionary War-Dated ALS, 1783

Lee, Francis Lightfoot (1734-1797). Political leader during the American Revolution, signer of the...

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US$7,200
Lot number 5
Samuel Adams ALS, 1777

Adams, Samuel (1722-1803). American Founding Father who helped organize the Boston Tea Party and...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$28,800
Lot number 6
Patrick Henry Land Grant Signed as Governor of Virginia, 1785

Henry, Patrick (1736-1799). Governor of Virginia (1776-1779, 1784-1786). Partially printed DS, 1p...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$570
Lot number 7
Alexander Hamilton ALS, September 1794

Hamilton, Alexander (1755-1804). United States Founding Father; first Secretary of the Treasury...

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Price realised:
US$3,120
Lot number 8
John Jay DS, 1796

Jay, John (1745-1829). Founding father, an author of the Federalist Papers, and first Chief Justice...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$720
Lot number 9
Signers of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, Autograph...

Lot of 8, including: Read, George (1733-1798), Represented Delaware and went on to the...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$900
Lot number 10
Friedrich von Steuben ALS, 1790

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich, Ferdinand von (1730-1794). Prussian-born baron and...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$4,200
Lot number 11
Friedrich von Steuben Signed Check, 1791

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich, Ferdinand von (1730-1794). Prussian-born baron and...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$510
Lot number 12
Marquis de Lafayette, War-Dated ADS, January 1778

Lafayette, Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834). Revolutionary War general, French statesman...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$3,360
Lot number 13
Marquis de Lafayette ALS, 1828

Lafayette, Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834). Revolutionary War general, French statesman...

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Price realised:
US$450
Lot number 15
A Revolutionary Relic Broadside, A Sermon Preached on the Eve of the Battle...

Printed broadside, 11.5 x 15.5 in., headed, A Revolutionary Relic/ A Sermon Preached on the Eve of...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$600
Lot number 16
David Humphreys LS Regarding Barbary Affairs, July 1800, Plus

Humphreys, David (1752-1818). Revolutionary War colonel and aide-de-camp to Washington. American...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$900
Lot number 17
War of 1812-Period Letter from Cadiz, Spain to Henry Ward of Wall Street...

Hall, Charles H. ALS, 3pp, 7.75 x 10 in., Cadiz, Spain. July 11, 1812. Addressed to Henry Ward, Wall...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$540
Lot number 18
USS Lawrence Relic Cane

Oak cane, 34.5 in. ln., 2 in. ferrule. Approx. 4 in. below the handle, a silver plaque is inscribed...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,440
Lot number 19
Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore Perry's Flagship Niagara, Oak Relic Gavel

Oak relic in the form of a gavel, with a metal band tacked along each edge of the barrel-shaped...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,080
Lot number 20
Quarter Plate Daguerreotype of Colonel Andrew McClain, Plus Pennsylvania...

Lot of 3, featuring quarter plate daguerreotype of a bearded officer, sword in hand, his shako with...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,169
Lot number 21
Texas Ranger, Mexican War Major, and Confederate General Benjamin...

Benjamin McCulloch (1811-1862) was a Tennessee-born Texas settler who fought in American battles far...

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,680
Lot number 22
Benjamin McCulloch, Two Albumen Prints by Marks, Austin, Texas, Ca 1860

Lot of 2 retouched albumen studio views of Benjamin McCulloch in formal dress, the first 7 x 8.75...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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Price realised:
US$1,920
Lot number 23
Benjamin McCulloch, Ninth Plate Tintype

Ninth plate tintype of Confederate Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch, housed in full, pressed...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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Price realised:
US$3,000
Lot number 24
The Life and Services of Gen. Ben McCulloch, by Victor M. Rose, 1888...

Rose, Victor. The Life and Services of Gen. Ben McCulloch. Philadelphia: Pictorial Bureau of the...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,200
Lot number 25
Ninth Plate Ambrotype of Confederate Officer, Possibly Henry Eustace McCulloch

Lot of 2, featuring a ninth plate ambrotype of a Confederate officer in uniform, his buttons lightly...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$677
Lot number 26
Civil War Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of CSA Soldier John Weir, 1st...

Lot of 2, featuring sixth plate ruby ambrotype of a bearded gentleman wearing block A buttons...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,107
Lot number 27
Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Civil War & Indian Wars-Era Officer Lawrence...

Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lt. Lawrence Sprague Babbitt 1839-1903, as identified on typed paper...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$270
Lot number 28
Civil War Half Plate Tintype of Soldiers at Camp, Some Smoking Pipes

Uncased, half plate outdoor tintype of seven unidentified soldiers in uniform, their buttons...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 18 Nov 2016
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n. a.
Price realised:
US$900
Lot number 29
Civil War Quarter Plate Tintype of Cigar Smoking Pards

Quarter plate tintype of what may be three brothers or three friends. The soldier standing at right...

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Lot number 30
Civil War Quarter Plate Tintype of Six Soldiers and a Friend

Quarter plate tintype portrait taken in a simple studio setting, featuring a captain seated in the...

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Lot number 31
Civil War Quarter Plate Tintype of Soldier with Pistol

Quarter plate tintype of a soldier standing stiffly with his right hand resting uncomfortably on his...

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