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Archives International Auctions
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June 25, 2015
Archives International Auctions
www.archivesinternational.comCHECKS & DRAFTS - FOOD
399
399 Frank Crawford, Butter and Eggs, 1908.NewYork. FrankCrawford,
Merchant in Butter and Eggs. Aetna National Bank form.������ Est.
$75-150
CHECKS & DRAFTS - SAMPLES &
PROOFS
400
400 Check samples, intaglio or lithographic proofs, ca.1890-1920’sCheck samples in black on white paper or card stock. Various
sizes. 1880s-1900s. Some with bold designs. Mercantile National
Bank; Chemical National bank; Bank of New York; Union Square
Bank; Bowery Bank of New York; Corn Exchange Bank; United
States Mortgage & Trust Co.; Nineteenth Ward Bank; Germania
Bank; Seventh Ward Bank; Phenix National Bank; Astor Place
Bank; National City Bank; Columbia Trust Co.; Bank of the
Manhattan Company; Washington Trust Co. Union Square Bank,
Murray Hill Bank. Variety of sizes, most with trim marks evident.
23 pieces. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������Est.
$150-300
CORRESPONDENCE
401 401 Correspondence and Letters - Ernest Laubenheimer, ca.1870- 1920’sA lifetime of letters and correspondence. Regarding Ernest
Laubenheimer. Early drawings of ships and on-board ship life.
Lithographers union notice, references, letter of termination,
watercolors, account books, notes on job projects and length of time
it takes to do them. Many items. �����������������������������������������Est.
$150-300
Philippines
402
402 Post Spanish-American Era War Correspondence from William Dietz in the Philippines to Ernest Laubenheimer, ca.1898- 1903 With Postal CoversCorrespondence of William Dietz to
Ernst Laubenheimer. Includes a carte-de-viste of William Dietz
in uniform taken by Fotografia Pertierra in Manila. Dietz served in
Co. E., Engineer Corps. U.S. Army, starting in January 1900, thru
November 1902 when he is back stateside in California (a further
letter states that he was discharged in February 1903.) Lastly a
postcard from Dietz dated 1915. The Philippine correspondence
consists of 12 letters written from Caloocan, Angeles, Povac, Santa
Anna or San Fernando all in the Philippines and Benicia, Calif.,
all with their embossed stamped envelopes (one cut corner).
The topics of the letters deal with the travel over from the states,
housing, weather, impressions of the “natives”, how the friars pump
up them full of religion, locals dressing up for the Cock-fights, the
local girls and some of the trouble they can cause; roadbuilding
projects near Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon (including a drawing of
a stone arched bridge); the diet and pay of the natives; invasion of
grasshoppers on a rice field; food customs of the natives and prices
for mangos and chickens; laziness of some; money exchange, US for
Mexican 1:2 ratio, in the hospital with an abscess, a mule drinking
holy water from the church, cholera, the return to the states
via Nagasaki. Finally, an old address book page with a Peekskill
contact.���������������������������������������������������������������������������Est.
$2000-3000
DIE SINKING & ENGRAVING
New York
403
403 Ernst Laubenheimer Copper plates, ca.1890-1920’sThree
copper visiting card plates. Plus another for Frederick Kald[].
4 pieces.������������������������������������������������������������������������������Est.
$100-200