New York
627 Quartermaster’s Office Receipt for Capture of Deserter from
121 Reg’t, NY.
New York, January 21, 1865, Issued
Quartermaster’s Office receipt for the payment of $30 reward for
the arrest and return of a deserter from the 121st Regiment, New
York to the Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General, New York
City, of Private Joseph Grey. Signed by Capt. and Ass’t
Quartermaster, U.S. Army. VF condition. (Photo in Back)
Est $60-120
Texas
628 Texas, 1866 Civil War Era Loyalty Oath.
Galveston, Texas. June
25, 1866. Vignette of patriotic eagle. Text of the certificates reads “
I, James (Teinrman?) do solemnly swear, in the presence of
Almighty God, that I will faithfully support, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States there-
under and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support
all Laws and Proclamations which have been made during the exist-
ing Rebellion with reference to the Emancipation of Slaves - So help
me God”. Signed and dated Signed by Edward T. Austin, chief
Justice, Galveston County Texas. Printed by Flake’s Bulletin Steam
Job Press. Light toning of paper and one horizontal fold in middle,
otherwise in XF condition. Evidently Confederate Soldier’s coming
back from the war were required to sign a loyalty oath. Historic and
rare. ...........................................................................
Est $250-500
Ephemera - Expositions
Pennsylvania
629 United States Centennial Exhibition Memorial Certificate,
1876.
1876, Memorial Certificate given to people who went to the
International Exhibition at the U.S. Centennial Exhibition in
Philadelphia in 1876, Eagle bottom center flanked by portraits of
Washington and Grant- Elaborate vignette of 4 resting allegorical
women top center with Memorial Hall and Main building in upper
left and right corners, VF condition with some staining and splitting
around the edges, Major & Knapp Co. (Photo in Back)
Est $75-150
Ephemera - Government
Illinois
630 United States Post Office Receipt, 1840.
Groveland, Illinois.
United States Post Office Receipt for $17. 26 1/2 cents, Fine condi-
tion with some splitting and staining. Great piece of post office his-
tory. (Photo in Back) .................................................
Est $25-50
Ephemera - Historical
England
631 Southseas Related Power of Attorney, 1720.
England, 1720,
Original Southseas related Power of Attorney mounted on paper,
Power of Attorney allows this individual to “Sell, Assign and
Transfer to any Person or persons all or any part of the Shares which
I now have or hereafter shall have in the capital stock of the
Governor and Company of Merchants of great Britain Trading to the
South Seas and other parts of America and for Encouraging the
Fishery...”, VF condition. ...........................................
Est $750-1500
628
631
New York
632 New York $1000 Bail Bond, 1799.
New York, 1799, $1000 Bail
Bond, “Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if the
said Theodous Albert Adriance shall remain a true and faithful pris-
oner and shall not at anytime or in any (?) escape or go without the
limits of the said liberties until discharged by due course of the law
and shall at the request of the said James Morris surrender himself
to the said prison then the above obligation to be void or else to be
and remain in full force and virtue.” VF condition. .....
Est $250-500
New York, Hawaii
633 Collection of Original Unpublished James B. Pond Photos
along with signed card by Cyril Clemens founder of the
International Mark Twain Soc.
New York, “Pond Announcement
of Attractions 1927-1928 The Pond Bureau”, Catalogue of lectures
and presenters in VF condition, 5 unpublished photos by James B.
Pond featuring Mark Twain, 1) Mark Twain on the Seattle-Tacoma
boat S.S. Flyer (1895), 2) Mark Twain and his nephew aboard the
S.S. Flyer (1895), 3) Mark Twain sailing to Australia (1895), 4) Mark
Twain riding in Locomotive engine (1895) (Hawaii), 5) Twain being
interviewed on Columbia River ferry Portland, Oregon (1895). Mark
Twain and G. Cable photograph (1884) on cardboard. Also included
a Cyril Clemens (Samuel’s Son), signed letter on his personal letter-
head as President of the International Mark Twain Society,
VF. .............................................................................
Est $250-500
Ephemera - Maps
England
634 Oxford, England: “Oxoniensis” County map, 1637
England,
1637, map based on work of Christopher Saxton and John Norden
and engraved by William Hole, beautifully tinted. .....
Est $350-500
632
633
634
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Archives International Auctions, Part XV
June 4, 2013
Archives International Auctions
