Ephemera - Southern
Louisiana
1009 State of Louisiana, City of New Orleans State Property Tax
form for 1861 Taxes Including Slaves.
New Orleans, LA,
February 1st, 1861, Black on light blue paper, Includes partially print<
ed date of 186x with the numeral “1” handwritten in with list of tax<
able items on back including “Poll Tax”; “Slaves”; and “Real Estate”,
from the Collector’s Office < Second District; XF condition and
signed by the State Tax Collector. Scarce Slave related New Orleans
tax documents from pre<Union Occupation. Printed by Paulin Durel,
printer, Chartres St. (N.O.).
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...................................
EST. $250;500
Massachusetts
1010 Pilgrim Society Oversized Unissued Membership
Certificate.
Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1820. Unissued member<
ship certificate. Black print with black underprint. Large monument
by the ocean in center flanked to either side by allegorical women
with cherubs, Massachusetts State seal on left with Plymouth seal
bottom center, Scenes of Pilgrims in Plymouth bottom left and
right. VF condition. Engraved by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson
New York.
(PH)
............................................................
EST. $100;200
Michigan
1011 Miscellaneous Ephemera, Scripophily, Postcard and Check
Lot of Interesting Michigan Items.
Includes 5 Stocks,
Miscellaneous Postcards including a real photo ca. 1920<30’s
Osceola, MI street image; various issued checks and ephemera.
Condition varies between VG to AU.
(PH)
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EST. $80;160
Ephemera - Historical
New York
1012 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.
(PH)
EST. $120;240
1009
1012
Ephemera - Insurance
Germany
1013 Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, ND
ca.1890’s Specimen Insurance Policy.
Germany, Specimen poli<
cy entirely in German, Amazing vignette on top face, XF condition,
Scarce German Insurance Policy, ABNC.
(PH)
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EST. $60;120
Ephemera - Military
Antartic
1014 Original “Airdevron Six” Uniform Patch from Historic
Antarctic Navy Air Squadron ca. 1955.
Cloth Patch, 3 x 4 inches,
black, white, red, blue and yellow with image of penguin drinking
booze and smoking a cigar with “Puckered Penguin” listed below
and “Airdevron Six on top. Rough on the edges where removed and
a few very small stains, still a historic military item. Air Development
Squadron Six (VX<6 or AIRDEVRON SIX, commonly referred to by
its nickname, “puckered penguins” was a United States Navy Air
Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
Established at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland on 17
January 1955, the squadron’s mission was to conduct operations in
support of Operation Deep Freeze, the operational component of
the United States Antarctic Program.
(PH)
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EST. $120;240
1013
1014
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