Archives International Auctions Auction 103 June 11, 2025

Archives International Auctions - Sale 103 89 June 11, 2025 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Ephemera - Fruit Box & Tobacco Labels 392 392 Tobacco and Fruit Box Labels, Correspondence, and Stock/Bond Collection, 1840s to 1880s NY. SC. Lot of 6 Items, Includes: Crusader Tobacco poster, Lincoln Brand Sunkist Oranges poster; g. w. Carpenter & Co. Chemical Warehouse, 1856, Correspondence on company letterhead; Canal Interoceanique de Panama, 1880, Coupon Cert.; New York Comptroller’s Office $3000 Cancelled Bond; State of South Carolina, 1869, $1000 I/U Coupon Bond. Items range from VF to AU condition. (6). Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted. ������������������������������������������������������ Est. $75-120 Ephemera - Historic California Gold Rush Era and Navigation Documents California 393 393 CA. City & County of San Francisco, 1861 Deposition in a Insurance Letter About a Lost Ship. San Francisco, California, 1861. Handwritten Duplicate Copy of a Deposition stating that Charles R. Story, “sole owner” of the ship the Brig Dudley, attests that the ship and its $3000 worth of cargo in lumber never reached her port of destination of Melbourne, Australia. The ship left Humboldt Bay, San Francisco, California in September 1858. She docked at Port de France in New Caledonia in August of 1859, bound for Melbourne but never arrived or was seen of again. The owner swears in the deposition that the ship had never arrived. The ship was insured by the Mutual Insurance Company of New York. Black handwriting on very thin off-blue paper, Red embossed seal on back. Fine to VF condition. ������������������������ Est. $200-350 Ephemera - Historic Political Pennsylvania & New York 394 394 ErieCanal 1845, I/C Bond and 1856ManhattanCompany Payment Receipt for 4 Bonds to Enlarge the Erie Canal. Pennsylvania & New York, 1845 and 1856. Lot of 2 pieces, Includes: 1845, Erie Canal Company $75 I/C 6% Bond, Black text with black border on light blue paper, allegorical women at left and right, Canal image at top center, Handwritten list of interest payments, VF condition; and, 1856, Manhattan Company, State of New-York, Transfer Office, $70,000 “being in full payment of 4 certain Certificates, issued...for the Enlargement of the Erie Canal,” VF condition. The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east-west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians. In effect, the canal accelerated the settlement of the Great Lakes region, the westward expansion of the United States, and the economic ascendancy of New York State. It has been called “The Nation’s First Superhighway.” (2) ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $200-350 Ephemera - Historic Political New York 395 395 NY. Historic 1863 Handwritten Letter from Washington Hunt to New York Governor Horatio Seymour Discussing the Erie Canal. Lockport, New York. April 18, 1863. Letter from Washington Hunt to New York Governor Horatio Seymour, several pages long and in black handwriting. This piece discusses the Chicago Canal Convention of 1863 and the Erie Canal, as well as briefly mentions the ongoing Civil War. Washington Hunt takes a grim view of the Canal Convention, stating that it is his belief that “they will propose things which the General Government has neither the financial ability or the Constitutional power to perform.” He continues to write, “We have just finished the Erie Canal enlargement, it will be found sufficient for the trade in some years to come...The Canal is...the property of New York and we cannot allow other states to have any partnership in it even by implication. Let us have something that we can call our own, untouched by Federal interference.” This document highlights the different political perspectives between the two politicians, as Hunt admits that he took the liberty to make these suggestions to Governor Seymour. He is particularly concerned about New York State’s rights, and ends the letter with a plead to not “reduce the State to a mere satellite of the central government.” Washington Hunt (August 5, 1811 - February 2, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician. In his last years, Hunt moved increasingly closer to the Democrats, endorsing his two-time opponent, Horatio Seymour for the New York gubernatorial race in 1862 and supporting George McClellan for the presidency at the 1864 Democratic National Convention. Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 - February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 presidential election, won by Republican, General Ulysses S. Grant. Fascinating piece of history related to two political figures and New York Governors who opposed each other in elections more than once, but clearly had a communicative relationship. Rare and unique document. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $350-700