Archives International Auctions - Auction 118 November 17 & 18 2026

Archives International Auctions - Sale 118 81 November 17, 2026 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Ephemera - Insurance New York 397 397 Security Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1890-1910 Ephemera Lot Binghamton, NY. Lot includes 10 pieces, including: A brown folder for Policy Number 60854; Several Insurance payments for Policy Number 4278; An Agent’s Receipt for a policy exchange; Typewritten correspondence on Security Mutual Life Insurance Company letterhead, regarding insurance policies; Lot also includes an unissued Change of Beneficiary form from the company. Security Mutual Life Insurance Company was located in Binghamton, New York. (10) ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $20-40 Ephemera - Lottery Tickets New York 398 398 NY. Elmira Premium Land Sale for the Benefit of City Hospital, ca.1870-1880’s Issued Share - Lottery Certificate New York, ND (1870- 80s). Issued lottery certificate appearing to be a stock certificate to avoid having issues for gambling due to it actually being used as a lottery ticket of $3 exchanged for one share “in the distribution of the…Premium Land Sale.” Black text with black border on off-green paper, Building depicted at center. S/N 1917, Signed by S. G. Stryker. VF condition with some splitting at top right margin. ����������������������������������������������������� Est. $30-60 Ephemera - Texas 1850’s Land Grant Texas 399 399 Texas Land Grant, ca. 1850s Signed by Governor Elisha M. Pease Texas, ca. 1850s. Issued Land Grant signed by Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease, Partially printed with very faded handwriting that is difficult to read, Embossed seal at bottom left, the date of ca. 1840s at bottom right appears to have been written over, likely with a date from the 1850s. The writing likely describes and outlines the parameters of the land being granted by the Governor. VG condition with damage at center fold lines, toning, and staining. Elisha Marshall Pease ( January 3, 1812 - August 26, 1883) served as the fifth and 13th governor of Texas. A native of Enfield, Connecticut, Pease moved to Mexican Texas in 1835. He soon became active in the Texas independence movement and after the Texas Revolution began, Pease became the secretary of the provisional government. Following the annexation of Texas to the United States, Pease was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1845 and reelected in 1847. In 1849, he ran for the Texas Senate from District 11 (Brazoria and Galveston counties) but lost to John B. Jones who was sworn in on November 5, 1849. Pease contested the election, was declared the winner, and was sworn in four days later on November 9, 1849. Pease was elected governor in 1853 and 1855. During the American Civil War, Pease sided with the Union but kept ten enslaved people at Pease’s Austin plantation in 1860. After the war, he became a leader in the state Republican Party and was appointed as the civilian governor of Texas in 1867 by General Philip H. Sheridan, who was the military head of the Reconstruction government. Interesting piece of Texas history. ������������������� Est. $180-250 Ephemera - Transportation Mississippi 400 400 MS. Group Lot of Southern Yacht Club Tickets and Clinton and Port Hudson Rail Road Company Promissory Note, 1840–1888 Mississippi..., A small group lot of Mississippi ephemera. Includes a pair of Southern Yacht Club tickets, Season of 1888, issued to Mr. C.H. Jackson and marked “Not Transferable” — a Family Ticket printed in blue with the club’s burgee and sailboat vignette, and a Members Ticket printed in red with matching burgee seal; the Southern Yacht Club, founded in Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1849, is the second-oldest yacht club in the United States. Also included is a twelve-month promissory note for $462, dated Jackson, January 22, 1840, promising payment to the order of John Catlett for value received, made payable and negotiable at the office of the Clinton and Port Hudson Rail Road Company in Jackson, bearing a wax seal and endorsed on its reverse by John Catlett. The Clinton and Port Hudson was among the earliest railroad ventures chartered in Mississippi, and notes of this type were a common financing tool for such lines, used to compensate landowners or investors with secured paper before the road had steady revenue. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $160-280