2010, American History, Including the Civil War

 
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    Lot #7
    A horizontal view of Colby uniformed in ubiquitous green frock coat kneeling with an early civilian target rifle with telescopic sight adopted for use by Berdan’s famous Sharpshooters. Scratched on th ...
    Price Realized: $2,232.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #8
    A fine, 14Kt gold bracelet, with a linked gold band, featuring an oval locket containing an ambrotype of a Federal officer. The cover lid of the locket is engraved with an officer on a rearing horse, ...
    Price Realized: $1,410.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #9
    A fine portrait of an unidentified captain with stylish chin whiskers holding a silver-hilted presentation sword for the camera. He wears a standard nine-button frock coat casually unbuttoned and off ...
    Price Realized: $763.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #10
    A fine tintype portrait of a cavalryman wearing a yellow-trimmed cavalry shell jacket, armed with a rare, first model Burnside carbine, a Colt M1860 Army revolver in his belt, and a cavalry sabre wear ...
    Price Realized: $940.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #12
    A tintype portrait of an unidentified high ranking Confederate officer; half plate housed in a half case.

    This is indeed a colonel dating to sometime after February 1861 when the Provisional A ...
    Price Realized: $4,112.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #13
    Lot of 2 daguerreotypes of Confederate Navy surgeon Dr. William Fairlie Patton, including a half-plate of the doctor sitting at a desk with pen in hand, housed in a full geometric thermoplastic case, ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #14
    A sixth plate ambrotype of an unidentified Confederate lieutenant colonel and a CDV of a Confederate major identified in modern ink as “Alexander Fielding Browne.” Both images come from the sa ...
    Price Realized: $881.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #15
    Likely unpublished and rare, no backmark, captioned “The Deserters Fate” in symbolic red ink beneath dead soldier propped against a crude coffin. A disturbing photograph framing the corpse of ...
    Price Realized: $2,467.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #16
    Comprising 15 ink signed officers with 4 more unidentified captains/lieutenants plus one anonymous female, all once part of an album. The identified 2nd New Jersey men are: Lt. Colonel Charles Wie ...
    Price Realized: $1,880.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #17
    Photograph with imprint of Black & Case / Boston & Newport, R.I. with handwritten notes on verso.

    Harvard educated Robert Shaw (1837-1863), son of a prominent Boston abolitionist famil ...
    Price Realized: $2,350.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #19
    No back mark, without any identification. The camera captured an austere but clean, airy hospital ward with two rows of twenty four mostly ambulatory patients seated at the end of their beds. The ab ...
    Price Realized: $440.63 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #20
    An immediate post-war compilation comprising 50 commercial cartes, predominantly engravings (E) mixed with heavily retouched copy cdvs (CC) and lithographs (L), many with “E. & H.T. Anthony” backmarks ...
    Price Realized: $2,350.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #21
    Lot of 2, including post-Civil War cdv of Lee by C.E. Jones & Vanerson of Richmond, pencil inscribed Custis Lee on the image, and 2 page autographed letter signed G.W.C. Lee and dated
    Price Realized: $440.63 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #22
    Lot of 2. Cdv of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's grave with backmark of Michael Miley of Lexington, VA. With an account sheet of Nelson Myers from Miley's studio, approx. 4 x 8.5 in., dated 3 Jan. 1897 a ...
    Price Realized: $470.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #23
    A published view of Semmes seated with arm resting on draped first pattern Confederate National Flag. One of at least three views from the same sitting, this is an early photograph of the flamboyant ...
    Price Realized: $822.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #24
    Lot of 2, both full plate albumen photographs, approx. 10" x 13 in., on 16 x 20 in. cream card stock imprinted with Brady's Pennsylvania Ave. address and Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Washington ...
    Price Realized: $3,818.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #25
    Lot of seven full plate albumen photographs, approx. 10.25 x 13 in., on 16 x 20 in. cream card stock imprinted with Brady & Co.'s Pennsylvania Ave. address and Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Wash ...
    Price Realized: $5,287.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #26
    Lot of 2 photographs, the first an exterior view with printed title on mount below image Scouts and Guides / Attached to General Grant's Army operating against Richmond. April 29th, 1864., 20 x ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #27
    Lot of 6, including two 6.75 x 8.75 in. albumen photographs, one on a 8.5 x 10.75 in. cream A. Gardner, Photographer, Washington printed mount, pencil inscribed Bvt Maj Genl Patrick & Staff< ...
    Price Realized: $2,350.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #28
    A large format albumen photograph of Maryland Partisan Ranger, Harry Gilmor, dressed in uniform with a sword in his hand, unmarked, 9.25 x 12.5 in., matted and framed, 15 x 18.25 in.

    Gilmor wa ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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