12/2/2011 - American History, Including the Civil War

 
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    Lot #1
    6.75 x 8.25 in. broadside, addressed To the Citizens of Philadelphia and dated Oct. 27, 1780. [not in Evans] The broadside states: On Wednesday arrived Mr. James Mease, who left this City ...
    Price Realized: $2,702.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #2
    A singular animated portrait of career soldier Captain William H. Chapman (1810-1887) seated at left with his hand on the shoulder of another 5th US Infantry officer tentatively identified as Captain ...
    Price Realized: $9,400.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #3
    A fine antebellum military portrait by Anson featuring two unidentified enlisted members of the 12th Regiment New York State Militia wearing the distinctive dress uniform of the corps, ca 1852. Rufus ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #4
    Anonymous quarter plate daguerreotype of an antebellum militia officer housed in a full leather case with a floral design, ca 1850. This intriguing image provides a superlative display of antebellum u ...
    Price Realized: $940.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #5
    An extremely sharp half plate ambrotype of an unidentified Civil War Captain from the New York Volunteers, wearing captain's epaulettes and holding a knight's head pommel, militia officer's dress swor ...
    Price Realized: $1,175.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #6
    Lot of 50+ images, including: quarter plate tintype of Lt. Howard Haynes in uniform, wearing a sword in his belt; sixth plate tintype of Howard & Monroe Haynes in civilian clothing; a cdv album contai ...
    Price Realized: $705.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #7
    Anonymous half plate tintype of a Union Corporal in full-length standing pose, in front of a painted backdrop depicting a soldier's camp with tents, a cannon, a flag, and fort in the distance. With gi ...
    Price Realized: $2,232.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #8
    Unidentified. A sharp portrait on early NEFF’S Patent plate of a confident young New York volunteer wearing tasseled smoking cap and the ubiquitous “Model 1861 fatigue jacket” with sky blue trousers. ...
    Price Realized: $2,232.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #9
    Lot of 3, including two unidentified portraits of unarmed New York privates, one bearded soldier with reversed SNY oval plate and another much younger volunteer wearing smoking cap and nine button fro ...
    Price Realized: $330.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #10
    Lot of 3, including ninth plate tintype of a Civil War soldier holding an 1849 pocket Colt revolver; a ninth plate ambrotype of a young man displaying an 1851 Navy Colt revolver; and a sixth plate amb ...
    Price Realized: $822.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #11
    Lot of 2, including a Civil War-era photograph of Chaffee exposed on a quarter plate piece of porcelain, and a later photograph of the soldier about 40 years later, with the embossed seal of photograp ...
    Price Realized: $587.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #12
    Group lot includes: two quarter plate ambrotypes of First Lieutenant James N. Bell with his wife and daughter; one sixth plate daguerreotype of Bell in his youth; Bell’s war dated Will and Testament; ...
    Price Realized: $6,168.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #13
    Lot of 2, including a quarter plate daguerreotype of Cadet St. Clair Morgan wearing an engineer's cap with an unusual star device affixed, taken when he was admitted to West Point in 1848, housed in i ...
    Price Realized: $2,115.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #14
    Anonymous, hand-tinted sixth plate ambrotype of an unidentified Confederate private armed with a rifle and wearing a cartridge box and percussion cap box. Note the detailed sleeve insignia and double- ...
    Price Realized: $3,995.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #15
    A small family group that includes a wartime ambrotype portrait of Private Peter Branch in uniform wonderfully identified with his name penciled in the case, a sixth plate daguerreotype of his father, ...
    Price Realized: $1,410.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #17
    A composite album containing 26 military cartes including 15 views of mostly ink signed 156th New York officers with 2 enlisted men, plus 5 other identified officers associated with the Department of ...
    Price Realized: $1,997.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #18
    Lot of 10 items related to Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Neafie, including: CDV studio portrait of Neafie in uniform, posed with his wife Anne Preston; 2 Captain's shoulder straps; 3 Lieut. Col. straps; 1 ...
    Price Realized: $900.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #19
    Comprising 5 identified officers and 2 anonymous lieutenants. The identified officers are: (tentatively) Lt. Col. Lathrop Baldwin (enlisted 7/24/62, WIA 7/30/64, DOW 7/30/64 at Peachtree Creek ...
    Price Realized: $499.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #20
    A full length CDV portrait of the bearded soldier displaying his sword, from an anonymous studio, penciled on verso Peter M. Yawger (never married) / brother of Daniel 2nd, accompanied by the C ...
    Price Realized: $176.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #21
    A related group of six identified officers and one enlisted man with New York and New Orleans back marks. Six of the cartes are identified in ink; the other is identical to the photograph posted on H ...
    Price Realized: $528.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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