American History Auction / June 24, 2009

 
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    Lot #1
    ca. 1852, copied and enlarged from the original daguerreotype taken by Southworth and Hawes, with period mat, housed in a later gilt frame. With a retained piece of the dust cover bearing an older pa ...
    Price Realized: $4,800.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #2
    sixth plate of a young workman, he sports a straw hat, and holds a cutting tool in one hand, while his arm rests on his clamp in which a bridle is secured. A faint smile and the worker's checked pant ...
    Price Realized: $1,527.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #3
    lot of 2, including a sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a handsome young gentleman proudly displaying a flute in his right hand, in full case; and a sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of two young ...
    Price Realized: $1,175.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #4
    lot of 7 daguerreotypes, housed in full cases, of Isaac C. Bates and his family, including portraits of the following individuals identified by handwritten notes that accompany each image: a half-plat ...
    Price Realized: $587.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #5
    sixth plate. His baldric tinted bright red, with accented medallion, and gold braid knot. He holds a gavel which rests on a book. An unusual Masonic subject.
    Price Realized: $646.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #6
    sixth plate daguerreotype of same gentleman as in Lot 5 in civilian clothing. The quarter plate portrait features a man holding a staff and wearing a crown, sash, and other regalia from an unidentifia ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #7
    probably by Platt D. Babbitt, ca. 1850s. A splendid example, showing two well-dressed gentlemen gesturing towards the falls, with Terrapin Tower visible to the left. Housed in a full pressed paper c ...
    Price Realized: $2,937.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #8
    a ca 1888 reverse tintype of a group of men, women, and children standing in front of what appears to be a general store in the northwestern village of Montpelier, Ohio. Two printed signs posted on th ...
    Price Realized: $646.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #9
    quarter plate, ca. 1870s The player on the right displays two pair (nines and Jacks) as he prepares to discard a single card.
    Price Realized: $440.63 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #10
    on a Neff's Patent Plate, circa 1859-60. A fine composition of armed hunters, the man at center holding a rare M1843 Hall's percussion carbine, his mates with double-barreled shotguns. All with hunt ...
    Price Realized: $352.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #11
    cdv album with smaller tintype (same image) of the girl. She is posed as if asleep with white dress and bonnet, bordered in flowers with flowers on chest. Image is 8" x 10", mounted in period walnut f ...
    Price Realized: $381.88 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #12
    a fine grouping of little people, giants, legless wonders, fat ladies, and Siamese twins. The lot includes several images of famed little people such as General Tom Thumb and his wife, Lavinia Warren, ...
    Price Realized: $1,440.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #13
    a large gathering of photographs of little people, fat ladies, individuals with physical abnormalities, and Siamese twins. The lot features many images of well-known little people including Commodore ...
    Price Realized: $840.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #14
    also referred to as a peep view or a telescopic view, this optical toy may be of French, German, English, or Dutch origin. It provides a charming view of a progression from rural woodlan ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #15
    a cotton banner promoting Buchanan and Breckinridge!, the Democratic nominees for U.S. President and Vice President in 1856, with a spread-winged eagle holding a small Buchanan and Breckinri ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #16
    sixth plate ambrotype, ca. 1860. He wears an oil-cloth covered cap and cape, and holds a swing-torch from which a campaign flag featuring the slogan For President ABE LINCOLN and Vice President [H ...
    Price Realized: $10,575.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #17
    sporting a cap with pinned cloth label Little Giant Club, ca. 1860. Ninth plate ruby ambrotype, housed in a geometric union case.

    A rare image from the presidential campaign of 1860, w ...
    Price Realized: $8,812.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #18
    a painted salted paper photograph of Simon Cameron, 7.5" x 9.5", in oval frame, 12" x 14". The portrait is accompanied by the handwritten label Simon Cameron (1799-1889) Secy. of War under Pres. Li ...
    Price Realized: $1,645.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #19
    an illustrated, hand-colored National Republican Chart for the Presidential Campaign, 1860, varnished paper laid on canvas, featuring shoulder-length portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Han ...
    Price Realized: $4,112.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #20
    a tabloid-sized newspaper with masthead portrait of a beardless Lincoln, 4pp with nice anti-Douglas cartoon on interior, 13" x 17.75".
    Price Realized: $499.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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