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Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s latest Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending March 16, 2005, some highlights of the sale include:

A massive archive of the Buckner family, one of the Old South's largest slave and plantation owners, sold for $41,625 (prices include 11% buyer's premium on latter lot, 15% on following lots) ...
A group of six letters of a World War I ace recounting the girl pilot who dressed as a boy and flew on the Western Front, and remembering von Richthofen - the Red Baron - as "a dedicated murderer," for $287.50 ...
A lock of the Red Baron's hair, with authentication, for $1,012 ...
A collection of 29 letters and photos of British flyers in the Battle of Britain, one describing being "shot down over the Channel with over 200 bullet holes," for $517.50 ...
A pair of 1920s mailers advertising the movies Crimson Skull, "the big colored Western," and Black Gold, both made by a Florida producer of all-black-cast films, for $110.50 ...
A promotional booklet for the St. Louis - of the Hamburg Line ironically founded by a Jew - printed four months before its tragic "Voyage of the Damned," with menu, for $221 ...
A rare White Star Line schedule announcing the Titanic's maiden voyage that never was, aborted because the ship wasn't seaworthy, for $696 ...
An 1857 letter from a New York farmer lamenting, "Have not one cent of money and can sell nothing for cash...," for $86 ...
A first edition of the very first baseball novel, 1884, for $300 ...
An oversize souvenir program for Gone With the Wind, originally sold in theatres for 25¢, for $126.50 ...
An 1863 anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, with news of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and his arm-in-arm walk to church with Tom Burns, the elderly man who joined the fighting at Gettysburg, for $632.50 ...
A pass to the trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, signed by the presiding General, for $1,012 ...
An eight-page letter of the author of "America the Beautiful," Katherine Lee Bates, on her memories which "illuminate the calendar," for $2,157 ...
An 1815 letter from a Natchez merchant ordering coffee and candles, to be sent on the Mississippi River's very first steamboat, for $1,075 ...

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competitionfor interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s latest Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending May 25, 2004, some highlights of the sale include:

An oversize albumen photo with fifty postage-stamp-size portraits of Confederate leaders, sold for $695 (prices include 15% buyer's premium; cents omitted) ...
A true mutiny-on-the-bounty letter from the captain of a whaling ship, 1857, describing how the ringleaders broke out of their irons, for $822 ...
A postcard dropped from the sky over Cologne, Germany by the Hindenburg, as the zeppelin made its first - and last - trip to North America, with two other related items, for $316 ...
A lifetime collection of over 50 autographs of America's Founding Fathers, including Washington, Adams, Jefferson, et al; among the rarest: a signature of John Glover, who manned the boats in the famous 1776 Christmas crossing at Trenton, for $474 ...
A typewritten letter signed of Richard Nixon, about 'the vicious bias of our "friends" in the media...,' with envelope, 1988, for $1,581 ...
A very rare candid photograph of Hitler's mistress Eva Braun, signed twice, with Easter greetings also in her hand, 1941, for $2,415 ...
A broadside of Hitler's First Manifesto as Chancellor, issued just two days after his rise to power, 1933, urging 'world battle,' for $2,024 ...
An early legal document, 1786, including 'one Negro wench...and one wagon,' reflecting slavery in Pennsylvania, for $1,897 ...
An autograph letter signed of John James Audubon, anxious about slow payment by the very first American subscriber to his celebrated book on birds, for $2,580 ...
A medieval leaf from Spain, advising priests on how to live a good life, from a book possibly commissioned by royalty, c. 1400, for $379 ...
A rare, colorful lobby card for 'King of the Underworld' starring Humphrey Bogart, 1939, for $328 ...
A U.S. Grant election palmcard - in German - 'for...the White Man,' appealing to German-speaking soldiers once under his command, for $278 ...
A long letter of naval hero Lord Nelson, 1805, penned aboard the very ship Victory on which he would be killed later that same year, for $5,060 ...
An 1847 letter from a Boston dentist, giving long-distance advice by mail to a man in rural New Hampshire on how to fix his teeth, for $115 ...

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for late 2004, the firm's 58th year.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s latest Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending August 20, 2003, some highlights of the sale include:

The earliest novel to include a baseball game, Uncle Nat; or, the Good Time Which George and Frank Had..., 1865, sold for $2,213 (prices include 15% buyer's premium; cents omitted) ...
An ambrotype of an identified member of one of Robert E. Lee's favorite units, the hard-drinking Louisiana Tigers, for $1,797 ...
An 'adversity newspaper,' printed on handmade peach paper just days before Natchez, Mississippi fell to the Union in 1862, for $442 ...
The longest Civil War officer's letters seen, two letters totalling 31 pages, entirely in U.S.N. Commander John Goldsborough's hand, for $1,644 ...
A presentation portfolio issued by the manufacturer of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its maiden flight in 1981, containing fourteen items, for $373 ...
A World War II-era bell actually made from the metal of German planes shot down over Britain, for $506 ...
A lifetime collection of books about Civil War prisons, in 51 individual lots; among them, the excessively rare 1866 tome, Prison Life of Jefferson Davis, a sympathetic daily record by the U.S. Army doctor who cared for him, for $316 ...
A typewritten letter signed of Teddy Roosevelt, 1898, proclaiming, 'I think I should practice what I have preached...,' for $3,795 ...
One of the most famous photographs of the twentieth century, showing Truman holding aloft the 'Dewey Defeats Truman' newspaper, signed and inscribed by Truman, for $2,314 ...
A rare 1968 booklet offering office space in the yet-unbuilt World Trade Center, for $158 ...
A medieval Bible leaf from the time of the Last Crusade (the Eighth), c. 1260, ornamented with an orange and blue plume, for $278 ...
An unusual sales folder for the 1950 Airway 'Flying Auto,' shown in flight over Southern California, for $88 ...
A massive Luftwaffe aerial map of Central Europe, printed in multicolors on thick yellow oilcloth, for $246 ...
One of the best-known posters of World War I, 'Remember...,' listing Argonne, Verdun, and eleven other bloody battles, for $221 ...

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for early 2004, the firm's 58th year.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s latest Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending December 3, 2002, some highlights of the sale include:

In an autographic combination probably unique, a Civil War endorsement by the young George Custer, also signed by his commanding officer, Gen. George Meade, sold for $2,846 (prices include 15% buyer's premium) ...
A carte photograph of R.E. Lee, signed on both front and back, with "Lee" in his hand three times in all, inscribed to another Lee - and coincidentally taken by a Richmond photographer also named Lee, for $2,720 ...
A vivid letter of a Union soldier, describing the 1864 siege of Petersburg, concluding, "If I have to die, it is all right," for $304 ...
A rare document signed by Lawrence of Arabia using the name he used to enlist anonymously in the Royal Tank Corps, T.E. Shaw, for $1,202 ...
A secret British report on a Volkswagen captured from the Nazis in the Middle East in 1943, for $443 ...
A dramatic document signed by then-N.Y. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt on the last day of the nineteenth century, Dec. 31, 1900, for $632.50 ...
A seldom-seen signature of Annie ("Get Your Gun") Oakley, from the period when she starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, for $2,277 ...
A medieval scroll believed from Pisa, Italy, 1326, for $1,897.50 ...
A foldout book of views of the Statue of Liberty, printed one year before it was unveiled, for $569 ...
A photo postcard of the Titanic, bearing details of the disaster and postmarked Apr. 30, 1912 - just fifteen days after it sunk, for $285 ...
Extraordinary War Department document signed by Patton, rating Gen. Omar Bradley on his abilities ("a great soldier..."), for $2,024 ...
An early letter from a future signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence, raising money to purchase land from Arabs, 1924, for $557 ...
An unusual silver medal issued to a black soldier serving in Palestine, in the King's African Pioneer Corps, for $142 ...
The newspaper, Pennsylvania Packet, June 16, 1789, containing the forerunner of the Bill of Rights - James Madison's proposed nine amendments to the Constitution, for $474 ...
An 1841 illustrated broadside for a "Grand Balloon Ascent" by aeronaut Charles Green, who earlier traveled to America, for $1,265 ...
An ornate cloisonn' badge for a New York trolley conductor, for $177.

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for early 2003, the firm's 57th year.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s semi-annual Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending June 25, 2002, some highlights of the sale include:

An oversize presentation photo of Woodrow Wilson's Armistice "Ship of Peace," signed by the President and 55 other dignitaries, sold for $1,485 (prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
Confederate soldier's description of meeting Robert E. Lee during the War, riding in a field ambulance with his arm in a sling, for $383 ...
A large albumen photo of a beardless Lincoln, taken in Springfield, Illinois in 1860, for $1,732 ...
An unusual four-door locket holding three daguerreotypes - of mother, father, and daughter, and a lock of the daughter's hair, for $247 ...
A 1926 signed photo of Babe Ruth--holding a golf club, while his companion brandishes a baseball bat, for $1,608 ...
A World War II diary of an American gunner, telling of his trip through Pearl Harbor, "...going to give the Japs hell!," for $742 ...
A silk ribbon showing the Statue of Liberty in 1878--eight years before its unveiling in New York Harbor, plus an 1883 postcard, for $731 ...
A 1962 brochure soliciting tenants for the planned World Trade Center, shown in an original low-rise design with cargo ships berthing against the structure itself, for $247 ...
Four Oregon Territory newspapers, 1856, in which Brigham Young threatens to "smite any Gentile casting eyes" at his 70 wives, for $154 ...
Excessively rare signature of Count von Stauffenberg, who tried to kill Hitler with a bomb in 1944, for $2,165 ...
A miniature watercolor portrait on ivory of an American woman in powdered wig, c. 1790, for $464 ...
An 1877 postcard from San Francisco's Vigilante Committee, announcing "the necessary weapons for your protection will be furnished," for $245 ...
The earliest known American auto racing poster, showing the Duryea Motor Wagon at an 1897 Fair, autographed by J. Frank Duryea, for $4,950 ...
Russian cartoon-style poster in color, c. 1918-22, showing Lenin with a broom, making a "clean sweep" of Kings, capitalists, bankers, and religious of the world, for $374 ...
Massive 1634 volume of Sir Walter Ralegh's Historie of the World, written while imprisoned in the Tower of London, for $1,125 ...

And over 690 other items in 30 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for late 2002, the firm's 56th year.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s semi-annual Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending August 14, 2001, some highlights of the sale include:

From Orville Wright's personal library, a 1906 leaflet with the first published recognition of the Wright Brothers' invention of "an aeroplane type of flying machine", sold for $4,331 (prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
Excessively rare manuscript from mediaeval Hungary, 1490/91, concerning a dwelling near the Abbot's house, for $544 ...
An ambrotype of a Confederate militiaman, with large "Secession" badge on his coat, for $1,020 ...
An Autograph Letter Signed of Queen Mary, sending thanks for helping make the Dolls' House, the miniature 40-room palace with running water, working elevator, and a piano that played, for $618 ...
A Civil War glazed pitcher, with flags, eagle, and George Washington's portrait in brilliant colors, for $532 ...
A carte de visite of Stonewall Jackson, unsigned, with New Orleans imprint, for $433 ...
Record album, signed in person on jacket by Elvis Presley, at his first live performance in nine years, in Las Vegas, 1969, for $675 ...
A three-page Autograph Letter Signed with envelope from U.S. Grant, about his son, and thanking writer for his letter of July 4th, for $2,306 ...
A charming Stevengraph, a picture woven of silk, showing Signing of the Declaration of Independence, in old frame, for $340 ...
Cloth armband worn by member of National Guard of Jerusalem, when under siege in April 1948, for $309 ...
Menu of the Hamburg-America Line's St. Louis, bearing Hitler's portrait, the ship later host to "Voyage of the Damned", for $112.50 ...
Group of covers including four postmarked on board ships later sunk at Pearl Harbor, and Reuben James, first U.S. warship sunk in WW II, for $247 ...
A section from a seat in the Polo Ground's V.I.P. section, in never-seen-before original orange paint, for $365 ...
Reward poster for runaway slave "who stoops forward when walking", 1854, for $3,093 ...
An oversize albumen photo of Lincoln and son Tad, by Mathew Brady, 1864, for $2,025 ...
A 1626 map of Europe by John Speed, with sea monsters, for $835 ...
A color photo showing Nixon greeting just-returned Apollo 11 astronauts in quarantine, signed by Nixon and Neil Armstrong, in elaborate frame, for $804 (all prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
A signed photo of Yuri Gagarin, first man to travel in space, for $433 ...
A receipt entirely in the hand of William Henry Harrison, signed by his wife Anna, Cincinnati, 1812, for $1,912.50 ...
A T.L.S. on postcard of author and poet Herman Hesse, 1929: "I think it improper than an Editorial Board will throw an author's letters unread into the wastebasket...Either print or return my manuscript", for $340 ...
A 1948 stamp souvenir sheet issued by San Salvador, depicting Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, signed boldly by Eleanor, for $297 ...
A signature on card of Clarence Darrow, for $495 ...
A Union soldiers letter, Fredericksburg, 1862, with envelope, reporting that local Virginians are being captured and sent to Washington, "to stop them from carrying news to the rebels...", for $155 ...
A T.D.S. of Rudolf Hess, from the Brown House, 1938, with significant content, attesting that "Party Member Graf" saved Hitler's life on the day of Munich Putsch fifteen years earlier, expensively framed, for $990 ...
A handsome D.S. of Sam Houston as Governor of Tennessee at age 33, for $1,114 ...
An Autograph Endorsement Signed of A. Lincoln, "Let this man take the oath...", for $3,217.50 ...
A collection of 16 autographs, including ten signed photographs, of WWII German U-boat commandants, collectively responsible for loss of about 250 ships and an unknown number of lives, for $495 ...
A strikingly attractive lower portion of D.S. of Z(achary) Taylor, Fort Crawford, 1834, receiving cords of wood, for $787.50 ...
A heretofore unique Executive Mansion card variant, with the engraved imprint centered rather than at the right, signed by Grover Cleveland, for $928 ...
A Letter Signed twice by a young Martin Van Buren, recently admitted to Bar, writing a colleague that he intended to employ him as counsel "but forgot it," for $773 ...
A two-page, detailed T.L.S. of Admiral Rickover, written At Sea aboard the new nuclear-powered cruiser Texas, with cacheted envelope, for $173 ...
A rare enlistment document of a Virginia farmer "of dark complexion" as "a soldier in army of the Republic of Texas", 1837, for $681 ...
A small manuscript fragment from Monte Cassino, Italy, c. 1060, their scribes singularly responsible for preserving many of the great works of ancient literature through their dedication to copying, for $953 ...

And over 720 other items in 35 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for early 2002, the firm's 56th year.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s semi-annual Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending January 9, 2001, some highlights of the sale include:

A custom-made cigarette case in satin holder, autographed in the solid gold itself by the President of Brazil and presented to Franklin D. Roosevelt, sold for $1,670 (prices include 12-1/2% buyer's premium) ...
A letter of Eleanor Roosevelt with instructions for "one of my favorite recipes: huckleberry pudding," for $525 ...
An ambrotype of an identified Confederate drummer boy from Georgia, for $1,361 ...
A letter of John Sutter, founder of Sacramento and son of the man whose Mill triggered the Gold Rush of '49, for $990 ...
A lengthy letter to future Pres. Polk, in which leading Democratic Sen. Silas Wright warns of campaign bribes and party intrigue, for $3,062 ...
A rare Pennsylvania "Printers Lad" newspaper carrier's broadside, 1777, with verses of patriotic defiance, for $4,145 ...
A steel engraving showing slaves in chains, the Capitol Building in background, dated 1830--the year before John Quincy Adams introduced a petition to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C., for $433 ...
A pristine official document portion, curiously signed by Lincoln and Seward in blank, for $3,675 ...
A manuscript from the aftermath of the Black Plague, 1354, referring to a French castle and palace under English rule, for $408 ...
Broadside issued just before Hitler's 1934 election as President and Prime Minister, proclaiming, "The son of the people will lead the people," for $990 ...
Letter of Gen. Maxwell Taylor, on the nature of warfare: "The Army ... has the flexibility to make the punishment fit the crime...," for $556 ...
Signed photo of Glenn Miller holding trombone, with letter of the bandleader, and separate signatures of all five Modernaires, for $525 ...
Archive of 28 notebooks of spiritualist Arthur Reynolds, his seance visitors including Washington, Lincoln, Nero, and Benedict Arnold, for $1,012.
Early, illustrated baseball scorecard, 1883, Providence vs. Boston, for $433 ...
Carte photo of Union Gen. Joseph Knipe, by Brady/Anthony, for $816 ...
Glamorous photo signed by Nancy and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, for $202.

And over 700 other items in 30 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for mid 2001, the firm's 55th year.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s semi-annual Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending June 6, some highlights of the sale include:

A Union sailor's letter, nearly every page embellished with his sketches of sea life during the Civil War, sold for $2,070 (prices do not include buyer's premium)...
A manuscript fragment circa 1050, penned at "the paramount cradle of Western civilization," Monte Cassino, Italy, for $880...
A four-page Autograph Letter Signed of Jeff Davis, with a clergyman's turn-of-century provenance describing how he found it in Davis' ransacked home, for $3,100...
A seldom-seen Naval appointment signed by Pres. Zachary Taylor, who served only sixteen months in office, for $3,498...
Ornate invitation to "meet General Custer," together with a Christmas card to his wife, with notation in her hand, for $346.50...
A certificate for one share of Gold Rush stock, San Francisco, 1851, with vignette, for $385...
A choice, intact Great Seal affixed to a vellum document from the reign of Elizabeth I, for $880...
Signed check of the originator of the Teddy Bear, political cartoonist Clifford Berryman, 1912, for $110...
Nazi handbill proclaiming "Hitler - one name - hope for millions!," late 1920's, for $440...
The actual Nuremberg Trial questionnaire filled out by Wilhelm Frick, who drew up the Nuremberg Laws, and was hung, for $1,250...
Portion of an envelope and letter recovered from the zeppelin Hindenburg, with burn marks, and supporting documentation, for $1,980...
Roster of guards from notorious Confederate Libby Prison, for $286...
Document signed by Lincoln, as President, bearing his full signature, for $4,180...
1832 freedom document for "a yellow woman," for $242...
Seven-page manuscript listing 63 slaves for sale, for $220...
Section of pre-Columbian Inca textile, depicting cyclops, for $250...
Original artwork for the Lincoln automobile radiator emblem, 1923, as used by Classic Era coachbuilders Murphy of Pasadena, for $605...
Three realphoto postcards of rodeos and cowboys, for $60...

And over 700 other items in 34 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for late 2000, the firm's 54th year.

Strong Prices Realized in Cohasco Auction
of Historical Documents and Collectibles

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s semi-annual Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending September 16, 1999, some highlights of the sale include:

A Bible printed in England, signed by Martin Luther King, Jr., sold for $1,870 (prices do not include 10% buyer's premium)...
Document dated 1328, York, England, with bizarre drawings of a flamingo-like bird and a monk, addressed to "the counts and barons and...the lords and their fellows...in all my forests (and) castles...," for $1,375...
Multicolor handbill -- believed the earliest example of multi-color printing done in America bearing an imprint -- depicting the 26-star flag, from around the time of Texas' annexation, realized $522.50...
Poignant 1881 diary of a New Jersey schoolboy, describing Garfield's assassination, for $187...
A pair of Typewritten Letters Signed by Teddy Roosevelt, written four days apart in 1918, offering to enclose a mother's letter to her son in the Army, with his own letter to his son, Ted Jr., for $852.50...
The three words, "has been given," in Lincoln's hand, from an 1843 document when he was a young lawyer, for $450...
An excessively rare Civil War-date stock certificate of the Cayuga Gold and Silver Mining Co., dated a year before Nevada's Statehood, for $561 (and other Western shares for up to $660)...
Lithographed "Self-Portrait" of Picasso, signed, for $1,182...
An 1855 reward poster for runaway slave Mathew, who "is very black... and talks and laughs loud...," for $1,540...
Signed transcript of Jimmy Doolittle's report from Chunking, China, on his raid over Tokyo, for $577.50...
Original Nazi broadside announcing the May 1923 rally at which Hitler was the fateful speaker, promising "Honor, Freedom and Bread," for $1,001...
Historically important broadside pasted on a wall within hours of Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948, for $770...
1910 baseball pass signed by Hall of Famer Joe McGinnity, teammate of Christy Mathewson, probably unique, for $1,931.00...
Miniature Bible, 1615, with genuine gold fleur-de-lis on polished vellum, for $335...
Colorful World War I poster, "Join the Air Service," for $660...
Printed political cartoon lampooning Andrew Jackson, for $731.50...

And over 700 other items in 35 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for early 2000, the firm's 54th year.

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