2020 November 17 Early Arms & Militaria

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EARLY ARMS & MILITARIA: AGE OF EXPLORATION, EMPIRE & REVOLUTION

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1001 - (A) LOT OF 4: SEQUENTIALLY REGISTERED RIGBY POLICE CARBINES AND POLICE PISTOLS IN ORIGINAL FLINTLOCK. Manufactured circa 1823. All four firearms conform to the specifications of arms that Rigby provided to the Post Office as well as various police units, such as Customs, with 22” rifle barrels and 9” pistol barrels, all 16 bore. All four locks are in the same configuration with tailed pan cover, roller bearing frizzen, waterproof pans, fences, and simple filed cocks. Captured swivel ramrods, normal brass furniture throughout, locks signed “W & J RIGBY”. Rifles with Rigby modified swivels capable of accepting a bayonet. Pistols manufactured without sights but with flat top sighting rib, rifles with flattened area over breech. Barrels with simple bead front sight and notch rear sight. What makes this lot extraordinarily special is that as part of the 1843 Registration Act these four guns were registered sequentially “L-Y 9289” through “L-Y 9291” for Londonderry (Derry) on the flat ribs; rifles are also marked on buttplate tangs. CONDITION: Excellent. Guns have been liberally coated in cosmoline or equivalent to protect them from the environment. One pistol has two splits near the lock that appear stable, other has a long crack over sidepanel. One rifle has a few deep dings on right side of stock behind ramrod mouth. Other normal bumps and bruises are present throughout. Barrels are a pleasing patina throughout with some scattered old oxidation, locks are very good with crisp markings. One pistol has the registration marks partially obfuscated by old oxidation but the registration mark is still able to be read when rolled in the light. Actions are crisp on both rifles and one pistol, but pistol with crack at sideplate does not hold on full cock. Bores are very good across all guns with a few minor spots of oxidation. This is a truly exceptional set of Rigby firearms in wonderful condition and part of a matching set. EW 4,500 - 6,500

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1002 - (A) PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY J. CHRISTOPH KUCHENREITER. These pistols dated to the middle of the 18th Century. Both have 9-3/4” blued octagonal .50 caliber rifled barrels. Both are extensively inlaid with silver scroll designs and the name “J. CHRISTOPH KUCHENREITER” surrounded by inlaid designs on the top flats. On the top of both breeches is a sunken gold cartouche of a solider on horseback above the initials “ICK” in relief for the maker. Both pistols have silver front blade sights and three-leaf folding rear sights, mounted on the tangs. The tangs are numbered “1” and “2”. Both rounded lockplates are inscribed “Joh. Christoph/ Kuchenreiter” in the centers. Both locks are polished with blued accents including the top jaws, top jaw screws, cock screws, frizzens, and frizzen screws. Pans are faceted and unbridled. Both pistols feature plain gilt brass mounts of classic mid-18th century German style. The lock retaining screws are also fire blued. The partially figured walnut stocks feature horn nosecaps. Both are profusely carved with relief carving around the barrel tangs, lock plates, sideplates, and ramrod entry ferrules. There is also a cameo carved border around the front tangs of the trigger guards. Both ramrods are wooden with horn tips and both appear to be original. Both pistols feature single set triggers. CONDITION: (A) Barrel retains about 80-90% of its original fire blued finish, with some edge wear and thinning, as well as some wear at breech. Lock is excellent, retaining nearly all of it’s original polish and fire blued finishes. Lock mechanism is crisp and functions perfectly. Mounts retain nearly all of their original gilt finish, with only some tiny areas of wear, mostly on the high areas of the pommel. Wrist has been broken and repaired, as well as a break in the forend. Stock has been refinished and now shows some scattered marks from use. (B) Barrel retains 40-50% of its original fire blued finish, with some thinning and flaking. Lock retains nearly all of its original finishes and mechanism is tight but does not hold on half-cock. Mounts retain 90-95% of their original gilt finish, with some scattered scratches on sideplate and some losses to finish on high areas of the pommel cap.

Stock has one minor piece of wood replaced on right side of trigger guard and a crack around the wrist has been stabilized. Carving is crisp, otherwise showing scattered marks and abrasions. A very attractive pair of pistols by a famous German maker. DMG 5,000 - 8,000

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1003 - (A) U.S. MODEL 1805 HARPERS FERRY FLINTLOCK PISTOL DATED 1807.

This model is considered among the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing of American martial pistols. The prestigious American Society of Arms Collectors chose this gun in profile as their logo. These guns were made in pairs between 1806 and 1808 with a total production of about 4,000 guns with each gun of a pair having the same serial number. This pistol is photographed and discussed on pages 49 and 50 of “Harper’s Ferry Arsenal and Joseph Perkin” by Rick Hudak. This example is one of a known pair, the other listed on Sam Smith’s list and both are dated 1807 and bare the number “432” at the breech.

This gun is the standard pattern with 10 - 1/8” round steel barrel in .54 caliber smoothbore, breech marked with raised eagle over “P” in a sunken oval behind a raised “US” in a sunken oval behind stamped serial number “432”. Lock is marked “HARPERS/FERRY/1807” in vertical arcs behind cock. Under the pan is a spread-winged eagle facing toward the cock over “US”. The plain walnut stock is marked opposite the lock with inspector initials “V” over “JS” in script, for James Stubblefield. CONDITION: Good, overall. The barrel retains a freckled grey patina with some scattered heavier corrosion near the touch hole, markings excellent. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration.

Markings are excellent and lock retains a mostly dark grey patina. Stock good with some scattered marks from use, horizontal age cracks and repairs on both sides of forend, and a small chip around the rear tang of lockplate, light cartouche is worn. One piece absent around nose band and other side with a small sliver replaced. Ramrod is a period replacement. Brass retains a mellow patina. A very fine example. PROVENANCE: From the collection of author Rick Hudak. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

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1004 - (A) U.S. MODEL 1805 HARPERS FERRY FLINTLOCK PISTOL DATED 1807.

This model is considered among the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing of American martial pistols. The prestigious American Society of Arms Collectors chose this gun in profile as their logo. These guns were made in pairs between 1806 and 1808 with a total production of about 4,000 guns with each gun of a pair having the same serial number. This pistol is listed and discussed on page 56 number 209 of “Harper’s Ferry Arsenal and Joseph Perkin” by Rick Hudak. This gun is the standard pattern with 10 - 1/8” round, steel .54 caliber smoothbore barrel; breech marked with raised eagle over “P” in a sunken oval, behind a raised “US” in a sunken oval behind stamped serial number “658”. Lock is marked “HARPERS/FERRY/1807” in vertical arcs behind cock. Under the pan is a spread-winged eagle facing toward the cock over “US”. The plain walnut stock is marked opposite the lock with traces of an inspector’s cartouche. CONDITION: Good, overall. The barrel retains a spotted grey patina with some scattered marks from use, markings very good with eagle head over “P” partially worn. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration. Markings are excellent and lock retains a grey surface. Stock shows a piece of replaced wood along both sides of the forend, extending on one side from the front lock tang to the band and on the other from the front lock screw to the tip of the forend. Period initials “PH” carved in front of trigger guard and there is a small area of loss below the rear lock tang. Ramrod appears to be a period replacement. Brass retains a mellow patina. PROVENANCE: From the Collection of author Rick Hudak.

4,000 - 8,000

1005 - (A) J. HENRY MODEL 1807 FLINTLOCK MARTIAL PISTOL. For a nearly identical example, see pages 202 and 203, number 96 in “Historic Pistols” by Samuel E. Smith and Edwin W. Bitter. This is one of the standard 1807 Contract pistols supplied by Henry under two contracts, one for 150 pairs and the other for an additional 600 pairs. The pistols were delivered between 1808 and 1810, but only 1,468 were delivered. Joseph Henry supplied more pistols than any other 1807 contractor.

The 10 - 3/8” round smoothbore steel barrel is in .54 caliber and has a small brass half moon front sight and the left side of the breech is deeply stamped with an eagle’s head over a “P”. The top of the barrel, near the breech is stamped “J. HENRY PHILA”. The flat lockplate is stamped vertically at the tail “J. HENRY / PHILA” and “US” in the center. Standard brass 1807 furniture and plain walnut stock. Complete with a period brass-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a light brown patina with excellent markings and some minor scattered spotting. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and shows some light pitting and dark brown patina. Stock is very good and retains a dark patina, some light storage marks and a small chip on right side around pommel cap. An exceptionally good and honest example. DMG PROVENANCE: From the Collection of author Rick Hudak. 4,000 - 6,000

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1006 - (A) PAIR OF SILVER MOUNTED OFFICERS PISTOLS, POSSIBLY AMERICAN STOCKED. Both pistols are stocked in what appears to be walnut and the form is unusual, leading one to believe that they may have been stocked or restocked in America. Both have tapered 7-1/2” round .60 smoothbore barrels with a tapered flat on top towards the breech. Tops of the barrels are marked “LONDON” surrounded by a decorative border and both have private London view and proof marks on the left sides of the breeches. The convex lockplates are marked “RICHARDS” in the centers and feature floral engraving at the tails as well as rocker panel engraved borders. Both pistols feature solid silver mounts and are devoid of any visible hallmarks. One unusual feature is the trigger floorplates, which are also of silver. The trigger guard finials terminate in an acorn finial at the fronts, and the bows are engraved with floral motifs. The pierced sideplates are composed of foliate scrolls and the pommel caps feature grotesque masks with a acanthus leaf finials. The asymmetrical wrist escutcheons have a vacant inscription plaque, and are also of sterling silver with shell designs at the tops. The walnut stocks are of attractive form, with fine relief carved shell designs around the barrel tangs. Both pistols have wooden ramrods, one with a steel worm at the tip, and both with brass endcaps. CONDITION: Barrels have been cleaned bright and show traces of chemical cleaning. Markings are very good. Locks are both in their original flintlock configuration and function properly. Markings and engraving are excellent. Silver retains a mellow patina and stocks are excellent, with a few scattered storage marks. A very attractive pair of silver mounted officer’s pistols. DMG 7,000 - 10,000

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1007 - (A) RARE & IMPORTANT HESSIAN FLINTLOCK CAVALRY PISTOL WITH DOUBLE “WL” CYPHER OF WILHELM LANGRAVE. This example is the only known surviving Hessian pistol baring the monogram of Wilhlem Langrave VIII, who lived between 1682-1760.

He ruled between 1730-1760, was a reagent between 1730-1751, and was Langrave between 1751-1760. There are three known Jeager rifles bearing Landgrave cyphers. One is in the West Point Museum and the other two are in private collections. These rifles were made by the Pistor family of gunsmiths. These pistols would have been issued to the mounted Jeager troops that came into West Chester County, New York in Septemeber of 1778 and fought in the Battle of Edgar’s Lane, where they were defeated by Light Horse Harry Lee. 25 of these mounted Jaegers were killed at Dobb’s Ferry. The pistol itself is massive, with an overall length of 21”. The round .69 smoothbore barrel measures 13 - 5/8” in length, with a brass half-moon front sight. On top, toward the breech, is a large engraved intertwined “WL” monogram, signifying ownership by Wilhelm Langrave of Hesse Province in Cassel, Germany. The early flat banana lockplate only shows one screw behind the cock and has an early faceted unbridled pan. The tail is once again engraved with the “WL” monogram. The pistol features brass military mounts. The sideplate is very reminiscent of the sideplates on the known Revolutionary War and earlier military Jaeger rifles and muskets, bearing Hessian Langrave monogrammed initials. The sideplate has the early feature of a third screw on the tail at the rear to retain the sideplate when the lock is pulled. The full stirrup pommel cap is faceted, as is the trigger guard, which terminates in an arrow finial on both tangs. The forend has a brass nose band towards the muzzle. The walnut stock shows early German form, and has heavy relief carved tear drops around the barrel tang, lock cavity, and sideplate. There is also a relief molding around the ramrod channel. Complete with it’s original wooden ramrod with brass tip. CONDITION: Completely dry and untouched, in as found attic condition. The barrel retains a dark heavy patina, with scattered marks from use. Monogram is excellent. Lock retains a matching dark patina, with crisp monogram. Lock is in it’s original flintlock configuration, and functions properly. Brass retains a dark mustard patina, and is unpolished. Stock shows scattered marks from use, along with some wear and bruising along the forend. There is a small crack stemming from the rear lock retaining screw, and a small sliver missing above the lockplate. This is a rare opportunity to own an import and historic, Revolutionary War Hessian military pistol, which is the only example known to exist. PROVENANCE: Ex. Robert Brooker Jr. Collection, Author of “British Military Pistols”. DMG 20,000 - 40,000

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1008 - (A) IMPORTANT CASED PAIR OF FLINTLOCK DUELING PISTOLS BY TATHAM, PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN DANIEL TYLER OF BUNKER HILL FAME. Captain Daniel Tyler, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, was born in 1750. He graduated from Harvard University in 1771, which was the same year that he married Israel Putnam’s daughter, Mehitable. On April 20, 1775, a messenger from Worcester’s Town Clerk delivered a dispatch to Daniel Tyler, giving notice of the attack at Lexington. Daniel Tyler served on General Israel Putnam’s staff and was an Adjutant in the Continental 34th Regiment of Foot (Putnam’s Connecticut Regiment) at the Battle of Bunker Hill, according to a Regimental Return dated September 20, 1775.

Two years later, he raised his own artillery company and equipped them at his own expense. He is credited with successfully protecting the city of Newport, Rhode Island in 1778, which is perhaps why these pistols were presented to him with the commemorative date of 1778. He fought through the Revolution and was in active service until around 1780. Daniel Tyler died in 1832. According to “Gunmakers of London: 1350 - 1850”

by Howard Blackmore, Henry Tatham was listed in 1799 as a maker to the Prince of Wales. He is listed as a Gunmaker and Sword Cutler at 37 Charing Cross between 1800 and 1833. He has a partnership with Egg at the same address between 1801 and 1814. With this in mind, it is likely that these pistols were made before 1801, as the locks bare only the name “TATHAM”. The pistols themselves have tapered 8 - 1/2” round .69 smoothbore barrels with slightly swamped muzzles, tapered top flats and hooked breeches. They also have gold-lined touch holes and small notched rear sights and small front blade sights. The bottoms are stamped with London view and proof marks and the top flats once had an inscription with only traces now visible. The high-quality locks are retained by a single screw, have stepped tails engraved with arms motifs and are marked “TATHAM” in the centers. They feature sliding half-cock thumb safeties, waterproof pans and roller frizzens. The iron furniture

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includes small pommel caps engraved with borders and floral engraving around the center screws. The trigger guards have arms engraved on the bows and the front tangs terminate with engraved pineapple finials. Ramrod ferrules are also iron. Both pistols have a small silver shield-shaped escutcheon inscribed “DT” for Daniel Tyler. They are stocked in plain walnut and the grips feature punch dot checkering. Pistols are complete with horn-tipped wooden ramrods with iron worms at opposite ends, one a replacement. The pistols have their original Oak case with a partitioned interior lined with green wool. The brass handle on top is inscribed “Captain Daniel Tyler Pomfret 1778”. There are two brass hooks on the front as well as a brass-lined keyhole. The original label is not absent, but two remnants accompany the set. Accessories include an oiler, a lidded compartment with several lead balls, an iron single-cavity mold, a wooden ramrod with brass tip, a later ebony handled screwdriver, a brass powder measure, spare flints and a copper duel-cavity powder flask. Key is absent. CONDITION: Barrels retain traces of brown finish but are mostly cleaned. Locks are in their original flintlock configurations and function very well, markings are excellent. Cock on one pistol has a repair at the neck. Iron furniture shows light pitting and a light grey patina. Stocks show some oil stains, scattered marks from use and a few minor age cracks. One has a thin splinter replaced along the barrel. Exterior of case shows scattered marks and retains a nice dry surface, brass furniture is unpolished and retains a pleasing dark mustard patina. Interior shows stains, deterioration, fading and some glued repairs. One area of loss to interior wood lip. Accessories fair to good. A very important pair that were most likely presented to him by Rhode Island for his service protecting Providence in 1778. DMG 15,000 - 40,000

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1009 - [REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. AN EXTREMELY RARE, SILVER-MOUNTED, OFFICER’S PISTOL MADE AT RAPPAHANNOCK FORGE, VIRGINIA. The pistol’s round, tapered and swamped brass barrel is 7 3/8 inches long and is of 20 bore (or 0.61 caliber) with “RAPA. FORGE” engraved on the upper flat within a scroll or banner terminating in floral motifs at each end, with similar floral, shell and squiggle-edge engraving on its steel tang. Its flat, beveled lock has fluting across its elongated, pointed tail and measures 7/8 of an inch wide by 4 ½ inches in length and remains in its original flintlock configuration; there is floral edge engraving on the lock and its gooseneck cock and is signed “J. HUNTER” before the cock and under the bridled, round pan, while the inside of the lock bears the “FK” touchmark of rifle-maker John Frederick Klette (1756-1810), foreman and master armorer at James Hunter’s famous Rappahannock Forge during the Revolutionary War period. It should be noted that the engraving work noted above is similar to that found on the known rifle of Klette’s make [Shumway, “Rifles of Colonial America.” v. 2. (1980), pp. 534-539]. The pistol is silver mounted, including two ramrod pipes, butt cap, sideplate and triggerguard, all without hallmarks. The triggerguard terminates in front with an acorn finial, while a flower is engraved upon its bow. The butt cap is in the form of a grotesque mask cast and chased in high relief, while the flat sideplate is engraved with various floral and scroll motifs. The full length stock is of American black walnut and features a “bird-head” shaped butt, with a delicately and intricately pierced thumbpiece inset on its top, bearing an intertwined “CS” cipher or monogram; in lieu of an apron, the tang is bordered on each side silver wire inlay scrolling that joins behind, forming a shell, with additional scrolled wirework along the flats of the butt.

This is one of two known, private-purchase, officer’s pistols of similar form fabricated at Rappahannock Forge, probably in the early days of the Revolutionary War. The other example, carried in the Revolutionary War by Colonel Moses Rawlings of the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment, is now in the collections of the Maryland Historical Society and was comparatively studied and photographed with the pistol offered here through the courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society. Although the Rawlings pistol has an early 19th century replacement lock, the original stock inletting suggests that the original lock matched the shape and size of that found on this pistol, the overall form is near-identical and the silver mountings on both pistols originated from the same mold [see Nathan Swayze, “The Rappahannock Forge” (ASAC: 1976), pp. 20-23]. Both of these pistols were clearly private-purchase arms and that presented herein, although sharing many of the same features and mounts with the Rawlings pistol at the Maryland Historical Society, is superior in terms of finishing details, including decorative engraving work and especially the elaborate silver wire-work around tang and the pierced “CS” LOT 1009 Maryland Historical ciphered thumbpiece. Although speculation at this point, a very likely Society Comparison

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candidate for original ownership of the pistol is Brigadier General Charles Scott (1739-1813) of the Virginia Line, later governor of Kentucky. Scott had served as an officer in the Virginia Regiment under George Washington in the French & Indian War and played a critical role in the defeat of the British at the 1775 battle of Great Bridge. Promoted to colonel of the 5th Virginia Regiment in 1776, he signalized himself in various battle and skirmishes at the head of Continental rifle and light infantry troops throughout 1776-1777 and was promoted to brigadier general in 1777. One of Scott’s key subordinates in many of these actions, perhaps not coincidentally, was Lieutenant Colonel Moses Rawlings, the original owner of the other officer’s pistol. This highly important Revolutionary War pistol is accompanied with extensive documentation, including scientific and forensic reports on the metal components by Scientific Analysis of Fine Art LLC, which found that the presence of tin, arsenic and lead in the brass alloy of the barrel is characteristic of the impure copper resources available” and that the “silver mounts, which have traces of lead and gold, are found in the pre-electrolytically refined silver that was available in the Revolutionary War period”; while wood analysis,

by Alden Identification Services, confirmed that the stock was made of American Black Walnut. We acknowledge our sincere appreciation to the Maryland Historical Society and its staff, notably Director Mark Lender, Director of Collections Allison Tolman, and Staff Photographer Leslie Eames, for their generosity and collegial cooperation in the comparative study and photography of the two Rappahannock Forge pistols on two, separate occasions. CONDITION: a few light dings and scratches on the barrel and mounts of the pistol, commensurate with age and period use; the lock components are gunmetal grey in tone, with small, scattered patches of light pitting or freckling, the lock in original flint and in good working order; when acquired by the consignor in 2017, there was a large splinter of wood missing in the forestock, which was expertly replaced by noted contemporary Kentucky rifle-maker and restorer, Brian LaMaster, fully documented with before- and after- photographs. JLK 250,000 - 500,000

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1010 - A RARE AND IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF PRESENTATION GRADE OFFICER’S FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY NICHOLAS BOUTET A VERSAILLES, CIRCA 1800.

Swamped, octagonal, key-fastened, smoothbore barrels of 11 3/8 inches length and 0.62 bore; their sights dovetailed into the barrels, the rear one noted and the front being a narrow, tapering post topped by a bead; and conical vents. The tops of the burnished barrels between the sights engraved in two parallel lines, “Boutet Directeur Artiste / Manufacture a Versailles”, with four touchmarks on each breech: “BC” on left flat and the intertwined Boutet script cipher “NB” on the top flat, with an indistinct mark below it, and another indistinct mark on the right flat; both breeches with lightly engraved “cloud” motifs bearing traces of inlaid gilding; the stepped tangs and their screw decorated with neo-classical design motifs. Beveled, flat, burnished locks with stepped tails decorated with a batwing design; the first pistol’s lock engraved “Boutet / Directeur Artiste” and the second “Manufactr. a Versailles” below the waterproof pans. Figured walnut full stocks with relief border carving of “rais-decouer” along the barrels and tangs and beading and scrolling along the ramrod channels, with characteristic, finely checkered butts encircled with silver nails around the bases. Original wood ramrods with mastodon ivory tips. Each pistol’s silver mounts include: an inset butt cap featuring a heavily-chased, helmet of Gaul within an octagonal cartouche with “rais-de-couer” border; the set trigger enclosed within a triggerguard decorated on its front terminal with a flaming fasces surmounting a cuirass, the former flanked by banners and encircled with a laurel wreath and

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the guard proper bearing a lion’s fleece mounted on a club; the two forward ramrod pipes and tailpipe with beading and channeling around the circumference, the tail of the latter further embellished by a gladius wreathed with grapes, leaves and flowers. The stock has further decorative, silver inlays, including neoclassical panels flanking the barrel tang, bordered side-nails, flanked by a fruit and leave strand suspended from two loops hanging from scrolls with further silver decorative panels, and between the tailpipe and triggerguard is a winged sphinx surmounted by a bordered diamond device in the neoclassical taste. These pistols were almost certainly made shortly after Nicolas-NoÍl Boutet (1761-1833) was appointed Directeur Artiste with overall supervision of the Versaille Manufactory in 1800 (holding this position until its closure in 1818). Boutet is considered the most accomplished of all French gunmakers and his arms are highly prized for both technical superiority and artistic design.

CONDITION: The barrels and locks cleaned over time and showing scattered areas of very light freckling on the former; the forestock of the first pistol with a hairline crack on the left side, angling backward from the middle pipe to the barrel and opposite it on the right, some bruising and loss to the relief carving along the barrel; light dings and bruises elsewhere; the bores with light oxidation. JLK 20,000 - 40,000

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1011 - (A) SCARCE AMERICAN ALTERED BRITISH PATTERN 1738 FLINTLOCK HEAVY DRAGOON PISTOL, MARKED JORDAN, 1746.

Pistols of this pattern are quite scarce and were used in America during the French & Indian War as well as in the South during the American Revolution. This pistol has several period American alterations including the shortening of the barrel by about 2-1/4” which is the approximate length of the Light Dragoon pistols being used during the Revolutionary War. It is also fitted with an American sheet brass nose band with an open face at the muzzle. The foremost ramrod ferrule was also removed and the original wooden ramrod was replaced with an American made iron ramrod with a brass button at the muzzle. The tapered round 9-3/4” .58 caliber smoothbore barrel is extremely well marked in the center near the breech with a crown over “GR” over a broad arrow and a crown over crossed scepters.

The left side of the breech is marked with a star over “IC” for the inspector. The early convex banana lockplate features engraved double-lined borders and shows only a single screw behind the cock.

The tail is engraved “JORDAN/ 1746”. The center is engraved with a large crown over “GR”. Below the pan there is a crown and broad arrow denoting government ownership. In the jaws of the cock there is a period led liner and flint. Standard brass Heavy Dragoon furniture including a brass wrist escutcheon and convex serpentine Long Land Pattern sideplate. The trigger guard tang is painted with an old collection or museum number in green paint.

The walnut stock is of classic Georgian form and is carved with shaped relief panels around the lock and sideplate, as well as an early style beavertail around the barrel tang. Barrel tang is also stamped with a crown mark. Just above the back of the lock tang, there is a script “GR” storekeeper’s mark in the early format and devoid of a date. On the left side of the trigger guard tang there are two inspection marks, one crown and one crown over a “1”. CONDITION: Very good overall. Barrel retains a spotted grey patina and markings are excellent. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Markings are excellent. Screws on lock show some marring. Brass furniture retains a pleasing dark mustard patina, and right side of nose band shows some denting. Stock is very good, with scattered bruising and marks from use.

Stock markings are also good. This example is historically significant due to its definite use by British and American forces in the Revolutionary War. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

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1012 - (A) EXTREMELY FINE PAIR OF FRENCH FLINTLOCK GREATCOAT PISTOLS, CIRCA 1750.

These pistols are in exceptionally fine condition and have been well stored since the early to mid-17th Century when they were made. Both pistols have tapered 5 - 7/8” two-stage swamped .52 caliber smoothbore barrels, which are blued and profusely decorated with gold overlays and engraved designs. Some designs include floral motifs, suns in splendor at the muzzles, and perched eagles at the breeches surrounded by floral motifs. Both polished barrel tangs are engraved with scrollwork. Both locks have flat faces with beveled edges and are decorated with engraved borders and marked in the center “A. ALLARY/ A ST. ETIENNE”. Both locks feature faceted unbridled pans, decorated screw faces, and chiseled frizzen faces decorated with shell motifs. Both feature ornate iron furniture with its original bright polish, along with silver chased relief wrist escutcheons. Sideplates are engraved with shell and floral designs and trigger guards terminate in a flame finial at the fronts. The pommel caps feature Greek busts on a stippled ground, surrounded by a ring of chased floral motifs. Both are stocked in striped fruitwood and feature relief scrollwork and floral motifs around the barrel tangs and ramrod entry ferrules, as well as cameo carving around the trigger guards. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Barrels retain nearly all of their original blued and gilded finishes. Barrel tangs retain their original polish. Locks retain all their original polish and frizzens show no signs of ever having been fired. Muzzle faces and bores are also bright and touchholes no signs of use. Both are in their original flintlock configuration and mechanisms are as tight as when the pistols were made. Iron furniture is excellent, retaining nearly all of its original polish with some light grey patina on pommel caps. Both pistols retain their original iron ramrods with iron caps at the tips. Stocks are excellent, showing a couple minor hairline cracks and both retain a pleasing dark honey color. There is one minor chip at the front lock tang of one pistol, which has been professionally restored and one screw retaining the ramrod entry ferrule shows minor reinforcement. A fantastic pair of early French pistols in remarkable condition. DMG 4,000 - 8,000 1013 - (A) EARLY FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY PISTOL ATTRIBUTED TO FREDRICK SELL. Two-stage 3 - 1/2” .50 caliber rifled steel cannon barrel, with British view and proof marks, as well as “RW” for maker Richard Wilson. Lock, in original flint configuration, also marked “WILSON.” American-made sheet brass buttcap inscribed “FK” and simple trigger guard.

Heavy American-made rounded iron trigger. Figured maple full-length stock, carved with relief scrolls around barrel tang, clearly the work of Frederick Sell. Relief panels around lock and lock retaining screws; replaced wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Excellent, barrel retains a dark grey patina. Lock very good, in original flint, matching dark grey patina. Brass is unpolished. Stock excellent with a few light marks from use, carving is crisp. A very nice Frederick Sell-made pistol using the lock and barrel from an early English Wilson pistol. DMG 2,500 - 4,500

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1014 - (A) FINE PAIR OF SILVER INLAID ENGLISH FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY JACKSON. This early 19th Century pair of pocket pistols features removable 2” round .50 caliber smoothbore barrels with lugs on the bottoms and stiff-leaf engraving at the muzzles. The bottoms of both actions are marked with two London proofs.

The right sides of the scalloped boxlock actions are engraved with “London” in a cartouche surrounded by arms motifs. The left sides are inscribed “Jackson” and are decorated en suite. Both pistols feature hidden folding triggers, reinforced cocks, and sliding safeties on the tangs, with pins that engage with the frizzens.

Both grips are profusely decorated with engraved silver floral inlays and silver wire scrollwork. The bottoms of the grips have silver caps and both are hallmarked. Both pistols have silver shield-shaped vacant wrist escutcheons.

CONDITION: One barrel is frozen, the other still removable. All iron components retain a bright surface. Locks are in their original flintlock configurations and function well, with tight actions. Grips are excellent with some minor storage marks and a couple very small slivers of wire absent. One pistol has a minor dent to the right of the wrist escutcheon. A very ornate pair of silver-mounted English pocket pistols. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1015 - (A) SILVER MOUNTED ENGLISH FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOL BY GRIFFIN & TOW. Griffin & Tow was out of business by 1781, meaning that this pistol was certainly produced during the Revolutionary War. Silver mounted pistols of this type were used by British and American officers alike. This pistol features a slightly swamped 8” two-stage iron .62 caliber smoothbore barrel with Birmingham proofs on the left side of the breech, as well as a “BG” in a cartouche for Benjamin Griffin. The rounded lockplate is engraved with rocker panel borders and features a sliding half-cock safety at the tail of the lock. The center is engraved “GRIFFIN / & TOW”.

Fine chased and engraved silver mounts, including a pierced scroll and shell sideplate, a military wrist escutcheon with a helmet, sword, and cannon, inscribed with the initials “W.B.”. The full stirrup pommel cap has a grotesque mask on the bottom and a hallmark for John King on the back of the trigger guard tang. The walnut stock is carved with a relief shell design around the barrel tang. CONDITION: Barrel shows heavy wear and retains a spotted brown patina, with some wear to markings at breech. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration. Cock does not hold on half-cock and sliding safety is frozen. Silver furniture retains a pleasing pewter patina. Right side of pommel cap has some denting. Trigger guard finial has been reinforced and a screw has been added at the rear tang. Stock shows some age cracks and losses around barrel pins, as well as some minor areas of wood fill. There is a small crack above the rear lock tang. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

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1016 - (A) A FLINTLOCK TOWER PATTERN 1756 / 1777 SEA SERVICE PISTOL Round, plain, smoothbore 12” long barrel of 0.58 caliber bore, with centered Ordnance view and proof marks near breech and crown on tang; a plain, flat, beveled lock with plain, flat, reinforced cock, and unbridled pan, with ‘crown/GR’ before cock and inspection stamp under pan, with ‘TOWER’ across the tail; figured walnut, fullstock with regulation brass mountings of butt-cap, trigger guard, sideplate (iron belt hook attached to sideplate at rear screw) and ramrod pipe, with later brass-tipped ramrod. Setup marks inside ramrod channel (“XXXV”?) and two indistinct touchmarks stamped in wood behind sideplate, and “crown/7” inspection stamp on right side of butt above tail of trigger guard; the serifed block letters “DM / N” are deeply incised crosswise on the raised “beavertail” apron behind the tang, with further lettering “RMTC” carved crosswise just below the apron. A very nice specimen of Revolutionary War naval pistol pattern that is becoming increasingly difficult to locate by collectors. CONDITION: Lock in good, working order and all iron parts with pleasing, dark ‘attic’ patina; stock with random dings and marks associated with period usage, with an expertly-done, small replacement of wood loss to the right side of the forestock, just before the ramrod pipe. JLK 3,500 - 5,500

1017 - (A) RARE FRENCH MODEL 1733 CAVALRY OR DRAGOON PISTOL PRODUCED AT CHARLEVILLE. A fine example of the increasingly rare French Model 1733 Pistol, with octagonal-round barrel of 12-1/4” length and .70 bore, 19-5/8” long overall; inspection mark stamped of the left facet of the barrel near breech, consisting of a Fleur-de-Lis superimposed between the block letter “EC” and stamped Irish(?) registration number “GD 6618” on top of barrel. The beveled, flat lockplate with groove across the tail, gooseneck cock, and bridled pan; the lock bearing the same “EC” inspection mark as barrel above “Manufacture / de Charleville.” Brass mounts include buttcap with oval screw cover, flat sideplate, faceted trigger guard, two ramrod pipes and a noseband of flat, sheet-brass. The figured, walnut stock with raised carving around lockplate, sideplate, and barrel tang, terminating in teardrop finials, with additional raised carving along each side of the ramrod channel; “MC” stamped in the wood behind the sideplate; the wooden ramrod a later replacement. The first standard pattern pistol developed for the use of French cavalry and dragoons, this pistol was also configured for naval use with the addition of a belt hook. The brass, iron and wood portions from Model 1733 pistols have been recovered from the wreck of the Machault and military and native American sites in Canada. This was the first of the French pistol patterns sold for use of the Continental Army’s light dragoons, appearing in 1777 shipping manifests. CONDITION: The iron parts with light freckling and moderate pitting at breech near vent, the wood overall quite good, with a few dings; both metal and wooden parts show evidence of more recent cleaning; the front side screw a later replacement. JLK 6,000 - 10,000

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1018 - (A) FINE PAIR OF SILVER MOUNTED OFFICER’S PISTOLS HALLMARKED HALBACH. American associated pistols, especially maker-marked and silver-mounted examples, are extremely scarce. Only one other pair of silver-mounted Halbach pistols are known to exist. Halbach & Sons were known for their high-quality steel and began business in Germany. Due to their popularity, they eventually sent one of the sons, Arnold Halbach to set up a retail outlet on Dock Street in Philadelphia. There, he imported parts and entire pistols from the low countries, as well as possibly stocked pistols there. Some Halbach pistols are signed “Halbach & Sons” or the German version “Halbach and Sohne”, but many are unmarked. This pair features Halbach’s signature pommel caps decorated with relief primitive eagles with shields on their breasts. One cap is decorated with 12 stamped stars around the eagle’s head and the other with 13 stars. Both feature Arnold Halbach’s silver mark, “AH”. The 8” .65 caliber smoothbore brass barrels are unmarked and have swamped muzzles, faceted breech sections and partial top flats decorated with an English style border with a sprig of engraving on top at both breeches. The rounded lockplates are crudely marked “COBLE”, probably for the owner rather than the maker, as their is no listing for a Coble. Possibly, this individual bought the parts and stocked these pistols himself. The pierced silver sideplates are English in style and are chased with floral scrolls and foliate motifs. The silver trigger guards are not of English manufacture and are quite diminutive and primitive, terminating in small acorn finials and the bows with relief edges. One rear trigger guard tang has a period oval-shaped silver patch repair over it, retained by two brass pins. The symmetrical silver wrist escutcheons also differ from English furniture with large acanthus leaves at the bottoms and more traditional shells at the tops, vacant inscriptions. The silver pommel caps, as described above, are both hallmarked “A H” for Arnold Halbach. Ramrod ferrules are silver as well. The pistols are stocked in partially figured walnut and have traditional relief-carved clamshells around the barrel tangs. Stocks are slender and of differing form from any English pistols of this style. Ebony ramrods are modern replacements.

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CONDITION: Barrels retain a mellowing patina and show some wear to engraving, one has a couple casting flaws on the left side. Locks have been polished bright and are in their original flintlock configurations. One lock functions properly and has a replaced top jaw screw, the other needs adjustment and the cock is a replacement. Silver furniture shows wear and retains a polished surface with some components retaining a pewter patina. Both sideplates have had a couple pins added to secure them, as well as pins added during the period around acorn finials of trigger guards. Ramrod ferrules show denting and small losses. Buttcaps show some wear and marks from use. One pistols stock shows heavy wear and has scattered chips, cracks, and filled repairs. The other shows some wear and a couple slivers replaced under lockplate. A very attractive pair of silver-mounted and brass barreled Halbach-hallmarked officer’s pistols that were certainly made for and used in America. DMG 15,000 - 40,000

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1019 - (A) PAIR OF SILVER MOUNTED QUEEN ANNE STYLE SCREWBARREL FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY GANDON. Peter Gandon is listed as working in London between 1713-1743 and was the son of Peter Gandon. According to “Gunmakers of London”

by Blackmore, his premises were located behind St. Martin’s Church and were searched by the Gunmakers Co. 1698. Peter was granted naturalization 1710. Later he is listed at the corner of Coventry St. & Oxendon St. in 1714; and at Cross Guns, Coventry St., 1731. He became free of the Gunmakers Co., by redemption in 1720and is shown as a contractor to Ordnance in 1743. These pistols probably date between 1720-1730 and feature three-stage removable 7” .65 caliber smoothbore barrels with canning muzzles and floral engraving around the flats at the breech. Both are marked with indistinct proof marks on the frames, which are partially covered by the trigger guard finials. The locks are located on the right sides of the actions, and beneath the frizzen springs are engraved “GANDON LONDON”. Both feature early iron trigger guards, with the other furniture of sterling silver. The sideplates feature a winged griffon with foliate motifs at the tails. The pommel caps are early style grotesque masks with acanthus leaf finials. The silver wrist escutcheons are symmetrical and both are engraved with a prancing antlered deer. One pistol has an early iron repair above and below the wrist escutcheon, securing a period crack to the wrist. This wrist repair is crude and appears to be American, which would be consistent with the condition of the pistols, that have seen extensive use and retain a dark patina. Another interesting feature of these pistols is the serrated frizzen faces. The walnut grips have bulbous pommels and feature symmetrical acanthus leaf carving in relief around the barrel tangs. CONDITION: Both barrels are removable. All iron components retain a dark heavy patina and show scattered areas of heavier patina. One trigger guard finial is absent and appears to have been broken off during the period of use.

Both locks are in their original flintlock configuration and function properly. Markings are excellent. Some marring to trigger guard bows and some of the screws on both pistols. Silver shows wear consistent with heavy use and retains a dark unpolished patina. Both grips have small areas of wood loss around pommel caps, and both have been cracked through the wrists and actions. This is a very nice, as found, pair of early English pistols, that probably came over in the Mid 18th Century and stayed here. These are the type that would have been used by both British and American officers alike during the Revolutionary War. DMG 3,500 - 5,500 24

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1020 - (A) BRITISH FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOL BY GRIFFIN OF LONDON. This Sergeant’s grade pistol features a 8” .60 caliber smoothbore round swamped barrel with an engraved cartouche on the top inscribed “GRIFFIN LONDON”. On the left side of the breech there are private view and proof marks, as well as a cartouche with “IG” for maker, Joseph Griffin. Joseph Griffin worked at New Bond Street between 1757-1770. This pistol dates circa 1760 and has a rounded lockplate with double line borders and an unbridled pan. The center is marked “GRIFFIN”. Brass furniture of Sergeant’s grade design with simple engraved borders and designs. Walnut stock with a relief beaver tail carved around the barrel tang. Ramrod is a replacement. CONDITION: Barrel and lock retain a spotted gray patina. Markings are excellent. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Brass retains an unpolished dark mustard patina. Ramrod ferrule shows some minor chipping and denting. Trigger guard finial is bent slightly up. Stock shows some scattered minor cracks, including one in front of the lock. There is some minor chipping around the buttcap on the left side and there is a crack around the top of the wrist, which was repaired during the period of use with two iron pins. A very nice French and Indian War period officer’s pistol. DG 1,500 - 3,000

1021 - (A) EARLY GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL. This pistol has a 10 - 1/2” two-stage .65 caliber smoothbore barrel with a continuous top flat, a front sight of brass, and a rear notched sight mounted at the front of the barrel tang. The early banana lock has a rounded face and an unbridled frizzen. There is a single raised edge along the border. Indistinct maker’s mark beneath the front of the frizzen spring. Brass furniture including an “S” shaped sideplate, brass buttcap, and military-style faceted trigger guard terminating in a Fleur-de-Lis finial. The walnut stock features a relief foliate design around the barrel tang and relief panels around the lock cavity, sideplate, ramrod channel, and trigger guard. The stock terminates in a horn nosecap. The horn ramrod has a bone tip. CONDITION: Barrel and lock have been cleaned in the European fashion and retain a bright surface. There are some minor defects on the right side towards the muzzle. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, post is partially broken off. Stock shows some cracks and scattered marks from use. Brass retains a mellow mustard patina. A nice early-to-mid-18th century German pistol, of the type that would have been carried by German mercenaries fighting in America during the Revolution. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1022 - (A) FRENCH FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY DAUPHINE BERGERAC. This pistol dates to the middle of the 18th Century and features a two-stage 6 - 1/2” iron .60 caliber smoothbore barrel with a turning at the muzzle. Classic French lockplate with rounded face, engraved in the center “DAUPHINE/ BERGERAC”. Classic French style iron furniture. Walnut stock with relief carved design and pendant around barrel tang and carved panels around the lock, sideplate, trigger guard, and ramrod channel. Complete with a period replaced iron ramrod. CONDITION: All iron components retain a spotted grey patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Cock has a period repair at the neck and top jaw screw is probably a replacement. Stock retains a dark patina and shows some scattered marks from use. DMG 1,000 - 1,500

1023 - (A) FLINTLOCK PISTOL MADE FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET. For a nearly identical pair of pistols, see plate 150 and 151 on pages 170-171 of “The Kentucky Pistol” by Chandler and Whisker. The pistols shown in the book have identical locks marked “Ketland & Co.” and British proofed barrels. These pistols belonged to Colonel Cook. They also have identical brass furniture. This pistol dates circa 1780-1790, and was probably stocked in America, using American hardware and a British lock and barrel. The 10” round .62 caliber smoothbore barrel shows private British proof and view marks on the left side of the breech. The rounded lockplate is inscribed “KETLAND/ & CO.” in the center and features an unbridled pan. The plain brass military-style furniture includes a British style 2nd Model Brown Bess type sideplate, a trigger guard terminating in an arrow finial, a plain brass buttcap with a triangular finial at the back, and a plain vacant oval wrist escutcheon. The stock appears to be maple. Ramrod is a replacement. CONDITION: Barrel retains a grey patina and markings are somewhat worn. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Frizzen and frizzen screw are replacements. Brass retains a mustard patina. Stock shows some scattered cracks and marks from use. There is some wood replaced at the bottom of the lock, where the main screw probably broke through, and there is a small repair using brass pins above the rear lock tang. There is also a minor repair to the left side towards the muzzle. It is known that Ketland & Co. had a shop in Philadelphia, where American gunsmiths probably purchased English parts and stocked the guns using American wood and furniture. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1024 - (A) PAIR OF ENGLISH BOXLOCK SCREW BARREL FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY SYKES & SON. The round 1- 3/4” .48 caliber smoothbore barrels feature a lug on the bottoms and in front of the lug there are Birmingham proof marks. The muzzles are decorated with stiff-leaf engraving and both barrels can still be removed. The bottoms of the rounded scalloped boxlock actions are stamped with two Birmingham proofs on each and one pistol is stamped with a number “1” to differentiate the two. The right sides of the actions are inscribed “Sykes/ & Son” and the opposite sides are inscribed “Oxford”.

Both sides of the actions are engraved with arms and military motifs. Both pistols feature folding triggers surrounded by engraved stiff-leaf designs. The actions have reinforced cocks and sliding half cock safeties mounted on the tangs. When pushed forward, they engage a pin into the frizzen as well, so that it will not open. When the pistols are cocked, the folding triggers open. Both pistols have walnut bag grips with diamond-shaped silver escutcheons on the tops, and both are profusely inlaid with silver wire designs.

CONDITION: Both pistols retain a bright surface and markings and engraving are excellent. Both pistols function properly and the actions are strong. The finial on the post of one cock is absent. Grips have a more contemporary coat of finish and all of the silver wire is present. A very nice pair of English pocket pistols. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1025 - GOOD PAIR OF FRENCH FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS MARKED A*C. Both with two-stage 3 - 1/8” iron .50 caliber smoothbore barrels with cannon muzzles and both stamped “A (star) / C” near the breeches. Both have unmarked rounded lockplates devoid of any engraving. Plain iron mounts in the classic French style, probably circa 1760. Both pistols are stocked in walnut and feature silver-wire scrollwork around the barrel tangs and a relief border as well. Both have what appears to be their original iron ramrods. CONDITION: Very good with all iron components cleaned bright and showing some grey spotting. Locks are in their original flintlock configurations and retain strong properly functioning actions.

Stocks show some minor scattered marks from use and some small pieces of silver wire inlays are absent on both. A very attractive pair of flintlock pocket pistols. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1026 - (A) SCARCE AND EARLY 18TH CENTURY DUTCH FLINTLOCK MUSKET. For an example with an identical sideplate, see figure 428 on page 201 of “Muskets of the Revolution” by Bill Ahearn. Many Dutch arms were ordered to arm the Colonies during the French and Indian War and this pattern is one of those arms. The musket features an early 44 - 7/8” three-stage .77 caliber smoothbore barrel stamped on the top flat towards the breech was a six-point star. There is an iron bayonet stud mounted on the bottom near the muzzle and a brass front sight on top. The early flat banana lockplate has beveled edges and is unmarked. The brass furniture includes a flat Dutch sideplate with beveled edges, a square-back trigger guard terminating in an arrow at both ends, a brass nose band, faceted ramrod ferrules and a buttplate with an elongated three-stage tang. Full-length plain walnut stock in the familiar early Dutch/ German form with relief carved panels around lock, sideplate, and barrel tang. Complete with its original iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a mostly dark brown patina with some corrosion at breech. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, retains a spotted brown patina and cock is a period replacement. Brass shows scattered marks from use and has a mellowing mustard patina. Stock shows wear and scattered marks from use with some cracks along forend and minor slivers absent along both sides of barrel. A scarcely encountered musket used in America during both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. DMG 6,000 - 10,000

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1027 - (A) EARLY AMERICAN RELIEF CARVED FLINTLOCK FOWLER, SHUMWAY RIFLE NO. 102.

This fantastic and very early relief carved fowler is shown as rifle number 102 on pages 448-452 in Volume II of “Rifles of Colonial America”

by George Shumway. It dates to before the Revolutionary War. In fact, the maker used many parts including the barrel, lock, trigger, sideplate, ramrod ferrules and trigger guard from an early 18th-century Dutch musket. The parts were taken from the exact model musket offered in the previous lot. It has the same 45” full-length three-stage .80 caliber smoothbore barrel as the musket in the previous lot and both are stamped with a six-point star at the breech. The original front brass sight has been modified by trimming it down and a hand-forged notched iron rear sight has been added to this barrel when it recycled for use on this fowler. The early Dutch banana lockplate is unmarked and has beveled edges and an early unbridled faceted pan. The frizzen face was relined during the period of use. The nearly straight rifle-type buttplate measures 2” at the widest point and has a short faceted tang and no toeplate. The brass sideplate, trigger guard, and ramrod ferrules are all from a Dutch musket as well. There is a sheet brass nose-band towards the muzzle. The full-length stock is of plain maple and in displays early Pennsylvania rifle form. The relief-carved panels around the lock, sideplate and ramrod entry ferrule mimic the original carving from the Dutch musket that many of the parts used to make this fowler were taken from. There is unusual geometric carving in the shape of a shield in relief around the barrel tang. The comb has an arrow carved in relief where it meets the wrist, that carving terminates in scroll designs on both sides. There is also a relief molding along the ramrod channel on both sides. The left side of the butt is masterfully carved with a scalloped relief C-scroll design behind the long relief cheekpiece carved with molding. Just behind the cheekpiece, there is a face within a circle. This face is identical to those faces shown on later Lehigh County rifles, known as the “Allentown Indian heads”. The face is the same, this early example simply does not yet have a cap and shows the earliest form of this face. To the right of the cheekpiece, there is an incised scroll design. There are also relief designs, some with scalloped edges, on both sides of the trigger guard. The fowler is complete with its original pewter-tipped iron ramrod, probably the original ramrod from the early musket with an added pewter tip. CONDITION: As found and untouched. Barrel and lock retain a dark brown patina. Lock functions properly and is in its original flintlock configuration, pan and frizzen face show heavy use. Brass retains a mellow mustard patina, nose band has been properly replaced. Stock has no repairs or restoration and shows some appropriate wear to carving and scattered marks from use, some minor chipping around lock and barrel tang. A very early and important American fowler made from Dutch musket components from a musket most certainly sent to America before or during the French & Indian War. DMG 10,000 - 20,000

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1028 - (A) A RARE PATTERN 1769 SHORT LAND FLINTLOCK MUSKET MARKED TO THE 71ST HIGHLAND REGIMENT. A rare and highly desirable Short Land musket in its original flintlock configuration, regimentally marked to the 2nd Battalion of the 71st (or Fraser’s) Highland Regiment of Foot. 1,000 stands of Short Land muskets were authorized and issued to the 71st’s two battalions in 1776 and literally delivered to the regiment—already dispersed aboard transports in the fleet—just before they departed to America. This regiment was perhaps the hardest-fighting regiment in the British Army during the Revolutionary, its battle honors including Long Island, White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Charleston, Camden, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, and Yorktown. The sighted, 42-3/8” long, tapered round barrel of 0.79 bore is marked at the top of the breech with Ordnance view and proof marks and a maker’s mark to its left: * / IW and “71 REGT. 2D B” forward of the Ordnance markings; the tang has a sighting groove filed into it and has a crown stamped at its end. Convex lockplate, 1-1/4” x 7”, with two-line border and marked with crown / GR cipher and broad arrow inspection mark before cock and “TOWER” across the tail. Brass mountings of standard Short Land form, including buttplate, flat sideplate, trigger guard, four ramrod pipes, nosecap and thumbpiece, the latter engraved “B / 61”. Figured 3/4 stock with handrail butt and carved “beavertail” apron around tang, with ‘S’ stamped in wood behind sideplate, inspection marks and ‘G’ behind the trigger guard and ‘VI’ stamped in the ramrod channel. The sling swivels are original and ramrod appears to be a period replacement, with ‘449’ stamped beneath the button end. CONDITION: Lock in good working order; some scattered light freckling to the iron components, the barrel a russet brown patina with moderate pitting around the vent, and the with the remainder of the iron components a mottled, gunmetal grey; the cock is a later replacement; the stock evidences some light refinishing, the wood in good condition overall, with a few light dings. JLK 10,000 - 20,000

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1029 - IMPORTANT KENTUCKY RIFLE AND EAGLE-HEAD SABER, BOTH BY JOHN NOLL. (A) Full octagon, key-fastened, rifled barrel of 43-3/4” length and 0.54 caliber; with John Noll’s touchmark “IN” with dagger in raised silver cartouche on left flat near breech, signed on the top flat “John Noll”; dovetailed notched rear sight and brass front sight. The rifle, with an overall length of 59-1/2”, exhibit the classic features of the Chambersburg School of riflemaking as evidenced in Noll’s other known rifles, the relief work on the left or cheekpiece side of the butt with handsomely-carved relief ‘C’ scroll motifs with incised cross-hatching, with comparable relief and incised carving work around the engraved and pierced brass four-piece patchbox on the right side, the tang of barrel and lock; the oval silver thumb piece inlaid on the wrist of the stock has a Federal eagle with shield skillfully engraved upon it. The flat lock with beveled edges is unmarked and is a skillful reconversion back to flint. John Noll was a master gunsmith, carver and engraver who incorporated classic rococo design elements in his carving, in thoughtfully composed designs. John Noll is listed as a gunsmith in Washington Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania with working dates between 1800 and 1820 and is considered one of the master gunsmiths of the golden age of Kentucky rifles. He was equally adept as both carver and engraver, with few contemporaries able to equal his respective abilities in both areas. [with] (B) An unusual eagle-head pommel short saber, the only known sword attributed to Noll, with a curved, wide-fullered blade of 26-1/2” length and 1-1/4” wide at ricasso.

The saber is 32-1/2” long overall and features a unique hilt in that the pommel, as well as grip, is of wood. The grip appears to be of mahogany and carved with spiral grooves and channels, while the pommel, also of the same wood, is a beautifully-carved, crested eagle-head copied from the cast-metal eagle-head pommels found on classic Philadelphia school swords of the Federal era. Its D-shaped knucklebow guard is of flat silver stock that is solder-joined at its rear to a silver ring-shaped ferrule or collar between pommel and grip, while there is a silver, banded ferrule in front of the grip that is soldered directly to the inside face of the silver guard, which terminates in a simple, rounded quillon that curves forward. Noll’s “IN” touchmark is struck on the outer face of the guard, just above the blade spine, while “Col. John Hay” is engraved in script on the outside of the knuckle-bow. John Hay (?-1810) served as a lieutenant colonel in the York County militia during the first decade of the 19th century. Both sword and rifle are illustrated and discussed on p. 24 of “Silver Mounted Swords: The Lattimer Family Collection (2000) by Daniel Hartzler. CONDITION: (A) The barrel a gunmetal grey with a few light patches of freckling down its length, with some wear from old cleanings; the stock and mountings overall very good, with an occasional ding or rub as expected; (B) The sword blade a gunmetal grey in tone; the hilt good and complete, some light scratches and dings to the silver- and wood-word and traces of old silver paint to the pommel. JLK 15,000 - 25,000

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1030 - (A) EARLY NEWLY DISCOVERED PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR AMERICAN FLINTLOCK JAEGER RIFLE. This rifle turned up in Western Pennsylvania, where it has remained for nearly 70 years. It has not been previously photographed, published, or offered publicly. For an example of a rifle with very similar relief carving, buttstock and comb architecture, and trigger guard finial, see rifle number 98 on pages 430 to 433 of “Volume II: Rifles of Colonial America” by George Shumway. The rifle shown in the book has extremely similar features and is signed “J.P. Beck”, who began his gunsmithing career in 1772 or 1773, according to Shumway. He worked in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Like this example, the rifle in the book also has an unusual original single-set trigger mechanism. The early heavily swamped octagonal barrel has deep eight groove rifling and a dovetailed silver front sight. One of the bottom flats is stamped with a sunken cartouche of an ax, towards the breech. The notched rear sight is in the German style and once has a folding leaf for longer distances mounted in front of the fixed sight. The early banana lockplate is Germanic in style and has three engraved lines near the tail as well as an unbridled pan. The Germanic brass furniture is cast and un-engraved. The buttplate has a three-stage stepped tang retained near the tip with a screw. The Jaeger-style trigger guard terminates with fleur-de-lis style finials ending with a ball at both ends. The trigger floorplate also mimics this design.

The early ramrod ferrules have vase-and-ring turnings and the nosecap is retained to the barrel by a screw in the center of the ramrod channel.

Nosecap is decorated with a wedding band. The sideplate shows Moravuian Christian Springs influence and has beveled edges and two moldings surrounded on each side by engraved lines. This early example was made without a toeplate. The full-length highly figured American maple stock shows very early form with a wide butt measuring 2-3/8” across the buttplate at the widest point. There is a sliding wooden patchbox on the right side, although the lid is an improper replacement and the four “C’s” carved in front of it were added later. The left side features a molded relief cheekpiece with foliate scrolls on the left and a larger C-scroll with relief scrolls forming an “A” just as the J.P. Beck rifle in Shumway shows.

There are also shaped relief panels around the lock and sideplate terminating in teardrop shapes at the back. There is a stylized relief shell design with incised decoration surrounding the barrel tang as well as relief carving around the comb. The ramrod is a contemporary replacement.

For another example of a rifle with similar furniture, buttstock profile and carving, see the Johann Adolph Doll rifle on pages 67 - 76 of “Moravian Gunmaking II” by Robert Lienemann. The William Antes rifle on page 97 of “Moravian Gun Making of the Revolution” by the Kentucky Rifle Association and Kentucky Rifle Foundation has a nearly identical sideplate and similar carving, as well. CONDITION: Barrel retains a mostly brown surface and shows some wear and scratches. Lockplate is original but lock is a good professional reconversion, functions properly. Furniture shows scattered marks from use and some wear, retains a mustard patina. Foremost ramrod ferrule shows some denting. Stock retains a pleasing patina with much original dark finish in protected areas. Stock shows heavy wear, minor chipping, and some hairline cracks. No wood has been added or restored. A very important and early American Jaeger rifle that clearly depicts the German roots of later “Kentucky” Longrifles. DMG 45,000 - 80,000

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1031 - (A) REVOLUTIONARY WAR FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO J.P. BECK. This rifle is featured as rifle No. 30 on pages 130-131 of “Rifles of Colonial America: Volume I” by George Shumway. In addition, this rifle is featured in an article titled “John Philip Beck, American Master Gunsmith” by Mike D’Ambra on pages 18-21 of Vol. 36, No. 2 of “Man at Arms” Magazine from April of 2014. It is also photographed for the “Roll of Honor” on pages 36-37 of Volume 30, No. 3 of “Man at Arms” Magazine from 2008. John Philip Beck was born in Rotterdam, Holland in 1751. His parents arrived in America in 1753 and are believed to have settled in the Reading area of Berks County, Pennsylvania until 1776. Due to the similarities of his early signed rifles with those attributed to Wolfgang Haga (Hachen), it is believed that Beck apprenticed under him. This rifle shows many features associated with Reading guns attributed to Haga. Around 1777, he moved to Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a gunsmith until his death in 1811. This unsigned example was made probably between 1770 and 1775 and is attributed to J.P. Beck and was made during his early years as a gunsmith.

One early feature that he continued to use and that evolved as he worked is the “whale’s tail” finial that can be seen in its earliest form on this patchbox. The full-length 42 - 3/8” octagonal .54 caliber smoothbore barrel is unsigned and has a deep 4-1/2” groove cut for sighting at the breech and extending into the tang. The flat hand-forged lock is unmarked and has a molding at the tail. The brass furniture includes an early Reading sideplate with beveled edges and an unengraved brass two-piece patchbox surrounded by brass tack and brass wire inlay designs.

The finial is an early form of Beck’s later well-known “whale’s tail” finials. The early buttplate is straight and measures 1-3/4” across the back, tang is faceted and contains round iron patchbox release button. The early trigger guard is faceted and has a wide bow, the bow extension is parallel with the wrist, indicating it is a very early rifle. The highly figured maple stock is of early pre-Revolutionary War Reading form and has elongated relief panels around the lock and sideplate terminating in teardrop shapes at the backs. There is also a fine relief-carved symmetrical scroll design around the barrel tang that terminates in a stylized Fleur-de-Lis. Around the ramrod entry ferrule, there is a relief shell design with incised accents. The carving on this rifle is nearly identical throughout to the early signed J.P. Beck rifle in the following lot. On both sides of the molded high-relief cheekpiece, there are incised foliate designs. The rifle is complete with a wooden ramrod of the proper style. CONDITION: Barrel retains a heavy brown patina with some scattered areas of light pitting and heavier patina. The lock appears to be in its original flintlock configuration and retains a dark patina with some scattered pitting. Stock shows a pleasing dark patina with some age cracks and minor scattered chips and marks from use. Minor sliver replaced above back of lock, as well as a thin 7-1/2” long sliver on the left side of the ramrod channel extending above ramrod entry ferrule, a small piece at the toe (appears to be period-replaced), and a couple small pieces around barrel pins. Barrel and forend have had about the last 7” towards muzzle professionally restored. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina, front tang of trigger guard has been professionally restored. This is an important and very early pre-Revolutionary War Kentucky attributed to J.P. Beck. This rifle solidifies the belief that he worked first in Berks County and apprenticed under Haga. PROVENANCE: Mike D’Ambra Collection.

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1032 - (A) EARLIEST KNOWN SIGNED J.P. BECK FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE. This rifle was featured on the cover of “Man at Arms” magazine in Volume 29, No. 5 in 2007. The rifle is also featured and discusses on pages 18-21 of Vol 36, No. 2 of “Man at Arms” magazine from April of 2014, in an article titled “John Philip Beck, American Master Gunsmith” by Mike D’Ambra. The rifle is also shown in the “Roll of Honor” in Volume 30, No. 3 of “Man at Arms” magazine from 2008.

This is the earliest known signed J.P. Beck rifle and it displays many of the features attributed to the Hawkin/Haga gun workshop. The rifle probably dates to the 1770s and when it was made, J.P. Beck was in the exploratory stage of his gun making career, before evolving into his later more traditional style as a master gunsmith. Until the discovery of this rifle, it has been unknown where J.P. Beck apprenticed, before settling in Lebanon in 1777, where he opened his own gun shop and established himself as one of the finest gunsmiths of the time. This early and attractive example features a fully octagonal barrel with a brass front sight and notched rear sight. Both sights have a single line engraved both in front of them and behind them. The 43 - 3/8” .50 caliber rifled barrel is inscribed “J. P. Beck” on the top flat. The flat Germanic lockplate has beveled edges and a molding towards the tail. The brass furniture includes a nearly straight buttplate with faceted tang that measures 2” at the widest spot. The early four-piece patchbox is retained by brass pins and the finial retained by screws.

The patchbox skirts and finial are engraved with detailed scrollwork, and the lid is inscribed “Christian Georgey”, who is probably the original owner. The classic sideplate is flat with beveled edges and the trigger guard is faceted. The rifle is stocked in partially figured maple and the form is of familiar Berks County style. There are relief carved panels with long extensions in the back, terminating in teardrops around the lock and sideplate. There is an elongated, relief carved, stylized Fleur-de-Lis around the barrel tang and a relief carved shell behind the ramrod entry ferrule. There is also a relief molding around the ramrod channel and along the bottom of the buttstock. This rifle was made without a toe plate. There are incised scrolls on both sides of the relief cheekpiece on the left side of the buttstock. Complete with a proper wooden ramrod. CONDITION: The barrel retains a mostly gray patina, showing some wear and scattered dark spots. Signature shows some wear but is visible. There is some heavier corrosion towards the breech. Lock is a good professional reconversion and functions properly, retaining a mix of patina and applied brown finish. Brass retains a mellowing patina. Trigger guard has a repaired break behind the bow. Furniture shows some wear and scattered marks from use. Stock shows some wear to carving behind the ramrod entry ferrule and some minor slivers have been replaced around the lock. About 22” of the forend have been properly restored and detection is nearly impossible. This is a very early, important and attractive signed “J.P. Beck” rifle. PROVENANCE: Ex. Doc Huckabba, Joe Frank, and John McWhorter I & II Collections. Mike D’Ambra Collection. DMG 25,000 - 50,000

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1033 - (A) FINE RELIEF CARVED “GOLDEN AGE” FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE, SIGNED J.P. BECK. This rifle, made by Beck in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, is featured and discussed in an article titled “John Philip Beck, American Master Gunsmith” by Mike D’Ambra on pages 18-21 of Vol. 36, No. 2 of “Man at Arms” Magazine from April of 2014. For another J.P. Back rifle with a nearly identical patchbox, see page 73 of “Arms Makers of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania” by Stacy Wood Jr. and James B. Whisker. The full-length 43 - 1/2” .56 caliber smoothbore octagonal barrel is inscribed “J.P. Beck” and has a brass front sight and a notched fixed iron rear sight. The flat lockplate is unmarked and has beveled edges as well as a molding at the tail. The brass furniture is classic J.P. Back in style with a four-piece engraved patchbox, a flat sideplate with beveled edges and a faceted trigger guard.

There is a vacant silver oval-shaped wrist escutcheon surrounded by and incorporated into the relief-carved foliate scrolls around the barrel tang and on the wrist. There is also a silver eight-point star inlaid above the cheekpiece. The full length figured maple stock is of classic Lebanon form and has shaped relief panels around the lock and sideplate with incised accents. There are incised lines on the forend terminating in double scrolls on both sides around the ramrod entry ferrule. There is relief carving around the comb and also relief and incised scrolls on both sides of the wrist. On the left side of the buttstock, behind the cheekpiece, there is a masterfully executed relief and incised ‘C’ scroll design. The rifle is complete with a properly replaced wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a spotted light brown surface, signature shows some wear but is clearly visible, some restoration around touch hole area of breech. Lock is a good professional reconversion and retains a dark surface. Brass has been polished and shows some wear and scattered marks from use. Both tangs of trigger guard show good professional repairs. Stock shows some light wear, scattered marks and minor age cracks and a few minor splinters professionally replaced along both sides of forend along barrel as well as a small piece around rear lock retaining screw. This is a fantastic example of a signed J.P. Beck rifle made at the height of his career with fully developed form and carving. A truly classic Golden age rifle. PROVENANCE: Mike D’Ambra Collection. DMG 25,000 - 50,000

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1034 - (A) EXCELLENT RARE UNTOUCHED FLINTLOCK PISTOL SIGNED J.P. BECK WITH RELIEF CARVING. This pistol is featured on the cover of Volume 29, No. 5 of “Man at Arms” magazine from 2007. It is also photographed and discussed in an article titled “John Philip Beck, American Master Gunsmith” in Volume 5, No. 2 of “Man at Arms” magazine on pages 18-21 written by Mike D’Ambra. Signed Kentucky pistols are very rare and signed “J.P. Beck” firearms are also seldom encountered. This pistol is in untouched condition with no damage, repairs or alterations. The 6” deeply rifled two-stage .45 caliber barrel is inscribed “J.P. Beck” on the top flat. The Germanic handmade lock has a flat plate with beveled edges and a serpentine tail. The lock features an early detached faceted pan. The brass furniture includes a flat Beck sideplate with beveled edges, trigger guard terminating in an acorn, pommel cap, single ramrod ferrule and a thin noseband. The stock shows attractive bird’s head form and is of highly figured maple retaining a pleasing orange hue. There are incised borders terminating in teardrops at the back around the lock and sideplate. There is a relief-scroll design carved around that barrel tang solidifying the work of master gunsmith J.P. Beck. Complete with a wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Excellent, crisp and completely untouched and unaltered. Barrel retains a grey patina and signature is excellent and crisp. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and retains a brown patina with action functioning properly. Brass furniture retains a pleasing mustard patina, pommel cap shows a period repair probably from time of manufacture. Stock retains its original finish and shows a few scattered storage marks and some minor chipping around sideplate. This is an incredibly rare and fine Kentucky pistol signed by a desirable master gunsmith from Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

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1035 - (A) FINE CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED M. FORDNEY. This Kentucky rifle is signed “M* Fordney” in script for maker Melchoir Fordney of Queen Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Melchoir worked between 1809 and 1846. Fordney is famous for having been slain outside his shop by a religious zealot with a tomahawk, leading to the first attempted insanity plea in United States history. The man was found guilty and hanged. The 45” octagonal .44 caliber smoothbore barrel is inscribed “M* Fordney” on the top flat, with a blade front sight and notched rear sight. The lock is unmarked and the rifle features double set triggers. Full-length walnut stock of classic Lancaster form, with incised edge line and dot carving. Two engraved silver inlays with a stylized eagle inlay with engraved designs above the cheekpiece, and engraved thumbpiece. Dished motif with incised semicircle designs behind lock and sideplate. Incised squiggle line behind tailpipe turning into a raised design then into the molding line. Brass furniture with a typical engraved four-piece patchbox with dish carving along lid in between sideplates. Brass furniture features Fordney’s typical heavy-handed combination of lines and geometric shapes engraving. Hardwood ramrod. CONDITION: Overall good condition with some light restoration. Lock is a good professional reconversion with some minor splinters replaced around lock. Small stress cracks around tang. Forestock has been properly professionally restored from muzzle back about 12” and is difficult to detect. Thumb piece inlay is probably a replacement. 5,000 - 10,000

1036 - (A) ONLY KNOWN EXTANT FRENCH MODEL 1754 MARINE FLINTLOCK MUSKET. Perhaps the only one still in existence as there are no other known examples of this scarce model made for French naval shipboard use with all brass furniture, manufactured during the French & Indian/Seven Years War. This includes in all complete French reference books, which contain references, but no images nor listings of yet existing examples of this model. One feature that solidifies manufacture for shipboard use is the brass trigger guard which was never drilled for a sling swivel. The 46 - 5/8” .77 caliber smoothbore barrel has the typical 1754 7-1/2” faceted breech section and tapered top flat extending to the muzzle band. There is an iron bayonet lug mounted on top, towards the muzzle. The French Model 1754 lock appears to have faint St. Etienne and IF- crowned “c” inspectors stamps in the center. All of the furniture is brass, including the rounded buttplate (same as Model 1754 Dragoon musket) and brass center band, and with the full length 46.5” barrel, distinguishes it from the Model 1754 Dragoon musket. The muzzle band has a triangular reinforced trumpeted opening for the ramrod also similar to that of the Model 1754 Dragoon musket, although the back of the band differs in shape. The center band is also spring-retained and identical to the iron 1754 Infantry musket’s band with an integral sling swivel mount, except in this case, the center band is completely of brass. The rearmost band is pressure fitted and also of brass. The full-length walnut stock has the initials “IL” carved into the left side of the buttstock indicating colonial or early American use. Iron ramrod is a modern replacement. CONDITION: Barrel is heavily pitted and retains a dark heavy patina indicating naval use. Lock appears to be in its original flintlock configuration, although the frizzen screw and frizzen spring screws are likely more recent or perhaps earlier period replacements. Lock retains a mostly dark, heavy patina with scattered areas of pitting consistent with the barrel. A piece of brass had been laid in towards the back of the pan during its period of use. All brass retains a very dark brown-mustard patina and has not been polished, showing scattered marks from use. When the musket was found, it had an incorrect sideplate and lock retaining screw, which have been properly and professionally replaced, and otherwise, the musket is as found. Overall, this is an extremely rare and desirable French Naval Ship’s Musket, and is perhaps the last remaining example of the 1754 French naval model. DMG 4,000 - 8,000

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1037 - (A) A TOWER SERVICE PATTERN 1800 BAKER RIFLE AND SWORD BAYONET An early (1802-1806) issue rifle with leaf-sighted, 30-1/4” long barrel of 0.65 caliber with bayonet-bar on the right side at the muzzle and rifled with seven grooves, sighted fore-end, and plain tang bearing crown/5 inspection mark and Crown inspection and proof marks on barrel near breech, along with maker’s touchmark ‘B&S’ (Blair & Sutherland). Flat beveled border, engraved lock with crowned GR and ‘I.GILL’ before the cock and ‘TOWER’ across the tail. Figured walnut full stock with cheekpiece, regulation brass mounts including spur trigger guard and early type, hinged patchbox cover, vacant brass escutcheon; markings include ‘T.C’ stock maker’s mark behind sideplate and later [broad arrow] / BO” stamped on right side of butt before patchbox; original ramrod. With an associated Type 2 issue bayonet with single-edged, 22-7/8” long (well-sharpened) blade with 5” false edge towards the point, regulation brass hilt with sideguard, quillon and knuckleguard all in one piece, and ribbed grip with sprung button-catch, crown/19 inspection mark on right face of blade, with maker’s name, ‘WOOLEY’ on the other. CONDITION: An accomplished reconversion back to flintlock, the lock in good working order; the barrel retains traces of its original browning and a nice patina to all metal parts, the stock with some bruising and a stabilized crack near the swell at bottom; sling swivels missing. JLK 4,000 - 8,000

1038 - (A) A PATTERN 1738/1778 TOWER WALL GUN WITH ORIGINAL SWIVEL MOUNT A rare Pattern 1738/1778 Wall Gun or “Wall Piece” produced for the British Army, bearing Ordnance view and proof marks on center top of barrel near breech, with a partly-obscured maker’s mark “IB“ [possibly Isaac Bissell, who had contracts for barrels during 1775-1783) to the left. The swamped, 54-1/2” long barrel of .98 caliber bore fired a .91 caliber, lead ball of two ounces, eight drams (with a service powder load of 330 grains of black powder, which propelled the ball in ranges documented up to one mile). A sighting groove is cut into the tang/barrel at breech, while a bladed iron foresight is set on the top of the barrel set 4” back from the muzzle. The flat lock has beveled edges with bordered line engraving and bears “TOWER” engraved crosswise on the tail behind the reinforced cock and a “(crown) / GR” engraved before, with broad arrow inspection mark below the faceted pan. The brass mountings include buttplate and sideplate (both with double-line engraved edging), a thumbpiece, and three ramrod pipes. The iron ramrod is original to the gun. The walnut stock has raised carving term terminating in a “beavertail” at rear of lock and around barrel tang. This wall piece, with an overall length of 73-1/4”, weighs 35 pounds and two ounces (not inclusive of the original, forged-iron, swivel yoke). Prized for their long-range accuracy and effectiveness in the defense of fortifications, especially frontier forts and blockhouses, ten such wall guns were shipped to Virginia in 1755 for used on the Braddock Expedition, all of which were subsequently issued to the Virginia colony forces for the defense of their frontier posts. Wall guns were part of the armament of most British military forts in North America and were also carried and used in nearly every British offensive expedition of the French and Indian War. Wall guns were frequently mounted on wheeled mantlets, where their long-range fire and lightness made them perfect weapons to use in advancing forward siege lines by silencing defensive artillery fire. Although designed as a land weapon, by at least 1756 they had been adopted for maritime or naval purposes, being mounted on the decks or fighting tops of ships in lieu of the less, accurate, shorter-ranged swivel guns normally used for such purposes.

The famous colonial American partisan leader, Robert Rogers, mounted them in batteau used for scouting expeditions and within his well-known journal, is a fascinating account of a battle on Lake George, in which Rogers and his men were attacked by a superior party of enemy warriors in canoes. Rogers was able to reverse what should have been a defeat into victory, by sinking and disabling many of the Indian canoes from long-distance fire of his wall guns, before the enemy could get within range of their own arms’ effective firing ranges. Wall pieces such as this example were used by the British Army, Provincial (Loyalist) regular and militia, and some Hessian units during the entirety of the Revolutionary War, beginning with the siege of Boston in 1775. In 1776, the Congreve mantlet-limber was introduced for use with the light three-pounder cannon, in which the wall piece mounted upon it provided defensive fire for the cannon crews during action and was particularly well suited in masked batteries for ambushes or flanking fires. They were taken on nearly every expedition of the war, beginning with Cornwallis’s 1776 expedition against North Carolina, in which 12 were employed by the British attacking force. CONDITION: The lock is in good working order, with crisp actions and has a brownish-grey patina, as does the original ramrod and swivel-mount. The barrel retains 80% of what appears to be an original or period browning, with light freckling and the occasional ding, notably at the muzzle; some light surface rust present—easily removed. The walnut stock has suffered from wood-boring beetle damage in the past, rather extensive in the butt area, but subsequently treated and stabilized. JLK NOTE: the display stand does not convey with this wall gun. 8,000 - 12,000 38

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1039 - (A) FLINTLOCK RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE FAINOT. This fine patchboxed fowler dates circa 1780-1790 and is attributed to George Frederick Fainot because of his trademark sideplate, which shows French influence. Fainot was a French immigrant who was trained in Europe before working in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was born in France in 1728 near the Swiss border and originally immigrated to Quebec, Canada. He later moved to the Hudson Valley before he arrived in Lancaster in 1770 and worked for about 40 years on North Queen St. In 1779, he supplied rifles to the Continental Army, according to “The Lancaster Long Rifle” by Hornberger and Kolar, where another similar example with a nearly identical patchbox is shown on pages 28 and 29.

The 51” two-stage iron .62 caliber barrel is rifled. There is a brass front blade sight and a notched iron rear sight. The flat handmade lockplate has a recessed crescent section at the tail. The brass furniture is clearly the work of Fainot and includes an enclosed two-piece patchbox with a horizontal opening lid engaged by a button on the top skirt. The lid is tombstone shaped and engraved with a flower with eight petals in the center and a roped border. There are eleven brass pins decorating the stock around the patchbox and along the wrist. The brass sideplate is classic Fainot, and resembles French sideplates. There is a large eight-point brass inlaid Moravian star on the left side of the buttstock. There are also two brass pins decorating the top of the comb and three along the top of the wrist. The brass buttplate features a four-stage tang engraved with floral decorations and scrolls. There is a teardrop-shaped silver oval wrist escutcheon with engraved borders. The trigger guard terminates in an acorn finial at the front. The plain walnut stock shows classic early 19th century Lancaster form and four brass keys retain the barrel. Complete with a period wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a pitted and browned surface. Lock has been reconverted to flint and retains a blued plate. Lock functions properly. The brass furniture has been polished bright and shows scattered marks from use and heavy wear in some areas.

Stock shows a more recent coat of finish. There is a piece of wood missing above the lock, just behind the breech, and a wide crack at the rear lock retaining screw. There is also a sliver missing in the front of the lock tang. Some cracks on both sides of the forend have been repaired and there is a crack in need of repair on the left side. The last 7” of the forend have been professionally replaced. A very nice Lancaster rifle, by a desirable and scarcely encountered maker. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

1040 - (A) NEW ENGLAND FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S FUSIL. Diminutive fusil with unmarked round 37” .56 caliber smoothbore barrel with a tapered top flat, and rifle type front and rear sights. Reconverted English military pistol lock with faint” Crown over GR” engraved in center and “W P” forward of cock. Replacement cock is flat with outline engraving. Elegant full length, slender cherry stock in of New England form with carved cheekpiece on left side and convex silver wrist escutcheon surrounded by silver wire inlays. Silver wire inlaid foliate motif also present around barrel tang. Brass nosecap with indentation for ramrod. Three brass ramrod ferrules and engraved entry ferrule. New England style engraving on buttplate tang and pineapple-shaped trigger guard finial.

Two-piece engraved New England sideplate. Complete with brass tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains an even brown patina.

Lock professionally reconverted and with brown finish, functions properly. Brass and silver retain a mellow patina, rear trigger guard tang shows a period dovetailed repair. Stock shows scattered marks from use and some minor cracking and splintering along forend. One area forward trigger guard has dented through to ramrod cavity. A very attractive officer’s fusil. DMG 1,200 - 2,500

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1041 - (A) FINE NEW ENGLAND MILITIA FLINTLOCK MUSKET, DATED 1814.

Round 40 - 1/8” .73 caliber smoothbore steel barrel stamped with deep “X” at breech and marked “P M/US/1814”. Flat lockplate in original flintlock configuration stamped “PARRY/WARRANTED” and engraved with scattered sprigs of engraving. Frizzen was relined during period of use. Nicely engraved brass furniture with New England style engraving and sideplate. Convex silver oval wrist escutcheon, typical of New England guns, engraved with a border and inscribed “No. 20”. Three brass barrel key escutcheons on each side of forend. Full-length plain walnut stock with brass nose cap and ramrod ferrules, steel ramrod and bayonet lug mounted on top of barrel.

CONDITION: Excellent; showing very little use. Lock and barrel retain a light grey patina with some freckling near breech. Lock mechanism is tight and markings are very good. Brass retains an even, unpolished patina. Stock is very good with finish somewhat lighter on buttstock and with a few light scattered marks from use. This is a very nice example of a War of 1812 period New England officer’s musket in much nicer than average condition, and showing high-quality craftsmanship. DMG 2,500 - 4,500

1042 - (A) RARE JOHN YOUNG U.S. MODEL 1808 CONTRACT FLINTLOCK MUSKET. For an identical example with the same markings, see page 171 of Volume II “American Military Shoulder Arms” by George D. Moller. According to Moller, this musket was made by John Young who delivered muskets under John Miles’s 1808 U.S. Contract. Only 50 muskets of this type were made and proofed, according to an inventory dated February 15, 1812. It is based on the Harpers Ferry pattern rather than the Springfield pattern. Some differences from the Springfield muskets is that the bayonet lug is mounted on the bottom of the barrel, the bell-shaped sling swivels are suspended directly from their lugs and the trigger guard, cock, and frizzen are of different configurations. The 44 - 3/4” tapered round .70 caliber smoothbore barrel simply has a sunken cartouche with a “P”. The barrel is retained by three bands held in place by springs on the right side. The flat lockplate has beveled edges and is stamped “I - Y” at the tail. The center is stamped with an eagle over “US”. The iron furniture is standard 1808 Pattern following Harpers Ferry. The plain walnut stock is unmarked. Complete with a replaced iron ramrod.

CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina and marking is excellent. Lock retains a brown patina and is in its original flintlock configuration, mechanism is strong, and markings excellent. Furniture retains a matching brown patina. Stock retains its original finish, initials lightly carved on bottom next to front trigger guard tang. Some minor wood loss on left side of barrel tang and other scattered marks from use. A very rare and desirable War of 1812 musket by an important maker. PROVENANCE: Ex. Robert Sadler Collection (still retains his brass collection tag). DMG 2,500 - 4,500

1043 - (A) FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED G. FEDER. Flintlock Kentucky Style rifle stamped “G. Feder” circa 1810 to 1840. Feder is unlocated and exhibits influences of several styles and makers which could indicate that he moved around a lot. Full octagonal 44” .45 caliber smoothbore barrel with “G. Feder” in italicized stamp print. Blade front sight with notched rear sight. Full plain maple stock with brass hardware including a four-piece engraved patchbox with “SCHMOO” type finial similar to type used by John Bonewitz with push-button release in toeplate. Architecture of stock resembles guns built in and around Berks County, Pennsylvania. “James Golcher” marked flintlock with single trigger. Comes with hardwood ramrod with threaded iron tip. CONDITION: Rifle exhibits an aged patina with what looks to be the original flintlock. Brass is unpolished and has faded to a pleasing golden patina. Good bore with good mechanics. A nice clean Kentucky with no visible restoration or repairs. 1,500 - 3,000

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1044 - (A) ATTRACTIVE FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED D. BECK. Flintlock Kentucky style rifle signed in script “D. Beck”. Beck is unlocated, but his work suggests that he was possibly trained in the Reading area or the Union-Snyder County area with the “Roman Nose” stock architecture his stock exhibits. Estimated working dates would be from circa 1810 to 1840. Rifle has a .44 rifled full octagon barrel of 42 - 1/2” with blade front sight and rear notched fixed sight. Top flat signed in script “D*Beck”. Lockplate marked “E&W Hully New York” with double set triggers. Full figured maple stock with brass hardware including an “Upper Susquehanna” Style four-piece “Whaletail patchbox” with release in buttplate and saddle wear plate. Brass touch hole pick holder below cheekpiece. Comes with hardwood threaded iron tipped rod. CONDITION: Barrel retains original grey patina with sharp signature and sharpbore. Lock is a good professional re-conversion with some burnout around lock from percussion corrosion. Wood retains an aged patina with no visible restoration or repairs. Release on patchbox needs adjustment. Action functions properly. Nice rifle by a seldom seen maker.

3,000 - 6,000

1045 - (A) RELIEF CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED SAMUEL PANNABECKER. This signed Kentucky longrifle was made by Samuel Pannabecker of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania between 1815 and 1839. This rifle is featured in “The Lancaster Long Rifle” by Patrick Hornberger and John Kolar in Plate 53 on pages 88 and 89. The rifle was also on display as part of the Landis Valley’s Lancaster Longrifle exhibit in 2015. The 42” octagon to round .50 caliber smoothbore barrel has a blade front sight and notched rear sight, top flat inscribed “S Pannabecker”. Lock is marked “Ketland & Co.” in center, single trigger. Full length figured maple stock with brass hardware including an engraved four-piece patchbox with push-button release located in the toeplate. Raised carved “C” scroll design behind cheekpiece with wavy line under cheekpiece leading to a floral tang design. Scroll design leads into forestock molding. CONDITION: Shows restoration. Wrist has period repair and has been severely broken at one time. Cracked forestock. Lock is a good professional reconversion. Patchbox has properly replaced lid, sideplate also a possible replacement. Lock needs some adjustment. Signed Pannabacher rifles are scarcely encountered. 2,500 - 3,000

1046 - (A) LANCASTER FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE. Kentucky rifle with Lancaster County architecture made circa 1820-1830 This example is very similar to rifles made by Henry Lechler. The 44” unmarked .45 caliber smoothbore octagon barrel has a blade front sight and notched rear sight. The lock is stamped “James Golcher” flintlock.

The full-legth figured maple stock shows Lancaster form and has brass furniture including a Lancaster style engraved four-piece patchbox with daisy finial and push-button release located in toeplate. Hardwood steel-tipped ramrod. CONDITION: Overall good with lock being the only sign of restoration. Brass has been cleaned a long time ago and has faded to a golden patina. Metal has light crazing turning to a light brown patina.

Dark spotted bore with good lock mechanics. 2,000 - 3,000

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1047 - (A) A RARE FLINTLOCK RIFLED CARBINE BY NOCK WITH ENCLOSED LOCK, C. 1796.

A flintlock, rifled carbine by Henry Nock, 46-1/2” overall, with a rebrowned twist, two-stage barrel of 30” length with octagonal breech engraved “H. NOCK / PATENT”; the musket bore (0.75 caliber) is smooth-bored for the first 4” from the muzzle, then cut with seven-groove rifling making three-quarters of a turn for the remainder; fixed notch rear sight with teardrop-shaped base of German silver, with bayonet lug foresight. The Nock patent, enclosed, screwless lock is 4-3/4” long and has a brass flashguard affixed to the lock on each side of the pan, under which is engraved “H. NOCK” in serifed, block letters. The brass mountings include Nock/New Model-type buttplate (with ‘70’ engraved across its tang) and nosecap, trigger guard, and two ramrod pipes. The walnut 3/4 stock has a wide, full-length ramrod channel with ‘W.T’ stamped into it between trigger guard and flared middle pipe and ‘H C [?]’ in the wood opposite the lock. The iron ramrod has a large button tip, pronounced bulbous swell and then tapering down its length and ending with a brazed tube end with internal threading. The sling swivels appear original to the carbine. CONDITION: 20-30% of the original bluing remains on the barrel tang and lock; the stock with dings, bruises and very slight insect damage on the left side of butt, a stabilized crack in the butt and another on the left side of forestock along barrel edge, running 2-1/2” up from the breech along the barrel edge; lock in good working order. JLK 4,000 - 6,000

1048 - (A) FRENCH MODEL 1777 / YEAR IX DRAGOON MUSKET, C. 1802 The French Model 1777 Dragoon Musket as “corrected” in Year IX (1802) and produced at the Imperial Manufactory of Mutzig, situated near Klingenthal. The musket is 55-1/2” in overall length, with a 40-3/8” long, smoothbore barrel of 0.69 caliber in its original flintlock configuration; a brass, notched rear sight has been brazed on at the breech and the barrel is devoid of visible markings. The convex lock is 6-1/4” long, with reinforced cock and brass pan, under which is stamped “Mre. Imple. / de Mutzig.” The barrel and lock are affixed to a walnut 3/4 stock with cut-out cheekpiece and brass mountings, consisting of buttplate, trigger guard, side plate (stamped ‘I”), noseband (stamped with a crown/P on left side) and rear band; the middle band is of iron—standard to this pattern, as it the trumpet-headed ramrod and sling swivels, all original. There is a 3/4” x 1” brass plate set in the right face of the butt. CONDITION: The iron parts have a brownish-grey patina, the brass dull, in overall good condition, but lock doesn’t hold at full cock, the wood with light dings and bruises commensurate with age/military usage. JLK 1,500 - 2,500

1049 - (A) FRENCH MODEL 1822 NAVY MUSKET BY MAUBEUGE. With the reestablishment of the Bourbon Monarchy under King Louis XVIII, the military forces of France went through a period of rebuilding and rearming. A group of artillery officers was tasked with developing new patterns of muskets and pistols, which were designated Model 1816 arms, followed six years later by the Model 1822—the patterns being largely unchanged visually, but utilizing more steel in key part, in lieu of the traditional forged iron (including all screws and some lock components)—and the introduction of a coned flash hole positioned lower to the pan. This Model 1822 Navy Musket is essentially a hybrid version of the army’s M1822 Light Infantry Musket. Both shared the same 40 ½ inch-long barrel, stock and mounts—with one difference—the M1816 Navy Muskets were brass-mounted, with exception of the buttplate, trigger plate and gripped rail of the trigger guard, which remained iron. In 1842, the navy adopted the .70 (18mm) caliber for its arms and began reaming out the original .68 bore barrels, as well as adding rear sights. Muskets that were so altered bear the inscription “C. de 18N” on the left of the breech, although this example is stamped “C. de 178”. The convex lockplate with reinforced cock and brass pan is engraved “Mre..

Rle. / de Maubeuge”, being produced at the royal arms manufactory at Maubeuge, although others were made at Charleville, St. Etienne and Tulle. The stock bears various arsenal stamps, including “MUTZIG” and “PARIS / 1831 in circular cartouche with French Republic rooster in center.

CONDITION: The steel and iron parts a gunmetal grey with some light freckling and scatterings of surface oxidation; the lock in very good working order; the stock crisp, with only a few random bruises or dings. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

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1050 - (A) A RARE FLINTLOCK MUSKET OF THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY OF LONDON, C. 1803.

A fine volunteer’s musket of the Napoleonic period as carried by a member of the elite Honourable Artillery Company of London, which during this period consisted of an artillery company, called the “Matross Division”, plus a battalion of infantry consisting of eight line “divisions” or companies, one light infantry, and one rifle company. This smoothbore, flintlock musket in its original configuration has a 39” long, tapering, round barrel of 0.77 bore, pin-fastened but with hooked breech. It bears “LONDON” engraved near the breech, as well as London Gunmaker’s Company view and proof marks to the left opposite the vent hole. The lockplate, 1-1/8” x 6”, is flat with beveled edges and has the maker’s name, “BECKWITH” stamped into the plate under the bridled pan. The lock has a rollered frizzen spring and the gooseneck cock is furnished with a rather unique upper jaw configured to also serve has a flashguard to the pan. The brass mountings consist of a buttplate and trigger guard of Short Land form, with flat, triangular sideplate, a nosecap, and three ramrod pipes. The sling swivel and iron ramrod are original, the latter bearing issue markings: “N.W / 9”. The figured, walnut 3/4 stock has the number “2” superimposed over “4” stamped on the underside behind the trigger guard, with setup marks in the ramrod channel. The maker is almost certainly William Andrew Beckwith, who was free of the Gunmaker’s Company in 1801 and contractor to Ordnance Board and the East India Company. Located at Skinner Street, Snow Hill from 1802, he was elected Master of the Gunmakers’ Company in 1808,1814,1825 and 1840 (the year before his death). CONDITION: Very good overall; lock in good working order; the lockplate and cock were originally blued, but no traces remain. The iron parts a pleasing gunmetal grey, with light freckling, while the stock with only a few, scattered, light dings or bruises. JLK 2,000 - 4,000

1051 - (A) GERMANIC FLINTLOCK JAEGER RIFLE. Probably mid-18th century, featuring a 34” heavy swamped and .68 caliber rifled octagon barrel with a brass front sight and a notched rear sight with an additional folding leaf. The early banana lockplate is engraved with scroll designs throughout. The brass furniture includes early turned ferrules, a Jaeger trigger guard with double set triggers, and a buttplate with faceted tang. Mounted on the wrist is an iron protrusion for a specialized target sight, which no longer accompanies the rifle. Walnut stock of Germanic form is profusely engraved with incised foliate designs on both sides, and carved with relief moldings around the lock, ramrod channel, and along the toe. Rifle has a wooden sliding patchbox as well. CONDITION: Barrel retains a heavy brown patina with some pitting overall. Bore shows heavy wear. Lock is a good professional reconversion and does not function, needs adjustment. Cock is a replacement. Lock shows scattered areas of pitting and an overall gray patina.

Brass furniture retains a pleasing dark mustard patina. Stock shows scattered marks from use and some wear. Ramrod is a contemporary replacement. A nice representative example of a Jaeger. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1052 - (A) CONTEMPORARY FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE IN THE BUCKS COUNTY STYLE. This attractive contemporary flintlock rifle is in the early Bucks County Pennsylvania style. The .45 caliber rifled 42” octagonal barrel is inscribed “N. Stephenson” on the top flat, towards the breech. The lock is flat with beveled edges. The engraved brass furniture is in the early Bucks County style and the rifle has a sliding tiger maple patchbox lid surrounded by inlaid brass and brass wire designs. The full-length figured maple stock is of classic early Bucks County form and is carved with proper relief designs around the lock, sideplate and barrel tang. There are relief scrolls in the Bucks/Northampton County style on both sides of the relief molded cheekpiece. The rifle has a nice patina and is well-aged. CONDITION: Functions properly showing little use throughout. A very attractive form with a nice period look to all patinas. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

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1053 - (A) NEW ENGLAND FLINTLOCK FOWLER. Probably circa 1785-1800. This New England fowler features a tapered, round 50” .54 caliber smoothbore barrel with a top flat. There is a copper notched rear sight and a brass front blade sight. The lockplate is flat and has a single line border and is stamped “KETLAND & CO” in the center. The brass furniture is all of American manufacture, including a rifle-style buttplate with a faceted tang, a two-piece sheet brass sideplate, and a trigger guard in the British style, this style was also used by well-known gunsmith Phineas Sawyer. The full-length cherry stock is of familiar New England form with a Roman nose buttstock and a beavertail carved in relief around the barrel tang. CONDITION: Untouched and as found with dark patinas overall. Barrel retains a heavily patinated, freckled surface. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration, retains a matching heavy dark patina, and functions properly, although cock goes slightly too far forward into pan. Brass furniture retains a mellowing mustard patina with some scattered marks from use. Stock shows one area of period damage on the left side of the buttstock, as well as a 27-1/2” piece of the forend which was replaced during the period of use. A very nice New England fowler with a very early and untouched appearance.

1,500 - 3,000

1054 - AN ‘N-Y’ MARKED FLINTLOCK VOLUNTEERS MUSKET BY CLARK, LATE 18TH CENTURY An interesting, unit-marked example of a military musket of the type produced for use by volunteer militia units and also for commercial export to foreign countries during the last quarter of the 18th century. The sighted, 42” barrel is engraved ‘LONDON’ on its top just before private Tower proof marks consisting of two crown/crossed scepters, between which can be found a stamped ‘SP’. The plain, rounded lock is 1-1/4” x 6-1/2” and of the Windus form and has “CLARK” engraved between the cock and the hammer. The brass mountings are of the form used on Windus pattern muskets produced for the Honourable East India Company (for which Clark was a major contractor) and also on the Tower P1793 India musket. They include a sideplate stamped with ‘116’ (which is also stamped in the wood just before the buttplate tang, on which is engraved “N-Y” and “52”. There are four brass ramrod pipes, the first of the two middle pipes being of the flared “Pratt Improvement” form. The original ramrod bears a “116” engraved just behind its button end and the sling swivels are also original to the piece. CONDITION: The lock is in original flint configuration and in good working order, cleaned and bright finished, while the barrel has been rebrowned; the stock with the usual small dings and bruises, possibly also refinished. JLK 2,000 - 3,000

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1055 - (A) FLINTLOCK TRADE FOWLER, CIRCA 1810.

The .62 caliber smoothbore two-stage iron barrel measures 44 - 1/2” and features a notched and dovetailed rear sight, and the top flat is stamped “LONDON”. There are three English proof marks on the left side towards the breech. The flat trade lockplate has a sprig of engraving towards the molded tail, and is stamped in the center “W/KETLAND/ & Co.”. The full-length walnut stock is of familiar early 19th century English form. The furniture is brass and includes small engraved washers around the lock retaining screws and a trigger guard terminating in an acorn finial. There is also a vacant oval-shaped wrist escutcheon with an engraved single line border. Complete with its original wooden ramrod.

CONDITION: Completely as found and untouched in attic condition. Barrel and lock retain a heavy brown patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Brass retains a dark mustard patina with some darker areas. Stock retains its original dry surface with a minor chip at the toe and some splintering and minor repaired cracks on both sides of the forend. The ramrod is stuck and missing a small portion at the tip. DMG 800 - 1,500

1056 - (A) FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE EISTER. George Eister was born in 1741 and died in 1810. He is buried at Wolf’s Church in West Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania.

George Eister is listed in the 1795 tax records as a gunsmith in Manchester Township. For an example with an extremely similar patchbox, see rifle number 27 on page 300 of “The Annotated Third Edition of Thoughts of the Kentucky Rifle in it’s Golden Age” by Joe Kindig, Jr. The example shown in the book is signed. The 43” heavy octagon barrel is deeply rifled in .50 caliber, and the muzzle face is decorated with punch dot stamps. Front brass blade sight and notched iron rear sight. The flat lockplate with the recessed tail section is stamped “T. KETLAND & Co.” in the center. The brass furniture includes a large four-piece patchbox with six piercings and retained by thirteen brass screws. The patchbox skirts are engraved with scrolls and the lid is engraved with scroll and floral designs. The patchbox release is a brass button on the top patchbox skirt near the buttplate, and the lid is convex. Large faceted trigger guard with double set triggers and a flat sideplate with beveled edges. There are eight diamond-shaped silver inlays, one surrounding each of the brass barrel keys. There is also a vacant silver wrist escutcheon and an eight-point silver star inlaid above the cheekpiece. The figured maple stock is consistent with York County form and is very similar to that of rifle number 129 on page 302 of the book mentioned above. CONDITION: Barrel retains a light brown surface with scattered areas of spotting and evidence that the tang of heat treatment, probably to reattach the tang. Lock has been reconverted and browned, markings are faint. Brass retains a mellowing mustard patina, and shows some wear and scattered marks. Head is absent from rearmost screw in sideplate and a portion of the sideplate is missing around the front lock screw. Four of the silver inlays have been replaced. Stock shows added coats of finish and some cracks along both sides of the wrist, as well as one between the rear lock retaining screw and barrel tang, otherwise good, aside from some minor marks from use.

DMG 3,000 - 6,000

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Timothy W. Landers 1945-2020 Tim Landers’ antique gun collection, most of which is presented here at auction, represents a life-long passion for collecting antique weapons that began at nine years of age when his favorite uncle bought him a $5.00 pistol against his parent’s wishes. When his uncle, on his deathbed, confessed his guilt that he had purchased the gun for only $3.00, Tim replied, “That’s ok, Uncle Earl, I sold it for $9.00!” That transaction began Tim’s avid interest in all types of guns, swords, pistols, artifacts, and accoutrements associated with pre-1900 military history.

Tim was an active member in the Kentucky Rifle Association (KRA) for over 40 years and rarely missed a show. He supported various local KRA shows to advance the avocation that brought him many friends and associates over many years. Those who knew Tim always found him pleasant to deal with, honest in his opinion, and generous with his knowledge of Kentucky rifles. His mischievous smile, twinkling blue eyes, and love of a good laugh are how his collecting friends will always remember him.

Tim collected many different types of antique militaria but specialized in the Kentucky Rifle. In fact, some say he held one of the finest collections in western Pennsylvania. Tim also took an interest in French and Indian War militaria and donated a few pieces of his collection to the Bushy Run Battlefield Museum in Pennsylvania.

Tim graduated from California University of Pennsylvania and went on to receive his MA in Social Sciences at Penn State University. His career with the Pittsburgh Public Schools, teaching History, Social Sciences, coaching Cross Country, and finally as an Administrator of the Gifted Education Program allowed him the opportunity to unite, inspire, and motivate thousands of young people during his 30 years of service.

Tim considered himself incredibly blessed to enjoy over 25 years of retirement. He and his wife, Diane, who is a collector herself, traveled extensively, where they pursued their shared interests in world cultures, history, and archaeology. Tim volunteered at events to support the Fort Pitt Museum and Oliver Miller Frontier Homestead by displaying his collection of artifacts from Colonial America. He spent much of his time at his beloved cabin in the Laurel Highlands, which he built with his father, and supported the Mountain Watershed Association, protecting the mountains of Western Pennsylvania, which he loved so much. He was an outdoorsman who sailed extensively throughout the Bahamas and was an avid fly fisherman enjoying the beauty of many streams across America.

Tim Landers, passed away on April 5, 2020 at his home in Pittsburgh, PA. He is survived by his beloved wife, Diane, his daughter Jennifer, her husband Neal, two beautiful granddaughters, Leighton and Brooke, and his son Matthew, who carries on his father’s collecting tradition as a member of the KRA. We hope you enjoy Tim Landers’ collection as much as he did and continue to be “loving caretakers” of these beautiful pieces of history.

1057 - (A) FINE PATTERN 1756 FLINTLOCK HEAVY DRAGOON PISTOL BY EDGE, DATED 1759.

Examples of this pattern are scarce. For a nearly identical example, see page 85 of “British Ordnance Small Arms” by De Witt Bailey. Tapered round 12” .59 caliber smoothbore barrel with Tower proof marks on top near center of breech, “(crown) / GR / (broad arrow)” and crown over crossed scepters. The rounded lockplate has a slight curve and features double line engraved borders. The tail is inscribed “EDGE/ 1759” and the center is engraved with a large British crown over “GR”. Below the pan is the small stamp of a crown and a broad arrow denoting British government ownership. The back of the barrel tang is also stamped with a small crown inspectors mark. Standard brass Pattern 1756 military furniture including a convex long land pattern sideplate and a wrist escutcheon. The full-length walnut stock features relief carving around the barrel tang, lock, and sideplate. Behind the sideplate is a large stamped inspector’s mark “JG” and there is an intertwined “GR” on the right side of the wrist, which is the British storekeeper’s stamp. Complete with its original brass tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel has been cleaned and shows light pitting overall. Markings are good. Lock also polished bright with some light scattered freckling. Markings are excellent, cock is probably a replacement. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and mechanism is crisp. Brass furniture is polished and shows some light scattered marks. Stock is very good, with some scattered storage marks. A very good example of a pistol used in the South during the American Revolution. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

1058 - (A) ENGLISH BURL STOCKED FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY THOMAS GREEN. Thomas Green is listed as working between 1680-1720 making flintlock holster pistols and flintlock blunderbusses. He had a government commission making flintlock military musket with dog locks in London. This pistol has a two-stage 8” round .62 caliber smoothbore barrel with private view and proof marks, as well as a maker’s cartouche. The banana lockplate has a round face and double-line borders, as well as an unbridled pan. The center is engraved “T. GREEN”. Early turned steel ramrod ferrules, iron pommel cap, engraved on the bottom with a flower, early trigger guard terminating in a stylized Fleur-de-Lis finial. Symmetrical wrist escutcheon engraved with the initials “W.R.” and a serpentine sideplate terminating in the back with a foliate motif. The burl stock is carved with relief designs around the barrel tang, lock, sideplate, and entry ferrule. The wooden ramrod has an iron tip and appears to be original. CONDITION: Barrel lock and all iron mounts have been polished bright in the European fashion. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Barrel markings are partially visible, lock markings are excellent. Pistol has been shortened a few inches during its period of use and the stock shows some age cracks, separation, and minor areas filled around pins. A very attractive and early English pistol. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1059 - (A) RARE RELIEF-CARVED LEHIGH COUNTY FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO PETER NEIHART. This fantastic relief-carved rifle is featured on page 4 of “Kentucky Rifles & Pistols: 1750 - 1850” published by James R. Johnston. The rifle dates circa 1790 and is one of only a handful of relief carved rifles from the Allentown-Bethlehem School. The rifle features a 41 - 1/4” full octagon .48 caliber smoothbore barrel with a brass and silver front sight and a notched rear sight. Both have double lines engraved on the top flat in front of and behind them. The flat lockplate has a molded tail and is unmarked. The brass furniture includes a four-piece patchbox, deeply engraved with whimsical foliate designs, the sideplate is in the early classic Lehigh County form and terminates in the back with a stylized Fleur-de-Lis. On the wrist there is a silver oval escutcheon also deeply engraved en suite. Above the cheekpiece, there is an 8-point engraved silver star and in front of the front trigger guard tang there is an inlaid silver Allentown Indian head. The highly figured maple stock has classic Lehigh form and a thin profile. There are relief panels around the lock and sideplate, terminating in the rear with a teardrop with a small tit. There is a relief design with incised accents around the barrel tang and there are relief and incised scrolls on both sides of the wrist. Behind the high relief molded cheekpiece there is a masterfully executed display of relief sea scrolls with incised whimsical designs. Complete with a properly replaced wooden ramrod.

CONDITION: Barrel retains a spotted brown patina. Lock is a good professional reconversion and retains a matching brown patina. Brass furniture retains a mellow patina. Stock retains a pleasing orange color and craving is excellent. There are some losses from chipping around the barrel tang and the entire forestock from the front of the front trigger guard tang forward has been professionally replaced, although all of the hardware, with the exception of the nose cap, appears to be original. This attractive rifle has great form and excellent carving, which was clearly executed by the hand of Peter Neihart. DMG 12,000 - 25,000

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1060 - (A) INCISE CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE, SIGNED S. MILLER. For a nearly identical rifle, see rifle number 29 on page 65 of “Berks County Long Rifles & Gunmakers, 1750-1900” by Patrick Hornberger.

This rifle features a 42 - 3/16” fully octagonal .49 caliber smoothbore barrel with a brass front sight and a notched rear sight, inscribed “S*Miller” on the top flat towards the breech. The center of the lockplate is stamped “KETLAND & CO.” in the center. The standard Simon Miller furniture includes a four-piece patchbox with engraved scrolls on the lid. There is a small silver wrist escutcheon with vacant inscription and an inlaid silver crescent moon above the cheekpiece, which is decorated with rocker panel engraving. The stock is of highly figured maple and has familiar Berks County form. Behind the cheekpiece on the left side of the buttstock there are classic incised scrolls. Rifle is complete with its original wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Very good overall. Barrel retains a dark even brown patina, and signature is excellent. Lock is a good professional reconversion, and retains a brown surface with some scattered pitting. Brass furniture retains a mellowing patina. Stock is very good and retains a pleasing orange color, with some scattered marks from use. Carving is excellent. There are some minor losses from powder burns above the front lock tang and just behind the pan. A very attractive unrestored signed rifle. DMG 5,000 - 8,000

1061 - (A) FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED BY PETER BERRY. For a nearly identical rifle with the same patchbox, similar carving, and the same cheekpiece inlay, see rifle number 112 on page 270 of “Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in it’s Golden Age, Annotated Third Edition” by Joe Kindig, Jr. The.52 caliber rifled fully octagonal barrel measures 43” and has a brass front blade sight and a notched iron rear sight. The top flat is inscribed “P. Berry”. The hand-forged lock has a flat plate with a molded tail and beveled edges. The brass furniture includes a classic four-piece pierced Peter Berry patchbox, the lid convex, and the finial features a three-petaled flower. Skirts and finials have simple scroll engraving, and the patchbox release is a rectangular iron button on the toe plate. Classic Peter Berry sideplate and faceted trigger guard. Ramrod entry ferrule tang is tombstone shaped and the barrel is retained by three brass pins with a nose cap engraved with a wedding band at the back. The stock is of highly figured maple and displays classic Lebanon County form. The left side is profusely carved with relief scrolls and floral designs. There are relief panels terminating in teardrops around the lock and sideplate, as well as relief scrollwork around the barrel tang. There are incised designs around the ramrod entry ferrule and in front of the trigger guard tang.

CONDITION: Barrel retains a pitted heavy brown surface. Lock has been professionally reconverted to flint and functions properly. Brass furniture shows a mostly mustard patina, with scattered marks from use, and wear. Front trigger guard tang has been partially replaced or a break has been repaired. Stock shows some wear and roughness around carving. Stock was once broken through and has been repaired through the front of the trigger guard tang. A few splinters have been replaced along each side of the forend, and about 27-1/4” of the forend have been professionally replaced, as well as some minor piercing along the ramrod entry ferrule. There is also some wood replaced above the front lock tang and between the rear lock tang and the barrel tang. DMG 4,000 - 8,000

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1062 - (A) RELIEF CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTIAN BECK. For another example with nearly identical carving, see rifle no. 50 on pages 84-85 of “The Lancaster Long Rifle” by Patrick Hornberger and John Kolar. Both this rifle and the rifle shown in the book are attributed to Christian Beck, the second son of John Philip Beck. Christian was born in 1782. The cheek side raised carving shows a similarity to J.P. Beck’s work, and it is believed that both brothers probably trained under the same master. This rifle probably dates circa 1800-1810. The rifle has a .42 caliber smoothbore octagon barrel measuring 42 - 1/8” with a brass front sight and notched rear sight. The lockplate is flat with beveled edges and a small molding towards the back of the tail. The plain brass furniture includes a four-piece, unengraved patchbox retained by screws and terminating in a whale’s tail finial.

As evident by the lack of engraving, Christian Beck was a master carver but lacked confidence when it came to the art of engraving metal. There is a long toeplate terminating in an acorn finial. The toeplate is also where the rectangular patchbox release button is located. The rest of the brass furniture is classic Lebanon County. There is a vacant silver oval wrist escutcheon as well as a half-moon inlaid above the cheekpiece on the left side. There are also silver escutcheons on both sides of the forend around each barrel key. The highly figured maple stock has relief carved designs around the barrel tang, lock, sideplate, and ramrod entry ferrule. There are large relief scrolls with incised details on both sides of the wrist and around the comb. There are incised ovals around the wrist escutcheon and the moon inlay above the cheekpiece. There are large, more ornate ‘C’ scrolls above the cheekpiece on the left side. The wooden ramrod is a replacement. CONDITION: Barrel retains a freckled brown patina and had about 7” professionally restored. Lock is a good reconversion and retains a brown patina, functions well. Brass furniture retains a pleasing, even mustard patina showing a few scattered marks. Silver furniture retains a nice pewter patina. Stock retains much original finish and patina in protected areas, low areas, and around carving. There are some slivers of wood replaced around the lock, sideplate, toe, and a few slivers on each side of the forend. There is also about 7” replaced at the muzzle. There are also additional holes showing the barrel pins have been moved about 2”, otherwise stock shows some wear, grain cracks, and scattered marks. A very attractive Golden Age relief-carved Kentucky rifle. 7,000 - 15,000

1063 - (A) RELIEF CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO WOLFGANG HAGA. For another example by the same hand and attributed to Wolfgang Haga, see rifle number 73 on page 200 of “Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in it’s Golden Age”

by Joe Kindig, Jr. Kindig attributes the rifle shown as being one of Haga’s earlier guns and states that he believes it to be Revolutionary War period. This example has a 44” full-length .56 caliber smoothbore octagon barrel with a silver front sight and a notched rear sight. The lock is Germanic in style and features a molding at the tail. The brass furniture includes an unengraved four-piece patchbox in the classic style attributed to Wolfgang Haga. The patchbox release is at the back of the faceted buttplate tang. The sideplate has beveled edges and is in the classic Reading/Berks County style as well as the trigger guard, which is of early form with a wide front tang. The partially figured maple stock is in the classic Reading/Berks County form with a heavy Roman nose, and the buttplate measures about 1-7/8” across in the widest spot. There is a relief shell carved around the barrel tang, and large relief panels around the lock and sideplate, terminating at the back in teardrops. There is also a molding along the ramrod channel on both sides, and relief carving around the ramrod entry ferrule. On the left side of the buttstock there are relief scrolls, both in front of and behind the cheekpiece. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina, showing some areas of heavier patina and some scattered dents and marks from use. Lock shows some scattered pitting overall, and a dark patina. Lock is a good professional reconversion and functions properly. Brass furniture retains a pleasing mustard patina and shows some scattered marks. Stock shows some wear overall and scattered marks from use, with one minor sliver replaced along the ramrod channel on the left side. A very attractive and early Haga attributed rifle. DMG 7,500 - 12,000

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1064 - (A) NEW ENGLAND FLINTLOCK FOWLER SIGNED JOHNSON. For another example by Johnson, see page 46 of “Flintlock Fowlers” by Tom Grinslade. It is likely the signature “Johnson” on the lock was Seth Johnson of Old Rutland, Massachusetts, who is listed as having worked from 1772-1777 and made Committee of Safety muskets. The fowler has a 50 - 1/2” tapered round heavy iron .58 caliber smoothbore barrel, with a tapered top flat, with small sights mounted on top, as well as two 12-1/2” side flats. The early handmade American lock is inscribed “JOHNSON” in the center with a squiggly line border below and is engraved at the tail with a sea scroll and an acanthus leaf design. The brass furniture includes a brass trigger guard in the French style, terminating in the back with a pendant, and at the front, with a gadrooned triangle. The buttplate has a three-stage tang, and the flat sideplate is serpentined and shows British influence. There is a large convex oval wrist escutcheon with a squiggly line border, and inscribed with the initials “PK” and what appears to be the date “1767”. The full-length cherry stock is in the classic New England form showing French influence, with a long wrist extending into the buttstock and a Roman nose comb. The wooden ramrod appears to be original but has been repaired towards the tip. CONDITION: Barrel retains a spotted brown and grey surface, with scattered areas of corrosion, especially around the breech. Lock is possibly a good professional reconversion, using the original plate. Signature is clear and lock functions properly.

Brass retains a dark mustard patina and silver wrist escutcheon is polished and shows some minor denting and wear. Stock shows much of its original finish and dark patinas, especially around furniture and in protected areas. There are a couple minor slivers replaced along the forend on both sides, as well as a piece between the top of the lock and the barrel tang. A very attractive and early New England Fowler, signed by an important New England maker. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

1065 - (A) FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE, SIGNED D. BECK. The 40 - 7/8” full-length octagon barrel of .42 caliber smoothbore has a brass front sight and a notched iron rear sight centered on the block, inscribed “D. Bec-” on the top flat towards the breech. The flat lockplate has a rounded tail, decorated with stamp-engraved designs. The plain brass furniture includes a four-piece patchbox, reminiscent of those found on signed Mauger & Derr rifles. There is also a small oval-shaped silver wrist escutcheon with vacant inscription, and an inlaid crescent moon above the cheekpiece. On the bottom in front of the toeplate, there is a silver half-moon shaped inlay with a hole in the center for a touch hole pick. The brass touch hole pick accompanying the rifle has been replaced. The highly figured maple stock features a Roman nose Berks County profile. Complete with its original wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a mostly heavy brown patina, with area around the signature being cleaned. Some corrosion around breech. Lock has been reconverted and spring is weak. Brass retains an unpolished dark mustard patina. Stock retains its original finish, and show scattered marks from use. There is a minor area of loss just behind the pan due to powder burns, and a small filled chip above the front lock tang. A very attractive and original Berks County rifle. DMG 3,000 - 5,000

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1066 - (A) INCISE CARVED FLINTLOCK FOLK ART KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED JOSEPH ANGSTADT. This rifle dates to about 1800 and is signed by Joseph Angstadt who worked in Maxatawny Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

For another example from the Joe Kindig, Jr. collection with nearly identical carving on the buttstock, see rifle no. 18 on page 54 of “Berks County Longrifles & Gunmakers 1750-1900” by Patrick Hornberger. The rifle has a 44” full-length .45 caliber smoothbore octagon barrel with a brass front sight and an iron rear sight with punch-dot decoration. There are also sprigs of decoration and each sides of the rear sight, as well as behind the front sight. The rifle is signed on the top flat in block letters “JOS ANG” along with other decorative pinwheel designs. The lock is probably a replacement and features stamp engraving as well as “LONDON” stamped in the center. The brass furniture is uniquely indicative of Joseph Angstadt and includes an ornate and large pieced four-piece patchbox with engraved designs. The trigger guard is of the style seen in Lehigh County, as it features a large lug at the front of the bow. There is also an engraved toeplate terminating in an arrow, as well as a long wearplate extending from the ramrod entry ferrule and engraved with designs and borders mirroring those found on the patchbox. There are shaped brass escutcheons around each of the barrel keys on the left side only. The full length, partially figured maple stock is of familiar Berks County form with a Roman nose buttstock and a slender wrist. There are incised folk art designs around the barrel tang on both sides of the wrist and a large folk art motif incorporating ‘C’ scrolls behind the cheekpiece. Above the cheekpiece, there is a pierced and engraved eight-point silver star. CONDITION: Barrel retains a heavy brown patina showing some scattered corrosion. Signature is clear and very good. Lock is a possible replacement and has been reconverted, does not hold on full cock. Lock has some corrosion and retains a brown surface. Brass retains a mustard patina and shows some scattered areas of casting flaws. Stock retains much of its original dark finish and patina, and shows scattered areas of wear and marks from use.

The wooden ramrod is original. There is a minor chip replaced at the toe, as well as a small piece between the back of the lockplate tang and the barrel tang. This is a very good example of a Joseph Angstadt rifle. 7,000 - 12,000

1067 - (A) A PATTERN 1756 LONG LAND PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET WITH 1759 GRICE LOCK. A tapered round barrel of 45-1/2” length and 0.79 bore, with centered Ordnance view and proof marks at breech and maker’s mark ‘IG’ to the left; forward of the Ordnance markings is engraved ‘40 REGT. FT.’ which are probably spurious. The 1-1/4” x 7”, convex lockplate bears a crowned GR before the cock and GRICE /1759 at its tail, possibly refreshed. The brass mountings are all standard 1756 Land Pattern forms, including a vacant thumbpiece. The figured walnut 3/4 stock has a handrail butt and carved, raised apron around the barrel tang, with an ‘L’ impressed behind the sideplate, inspection marks behind the trigger guard, setup marks in ramrod channel, and a storekeeper’s stamp on the right side of the butt; the left side has “NW 1777” inside rectangular cartouch, all rendered in peck-work. The iron ramrod appears to be original, but the sling swivels are later replacements. CONDITION: The reconverted lock is in good working order, the barrel welded and bushed at vent, the iron parts all a russet finish, while the stock is in good overall condition, with some bruising and very minor replacement of wood splinters along barrel edge; the wood refinished. JLK 3,000 - 6,000

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1068 - (A) BRITISH P1769 SHORT LAND FLINTLOCK MUSKET WITH BAYONET. A very good example of the Short Land Pattern Musket in its Type I or original 1769-1776 configuration, now known to collectors as the Pattern 1769. First issued in 1772-1773 to the light infantry companies of standing British regiments and the 42nd Highland Regiment or “Black Watch”, by 1776 this musket had become the workhorse of the British Army infantry regiments and was also highly prized by its American adversaries.

Its 42” long barrel of 0.79 bore bears Ordnance view and proof marks centered on top of barrel near breech, with the maker’s touchmark “FG” (for Farmer & Galton, who had contracts for barrels and locks with the Tower Armoury) near breech on the left side. The rounded lock has a “[crown] / GR” engraved before the cock and “TOWER” behind, with a broad arrow inspection mark underneath the pan. The musket exhibits the distinctive brass hardware for the Pattern 1769 musket, including buttplate, thumbpiece, flat sideplate, trigger guard, four ramrod pipes and nosecap. The original, walnut stock has a faint storekeeper’s stamp on the right butt, while there are two inspection marks stamped in it just behind the trigger guard. The musket has a well-fitted, associated bayonet of the 1755-1768 form, 21-3/4” overall with 17” x 1-5/8” blade bearing a “(crown) / 5” inspection mark and a “13” on its flat face, while the socket bears issue marks of “2/50”. CONDITION: The iron hardware is a gunmetal grey, the markings quite good, and the lock in original flint configuration and in good working order (mechanism sometimes catches at full cock). The stock has been refinished and is in overall good condition, but there is a 3” splice of wood on the lower part of the forestock just behind the nosecap, and another shallow one (approximately 1/4”) ranging 11-1/4” from the tailpipe forward along the top edge of the right forestock; the ramrod is a later replacement. JLK 4,000 - 6,000

1069 - (A) FINE RELIEF CARVED KENTUCKY FLINTLOCK RIFLE, SIGNED JACOB LEATHER. According to “Gunsmiths of York County” by James B. Whisker, Jacob Leather (1755-1835) was a gunsmith who worked in Yorkborough from the time of the American Revolution through the War of 1812. His shop was on the north side of Market Street and he was one of the York contractors for 1,200 Model 1795 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania muskets. Leather worked with Conrad Welshans to deliver 512 of the weapons. He was also a participant in the contract to let the York gunsmiths supply Model 1808 muskets on government contract during the War of 1812. His work shows great similarities to that of Jacob and Conrad Welshans. The rifle features a 42” fully octagonal .60 caliber smoothbore barrel with a brass front sight and notched rear iron sight. The top flat is inscribed “J. Leather” towards the breech.

The flat lockplate is unmarked and has beveled edges, as well as a faceted pan. The brass furniture includes an engraved 4-piece patchbox with a pierced finial. The sideplate is of York form and features engraved designs en suite. The rifle is stocked in plain maple and has a York County profile. The wrist has shaped checkered panels and the left side of the buttstock has large relief carved foliate sea scrolls as well as incised designs behind the cheekpiece. The rifle is complete with its original wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a freckled surface with an applied brown finish. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, retaining a dark patina. Lock is possibly a replacement. Brass furniture shows wear and scattered marks from use. Ramrod ferrules show heavy wear and some losses. Stock shows heavy wear and minor pieces of wood which has been replaced around the lock and along both sides of the forend. The last 17” of the forend have been professionally restored. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

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1070 - (A) DIMINUTIVE BERKS COUNTY FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE. This slender long rifle has beautiful Berks County form and wonderful patina. The 40 - 3/4” octagon .50 caliber rifled barrel is more diminutive than most and is deeply rifled. There is a small brass sight towards the muzzle and a small iron sight towards the breech. The small lockplate is marked “CARTER & / TOMLINSON/ WARRANTED”. It features a roller frizzen and engraved designs at the tail. The brass furniture includes an attractive Reading 4-piece engraved patchbox and a full flat unengraved sideplate, similar to those more commonly encountered in the Lehigh Valley school. The slender figured maple stock is of classic Berks County form, with a Roman nose buttstock and a relief molding along the ramrod channel. Complete with its original ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina, with some corrosion around the breech. Lock appears to be in its original flintlock configuration. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina. Stock retains much of its original dark patina in protected areas and much of its original finish, with some later coats applied. Stock shows scattered marks from use and minor age cracks. There is a small repair at the foremost ramrod ferrule, where a small piece of wood is replaced around the pin on both sides. This rifle has a pleasing profile and patina.

DMG 3,000 - 5,000

1071 - (A) FRENCH MODEL 1728 AMERICAN RESTOCKED REVOLUTIONARY WAR FLINTLOCK MUSKET. Tapered round 46 - 3/4” iron barrel of .70 caliber smoothbore has a faceted breech section retained by three iron bands. Flat lock with molding at the tail, center stamped with a crown over “SE” as well as “P. GIRARD”. Standard French Model 1728 iron furniture including long faceted four-stage buttplate tang and a lanyard ring mounted behind the sideplate. American restock using walnut and imitating the French form, but with an elongated wrist. Complete with a period iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a spotted grey patina, which was cleaned at some time and has some added finishes. Lock retaining screws have been replaced and lanyard ring is a contemporary replacement as well as the three barrel bands. Lock retains a spotted grey patina, with excellent markings. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, frizzen screw is a contemporary replacement. Iron furniture has been partially cleaned. Buttplate retains a dark patina, while trigger guard retains a spotted grey patina. Stock shows scattered marks from use and some minor chipping and splinters. An interesting composite musket. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1072 - (A) FRENCH MODEL 1766 FLINTLOCK MUSKET OF MAUBEUGE MANUFACTURE WITH BAYONET. This model was one of the most widely used arms by American forces during the Revolutionary War when thousands of this model and others were sent to America by our French allies. The musket has a 44 - 5/8” tapered round .75 caliber smoothbore barrel with bayonet lug mounted on the bottom towards the muzzle. The barrel is retained by three iron bands. The flat lockplate is inscribed “Maubeuge” in the center. Standard Model 1766 iron furniture. Walnut stock of classic French form. Right side of butt carved with initials “PI & OPI”, probably for the initials of the soldier who carried it. Complete with a period repaired iron ramrod. Complete with proper triangular socket bayonet, with retaining ring. The bayonet fits well and has a matching patina. Complete with a contemporary scabbard. CONDITION: Barrel and furniture have been lightly cleaned and now retain a grey patina with some polishing marks and scattered areas of pitting, touch hole has been re-bushed. Lock retains an even grey patina with some scattered freckling. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Stock shows heavy use and scattered marks, as well as some minor splintering to the forend on both sides, and some minor losses along the barrel. Bayonet retains a matching patina and markings on bayonet are very good. Scabbard is contemporary. A very nice classic French Revolutionary War musket. DMG 3,000 - 5,000

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1073 - (A) CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED C. GUMPH. For another example with a similar patchbox, see rifle no. 32 on pages 60 and 61 of “The Lancaster Long Rifle” by Patrick Hornberger and John Kolar. Christian Gumph worked as a gunsmith in the borough of Lancaster. He is listed in 1792 as a “Reiffel Smith” and was a contributor to the 1794 arms contract organized by General Hand. This rifle has a 43” full-length .52 caliber smoothbore octagonal barrel, signed “C Gumph”. The flat lockplate is unsigned and hand-forged in the German style with a molding at the tail. The rifle features double set triggers and brass furniture. The four-piece patchbox is engraved and has four piercings, two on each side of the lid. Trigger guard and sideplate are indicative of Lancaster County. The full length figured maple stock is of classic Lancaster form with incised scrolls around the comb and on both sides of the wrist. There is a molded cheekpiece on the left side with some incised carving below. The left side of the buttstock features large incised ‘C’ scroll designs. The wooden ramrod appears to be original. CONDITION: Barrel retains a spotted grey patina and signature is very good. Barrel shows edge wear and scattered marks. Lock is a good professional reconversion and functions properly. Brass furniture retains a dark mustard patina and shows some darker areas and scattered marks from use. Stock shows some wear, minor grain cracks, and some splinters repaired near the muzzle on the left side. A very attractive Lancaster rifle. 7,000 - 10,000

1074 - (A) AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY FRENCH BAYONET WITH ORIGINAL SCABBARD. A rare example of a French socket bayonet with its original scabbard, probably for an officer’s fusil, from the 1st quarter of the 18th century. The bayonet is of forged iron/steel and 8-1/4” long overall, with a flat-double-edged, spearpoint blade 4-7/8” L x 1-1/8” W. The blade’s long, figure-8 shaped, shallow elbow is connected to the socket by a long, oval “platform”; the socket is 1-5/8” long with a 3/4” inside diameter and has a 2-turn mortise cut for a bottom-mounted bayonet lug. The scabbard is 5” L x 1-3/8” W at throat and is made of thin wood, covered with red morocco leather with tooled edges and “SVBE” scribed into one face. PROVENANCE: Former George C. Neumann Collection. CONDITION: Overall very good; the bayonet with forging marks and light freckling in a few spots. JLK 900 - 1,500

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1075 - ENGRAVED POWDER HORN OF ELIPHALET AUSTIN, DATED 1776.

This horn measure about 14” and 10-1/2” across the bow. It has a relief cone-shaped spout section and the main body is engraved with a chicken-like turkey, several rope designs and a large flowering plant. It is inscribed “E A 1776” in large crosshatched block letters. According to the consignor, this horn was purchased from a descendant of Col. William Goodwin, who fought in the New Haven Alarm in 1779. It came with three letters from his son Harley dated 1819, 1822, 1840, and a poem, which all still accompany the powder horn. Research shows that Goodwin’s daughter married into the Austin family and Eliphalet Austin served in the New Haven Alarm with Goodwin. The only man serving in that company with the “EA” initials, so it is evident that this horn was most likely his. Austin has an extensive military record of which a copy is included, along with . When he moved to Ohio, he founded Austinburg, Ohio and became its first mayor. CONDITION: Some cracks to the spout section and reinforcing ring at spout is absent. The horn retains a pleasing brown honey patina, with scattered marks from use. The original convex wooden plug shows some losses to surface and has four period nails, two are rose heads, for strap attachment. A very nice folk art powder horn with a desirable date and extensive history. DMG 3,000 - 5,000

1076 - ENGRAVED FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR NEW YORK MAP POWDER HORN, DATED 1758.

This professionally engraved map horn measures about 14-1/2” across the bow. The spout section is faceted with a relief ring at the tip, followed by vase-and-ring turnings. The main body is engraved at the top with a large British crest above two cannons staged with drums and cannonballs. There are several areas shaded with red polychrome colors. Below this is a cartouche inscribed “NEW YORK 1758”. Around the bottom portion of the horn there are three large warships in the New York harbor. The cityscape shows windmills, churches, a fort, and several steeples displaying windmills. The wooden plug is flat and retained by wooden pins. CONDITION: Very good overall, with a pleasing honey patina and showing some carrying wear and scattered minor scratches and marks from use. Wooden plug shows some scuffing and scattered holes from nails once in place for a carrying strap attachment. A very attractive dated French and Indian War powder horn. DMG 6,000 - 12,000 56

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1077 - IMPORTANT AND HISTORIC ENGRAVED POWDER HORN OF JOHN CALL, DATED 1759.

This important and historic horn was found in an attic in Hamilton, Ohio years ago. It measures about 14” overall and displays the artwork of a Lake George School carver, from the French and Indian War period. It is signed “JOHN CALL HIS / HORN WOOD STOCK MARCH 21 / 1759”. Above his name is a two-line verse, “I POWDER WITH MY BROTHER BALL / A HERO LIKE DO CONQUER ALL”. There is a nice deep zigzag border design separating the verse from the name panel. There are also numerous faces, symbols, and flowery vines carved on the horn, including a soldier with a powder horn across his chest and holding a rifle in one hand and a sword in the other. Along the top edge of the engraved portion, there is an inscription “JAMES CALL 1759”, perhaps denoting that his brother James was the engraver. The flat wood base is secured by wooden pegs and there is an iron staple at the base of the horn for the attachment of a carrying strap. John moved from Massachusetts to Woodstock, Connecticut, Winham County sometime prior to 1759. He was among the men from Woodstock who served under Gen. Wolfe’s command at the Battle of Quebec during the French & Indian War. The date carved on John’s powder horn of March 21st, 1759, strongly suggests that John entered service at this time and was part of the forces being sent to Quebec during the Spring of that year. The Battle of Quebec marked a major turning point in the war and ended the French control over Canada. John was very much involved in the American Revolution. He served with Captain Lawrence Kemp of Shelburne at Fort Ticonderoga from February 23rd, 1775 to April 10th, 1776. This group was part of Col. Leonard’s Regiment whose roll call was sworn to in Suffolk County. John was again back to Fort Ticonderoga from May 10th until it’s surrender and evacuation on July 10th, 1777. John was also part of the group marching to the Bennington Alarm in Captain Hugh McClellan’s Company of Col. David Field’s Regiment. Lois M. Patrie, author of “Patrie’s History of Colrain”, says, “On August 16, 1777, when the sound of cannon was heard from Bennington, Colrain’s Minutemen answered their second “alarm”, making all possible haste to the scene of action, but arriving to late to take part in the engagement. In the summer of 1777, the British under the command of General Burgoyne, began a campaign designed to cut off New England from the rest of this new country. John again enlisted on September 22nd, 1777 with Captain McClellan’s Company of David Well’s Regiment for service of one month, two days, with the northern army with roll call sworn to in Hampshire County. Captain McClellan and his men went to Saratoga Springs near the Hudson River in New York where two important battles were fought. The first battle on September 19th, three days before John’s enlistment, was indecisive but the second battle on October 17th, the British force under Gen. Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates. This battle was referred to as the Battle of Stillwater. John Call was discharged on October 18th, 1777. Included with this powder horn is an extensive archive of information regarding John Call, his family history, genealogy, and military records. There is also a transcription of some of John Call’s record book dated 1762, which he kept from June 19th, 1762 until 1806, two years before his death in 1808. John Call is also related to Walt Disney, and included is a family tree and the genealogy of the Call family. There are also photographs of John Call’s tombstone and the tombstone of Lucy Call, his wife.

CONDITION: The horn retains a pleasing dark honey patina on the main body. There is some natural flaking and raised grain. Shows some carrying wear and minor marks from use. Spout has been shortened slightly, possibly during the period of use. There is some minor cracking around the wooden plug. This is a very well documented horn belonging to an important soldier of both the French & Indian War and the Revolutionary War. DMG 15,000 - 30,000

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1078 - RARE “PITSBOURG” ENGRAVED MAP POWDER HORN WITH BRITISH CREST, ATTRIBUTED TO THE POINTED TREE CARVER. This horn was on display in Fort Pitt’s exhibit “From Maps to Mermaids: Carved Powder Horns in Early America” between July 1st and December 31st, 2018. This is one of only three known Fort Pitt horns by the noted artist known as the “Pointed Tree Carver”. Walter stated “this professionally engraved horn depicts that indomitable English stronghold, Fort Pitt, here labeled ‘PITSBOURG’ in a banner, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers where they form the great Ohio, which is also depicted and labeled “OHIO / RIVER”. Also shown is the British Great Seal, and a hunter shooting at a grazing buck. Undated, but of the 1760’s. The horn has a short extended lobe with one hole for a carrying strap and a modest vase-shaped spout. It is also fitted with a flat, wooden plug. Overall, this curved horn measures 14-1/2” overall. For another similar example, see plate 83 of John DuMont’s book “American Engraved Powder Horns”. CONDITION: Horn retains a dark undisturbed patina. The back side shows heavy carry wear and is worn smooth. Some chipping to relief rings below spout. Pressure fitted plug is loose and shows some chipping. A very rare French and Indian War Pennsylvania horn with a nice untouched surface. DMG 10,000 - 15,000

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1079 - ENGRAVED POWDER HORN OF HENRY THORN, DATED 1779.

This exact horn is photographed and described on page 206 of “Accouterments I” by James R. Johnston.

This horn measures about 13-1/4” across the bow and is beautifully carved with the owner’s name and date written in block letters within a large carved border of a scalloped design. The inscription reads “HENRY # THORN’S HORN #1779”. It also has a wonderful large labyrinth carved near the base on the obverse side and near it, a sailing ship or sloop. Also carved is a fort showing the walls and a soldier raising a sword, another soldier raising a flag and another one taking aim with his flintlock musket, at a bird in a tree, with a squirrel running near it. The base of the horn is carved all around with a scallop design as well as the upper end nearing the neck. A nice carved recessed border gives way to a long slender neck with three raised rings before the pouring spout. Records show that Henry was born November 17, 1759 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. At the age of 17 years old, he enlisted in the 1st Battalion of Rhode Island Troops, commanded by Colonel Christopher Greene on February 17, 1777. There are many records showing where he was on duty and his pay for each of the months he served. Henry was among the thousands of Continental troops that wintered with General George Washington at Camp Valley Forge from December 1777 until June 1778. He served until January 28, 1780, and was discharged at Morristown, New Jersey. Included is a packet of information and genealogy regarding Henry Thorn, as well as color photos of his gravestone. CONDITION: Very good overall, with a pleasing honey patina and showing a few scattered marks from use. The convex wooden plug is very good, with some minor scuffing.

A very attractive, well carved Revolutionary War powder horn. DMG 6,000 - 12,000

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1080 - IMPORTANT NORTH CAROLINA ENGRAVED POWDER HORN DATED 1760.

A panel on this powder horn is dated February 27, 1760, which corresponds with the attack of sixty Cherokee warriors on Fort Dobbs in North Carolina, during the French and Indian War. It is quite possible that the owner of this powder horn was present during the attack and commemorated that date on the powder horn. The horn itself is large, measuring about 14-1/2” overall across the bow. The horn features an ornately carved spout section, with multiple relief wedding bands, followed by another section of turned rings. The main body has a scalloped and engraved edge, followed by five engraved rings. The front of the horn displays a cityscape with a massive church and other buildings. Below this is a cartouche inscribed “PB 1766”. There are other scattered designs including finely executed scrolls intertwined with tulips and other floral motifs. There are also two long and detailed sea serpents and three birds, as well as a small sailing vessel. Towards the plug, there is a scalloped brass band with two engraved rings. The bulbous convex wooden plug has an iron staple in the center for strap attachment. CONDITION: Some chipping to rings on spout section. Main body retains a pleasing dark honey patina, with some scattered areas of deterioration due to moisture, mostly on the back of the horn. The hand carved wooden plug shows some cracking from age and a section with some deterioration also on the backside. A couple pins on the brass band have been replaced, and the band itself retains a dark brown mustard patina. This horn features an appealing date and has extremely nice architecture. PROVENANCE: Ex-Jim Dresslar, Jay Hopkins, and Wallace Gusler Collections. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

1081 - IDENTIFIED POWDER HORN OF EZEKIEL KELLEY, DATED 1763, EX. DRESSLAR COLLECTION. This powder horn measures about 11” across the bow and is translucent, allowing the owner to see how much remaining powder he had. The wooden butt is of a hardwood which encompasses a round piece of glass covering a piece of paper inscribed “Ezekiel Kelley / Ezekial Kelley AD / 1763”. At the base of the horn, there is also an extended lobe with three holes for the carrying strap attachment. CONDITION: Horn retains a pleasing honey patina, spout possibly shortened slightly. Wooden frame around glass cavity shows some cracks. Inscription somewhat faded due to age and light exposure. PROVENANCE: This horn was purchased by the consignor from Cowan’s 2005 Historic Americana Sale and was cataloged from the James Dresslar collection. DMG 3,000 - 5,000

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1082 - ENGRAVED PENOBSCOT INDIAN POWDER HORN WITH STAND. For a similar example of a Penobscot Horn, see pages 212 - 213 of “The Engraved Powder Horn” by Jim Dresslar. Granscay also shows a similar horn on plate 6. The Penobscot Indian’s name originally referred to their territory along the Penobscot River that runs from their sacred mountain to the north, Mount Katahdin, down through the state to Penobscot Bay. In addition to living in Maine, their original territory covered areas in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. They are thought to have inhabited their territory for at least 11,000 years before explorers and settlers arrived. This tribe sided with the French during the French and Indian War. This powder horn measures about 10” across the bow with a round ring at the tip followed by a faceted section painted with early red paint followed by another relief ring and a rounded section. The main body is engraved with a three-masted ship as well as a horse and a larger two-masted vessel. The front of the powder horn appears to show a fort, as well as other engraved geometric designs. The rounded section above the main body is engraved with the initials “J.D.”. The slightly convex wooden butt is engraved with a round circle with large diamond checkering. The horn is complete with what appears to be its original hand-carved spout plug and a partial old leather strap.

The plug is fastened with three brass pins. The horn comes with a custom display stand.

CONDITION: Very good and untouched with much of it’s original red paint on the faceted spout section. Horn shows some crazing and scattered marks from use. Plug retains a dry original surface. This is a very attractive Indian powder horn. PROVENANCE: Ted Trotta and Anna Bono Collection, New York. James B. Scoville Collection, Illinois. Sold as Lot 155 at Cowan’s in their October 10th, 2019 sale of the James B. Scoville Collection. DMG 4,000 - 6,000

1083 - ENGRAVED POWDER HORN INSCRIBED WITH THE ALPHABET, DATED 1774.

Measures 10” along the curve or 9” butt to tip. The carving consists of the alphabet which runs across the length of the horn in two lines. There are two names inscribed; one, “Peter Himepoc his horn” and the other, “Catha Himepoc”. These are possibly Native American names. The date is 1774 and before that is “Lort” which probably is meant to refer to “year of our Lord ” 1774. There is a hunter shooting at a deer, another deer (buck), a dog near the hunter, and a Native American smoking two pipes. All of the carving is randomly placed about the horn and primitive folky in appearance. There’s a nice scalloped border near the neck and a domed wood plug held in with wooden pegs. The plug retains traces of original red paint. There is a small iron staple in the center and another iron staple mounted on the faceted spout section. The original stopper is still with the horn. CONDITION: Horn retains an undisturbed surface with a mostly dark honey patina, showing some wear to engraving from carrying. There is a hairline crack in the spout, just above the staple. The plug shows a couple minor chips missing along the edges. A very interesting and diminutive Revolutionary War powder horn. DMG 2,500 - 5,000

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1084 - ENGRAVED POWDER HORN ATTRIBUTED TO THE “FOLKY ARTIST.” According to the consignor, this horn came from a family near Oswego, New York and was examined by well-known horn dealer/collector, Rockwell Gardner; he noted it was probably a pre-French and Indian War horn, made around 1740-50 based on the carving, and was probably copied from a European tapestry. There is a small tree and 1772 date on the horn that someone over the years scratched in, definitely period, which indicates it’s earlier manufacture. Rocky felt the horn was carved by a professional for resale since it has a blank cartouche for a name.

The family tree that came with this horn has a Nathaniel Taylor listed, who is also listed in the book New York in the Revolution, as having served during the Revolutionary War. The horn itself measures about 11” across the bow. There is a relief ring at the tip and two relief rings farther down at the base of the spout section. The main body begins with a relief ring and it is engraved with folky designs, such as a floral vase set between several buildings. There are also other cityscapes, a vacant owner’s cartouche, a floral tree, a folk art buck being chased by a dog, and a hunter in 18th Century attire holding a flintlock rifle. This scene is one of the “Folky Artist’s” signature engraving designs. The flat wooden plug is retained by wooden pins and has a replaced brass and iron carrying strap lanyard in the center. CONDITION: Very good overall, showing a few scattered marks. The main body retains a pleasing light honey patina. DMG 2,500 - 5,000

1085 - SCOTTISH 1754 DATED POWDER HORN WITH SILVER INLAY. This French and Indian War powder horn measures 15” and is carved with a rose and thistle design surrounding a small rectangular silver inlay set into the body. The silver cartouche is inscribed “IR 1754”.

The face of the spout is nicely carved with a sunburst design and the body is faceted. The base plug has an original mirror set into it with remnants of the red milk paint on the relief wooden plug framing the mirror.

There are two brass lanyard loops for strap attachment. CONDITION: Horn retains a pleasing dark honey patina with some scattered marks from use. Plug shows a couple age cracks and retains much original salmon paint. Mirror shows some flaking and losses to backing. Silver inlay retains a pewter patina. A very attractive, dated Scottish powder horn. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

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1086 - ENGRAVED POWDER HORN ATTRIBUTED TO THE POINTED TREE CARVER. This rather small example measures about 10-1/2” across the bow and features a relief urn-shaped tip. The main body of the horn has a greenish hue to the top portion and is engraved in the center with a large British crest as well as a vacant cartouche, with a flower above. Around the bottom, there is a scene of a hunter shooting at a running buck with two dogs, as well as a doe and a fox in front of the buck. The horn shows three of the classic paintbrush shaped trees, associated with the Pointer Tree Carver, as well as what appears to be a small fort. CONDITION: Horn shows a mostly dark patina, with heavy carry wear in some areas, and some other scattered scratches and marks from use. Convex wooden plug retains its original hand-forged iron staple for strap attachment. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1087 - ENGRAVED POWDER HORN OF THOMAS WHITE. This powder horn is attributed to the Lake George School and exhibits the professional engraving similar to known artists such as the J.W. Carver and John Bush. The horn measures about 12-1/2” across the bow. There is a conical spout section followed by a scalloped relief ring. The edge of the main body is also scalloped, and the front of the horn is professionally engraved in large letters “THOMAS WHITE HIS HORN”. There are also engraved dates of “1759” formed by a series of dots and “1760”. The top of the horn, just below the scalloped edge, is engraved with concentric designs with punch dot accents. The base of the horn is engraved with a series of punch dots and small flowers. The wooden plug is retained by wooden pins and has a brass candle drawer pull for strap attachment. CONDITION: Horn has probably been shortened at the spout and there is some losses due to flaking at the spout. Horn shows a pleasing light honey patina with some scattered scratches, a couple minor insect bites, and some cracking and damage around the plug. An attractive French and Indian War horn done by a professional engraver. DG 1,500 - 2,500

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1088 - LARGE AND UNUSUAL FOLK ART POWDER HORN WITH RELIEF CARVED SNAKE. This massive horn of unknown origin and age measures about 18” across the bow. There is a threaded bowl attached to the spout, which was possibly used as a powder measure. The spout section is a series of turned rings, followed by a section of long facets with scalloped edges. A snake is carved in relief around the main body of the horn and there is an iron lanyard attached towards the plug. The flat wooden plug is retained by a series of small iron pins and has been painted with many different colors. CONDITION: Horn is in very good condition, showing only a few scattered marks and some natural flaking and defects. Plug shows some later coats of paint.

DMG 800 - 1,200

1089 - UNDATED 18TH CENTURY POWDER HORN ENGRAVED WITH SHIPS. This horn has a curved body measuring about 11” across the bow. It has a tapered spout section followed by two relief rings and a rounded portion below. There are two scalloped rings proceeding the main body, which is engraved with a large ship of war, with many seagulls flying above. There is also a large anchor below the ship and five large fish. The other side of the horn shows a smaller ship and a larger ship docked at bay, as well as a hunter shooting at a flock of birds. CONDITION: The flat wooden plug is a recent replacement. The horn retains a pleasing honey patina with darker patina in some areas. There is some minor flaking at the spout. DMG 800 - 1,500

1090 - ENGRAVED POWDER HORN INSCRIBED MATHEW. This powder horn is most likely of New England origin and measures about 14” across the bow. The spout section is faceted followed by a relief ring and a rounded section. The main body has an exaggerated scalloped edge at the top and is engraved with mini-scenes of New England churches and homes, many with oversized weathervanes. There are also rivers and trees, as well as a large inscription panel that has been mostly defaced.

The only word that is partially visible is “MATHEW”. A date of 1711 was added at a later time. The flat wooden plug is deeply carved with a pinwheel design and has a wooden post in the center, which is removable to refill the powder. CONDITION: The horn retains a pleasing dark honey patina, with some areas of carry wear and some scattered marks from use. Plug is excellent, retaining much of its original finish. DMG 1,500 - 3,000 64

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1091 - ENGRAVED WAR OF 1812 RELIC POWDER HORN, ENGRAVED WITH PATRIOTIC MOTIFS AND PHRASES AND INSCRIBED BALTIMORE. William Edmondson Bartlett, Sr. was born in 1793 in Talbot County, Maryland, and died in 1865 in Florence County, South Carolina. The powder horn has a curved, tapered body of 13-1/2” with a turned spout with a series of rings. There is a small iron staple just below spout rings for sling attachment.

Several circular cartouches are engraved on the horn, including a patriotic eagle surrounded by the phrase “WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS THERE IS MY COUNTRY”. Another shows a series of arms motifs surrounded by “WM E BARTLETT BALTIMORE”. Another design shows a clock with the time 2:00 and the phrase “WE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE OURS OLIVER PERRY”. Also inscribed is “Son of Ricky Reb. Bartlett / was born / 2nd mo. 24th 1793 first day of the week / went to Dr. H.J. Keene an honest man for the 23rd of may 1809 was married to Mary L. James 11th month 20th 1860 / 11th mo. 20th 1816 / 1st mo. 13th 1844.” CONDITION: Scattered areas of insect damage and significant losses to butt end, partially obliterating some of the cartouches. The horn has been coated with lacquer. A very historic and well-documented horn with excellent family documentation inscribed on the horn. DMG 800 - 1,500 1092 - LARGE & ATTRACTIVE VIRGINIA POWDER HORN. This attractive horn measures about 13” across the bow and features a faceted spout section, followed by four relief rings.

The entire spout section is covered with original dark crazed paint. The main body has a green hue and a band of dark green paint towards the plug. The convex wooden plug has four turned rings on the sides and four turned rings on the top, with a carved six-pointed star in the center. There is a brass lanyard ring fastened in the center for strap attachment. The collar is present from an original leather strap, as well as a piece of old leather at the plug. Complete with what appears to be its original hand-carved spout plug.

CONDITION: Completely untouched and as found with a dry surface and much original dark crazed paint and around plug. Plug also retains a dark crazed surface with some scattered marks from use. DMG 700 - 1,500 1093 - 18TH C. BRITISH ARTILLERY PRIMING HORN BRANDED WITH BROAD ARROW. Cow’s horn body closed by a turned oak, butt plug or base with threaded, oak stopper in the shape of a handle, for replenishing gunpowder supply. The tip of the horn fitted with a conical charger formed of sheet-brass, with a cast-brass lever and steel spring and two forged-iron suspension loops. 16-1/2” L overall (not including 2-3/4” stopper) x 3-3/8” diameter at plug. An artillery priming horn of the type produced under contract with the Board of Ordnance with almost no change in form from circa 1740-1840. This horn is branded twice on the body and once on the wooden plug with the “Broad Arrow” mark, denoting Crown ownership. After 1820, this brand was replaced with a broad arrow/BO of the Board of Ordnance, so this horn is clearly an 18th century or very early 19th-century example. The more careful workmanship, especially with regard to the turning of the plug and its stopper, and the forged vs. cast-iron loops, suggest an earlier rather than later date within this timeframe. These horns were used as priming horns for cannon by Royal Navy and Royal Artillery and the size of this horn would indicate use with a large piece of ordnance, such as a 24-, 36- or 42-pound cannon. CONDITION: In very good condition and original finish with good patina; there is a 2-1/2” long crack emanating inwards from one of the iron pins fixing the wooden plug base to the horn. JLK 800 - 1,200

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1094 - RARE PRIMING HORN OF THE 3RD VIRGINIA ARTILLERY REGIMENT, 1800-1820.

The horn is approximately 17” long, inclusive of the turned, wooden butt plug of 3” diameter; the horn is of a greenish caste and its octagonalfaceted tip has two grooves, with a plain body upon which is painted in red with black highlighting: “3rd VA Regt. Of Arty.”; the plug has a forged iron nail hammered in its center, which served to secure the strap at that end. Scientific testing of the red and black paint confirm that they are both composed of pigments appropriate to the late 18th and early 19th centuries; the testing paperwork accompanies the horn. From 1792-1799, the state militia of Virginia was organized into five geographic divisions, subdivided further into brigades and regiments (the latter usually on a county basis), which was reduced to four divisions from 1800-1820. Within each division was one cavalry and one artillery regiment, which adopted the number of the parent division. Thus, the 3rd Virginia Artillery Regiment was composed of various companies of militia artillery within the 3rd Division, which in 1800 covered the western half of the state (essentially all counties west of the Blue Ridge Mountain range, which served as the eastern bounds of the 3rd Division). CONDITION: Overall very good and complete, the turned wooden butt plug probably originally fully painted red, but the paint only remains in the grooved rings presently; the red/black lettering on the horn body worn and with some loss. JLK 1,500 - 3,000

1095 - (A) BARNETT FLINTLOCK ESPIGNOLE OR SWIVEL GUN, C. 1812.

A massive espignole of swivel-mounted “rail gun” of the Napoleonic/War of 1812 era by London gunmaker Thomas Barnett (flourished 1796-1832), probably for use by a privateer or armed private ship. The gun is essentially a shorter-barreled version of a wall gun (see lot 20190084) and like the former, was designed to fire a solid ball, but could also fire multiple smaller balls, as with musketoons or blunderbusses.

The gun is 42” long overall, with a robust, 24” long, tapering, round, thick-walled barrel of 1-1/16” bore. The pin-fastened barrel has view and proof marks on the left top near breech, while the 1-1/4” x 6-7/8”, convex, plain lock has “BARNETT” stamped before the reinforced cock. Brass mountings consist of a buttplate, rounded S-sideplate, trigger guard with teardrop-shaped finial in front, and a 3-3/16” long ramrod pipe, with steel spring. The button-tipped, iron ramrod is original to the arm, as is its forged iron, yoke-bracket, swivel mount. The figured walnut full stock has setup marks in the ramrod channel, but is otherwise plain. CONDITION: Very good, with lock is crisp, working order; the iron parts a pleasing brownish-toned, gunmetal grey and the swivel mount with much of its japanning still present; the brass mounts a dull yellow, and the stock with some bruises and dings, a few insect holes at butt, and a stabilized crack on the left side of the forestock, approximately 9” long. JLK 4,000 - 8,000

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1096 - 12-POUNDER IRON CANNON CAST AT MT. AETNA FURNACE, C. 1776.

Found “in situ” on the grounds of Mount Aetna Furnace 200 years later by the property’s then-owner, Mr. Carl W. Shafer, this circa 1776 cannon was a “waster” or reject. Note its rough unfinished surface and the extra metal or sprue at the muzzle end (into which slag contained in the molten metal would rise), which would have been cut off had the center core forming the bore not shifted during the casting process. By viewing down the barrel, one can see that the bore is offset, rather than centered. Mount Aetna Furnace was located one mile west from its predecessor Antietam Furnace south of Hagerstown, Maryland, both operated by the Hughes brothers, Daniel and Samuel, during the Revolutionary War period. The Hughes had numerous contracts with the state of Maryland and the Continental Congress for production of iron cannon, primarily naval guns such as this twelve-pounder (so-called from the weight of the ball it fired). Although it never saw military or naval use, this cannon is extremely important from a historical standpoint, being a specific pattern produced in America during the Revolutionary War epoch. As most iron cannon of the 18th century were unmarked, the dimensions and profile of this cannon, coupled with scientific analysis of its iron, would allow for verification of other cannon whose origins are currently unknown, as products of the same furnace. It is extremely rare, being one of only a handful of identifiable American-made, cannon from the war currently known. The cannon measures 89” in length from cascabel to muzzle and 18” in diameter at the breech, with an approximate bore of 4-1/2”; trunnions are 5” in diameter. CONDITION: The barrel with surface oxidation and moderate to heavy pitting from both its rough-cast process and subsequent “burial”, the iron cannon is otherwise stable and highly displayable, but would benefit from light cleaning and protective coating by a qualified restorer or conservator. JLK 10,000 - 20,000

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1097 - A MID-18TH CENTURY BRONZE SWIVEL CANNON OR GUN. A fine, bronze swivel gun (cannon) with an overall length of 18-3/4” and a bore of 1-1/2”. Although unmarked, it is mid-18th century in form and probably of Spanish Colonial origin, based on comparable examples known from Spanish New World archaeological sites.

The yoke-shaped, swivel mount of heavy brass is reproduction, as is the turned wooden stanchion base. There is a turned oak plug of some age inserted in the socket-shaped cascabel at the breech of the gun, in lieu of a longer wooden tiller or aiming arm that would have been more commonly used during the period.

Such small cannon were commonly mounted in the fighting tops or on the quarterdeck and forescastle rails of ships, principally as anti-personnel weapons, as well as mounted on frontier fort walls and in blockhouses. CONDITION: Very good overall, with a few lines of scarring in the upper bore of the barrel and some light dings and bruises to the cannon, primarily at muzzle, trunnions and bottom of breech (yoke rest), as to be expected; the cannon has a very pleasing and uniform dark age patina to it. JLK 3,000 - 6,000

1098 - AN ENGLISH, SILVER-HILTED SMALLSWORD BY WILLIAM KINMAN, 1760-1761.

A fine silver-hilted smallsword of 40” length with colichemarde blade of 32” length with sharply tapering hollow triangular section etched on both sides of the forte with floral and scrolled motifs, 1-1/4” wide at ricasso. Silver hilt with a “boat-shell” crossguard, decorated with gadrooning on pommel, crossguard, and knuckle-bow, the grip bound with silver ribbon and two thicknesses of twisted, silver wire. The upper pas d’an bearing ‘WK” touchmark of William Kinman and London hallmarks for 1760/61. William Kinman was one of the finest silversmiths and sword cutlers working in London during the mid-late 18th century. For further details of this maker, see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords...(2001), pp. 105-106. CONDITION: The blade well-cleaned over the years, so that etching designs cannot be fully discerned; some loosening to the original wire/ribbon wrapping of the blade. JLK 1,500 - 2,500

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1099 - A BRITISH OFFICER’S GILT-MOUNTED DRESS SWORD WITH SCABBARD, 1780-1795.

With tapering, hollow triangular section blade 33-1/2” long, etched with an arm emerging from a cloud, the hand holding a sword and ribbons, the other devices and stylized scrolls. Gilt-hilt with shallow upturned shell guard, crossguard and token pas d’ane rings, knucklebow and urn pommel, the top of the guard and pommel engraved with stylized floral chains, simulated banded and wire-bound grip, in its white leather scabbard with gilded brass mounts consisting of an engraved throat with one ring and chape or drag. Smallswords with this early, stylized urn pommel are observed in dated portraits of British military and naval officers from 1779. While the white scabbard may have been a matter of personal taste, some regiments regulated such and it is known that the 10th Foot had white scabbards at least as early as 1775. CONDITION: Very good overall, retaining approximately 85% original gilt; the leather of the scabbard showing some wear. JLK 1,200 - 2,400

1100 - HISTORIC BRITISH SILVER-GILT SMALLSWORD, IDENTIFIED TO CAPTAIN JOHN WADDELL OF NEW YORK. A fine silver-gilt smallsword by Kinman, 39-3/4” overall length, with a triangular colichemarde blade of 32-1/2” length with partly-obscured, etched panels and decorative motifs on all sides. The hilt was at one time “silver-gilt” and generous traces of the gilding are still visible in the protected areas of the silver mounts. Its double-shell guard has relief chased borders with panels of gadrooning; the grip is spiral-wrapped with alternating twisted strands of silver wire and ribbon; and its globular pommel finely gadrooned and with an integral turned capstan. The D-shaped knucklebow features a panel of gadrooning in the center and on the reverse of left side, bears London touchmarks for 1758/59 and the hallmark ‘WK’ for William Kinman (noted silversmith and cutler of that city) near the pommel and is engraved “JOHN WADDELL” in front towards the guard. Captain John Waddell (1714-1762) was born in Dover, England, the son of Lieutenant William Waddell of the Royal Navy and grandson of John Waddell, and migrated to New York City sometime prior to 1736, marrying Anne Kirsten of that city at the Fort George chapel on November 30th of that year. During 1737-1738, he was enrolled in Capt. Van Horne’s foot company of militia. The captain-owner of various vessels during the 1730s-1750s, he was heavily engaged in the trans-Atlantic trade and possibly in privateering during King George’s and the French and Indian Wars. He was a founding member of the New York Society Library and a leading merchant in the city, his business house fronting on Duke and Dock (now Pearl) Streets between Old Slip and Coenties Market. At the time of his death, he was one of the wealthiest men in the city, with his small fleet of vessels still busily plying Atlantic and West Indies waters. His portrait and that of his wife, both by John Wollaston, are now in the collections of the New York Historical Society and they are buried in the Trinity Church graveyard. His eldest son William was an alderman of New York during the Revolutionary War and a leading Loyalist, commanding a regiment of the city militia, while his second son and namesake later moved to Trenton, New Jersey and served as a lieutenant in the US Marine Corps during the Quasi-War, during which he may have carried this sword. For a nearly identical sword, see plate 211.S on page 132 of “Swords & Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. CONDITION: Blade has been cleaned and shows some scattered light pitting, as well as wear to etching; the silver mounts to the hilt are unpolished with a pewter-like patina and show generous traces of the original gilding in protected areas of the mounts; there is some looseness or “play” to the hilt components; the guard shows some denting, while quillon is slightly bent to the left. The engraved ownership inscription absolutely original and well-defined, as are the touchmarks. A fine, identified smallsword of significant interest relating to the colonial history of New York. JLK 2,000 - 4,000

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1101 - REVOLUTIONARY HERO GENERAL ISRAEL PUTNAM’S SWORD AND SCABBARD. A Continental European smallsword, probably French, 39-3/8” long overall. A tapering, colichemarde blade of diamond profile of 33-1/4” length and 1-5/16” width at ricasso; the blade etched with martial devices and a partially-obscured motto “Si Fortuna me Tormenta“ on the obverse face and “Sperato me Contenta“ on the reverse (“If fortune torments me, hope contents me.”; source: William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Pt. 2, Act II, Scene 4, line 179—thanks are due to Jack Bethune for his help in deciphering and attributing the inscription). Characteristic hilt of cast-silver components, decorated with martial and Masonic devices in relief on the asymmetrical double shell-guard, quillons, knuckle-guard, and globular pommel; the wooden grip is wrapped with twisted, 2-strand wire and there is the remnants of an 18th-century sword knot of intermixed blue and silver looped to the lower pas d’ane. The original, tooled black leather scabbard is extant and measures 29” in length, but is missing its throat and chape (both presumably silver). By family tradition, this sword belonged to Major General Israel Putnam (1718-1790) of the Connecticut Line, although there are also strong family ties by marriage to another important Revolutionary War officer, Colonel Philip van Cortlandt (1749-1831) of the 2nd New York Regiment. Israel Putnam, popularly known as “Old Put”, was an American army general officer who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). He also served notably as an officer with Rogers’ Rangers during the French and Indian War. Putnam’s courage and fighting spirit was widely publicized by the circulation of popular stories both prior to and during the Revolutionary War and his exploits were celebrated by successive generations of Americans to present. The sword is accompanied by a signed and notarized affidavit of authenticity and provenance by the last family member to acquire it by successional descent, along with supporting genealogical and historical paperwork. CONDITION: The blade with wear to the etching, now a bright gunmetal grey, the front silver ferrule and wrapping of the grip are slightly loose, the silver mounts with light tarnish. JLK 15,000 - 30,000

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1102 - EXTREMELY RARE “GRENADIER OF VIRGINIA” SABER, REVOLUTIONARY WAR This rare example of the Grenadier of Virginia saber is 31-5/8” long overall and has an unfullered, hatchet-point blade 25-7/8” long by 1-5/8” wide at ricasso that is unique to this particular pattern. The stirrup-hilt was cast in two pieces and is similar to that found on French M1767 briquet, but more robust in size. Purchased many years ago in Louisville, Kentucky by its previous owner in Louisville, Kentucky, it is possible that this saber was one of those sent by the state of Virginia to arm the troops of George Rogers Clark’s Illinois Regiment in 1782. Copies of the shipment documents and returns for such at Fort Nelson (now Louisville) are included with the saber’s documentation. These sabers were originally made at the Klingenthal Arsenal in France under a contract with the state of Virginia in 1778. Many of these Virginia grenadier sabers, which had a unique, hatchet-shaped blade, were issued out to arm volunteer cavalry during the invasion of the state in 1780 and others were given to commissioned officers of the Virginia Continental and state regulars in 1780-1781 and some had post-war usage during both the War of 1812 and Civil Wars. A good representative example of one of the rarest and most desirable of all Revolutionary War American edged weapons. CONDITION: The brass stirrup guard hilt is untouched with wonderful dark patina, just a very minor bend in the knuckle bow. Originally, this saber would have had “GRENADIER OF VIRGINA” etched on the obverse face and “LIBERTY OR DEATH” on the reverse, but the saber shows signs of extensive use and repeated sharpening over the years that have nearly obliterated all traces of the etching on this example, although the pre-1783 Klingenthal touchmark is still visible on the obverse face at ricasso; the blade is a mottled gunmetal grey with some freckling, while the hilt is a deep brownish-bronze in hue. JLK 3,000 - 6,000

1103 - AMERICAN HORSEMAN’S SABER, LAST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY. A fine American horseman’s saber, probably New England in origin and dating to the Revolutionary-Federal period, probably 1780-1800; 39” length overall. The single-edged, curved, unfullered blade measures 34” in length with floral engraving on the obverse face running approximately 2” up from the crossguard. The brass-mounted hilt has a stirrup-hilt guard with a scrolled quillon terminating in a flattened disk, while the flat pommel cap has a pronounced and undisturbed capstan for the blade tang; the cherry grip is spiral-grooved with a double-strand of twisted, brass wire set in the channels or grooves. This saber was formerly in the collection of Warren Moore, noted collector and is pictured and described as E-13 on page 136 of his book, “Weapons of the American Revolution” (1967). CONDITION: The blade is a relatively bright with a few, scattered patches of light freckling; the knucklebow with a notched area on the obverse side near its junction with the pommel, apparently a casting flaw. JLK 3,500 - 5,500

1104 - BRITISH MOUNTED OFFICER’S SABER WITH GILT STIRRUP-HILT, 1785-1800.

A British mounted officer’s saber, 1785-1800, with a curved, single-edged blade with spearpoint tip, double-fullered, 29-3/8” long by 1-1/2” (at ricasso); the gilded-brass, stirrup hilt with ‘S’ scroll in side-branch of guard, backstrap ending in flat pommel with pronounced capstan securing tang of blade; the ivory grip has spiral-grooves finished with twisted, 2-strand, copper wire wrap. CONDITION: The blade with silver-grey toning, approximately 70% of the hilt gilding intact and with a fine pressure crack in the ivory grip on the obverse side and chip at pommel on underside. JLK 700 - 1,200

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1105 - IMPERIAL GUARD “CHASSEURS A PIED” OFFICER’S SABER WITH SCABBARD. SABRE D’OFFICIER DES CHASSEURS À PIED DE LA GARDE IMPÉRIALE, PREMIER EMPIRE, 1804-1814. A rare and desirable example of officer’s saber of the Chasseur a’ Pied of the French Imperial Guard with curved, single-edged blade with a narrow fuller and clipped point, 32-1/2” long and 1-3/16” wide at ricasso. The blade is decorated for approximately half its length with gilded etching on a blued ground; on the obverse face a centered panel with “CHASSSEURS A’ PIED”, with a similar panel on the reverse face bearing “HONNEUR ET PATRIE” [“Honor and Country”], both with flanking panoplies of arms, floral motifs, etc. On the obverse face near ricasso is a panoply with centered quiver upon which is etched “I. S. & C.” (Johann Schimelbusch & Company of Solingen; this mark noted on blades of various Year IX sabers).

The stirrup-hilt is of gilded brass, with backstrap chiseled with acanthus leaves terminating in a pommel cap with pronounced capstan, decorated in relief with laurel leaves, while centered on the obverse langet of cruciform shape has an applied, “flaming bomb” device in cast-silver; the black leather-wrapped grip has spiral, grooved channels inset with a twisted, double-strand of brass wire. The saber when originally carried in the 1st Empire period would have had a cast-silver profile bust of Napoleon I set on the obverse langet, but it was replaced with a flaming bomb, signifying that the officer continued to use his sword in service of the Bourbon king during the Restoration, which has been observed on other Chasseur sabers of this pattern. The leather scabbard has gilt-brass mountings, consisting of an extended throat with frog stud and long chape with drag. CONDITION: Very good with approximately 70% of its original gilding and bluing remaining. JLK 4,000 - 6,000

1106 - FRENCH NAPOLEONIC, MOUNTED OFFICER’S SABER, CIRCA 1812.

A saber of the form favored by French officers of light artillery, hussars, lancers and chasseurs a cheval, circa. 1812. The single-edged, curved blade has one wide fuller; it is 32-1/4” long by 1-1/8” wide at ricasso and bears etched panoplies of arms and floral motifs. The brass-mounted hilt has a D-shaped knucklebow and terminates in front with a ball-shaped quillon, with two side branches to the guard and full langets; its leather-wrapped grip has three strands of twisted brass wire set in the grooves. CONDITION: Very good overall condition to saber; the spine of the blade appears to have had a marking purposely filed off near the ricasso. JLK 700 - 1,000

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1107 - IDENTIFIED AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR SWORD AND DIRK. According to the consignor and the letter accompanying this sword and dirk, they were found in a buckskin covered wooden trunk, in 1957, in an attic by the grandmother of Alfred H. Seibel, Jr., of North Merrick, New York. The grandmother told Alfred that the trunk had been passed down through the John L’Hommedieu family and was given to her when she was in her teens. The sword and dagger, when discovered, were wrapped in decaying linen cloth and the trunk was lined with newspapers dated 1801 and 1803. The sword measures 33 - 1/4” overall and has a bone (possibly whalebone) grip carved with a spiral design. The brass four slot guard also has another tear dropped shaped piercing in the knucklebow, as well as a flattened ball pommel with integral capstan. The 26 - 1/2” blade is probably English and is slightly curved, with a narrow partial fuller along the top on both sides. The sword is complete with its original leather scabbard, with a single brass mount fitted with an iron loop for hanging. The American dirk measures 14 - 1/4” overall with a 9 - 1/2” tapered straight diamond section blade, with a scalloped brass guard, brass pommel cap with capstan, and a brass ferrule at the base of the grip. The grip is bulbous and of walnut. John L’Hommedieu was a son of Captain Samuel L’Hommedieu, who, along with seven brothers, Benjamin Jr., Ephraim, Grover, Henry, Hudson, John, and Mulford, all served in the Suffolk County Militia, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, on Long Island. Samuel was a Captain under Colonel Josiah Smith, Suffolk County Militia, and fought in the battle of Long Island in 1776, along with his brothers. Since it was more common for officers to carry a saber, it is believed that the sword belonged to Samuel and not his son John, who was too young to serve in the Revolution. John ended up with his father’s sword which in turn was stored in that deerskin trunk in New York. Samuel was born at Southold, February 20th, 1774. The Town of Southold is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York. It is located in the northeastern tip of the county, on the North Fork of Long Island. Samuel lived a long life and died at the age of 90 at Sag Harbor, Long Island, March 7th, 1834 and is buried in Oakland Cemetery, Bar Harbor, Suffolk County, New York. Samuel’s wife Sarah (White) is also buried beside him. A photograph of Samuel’s grave, as well as John’s grave, is included.

CONDITION: Blade retains a spotted grey patina, with some sharpening marks on both sides. Hilt retains a dark unpolished mustard patina, and bone grip is slightly loose and shows some age cracks and one minor chip below the pommel on the right side. Scabbard shows some losses to stitching and a crazed surface overall, with some minor losses at tip and on edge near tip. Dirk is very good, with a period repair at the tip.

Blade retains a spotted grey patina. Brass is very dark and unpolished. Grip is excellent with a few scattered marks. Two very nice American Revolutionary War edged weapons. DMG 4,000 - 8,000

1108 - LOT OF 5: EARLY PATCH KNIVES. All handles are wooden with turning and all blades are hand blacksmith forged. Sizes range between 3-1/4” closed to 4-1/8” closed and the largest measures 7-1/8” opens, with the smallest measuring 5-5/8” open. All blades are stamped with unknown maker’s marks, including one example stamped with a heart over a “T”, and one with a large “X”.

CONDITION: All show some wear and minor chipping. Blades range from a dark patina to a light grey patina. A very nice collection of early patch knives. DMG 700 - 1,000

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1109 - LOT OF 3: EARLY HANDMADE KNIVES. The lot comprises of (A) Measures 17-3/4” overall with a 12-3/4” straight blade with clip point. One-piece wooden handle with a copper ferrule at the bottom. CONDITION: Blade retains a spotted gray patina with some areas of heavy patina. Grip shows scattered marks from use. (B) A clip point fighting knife measuring 9-7/8” overall with a 5-3/4” clip point blade of hand-forged iron. Guard appears to be made from part of a beer can opener. The wooden handle has a steel ferrule. CONDITION: Blade shows scattered areas of heavy pitting and has been sharpened. Guard is slightly loose and handle shows scattered marks from use. (C) Clip point knife measuring 12-1/8” overall with a 7-5/8” clip point blade. Wooden two-piece grips with lead or pewter caps and pins. CONDITION: Very good, blade has been cleaned and shows sharpening marks. Handle has some age cracks and spine of pewter is cracked. A nice lot of handmade knives. DMG 500 - 800

1110 - IVORY GRIPPED AMERICAN BOWIE KNIFE WITH PATRIOT BLADEBY WILKENSON & CO. This knife is photographed and described in figure 84 on page 47 of “Silver Mounted Swords, The Lattimer Family Collection” by Daniel D. Hartzler. Measures 13 - 1/2” overall. The 8-1/4” clip point blade has a 4-5/8” false edge and a large etched panel on the left side featuring an American eagle with an E Pluribus eagle with a banner in its talons, as well as the phrase “AMERICANS ASK FOR NOTHING BUT WHAT IS RIGHT & SUBMIT TO NOTHING THAT IS WRONG/ AMERICAN BOWIE KNIFE/ THE UNITED STATES THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE PROTECTED BY HER NOBLE & BRAVE VOLUNTEERS”. The left side of the ricasso is stamped “WILKINSON & CO. NORFOLK & SHEFFIELD”.

The overall length is 13-1/2” and the rectangular handle is slightly tapered towards the oval-shaped German silver guard, and the top of the handle retains a silver cap retained by two pins. The opposite side of the blade also has a red “170”, indicating that it was once in the collection of the well-known author and collector Bob Berryman. Complete with its black leather scabbard with German silver mounts. Leather is decorated with stamped and gilded designs on both sides. CONDITION: Blade shows some scattered frosting and dark spots with one minor chip on the edge towards the tip. Ricasso has been cleaned and markings are partially worn. Handle retains a pleasing honey patina, with some darker spots. Scabbard is missing its frog stud and tip has been broken off and is currently being held in place with tape. Leather shows some scuffing.

PROVENANCE: The Lattimer Family collection. DMG 700 - 1,500

1111 - SILVER MOUNTED AMERICAN NAVAL DIRK. For an identical example, see figure 73 on page 44 of “Silver Mounted Swords, The Lattimer Family Collection” by Daniel D. Hartzler. Measures 8-3/8” overall. The straight 4-1/2” tapered diamond-section blade is unmarked. The guard and fluted pillow-pommel are of silver and the guard features a decorative scalloped and engraved skirt. The bulbous ivory handle features checkered panels on each side. Complete with its original silver scabbard with silver frog stud. CONDITION: Blade retains a grey patina with some heavier patina at ricasso. Silver retains a pleasing pewter patina and grip retains a pleasing honey patina with a couple hairline age cracks. Tip of scabbard shows slight bending and one seam is opened slightly. A very attractive and diminutive naval dirk, probably circa 1790. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1112 - SILVER MOUNTED AMERICAN NAVAL DIRK FROM THE LATTIMER COLLECTION..

This attractive dirk is photographed and described in figure 62 on page 40 of “Silver Mounted Swords, The Lattimer Family Collection” by Daniel D. Hartzler. The straight tapered 5” diamond section blade is unmarked. The S-shaped guard is of silver, followed by a rocker-panel engraved silver ferrule below the tapered one-piece ivory handle with gadrooning on the front face. The tang retains a small silver washer. Complete with its original Moroccan red leather sheath with silver throat mount with stud and silver tip. CONDITION: Blade retains much of original polish, minor bend at tip. Silver retains a dark unpolished patina. Grip retains a pleasing honey patina. Scabbard is very good with a few minor scuffs. A very good published dirk from the well known Lattimer Collection of silver-mounted edged weapons. DMG 700 - 1,200

1113 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD AMERICAN SPIKE TOMAHAWK. Probably circa 1770, this spike tomahawk is pictured on page 40 in figure 9 in “Indian Tomahawks & Frontiersmen Belt Axes” by Hartzler & Knowles. The hand-forged heavy iron heavy measures 9-1/8” overall with a 2” crescent cutting edge. The blade measures 4-1/4” and the downward curving round iron spike measures about 3-3/8”. The wooden haft measures 15-5/8” and is a good replacement. CONDITION: Head retains a dark heavy patina over a pitted surface. Haft is excellent and retains a pleasing patina. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1114 - FINE CONTEMPORARY SILVER PRESENTATION PIPE TOMAHAWK SIGNED J. LAUBACH. The head of this tomahawk measures about 6-1/4” overall and is of solid silver with a dovetailed fire-blued Damascus steel blade with a crescent edge measuring about 2-1/8”. Both sides of the head are finely engraved with floral scrollwork and tooled borders. The top edge is stamped with a “JL” cartouche as well as “J. LAUBACH MAKER” and a large “3”. The fine highly figured 19-3/4” maple haft is inlaid with an engraved silver band, engraved silver cap at the top and a decorated pewter mouthpiece. CONDITION: Excellent showing only a few light storage marks. A beautiful and masterfully decorated contemporary pipe tomahawk. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

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1115 - LOT OF 4: 3 TOMAHAWKS AND BAG AXE. Lot comprises of: (A) 18th-century pole tomahawk. Head measures 8” overall with a 4-1/8” blade and a 2-3/4” iron pole. The hand-forged blacksmith made head has a crescent cutting edge and an ovoid-shaped eye. The figured maple 19-1/4” haft is a replacement. CONDITION: Head retains a dark patina with heavy pitting overall. (B) A large hand-forged spiked tomahawk head, measuring 9” overall with a 3-5/8” downward curving spike and a 3-3/8” halberd style blade with a crescent 2-3/4” cutting edge.

CONDITION: Heavily pitted with dark patina overall. (C) A small spike tomahawk with head measuring about 4-1/2” overall. The hand-forged head has a hook shaped spike at the back, and a 1-7/8” blade with a crescent cutting edge. Complete with a replaced figured maple haft. CONDITION: Head retains a dark heavy patina, with scattered areas of corrosion. (D) Small bag age with a head measuring 3-3/4” overall, with a diminutive 1-5/8” blade with a crescent cutting edge. Complete with an old wooden haft, measuring 10-7/8”. CONDITION: Good with some patina, with some scattered light pitting. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1116 - EARLY 19TH CENTURY PRESENTATION PIPE TOMAHAWK. For a nearly identical example see figure 30 on page 131 of “Indian Tomahawks & Frontiersman Belt axes” by Hartzler and Knowles. The example shown in the book was presented to Chief Tecumseh from Colonel Proctor and is dated 1812. Like this example, the one shown is stamped with a “BE” as well as stars on the left side of the blade. There is another example in the McCord Museum of Canadian history in Montreal, Quebec. This example has the same crescent moon with a face, as well as stars with the initials “BE”. These have been found in the Great Lakes area. This example has a large iron head measuring 8-3/4” including the bowl. The blade measures about 5” with a crescent 3” edge. The left side of the blade is stamped with punch dots, the initials “BE”, and a crescent moon with a face above several stars. The iron bowl measures about 1-3/4” in height, the eye is teardrop-shaped. The replaced haft is well done and well-aged, and measures 18” in length, with an engraved pewter band towards the head. CONDITION: Head retains a dark heavy brown patina in most areas, with some scattered pitting. Markings shows some wear, and edge has been cleaned. PROVENANCE: Ex-Rudy Barr collection. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

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1117 - FRENCH MODEL 1833 BOARDING AXE OR “HACHE D’ABORDAGE”.

A good and complete example of the Modèle 1833 Hache d’Abordage or Model 1833 Boarding Axe, adopted by the French Navy and fitting the dimensions specified found in an extant document for such, dated 1835, in the archives of the French artillery. The steel head measures 9” long from center of blade to end of spike, while the curved blade is 4-7/8” wide and the anchor touchmark of the French Ministry of the Marine is on both sides of the blade. The form of the head is one of two variants known for the M1833 axe, this one having the slightly longer (3-1/2”) and straighter spike. It is still mounted on its original haft with langets and sheet iron belt hook, the haft retaining its original black japanned finish, much of which also still remains on the ax head and metal fittings. CONDITION: Overall quite good and complete but could benefit from light cleaning; some nicks to the blade and there is a slight (1/8”) chipped loss to the tip of the spike; light surface oxidation on metal parts; a few remnants of old cellophane tape wraps are found on the lower half of the haft. JLK 500 - 1,000

1118 - SWEDISH MODEL 1801 BOARDING PIKE. The Swedish introduced innovations to their pikes during the Napoleonic period by adding a 4” diameter, sheet-iron, cup-guard to protect the hands from the slashing of opposing cutlasses and extremely long side-straps to prevent an opponent from cutting off the pike’s head in combat.

An identical example is known from the Gilkerson collection. Overall length: 87-1/2”; head: 7-1/2” (plus 23-3/4” long, side-straps). CONDITION: Very good overall; the side-straps, cup-guard and shaft retain most of their original black japanning; there are a series of cross-cut scars running down the first foot of the shaft below the spear point or head, clearly the result of cutlass slashes during small arms training or actual combat. JLK 800 - 1,400

1119 - 19TH C. BRITISH BOARDING PIKE. BRITISH BOARDING PIKE, 19th century. Although the musket had superseded the pike in land warfare by the 18th century, pikes remained in use as shipboard arms throughout that century and well into the next. Approximately 7-1/2’ long as opposed to the 15’ pikes once used by the massed infantry formations of an earlier era, they were known as “half-pikes” or “boarding pikes.” The latter term is somewhat a misnomer, as they were generally considered too unwieldy for boarding ships and were instead used to repel boarders. The iron butt caps tended to scar the wooden decks and were frequently cut off, but the Royal Navy introduced a new form in the 19th century, as seen on this example, that had a 3/4” diameter hole in its based, allowing a “shoe” of wood to jutt-out approximately 1/2” beyond, thereby preventing both splitting of the shaft or deck scarring. Length: 91”; triangular head (inclusive of side-straps or langets): 14-3/4”. One side strap of the head is stamped with various Royal Navy and Crown ownership marks, including an ‘N’, [broad arrow] / EFD/[crown]/30/E”, and “66”, while stamped into the shaft just above buttcap is “[crown] / M”. CONDITION: Very good and complete overall condition, traces of black japanning remain visible on the shaft; the buttcap with moderate pitting and the head with spots of light surface oxidation. JLK 1,000 - 1,500

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1120 - U.S. NAVY BOARDING PIKE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY. The forged-steel, pike head is 16-5/8” long, the spear portion being 10-5/8” long and the langets, or side-straps, account for the remaining 6”. Each langet has three evenly-spaced holes to accommodate the iron rivets that secure the head to the shaft. The spear portion of the head is spike-shaped: four-sided or square in cross-section profile, it is 9/16” wide at its widest, tapering upward to a point. The pike is 95-1/2” long overall, inclusive of the head. The pike shaft appears to be of ash, circular in profile, with a diameter of 1-3/8” near the head, tapering gradually to a diameter of 1-1/4” near the base or foot of the shaft. The wood shaft has been inlet to accommodate the langets of the head. The entire pike is painted with white lead, supporting an early period of manufacture and use, 90% or more of which remains. There are traces of a red ochre paint underneath the white lead paint on the head and the shaft area between the langets, indicating that the head area was first primed in this color or the pike may have originally have been painted red. The pike is of a form known to collectors (albeit incorrectly) as the “U. S. Navy Model of 1816 Boarding Pike”. However, it should be noted that while the US Navy contracted for a great number of boarding pikes during 1816, there was no “official” 1816 pattern.

Instead, these spike-headed pikes were a continuation of a type already in use by at least the War of 1812 (three examples of which survive with provenance to the 1813 brig USS Niagara alone). Many of the known War of 1812 examples are so identified because they bear the marks of wartime inspectors, but in overall form, they are nearly identical to this pike, which is impossible to firmly date. Suffice it to say, pikes of this form remained in the naval arsenal from the War of 1812 to the Spanish-American War, although this example was probably produced sometime between 1812-1865, when Federal manufacture of this pattern seems to have all but ceased. CONDITION: Overall very good; there is some light pitting on the tip of the spear where the paint has flaked off; 13” up from the shaft foot or base is a 2-1/2” x 1” gouge that is overpainted in white lead, indicating that this minor loss clearly occurred during the “working period” of the arm. JLK 1,000 - 1,500

1121 - M1797 BOARDING PIKE FROM “OLD IRONSIDES”, THE FRIGATE USS CONSITUTION 1) An exceedingly rare example of a Model 1797 Boarding Pike of the early United States Navy. The massive, forged pike head is 25-3/8” long inclusive of langets or side-straps, while the leaf-shaped blade is 13-1/4” long and 2-3/8” wide across the widest point.

The spear blade is diamond-shaped in profile, while its socket base is 1-3/8” diameter at the beginning of the langets, which are 8-1/2” long and attached to the shaft by three rivets down their length. The wooden shaft is 1-1/2” diameter and the pike is 95-1/2” long overall.

This particular example is said to have been one removed from the US Frigate “Constitution” during her refitting following the victory against HMS “Guerriere” on 19 August 1812. There is an old paper label, approximately 4-1/2” x 2” (with some edge losses over time), glued to the shaft midway down inscribed in black ink, “BOARDIN[G] / PIKE From ‘OLD’ / ‘[I]RONSID[ES’] / The / FRIGATE / [CO]NSTITUTIO[N]” (now-missing letters within brackets). Two other M1797 boarding pikes with the same attribution have been in the famous Williams Family Arms Collection for nearly 100 years and are illustrated on p. 115 of R. H.,Brown’s work, “American Polearms, 1526-1865 (New Milford, CT: Norm Flayderman & Co., 1967). [with] 2) A desk ornament or paperweight made from pieces “taken from the original hull of the USS Constitution” when restored in 1927, the base a piece of oak frame the ship’s framing, with copper trim pieces cut from the hull’s sheathing and a section of an iron spike from the infrastructure. 2 items. PROVENANCE: The Dr. John Lattimer Family Collection to present. CONDITION: The head of the pike shows evidence of past aggressive cleaning, probably from the use of naval jelly, judging by the form of the pitting and the finish of the metal on portions devoid of pitting; much of the blade is covered with a light surface rust at present.

There is some damage and minor loss to the shaft in the areas in which the head and langets were inlet during attachment; elsewhere very good. JLK 1,000 - 3,000 1122 - EARLY 19TH C. USN BOARDING PIKE HEAD WITH BOSTON NAVY YARD-MARKED SHEATH. The forged-steel, pike head is 19” long, the spike or spear portion with socket being 9-3/8” long and the langets, or side-straps being 9-5/8” long. Each langet has three evenly-spaced holes to accommodate the iron rivets that would secure the head to the shaft. The spear portion of the head is spike-shaped, the 7” spike is four-sided or square in cross-section profile, it is 9/16” wide at its widest, tapering upward to a point. The blackened leather sheath or scabbard is 11” long x 1-5/8” wide at its base, which has two holes punched near its corners, to which the original hempen cord ties used to secure it to the pike shaft still remain attached. The pike or scabbard sheath is stamped “USN / BOSTON” within an oblong bordered cartouche and probably dates to the 2nd quarter of the 19th century. CONDITION: Both very good overall. JLK 400 - 800 78

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1123 - LOT OF 2: EARLY 19TH CENTURY BRITISH NAVAL CUTLASSES. (A) A private-contract cutlass of British- or Solingen-make for privateers and merchantmen, 1805-1815, copied from the Royal Navy’s P1804 Sea Service Sword, with robust, unfullered blade with spearpoint tip, 29” long and 1-1/2” wide at ricasso; its black-japanned, iron-mounted hilt consists of a heavy, sheet-iron, “figure-8” guard with a horizontally-ribbed, cast-iron grip. (B) A somewhat similar cutlass, also probably of British or Solingen-make, with a slightly-curved, unfullered blade with spearpoint tip, 27-13/16” long by 1-3/8” at ricasso; the iron hilt with figure-8 guard of slightly lighter-gauge, sheet-iron and a vertically-fluted, cast-iron grip, both japanned. CONDITION: Both cutlass blades now a gunmetal grey; their hilts retaining much of the original japanning, but with some light surface oxidation. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

1124 - USN PRACTICE CUTLASS, MODIFIED FROM STARR CONTRACT OF 1816.

In late 1815, the Navy Board approved a new cutlass pattern submitted by Nathan Starr and entered into a contract for 1000 the following year. This 1816 cutlass was a more robust version than that of his contract of 1808 cutlass, having a heavier and slightly shorter blade and a more robust, wide, cupped guard and barrel-shaped grip to the hilt. This example has been altered during the period of use into a practice cutlass and is one of two 1816 cutlasses known in this configuration. The single-fullered blade was shortened to 19”, reversed and reattached to its hilt, the wide and flat spine now the “cutting edge”, with the original edge also ground down slightly and the tip rounded for safe practice; the blade is 1-1/4” wide at ricasso with “N. STARR” stamped across on left side. The hilt has had its wide, cupped guard and knucklebow cut down into a simple D guard of 7/8” width, but with the addition of an oval strip of iron around the sides of the grip to form and the application of two iron strips crisscrossing (also 7/8” width), to form a rudimentary basket-hilt that provides full protection for the user’s hand. Overall length: 24-1/2”. CONDITION: The iron blade and hilt fittings now a gunmetal grey, with a good number of nicks/gouges on the blade from its use as a practice cutlass; some light pitting to the ferrules on each side of the maple grip. JLK 900 - 1,500

1125 - US NAVY CUTLASS WITH SCABBARD, STARR CONTRACT OF 1826 Overall length 30-7/8”, with a curved, single-edged blade with narrow, unstoppered fuller measuring 25-1/4” long by 1-1/4” at ricasso; the obverse or right side of the blade is stamped “FT / US / [N. STAR]R” near the hilt, with a small “K K” or “X X” across ricasso on the left or opposite side. The maple grip is barrel-shaped like the 1816, but now with turned with ribs or cross-channeling. The sheet iron D-guard of the hilt in slightly convex in profile, with flared or outward-turned edges for strength. During its service life, a brass, diamond-shaped issue placard (1-7/8” x 1-1/8”) was brazed to the outside face of the D-guard at center on which is engraved “1 C / 1” (similar diamond-shaped issue placards have been noted on US Navy boarding pikes of the period). The scabbard is entirely of iron, with frog button or stud set on a diamond-shaped base brazed to the scabbard body. A diamond2000 cutlasses with iron scabbards of this pattern were contracted for with Nathan Starr & Company in 1826 and delivered the following year, at a cost of $4.25 per set. CONDITION: The blade now a gunmetal grey; the hilt bearing traces of its original black japanning on all iron parts; the maple grip with a well-aged split on its obverse side due to oxidation expansion of the iron tang within; the scabbard with traces of japanning remaining, elsewhere a gunmetal grey, the frog button slightly bent. JLK 1,200 - 2,400

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1126 - AMES MODEL 1841 US NAVY CUTLASS WITH SCABBARD. This gladius-inspired sword has an overall length of 26-1/4”, with a straight, unfullered, double-edged blade with median ridge, elliptical in cross-section and 20-3/4” long by 1-3/4” wide. On the obverse side of the blade near ricasso is stamped “[N. P.] AMES / CABOTSVILLE / MASS”, while “U.S.N / 1842” is on the opposite side, indicating this fine example is one of the first completed in the multi-year contract. The 2-piece, cast-brass hilt consists of a grip with integral pommel, the grip portion molded to resemble scales or feathers, with three iron rivets on each side to secure the tang of the blade, while the pommel portion is a squat, ovoid shape bearing an American eagle with shield device impressed into it. Its D-guard consists of a broad strip of brass expanding from pommel to form a wide, flat counterguard thickened at its outside edges and with outward-scrolled quillon ending in a disk. A ‘33’ rack number is stamped into the inside crossguard. The leather scabbard with original brass mounts consisting of throat with frog button and long drag or tip. CONDITION: The blade now a gunmetal grey with good edges to the blade, brass parts of the hilt and scabbard very good, but the leather of the latter has been expertly replaced. JLK 850 - 1,500

1127 - RARE U.S. MARINE CORPS M1832 SERGEANT’S SWORD AND SCABBARD. Overall length: 32-3/8”; the curved blade with single, wide fuller is 27” long by 1-3/16” wide at the ricasso, decorated with bluing and gilding and etched with simple floral and martial decorations including a scroll on the right or obverse face bearing the maker’s name, “W. H. Horstmann & Sons / Phladelphia.” The brass-mounted hilt consisting of a reverse-P guard with half-langets and a backstrap terminating in an eagle-head pommel; the wooden grips with wrapped with leather and finished with 2-strand, twisted brass in the grooves. The original, leather scabbard with brass mounts consisting of throat with frog button and drag. Frederick W. Widmann of Philadelphia was the sole contractor for these “Marine Sergeant’s swords” from 1832 until the mid-1840s, after which William H. Horstmann & Sons succeeded as the contractor--they having purchased Widmann’s dies and machinery. The Model 1832 sergeant’s sword (actually a short saber) continued in use with the Marine Corps until a new pattern (adopted in 1859) succeeded it. CONDITION: Complete and in near-fine condition, the blade retaining nearly all of its original bluing and gilding, while the scabbard leather is still supple. JLK 2,000 - 4,000

1128 - PATTERN OF 1830 US NAVY OFFICER’S EAGLE-POMMEL SWORD. A United States Navy commissioned officer’s sword made to the specifications of the 1 May, 1830 General Order governing Navy uniforms and its accompanying pattern drawings. This sword conforms to both description and drawings, blades being “cut and thrust...not exceeding 30, nor less than 26 inches in length...the grips of those for...commissioned officers and Midshipmen, to be white” and the hilts to be “yellow mounted, and with eagle heads.” The pipe-back blade appears to have been shortened from one of the longer form specified above and is now 26-3/8” in length, its width being 1-1/4”--nearly the maximum “breadth” of “one and three-tenths inches” as prescribed for the longer blades, rather than 2/3rds of an inch breadth prescribed for the 26” blade. It is blued with gilded, etched devices running up the blade from the hilt in this order: a fouled anchor, a wreath of 13 stars, and a spray of oak leaves and acorns. The gilded brass hilt consists of a feathered backstrap terminating in a large eagle-head pommel, with a reverse-P guard, a downward-facing, side-guard (essentially an enlarged oval-shaped, half-langet) with raised rim is on the obverse of the hilt, with crossed sprays of oak leaves and acorns in high relief centered upon it; on the reverse of the guard is a smaller half-sideguard. JLK 1,500 - 2,500

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1129 - [WAR OF 1812]. THE EARLIEST-KNOWN U.S. NAVY DOCKYARD MODEL: THE USS NEW ORLEANS, C. 1814.

An impressive and historically-important, original (circa 1814) Dockyard (or so-called “Admiralty”) Model for the three-decker, ship-of-theline designed for Lake Ontario service by Henry Eckford in 1814, believed to be the oldest example of a U.S. Navy dockyard model extant.

The 1:48 scale model is constructed of mahogany and pine, with exposed frames below ebonized wales with white strakes, scored planking with trenails over, working rudder set on pins, chainplates with deadeyes, vermilion-edged gun ports, finely carved and gilded figurehead, bulwarks and catheads with sheaths, carved quarter and stern badges, semi-open decks with fittings including belaying rail with pins, two interior windlasses, capstan, covered hatches, cleats, bilge pumps, poop rail and companionways, white lead-painted lower gundecks and great cabin, and keel with mast steps etc., mounted on a later, two-piece cradle. Model overall: 14-7/8” x 57-7/8” x 14”. The actual ship-of-the-line that this dockyard model represents was laid-down on 15 December 1814 by Henry Eckford and Adam and Noah Brown at Sackets Harbor, New York.

She was intended for US Navy use on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812 and was the largest of the ships designed and built by Eckford for such service. This is believed to be Henry Eckford’s original 1814 dockyard model for the then-unnamed ship, but as seen here, with gilt-finished stern bearing a carved likeness of a uniformed figure surrounded by a panoply of arms above the galleries and the name “JAMES MONROE” in gilt letters below. At the time the three-decker was proposed and through the period in which she was being laid-down, James Monroe was the most important member of President James Madison’s cabinet, serving both as Secretary of War and Secretary of State; thus, trimming out a dockyard model with stern decorations bearing Monroe’s name was possibly a move to curry political favor and support for the project by Eckford and others. Following Jackson’s victory over the British in early January 1815, the three-decker was ultimately named USS New Orleans by direction of the Secretary of the Navy on 14 February 1815 in celebration of that momentous battle. Designed to carry up to 130 broadside guns, had the New Orleans been launched and fitted out, she would have been the most powerful warship to ever sail on the Great Lakes.

However, her construction was halted in March 1815 after the Treaty of Ghent was ratified with Great Britain and she remained on the stocks, housed over, until sold for salvage in 1883. When presented to the De Young Museum in 1907 and during her subsequent period of exhibition, the model was described by the donor as “116 gun ship James Monroe, Builders Model of a large ship of the line, a projected design. American 1800-1815.” Although other information of the model was found in extant museum records relating to this gift, the model was carefully studied by a team of curators and scientists headed by Dana Wegner, Curator of Ship Models of the US Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center in West Bethesda, Maryland during 2012-2015, which included endoscope and CAT scan analysis, taking of lines, etc. as well as materials analysis. The paints were sampled and tested by Welsh Color and Conservation, where a pre-1840 dating for all were determined based on analysis of pigments and bonding agents (and their respective degradation over time); while the metal nails and fittings were all found to be hand-forged and glue was horsehide-derived. In his 2015 conclusion to the study by the team, Curator Dana Wegner stated that “We are now very sure that the model represents USS New Orleans (1814). The peculiar lack of knees indicates that the ship was built (or intended to have been built) on the Great Lakes. The overall form of the model seems appropriate for the New Orleans and the measurements of the model match her exactly.”

Elsewhere, Mr. Wegner noted that other design features, “mainly around the head rails, indicate that it was American and dates to the early nineteenth century.” Accompanying this important and historic, early American dockyard model are her recorded lines, as well as three binders of documentation assembled during the course of the aforementioned study. PROVENANCE: Aaron Wilson Davis collection; donated in 1907 by same to The William De Young Museum, San Francisco; deaccessioned by sale, 2001; private Midwest collection to present. CONDITION: The model is in remarkably good condition for its age, with some surface dirt, edge wear and minor paint loss, as to be expected; a few of the exposed frames are cracked, as are the cap rails in stern and bow, which can be easily restored. JLK 50,000 - 150,000

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1130 - A WELL-CRAFTED AND IMPRESSIVE ADMIRALTY BOARD-STYLE MODEL OF HMS KATHERINE (1664).

Modeled by the late Lewis J. LaPorte (1920-2005), a master cabinetmaker, carver, and wooden ship-builder from Marlborough, Massachusetts. This plank-on-frame model was built in 1974, with every feature handcrafted down to the smallest fitting. The frames are exposed below the main wales and planked with trenails over, lower deck with semi-closed port lids and gilt-wreathed upper ports, gilt figurehead and stern decoration, semi-planked decks with details including belaying rails, gratings, companionways, capstan with bars, stern lights, and other details. In 2010, Master Ship Modeler Bill J. F. Pomphrey completed the ship with standing and running rigging with wooden blocks, also all hand fabricated with exception of the flags, and completed a glazed wooden case with plaque. Cased measurements: 37-1/2” x 38” x 18”; model: 31” x 33” x 8”.

The original Royal Katherine was an 84-gun, second rate, line-of-battle ship launched in 1664 at Woolwich Dockyard. She fought at Lowestoft, The Four Days’ Battle, and St. James Day Battle during the Second Anglo-Dutch War and at Solebay and Schooneveld in the Third Anglo-Dutch War. With a giclee print of a painting of the original ship. Lot of 2. JLK 2,000 - 4,000

1131 - MINIATURE ADMIRALTY-TYPE MODEL OF H.M. FRIGATE DIANA (1794).

An exceptionally well-rendered, miniature Admiralty-type model of H.M. Frigate Diana, date and modeler unknown, but appears to be antique, possibly late 19th or early 20th century. It is of plank-on-frame construction, with carved figurehead, blue and gilt-trimmed stern and with black strakes, trim and gunwales. It measures 3-1/2” x 11” x 3” and is housed in a glass-paneled case 6” x 13-3/4” x 6”. The model comes with a framed sheet from the 11 March 1865 issue of the Illustrated London News showing ship models at Kensington Museum (now the V&A), including Diana and Victory, along with a copy of David White’s 1988 book, “The Frigate Diana”. The original HMS Diana was the second of the Artois class frigates designed by Sir John Henslow. Launched in 1794, she had a long and active service, most of which was spent in patrol, convoy and blockade duties. The highlight of her career was in August 1795 when on patrol duty with her sister ship Seahorse and the frigate Unicorn, they captured the Dutch East Indiaman Cromhout, another merchant ship and her escort. 3 items. CONDITION: Very good and complete; rear glass panel of display case missing. JLK 500 - 1,000

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1132 - DISPLAY MODEL OF THE SCHOONER “SWIFT”, A VIRGINIA PILOT BOAT (1805).

Toward the end of the 18th century, “Virginia built” schooners were used as pilot boats from the Delaware Capes to Hatteras. Between 1785 and 1805, these fast and handy vessels were also used by the British and French navies as dispatch boats and tenders. During the American Revolution and the War of 1812, the US government issued privateering commissions to many privately-owned vessels of this type and many captured ones were taken into British service as tenders and dispatch boats. Built by Jim Martin, the 1:50 scale basswood model of this gaff-rigged schooner features a planked and framed hull, standing and running rigging, stitched cloth sails, and numerous other details. Presented on a 14” x 4”, maple base with brass legend, the overall dimensions: 19” x 21” x 5”. JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 500 - 700

1133 - DISPLAY MODEL OF HM CUTTER “SHEARWATER” (1815) This superb model represents the His Majesty’s Cutter “Shearwater” as she appeared at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. Cutters were usually the smallest commissioned ships in the fleet. Developed from craft used by English smugglers, these single-masted vessels were built for speed and employed as patrol and dispatch boats. Expertly modeled in 1:50 scale by A. Van Felix for the American Marine Model Gallery of Salem, Massachusetts, the cutter has a planked and framed hull, coppersheathed below the waterline and black main wale and topsides with white strakes, carved polychrome figurehead, stern and quarter lights, planked decks with details including anchors with bound stocks, belaying rails with pins, eight cannon, gratings, cannonball racks, pumps, stove pipe, brass bell, bound masts with yards and booms, standing and running rigging and numerous other details. Mounted on two black-painted stands, with brass legend; overall measurements: 28-1/2” x 31” x 9”. Handsomely presented in a wood and glass case with brass mountings, 31” x 33” x 12”.

JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 2,000 - 4,000

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1134 - DISPLAY MODEL OF HM REVENUE CRUISER “BADGER”, 1844.

Revenue cruisers were commissioned by the British Crown to intercept smugglers in British-controlled waters; named as such because they protected the country’s revenue. This model represents the revenue cruiser HMS Badger, launched in 1842, as she appeared circa 1844. Modeled by D. Taylor with planked and framed hull, copper-sheathed below the waterline and black main wale and topsides with white strakes, carved polychrome figurehead, stern and quarter lights, planked decks with details including anchors with bound stocks, tiller, belaying rails with pins, deck rings, stove pipe, brass bell, bound masts with yards and booms, standing and running rigging and numerous other details. The cruiser is depicted as cleared for a gale, cannon seized and secured, cannon ports closed, longboat secured on deck, and booms lowered. A figure of a sailor with sea bag is set on the base for interesting visual relation to scale (being 1:48). Mounted on two brass stands, with brass legend, overall measurements – 22” x 23” x 6”. Presented in wood and glass case with overall measurements: 28” x 28-1/2” x 10”. Commissioned by the noted Laurence Langford Ship Model Gallery, London, circa 1990. JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 1,500 - 4,000

1135 - RARE DOCKYARD HALF MODEL OF US NAVY FRIGATE’S CUTTER, C. 1825.

An extremely rare and important Dockyard half model of cutter for a US Navy frigate, circa 1825. The model measures 20-5/8” from “stem to stern” with an 18-1/2” keel and is 2-1/2” abeam and 3-3/4” high at this same (widest) point; the hull built up in four lifts of mahogany, with applied stem, keel and rudder post, the three lower lifts each being 1/2” thick. It is mounted to a green-painted, 3-3/4” x 23-1/2” backboard with centered hanging hole at top, secured on verso of board by four, handmade screws and inscribed in graphite on same “Frigate’s Cutter.”

The cutter model features six oarlocks cut into its gunwales and appears, in scale and proportions, to closely match the dimensions for 36’ cutter or launch for a first class frigate (USS Constitution, etc.) as prescribed during the 1810s-1840s (see manuscript boat plans in USS North Carolina Rigging Book, lot # this sale). The method of construction and finishing of this half model matches other mid-1820s dockyard half models known for US Navy vessels, including a circa 1828 one of the USS Fairfield sold as lot 40 at Bonhams Maritime Sale, NYC, 28 Jan. 2014. CONDITION: The upper left corner of the original painted backboard (3-3/4” down x 3-1/2” across) was apparently broken off and replaced/restored in-kind at some time in its past, as was the rudder stem of the hull. JLK 1,500 - 3,000 86

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1136 - USS NORTH CAROLINA RIGGING BOOK WITH BOAT PLANS, 1819.

[United States Navy]: [MANUSCRIPT MASTING AND RIGGING BOOK FOR THE 74-GUN, SHIP-OF-THE-LINE USS NORTH CAROLINA]. [N.p. ca. 1819]. [129] pp. Folio. Contemporary suede spine and marbled boards. Spine perished; boards loose and heavily worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown; later bookplate. Internally clean. Good. In a cloth clamshell box, gilt leather label. A very exciting manuscript work relating to the rigging and fitting out of the ship-of-the-line of the early United States Navy, shortly after the close of the War of 1812. The USS North Carolina was one of nine ships-of-the-line authorized by Congress on 29 April 1816. Her plans were drawn and approved during 1817-1818 and her keel laid at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1818. She was launched on 7 September 1820 and subsequently fitted out for sea service at the Norfolk Navy Yard during 1821. While nominally a 74-gun ship, North Carolina was actually pierced for 102 guns, and probably originally mounted 94 broadside guns, principally 42- and 32-pounders. Considered by many the most powerful naval vessel then afloat, North Carolina served in the Mediterranean as flagship for Commodore John Rodgers from 29 April 1825 to 18 May 1827. In the early days of the Republic, as today, a display of naval might brought a nation prestige and enhanced her commerce. Such was the case as Rodgers’ squadron which laid the groundwork for the 1830 commercial treaty with Turkey. The inside over of this manuscript volume bears the ownership inscription, “Lieut. E.A.F. Vallette / U.S. Navy, Augt. 1, 1817.” The manuscript contains descriptions, specifications and uses for, each of the thousands of blocks and other rigging hardware, masts, spars, and lines employed in masting and rigging the warship and her boats. Of seminal importance are three double-page, plans containing the scale lines of the ship’s launch and two larger cutters, and four full-page sketches of the ship’s two smaller cutters, the quarter boat, and the “giggs.” Each drawing includes sails and rigging for such small craft. These are the earliest plans known for U.S. Navy ship’s boats and undoubtedly were of the same form as those earlier used during the War of 1812. This work thus presents an unprecedented level of detail relating to the construction and fitting-out of American warships and their boats, previously not encountered for this early period. Elie Augustus Frederick La Vallette (1790-1862) entered the Navy as a sailing master in 1812. On September 11, 1814, he was an acting lieutenant aboard the corvette Saratoga, the flagship of Commodore Thomas Macdonough at the Battle of Lake Champlain. La Vallette distinguished himself during the battle, winning promotion to lieutenant effective 9 December 1814 and a silver Congressional medal. La Vallette’s first command came in June 1817, taking the schooner Despatch on a survey of Virginia’s coast and harbors.

He was then assigned to and stationed aboard the North Carolina from 1817 to 1822, during which he used this. By 1824, he was 1st lieutenant aboard the USS Constitution and while on duty in the Mediterranean, was acting captain for several months and served on the ship until 1828.

Lavallette was promoted to master commandant on March 3, 1831. JLK 3,000 - 5,000

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1137 - HALF HULL MODEL OF THE USS OHIO (1820).

A handsome half model of the 102-gun, ship-of-the line USS Ohio, the original of which was laid down in 1817 to a design of Henry Eckford and launched in 1820. She spent most of her early years in ordinary until refitted in 1838, serving for the next two years as Commodore Isaac Hull’s flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron, then involved in suppressing slave trade off the coast of Africa. She went into ordinary again in 1840 at Boston, serving as a receiving ship. Recommissioned in 1846, she participated in the Mexican War and later keeping order off California during the Gold Rush, returning to Boston in 1850 and again serving as a receiving ship until 1875, then into ordinary until sold off in 1883. The model itself was constructed by R. L. Walbridge in 1975 and consists of 12 lifts of wood, possibly mahogany, each 3/4” thick, with built-up, black painted gunwales. The half hull measures 10” x 46-3/4” x 5-1/4” and is mounted to a red-painted wood panel of 12-1/2” x 50-1/2” x 3/4”.

It comes with a mounted giclee print from an 1840s Currier & Ives lithograph of the US warship. CONDITION: Three cracks noted in the gunwales in need of repair. JLK 400 - 800

1138 - ANTIQUE HALF HULL MODEL OF THE USS PIONEER (1836).

A handsome half model of the USS Pioneer, variously described as a barque, frigate or brig during her short naval career. Pioneer was launched in 1836 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Commanded by Josiah Tattnall, she carried General Santa Anna to Veracruz from Washington, D.C. in 1837; she was apparently sold out of service in 1844. This antique half hull model is of solid hull construction, versus lift-constructed, and measures 8” x 31” x 3-3/4”. The lower hull is covered with “copper sheathing” that is a copper foil painted with a faux-greenish patina, while the upper works are painted black, with a white strake and trim work and features a name placard bearing the ship’s name and date of launch.

She is mounted by screws to a 15-3/4” x 37-3/4” x 3/4” backboard that is painted black, with gold edging. CONDITION: Very good, some light lifting to edges of sheathing. JLK 1,000 - 3,000

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1139 - ALASKAN AND SIBERIAN VIEWS BY JOHN WEBBER FROM COOK’S LAST EXPEDITION, 1776-1779 (LOT OF 13 PRINTS) Each copperplate engraving is line or mixed method, by various engravers; all being fine and crisp impressions, each plate-mark ranging from 9-11” x 10-16”, on folio sheets (approximately 14” x 19”) with generous margins. From volume 3 of the first edition of “A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere to determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe . . . In Three Volumes” (London, 1784). The plate numbers and titles of the 13 superb views are as follows: 28. Various Articles of Nootka Sound; 31. A Sea Otter; Canoes of Oonalashka; 38. The Tschuktschi, and their Habitations; 40. The Inhabitants of Norton Sound, and their Habitations; 41. Caps of the Natives of Oonalashka; 42. Natives of Oonalashka, and their Habitations; 54. A Sledge of Kamtschatka; 55. A View of Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka; 56.

A White [Polar] Bear; 58. A Man of Kamtschatka; 59. A Woman of Kamtschatka; [and] 61.The Inside of a Winter Habitation, in Kamtschatka.

John Webber (1751-1793) was born in London of Swiss descent. At the 1776 annual exhibition of the Royal Academy, he showed three works that attention of Dr. Daniel Solander and Sir Joseph Banks, both of whom sailed with Captain James Cook on his first Pacific voyage of exploration and were looking for a suitable artist to accompany Cook on what would be Cook’s third and final voyage. On their recommendation, Webber was appointed official artist to the expedition, which commenced on 12 July 1776. Upon his return to London in 1780, Webber submitted about 200 finished works to the Admiralty which he had made on the voyage. From autumn 1780 until summer 1784, he re-drew many of the drawings and supervised the engravers and printers who were preparing the images for publication, under the direction of Lord Sandwich.

CONDITION: Clean and bright, with good platemarks and fine impressions; some very minor marginal tears (less than 1/2”), chips, toning along the extreme edges of some sheets. JLK 1,500 - 3,000

1140 - [THE ART OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK’S THREE VOYAGES, 1770-1779] LOT OF 4.

Joppien, Rüdiger & Bernard Smith. “The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages.

Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771; Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution & Adventure 1772-1775; Volumes III-IV: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780.” New Haven & London: Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1988. First American Edition. Illustrated. 4 vols. xv, 247; xiii, 274; xxi, 233; 235-669 pp. Folio.

Brown cloth. Fine in fine dustjackets. OP. Captain James Cook’s three voyages of exploration to the Pacific between 1768 and 1780 were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to carry professional artists. “The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages” is a complete and fully illustrated catalog of all the known drawings and paintings done for these voyages, enhanced with fascinating narrative and explanatory text by experts Bernard Smith and Rudiger Joppien. A must-have set for any Cook, Pacific voyages or Northwest coast collector that has long been out-of-print. Volume III, describing Cook’s final voyages, is of particular interest for its descriptions of the Pacific Northwest and directly relates to the previous lot of Webber engravings. JLK 400 - 800

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1141 - [JOHN PAUL JONES] INVOICE FOR SMITH-WORK FOR THE FIRST CRUISE OF THE CONTINENTAL SHIP “RANGER”, 1777.

Noah Parker, autograph document signed, n.d. (but probably October 1777), docketed in the hand of John Langdon on recto, and later endorsed and signed by Parker at Portsmouth on 31 July 1778, acknowledging receipt of later payment from Langdon of 282 pounds and 8 shillings “Lawful money in full for the above Accot.” for his smith-work for the fitting out of the famous Continental ship “Ranger” for her first cruise in 1777. Folio sheet of laid paper bearing crown watermark.

Noah Parker (1734-1787) was well educated but practiced the trades of blacksmith and whitesmith, in which he excelled. Nathaniel Adams, in his Annals of Portsmouth (1825) stated that Parker “made himself well acquainted with every branch of the [smithing] business, especially with those parts, which required most ingenuity to execute.”

He resided at a house on the corner of Daniel and Penhallow Streets during the Revolutionary War era. Parker was a very religious man with a large family and his home became known as “Noah’s Ark.” He was later an early adherent of the tenets of Universalism and became the first Universalist minister in Portsmouth in 1784, at which time he and his family relocated to the house on Market Street that bears his name today.

Founding Father John Langdon (1741-1819) served as a member of the 2nd Continental Congress during 1775-1776. He resigned in June 1776 to become Continental agent at Portsmouth, superintending the construction of several warships including the Raleigh, the America, and the Ranger. In 1777, he equipped a volunteer troop of horse and participated in the battles of Bennington and Saratoga and the following year, in the Rhode Island campaign. His stellar and lifelong public service included being a signer of the US Constitution, two-term president and later, governor of New Hampshire (1805-1812) and more than 12 years in the U.S. Congress.

The Ranger, an 18-gun Continental Navy ship-sloop initially called Hampshire, was launched on 10 May 1777 at John Langdon’s shipyard on Badger’s Island in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Commanded by Captain John Paul Jones, she was frigate-built and pierced for twenty-six guns; viz., eighteen below, and eight above. This number was furnished, but Jones rejected all but those for the main deck, mounting 20 six-pounders. In this rare receipt done for the Ranger’s initial outfitting, Parker charges two pounds for “cutting US upon 20 Cannon” in July 1777; in other words, engraving the abbreviation for the United States of America in cipher upon the barrels of the iron six-pounders--the only documented instance of this found to date for Continental Navy ordnance. Further armament work includes mending and putting swivel mounts to three blunderbusses, fabricating “80 pikes and lances” at one pound apiece, furnishing “Sundry Armourers tools & stores” valued over 93 pounds, and “polishing 2 Swords [and] 2 pr.pistols” delivered to Captain Matthew Park (who commanded the Marine detachment aboard the Ranger). Parker’s skills as a whitesmith included making a speaking trumpet and a “Set of Amputating Instruments with Case Compl[ete] for 50 pounds, the latter of which was delivered on October 16th--keen-bladed knives and saws that would all-to-soon be put to their grim tasks. Sheet metal work included fabricating “funnels for 2 Cabooses” that cumulatively weighed 63 pounds and providing “42 pounds of sheet iron ...for mending Caboose.” The “Ranger” sailed for France on 1 November 1777, carrying dispatches to the American commissioners in Paris telling of General Burgoyne’s surrender. On this maiden voyage, two British prizes were captured. Ranger arrived at Nantes on 2 December, where Jones sold the prizes and then proceeded to Paris with news of the victory at Saratoga. On 14 February 1778, Ranger received the first official salute to the new American flag--the “Stars and Stripes”--given by the French fleet at Quiberon Bay. On April 17th, she took another prize and sent her back to France and nine days later, Jones led a daring raid on the British port of Whitehaven, spiking the guns of the fortress and burning the ships in the harbor. Ranger then sailed across the North Channel to Ireland, where she took the 14-gun HMS Drake after an hour’s battle and later captured a storeship, returning to the French port of Brest with her prizes on 8 May, perhaps the most successful cruise of a Continental vessel during the war. CONDITION: Very fine; bright and clean document with strong inked text and three flattened folds. JLK 3,500 - 6,500

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1142 - [JOHN PAUL JONES] RARE PRINT OF THE BATTLE OF FLAMBOROUGH HEAD, 1779.

Episode de la guerre l’Angleterre contre les Etats-Unis. Drawn and lithographed

by Ferdinand Perrot, published in Paris by Victor Delarue, not dated.

Hand-colored lithograph, 13-3/4” x 18” (view), within glazed and matted frame. The most visually interesting of a small series of prints of the famous 23 September 1779 naval battle fought at Flamborough Head, off Scarborough, which pitted a small American squadron under John Paul Jones in the “Bonhomme Richard” against British warships guarding a convoy. In the foreground, British and American sailors in longboats engage in hand-to-hand fighting towards the conclusion of the battle, while the British 44-gun “Serapis” exchanges broadsides with the “Bonhomme Richard” and “Alliance.”

Olds 86. Smith 21. CONDITION: Light toning to the paper, colors fresh; not examined out of the frame. JLK 1,200 - 2,400

1143 - DOMINIC SERRES WATERCOLOR OF BRITISH WARSHIPS OFF SAVANNAH, 1779.

Dominic Serres (RA, 1719-1793). “The Phoenix, The Vigilant, The Greenwich sloop, The Keppel and the Comet reducing the Town of Savannah to capitulate, January 1779.” Watercolor on paper, 5-3/4” x 10-3/4”, tipped to early mount with inked border and title below, 9” x 13-1/2” (view), with matted and glazed frame. Captain Hyde Parker (1739-1807) of the 44-gun HMS Phoenix commanded the small Royal Navy squadron sent from New York in December 1778 on the amphibious expedition against Savannah, Georgia, which was subsequently captured in a combined naval-land operation on December 29th. Only the Phoenix was built as a Royal Navy warship, the remaining vessels were two British merchantmen converted into small frigates (HMS Greenwich and HMS Vigilant), a captured privateer (HM Brig Keppel) and HMS Comet, a captured South Carolina Navy brigantine. Dominic Serres, Britain’s leading marine artist during the 2nd half of the 18th century, was commissioned to paint at least three works relating to Parker’s service in the Phoenix during the Revolutionary War; a number of watercolor studies relating to the same survive in various collections, including this view. CONDITION: The watercolor with light toning overall and some foxing on the upper margins; some staining and light soiling to the outer display mat; not examined out of the frame. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

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1144 - PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL MARIOT ARBUTHNOT, VICTOR OF THE 1781 BATTLE OF CAPE HENRY. JOHN RISING, RA (British, 1756-1815). “Portrait of Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot”, circa 1785.

Oil on canvas, 30” x 25”, within carved and gilded frame. Mariot Arbuthnot (1711-1794) was a British admiral who commanded the Royal Navy’s North American station during the American War for Independence. A native of Weymouth, England, Arbuthnot entered the Royal Navy in the late 1720s, became a lieutenant in 1739 and commander in 1746. That year, he captured two French privateers while in command of the HM Sloop Jamaica and was promoted to post captain in 1747. In 1759, he commanded HMS Portland during the decisive battle of Quiberon Bay, which established British naval supremacy and contributed to the fall of New France (Canada) to British forces.

From 1775 to 1778, he was naval commissioner resident at Halifax and served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, 1776-1778. On 19 March 1779, he was named Vice Admiral of the Blue and later than year, appointed commander-inchief on the American station.

In December 1779, Arbuthnot conveyed the troops of Sir Henry Clinton to Charleston, South Carolina, and cooperated with him in laying siege to that city.

On 26 September 1780 he was promoted to Vice Admiral of the White and in early March 1781, sailed his fleet out of New York in pursuit of a French one under Admiral Destouchesthat had sailed from Newport, Rhode Island to support American operations against the British expeditionary force in Virginia. Arbuthnot’s fleet outsailed that of Destouches, reaching the Virginia Capes just ahead of Destouches on 16 March. After maneuvering for several hours, the battle was joined; both fleets suffered damage and casualties without losing any ships. However, Arbuthnot was positioned to enter the Chesapeake as the fleets disengaged, frustrating Destouches’ objective.

Destouches returned to Newport, while Arbuthnot successfully achieved the landing of 2000 reinforcements for the British under Major General Benedict Arnold before reembarking for New York and returning to England shortly thereafter. Aged and infirm, the 1781 campaign concluded Arbuthnot’s active naval career, although ee advanced by seniority to become, on 1 February 1793, Admiral of the Blue and died in London the following year. John Rising was a successful portrait and subject painter who was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1785 until his death in 1815. Among many distinguished persons who sat to him were William Wilberforce, Lord Melville, Lord Nelson, and Sir William Blackstone. His portraits are pleasing in colour and executed with great truth and vigour; many of them have been engraved. Rising also painted various fancy and domestic subjects, such as ‘Juvenile Employment,’ ‘Ballad Singers,’ the ‘Sentimental Shepherd,’ and the ‘Infant Narcissus,’ some of which were mezzotinted by W. Ward, J. Jones, and others. Rising is said to have at one time assisted Sir Joshua Reynolds with the backgrounds of his pictures. CONDITION: Painting recently cleaned and revarnished by a professional conservator (report accompanies the painting) and mounted in a custom, reproduction frame; only a few minor, scattered spots of inpainting, mostly along edges of stretcher. JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 10,000 - 15,000

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1145 - FRAMED BUNBURY PRINT OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA “JACK TARS” Henry William Bunbury. “[Sailors Ashore] From a Sketch taken at Portsmouth by W. H. Bunbury Esqr.” London, published June 24th 1785 by J. R Smith. Rare first state of this hand-colored, mixed method engraving, 16-5/8” x 14-1/2” (view), matted and framed. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 marked a cessation of hostilities in both America and Europe and the publication shortly thereafter of this popular Bunbury view is probably not coincidental. It shows Royal Navy sailors from the HMS “Edgar”, a guardship at Portsmouth Harbor, enjoying their liberty ashore but probably also contemplating their uncertain future employment in a reduced, peacetime Royal Navy. This view was later reissued as “Sailors Ashore” in 1802, during another short lull of peace between the French Revolutionary and subsequent Napoleonic Wars. Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) began to draw caricatures and other comic subjects while studying at Cambridge, etching and publishing his first print of such in 1771.

Although a gentleman of means and an “amateur”, Bunbury then quickly rose to become one of the greatest satirical artists of the day, his caricatures being as well-known as those of contemporaries Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray. He was a popular character and the friend of most of the notables of his day, whom he never offended by attempting political satire; his easy circumstances and social position (he was colonel of the West Suffolk Militia and equerry to the Duke of York) allowed him leisure to practice his talents. He was a close friend of Thomas Rowlandson and John Raphael Smith, both of whom engraved many of Bunbury’s works, as with this notable and early print published by the latter. CONDITION: Bright and clean, with strong original coloring; conservation-matted and framed under UV glazing. JLK 750 - 1,500 1146 - ARCHIBALD HENDERSON COLLECTION, 1821-1858—“THE GRAND OLD MAN OF THE MARINE CORPS”.

A small archival collection of four pieces relating to the military career of Archibald Henderson (1783-1859), the longest-serving Commandant of the Marine Corps (1820 to 1859) and two early pamphlets on Marine Corps and Navy administration during the early 19th century. Henderson is known to many generations of “Leathernecks” as the “Grand old man of the Marine Corps,” serving in the United States Marine Corps for 53 years.

He was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the Corps on 4 June 1806 and served aboard USS “Constitution” during some of her famous victories in the War of 1812. Breveted a major in 1814, he was the acting Commandant from 6 September 1818 to 2 March 1819. Promoted to lieutenant colonel, Henderson was appointed Commandant on 17 October 1820 and served in that capacity for the next 38 years. Henderson is credited with thwarting President Andrew Jackson’s attempt to fold the Marine Corps into the Army in 1829.

Instead, Congress passed the Act for the Better Organization of the Marine Corps in 1834, ensuring the Marines would remain part of the Navy Department and he was promoted to colonel the same year. He went into the field as Commandant during the 1836-1837 Indian campaigns in Florida and Georgia, being promoted to brevet brigadier general in 1843 for his meritorious service actions in these campaigns. Henderson died suddenly on 6 January 1859 and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC. The collection consists of the following: 1) Archibald Henderson, autograph letter signed as “Colonel Commandant”, dated 6 July 1837, Marine Barracks, Washington Navy Yard, one page (9-5/8” x 7-7/8”), hinged and floated in a window mat and attractively framed with a reproduction of Henderson’s portrait. The letter is addressed to Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy, and relates to a solicitation from Captain Stevens of the Navy “to obtain for his son a Commission in the Marine Corps”. Henderson argues that “It is desirable to draw closer the ties that unite the Corps to the Navy and [begs] leave to ask your kind offices to obtain a Commission for him”, although admitting no personal knowledge of the “young gentleman”; 2) Brevet Brigadier General Archibald Henderson to 1st Lieutenant R. S. Nicholson, commanding the Marines aboard the Receiving Ship “Pennsylvania” at Norfolk, autograph letter signed, dated “Head Quarters of the Marine Corps, Washington, 28th Jany. 1858”, 2 pp. (9-5/8” x 7-7/8”). Henderson explains to the subaltern that “If an injustice has been done you in detailing you for duty at sea it has arisen from some exigency of the service” and that “1st. Lieut. Boyd has rec[eive]d. prefatory orders for the Niagara.” On the obverse of the sheet, Lieutenant Boyd’s unsigned and undated reply is appended in the young officer’s hand, in which he states acknowledge of receipt of Henderson’s letter and that he is “not aware of having complained of any injustice having been done me in detailing me for sea duty—Indeed I positively assert that no such complaint has ever been made, as there was…no ground until now, for complaint.” Docketed and with forwarding annotations; 3) Pamphlet, “Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting…A Report of the Strength of the Marine Corps at Head Quarters….February 12, 1821.” Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton, 1821. Quarto, 10 pp. with folding tables; and 4) Pamphlet, “Instructions For Navy Yards.” Washington: William A. Harris, Printer, 1859.

Quarto with blue wraps. 32 pp. CONDITION: 1) folds; 2) folds and small stain on right margin edge, not affecting text; 3) light toning; and 4) partial separation at dog-ear fold in lower right-hand corner of front cover; small stain on pp. 20-32, not affecting text readability. JLK 1,000 - 3,000

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1147 - UNIQUE, JOHN HANCOCK-SIGNED, 1775 CONTINENTAL MARINE OFFICER’S COMMISSION. John Hancock (1737-1793) as President of the 2nd Continental Congress, partially-printed, document signed; Philadelphia, 30 November 1775, on watermarked, laid paper, folio sheet, 9-3/4” x 15-1/8”, float-mounted in a matted and UV-glazed frame. An extremely rare Congressional commission for an officer in the Continental Marines, appointing “John Welsh Esqr....Captain of Marines… in the Service of the Thirteen United Colonies of North-America, fitted out for the defense of America Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof...”. The document is boldly signed by Hancock, with the same flourish as applied to that on the Declaration of Independence the following year, and countersigned by Charles Thomson as Secretary. The pre-Independence period, military commission document as printed for Congress is extremely rare in its own right, but this particular signed example is nearly unique, being one of only two surviving Continental Marine officer appointments known (the other, that of Captain Samuel Nicholas, is in the National Museum of the U.S. Marine Corps) and as such, is the only Continental Marine commission currently in private hands and available for acquisition by an advanced collector or institution. Perhaps of even greater significance is that its recipient, John Welsh, is one of the three Marine captains commissioned by Congress in 1775—this document signed only 2 days after the Marine Corps was established--and the first Marine officer to die in combat. Little is known of Welsh prior to the Revolutionary War—born in Ireland, he is said to have come to America to join in the cause of liberty. Welsh and his company participated in the Continental Navy’s successful raid on New Providence in the Bahamas in 1776. He was then assigned as senior Marine officer aboard the Continental ship Cabot, then transferred to the frigate Alfred and went into captivity following her capture by two Royal Navy ships on 9 March 1778. Welsh was sent to Forton Prison in England, from which he escaped with one of his lieutenants a few months later, making his way to France and freedom. Returning to America in spring 1779, he was ordered to the frigate Warren on May 18th, which was to become the flagship of Commodore Dudley Saltonstall’s combined fleet during the disastrous Penobscot Expedition. The Marines of the fleet took Banks’ Island on 26 July 1779, driving off the British troops and capturing 4 cannons with no casualties. Two days later, in a similar operation against the Bagaduce Peninsula, 200 Continental and state marines under Welsh were landed under heavy enemy fire, and while leading an attack on the strongest British position, Welsh and eight of his Continental Marines were killed and his lieutenant mortally wounded; the American assault failed with a total of more than 100 killed or wounded. CONDITION: Ink and print strong, paper with light toning and flattened folds; mends to the junction of some folds and in-kind filling of a small loss (approx. 1” x 1/2” area) on the upper right margin, recently done by a professional paper conservator. JLK 20,000 - 40,000

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1148 - NAVAL BATTLE PAINTING OF HMS CRESCENT VS. LA REUNION, 20 OCT. 1793” Unknown artist, British School, late 18th century.

“HM Frigate” Reunion versus French Frigate La Réunion 20 October 1793. Oil on canvas, 18” x 20”, within carved and gilded frame. HMS Crescent was a 36-gun Flora-class frigate of the British Royal Navy. Launched in 1784 but not commissioned until 1791, she spent the first years of her service on blockade duty in the English Channel where she single-handedly captured the French frigate, La Reunion, one of the first British naval victories of the French Revolutionary War. On the morning of 20 October 1793, lookouts on board Crescent reported sails off Cape Barfleur, on the Cotentin Peninsula, heading towards Cherbourg.

Her commander, Captain James Saumarez, ordered a course set to intercept. With the wind in his favor, Saumarez in Cresent soon came up on the port side of two vessels which proved to be the 38-gun French frigate La Réunion and a 14-gun cutter named Espérance, returning from a raiding cruise in the Channel. Esperance fled towards Cherbourg, leaving Réunion and Crescent to engage alone. Although the French ship was bigger (966 tons compared to 902) and carried a larger crew; the British ship had a slight advantage in weight of broadside, 315 to 310 pounds, and was marginally faster. After the opening broadsides exchanged side-by-side, Réunion lost her fore yard and mizzen topmast while Crescent lost the top off her foremast.

Both ships had rigging cut and a number of sails damaged but Crescent was still able to maneuver across Réunion’s stern and rake her, causing considerable damage to French ship and crew. Although Réunion continued to resist for some time, she was no longer able to move effectively.

With Saumarez about to cross his bow and Circe now rapidly approaching due to a strengthening wind, Captain François A. Dénian realized he had no choice but to surrender his vessel. The engagement had lasted two hours and ten minutes. CONDITION: Cleaned and revarnished by a painting conservator six years ago, with only scattered spots of inpainting noted, mostly along edges of work. JLK 2,500 - 5,000 1149 - PORTRAIT OF A ROYAL NAVY LIEUTENANT BY THE “PALERMO ARTIST” C. 1806.

The Palermo Artist (Italian School, fl. 1804-1815). “A Royal Navy Lieutenant, circa 1806.” Oil on canvas, 30” x 25”, within custom reproduction, carved and gilded frame. It is often forgotten that during the Napoleonic Wars, the island of Sicily was continuously occupied by British naval and military forces from 1806 to 1815. Its capital city and principal seaport of Palermo was of critical importance to British naval control of the Mediterranean, providing a well-protected anchorage for both British warships and transports, as well as commercial vessels. While ashore, a number of Royal Navy and Marine officers sat for their portraits with a talented Italian artist whose name has been lost to us over time.

He has been dubbed “the Palermo artist”, by virtue of a portrait now in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, England in which the sitter, Royal Navy purser Sam Crowley, holds a letter addressed to him at Palermo and dated 1807. His style of painting is quite distinctive and this painting of an unidentified Royal Navy lieutenant is clearly one of his works, closely matching other known “Palermo artist” portraits of naval and marine officers in museum and private collections. The handsome, young officer is painted in the undress uniform coat of a lieutenant, all-blue with white piping to the facings and bearing the fouled anchor buttons worn by Royal Navy officers, both adopted in 1795 and in use until 1812.

However, by its cut, his coat certainly dates no earlier than 1805 or 1806. He has his naval “cocked hat” of chapeau bras form, trimmed with gold lace binding and bullion tassels, tucked under his left arms, while a narrow black leather belt with lion-head fittings for a sword or dirk is worn around his waist. CONDITION: The portrait has an old relining and scattered, light inpainting; it was cleaned and revarnished within the past 15 years by a professional conservator.

JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 3,000 - 6,000

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1150 - THOMAS BUTTERSWORTH WATERCOLOR OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, 1805.

Thomas Buttersworth. “The Battle of Trafalgar, October 21st. 1805.” Ink and watercolor wash on paper, 18 x 29 1/4 in., within a matted, giltwood frame, the backing panel of which retains a Royal Exchange Art Gallery (London) label: “Ex. collection Lord Harwood.” Thomas Buttersworth (British, 1768–1842) was born on the Isle of Wight, and joined the Royal Navy in London in 1780. He began his painting career while serving and the accuracy of many of his Mediterranean works and his painting of the battle of St. Vincent would indicate that they were done from studies done on location. He left the Navy in 1800 and on his return to England, embarked on a successful career as a painter of marine scenes, executing ship portraits and important naval engagements on commission. These included his famous Battle of Trafalgar exhibited at the British Institution in 1825, for which this handsome watercolor version is a finished study, possibly also painted as a engraver’s copy for an intended print edition. In this view, Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship, the Victory, is depicted breaking through the Spanish and French lines on the left while HMS Temeraire engages the French ship Redoutable in the center. Buttersworth’s son James Edward (1817–1894) studied under his father and migrated to the United States in 1845, becoming one of the foremost ship portraitists of the mid-19th century. CONDITION: original hand-coloring with some fading, light uniform toning, some glue residue on edges of verso. JLK 3,000 - 6,000

1151 - 1809 SHIP’S PASSPORT FOR THE “GOELET” OF NEW YORK, SIGNED BY PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON Madison, James (1751-1836) as 4th President of the United States, document signed, partially-printed on vellum, 15-1/4” x 10-1/2” with scalloped upper edge and the handsome eagle seal of the United States affixed to lower-left corner, the document hinge-mounted and “floated” in conservation matting within frame with UV glazing, along with a 19th-century engraving of President Madison. The passport is dated May 17, 1809 and also bears the signatures of Robert Smith, Secretary of State and David Gelston, Collector of Customs for the harbor of New York. The passport is for the “Ship Goelet of New York, John Lano master or commander of the burthen of Two hundred five 62/95 tons or thereabouts” with a no guns mounted and a crew of 10. CONDITION: Handsomely displayed in conservation mounts, the vellum clean, with flattening and mends to separations at folds by a conservator; signatures are strong, as is the seal impression. Not examined out of the frame. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

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1152 - REDISCOVERED THOMAS SULLY PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT JAMES GIBBON, US NAVY, 1806 Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872). “Portrait of Lieutenant James Gibbon, United States Navy, c. 1806.” Oil on canvas, 24 7/8 x 20 5/8 inches, within carved 19th century frame. Namesake and eldest son of Major James Gibbon, an officer of the Virginia Continental Line, the younger James was born on 24 January 1783. He was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. Navy on 20 June 1799, serving in the Quasi-War and the Barbary Wars. During the latter, he was one of the senior midshipmen aboard the frigate Philadelphia under Captain William Bainbridge when she ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli and was captured with all crew on 31 October 1803, spending nearly 1 ½ years in captivity. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1806 and in 1809, served as a special courier for important diplomatic dispatches sent to the governments of France and Great Britain. On 26 December 1811, the promising young officer perished in the Richmond Theater fire while attempting to rescue Miss Sarah Conyers (a young lady with whom he was said to have been romantically involved). According to one account, Gibbon had “borne her partly down the staircase, when the steps gave way, and a body of flame swept them to eternity.” Previously attributed at various times to Thomas Sully, Cephas Thompson and Remdrandt Peale, it can now be firmly established that this portrait is a work by Sully, who would become one of the leading painters of the early Republic. Born in England in 1783, the future artist immigrated with his family to Richmond, Virginia in 1792. In 1795 while apprenticed to an insurance broker in Charleston, South Carolina, the adolescent Sully studied drawing and painting under his brother-in-law, French émigré miniaturist Jean Belzons until 1799 (when he fled that city after knocking down Belzons during a dispute). Returning to Richmond to pursue “miniature and device painting” under instruction from elder brother Lawrence Sully, Thomas set out on his own career as an portrait painter and miniaturist in 1804. While seeking commissions elsewhere in the Tidewater, he learned of Lawrence’s death in September of that year. Returning to Richmond to help his late brother’s widow, Sarah Annis Sully, with her young family, Sully worked out of a studio in that city until summer 1806, when he married his former sister-in-law and departed for New England and future study under Gilbert Stuart. It was during this Richmond period that newly-promoted Lieutenant James Gibbon sat for Sully, who painted both this oil and a miniature version on ivory, for which he was paid $20 in 1806. The handsome young officer is shown resplendent in his new, gold-laced uniform with epaulet on left shoulder, denoting his new rank. A rare surviving example from his Virginia period, this painting descended in the Gibbon family to Lillian Carter, in whose possession it was when recorded and photographed by Frick Art Reference Library in 1941; acquired by consignor at a local auction in Norfolk, Virginia, January 2019. CONDITION: the painting is unlined, but there are two patches of canvas on reverse and examination under UV (as well as comparison against the Frick photograph) confirms that there has been some inpainting, principally a 1-inch perforation in the sitter’s right ear lobe and a similar-sized one located at center front breast, just below the junction of the coat’s laced lapels. JLK 10,000 - 20,000

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1153 - OLIVER H. PERRY’S TELESCOPE FROM LAKE ERIE BATTLE, PRESENTED TO WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON AND USED AT THE THAMES, 1813.

An early 19th century, three-draw, mahogany and brass marine “spyglass” measuring 34 ½ inches fully extended with sunshade and 11 inches closed, with sliding brass shutters at each end to protect the objective lens and eyepiece. Vertically engraved on the brass first stage is the inscription “J. Richardson / 16 Somerset Street / London / Improv’d Day or Night”; noted British scientific instrument maker John Richardson (II) worked at this address between 1801-1816. There is a period presentation inscription engraved around the large brass collar on the mahogany barrel, “Used by Com. Perry in the action on Lake Erie 10th. Sept. 1813 / and presented by him to his friend Gen. William Henry Harrison.” Probably one of the most iconic relics of the War of 1812, carried and used in succession, by two of that conflict’s greatest American naval and military heroes. This telescope was an “eyewitness” to the two major events that secured American control of the Old Northwest Territory during the War of 1812, the battles of Lake Erie and the River Thames in 1813, its famous owners literally “saw history unfold before their eyes” while using this telescope in the service of their nation. .” It was the close cooperation and likemindedness of Perry and Harrison, in their respective leadership roles, that led to the American victories on Lake Erie and the River Thames. During the Thames campaign, Perry accompanied Harrison as a mounted, volunteer aide de camp and made the gift of the telescope as a token of friendship and esteem, one that the future President would treasure for the remainder of his life. During the Presidential campaign of 1840, Whig candidate Harrison was visited by James Brooks, who noted that the War of 1812 hero was a modest, unassuming gentleman of great intellect, whose unostentatious lifestyle and home reflected his personality (New York Daily Express, 23 May 1840). Brooks made note of one of the few prized possessions on display in his modest home, “a little Telescope, his near and dear friend Commodore Perry gave him, used in espying the enemy’s fleet in the battle of Lake Erie, when he wrote to Harrison—‘we have met the enemy and they are ours;’ setting more value I say, on [this testimonial] with the unimpeached name of an honest man, than upon all the wealth of Croesus, with all his luxuries.” The Perry telescope remained a revered Harrison family possession for successive generations; on 14 June 1940, Harrison’s great-grandson, Lytle Harrison Sr. (1876-1956), wrote a “History of the Perry Spy Glass” in which he recalled that his father John Scott Harrison, Jr. kept it “on the drawing room mantel and I regret to say that one of the lenses lost…Probably removed by some of the children to use as a burning glass and not returned.” In his care since 1907, Lytle was now “intrusting this spy glass to my son Lytle Harrison Jr…for safe keeping and upon my death, he should have it.” Provenance: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry; by him presented to Major General William Henry Harrison; by bequest to Harrison’s son, John Scott Harrison; given to son John Scott Harrison, Jr.; given to his son, Lytle Harrison; from thence by bequest to his son, Lytle Harrison, Jr; sold from the latter’s estate on 12 May 2002; private collection until present. Complete with extensive records of provenance and other documentation, including a typed document “History of the Perry Spy Glass” signed by Lytle Harrison and dated “Los Angeles, 1940.” CONDITION: there are no dents in the draw tubes, the brass elements somewhat tarnished and dirty, resulting in a rather stiff draw action; the mahogany barrel with sunshade is currently separated from the brass, telescoping stages due to wood split/loss at the rivet points within the ¼ inch join; the distal sliding shutter and lens missing. JLK 50,000 - 100,000

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1154 - PERRY’S VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE, SEPTEMBER THE 10TH. 1813.

“Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie, September the 10th. 1813. Representing the position of the two Fleets, at the moment when the Niagara is pushing through the enemy’s line, pouring her thunder upon them from both broadsides, and forcing them to surrender in succession to the American Flag. Commodore Perry having a short time before left the Lawrence in a small boat, amidst a tremendous fire from the British Squadron, and hoisted his Flag on board the Niagara. The Lawrence is seen at a distance disabled. Drawn by J. J. Barralet. Engraved by B. Tanner. Entered according to an Act of Congress the 14th. day of October 1814 by Benjamin Tanner of the State of Pennsylvania.” Third State. Hand-colored, line engraving, 17-1/4” x 24-3/4” platemark (18-3/4” x 25” view), within matted and glazed frame. The first and arguably the finest, of the contemporary views of this decisive naval battle, was a collaboration between two Philadelphia artists of note, Irish-born drawing-master John James Barralet (circa 1747-1815) and engraver Benjamin Tanner (1775-1848), completed and copyrighted a month after the action. Stauffer 3138. Olds 239. Smith 127.

CONDITION: Very good with original coloring and extremely light toning to paper; not examined out of frame, but visual examination confirms that print is not laid-down. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

1155 - ‘BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE’ FEDERAL EGLOMISE MIRROR. The reeded cornice with outset corners mounted with acorn spherules, above the frieze carved with inset leaf tip panels centering a flower head and flanked by rosettes, the eglomise panel painted with a view of six American and British warships exchanging broadsides and inscribed “LAKE ERIE” within a border of grape clusters and leaf tips, over a rectangular mirror plate, all within a gilt molded fruit and floral surround and applied baluster and rope-twist columns, the bottom with rosettes at each corner. 49-3/4” x 28-3/4”. The eglomise or reverse-painting on glass is derived from the Thomas Birch painting of this decisive 1813 American naval victory during the War of 1812. Provenance: Lot 948 of The William Guthman Collection, Part II. Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH, 12 October 2006.

CONDITION: Complete, with one small spot of loss to the reverse painting, not affecting overall view/appearance. JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 500 - 1,000 100

1156 - [WAR OF 1812] ALBANY’S GIFT TO COMMODORE MACDONOUGH FOR HIS 1814 NAVAL VICTORY. Grant of land to Commodore Thomas MacDonough by the grateful city of Albany. Autograph Document Signed by Mayor Philip S. Van Rensselaer, Albany, 3 October 1814; ink on vellum with paper seal of the city in left margin; 15 x 16 1/2 inches (view) within glazed frame. The heroes of American naval and military victories of the War of 1812 were publicly celebrated, with Congress, states and cities usually voting for the commissioning of presentation swords, medals or commemorative silver services to the victorious commanding officers, most not completed until well after the war. Albany, the capital of New York and directly in the path of the invading British amphibious force coming down the Lake Champlain corridor, decided to give Commodore Thomas Macdonough a more immediate and perhaps financially-viable gift within weeks of his victory off Plattsburgh—land.

This deed awards him a desirable parcel on Washington Square in the heart of the city for his “gallant conduct . . . in the signal victory achieved by him over a superior British squadron on Lake Champlain on the eleventh day of September last.” CONDITION: the vellum with folds and slight buckling, as usual with such documents, the text and signatures strong and seal complete; not examined outside of the frame. JLK 1,200 - 2,000

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1157 - RARE PRINT OF 1814 BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN OR PLATTSBURGH. Macdonough’s Victory on Lake Champlain, and Defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl. Macomb, Septr. 11th. 1814. Engraved

by Benjamin Tanner after Hugh Reinagle. Published 4 July 1816 by Tanner and printed by Rogers & Esler, Philadelphia. Line engraving, 16-7/8” x 24-1/2”, within glazed and matted frame. First State. The victory of Commodore Thomas Macdonough’s US naval squadron over that of the British on Lake Champlain and the repulse of the British army ashore by General Alexander Macomb and his American land forces was probably the most strategic action of the war, forcing the British to abandon their intended invasion from Canada and leading to favorable terms in the ensuing Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812. This print was published as and marketed as a companion to Tanner’s earlier view of the battle of Lake Erie. Tanner’s collaborator on the former, John J. Barralet, had died the previous year, leading him to turn to Philadelphia-born Hugh Reinagle (1790-1834), a rising young landscape artist who had studied with John J. Holland in New York. This Reinagle-Tanner battle piece is perhaps the most handsomely-executed American print published near-contemporary to- and relating to the War of 1812. CONDITION: A strong and early impression, paper bright and clean, with a few minor marginal tears expertly mended by a paper conservator. JLK 2,000 - 3,000

1158 - [WAR OF 1812] AN IMPORTANT NAVIGATIONAL WORK SEIZED FROM A CAPTURED AMERICAN MARINER AND LATER RETURNED Mackay, Andrew. “THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF FINDING THE LONGITUDE AT SEA OR LAND: TO WHICH ARE ADDED, VARIOUS METHODS OF DETERMINING THE LATITUDE OF A PLACE, AND THE VARIATION OF THE COMPASS; WITH NEW TABLES. THE SECOND EDITION, IMPROVED AND ENLARGED.” Vol.1 (of 2) only. Aberdeen: Printed for the Author by J. Chalmers, 1801. Quarto ((8 ½ x 5 ½ in.); half title, title page, 8 folding plates, pp. (6) ix, 336. Full calf leather binding, covered in turn by hemp sailcloth and inscribed on the spine in iron-gall ink “Mackay’s / Longitude.” This seminal work was written by the Scottish teacher of navigation, Andrew Mackay (1758-1809), who “corrected the latitude of Aberdeen, estimated the longitude by comparing timings of Jovian satellite phenomena with Greenwich, and rated chronometers. Meantime he earned his living teaching mathematics, geography, navigation with lunars, surveying, and fortification” (ODNB) and the current work gained him the “thanks of the boards of longitude of England and France” (ibid.). An historicallyimportant copy of the exceedingly rare 2nd and improved edition (no copies listed in Worldcat), this book originally belonged to Captain William Flemming of Phladelphia, who inscribed in ink on its half-title page “Ship Sally & Hetty / Atlantic Ocean / 1807 / Wm. Flemming” above the title and below, a later inscription: “Ship Mary / Pacific Ocean / October 1827 / Deo Optimo Maximo (To the Greatest and Best God)”, the earlier date likely relating to his original year of acquisition and use. Flemming was the son of John Flemming, a Philadelphia sea captain and followed his father’s career, beginning in as a Midshipman in the US Navy during the Quasi-War, serving 1799-1801. Flemming was Master of the ship Sally & Hetty on 26 February 1808 when she was captured by two Royal Navy Sloops the Blossom and Eclipse - reported in the London Gazette. Inscribed in ink by Flemming on the page opposite the title page is the following: “This work in 2 Volumes with Sextant Charts &c. was taken from me by Capt. Lumley of the British Frigate Pomone when captured by her during the late War of 1812. It was afterwards returned to me by the Sailing Master Mr. [Thomas] Wetherall as a private mark of his friendship. I now give it to my Son John hoping it may guide him as it has me through many dark & stormy nights. W. Flemming. Ship Mary August 24th 1828.” It is currently unclear what ship Flemming was aboard when taken by the Pomone and is worthy of additional research, although it can be pinned to the period in which Lumley held command, January to June 1815. It is very likely that Flemming may have returned to naval service and was serving aboard Captain Stephen Decatur’s US Frigate President in the capacity of a warrant officer when she was taken

by Endymion and Pomone on 15 January 1815. However, British and American vessels were still being taken as prizes until news of the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent reached America in April 1815, which is when Pomone began her return voyage to England. There are two leaves of laid paper tipped in between pp. 94-95, upon which Flemming has penned additional commentary on the challenges of navigation at sea. The book passed from his son John to Lewis Price Cassan in 1842, as annotated on the book’s title page. Cassan was apparently well-acquainted with both Flemmings, as William signed an 1832 affidavit attesting to the then-15-year-old sailor’s birth in Philadelphia. Lewis P. Cassan (1816-1870) had a distinguished career as a mariner, including service as an officer in the US Navy during the Civil War. Upon the death of Cassan, the book passed to his nephew, Captain Samuel Cassan Colesbury of the U.S. Revenue Service. CONDITION: the front board separated from the leather spine proper, but still connected via the sailcloth cover; the sailcloth well-worn and soiled, attesting to its long usage at sea; front endpapers and half-title signature loose; light toning, soiling and waterstaining to scattered pages. JLK 1,500 - 3,000

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1159 - THE MAN WHO BURNED THE WHITE HOUSE: ADMIRAL GEORGE COCKBURN PRINT. “Admiral Sir George Cockburn.“ Mixed mezzotint engraved by H. T. Ryall after the original painting by S. Lane. Published July 1840 by Messrs. Colnaghi & Puckle, London. Proof before the title; superb impression in the early state, 32-3/4” x 21-3/4” with 29-1/2” x 19-1/2” platemark. The print is tipped to a piece of backing paper, which is wrapped around a strainer (with a backing board bearing an early 20th century Knoedler gallery label). Presented in a glazed frame with window mat (26” x 17-1/2” view). Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, GCB, PC, FRS (22 April 1772 – 19 August 1853) was a Royal Navy officer whose long and distinguished career is too often overlooked in American circles due to his notoriety as the Man Who Burned Washington” As a captain, he was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797 and commanded the amphibious landings at the reduction of Martinique in 1809. He also masterminded the Chesapeake campaign of 1814 and the taking of Cumberland Island and St. Mary’s, Georgia in 1815. He went on to be First Naval Lord and in that capacity sought to improve the standards of gunnery in the fleet, forming a gunnery school at Portsmouth; later he ensured that the Navy had the latest steam and screw technology and put emphasis on the ability to manage seamen without the need to resort to physical punishment. A collaboration between engraver Henry Thomas Ryall (1811-1867) and portrait artist Samuel Lane (1780-1859), two master artists at the height of their respective careers, painted shortly after Cockburn was promoted to full admiral (1837) and engraved and published the year prior to Cockburn’s reappointment as First Lord of the Admiralty. Provenance: Max Williams Coll. Sale, Anderson Galleries, 1 Nov. 1928 as lot 16; M. Knoedler & Co.; private collection. CONDITION: Uniform light toning to paper, mounted as noted above, some waterstaining in lower margin, not affecting image area nor visible as currently framed. JLK 1,000 - 3,000

1160 - COMMODORE JAMES BARRON AND THE NORFOLK NAVY YARD. 1830 (2 DOCS.).

James Barron (1768-1851), as commodore and commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, two autograph documents signed, Norfolk Navy Yard, dated 28 July 1830 and 16-17 September 1830 respectively, within a matted and glazed frame. Both documents relate to purchase of supplies needed for the USS Brandywine, then refitting at Norfolk in preparation for a sea voyage to join the US Navy’s Mediterranean Squadron. The first (9-1/2” x 7-1/2” view) is for rope and line for rigging, while the second is for tools and utensils (11-1/2” x 7” view) needed prior to her setting sail (she departed Hampton Roads on 22 October 1830). Launched at the Washington Navy Yard in 1825, the Brandywine (originally named Susquehanna) was a 44-gun frigate which had the honor of conveying the Marquis de Lafayette back to France as her first mission.

Barron served as a US Navy officer in the Quasi-War and the Barbary Wars, during which he commanded a number of famous ships, including USS Essex and USS President. He was court-martialed in 1808 for his actions while commander of the frigate Chesapeake the previous year (the so-called Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, which led to surrender of his ship to the British and almost led to war between the two nations). Suspended without pay for five years, he spent most of the War of 1812 in mercantile pursuits. Returning to active duty in the peacetime navy, he was unable to obtain sea duty or promotion, accusing Commodore Stephen Decatur (who had earlier served on Bainbridge’s court-martial panel) of leading a conspiracy against him. Barron challenged and killed Decatur in a duel during March 1820 in which he was also badly wounded. He recovered his health, but not his reputation and spent the rest of his naval career ashore, the most senior officer in the service when he died at Norfolk in 1851. CONDITION: Clean and bright, with flattened folds; conservation mounted; not viewed outside of frame. JLK 400 - 800 102

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1161 - WAR OF 1812 NAVAL HERO ISAAC HULL AUTOGRAPH LETTER, 1832 Isaac Hull (1773-1843) as commodore and commandant of the Washington Navy Yard to Navy Agent Nash Legrand at Norfolk, autograph letter signed, 10 February 1832, single leaf inscribed on one page (9-3/4” x 7-3/4”) docketed on verso; within glazed and matted frame. Hull requisitions canvas and spars for the Schooner “Experiment” than building at the Washington Yard to be sent aboard the first sailing or steam vessel leaving Norfolk Navy Yard for Washington. Connecticut-born Hull enjoyed a long and storied naval career, beginning service as a lieutenant in the infant United States Navy in 1798 during the Quasi-War with France, fighting with merit during the Tripolitan Wars and becoming the first major naval hero of the War of 1812 for his command of the US Frigate Constitution, “Old Ironsides”, in its victory over HM Frigate Guerriere in August 1812. His qualities as a naval commander on that occasion and others being “an immeasurable contribution to immediate national self-esteem and the navy’s tradition for the next two centuries ...” CONDITION: Very good with strong ink, some light toning and flattened folds. JLK 500 - 750

1162 - [THE SLOOP HORNET FIGHTS PIRATES AND DISEASE, 1824] 2 DOCUMENTS. Dr. Samuel Anderson, autograph letter signed (ALS), 4 January 1824, 1 page, 5-1/2” x 7-3/4”, in full “Sir, you will confer a favour by furnishing the medicines named in the enclosed requisition, S[amuel] Anderson, Surg. U.S. Ship Hornet”; with referenced requisition, Anderson autograph document signed (ADS), same date, 1 page, 4-1/2” x 8”, in part: “Required for the use of the U.S. Ship Hornet, Stephen Cassin Regimental Commander, the following articles of medicines - Balsom Copaiva [balsam copaida] and shipment of other necessities, S[amuel] Anderson, Surgeon.” Samuel Anderson (1773–1850) of Middletown, Pennsylvania studied medicine and was admitted to practice in 1796. In July 1799, he was appointed by President John Adams as surgeon’s mate in the US Navy. A month later, he was appointed surgeon and assigned to duty under Commander David Porter, a close friend. Anderson resigned in 1801 settled in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he continued the practice of medicine.

During the War of 1812, he raised the Mifflin Guards, serving as its captain and was later a lieutenant colonel in the state militia. He served in the Statehouse of representatives 1815-1818 and was sheriff of Delaware County, 1819-1823. In 1823, Commodore Porter, now commanding the West Indies Squadron, convinced Anderson to rejoin the Navy. Anderson served in 1824 as surgeon aboard the USS Hornet and later the same year on the Decoy, later resigning due to ill health. During this period, the squadron’s personnel were plagued with various tropical diseases, including yellow fever, although the balsam copaiba Anderson requisitioned above was probably for use in the treatment of gonorrhea cases. Following this sea duty, he returned to politics and was elected to the 20th Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); again a member of the Statehouse of representatives 1829-1835 and served as its speaker in 1833; appointed inspector of customs in 1841; elected justice of the peace in 1846 and served until his death in Chester, Pennsylvania. During the War of 1812, the sloop of war Hornet captured the privateer Dolphin in July 1812 and sank the HMS Peacock on 224 February 1813 and two years later, on 23 March 1815, captured HMS Penguin. At the time Anderson’s letter and requisition were written, Hornet was engaged as part of the United States “Mosquito” fleet in the active suppression of piracy in the West Indies. 2 pieces.

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1163 - COMMODORE BIDDLE IN BRAZIL, 1827. LOT OF 5 DOCUMENTS. COMMODORE JAMES BIDDLE IN BRAZIL, 1827. A fascinating collection of five letters and documents relating to the naval and diplomatic affairs of the United States with the Empire of Brazil during the Cisplatine War, fought on sea and land between Brazil and the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (present-day Argentina). With the impressment of American seaman into the Brazilian Navy and the seizure of American ships by its government, the United States decided to bolster its presence on the coast of South America and appointed Captain James Biddle (1783-1848), a War of 1812 naval hero, to the command of a small squadron consisting of the frigate USS Macedonian and two sloops of war. Biddle was very adept in foreign diplomacy and assisted in the negotiation and conclusions of the first US treaties with Brazil, the Ottoman Empire and China. Commodore Biddle sailed from Newport News on 12 June 1826 and arrived off Rio de Janeiro, where he joined the sloops already on that station. Accompanying Biddle was a 15 year-old midshipman by the name of Thomas Octavius Elwyn (1811-1831), youngest son of his close friend, Elizabeth Langdon Elwyn. This small archive includes a letter written to Commodore Biddle by Secretary of the Navy Samuel L. Southward dated 17 November 1826 acknowledging the former’s private letter of September 1st, which he had “submitted to the perusal of Mr. Clay [Henry Clay, the Secretary of State] and should any communication on the subject be thought necessary to Mr. Raguet or other Agents of the Government, it will be made from that Department.” Southard thanks Biddle and notes that “such information to the Department [of State] from our Officers abroad is very valuable and reli[torn--relieves us?] from doubts and enables us to give satisfactory notices to the public.” This comment is probably referring to the controversial conduct of Dony Raguest, American Charge de Affairs in Brazil. Biddle later utilized this letter as a cover for a letter addressed to “Mrs. Elwyn/ Philadelphia” and upon which he pens a note of caution that “as paper is scarce I make use of this letter as an envelope, but You must tear it up.” Another cover, postmarked Philadelphia, September 1826, utilizes the reverse of a partiallyprinted invitation for Commodore Biddle to join the French minister to Brazil, Alphonse-Joseph-Paul-Marie-Ernest de Cadoine, the Marquis de Gabriac, and the Marquise, for dinner on July 22nd. A third cover to Elwyn reutilizes a note from one J. M. [Jesse?] Jones accepting Biddle’s invitation to dine aboard the Macedonian, when “Under the American flag I shall fancy myself at home and for a while I will not fail to feel free and very happy.” A Biddle ALS to Mrs. Elwyn, care of his brother Nicholas, was written while aboard the Macedonian at Rio de Janeiro on 26 November 1826. In it, he notes that her son and Midshipman John A. Dahlgren were staying at the country estate of an English gentleman, “rambling to their great delight through the Coffee Acres.” He notes that he will send word to Thomas that there is a letter for him from his mother and see if that is enough to bring him aboard, but teases that he has his doubts, “for tho’ fond of the Ship, he is fonder of the country....” Biddle himself looked forward to leaving Brazil, confiding that “I am heartedly tired of these South Americans” and noting that “I have crossed the Equator thirteen times, & I hope I may never cross it more, except once.” Biddle also touches on the political situation in a postscript, noting that Condy Raguet (also of Philadelphia society) “has received a .... long letter from Wm. Tudor”, then consul at Peru but destined to replace Raguet in Brazil). Midshipman Elwyn writes to his mother aboard the flagship on October 11th, 1827 that “Rio de Janeiro is not as agreeable [sic] as it was when Mr. and Mrs. Raguet were here, for…their kindness was such that I will never forget it.” “Tomorrow”, he relates, “is the Emperor’s birth day and we will probably fire a salute, have I ever told about my meeting him when riding once in the Country....he was dressed in plain suit of black and her Majesty in a grey riding suit--very plain indeed, but to go on, he rode up to us asked us if we were American if we belonged to the frigate, which of course I answered in the most polite way that I could, the Empress looking sweet on us all the time....” He closes by asking his mother to have his sister Matilda tell “Miss Patty Willing that her brother is very well” and “has behaved since he has been aboard remarkably well, he is very much liked by the crew and thought a good deal of by the Officers, and [there?] is hopes of his being one day recovered to his friends.” As no Willing is carried on the list as either an officer or midshipman, it can only be surmised that some young member of the Willing family was engaged in some scandal that caused him to sign ship’s articles and go to sea as an enlisted sailor. 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1164 - THE CONTROVERSIAL FIGUREHEAD OF ANDREW JACKSON FOR “OLD IRONSIDES”, 1834. [“Old Ironsides”—the frigate USS Constitution]. Joseph Gardner, autograph letter signed, to George Bliss of Boston, dated Hanover, New York, February 13 [1834], 1 page (12-1/4” x 7”) with address block on reverse. A semi-comic letter of complaint concerning the controversial carving of a new figurehead for the US frigate Constitution (then in drydock at Boston Navy Yard) to be in the likeness of then-President Andrew Jackson. The figurehead was already underway in the workshop of local carver Laban Beecher when Gardner penned a lengthy, one sentence diatribe spanning an entire page that he “as a captain of the Militia of the 247 Ridgement [sic] 43 Brigade & 26th division of the militia of New York wish to know what in the name of God Allmighty the Father Son & Holy Gost [sic], the holy canons…angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubims, seraphims & of all the holy patriarchs, prophets, apostles and evangelists…together with the holy elect of God the reason you did not stop…when you saw him a cut[t]ing the figger head of the Constitution. Yours in haste, J. Gardner.” Beecher received numerous threats from Anti-Jacksonians and convinced the Navy Yard commandant, Jesse Duncan Elliot (who proposed and commissioned the figurehead), to allow him to finish the figure in the safety of the Navy Yard, which occurred the following month. The figurehead was completed and installed on “Old Ironsides” only to be decapitated under cover of darkness on 2 July 1834 by an irate Boston ship captain, Samuel Dewey. The identity of the author of this letter, Joseph Gardner (1799-1872) of Hanover, Chautauqua County was recently confirmed, as was his status as an officer in the militia. The recipient would appear to be Bostonian George Bliss (1793-1873) a businessman and politician who was elected President of the Massachusetts Senate the following year. CONDITION: Some splitting at folds and a small hole on upper margin from tearing of wax seal. JLK 500 - 1,000

1165 - US AND BRITISH NAVAL INTERVENTION IN LATIN AMERICA, 1857-1859.

Three drawings of South American coastal scenes with a page from the logbook of HMS Vixen within a matted and glazed frame--all by the same hand who painted the panoramic view of Paita (lot 1167 below). The artist, one “A. Bruill” (or “Bovill”) is believed to have been a warrant officer or midshipman aboard the HMS Vixen, a Royal Navy paddle sloop assigned to the Pacific/South American station during American and British intervention in Ecuador and Nicaragua during 1857-1859. The top drawing is an ink, watercolor and graphite view (3 5/8 x 8 ½ inches) of the steam frigate USS Merrimac off “The anchorage on the Realto River” near Paita, Peru, tipped-in over a log page from early January 1859. Launched in 1855, the USS Merrimack was flagship of the Pacific Squadron from October 1857 until November 1859. After Merrimack’s return home, she was put in ordinary at the Norfolk Navy Yard and following Virginia’s secession, was burned to the waterline and sunk on 20 April 1861, only to be raised and rebuilt as the first Confederate ironclad warship, the CSS Virginia. The second is a watercolor and graphite view of “Payta [Paita] Inner Point” (view: 2 ½ x 7 1/8 inches). Paita was a significant port of call for American and British whaling ships in the first half of the 19th century and both countries established consulates there and a hospital for American seaman was built there in the 1840s. The final drawing is a view of a “Peruvian Brig of War” off Guayaquil in graphite on blue paper (view: 2 ¾ x 10 5/8 inches). Guayaquil is the second largest city in modern-day Ecuador and its primary port. During 1858-1860, it was the center point during a struggle for dominance over the region between Peru and Ecuador, culminating in the battle of Guayaquil in 1860. The United States and Britain both had naval squadrons operating between these South American ports and north to Panama and Nicaragua, safeguarding their interests in that part of Latin America during various struggles in the region during this period.

CONDITION: conservation-mounted, the drawings all bright and clean, the third with flattened folds; not examined outside of the frame. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

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1166 - A PANORAMIC WATERCOLOR OF THE PERUVIAN PORT OF PAITA, C. 1858 “The Sea Port and Town of Payta as seen from the Anchorage.” Watercolor, graphite and ink, 3 3/8 x 20 3/8 inches (on 2 pieces of paper joined at center), laid down on a larger sheet 4 ¾ x 21 inches (view) by the artist, with lined edging, title and key inscribed in ink on bottom margin in artist’s hand and with his signature (partly obscured by conservation matting) in lower left corner: ‘A. Bruill [Bovill?]. A detailed topographic drawing of Paita, located on the northwest coast of Peru, which served as a major whaling port in the 19th century; some ships and key structures of the town identified below the title, including “Mail Steamer Coaling” and “Custom House Built of Iron.” The artist Bruill or Bovill has not yet been fully identified, but he is believed to have been warrant officer or midshipman aboard the HMS Vixen, a Royal Navy paddle sloop assigned to the Pacific/South American station during 1857-1859 (see lot 1166 above). CONDITION: colors are extremely fresh and paper still bright, but with three flattened folds, conservation-matted in a modern frame, not examined out of frame. JLK 900 - 1,500

1167 - [MAPS AND VIEWS OF THE FRENCH COLONY OF HAITI]. RECUEIL DE VUES DES LIEUX PRINCIPAUX DE LA COLONIE FRANCOISE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE. 1791.

[MAPS AND VIEWS OF THE FRENCH COLONY OF HAITI]. RECUEIL DE VUES DES LIEUX PRINCIPAUX DE LA COLONIE FRANCOISE DE SAINTDOMINGUE, GRAVEES PAR LES SOINS DE M. PONCE. Paris: Chez M. Moreau de Saint-Mery, M. Ponce, and M. Phelipeau, 1791. Folio (18-3/4” x 13-1/2”); 30 copperplate-engraved maps, plans and plates (nearly half bifolium in size, with one hand-colored in outline), plus plate list sheet following the title page. In original printer’s boards with blue marbled paper wraps. An important group of maps and views done of the prosperous French colony of Saint-Domingue on the eve of the French and Haitian Revolutions. Several of the scenic views

by Pierre Ozanne depict slaves in the foreground, the engravings apparently derived from drawings he made on the spot while accompanying Admiral Destaing’s expeditionary force in America and the West Indies during the 1778-1779, while six vignettes depicts the costume and daily life of the slaves and free blacks. Four, full page plates are related to the processing of sugar. This volume was a separately-issued work, intended as a later companion piece to Moreau de Saint-Méry’s “Loix et Constitutions des Colonies Francoises dans L’Amerique sous le Vent” (1790). It includes the scarce, general map of Saint-Domingue by Sionis, not printed until 1796 (plate 16). Plate 17 as given in the plate list, “Plan général de la Partie Françoise de SaintDomingue” is lacking, which appears to be the case with all extant copies and was possibly never published. As indicated in the title, the plates were engraved under the supervision of Nicholas de Ponce, while Phelipeau published the maps (with the exception of Plate 16 referenced above). A creole from Martinique, Moreau de Saint-Mery (1750-1819) studied law in France and practiced in Saint-Domingue, being appointed superior counsel of the island colony in 1780. He returned to France in 1783 and from 1784-1790 published “Loix et Constitutiones.” St. Mery became involved in Revolutionary politics and served in the National Assembly representing Saint-Domingue, but by 1794 had fallen out of favor and escaped the guillotine by fleeing to the United States. He settled in Philadelphia where he published “Description topographique et politique…de l’ile de Saint-Domingue” (1796), later returning to France in 1798. Historical novelist Kenneth Roberts later translated and published St. Mery’s manuscript journal of his travels in America, after utilizing it and St. Mery’s other works while researching his novel of the Haitian Revolution, “Lydia Bailey.” Sabin 50578; Leclerc 1404; Mapoteca Colombiana 224 (gives full plate list).

CONDITION: Worn along backstrip with loosening to rear hinge; light to moderate marginal dampstaining and worming, not affecting images; pages otherwise bright and clean. JLK 6,000 - 12,000 106

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1168 - A RARE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY FLAG OR ENSIGN OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC OF HAITI The body of flag is 36 inch hoist by 60 inch fly and constructed of two widths of worsted bunting forming two horizontal bands, blue over red. It is defaced by a white panel bearing the central device, being the coat of arms of the Republic of Haiti. The panel itself is a piece of off-white, plain-wove linen, 13 inches square as finished, upon which the arms are painted in oil on both sides. All seams of the flag are flat-felled and handsewn with a running stitch of two-strand linen thread, much of which is bears traces of rosin/wax, commonly used by sailmakers and shoemakers when making their thread from spun yarn. The bunting itself is 18-inches wide from selvedge to selvedge, the common width of bunting as woven in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The hoist end of the flag is encompassed in a reinforcing strip of light sail canvas of hemp or linen, 1 1/2 inches wide as doubled and sewn to the bunting with an overcast stitch with heavy linen thread/yarn and with a hand-worked grommet hole at each end made using the same thread/yarn. The coat of arms as painted on the central device consists of royal palm tree on a green ground surmounted by a red Phrygian cap or “cap of liberty” and with a drum at its base. Flanking the palm on each side are three national flags, a bronze fieldpiece and stacked cannon balls, along with stands of muskets and bayonets.

Below is a red scroll edged and lettered in yellow, bearing the words “REPUBLIQUE D’HAYTI.” The palm and greenery represent Haiti or “Hayti” (as it was commonly spelled both officially and unofficially during the first four decades of the 19th century), while the cap symbolizes liberty and the military panoply represents the nation’s fight for freedom from both slavery and European dominance. The device on this flag appears to be an early version of the arms, first documented in 1807. The horizonal blue and red flag is described as early as 1804 and its use with the arms first proposed for use by the Republic in 1807. Following the Unification of Hispaniola under President Boyer in 1822, it was apparently in full use, although not officially described in print until the Constitution of 1843, at which time the commonly-used “Republique d’Hayti [or Haiti]” on the scroll of the coat of arms was officially replaced by the motto first proposed by then-President Petion in 1807: “L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE” [Union Makes Strength]. It is marked with the word “HAYTIAN” in iron-gall ink applied to the reverse face of the canvas hoist, commonly done with naval or maritime ensigns (which were stored folded or rolled with the hoist label visible in flag lockers, usually located on the ship’s quarterdeck). CONDITION: the white linen panel has some light staining and its painted coat of arms shows one vertical split and two horizontal ones caused from old folds, along with surface abrasion; the worsted bunting is in good condition, with only a few scattered insect browse holes. PROVENANCE: the late William Guthman, noted collector and historian, to private collector in 1985 and from thence, to consignor in 2019. JLK 4,000 - 8,000

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1169 - FRAMED PLAN OF FORT AT GRENADA MAP. PLAN of the TOWN & FORT of GRENADA. By Mr. de Caylus; Engineer General of the FRENCH ISLANDS. London: published

by R. Baldwin, 1762. 12-7/8” x 9-1/2” (view) within glazed and matted frame. Detailed plan of the Fort George and the town and harbor of Saint George’s, capital of the West Indies island of Grenada, with an inset map of the entire island.

Relief shown by hachures and depths shown by soundings.

The French island-colony of Grenada was captured by the British during the Seven Years’ War on 4 March 1762

by Commodore Swanton without a shot being fired and was formally ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763. Originally issued as a folding map in “The London magazine, or, Gentleman’s monthly intelligencer” v.

31 (December 1762). CONDITION: Light uniform toning, with original fold lines; not examined out of the frame. JLK 400 - 700

1170 - MEZZOTINT PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR GEORGE BECKWITH, AFTER ECKSTEIN, C. 1810 “His Excellency Lieut. Genl. Sir George Beckwith, KB, Govr of Brabadoes, Commander of His Majesty’s Forces in the West Indies.” I. Eckstein Pinxt. S.W. Reynolds Sculpt. [n.p. but probably London; n.d., but c.1810.] A large and fine mezzotint, lettered state, 27” x 17” platemark with wide margins; conservation-matted and framed (28-1/4” x 18-1/4” view. Sir George Beckwith (1753-1823) had a long and distinguished military career, beginning as a company officer during the American Revolution. This rare portrait engraving is from the life portrait of Lieutenant General Beckwith painted in the West Indies by John Eckstein following the general’s capture of the French islands of Martinique (1809) and Guadeloupe (1810). The original oil painting is now lost, but a watercolor study of the background survives in the National Army Museum (London) that is also reproduced in this magnificent mezzotint by Reyolds. It shows black troops of the 3rd West India Regiment taking a fortified bridge at Ile Castenet, Guadeloupe. During the War of 1812, Beckwith was less successful in his amphibious assault on Craney Island in 1813, which resulted in an American victory. Whitman 19. CONDITION: An extremely fine example, the impression strong and paper bright and clean. JLK 2,000 - 3,500

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1171 - 4 ROYAL NAVY WARSHIP VIEWS BY GEORGE CAMPION, CIRCA 1830.

Campion, George Bryant. Four drawings of Royal Navy warships, graphite on cardstock, each 3-1/8” x 4-5/8”; each card with embossed, decorative borders and maker’s name (“DOBBS: LONDON)--a form popular in 1830s Britain for keepsake drawings; 3 of the 4 drawings initialled by the artist: “G.C.” in lower corners; attractively presented and framed. The views are identified as follows: 1) a frigate or six-rate ship (upper left in frame); a 1st or 2nd rate Ship-of-the-Line, inscribed above in the artist’s hand “A British Ship on a foreign Station” (upper right); a 3rd or 4th rate under full sail (lower left); and a 1st or 2nd rate at anchor (lower right). British artist George Bryant Campion (1796-1870) was a founding member of the New Watercolor Society (1834) and was Drawing Master of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. He originally was known for his landscape works, but later specialized in military-themed works.

CONDITION: Very good, bright and clean; the cards pressure-mounted and/or tipped (or possibly laid-down) to a black mat. Not examined out of frame. JLK 500 - 750

1172 - A ROYAL NAVY SHIP-OF-THE-LINE AT ANCHOR BY CHARLES TATTERSHALL DODD, C. 1840.

Charles Tattershall Dodd. “A Royal Navy Ship-of-the-Line at Anchor, circa 1840.” Graphite on toned paper, heightened with white chalk, 11” x 14-3/4”, within matted frame. A view of a Royal Navy warship, probably a 74 gun “Third Rater” at anchor with boats out and sails slackened and with a manned gig in the foreground. Charles Tattershall Dodd the Elder (1815-1878) lived for most of his life in Tunbridge Wells, and was the town’s foremost Victorian artist. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, winning a gold medal for drawing, and was Drawing Master at the Tonbridge School for some forty years. He exhibited his work at the British Institution from 1830, the Suffolk Street Gallery from 1832, and at the Royal Academy from 1847 to 1859. Primarily a landscape artist, his work is in the John Constable tradition. CONDITION: Very good as viewed, two small water stains in background, not affecting pencil work; not examined out of the frame. JLK 500 - 1,000

1173 - OUDINOT INK DRAWING OF THE SEA WALL AT BARCELONA, 1825.

Attributed to Nicolas Charles Oudinot (French, 1767-1847), “Muraille de Mer [Sea Wall].” Pen and ink on paper, 6-3/4” x 9” (view) within glazed and matted frame; signed on lower left “Oudinot…Barc. [elo]na 1825.” Fine view of the harbor of Barcelona as viewed from the great sea wall, with carriage and mounted lancers in the foreground. Nicolas Charles Oudinot was a career French officer of distinction, serving with great merit in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A soldier’s soldier, he is known to have been wounded 34 times in battle at the head of his troops. In 1808 he was made governor of Erfurt and Count of the French Empire and a year later, following the battle of Wagram, appointed a “Marshal of France” by Napoleon. From 1810 to 1812 Oudinot administered the government of the former Kingdom of Holland, and commanded the II Corps of La Grande Armée in the Russian campaign. He held important commands at the Battle of Leipzig and in the campaign of 1814. On Napoleon’s abdication, he rallied to the new government, and was made a Peer of France by the Bourbon Restoration King Louis XVIII. Unlike many of his old comrades, he did not desert to his former master during Bonaparte’s 1815 return. His last active service was in the French invasion of Spain in 1823, in which he commanded a corps and was for a time governor of Madrid. He died as Governor of the Parisian veterans’ institution Les Invalides (now the French Army Museum and site of Napoleon’s tomb). Condition: Near fine, paper bright and clean; conservation-mounted. JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 500 - 800

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1174 - (A) A LIEGE SHORT LAND PATTERN SECOND MODEL BROWN BESS FLINTLOCK MUSKET. According to “The Brown Bess” by Erik Goldstein and Stewart Mowbray, the Liege Short Land muskets are quite scarce and were produced 1778-1783. They saw extensive use and were specifically made for use in North America during the Revolutionary War. The round tapered, 41” long .79 caliber smoothbore barrel has a bayonet lug mounted on top towards muzzle. The rounded lockplate has a double-lined border and a single screw behind the cock. “TOWER” is engraved at the tail. In the center there is a large crown over “GR” and a crown is stamped below the pan. Standard brass Pattern 1769 furniture, including a flat sideplate, wrist escutcheon and trigger guard. The full-length stock is of plain walnut and has a relief beaver tail around the barrel tang. The comb was altered by American forces when captured and there are some carved letters into the buttstock on both sides. The musket is complete with a replaced iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel was shortened 1” during period of use and retains a heavy brown patina, with some minor corrosion around touch hole. Lock is a good professional reconversion and markings are very good, retains a brown patina. Brass retains a pleasing dark mustard patina and shows some light marks from use. Nose band and trumpeted ramrod ferrule are proper replacements. Stock shows scattered age cracks, chips, and marks from use. A very interesting and attractive Revolutionary War musket that certainly saw American use. DMG 2,500 - 5,000

1175 - (A) TIGER MAPLE STOCKED FLINTLOCK MUSKET ATTRIBUTED TO MEDAD HILLS. For a nearly identical example, see plate NE 40 on page 75 of “Flintlock Fowlers” by Tom Grinslade. The rifle in the book and this example both have the same form and are stocked in figured maple, both have pewter nose bands, identical locks, identical trigger guards, brass sling swivels, identical buttplates, and the same narrow beavertail carving around the barrel tangs. This musket has a round 43” .69 caliber smoothbore barrel with faceted breech section and a tapering top flat. A bayonet lug is mounted on the bottom, towards the muzzle and the barrel tang has a sight groove, exactly as the example in the book. The blacksmith forged American lockplate is flat with beveled edges and is unmarked. The brass furniture includes a British military-style trigger guard with brass sling swivel, a full flat sideplate, buttplate with long four-stage tang and four ramrod ferrules with the foremost one trumpeted. The nose band is pewter and the front sling swivel is brass. Fine figured maple stock of New England form showing English influence and carved with a relief beavertail around the barrel tang as well as a molding along the ramrod channel. Complete with its original iron ramrod and an associated American socket bayonet. CONDITION: Barrel and lock retain a spotted brown patina. Lock functions properly and appears to be in its original flintlock configuration. Brass furniture retains a mustard patina, showing some minor scattered marks from use. Stock shows minor chipping around barrel tang and a few thin splinters absent along barrel on both sides. A very attractive Medad Hills attributed musket. DMG 8,000 - 12,000

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1176 - (A) RARE FLINTLOCK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY MUSKET MARKED TO THE “STATE OF CONNECTICUT.” According to page 109 of Vol I of “American Military Shoulder Arms” by George D. Moller, in reference to Connecticut procured muskets, an act of October 1776 stated that the muskets were to have a 44” to 46” barrel and a bridled lock. It was still to be marked with the maker’s name or initials, and an addition was to be stamped “SC”. In March 1776, the Committee of Safety purchased an unknown quantity of imported barrels and locks. According to page 159 of “Muskets of the Revolution” by Bill Ahearn, on April 26, 1775, the Connecticut Assembly authorized the Committee of Safety to contract for the purchase of 3,000 muskets to be made following the design used for British Long Land pattern muskets. They were to be brass mounted and the barrels marked with the letter “SC” in a conspicuous place. This example fits these specifications with its .75 caliber 44-7/16” round barrel, with faceted breech section. The barrel is clearly of French manufacture and features traces of engraving and markings on the top three flats at the breech. The left flat is deeply stamped “S*C”, and there is a small bayonet lug mounted on top towards the muzzle. The French Pattern 1754 lock has a bridled pan, as the specifications require. The brass furniture is of American manufacture and features a Brown Bess style trigger guard, a Short Land Pattern sideplate, and a buttplate, with the tang resembling that found on some British arms. The ramrod ferrules are untrumpeted and have been cast. The musket has a heavy buttstock in the English style, and it is stocked in cherry. There are two incised lines carved along the barrel on both sides of the forend. Complete with a replaced iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a dark brown patina, showing some wear at the breech. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Brass has been polished and shows some scattered marks from use. Stock has had the front 24” professionally restored. This is a very scarce, state marked, Revolutionary War, Committee of Safety long arm. DMG 9,000 - 18,000

1177 - (A) AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR FLINTLOCK MUSKET, EX. GEORGE NEUMANN COLLECTION. This American musket closely resembles a British “Short Land” Pattern 1777 musket. The American manufactured round 42” .80 caliber smoothbore barrel is unmarked and has a bayonet stud mounted on top near the muzzle. The British Pattern 1777 lock has had almost all of its markings intentionally removed during the period, with only the crown over broad arrow stamp showing British ownership still present below the pan. The furniture appears to be mostly of American manufacture, closely copying a British 2nd Model Brown Bess. The trigger guard, sideplate and buttplate are American made, while the ramrod ferrules appear to be cast and from a British 2nd Model Brown Bess. The differences include the fact that there is no wrist escutcheon, no carved beavertail around the barrel tang, and no brass end cap. The American walnut stock closely resembles British form. Complete with its original iron ramrod and American-altered British triangular socket bayonet. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina with some areas of heavier patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, retains a pleasing dark brown patina. Top jaw is a replacement. Brass retains a mellow patina and shows scattered marks from use. Stock very good with a few scattered marks from use and minor age cracks. Bayonet retains a brown surface as well. A very nice American musket that is mostly American made.

PROVENANCE: Ex. George C. Neumann collection. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

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1178 - (A) SCARCE AMERICAN RESTOCKED TYPE I MODEL 1763 ST. ETIENNE FLINTLOCK MUSKET WITH DEFACED NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKINGS. This fine example of a period American-restocked French Model 1763 “Fusil” or musket in its original configuration is extremely rare, without even taking account its important, wartime American markings. It was originally part of a clandestine shipment from France aboard the Mercure, which arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on March 17, 1777. 2016 of these muskets were released to New Hampshire for its three Continental battalions the following month and shipped to John Ward Gilman, an Exeter silversmith, to have state ownership markings applied. This musket bears period-defaced partially visible stamps applied on the left side near the breech. These arms were originally marked for one of three battalions. The 1st New Hampshire Battalion, all numbered in sequence from No. 1 to No. 672, the paired bayonets engraved with the number only; the two other battalions had their respective 672 stands of arms similarly marked, but distinguished by “2B” or “3B” battalion stamps on the musket barrels. By June 1777, more than 800 of the NH-marked arms had arrived at Fort Ticonderoga and were issued out to the three battalions, who first carried them into action at Hubbardton and subsequently, Saratoga. By late fall, the New Hampshire Line, had joined the Main Army and wintered with it at Valley Forge, before fighting at Monmouth on June 28, 1778. The musket has its original full-length 45” tapered round .75 caliber smoothbore barrel with bayonet lug mounted on the bottom near muzzle. The flat lockplate has beveled edges and is stamped in the center with a crown over “HB” and stamped with partially visible “ST. ETIENNE”, below. Opposite it, the iron sideplate is unmarked.

The musket features the early Model 1763 mounts, including a trumpeted band at the muzzle and stepped middle-band (both spring-fastened) and a pressure-mounted, rear band (later spring-fastened from 1766 onward). The musket is complete with its original ramrod cover or “sheath” of sheet-iron, spring-fastened and ranging the ramrod channel between the muzzle band and center band. This feature is unique to the true 1763 first type musket and not found in those produced after 1766, the so-called “light 1763” or Model 1766 (and is rarely encountered still in place on surviving specimens). The full-length, American walnut stock is carved with relief shaped panels around the lock and sideplate terminating at the back in teardrops. There is also a relief molding with a teardrop surrounding the barrel tang. The comb has a relief design and deep flutes on both sides of the wrist. The sling swivels were also removed when the musket was restocked. Ramrod is a later replacement. CONDITION: All iron components retain a dark, undisturbed patina; barrel markings still partially visible, but had a series of intentional score marks placed over, probably when the musket was restocked. The lock is in its original configuration and good working order with good markings; the stock shows scattered marks from use, minor chips and age cracks. The musket is completely “as found” and in “attic condition”. This is a scarce Revolutionary War musket that definitely saw use fighting for the freedom of this country. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

1179 - (A) SCARCE U.S. MODEL 1803 HARPERS FERRY FLINTLOCK RIFLE. The 32” half-round, half-octagon .56 caliber rifled barrel has a blade front sight and notched rear sight. The left side of the breech is stamped with oval “US” touchmark and “Eagle” over “P” in oval. Lockplate is stamped in the center with an Eagle and “US” and at the tail with “HARPERS/ FERRY/1815”. The plain walnut half stock has standard Model 1803 brass furniture including a two-piece brass patchbox and front nose band.

Barrel has iron ramrod channel with flared steel ramrod. Stock has illegible proofs behind sideplate. CONDITION: Overall nice aged patina with no visible restoration or repairs. Small vise marks on breech of barrel. Good bore with crisp mechanics. 2,000 - 3,000

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1180 - (A) DUTCH FLINTLOCK MUSKET INSCRIBED TO COL. SLYPE. The 41 - 3/4” tapered round .72 caliber smoothbore iron barrel features a large brass sight on top and an iron bayonet lug on the bottom towards the muzzle. Barrel is inscribed “N123” to the right of the brass sight, and the breech is stamped with an indistinct maker’s mark. The flat banana lockplate has beveled edges and an indistinct maker’s mark engraved in the center. Classic brass Dutch furniture including the buttplate with an arrow-shaped tang inscribed “COL. SLYPE”. The partially figured full-length walnut stock is branded “WC” twice on the right side towards the buttplate. Iron ramrod is a contemporary replacement and musket is fitted with a later black leather sling. Complete with a well-fitting triangular socket bayonet with indistinct markings at the top of the blade.

CONDITION: Barrel retains a light brown patina, with some minor corrosion at touchhole. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, also retaining a light brown patina, and showing an American or field alteration on the frizzen spring. Stock shows some splinters and some replaced splinters on the right side, as well as a period repair between the lock and barrel tang. There is a small chip in front of the lockplate and other scattered marks from use. Comb appears to be modified during the period of use. Sling swivel on trigger guard is a modern replacement. There is a spurious “U.S.” carved behind the sideplate. Furniture retains a mustard patina and sideplate has a crack. Bayonet has been cleaned and retains a light grey patina. A very interesting pre-Revolutionary War Dutch musket. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

1181 - (A) NEW ENGLAND AMERICAN ASSEMBLED FLINTLOCK MUSKET. This musket dates to the Revolutionary War and is composed of British, American, and French parts. The 43 - 1/2” round, tapered .75 caliber smoothbore barrel has a small lug on top near the muzzle and appears to be American made. The lock is from a French Model 1717 Infantry musket. The brass furniture includes a British Pattern 1756 Long Land sideplate and a British Sea Service style trigger guard. The sheet brass buttplate is retained by three nails and is of American manufacture. The sheet brass ramrod ferrules and nosecap are also of American manufacture. The full length cherry stock features a relief carved New England shell around the barrel tang, as well as an incised line around the sideplate panel. Complete with a period iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a heavy brown patina and shows a couple small dents. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and retains a matching patina. The mechanism is strong and functions well. Top jaw screw is a period American replacement. Stock shows some scattered marks from use, and some splinters replaced along both sides of forend, as well as the foremost ramrod ferrule and the nosecap. A very nice American-assembled Revolutionary War musket. 2,000 - 4,000

1182 - (A) AMERICAN ALTERED FRENCH MODEL 1774 CHARLEVILLE FLINTLOCK MUSKET. This French Model 1774 musket has many period American alterations, including the removal of the iron barrel bands and the addition of barrel pins and American manufactured brass ramrod ferrules. The comb has also been altered and the initials “BE” have been carved into the right side of the buttstock. The musket features a standard 44 - 3/4” .75 caliber smoothbore Model 1774 barrel with a bayonet lug mounted on top towards the muzzle. The breech is stamped “DV76” for the year of manufacture, of 1776. Standard Model 1774 lock, with a convex tail section and rounded reinforced cock, center of the lock is inscribed “Charleville”. Standard Model 1774 furniture including the iron trigger guard, “S” shaped sideplate, and buttplate. The springs and barrel bands were removed during the period when the barrel was pin fastened and brass ramrod ferrules were added. CONDITION: All iron components retain a heavy brown patina. Barrel markings are very good and lock markings as well. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, cock screw is a replacement. Stock shows heavy wear and a series of American alterations including a period replaced section of the forend measuring about 13-3/4” towards the muzzle. Pewter nosecap appears to be period. Ramrod appears to be original to the period of use and is wooden with a pewter tip. Forend shows some minor areas of splintering and age cracks. A very nice example of a Revolutionary War American used musket. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

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1183 - (A) SCARCE HALL MODEL 1819 HARPERS FERRY FLINTLOCK RIFLE. This was first US arm made with completely interchangeable parts. These Hall Rifles saw limited Military service outside the Seminole Indian War and the Mexican War and are often found in fine condition. This Hall rifle has a 33” round barrel with .52 caliber multi-groove rifling, an offset front sight/bayonet lug with offset fixed rear sight mounted to top flat of receiver. Receiver is marked “J.H. HALL / H. FERRY / U.S. / 1838”.

Action is still in its original flintlock configuration. Barrel retained by three bands, receiver, trigger guard & buttplate all with arsenal brown finish.

Breech block is case hardened, oil quenched with dark finish. Mounted in a beautiful one-piece walnut stock with raised side panels and long low comb with musket style buttplate. Trigger guard has a large bow with sling loop, corresponding loop on middle band and has an extended finger rest. CONDITION: Excellent. Barrel retains much of its original brown some areas thinning. Bands also retain most of their orig brown finish with some minor thinning and flaking of brown, especially to top strapping band. Trigger guard and buttplate also retain most of their original brown.

Stock is exceptionally fine with raised grain and some minor oil staining and scattered minor dents and storage marks. Stock retains virtually all of its fine original oil finish. Mechanics are crisp and action is in its original flintlock configuration with generous amounts of darkened case colors, brilliant shiny bore. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

1184 - (A) FINE BRASS-BARRELED ENGLISH FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY WILLIAM TURVEY. This circa 1770 coach gun features a 15 - 1/4” four-stage blunderbuss barrel with flared 1” cannon muzzle. The top flat is engraved “LONDON” and the left side of the breech is stamped with London view and proof marks as well as a crown over “F”, indicating that William Turvey was a foreigner to the London Gunmaker’s Guild. The rounded lockplate is engraved at the tail with scrolls and engraved “TURVEY” in the center. The brass furniture includes an ornate pierced sideplate featuring scrolls, shell designs, and a Roman face. The trigger guard terminates at the front in an acorn finial and is engraved with a flower on the bow. It has a large brass asymmetrical wrist escutcheon with a vacant inscription panel. The four-stage buttplate tang is engraved with floral scrolls and borders. The walnut stock is of classic Georgian form and has a relief shell carved around the barrel tang. Complete with a proper horn-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a pleasing mellowing patina with excellent markings, one minor indentation on top edge of muzzle. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and retains a spotted grey patina, crisp action functions properly. Furniture retains a mellowing patina with some wear and scattered marks. Stock shows some expected wear and marks from use, part of forend has been professionally replaced and cannot easily be detected. This is an extremely nice example of a Revolutionary War period English coach gun.

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1185 - (A) A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS WITH SPRING-BAYONET BY RICHARDS, EARLY 19TH C. With 14-3/8” long, plain iron barrel, key-fastened and flared at the muzzle; maker’s name struck on top and fitted with a spring bayonet above near the muzzle, and border engraved, iron tang with bayonet-catch. Border engraved, beveled, flat with maker’s name, “THEOPS. / RICHARDS” struck before cock and private Tower view and proof marks on left near breech. Figured, full walnut stock with border-engraved, brass mounts including trigger guard with acorn finial and decorated with a flower-head on the bow, brass ramrod-pipes, and original wood ramrod with horn tip. Theophilus Richards (1747-1827) was a Birmingham gunsmith of note. CONDITION: The lock in very good working order, the barrel with light freckling to metal; the wood in overall good condition, with a few light dings and nicks, mostly on forestock. JLK 2,000 - 3,000

1186 - (A) A BRASS-BARRELED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY WILLIAMS WITH SPRING-BAYONET. Late 18th-century blunderbuss with 14-1/4” long, turned brass barrel belled at the muzzle, fitted and fitted with a spring bayonet above and bearing London Company view and proof marks on left side near breech; engraved iron tang with bayonet-catch. Broder-engraved, flat beveled lock signed “Williams” and border engraved brass mounts including buttplate decorated with shield, spear and floral elements, a trigger guard with acorn finial and a flower-head on the bow, and two brass ramrod pipes. The figured, three-quarter walnut stock with checkered grip and brass-tipped ramrod. CONDITION: The steel parts in gunmetal grey tone; the lock in crisp, working order; the spring to bayonet somewhat sleepier; a shallow crack on the right side of the forestock, extending from the lockplate to nose (repaired and stable), the wood otherwise quite good. JLK 2,000 - 3,000

1187 - (A) FINE BLUNDERBUSS OR COACH GUN WITH FOLDING STOCK, PROBABLY FRENCH. This attractive and unusual folding blunderbuss, circa 1750-1770, perhaps had a carrying case at one time. The two-stage 10 -1/2” brass barrel has a flared round muzzle and the barrel sections have attractive relief-chased bands and foliate designs. The breech is also engraved with a band of decoration and features two cartouches, one with a crown over “JO /HAN / XIAS” and the other a prancing horse with a star. The flat hand-forged lockplate has a molding towards the tail and beveled edges. The engraved brass furniture is French in style. The folding walnut stock is hinged at the rear trigger guard tang and when the button on the wrist is pressed, the latch opens and the stock can be folded in half.

Complete with its original horn-tipped wooden ramrod with original iron worm. CONDITION: Very good, barrel retains a pleasing mellowing patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and retains a grey patina, cock has a period repair at the neck. Lock functions properly. Brass mounts retain a matching mustard patina. Stock very good with a few scattered marks from use. A very attractive blunderbuss. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

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1188 - (A) AS FOUND AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF SAFETY MUSKET, PROBABLY MASSACHUSSETS. According to pages 116 & 117 of “American Military Shoulder Arms” by George D. Moller, on November 3rd, 1775, resolution of the prevential congress stated that the muskets contracted to be made in Massachusetts were to be delivered to Watertown and were to resemble the King’s arms, and that they were to have 45” long .75 caliber barrels. Accord to Moller, all of the existing known Massachusetts muskets are generally of the Long Land Pattern configuration and have 44” to 46” barrels in .75 caliber. He states that most are stocked in walnut but some have cherry stocks. All have steel ramrods and provisions for bayonets. This example falls within the specifications stated above, and has a 45-7/16” tapered round .75 caliber barrel. There is a deeply stamped “31” on the left side of the breech and a brass notched sight mounted on the tang just behind the breech. There is an iron bayonet stud mounted on top 1-3/4” from the muzzle. The early unmarked banana lockplate is flat with beveled edges, and has been converted during the period of use to percussion. The American manufactured brass furniture is very similar to the Long Land Pattern British furniture, but is slightly different and clearly of American manufacture. The furniture includes a Long Land style wrist escutcheon, a trigger guard with a hole for sling swivel at the front of the bow, with the finials varying slightly from those found on British muskets. The sideplate imitates a Long Land Pattern Brown Bess, but is shaped with a slightly different curvature. The four-stage buttplate tang terminates in a ball and measures about 5-1/4” onto the comb, secured at the tip with an early iron staple. The ramrod entry ferrule appears to be cast, and the tang is much narrower than British pattern arms. The two foremost ferrules are of sheet brass, as well as the open-ended nose band. The musket is stocked in cherry, mimicking the British style with an arrow carved in relief where the comb enters the wrist. CONDITION: Completely as found and untouched. Barrel has a spotted gray and brown patina, with some light corrosion near bolster. Lock retains a mostly dark gray patina and functions properly. Brass furniture retains a dark mustard patina and is unpolished. Trigger guard finial has two reinforced screws in the front, which were added during the period for extra security. Stock retains a dry surface and has no restorations. Some minor and scattered cracks and chips due to age and use. A very scarcely encountered American Committee of Safety musket. DMG 2,500 - 5,000

1189 - (A) EARLY TRADE FOWLER MARKED “IB”.

This is a very attractive untouched 18th-century trade fowler which is nearly identical to the Duncan fowler shown on pages 111 to 113 of “Colonial Frontier Guns” by T.M. Hamilton. The fowler features an 42 - 1/2” English proofed three-stage .70 caliber smoothbore barrel with small iron and silver front sight mounted on top at muzzle. Lockplate stamped “S. KNOUS” in center. Cast brass furniture is identical to that of the Duncan fowler including wrist escutcheon stamped “I.B.”, buttplate, sideplate with a third screw at the tail and engraving below rear lock screw, and trigger guard. The plain walnut stock of classic English 18th century form. Ramrod is absent. CONDITION: Barrel and lock retain a dark heavy brown patina, lock has been converted to percussion. Brass mounts have very dark patina and show wear and some scattered marks from use. Forend shows some cracking and losses on both sides as well as about 5-1/2” missing towards the muzzle. DMG 1,000 - 3,000

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1190 - LOT OF 13: FRANKLIN MINT LIMITED EDITION “FIGHTING MEN OF THE REVOLUTION”.

Between Fall 1975-Spring 1977, The Franklin Mint serial issued a limited edition set of thirteen solid pewter figurines titled “The Fighting Men of the American Revolution”, each figure representing a soldier from one of the 13 original colonies/states. The figures were produced by Imrie-Risley Miniatures for the Mint, each figure carefully researched by William Imrie and exquisitely sculpted by Clyde Risley. An extremely small number of the sets were also hand-painted, this being one of them. Each figure is complete with its original packing box, consisting of labeled, green cardstock slipcover over a 2-piece foam body. Each figure came with a dated and signed certificate of authenticity, along with a descriptive, historical booklet and for each respective soldier, and most of these are still in their respective boxes. All figures stand about 4” in height, with varying base sizes from 2-1/2” - 3-1/2” width and are notable for their fine detailing. The set includes the following figurines: 1) Officer, Dover Light Company of Delaware; 2) Private, First New Jersey Regiment; 3) Militiaman, Minot’s Alarm Company of Concord, Massachusetts; 4) Artilleryman, Rhode Island Train of Artillery; 5) Trumpeter, 2nd Connecticut Regiment Continental Dragoons; 6) Private, 2nd South Carolina Regiment; 7) Officer, 3rd New York Regiment; 8) Private, Green Mountain Rangers of New Hampshire; 9) Officer, 3rd Virginia Regiment Continental Dragoons; 10) Drummer, 4th Georgia Regiment; 11) Rifleman, Thompson’s Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion; 12) Private, 2nd Maryland Regiment; and 13) Private, 3rd North Carolina Regiment. CONDITION: The set is complete and in excellent condition (however, the lantern is currently detached from the left hand of figure 1 but could be easily reattached). 13 boxed pieces. JLK 900 - 1,600

1191 - CONSTANTINOPLE EMBROIDERED WALLET DATED 1710.

A fine wallet of reddish-brown “Russia” leather, 4-1/8” x 7-3/8”, with flap and two inner divisions with a goatskin divide. The outer faces elaborately embellished with tooled floral motifs and words, highlighted by silver wire embroidery, the name “Gerrit Reesren Jansoon” is tooled on the front of the wallet body (beneath the flap and goatskin inner flap), while the opposite or back of the wallet bears “Constantinopoli / 1710.” The flap is lined with natural brown linen and there is a narrow leather gore sewn on each side of the wallet body, to allow for expansion. CONDITION: The leather still supple, with some light scuffing/ abrasion marks to the outer faces; there is a 1-1/8” rent immediately to the left of the centered hook or male portion of a steel clasp riveted to the center of the flap (possibly a later addition), the corresponding female portion on the front body cut with seven adjustment slots and superimposed over the “r” of the middle name. JLK 400 - 600

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1192 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA GORGET OF THE ELITE 3RD REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS. A magnificent and rare gorget of a British officer of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, c. 1770-1785, made of copper alloy sheet metal, formed into a half-moon shape of convex profile, the edges rolled inside over wire reinforce; the Georgian coat of arms over scroll bearing motto “DIEUX ET MON DROIT” (“God and my right”) engraved in the center, with “3RD” and “GDs” within laurel wreaths suspended from armorial devices, engraved on the left and right “horns” of the gorget, respectively; the gilded gorget measuring 4-1/4” L x 3-1/2” W at its widest points. In 1776, the Composite Brigade of Guards was formed for service in America, composed of strong detachments drawn from all three regiments of Foot Guards. It arrived in time to fight in the battle of Long Island and served with great merit in numerous other engagements, its American battle honors including White Plains, Fort Washington, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Charleston, Camden, Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown. As defined in Smith’s “Military Dictionary” (1779), a gorget was “a kind of breast-plate, like a half-moon, with the arms of the prince thereon; worn by officers of foot.”

The 1768 Royal Warrant specified that the “King’s arms to be engraved on the gorgets; also the number of the Regiment” and were to be “either gilt or silver, according to the colour of the buttons on the uniforms” (those of the 3rd Guards being gold). This actual specimen is illustrated and described on p. 15 of Kochan and Troiani’s reference book, “Insignia of Independence: Military Buttons, Accoutrement Plates & Gorgets of the American Revolution” (2012). CONDITION: A 1/2” long pressure crack on the upper rim in center, to the immediate right of the crown; retains approximately 10% of the original gilding. JLK 7,000 - 12,000 118

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1193 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIFE OF NATHANIEL PECK. An 18th-century rosewood fife, 15-1/4” long by 13/16” diameter (at widest point), with 1-1/2” long ferrules of silver set at each end. The ferrule closest to the mouthpiece or hole is engraved crossways, “Nathaniel Peck / Benedict’s Company” while the other ferrule is engraved “Sixteenth Regiment / Connecticut Militia.” The engraving is done in gothic letters, suggesting later 19th-century application when in the hands of a descendant, possibly done during the Centennial of 1876. Nathaniel Peck was born to Jesse and Ruth (Hoyt) Peck of Danbury in Fairfield County, Connecticut on 12 December 1757. His father served in the French & Indian War. Nathaniel was enrolled in the 16th Regiment of Connecticut Militia (formed in 1771 and composed of Fairfield County men) at the beginning of hostilities with Britain, but enlisted as a fifer in Captain Noble Benedict’s Company of Colonel David Waterbury’s 5th Connecticut Regiment of the Grand (later Continental Army) in May 1775, serving with them first at Fort Ticonderoga and subsequently participating in the successful siege of St. Johns and the capture of Montreal.

Nathaniel mustered out of service on December 1st and returned home, but reenlisted again as a fifer on June 21st, 1776, this time in a company raised by Captain Benedict for Colonel Philip Burr Bradley’s Connecticut Regiment. His father Jesse was a corporal in the same company and his younger brother Eliphalet served as a private. After the retreat from New York, Bradley’s Regiment composed part of the garrison at Fort Washington and approximately half of its men were captured when the fort was taken by assault on November 16th, including the two Peck brothers. They were incarcerated, first at the Sugar House and later, aboard the equally infamous Jersey prison ship. Contracting smallpox, they were released by the British and managed to return home to Danbury, where their father (who eluded capture and was discharged in December) was infected by them, tragically dying on 28 January 1777 and followed by his eldest son, Nathaniel, who succumbed a few days later on February 1st. PROVENANCE: By descent in the family and thence by purchase to the Dr. John Lattimer Family Collection. CONDITION: Very good, with a few slight dings to the wood and silver ferrule tips. JLK 2,000 - 4,000

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1194 - AN 1820S AMERICAN VOLUNTEER MILITIA CAVALRY COAT. A handsome cavalry or light dragoon coat of the mid-to late 1820s that (unlike most American militia uniforms) shows wear from actual field service. The uniform has a body of scarlet, plain-weave cloth of domestic manufacture and is faced with buff cassimere (a twill-woven worsted) on its collar, integral “plastron-front” lapels, indented “dragoon” cuffs, and skirt turnbacks. The body is lined with glazed, twilled serge of buff. The cape or collar is edged or framed with 1/4” gold lace, and it trimmed with a centered, twisted, gilt wire, chain of interlocked loops running from the front edge on one side across the back and to the other front edge. Each side of the cape has two 3/4”, gilt buttons and gilt, twisted wire holes. The lapels each have seven similar buttons with gilt wire loopings in the form of button-holes running down them, set horizontal, while four chevron loopings are set on each sleeve, two on the cuff and two above, each with a gold button at the center of the chevron. The skirts have similar “dragoon” false pockets consisting of 4 chevron loopings and gilt buttons, with similar gilt buttons set at the hips and on the skirt plaits. All of the buttons are 3/4” diameter and are backmarked: ‘HAYDEN & CO. / DOUBLE GILT’ [an early Waterbury, CT button manufacturer]. The coat has one scarlet shoulder strap of 1” width, with buff innerfacing, and it is edged with twisted gold wire, ending at a button fixed on the lower portion of the cape. There is no sign that an epaulette was ever affixed to either shoulder of the coat. This strap was clearly intended to secure a swordbelt worn across the body, the hilt resting on the left hip. This uniform coat is probably that of a volunteer cavalry trooper; numerous volunteer cavalry units in many states favored scarlet and buff uniform combinations during this period, including New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Mississippi. CONDITION: Overall light soiling and some fading to the parts of the coat that would have been most exposed during period wear, such as the back, outer sleeves and shoulders; there are some repairs and patches to the coat, notably at the lower-left breast near/at underside of armhole seam; some loss and fraying to lace edging at upper collar in rear; fraying and loss to small areas of the buff serge lining near the armholes inside the coat. JLK 3,000 - 5,000

1195 - UNIFORM COAT (“HABIT”), 2ND SWISS REGIMENT OF FRENCH ARMY, 1820S. A rare enlisted soldier’s uniform coat or “Habit” of the elite 2nd Regiment of Swiss Infantry in French Army service, exhibiting some of the changes introduced in the 1820s during the Restoration period of the Bourbon Monarchy. Protestant Swiss regiments in French service had traditionally worn red uniforms since the early 18th century. The single-breasted coat body is of madder red broadcloth, with medium blue facings and edging of broadcloth. The left breast panel of the coat has 9 worked buttonholes and is edged with blue piping, the right panel originally had 9 corresponding buttons, of which only 3 remain, each being a one-piece, die-stamped, brass buttons of slightly convex form, 1” in diameter.

The 2-3/4” high, standing cape or collar is a medium blue cloth with red edging and is closed in front with three pairs of hooks and eyes. Measuring from the bottom of the cape at backseam, the body is 32” long, 16” or a half-measure being the length of the tails or skirts. The skirt turnbacks are trimmed with blue piping as are the false “long” pocket flaps on the skirts; 1 of the original 3 buttons is missing on each pocket; the hips of the coats are trimmed with 2 additional large ‘2’ buttons. The coat is lined in the upper body and sleeves with a coarse, natural brown linen which bears period markings, consisting of a crowned coat of arms stamped in black paint over the numbers “33. 34”, the latter of which seem to correlate with the waist and breast measures of the coat.

To the upper left of the stamped markings is the word ‘PARIS’ written in ink that is now brownish. The skirts are lined in a dull pinkish-mauve, woolen cloth. There are period repairs to the coat’s obvious wear points, with piecing-in of cloth on the right breast near armhole, and on both lower sleeves and at the right elbow.

One small regimental button of 5/8 inch diameter remains on the right cuff at its slit opening on the underseam. CONDITION: Less the period alterations and the missing buttons noted, there has been some recent conservation, including restoration of the blue cuffs and patching of a few small wear holes on each side of the collar. Otherwise, the coat is in relatively supple and highly presentable condition. JLK 2,000 - 4,000

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1196 - FUR TRADE ERA LEATHER HUNTING FROCK WITH QUILLWORK TRIM, C. 1840.

Rare Trans-Mississippi Frontier hunting frock or coat made of brain-tanned bison or elk hide embellished with polychrome, quillwork decorative motifs on breast and cuffs. The quillwork style is of northern Plains origin, possibly Minnesota Sioux, consisting of floral, star, bird, and other figural motifs, rendered in flattened quills dyed red, white, green, and yellow. Although clearly of Native American origin, the cut is that of a traditional form of hunting frock popular to white frontiersmen and probably made for this trade, with a standing collar approximately 1-1/2” high, open-breasted in front and closed by seven flat brass “coin” buttons on the right breast, with 7 corresponding cut holes on the left.

Each one-piece button is 3/8” diameter and back-marked “WARRANTED * RICH ORANGE.” Coin” buttons of this sort were commonly produced both in England and America during the period 1810-1840 and can be found on numerous archaeological sites of this period. The buttons are attached and “stayed” to the breast by running the shanks through a lace, which it whipstitched to the inside of the coat body and covered over with an innerfacing or partial lining down the breast front of a plain-weave, woolen flannel of plaid pattern (blue and green with red pin-stripes). This material was a type commonly procured by the War Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs and the United States Army, used both as trade cloth and also for lining of military uniforms during the 1830s-1860s (there are extant uniforms produced at Schuylkill Arsenal using this lining material, as well as a sample of it in an Indian Bureau trade cloth swatch book from the 1830s, all now deposited in the National Museum of American History). The shoulder yoke, armscye, and seams of the sleeves rear are all finished with inset welts of leather, all but those of the front sleeve seams (which are flush) are finished as cut-fringe trimming approximately 2-3/4” long. The bottom hem is similarly finished, with the 2-3/4” fringe strip butted and sewn to the cut edge. PROVENANCE: Private Western collection until circa 1998; purchased for a proposed museum, but later deaccessioned and sold in 2013; private collection to present. CONDITION: The hunting frock show considerable usage during the period, with wear and staining as to be expected, including fading and abrasion to the polychrome quillwork; some loss and tearing to the woolen lining. JLK 3,500 - 5,500

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1197 - HISTORIC SCHUYLKILL ARSENAL IRON GATE SECTION WITH MARTIAL MOTIFS, C. 1835.

The Schuylkill Arsenal at Philadelphia was established in 1800 and situated on Schuylkill River at Grays Ferry Avenue, serving as the principal supply center for arms, accoutrements and uniforms for the US Army prior to and during the War of 1812 until the Civil War. During the Civil War, 10,000 outside seamstresses and tailors were hired to supply the Union Army with uniforms, blankets, tents, and bedding. The Arsenal, later renamed the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot, provided the military with supplies through World War I, later transitioning into a Quartermaster School and storage facility and closing in 1957 and subsequently sold. This historic gate section from Schuylkill Arsenal, dating from the 1830s, was salvaged in 1963 when the site’s new owner demolished most of the historic Army buildings and walls in 1963. It consists of two elements, the gate body and its top or cornice. The former is 35-1/2” x 67” x 2-1/2” and principally made of cast iron, with forged iron reinforcements. It features American martial motifs, the central device being a Model 1832 Army cap surmounting a panoply of arms, consisting of a “U.S.” marked cartridge box, two flintlock muskets, two cavalry sabers and a trumpet, surrounded by sprays of laurel leaves. The cornice is 10-1/2” x 67” x 2-1/2”, being a flattened bar upon which were set three five-point stars, flanked on each side by two spearheads or blades. A superb and rare example of martial decorative art and architectural design elements from the early Republic period. CONDITION: In overall very good condition, with uniform moderate casting/pitting surface as expected with age and usage, the two righthand spearpoint on cornice now missing (but could be easily replicated). JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 2,000 - 4,000

1198 - A HANDSOME ‘GRAYS’ ARTILLERY UNIFORM COAT, CIRCA 1851 A fine American volunteer artillery uniform coatee of the late Antebellum period, 1851-1861. The single-breasted coat is cut “swallowtail” form and the body is of grey superfine broadcloth, with the skirt linings and turnbacks of black superfine.

The interior of the front panels are interfaced with narrow strips of grey superfine and breasts and sleeves lined with polished brown cotton twill, with hand-worked pad-stitching securing it to the cotton wadding underneath on the breast. There is one “long” slashed pocket in the buttons on the coat are all 2-piece, convex, brass Federal artillery eagle buttons with ‘A” in the shield on breast. The 10 large buttons down the breast and those on pockets and hips are all 3/4” diameter and with pre-Civil War backmarks: “W. H. HORSTMANN & SONS / PHI” (Albert type AY79A5), while the 5/8” diameter buttons on collar and cuff flaps all with Horstmann backmarks (not fully discernable due to tight attachment to component parts of coat). The standing collar is 2-1/4” high, while the length of the coat at center back is 34-1/2” from bottom of collar to bottom of skirts.

The breast measure is approximately 34-36” and the waist 30”. Each side of the standing collar is finished with two 4-1/4” long buttonholes of doubled, 1/2” wide, gold lace and with small artillery buttons at the ends and edged round with 3/16” wide black “Prussia binding” (heavy soutache braid of mohair braid of herringbone form). The breast is edged with black Prussian binding and closed with 10 large artillery buttons, with corresponding, long buttonholes on each side of the same black Prussia binding, doubled and terminating in “crows-foot” knots. The diagonally-set, scalloped false pockets on each skirt have two paired buttonholes of gold lace and are edged with Prussian binding. The slashed and scalloped “slash” cuffs are similarly edged, and have three, equidistant, small artillery buttons, each with corresponding gold lace holes. Each shoulder is fitted with an inset brass stud near the sleeve and a corresponding worked silk looping near the collar for attaching of brass shoulder scales or epaulettes. An extremely handsome uniform for an as-of-yet unidentified Antebellum artillery unit; a number of mid-19th century volunteer artillery units adopted grey uniforms, such as the Washington Grays Artillery of New Orleans, the Washington Grays Artillery of Philadelphia and the artillery section of the 7th New York “Grays.” CONDITION: Complete and in very good, supple condition; there are two, tiny moth holes on the back (one mended) and two 1/4” spots of rust staining on the left breast with a small area on the underside of the right sleeve panel with similar staining. JLK 3,500 - 5,500 122

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1199 - LOT OF 8: FOUR COMPASSES & FOUR WHISTLES. This lot includes four whistles; two are wooden and two are horn. The largest horn whistle measures about 3” and the smallest wooden whistle measures about 1-7/8”. All have attractive turnings and form. The lot also includes four compasses, three of which are brass and one does not have its lid. The wooden compass is the largest and measures 1-7/8” in diameter, with an early hand-colored paper dial and hand blown glass. A very interesting and attractive grouping. DMG 500 - 1,000

1200 - MANUSCRIPT OF “MARION AND A WHIG BOY” WITH HORRY’S “LIFE OF MARION” (LOT OF 2).

[Attributed to Peter Horry or Mason Locke Weems]. “A Conversation Between General Marion & a Whig Boy.” Folio, 2 pp., laid paper with iron gall ink, the sheet folded vertically to comprise two working pages on each side. This appears to be the original, working or final manuscript draft of a humorous anecdote relating to an event in Marion’s Revolutionary War career, as later published as a chapter in Horry and Weems’s “Life of ...Marion.” A backwoods lad is sent by his father to alert Marion to a gathering of Tory partisans up the Little Pedee River and an amusing interview takes place with the general. [with] Horry, Peter and Mason Locke Weems. “The Life of General Francis Marion, A Celebrated Partizan Leader, In The Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories, in South-Carolina and Georgia.” Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, 1841. Octavo, 251pp. plus six hand-colored plates, full leather with leather spine label in gilt. General Francis Marion, “The Swamp Fox,” was one of the leading American commanders in the Revolution in the South. His brilliant operations in the Carolinas kept thousands of British troops tied down and contributed immensely to ultimate American victory. Plain and unassuming, he was widely beloved by his contemporaries, and after his death this book began the process of his ascent to legend. Horry, his second-in-command for part of the war, supplied many of the facts, although he was allegedly disgusted by Weems’ flowery passages and later disclaimed any connection with the book. What he disliked, others embraced, and the book went through many editions. This edition not in Howes. From a private Charleston, South Carolina collection. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

1201 - TWO SOUTHERN MEMOIRS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BY “LEE’S LEGION” OFFICERS. (A) GARDEN, ALEXANDER. “Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War in America, with Sketches of Character of Persons the most Distinguished, in the Southern States, for Civil and Military Service.”

Charleston [SC]: Printed for the Author, by A. E. Miller, 1822. Extremely rare First Edition. Octavo with original printer’s board, replaced spine; xi, 459 untrimmed pages, including the subscribers list.

Garden was an officer in “Light Horse Harry” Lee’s Partisan Legion and his work contains invaluable accounts of the War in the South and the services of individual officers and soldiers in such, not otherwise documented. [with:] (B) LEE, HENRY. “Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States.” Washington: Peter Force, 1827. “New Edition, with Corrections Left by the Author.”

Octavo, with period half leather binding and marbled boards, raised bands with black morocco spine label, gilt lettering and lines; ex libris; 466 pp. One of the most famous and useful accounts of the Southern Campaigns, this second edition of Lee’s classic is but rarely encountered. CONDITION: (A) front board with soiling and lower right corner chipped; pages with light toning and foxing; marginal creasing on the title page. And (B) some splitting on upper joints of spine; bookplate and library notations on endpapers marked out; light toning and foxing to pages. JLK 900 - 1,500

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1202 - BARACHIAH BASSET’S INSCRIBED COPY OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI PROCEEDINGS The Institution and Proceedings of the Society of the Cincinnati...May 10, 1783: with the Proceedings of the Massachusetts State Society of the Cincinnati, from its Organization, June 9, 1783, to July 4, 1811.

Boston: printed by Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1812. Octavo, 112 pages, with engraved frontispiece, in original printer’s boards. The frontispiece is an engraved plate designed by George Graham that handsomely depict the eagle, shield and other devices of the Society. Inscribed on the title page with the ownership signature of an original member, Barachiah Bassett (1732-1813). He was an active patriot and member of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, also serving a captain during the Siege of Boston. Bassett was appointed major in the Continental Line in January 1776 and promoted to lieutenant colonel of Bradford’s 14th (later 12th) Massachusetts Regiment on November 19, 1776. He served with distinction during the Northern campaigns of 1776-1777, including the battles of Freeman’s Farm, wintered at Valley Forge and fought at Monmouth. He retired from service on half-pay when the regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1781 and took up privateering for the remainder of the Revolutionary War. CONDITION: Overall very good. The paper spine has extensive loss from chipping, but the boards are quite good; the interior pages have uniform light toning, foxing (primarily in the wide margins), and slight, marginal tears on a few pages, not affecting text. JLK 1,500 - 2,500

1203 - GEORGE WASHINGTON CLIPPED SIGNATURE IN DISPLAY FRAME George Washington (1732-1799), large signature “G: Washington” in ink on laid paper, approximately 2-3/4” x 5-3/4”, no place, no date.

Taken from a larger document or publication, apparently taken from the upper margin of a sheet or page. Handsomely float-mounted within window mat in a large display frame, flanked by color reproduction images of the Stuart portraits of President Washington, with a brass plate below signature bearing a short history of Washington’s two presidencies, flanked by Federal eagles. Not examined out of the frame.

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1204 - SCARCE FRAMED INDENTURE SIGNED BY GUNSMITH PETER ANGSTADT. Measures 30-1/2” x 18-3/8” including frame.

The document itself measures about 27” x 14-3/4”. The vellum indenture is dated 1798 and is signed by the High Sheriff of Berks County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

It is for a land indenture in Berks County.

Both sides are visible with double-sided glass mounts. The back shows the paper seal of the Notary Office of Berks County; it is signed by Peter Angstadt. CONDITION: The indenture shows visible fold marks with some darkening in the creases. There are no tears or losses, but some scattered areas of yellowing. Seal is complete and visible and some ink on the back is beginning to thin. The figured maple frame is excellent and sound. A scarce and well-displayed item to accompany and Angstadt rifle or for any collector of Berks County rifles. 400 - 1,200 1205 - [REVOLUTIONARY NAVAL HERO SILAS TALBOT DISCUSSES ELECTION PROSPECTS, 1793].

Silas Talbot (1751-1813) a two-page, autograph letter signed, dated New York, 1 March 1793, and addressed to Judge Joshua Mersereau, Esquire.US Congressman Talbot, Revolutionary War naval hero and future captain of Old Ironsides, responds to friend and political ally Judge Joshua Mersereau’s letter requesting support for his aspirations for a seat in the New York Legislature. Talbot informs him that “he has repeatedly Spoke to Genl P... about your being supported at the Next Election for Senator [with noncommital feedback]...and I conversed with G. S. last Evening he says he shall leave it with the upper Countys to Enominate as the member is to come from that quarter” and leaves it to the Judge to “Draw the conclusions.” Talbot goes on to relate that “the number of Votes in our district in favor of the several Candidates [to the U.S. Congress] are as follows, Talbot 1231, Cooper 961, Winn 928, Finch 408, Crane 85.”

Talbot-signed documents are extremely rare.

In 1779 Congress appointed Talbot a Captain in the Continental Navy. In command of Argo he captured no less than six British vessels and received the thanks of Congress in return. He was captured while commanding the privateer George Washington and suffered captivity on the notorious Jersey prison ship and subsequently in the equally infamous English prison at Dartmoor. He moved to New York after the war and was elected representative to Congress 1793-1794. In 1794 Talbot was assigned to command the frigate President then building in New York. In 1798 at the commencement of hostilities with France, Talbot was recommissioned a captain and assumed command of Constitution and the West India squadron. He resigned in 1801, the result of a disagreement with Thomas Truxtun regarding his relative seniority among his peers. JLK 900 - 1,500

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1206 - PATRIOT HENRY GLEN APPOINTED SCHENECTADY COUNTY CLERK, 1767.

Glen, Henry and Henry Moore, autograph document signed, New York City, 27 February 1767; ink on vellum sheet with flattened folds, 13” x 16-1/2”, wax seal attached by silk cord; within glazed frame.

Schenectady-born Henry Glen (1739-1814) became a merchant and Indian trader, as well as a successful land speculator. At the age of 28, Henry began his political career with an appointment as clerk of Schenectady county, a position in which he served until 1809. This vellum document is his original appointment to that position, signed

by Henry Moore, governor of New York 1767-1769, and still retains the attached wax seal of the royal colony affixed to it. During the Revolution, Glen was active on the side of the colonists, serving as a member of the first three Provincial Congresses and as a member of the Committee of Safety. He was also a captain in the second company of militia for Schenectady County. However, his primary service during the war was as assistant deputy quartermaster general in the Continental Army with the rank of major, corresponding with numerous important officials, including General George Washington and Governor George Clinton. After the war, Glen continued to pursue an active role in state politics, first as a state assembly member (1786-1787, 1810) and later as a representative in the U.S. Congress (1793-1801). His papers are now in the Wiggins Library Special Collections at Campbell University. JLK 400 - 800

1207 - US ARMY OFFICER’S COMMISSION SIGNED BY PRESIDENT JOHN TYLER, 1844.

TYLER, JOHN (1790-1862), as 10th President of the United States, a handsome, partly-printed vellum Document Signed, dated 11 June 1844 at Washington, DC. A US Army military commission appointing Charles T. Baker as a Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry, countersigned by Secretary of War William Wilkins, with striking engravings of an American eagle at top and a panoply of arms below. 17” x 14-3/4”, docketing written vertically at upper left and paper seal intact. Charles T. Baker, son of Colonel Rufus Baker of the Ordnance Corps, was a member of the US Military Academy’s Class of 1842 and served nine years in the Army, fighting in the Second Seminole and Mexican Wars, as well as serving as an instructor at the Academy, later resigning his commission in 1851. CONDITION: Less folds, this is an unblemished, fine example with strong, inked signatures and the vellum bright and clean. JLK 750 - 1,500

1208 - CHARLESTON HUSSAR’S COPY OF DUANE’S 1810 MILITARY DICTIONARY WITH HUSSAR DOCUMENT William Duane. “A MILITARY DICTIONARY; or, Explanation of the Several Systems of Discipline of Different Kinds of Troops, Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry; The Principles of Fortification, and All the Modern Improvements in the Science of Tactics: Comprising the Pocket Gunner, or Little Bombardier; The Military Regulations of the United States; The Weights, Measures, and Monies of All Nations; The Technical Terms and Phrases of the Art of War in the French Language. Particularly Adapted to the Use of the Military Institutions of the United States.”

1st and only edition. Large quarto, xii, 748 pp. Double column text. Contemporary tree calf with recent leather spine, bearing gilt black leather spine label. Scarce. Ownership inscription in graphite on upper right of title page of original owner, “John Berkley Grimball/Charleston So. Ca.”, with a related receipt found inside book and now tipped in book between endpapers, being a receipt for $1.50 from the Charleston Hussars to Grimball for his quarterly dues payment (then in arrears), dated January 12, 1822.

CONDITION: Light toning to pages. From an important Charleston, South Carolina collection. JLK 500 - 900 126

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1209 - DES BARRES MAP OF THE “MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM IBERVILLE TO YAZOUS” 1779 Joseph Frederick Wallet des Barres (English, 1722-1824), “Mississippi River from Iberville to Yazous”, published “By Act of Parliament, 1 Jan. 1779” and printed in London by Des Barres. Copperplate engraving, 64-1/2” x 25”, with original hand-colored outlining, attractively float- and pressure-mounted on linen and framed. Des Barre’s chart of the Mississippi is one of the finest detailed maps of the region produced in the 18th century. It presents the intricate curving of the river showing place names like Natches Cliff, Batton Rouge, The French Settlements of Point Coupee, Lake Maurepas and many others. Very rare, the chart was often omitted from editions of The Atlantic Neptune.

This superb specimen of the Mississippi map was previously sold at Neal Auctions, 25 June 2011 as lot 193, realizing a record $44,215. JLK 7,500 - 30,000

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1210 - DES BARRES MAP OF THE “GULPH OF MEXICO”, C. 1780 Joseph F. Wallet Des Barres (English, 1722-1824), “Gulph of Mexico”, circa 1780, hand-tinted, copper engraved map from “The Atlantic Neptune” showing the coast from the Apelousa River eastward to Pensacola, sheet 33-1/4” x 46”, attractively float-mounted in window mat and framed. Des Barres was the most noted and skilled producer of coastal charts in Britain during the second half of the 18th century. At the close of the French and Indian War, the Admiralty Board sent him to North America to survey the coasts of the Canadian Maritime provinces, captured from the French during the war, and retained by Britain by treaty. His project was ultimately expanded to include the entire Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America. At the outset of the Revolution, Des Barres was assigned the task of compiling his work and that of others surveying the coast and shorelines of North America into an atlas that would enable both the Royal Navy and the merchant marine to navigate safely in North American waters. Des Barres returned to England in 1774 and began to prepare his charts for publication. The collected charts appeared as the Atlantic Neptune, a magnificent work consisting of about 275 views, plans, and charts, which is considered the first great marine atlas of the eastern seaboard, and by many, the most splendid collection of charts ever published. A particularly fine example of the “Gulph of Mexico” map, scarce and highly desirable in collecting circles today, was previously sold as lot 200 at Neal Auctions, 11 September 2010 for $22,705. JLK 5,000 - 20,000 128

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1211 - FRAMED HERMAN MOLL “NEW AND CORRECT MAP OF THE WORLD...1719.”

MOLL, HERMAN (1654-1732). “A New and Correct Map of the Whole World, Shewing ye Situation of Its Principal Parts...by H. Moll, 1719.” London: H. Moll, T. & J. Bowles, P. Overton & J. King, [dated 1719, but circa 1730]. Copper-engraved map on four joined sheets, with hand-colored outline and cartouche, 28 x 47 inches (view) within matted, gilt frame. Plate 2 from “The World Described, or a New and Correct Sett of Maps” [1709-1720]. London-based cartographer Herman Moll produced this world map to document the numerous expeditions undertaken by English explorers searching for an ocean passage to Asia and in the settlement of the Americas. In addition to notes on climate and weather events, Moll also included an early rendering of the trade winds in this map. Shown as small arrows and curving lines, Moll based his depiction on the first meteorological map produced by Edmund Halley in 1686, with new information provided by actual explorers, including the recorded observations of erstwhile pirate Woodes Rogers. The seasonal trade winds were critical to efficient navigation of oceans in the 18th century. CONDITION: Excellent; not examined outside of frame. JLK 5,000 - 15,000

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1212 - THE FIRST AMERICAN MANUAL ON MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS, 1776 Clairac, Louis Andre de la Mamye de, and Lewis Nicola. “L’Ingenieur de campagne” or, Field engineer: Written in French by the Chevalier de Clairac, and translated by Major Lewis Nicola. To which is added, by way of appendix, a short treatise on sea batteries, shewing their defects, and an attempt to remedy them. Likewise, an explanation of all the technical terms used in the work. By the translator. Illustrated with a variety of copper-plates.” Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitken, 1776. 1st (and only) edition, octavo, in half-sheets (8” x 4-7/8”). 37 (of 39) original folding, engraved plates; terminal ad and errata leaf; original, handsomely rebound in mottled calf, with raised bands, gilt trim and red morroco label on spine. Extremely rare (only 12 copies in Worldcat). Dedicated “To the Honourable the Delegates of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled... at this critical time.” The translator of this important French manual, Lewis Nicola (1717-1807) was the son of of British officer of Huegonot background and was born in Dublin, Ireland. Nicola served as a British officer through the Seven Years War, migrating to Philadelphia in 1766, where he was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Association. In July 1775, Nicola was hired by the Pennsylvania Council of Safety to inspect the local defenses in place along the banks of the Delaware River and the appendix to this work, is his original plan for constructing defensive fortifications, based on his work improving those protecting Philadelphia.

He was appointed barrack master for the city and while serving in this capacity, published both this work and another original manual, “A Treatise for Military Exercise Calculated of the use of the Americans” in 1776. In 1777, Nicola proposed that the Continental Congress establish the Invalid Corps, which Congress approved and appointed him as its commander. The Corps was stationed at various Pennsylvania locations before moving to West Point, New York. In 1782, after the end of most hostilities but before the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Nicola wrote the Newburgh letter, which was received coldly by Washington. Despite his numerous and substantive contributions to the Patriot cause, Nicola is most remembered for authoring the Newburgh letter, which urged George Washington to assume a royal title. Evans 14678; Riley 126; Sabin 13199. CONDITION: Random dampstaining to some pages, not affecting text or plates; plates 11 and 24 missing; mended tear to one plate; remains of original spine label tipped to rear inside cover of volume. JLK 2,500 - 5,000

1213 - LOT OF 2: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS REPORTED BY REGINIER AND D’AUBERTEUIL. Recueil des Loix Constitutives des Colonies Angloises [Collection of the Laws Governing the English Colonies]. Philadelphia and Paris: Cellot & Jombert, 1778. First edition. Octavo (6-3/4” x 4-1/4”); Half-title, 370 pp. Original French calf, the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with a black label, all edges in blue marbling; marbled end papers. This first overseas printing of the collected constitutions of the original American states, as well as the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation of the United States, was issued in the same year that France entered the war against Britain. The work also includes a dedication letter from the compiler Regnier to Benjamin Franklin at Paris, where the work was certainly published. Sabin 68448; Howes R111. CONDITION: 1/2” split down front board, mended tear to rear endpaper, otherwise, an exceptionally fine copy with bright and clean pages. [with] Hilliard d’Auberteuil, Michel-Rene. “Essais Historiques et Politiques sur la Revolution de l’Amerique Septentrionale.” Brussels, 1782. First edition. Octavo (7-3/4” x 5-1/4”). i-xii, 1-208, i-xiv, 209-436.

5 folding maps. Original, mottled French calf with raised bands on spine, gilt decoration and red morroco label with gilt lettering. This is the second volume, published a year after the first titled “Essais Historiques et Politiques sur les Anglo-Americains” and which takes up the war from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the battle of Monmouth in June 1778 and the French Alliance (the remainder of the war was never covered). The fine and beautiful folding maps are: “Carte de la Nouvelle York”, “Carte de la Virginie, du Maryland et de l’Etat de Delaware”, “Carte de la Pensylvanie et du Nouveau Jersey”, “Carte de la Routes des Lacs, depuis Montreal et St. Jean, jusqu’ a la Riviere d’Hudson”, and “Plan de la Bataille de Montmouth [sic]…” Of great interest are appendices published in the rear of the book, pp. 406-412 containing epitaphs of the American generals killed in action to 1778, followed by a list of the French officers who served in the Continental Army by rank and duties, pp. 413-424, followed by an advertisement and abstract for an intended publication relating to Lafayette’s first voyage to America in 1774, pp. 425-436. Sabin 31900. CONDITION: A very good copy; some abrasion to board edges and chipping to top of spine; wear to endpapers, otherwise, a clean and bright copy, the folding maps particularly fine. JLK 800 - 1,600 130

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1214 - MANUSCRIPT LIST OF REGIMENTS, GENERAL AND FIELD OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, 1739/1740.

[Untitled Manuscript Army List of 1739/1740]. 99 pp. excluding blanks, with folding manuscript table of officers’ pay and allowances; written in black ink, but annotated and ruled in red, bound with red silk ribbon within integral vellum, folding wallet with tongue closure; housed in modern, clamshell box with red morroco and gilt-lettered spine label. Essentially, a List of of the General and Field Officers by seniority and corps, Regiments and Duty Stations, and breakdowns of the Military Establishment of the British Army, 1739/1740 during the period of King George’s War or the “War of Jenkin’s Ear”. Inscribed on first page: “W. Hetzler In Orange Court near King Street Chappel Golden Square St. James’s Parish at the Green Lamp - who humbly offers his service in any Business subject to the Pen, with the utmost Expedition.”

CONDITION: vellum wallet slightly soiled; pages clean and bright. JLK 900 - 1,800

1215 - MILITARY REGISTER OR NEW AND COMPLETE LISTS OF ALL HIS MAJESTY’S LAND FORCES AND MARINES FOR THE YEAR 1768.

THE MILITARY REGISTER; OR NEW AND COMPLETE LISTS OF All his Majesty’s LAND FORCES AND MARINES for the Year 1768. London: Printed for J. Almon, [nd, but 1767]. 12mo. 166 pp., including folding plates and index. Bound in full period calf with raised bands, gilt lines, and red morocco spine label with gilt lettering. This is the rarer, pocket-sized Army List for 1768 on the eve of the American Revolution.

It contains a full list of the British Army and Marine officers, with all general and field officers by seniority, followed by regiments and corps of the army, noting the geographical duty stations and all officers serving therein by seniority in army and regiment, followed by half-pay lists of retired officers, and an index to all currently serving officers. CONDITION: Binding very good, with one noticeable rub mark on front board; light toning, primarily to end papers and title page.

JLK 450 - 900

1216 - LOT OF 2: [REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. “THE NORTH-AMERICAN AND THE WEST-INDIAN GAZETTEER”, 1ST & 2ND EDITIONS. (A) “THE NORTH-AMERICAN AND THE WEST-INDIAN GAZETTEER, Containing an Authentic Description of the Colonies and Islands in That Part of the Globe, Shewing Their Situation, Climate, Soil, Produce and Trade, With Their Former and Present Condition.” London: G. Robinson, 1776. Octavo, period full calf binding with raised bands with gilt lines, black morocco spine label with gilt lettering.

First edition. Missing map of North America but with folding map of the West Indies. [with] (B) Second Edition of same work, London: G. Robinson, 1778.

Octavo, period full calf, with red morocco spine label with gilt lettering. Complete with two folding maps of eastern North America and the West Indies. “This compact little book was a second time printed for the use of officers going over during the American War.” (Sabin 55537). CONDITION: (A) Spine rebacked and boards scuffed; front endpaper loose; missing map as noted above; and (B) binding lightly scuffed with edgewear; waterstaining on lrc of title page and preface. Both copies generally clean and sound internally.

JLK 1,000 - 2,000

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1217 - SOUTHEY’S HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR (SIX-VOLUME SET).

Robert Southey. “History of the Peninsular War.” London: John Murray. 1828 – 1837. 6 vols. The “New” or 2nd (expanded) edition of Southey’s monumental 1823 History, reprinting the original four volumes in 1828, with the final two volumes covering the final three years of conflict, 1812-1814 (not in 1st edition) not published until 1837. Bound in 19th century half leather bindings with raised bands and applied, gilded spine labels, this set was originally the property of Francis Alvey Rhodes and each copy bear his armorial crested bookplates; the quarto volumes are 8-5/8” tall. Vol I (1828) xxii, 515 pp.; Vol II (1828) xi, 531 pp.; Vol III (1828) xvi, 527 pp.; Vol IV (1828) xv, 550 pp.; Vol V (1837) viii, 494 pp; editorial bibliography; and Vol VI (1837) viii, 486 pp. CONDITION: The leather bindings have some general rubbing wear with some surface scrapes to the leather on some corners and spine edge, general edge rubbing and slight chipping to marbled boards along edges, else bindings are in good solid condition, internally the pages are bright and clean, with only light foxing on endpapers. JLK 400 - 800 1218 - [FRENCH & INDIAN WAR]. CAPTAIN ADAM WILLIAMSON’S COPY OF KNOX’S JOURNALS. J1ohn Knox. “An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America for the Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760: Containing the most Remarkable Occurrences of that Period; particularly the two Sieges of Quebec, the Orders of the Admirals and General Officers; Descriptions of the Countries where the Author has served, with their Forts and Garrisons; their Climates, Soil, Produce.…” Published by Printed for the Author; and sold by W. Johnston, London, 1769. 1 of 2 volumes only. Quarto. (10-1/2” x 8-1/2”). ix, [7], 405, [2]; [2], 465, [2]pp. Two engraved frontispiece portraits of Generals Jeffrey Amherst and James Wolfe and a folding, engraved map of British Dominions in America by Thomas Kitchin. Errata leaf in rear of vol. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and gilt decorations.

Provenance: personal copy of Captain (later General) Adam Williamson, whose inscribed his surname in ink on the upper margin of the title page; Williamson was an original subscriber to this work and served as engineer on the 1758-60 Canadian expeditions and later returned to America as chief of artillery under Burgoyne, 1776-1777. “One of the most accurate and detailed accounts available on the sieges of Louisbourg and Quebec” (TPL). Knox arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the 43rd Regiment of Foot in 1757 to take part in the anticipated expedition against Louisbourg and served through the taking of Quebec and later, the capitulation of Montreal and its subsequent defense in 1760. Knox gives a first-hand account of the battles and supplements his narrative with printings of important official documents and extracts from general and regimental orders. Howes K222; JCB 1680; Lande 486; Streeter Sale 1030; Sabin 38164; TPL 323.

CONDITION: Overall, a very good copy, bright and clean pages with generous margins; some light toning to endpapers and title page, the large folding Thomas Kitchin map of North America (27-1/2” x 21-1/2”) has a 5” tear where tipped into book, with old cellophane tape mend; the front board reattached with leather strips and spine label missing. JLK 800 - 1,200 1219 - [REVOLUTIONARY WAR] “ARCHIBALD ROBERTSON, HIS DIARIES & SKETCHES, 1762-1780.”

“Archibald Robertson, Lieut. General Royal Engineers: His Diaries and Sketches In America, 1762-1780. Edited with an introduction by Harry Miller Lydenberg.” NY: The New York Public Library, 1930. Quarto (10-3/8” x 7-1/2”), 63 maps and plates, x, 300, [1] pp. Quarter binding of calf with gilt lettering and marbled boards, housed within a marbled slipcase with label. One of 200 copies (this copy unnumbered) printed on BR Rag paper at the NewYork Public Library under supervision of John Archer, with collotype plates by Joffe. Rare, limited edition of the transcribed diaries of Robertson while serving as a British engineer officer in Canada and the American colonies during the French & Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Robertson’s eyewitness observations, ranging from topography to military tactics, are invaluable and his eyewitness drawings and plans are exquisitely rendered, as to be expected from such an accomplished engineer and draughtsman.

Howes R350. CONDITION: An extremely fine copy, with bright and clean pages; some edge wear to the slipcase. JLK 400 - 600

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1220 - AN EARLY AND HANDSOME COPY OF “THE MARTIAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN” BY JENKINS Jenkins, James. “THE MARTIAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF Great Britain AND Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815.” London: Printed for Js. Jenkins, No. 4, Strand By L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, 373 Strand [n.d. but c. 1815]. Folio (13-5/8” x 11-1/4”); hand-colored, engraved armorial dedication plate to the Duke of Wellington (dated Dec. 1, 1814), hand-colored aquatint frontispiece (or “vignette title”), hand-colored portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and 51 aquatint plates engraved by Thomas Sutherland after William Heath, all finely hand-colored, engraved title (not colored); 1p. vignette text; 2 pp. dedication text; 114 pp. of plate texts; 4 pp. appendix of British officers killed and wounded, and 2 pp. table of contents at back, lacking the list of subscribers. An extremely handsome and early issue of this important color plate book, the aquatints being fine impressions with wide margins and watermarked 1812 (the Wellington portrait watermarked 1813), with the vignette title and armorial dedication both colored (the vignette within the engraved title uncolored, as is correct). Abbey “Life” 365; Tooley 281.

CONDITION: Clean and bright throughout, finely colored, and including the rare portrait of the Duke of Wellington missing from most copies.

JLK 2,500 - 4,500

1221 - STRIKING AQUATINT VIEWS OF WATERLOO BY AN EARLY BATTLEFIELD ARTIST-TOURIST, 1816.

Hills, Robert. “SKETCHES IN FLANDERS AND HOLLAND; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A TOUR… SHORTLY AFTER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO….” London: J. Haines and J. Turner, 1816. Folio (13-1/4” x 10-3/8”), viii, 215, [1] and 36 aquatint plates, some fold-out and 5 hand-colored.

Period calf half binding and marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine with black morocco label; binder’s ticket of Marshall, Aylesbury on front paste-down.

Only book written by the important painter and engraver Robert Hills (1769-1844), one of the founders of the Society of Painters in Watercolors, who traveled to view the fields of Waterloo shortly after the battle ended and wrote a most interesting account of his travels in the Low Countries. The work is illustrated with superb views not only of Waterloo and Quatre Bras, but also Bruges, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Amsterdam, in addition to the color plates of costume and carriages. All of the drawings were

by Hills, with approximately half of the engravings also by him and most of the remainder by J.C. Stadler, a German working in London. Abbey Travel 187; Atlas van Stolk 5893; Jacobsen Jensen 247. CONDITION: spine joints scuffed, internally, occasional marginal dampstaining, but otherwise a clean copy with generous margins. JLK 600 - 1,000

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1222 - A RARE SET OF WELLINGTON’S PENINSULAR ORDERS BOUND FOR A GENERAL OFFICER AND INSCRIBED BY HIS ADJUTANT GENERAL, CHARLES STEWART. “General Orders. Spain and Portugal, 1810[-1811]”. 2 vols. London: Printed by Authority. Thomas Egerton Military Library, Whitehall, 1811[-1812]. I: 261 pp. (including index) and II: 322 pp. (including index). Octavo (8-1/2” x 5-3/8”), period full bindings of diced Russia leather with raised band, gilt lettering and trim, gilt edges, and marbled endpapers. A handsome and rare set of the General Orders for the Duke of Wellington’s Peninsular Army, officially printed and custom-bound for distribution to key general officers and staff. Both volumes are inscribed to the same intended recipient, that on volume II entered opposite the title page: “The General Officer / Commanding the / 3rd Division of / Infantry” and signed “Chas. Stewart A.G.”; volume III is similarly inscribed to the commander of the 3rd Division, but following the title page and unsigned. Charles William Stewart (1778-1854), 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, was a career British officer and half-brother of Robert, Lord Castlereagh. Serving with great merit in the campaigns against Napoleon, he commanded a cavalry brigade under Sir John Moore, returning to the Peninsula in April 1809 as adjutant-general under Wellesley, with the rank of brigadier-general. At the passage of the Douro he led some charges of squadrons which were specially noticed by Wellesley in general orders, and he also distinguished himself at Talavera. He was promoted major-general on 25 July 1810 and returned to the Peninsula in March, and served as adjutant-general throughout the campaigns of 1810 and 1811. He was mentioned in despatches for Busaco and Fuentes d’Onoro. In the latter battle he disarmed a colonel of chasseurs and made him prisoner. He was essentially a “beau sabreur”, handsome and dashing; in Alison’s words, “his nature was chivalrous rather than administrative.” CONDITION: Both volumes in very good condition; the spines with very slight edgewear; pages bright and clean, with scattered light foxing. JLK 1,000 - 2,000

1223 - 1783 2-VOL. SEMNINAL WORK ON INSURANCE FROM THE LAW LIBRARY OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS [Adams, John Quincy.] Emerigon, Balthazard-Marie. “Traite des assurances et des contrats a la grosse.” Marseilles: Chez Jean Mossy, 1783. 2 vols. in large quarto; portrait frontispiece of author in v. 1; pp. (8), xvi, 686; pp. (4), 680, (4); period mottled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, black spine labels with gilt lettering, red edges, marbled endpapers. Future president John Quincy Adams inscribed his autograph with date (probably of acquisition on the upper righthand corners of the title pages on both volumes, “J. Q. Adams / June 1794”, although most of that on Volume 2 was clipped at some time in the past. First edition of a pioneer work on the history and methods of insurance, covering the subject from ancient to the author’s own time---the first comprehensive work in the field and one which was used as an authority in the commercial courts of Europe. His “Traite” of 1783 (“Treatise of Insurance and Bulk Contracts”) is authoritative thanks to his methodology of proposing various solutions according to applicable foreign laws. John Quincy Adams relied on this set of the first edition in his legal work, for it was not translated until 1811, after which it was widely used in America. Émerigon (1716-1784) was an advocate in the Parliament of AIX, chief councilor of the Admiralty court of Marseilles and leading authority on commercial law in the late 18th century. He had by long practice and study acquired a very extensive and profound knowledge of maritime and commercial law. Widely recognized as one of the great works on insurance law. With numerous apt citations of the texts of the civil laws, maritime ordinances, and court decisions, this work is a treatise of highest authority, and is especially useful in that it contains not only insurance law but the whole of maritime law and other important parts of the law. Dupin 1550; McCulloch, p. 246; Kress B 573. PROVENANCE: Goodspeed’s (1963); Dr. John Lattimer Collection. CONDITION: binding worn with scuffing and edge wear; hinges mended; pages bright and clean. JLK 1,000 - 3,000 134

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1224 - KING GEORGE III APPROVES THE PAY SCHEME FOR THE GIBRALTAR GARRISON, 1763.

King George III of Britain (George William Frederick, 1738-1820), document signed, Court of St. James, 24 April 1763, one folio sheet, approximately 18” x 11”, two pages; attractively framed in a window mat with a reproduction of the king’s portrait to its left, with a copper coin dated 1806 bearing the king’s profile in relief; the reverse of document viewable through a window mat on the rear of the frame. Near the close of the Seven Years’ War, King George III approves the composition and pay rates of the military garrison at the “Rock of Gibraltar”—situated at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula which strategically controls the Straits of Gibraltar, the only entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. The King’s signature is broadly centered on the tops of the two pages, while the document is also “By the King’s Command” by the three Lords of the Treasury, Frederick, Lord North, Sir John Turner, and Sir James Harris. On the reverse of the document is a detailed columnar chart listing the composition of the garrison regiments and the pay scales of staff and line officers, as well as that of the other ranks for grenadier and battalion companies. CONDITION: The paper with light, random foxing and flattened folds, separation at the center fold (a small piece of cellophane tape at each end of the fold); the ink text and signatures strong and legible. JLK 700 - 1,500

1225 - LAND BARON HENRY BEEKMAN OF NEW YORK LEASES A RHINEBECK FARM, 1769.

Michael Poltz, document signed, one folio sheet (17-7/8” x 14-7/8”), partially printed; framed. In this partially printed and sealed indenture, dated 1 May 1769 and witnessed

by Martha Miller and William Scott, “Henry Beekman of Rhinebeck Prieceint [precinct] in Dutches [sic] County Esqr. of the first Part, and Mighel Poltz of said Preceint in the said County Yeoman” enter into agreement by which Beekman conveys Poltz and his heirs a perpetual lease on a farm consisting of 173-1/2 acres lying within Rhinebeck to Michael Poltz “Yeoman” of Rhinebeck, in return for “one Couple of live fat Hens” and “an additional yearly Rent of twenty one shepele [of good sweet marchanable [merchantable] winter wheat” on the 1st day of May of each year. The schepel was unit of measurement for volume, essentially a large wicker basket holding technically .764 bushels or about 60 pounds of wheat. Henry Beekman (1687-1775) was a prominent politician and landowner who inherited the extensive Beekman estate from his father, consisting of two substantial land parcels in Dutchess County, New York. From 1725-1759, he represented that county in the New York General Assembly.

Michael Poltz (1739-1823) emigrated to New York from the Palantine in 1755. A member of the Dutch Reformed Church, he is buried in the Wurtemburg Cemetery at Rhinebeck, New York. CONDITION: A 1-1/2” tear in upper center margin of document coming into the header text and another, same length, in lower center margin, going through footer text, both with old cellophane tape repairs; there are some other old, residual traces of mounting tape in the margins; otherwise, a handsome and interesting document worthy of conservation.

JLK 300 - 600

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1226 - 1773 SLAVE INSURRECTION DOCUMENT BEARING RARE SIGNATURE OF PATRICK FERGUSON, FAMED RIFLEMANINVENTOR [Patrick Ferguson and Officers of the 70th Foot]. “The humble Petition of Edward Hicks, Patrick Ferguson, Robert Irving, Boulter Johnston, William Cumberland Campbell and James Sharpe, Officers in his Majesty’s 70th Regiment who have purchased Lands in the ceded Islands.”, to the “Lords Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury”, document signed, 2 pp., large bifolium sheet, np. nd. [Tobago, c. 1773], and individually signed on all six officers on the bottom of page 2. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hicks, commanding officer of the 70th Foot and five of his officers, including Captain Patrick Ferguson (1744-1780), explain that the regiment had been “station’d for Ten Years in the ceded Islands where they not only had to struggle with a Climate much more Unhealthy than that of the old West India Islands, being unsettled and not cleared, but were also exposed to uncommon expence from the great price of wholesome provisions and other indispensable necessarys” and that said officers “on account of the impossibility of living on their pay... purchased Lotts of Land at the King’s Sales...in hopes that from the regular rise in the price of Land..., they would be enabled by Selling them again to support the expence of the very unprofitable and disagreeable Service they were then Employed in; But...the failures in England...have rendered it impossible to Sell the New Lands for the prices paid for them, much less for any profit....That your petitioners have contributed much to increase the value of the Lands, and consequently the price given at the Sales, by their Activity in quelling the frequent Insurrections of the Slaves, particularly in the Island of Tobago, where the Lands in question are mostly situated, and having gone through much fatiguing service, and having lost one sixth part of that Division of the Regiment stationed there, in different engagements with the Insurgents....[pray] they may either be allowed further time for the payment of the Installments due to the Crown...or that they may be permitted to resign their Lands upon being reimbursed the expences they have been at for their purchase.”

Hicks and his officers, less Ferguson, later served in Nova Scotia during the Revolutionary War. Shortly after signing this petition, Patrick Ferguson returned home to England broken in health and his finances in disarray. He slowly recovered his health and occupied himself in perfecting an improved design for a breechloading, military rifle. Demonstrating such before the King George III in 1776, Ferguson was rewarded with a promotion to major and the command of a corps of 100 British light troops armed with rifles of his pattern, for service in America. Ferguson and his “Corps of British Riflemen” signalized themselves in skirmishes in the 1777 campaign, until Ferguson was shot through the right elbow during the battle of Brandywine; his right arm, although saved from amputation, was fully incapacitated. From this point onwards, this talented partisan leader learned to both write and handle military arms with his left hand, until killed by Patriot riflemen while leading his men in a counterattack during the battle of King’s Mountain in western North Carolina on October 7, 1780.

Of all Revolutionary War officers, British and American, the signature of Patrick Ferguson’s is the rarest and when found, is usually a post-1777 left-handed signature. We have found no record of sale, either at auction or privately, for any pre-battle of Brandywine document or letter bearing a Ferguson signature over the past 100 years, making this a unique opportunity to acquire such, moreover, affixed to an important document detailing the pre-Revolutionary War suppression of slave revolts in the West Indies. CONDITION: Light, uniform toning, some wear to corners, strong ink signatures. From an important Charleston, South Carolina collection. JLK 5,000 - 10,000

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1227 - [DEATH OF MONTCALM & SIEGE OF QUEBEC, 1759].

JUSTE CHEVILLET (1729-1790) after F.L.J. WATTEAU. “Mort du Marquis de Montcalm Gozon (Death of the Marquis de Montcalm). Copperplate engraving after original work by François Louis Joseph Watteau (1731-1798) Paris, Chez Le Noir (n.d., but circa 1780); trimmed just inside plate-mark, 19 1/4 x 24 3/8 in., conservation mounted and framed. Louis Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon (1712-1759) was the controversial commander of French forces in North America during the French & Indian War. Having resolutely defended Quebec during the 1759 siege, Montcalm opted for open battle on the Plains of Abraham after the British made a successful landing from the St. Lawrence River and scaled the heights to that place. This proved disastrous, culminating in the defeat of the French army and his own mortal wounding during the retreat back to Quebec. As the legend on this print describes, he died the following morning and was buried at his request in a bomb crater. However, the place of burial was not on the grounds of a tropical battlefield cantonment, as shown rather fancifully by the artist, but rather within the ruins of the Ursuline Convent in the walled city of Quebec. CONDITION: Excellent, the paper bright and clean, JLK Literature: F. St. George Spendlove, The Face of Early Canada, pages 80 - 82. 1,500 - 2,500

1228 - RARE VANDERLYN ENGRAVING OF GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON, C. 1820 JOHN RUBENS SMITH AFTER JOHN VANDERLYN ”General Andrew Jackson” Copperplate line engraving, ‘Smith scul.’, nd. [c. 1820], np.

[New York?]; 10-1/2” x 8” platemark and 18” x 11-1/2” overall; conservation-mounted in ebonized walnut frame. A fine, proof state for an early engraving of the monumental portrait of Major General Andrew Jackson by John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), commissioned by the city of New York and completed during 1819-1820. No other example of this print has been located, nor is it mentioned in James G. Barber’s Andrew Jackson: A Portrait Study (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1991). The project may have never proceeded beyond the proof state and this example may be unique. ‘Smith scul.’ almost certainly refers to John Rubens Smith (1775-1849), the noted, English-born artist and engraver who is known to have been working in Brooklyn and Manhattan from c. 1814-1820s, before relocating to Philadelphia in the 1830s. CONDITION: paper bright and clean and well-defined, dark line engraving throughout; near fine condition overall. JLK 800 - 1,200

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1229 - TWO AQUATINT VIEWS OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1802 BY WILLIAM PYNE. Two fine, framed sepia aquatints (each 11-7/8” x 9-3/8” views) of the British Army in the field during the Napoleonic epoch, both early strikes from Pyne’s “Microcosm:” The first, “Army. Plate I” was published on 1 March 1802 and is the first plate from a serialized series that ultimately totaled 121 prints; it consists of two views, the first “An army on the march, with baggage-wagon laden with the various camp equipage, and carrying tired soldiers, women and children”, with the second being a view of a wagon being loaded after a stop at “an ancient building converted into an alehouse…serving out beer and other liquors to the thirsty and fatigued soldiers…while a party of drum-boys and fifers were playing to amuse a cluster of rustics, drawn together by curiosity to view the novelties of the scene.” The second, “Army. Plate II” (published 1 April 1802) contains three views of field artillery, the first showing horse artillery advancing at full gallop, the second and third being a heavier piece of the foot artillery being transferred from horse-drawn status of a march to advancing across the battlefield, the gun now drawn by artillery matrosses with drag ropes. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843) was an English artist and writer who first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790 and was a founding member of the Royal Watercolour Society (1804). He specialized in picturesque settings which included groups of “rustic” people (farmers, sailors, craftsmen, etc.) rendered in pen, ink and watercolor. His most important published work was “Microcosm: or a Picturesque Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture and Manufactures etc. of Great Britain in a Series of above a Thousand Groups of small Figures for the Embellishment of Landscape etc.”, published in serial installments in 1803 and later, as a book compilation in 1806 (later reprinted in two volumes

by Ackerman in 1820-22). CONDITION: Very good, not examined outside of frames. JLK 400 - 800

1230 - [LEXINGTON ALARM] 1781 CONNECTICUT PAYMENT TO CAPTAIN AMASA LOOMIS, 1780 Connecticut Pay-Table Office, party-printed document signed, [Hartford]. 22 Dec. 1781, 1 page (4-7/8” x 6-1/8”), docketed on reverse; within matted and glazed frame. The Treasurer of Connecticut authorizes payment to “Capt. Amasa Loomis Three Pounds seventeen shillings and four pence” per “Order No. 7050” per docketing.

Captain Amasa Loomis (1738-1793) of East Windsor responded to the Lexington Alarm in April 1775, leading his company of the 19th Regiment of Connecticut Militia north to Roxbury, where they participated in the siege of Boston. In 1776, Loomis again responded to a call for troops to defend New York, where he and his company served for two months during the August-October 1776. It is likely that the payment authorized by this document was for reimbursement of expenses during the Lexington Alarm and defense of New York.

He is buried in the Edwards Cemetery in South Windsor, Connecticut.

CONDITION: Very good, paper bright and ink strong; not examined outside of frame. JLK 200 - 300

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1231 - [DELAWARE INDIANS] PENN’S TREATY, PRINT AFTER BENJAMIN WEST. Hall, John, engraver; after Benjamin West. “William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, when he Founded the Province of Pensylvania.” London: published 12 June 1775 by John Boydell. Copperplate engraving, 19 x 24 1/8 inches (view), with margins visible beyond 18 ¾ x 24 inch platemark; within matted frame. “One of the best-known prints of a Philadelphia scene”--Snyder, “City of Independence”, p. 252. Thomas Penn, Proprietor of Pennsylvania and son of William, the Founding Proprietor, commissioned the painting and engraving to help bolster his family’s reputation and control of the colony. CONDITION: a good and clean impression, showing evidence of light restoration (mends to marginal tears, etc.); not examined outside of frame, but definitely not laid-down. JLK 750 - 1,500

1232 - OUR FLAG: FIRST UNDER FIRE--THE STARS & STRIPES AT THE SIEGE OF FORT STANWIX, 1777.

Lefferts, Charles MacKubin (1873-1923). “Our Flag: First Under Fire”. Oil on canvas, 31” x 23”, signed by artist “Chas. M. Lefferts” in lower left corner, in contemporary carved and gilded frame with nameplate. Charles M. Lefferts was an American artist who specialized in historical paintings of the Revolutionary era. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering book, “Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution”, published posthumously.

This unpublished painting is his depiction of the first documented raising and use of the “Stars and Stripes” of the infant United States of America under fire, which occurred on August 3, 1777 during the unsuccessful siege of Fort Stanwix by a force of British, Loyalist and Indian forces. In it, we see the men and women of the garrison drawn up on the parade, while the flag is hoisted up the pole on one of the bastions. The Continental Congress adopted the following resolution on June 14, 1777: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white, on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” Although the resolution was not officially sanctioned and put into effect by Congress until September 3, the description in the resolution was previously printed in the newspapers. Massachusetts reinforcements to the post brought news of the adoption

by Congress of the official flag. Soldiers cut up their shirts to make the white stripes and stars; flannel from the petticoats of officers’ wives provided for the red stripes, while the ground of the blue canton was cut from Captain Abraham Swartwout’s uniform coat. An extant voucher in the Papers of the Continental Congress proves that Swartwout was eventually compensated for the use of his coat in making the flag. Most of the known historical artwork by Lefferts survives in the collections of the New York Historical Society, along with his papers. This is a rare opportunity for a collector or institution to acquire a work by this artist, one chronicling a famous Revolutionary War event. PROVENANCE: The Dr. John Lattimer Family Collection. CONDITION: The unlined painting is on its original stretcher in a contemporary composite frame; the work would benefit from conservation treatment, including surface cleaning of grime and removal of the old, yellowed varnish and minor repair of a slight perforation in the upper right of the canvas (probably from contact by another object--corner of picture frame?--at some previous date). JLK 2,000 - 4,000

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1233 - WATERCOLOR OF RUSSIAN OFFICER PLAYING GUITAR BY MOONLIGHT, C. 1792.

Unknown artist, Russian or European School. “Russian Dragoon or Cavalry Officer Playing Guitar by Moonlightt, circa 1792.” Watercolor on paper heightened with gouache, 11-3/4” x 8-3/8” (view) within glazed and matted frame. The officer is dressed in the green, faced-scarlet dragoon or cavalry uniform of Russian Imperial Army of Catherine the Great during the early 1790s. His white swordbelt has a silver, oval plate bearing the ECII cipher of Empress Catherine II with a handsome, stirrup-hilt saber suspended from it at his side, while his crested helmet rests on the ground. His hair is cut in the short Greco-Roman style just becoming fashionable among the younger “westernized” Russian aristocrats, such as this officer, who also sports an earring. He appears ready for conquest, but perhaps of a more romantic nature on a moonlit “field of battle” where his guitar and perhaps voice are the conquering weapons. A handsome work by a talented, yet unidentified, artist. CONDITION: Excellent overall, conservation-mounted in later frame. JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 1,500 - 3,000

1234 - PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1804 SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT BY ROSENTHAL AFTER ST. MEMIN. Max Rosenthal after Fevret St. Memin.

“President Thomas Jefferson, 1804.”

Charcoal heightened with white chalk on toned paper, 22” x 16”, within glazed frame. Max Rosenthal (1833-1918) was a Polish-born, American painter and engraver. An extremely accomplished draughtman, etcher and lithographer who lived and worked in Philadelphia from 1849 until his death. In addition to original works, he copied more than 300 life portraits of American military and political leaders of the RevolutionaryEarly Republic era (including this full-size copy of Jefferson’s silhouette portrait

by St Memin), later producing prints of more than half that number. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a founder of the Sketching Club. CONDITION: Expertly-mended tears in upper margin; not examined outside of frame. JLK This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 1,200 - 2,400

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1235 - VIEW OF THE RUINS OF FORT TICONDEROGA AFTER BARTLETT After William H. Bartlett, “View of the Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga”, oil on canvas, 22” x 27-1/2”, in a late 19th century carved and silver-gilt frame. Anonymous work, date unknown, but almost certainly copied from the published engraving from “American Scenery”, rather than the original watercolor. William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) was a British artist best known for his numerous drawings rendered into steel engravings. He first visited the United States during 1836-1837 to draw the buildings, towns and scenery of the northeastern states and the finely detailed steel engravings Bartlett produced from his watercolor studies were published uncolored with a text by Nathaniel Parker Willis as “American Scenery” in 30 monthly installments from 1837 to 1839. CONDITION: Very good, varnish slightly toned, but otherwise fully presentable. JLK 500 - 1,000

1236 - RARE PROOF STATE, “DEATH OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY” AT QUEBEC 1775, AFTER TRUMBULL. Trumbull, John, after. “DEATH OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY.” Published London, April the 4th 1795…by A C de Poggi. No. 91 New Bond Street. Painted by Jno. Trumbull Esqr. Engrav’d by J. F. Clemens. An extremely rare, first proof state of the copperplate line engraving of Trumbull’s 1786 painting. It would not be until three years later that the better-known state, with revised title, would be published by Poggi. 22-3/4” x 31-1/2” (sight) within glazed frame, the print trimmed with slight margins just outside of the platemark. John Trumbull (1756-1843) was an important American artist of the Revolutionary-early Republic period.

He is known as “The Painter of the Revolution” due to the fame of his 18th-century paintings of the Revolutionary War, of which he was a veteran.

Richard Montgomery (1738?–1775) was a career British officer who fought in Canada during the French and Indian War. In 1772, he sold his commission, returned to America and settled near New York City, marrying the daughter of Robert R. Livingston. An opponent of British colonial policy, he was a member of the New York provincial congress. In the same year, he became brigadier general in the Continental army and replaced Philip Schuyler as commander of the Montreal expedition. After taking Montreal, he took overall command of the siege of Quebec, but was tragically killed during the assault on that city in December 1775. CONDITION: an early and very good impression; although not examined out of the frame, the print appears to be pressure-mounted in the frame and not laid-down; some light toning, foxing and soiling in the margins, not affecting the image area. JLK 1,000 - 3,000 1237 - LARGE LOT OF 44: FIREARMS AND KENTUCKY RIFLE RELATED REFERENCE BOOKS. Including: Pennsylania Gunmakers by Whisker, Pennsylvania Kentucky Rifle

by Whisker, Longrifles of Pennsylvania: Vol. I (Lebanon and Clarion County)

by Shumway, The Kentucky Rifle by Dillin, Gunmakers of Hanover: George Schreyer, Sr. & Jr. by Shumway, The Kentucky Rifle a True American Heritage in Picture: by the Kentucky Rifle Association, Gunsmiths of Pennsylvania, Maryland, & Virginia: by Bowers, Maine Made Guns and Their Makers: by Demeritt, American Gunsmiths: by Sellers, The Book of Buckskinning II, Collector’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: by Neumann & Cravic, Arms and Armor in Colonial American: by Peterson, Gunsmiths of Western Pennsylvania: by Whisker, British Military Firearms: by Blackmore, Miniature Arms: by Lindsay, Decorated Firearms from the Collector of Clay Bedford, The History of the Colt Revolver: by Haven & Belden, The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons: Printed by Simon & Schuster, European & American Arms: by Blair, The Muzzleloading Cap Lock Rifle: by Roberts, American Military Insignia (1800-1851): by Campbell & Howell, and several more publications. CONDITION: Generally good, most retaining dust jackets and showing minor signs of use. DMG 500 - 1,000

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EARLY ARMS & MILITARIA Inviting Consignments for Our Spring 2021 Auction

SOLD $270,600

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It shall be the potential buyer’s sole responsibility to research and satisfy the requirements of any laws and regulations that apply to the import and export of property as described in the aforementioned paragraphs. All buyers agree to comply with any and all domestic and international restrictions on the trade of protected species as a condition of the sale. Please note that the ability to obtain an export license or certificate does not ensure the ability to obtain an import license or certificate in another country, and vice versa. It is the buyer’s responsibility to obtain any export or import licenses and/or certificates as well as any other required documentation.

MORPHY’S is not able to assist the buyer in attempting to obtain the appropriate licenses and/or certificates, and there is no assurance that an export license or certificate can be obtained. The inability or delay in obtaining permits, licenses or other permissions to import or export goods containing material from protected species will not constitute a basis for rescission or cancellation of the sale of said goods or the delay in payment of purchased items in accordance with these Bidder Terms and Conditions.

Grading Scale: Near Mint Plus 97% - 100% Near Mint 90% - 96% Excellent 80% - 89% Very Good 70% - 79% Good Below 70%

BIDDING RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES

The auctioneer will determine the highest bidder. The auctioneer alone has the right to reopen the bidding of an item if deemed necessary due to a dispute. If there is a tie bid between the floor and Internet or absentee bid, the floor bid takes precedence.

MORPHY’S and its representatives reserve the right to remove those attendees who impede preview and/or the auction. Title to all merchandise shall pass to the highest bidder at the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer. The buyer will then assume all risk and full responsibility of the lot purchased once ownership has changed. We recommend that you arrange insurance for your items immediately upon becoming the highest bidder. MORPHY’S is not responsible for any errors in bids, omissions of bids, or failure to execute bids and shall have no liability to any bidder for any technical or other failure associated with the internet, absentee bidding, or telephone bidding. (continued...)

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Terms & Conditions • ABSENTEE BIDDING - MORPHY’S will accept absentee bids if pre-authorized by mail, fax or through www.morphyauctions. com online. Absentee bidders must use the absentee bid form and clearly mark the lot number, title and maximum bid amount.

Absentee bidding forms may be accessed online at www. morphyauctions.com. If there are two (2) identical bids placed on the same item, priority will be given to the first bid received.

All bids must be left in increments as explained on our bid form.

If a bid is “out of increment,” the auctioneer has the right to round the bid up to the next correct increment. Bidders may preview, register and place bids online through our website, www. morphyauctions.com. Absentee and online bids placed through www.morphyauctions.com will be auto charged to the credit card entered 48 hours after the end of the sale. If you wish to pay by another method please contact us within 48 hours after the sale.

Seller(s) agree to allow the Auctioneer to accept and execute absentee bids in a competitive manner for potential buyers and under the MORPHY’S absentee bidding terms and conditions.

During the live sale, the auctioneer will execute your absentee bid competitively up to the maximum amount you have indicated.

• ONLINE BIDDING - Online bidding through www.morphyauctions. com, Live Auctioneers, Bidsquare, Proxibid, or other bidding platforms may be available; all Terms and Conditions still apply.

A surcharge may be added for third party online platforms. Refer to your bidding platform of choice for the final buyer’s premium.

If there is a tie bid between the internet bidding venues and the floor, the floor bid takes precedence. If a credit card has been provided to one of the online bidding platforms, MORPHY’S reserves the right to use and charge the credit card if the winning bidder has not paid via another method by the 7 day term in Payment Terms below. Due to our fast paced auctions and bids coming from floor bidders, phone bidders, internet bidders and absentee bids, the auctioneer has the final word on all item(s) sold.

You (the bidder) assume the risk of winning an item online and not having the item actually sell to you. This is due to the final call of the auctioneer and the operator not being able to re-open that lot.

Online bidders are fully responsible for accidental bidding as if they bid normally.

• BID RESULTS – MORPHY’S will only contact successful bidders.

Please allow 24-48 hours post auction to receive your official invoice from MORPHY’S. The invoice will include item, hammer price, premium, packing and handling, shipping, insurance, and any other charges that apply. Please hold phone inquiries regarding bid success until after receiving your invoice. For verifications, MORPHY’S cannot provide winning bid information until the second business day after the auction. MORPHY’S will not provide bidder information to any outside sources.

• TELEPHONE BIDDING - Requests for phone lines must be received at least three (3) days prior to the auction date. MORPHY’S cannot guarantee phone lines but will make every attempt to accommodate those who wish to participate through that method.

Phone lines are provided on a first come first served basis. Please visit www.morphyauctions.com or call 877-968-8880 to request a call from our representatives during the live auction.

BID INCREMENTS

Bid increments listed are a general guideline. Actual increments are at the auctioneer’s discretion. If a lot does not receive a bid of 50% of the low estimate, the lot will be passed by the auctioneer. $0 - $500…................$25 $500 - $1,000….........$50 $1,000 - $2,000…......$100 $2,000 - $5,000…......$250 $5,000 - $10,000....…$500 $10,000 +…............... Auctioneer’s discretion

RESERVES

The majority of our items are unreserved, but occasionally items may carry a moderate reserve. Please note that when a lot carries a reserve, the reserve is usually somewhere below our low estimate. In the case of a reserved item, the seller has authorized the auctioneer to bid on their behalf until the reserve price is reached.

BUYER’S PREMIUM

A 20% buyer’s premium will be added to all successful bids and is payable by the buyer as part of the total purchase cost. A 3% merchant fee is also automatically applied to all invoices but can be discounted upon payment by cash, check, money order or wire transfer that is received within 7 days from the receipt of the invoice.

If the type of payment is split, invoice will reflect the 3% charge for merchant fees on the entire invoice. In addition, a surcharge will be added for certain third party online bidding platforms the bidder utilizes. Refer to your bidding platform of choice for the final buyer’s premium.

SALES TAX

MORPHY”S is required to collect sales tax where our company established nexus in the previous year. It is the bidder’s responsibility to know the sales and use tax law in their locality and know what sales and use tax will be due upon their purchase. Lots are subject to all applicable state and local taxes, unless appropriate permits are on file with MORPHY’S including lots delivered to you, or your representative. Bidder agrees to pay MORPHY’S the actual amount of tax due in the event that sales tax is not properly collected due to: 1) an expired, inaccurate, or inappropriate tax certificate or declaration, 2) an incorrect interpretation of the applicable statute, 3) or any other reason. The appropriate form or certificate must be on file at and verified by MORPHY’S five days prior to Auction, or tax must be paid; only if such form or certificate is received by MORPHY’S within 4 days after the Auction can a refund of tax paid be made. Lots from different auctions may not be aggregated for sales tax purposes.

PAYMENT, INTEREST & STORAGE FEES

Any invoice totaling more than $100,000 must be paid within three (3) days. All other merchandise must be paid in full within seven (7) days of the date of the invoice. Payments can be made by going to your account online at www.morphyauctions.com, call 877-968-8880 or mail payment to: Dan Morphy Auctions LLC 2000 N Reading Rd, Denver, PA 17517. Upon payment in full, it is the bidder’s responsibility to submit any additional information necessary, including an FFL, to initiate transfer and shipping.

Interest will be charged on all balances not paid at the rate of 1-1/2% monthly (18% APR) effective 30 days from the invoice date.

All goods not retrieved by Buyer within 30 days after the invoice date, shall be subject to a storage fee of $50 per regular sized item per month or $100 per oversized item per month. Buyer authorizes

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Terms & Conditions MORPHY’s to sell, at their standard commission and consignment contract terms, any goods not retrieved after a 90 day period in any manner deemed appropriate by MORPHY’s and the proceeds will be applied to any outstanding balance due from the buyer.

Invoices will be auto charged to the credit card on file within 48 hours after the end of the sale. If you wish to pay by another method please contact us within 48 hours after the sale.

We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, personal checks, certified checks, wire transfers, money orders, and cash.

• CREDIT CARD – If a credit card is used as any form of total payment, invoice will reflect a 3% surcharge on the entire invoice. This charge is automatically added, but will be discounted if payment is received by cash, check, money order or wire transfer. MORPHY’s reserves the right to refuse to ship to a different address than the billing address on the credit card being used.

• CHECK - There will be a $30.00 service charge for returned checks.

Make checks payable to: Dan Morphy Auctions LLC. MORPHY’S reserves the right to hold items paid for by personal or company check until said check clears (14 days). MORPHY’S has the right to hold all checks over $2,000. Customers who have an established successful buying history with MORPHY’S may be exempt from this requirement. We will accept a personal or company check >$2,000 from a first time buyer if you provide a Bank Letter of Credit, available on our website, www.morphyauctions.com.

• WIRE TRANSFERS – There will be a $30 charge added to all wire transfers less than $2,000. Please add this amount to your invoice total before sending a wire transfer.

In the few situations where a successful bidder does not remit payment when due, MORPHY’S will proceed with the legal steps necessary to protect its interests and will block the bidder from future auction participation.

PACKING/SHIPPING

• It is the bidder’s responsibility to take shipping, handling, and insurance costs into consideration when bidding on items.

• BIDDERS PRESENT AND TAKING ITEMS AFTER AUCTION – Since item liability transfers upon a successful bid, items paid for must be packed, transported and/or removed by the buyer at his/ her own risk after the close of the sale. We recommend that you arrange insurance for your items immediately upon becoming the highest bidder. If any employee or agent of MORPHY’S shall pack or transport the merchandise, it is fully at the risk and responsibility and expense of the buyer. MORPHY’S shall not be held liable for any loss or damage that may be caused by the said agent or employee.

• ITEMS NOT PICKED UP THE DAY OF THE SALE – Packaging, shipping, and insurance on all items that MORPHY’S agrees to ship to locations that can accept shipments will be made available as an added courtesy and at an additional cost. We recommend that you arrange insurance for your items immediately upon becoming the highest bidder. All applicable charges will be applied to the invoice. Shipping will be based on actual costs via FedEx, USPS, or other carriers required based upon the contents of the shipment. Packaging and insurance will vary in cost depending on the items on each invoice. All packages will be shipped with insurance. Standard items packed internally by MORPHY’s will ship approximately seven to fourteen (7-14) business days after payment is received. Oversize and breakable items, which MORPHY’S will indicate on the invoice will ship based upon the buyer’s arrangement with a 3rd party shipper. MORPHY’s cannot

combine standard item shipments with oversize and breakable item shipments. If any employee or agent of MORPHY’S shall pack or transport the merchandise, it is fully at the risk and responsibility and expense of the buyer. MORPHY’S shall not be held liable for any loss or damage that may be caused by the said agent or employee.

• SHIPPING TERMS - MORPHY’S will ship items to the buyer at the listed address via FedEx or other carriers, FOB Denver, Pennsylvania or FOB other auction locations. Any risk of loss or damage to the item(s) during transit via FedEx, or any other carrier, in excess of the insurance provided by or purchased from MORPHY’S, is at the risk of the buyer. Any additional insurance coverage should be purchased by the buyer through the carrier. Buyer releases MORPHY’s from any and all claims for loss or damage to any item during transit and agrees to pay all costs of defense, including attorney’s fees, for any claims brought against MORPHY’S for loss or damage occurring during transit.

• INSURANCE - Shipping insurance is automatically added, which you can decline by contacting us and providing a signed waiver of insurance form. Insurance for all 3rd party shipments must be arranged through that carrier. Insurance provided or purchased through MORPHY’s applies only to shipments to the United States and Canada. Buyers must purchase their own insurance for shipments to other countries.

• INTERNATIONAL SHIPMENTS – MORPHY’S welcomes our international customers. MOPRHY’S can provide upon request a complete process and set of recommended company contacts with whom the Buyer can work to understand the steps, timing, and cost to acquire items at auction. It shall be the potential buyer’s sole responsibility to research and satisfy the requirements of any laws and regulations that apply to the import and export of property and for paying all shipping costs, customs and duties on the items. By law, MORPHY’S cannot, and will not, declare lesser values for any international purchases and all shipments will include the invoice with purchase totals including the buyer’s premium and shipping cost.

• 3RD PARTY SHIPPING of OVERSIZE ITEMS – Buyers will need to either pick up the items personally or arrange a 3rd party shipping service for oversize items. As a general guideline, the following will indicate which packages apply, as they are of a certain weight, length, or dimensional size. ∙ Dimensional size is length (the longest measurement) + (height x 2) + (width x 2). For example a 36” x 36” x 12” package = 36 + (36 x2) + (12 x 2) = 132” ∙ USA home shipments must be <70 lbs. and <108” length and <165” dimensional size ∙ USA business shipments must be <150 lbs. and <108” length and <165” dimensional size ∙ International shipments must be <150 lbs. and <108” length and <130” dimensional size ∙ There may be certain shipments that meet these requirements that will still require 3rd party shipping, and we will communicate the reason in those cases.

• 3RD PARTY SHIPPING OF BREAKABLE ITEMS - MORPHY’S reserves the right to choose items and orders that it will pack, ship, and/or insure directly using our shipping department. Those items that MORPHY’S will not ship will require that the buyer either pick up the items personally or arrange a 3rd party shipping service.

Examples of items that may apply after determination by our shipping department include but are not limited to: items with neon of any type (working or non-working), all glass display cases of any size; coin-operated, arcade and vending items with fragile parts and/or glass; signs with parts or protrusions beyond the main body (continued...)

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Terms & Conditions of the sign, oversized vases (guideline – larger than fit in a 20” x 20” x 40” box), high value lamps and glass of all sizes, high value artwork including but not limited to paintings, statuary, sculpture, figurines, dioramas, and other intricate items; and items subject to impact by moisture and known handling issues in the supply chain.

Under no circumstances will MORPHY’S be responsible for shipping damage to picture frames of any kind.

• For any buyers who wish to arrange for their own shipping, MORPHY’S must be notified at least seven (7) days prior to arrival of the shipping company name, arrival date and time. Pickup must be scheduled to begin and end within our normal business hours (9am – 4pm weekdays). Buyers must arrange weekend pickups in advance with MORPHY’S staff, and additional charges may be necessary for overtime. All 3rd party shippers must arrive with a copy of the invoice.

AGREEMENT REGARDING GOVERNING LAW, VENUE, AND LEGAL RIGHTS

I hereby understand and agree that any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to MORPHY’S Bidder Terms & Conditions, which includes this provision (hereafter referred to as “Terms & Conditions”), MORPHY’S, or the breach thereof (hereafter referred to as “Claims”), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. I hereby irrevocably submit to the personal jurisdiction of the appropriate court in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the Claims and their enforcement, and I agree that any and all Claims must be adjudicated, heard, determined, and resolved in said court, and I hereby irrevocably waive any objection on the ground that any such action or proceeding in said court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. MORPHY’S failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms & Conditions or any other legal rights, shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms & Conditions

by MORPHY’S must be made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of MORPHY’S specifically referencing the provision(s) contained within the Terms & Conditions to be waived. Headings used in the Terms & Conditions are for convenience only and are not to be relied upon. If any provision of the Terms & Conditions is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms & Conditions shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms & Conditions will inure to the benefit of, and are intended to be, enforceable by MORPHY’S, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, members, directors, officers, and licensees. There are no third party beneficiaries to these Terms & Conditions; a person or entity who is not a party or signatory to these Terms & Conditions has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any term or provision of these Terms & Conditions.

POST SALE RETURN POLICY

MORPHY’S engages knowledgeable experts to provide catalog descriptions on the merchandise we sell. Every effort is made to ensure those descriptions are accurate and that they fully disclose any exceptions to condition. Any buyer who has made their payment within the due date of 7 calendar days who wishes to report a problem must notify MORPHY’S within three calendar (3) days of receipt of their purchased item. Buyers who have not made their payment within the due date of 7 days may not return any items under any circumstances. No lots purchased by floor bidders (including those bidders acting as agents for others) may be returned.

Please refer to MORPHY’S limited guarantee herein. A Return Authorization Number (RA#) must be issued by MORPHY’S before you ship anything back to our address. Any items arriving without a return authorization will not be given a refund. The item in question must be shipped with the RA# on the outside and inside of the package, with full insurance, so it arrives at MORPHY’S within one week of the aforementioned authorization.

PRIVACY TO REVIEW OUR PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE VISIT WWW.MORPHYAUCTIONS.COM/PRIVACY-POLICY All rights reserved. Entire contents copyright 2020, Dan Morphy Auctions LLC. Copyright includes, but is not limited to, print media, microform and electronic media, such as CD-ROMS and online computer services.

ANTIQUE ARMS SPORTING ARMS SHOW & THE CUSTOM KNIFEMAKERS SHOW

JANUARY 15, 16 & 17, 2021 WESTGATE RESORT & CASINO 300 PARADISE RD, LAS VEGAS, NV 89109

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MEET THE TEAM

Dan Morphy

President & Founder

Gary Metz Consignment Assessment & Procurement

Andrew Harrison

Customer Experience Associate

Tucker Nelson

Firearms Consignment Associate

Liz Crasten

Photographer

Andrew Martin

Operations Associate

Dana Costello

Tom Tolworthy

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Executive Officer

John Morphy, M.D.

John Morphy

Acquisitions/ Appraisals

Jae Lukens

Customer Experience Associate

Josh Dobroskey

Acquisitions & Promotions

Abbe Shearer

Accounting Specialist

Firearms Consignment Associate

Ben Brossman Transcriptionist

Ugo Liberti

Operations Associate

Sarah Stoltzfus

Director of Marketing

Sierra Perkins

Accounting Specialist

Tasha Lopez

Ryan Kelly

Dan Zerbe

Operations Associate

Myles Welsh

Assistant General Manager Firearms

Senior Graphic Designer

Shipping Manager

Shaye Krispine

Director of Operations

Chris Sayres

Shipping Associate

Tommy Sage, Jr.

Head of Toys & Trains

Cheryl Goyda

Caleb Enck

Consignment Manager

Graphic Designer

Director of Sales

Firearms Acquisitions & Promotions

Chris Hince

Becky Stellmach

Therese Hince

Consignment Associate

Mary Beth Nocera Lead Photographer

Angel Lopez

Daniel Cinelli

Joel Lazarus

John & Nancy Smith

Display Coordinator & Apprentice Auctioneer

Train Consultant

Operations Administration

Figural Cast Iron Consultants

Scot Kauffman

General Manager Firearms

Liz Sayres

Firearms Administration

Kayla Specht Consignment Associate

Dana Moyer Photographer

Ashley Messner

Operations Associate

Mike Harrington

Cast Iron, Toy & Horse-Drawn Expert

Jamie Griffin

Customer Experience Manager

Emily Hamilton

Customer Experience Associate

Eric Wagner

Firearms Consignment Associate

Emily Malloy Photographer

Nate Burkholder

Operations Associate

John Mihovetz

Department Head & Expert Automobilia & Petroliana

Brian Burke

Acquisitions & Promotions

Don Grimmer Acquisitions & Promotions

Kelly Kinzle

Americana, Folk Art, & American Decorative Arts Consultant

Peter Thomson

Antique & Modern Silver Consultant

Ron Ciarmello

Arts & Crafts Furniture and Fine Jewelry Expert

UPCOMING AUCTION SCHEDULE Early Arms & Militaria: Age of Exploration, Empire & Revolution November 17, 2020 David Geiger Arms & Armor Specialist

Michael Salisbury Firearms Expert

Dan Mackel

Firearms Expert

John Keene

Firearms Expert, NFA Specialist

Russ Withem

Firearms Expert

Extraordinary, Sporting, & Collector Firearms November 18, 2020 Fine & Decorative Arts December 9 & 10, 2020

Willi Zahn

German Militaria & Firearms Specialist

David Wyatt

German Military Artifacts (1813 to 1945) Expert

James Kochan

Specialist: Early Americana, Arms, & Militaria

Jeremy Hatch

Firearms Consultant

Josh Loewensteiner Firearms Consultant

Field & Range Firarms and Militaria December 15 through 18, 2020 Field & Range Firearms March 3 & 4, 2021 Toys ,Dolls, & Figural Cast Iron March 10 & 11, 2021

Brian Manifor

Western Antiques & Weapons Expert

Jim Maley

Acquisitions & Promotions

Dave Conley Auctioneer

Coin-Op & Advertising April 3 & 4, 2021 Automobilia & Petroliana May 11 & 12, 2021 Auction dates & consignment deadlines are subject to change. Please call to verify.

MORPHY AUCTIONS | 2000 North Reading Road • Denver, PA 17517 | Phone: 877-968-8880 • Fax: 717-336-7115

THANK YOU Morphy Auctions is honored that you are considering entrusting your collection to us. Through every step of the process, from appraisal to auction, we are devoted to you and your collection.

We are sure you will be proud of your collectionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation and pleased with the unrivaled customer service provided by the Morphy staff. We look forward to doing business with you. Please contact us if you have any additional questions.

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