FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – OCTOBER 17, 2012 – A dramatic archive tracing the World Trade Center from its eighteenth-century roots through 9/11, is among hundreds of lots of historical documents and collectibles in Cohasco, Inc.’s new auction ending Nov. 13.

The traditional mail-phone auction’s 160-page catalogue features nearly 500 lots in over thirty fields of interest.

Highlights of the 200-piece World Trade Center collection include a 1797 indenture for the property falling in the footprint of 5 World Trade Center - home of the famous Survivor’s Staircase of 9/11. Research further revealed that the property lay just dozens of feet from the site of the very first European settlement in New York City, in 1613.

An 1808 deed for part of the footprint of 2 World Trade Center, the first building hit on 9/11. The document includes the slip from which Robert Fulton’s Clermont first sailed, demonstrating the practicality of the steamboat. As the Manhattan shoreline was filled in over the years, the property came to be dry land on which the World Trade Center was built. An original newspaper reports the very earliest known reference to a World Trade Center – in 1939. Dedicated to “world peace through world trade,” the outbreak of World War II several months later rendered the idea moot (collection’s presale estimate, $24,000-32,000).

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The auction also includes a trio of newspapers on the Boston Tea Party, including an excessively rare “extra.” Issued hurriedly on Christmas Eve 1773 by the future printer of the Declaration of Independence, the broadside describes how the patriots “threw the tea over the side” of the ship ($19,000-23,000).

A collection of 71 different leaves traces the evolution of printing from 1465 to 1830. Beginning in the lifetime of Gutenberg, the twelve-language group showcases the development of the most important facet of modern civilization – the transmission of ideas through the printed word ($1,900-2,500).

Items in over 30 other historical fields include a large number of Union, Confederate, and black history letters, documents, and postal covers, as well as:

• A manuscript order for gunpower, dated one day before the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence was drafted in 1776 ($475-600) ...
• Portion of the young Thomas Jefferson’s earliest surviving manuscript from the beginning of his life in elected office. Penned in his first year in Virginia’s House of Burgesses, the 26-year-old’s brilliant bylaws were adopted with just the addition of a few commas ($12,000-18,000) ...
  Typewritten letter of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1940, on the arrival of 3,000 young activists in Washington. “...They believe in some things with which we do not agree” ($350-475) ...
• Unusual letter of a Civil War deserter on the run. Hiding in rural Michigan, the New Yorker writes, “There is only one girl up here and she runs wild in the woods...” ($375-450) ...
• Pictorial 1860 campaign envelopes for both the Southern and Northern Democratic Parties, which ran separate candidates ($300-400 and $275-375, respectively) ...
• From arguably the most important Presidential election of the 19th century, a soldier’s envelope postmarked Election Day, 1864. As he headed for the battlefield, his vote was undoubtedly carefully considered: his life could depend on it ($120-150) ...
• Letter between Confederate cousins captured on the very same day, at the same place ($275-375) ...
• Letter from a Philadelphia baker finding himself in one of the most-shattered Union units, which lost 78% of its men. “Every day it is nothing but cannons and the moans of the wounded...” ($110-140) ...
• Important 1755 manuscript from the very voyage of the slave-trading ship Snow Venus on which the violent “slave drum” torture was documented. The vessel also carried gold and ivory on this run in the notorious Triangle Trade ($4,250-5,000) ...
• Rare pay order for a black soldier in George Washington’s favorite unit, the Connecticut Line. He was promised payment “in gold or silver” – seven years in the future! ($450-750) ...

Other interesting items include:

• Touching 1885 letter from 7-year-old black twins, to Gen. U.S. Grant. Ironically, their grandmother was once a Virginia slave, owned by Martha Washington’s grandson - and Robert E. Lee’s father-in-law ($225-275) ...
• Exceptional report of a team of Confederate spies, in Elvis Presley’s hometown of Tupelo, Miss. ($550-750) ...
• Pamphlet establishing a Confederate colony in Mexico, 1866. About 2,500 Confederates settled there, hoping to regain their gracious antebellum way of life, not realizing that slavery had been outlawed in Mexico for years ($625-750) ...
• Fine U.S. classic postage stamps, from Scott provisional 9X1e to 119 (various estimates) ...
• U.S. coins, all ANACS-graded, from 1760 Voce Populi halfpenny ($175-250) to 1914-D Lincoln cent, EF 40 ($825-950) ...
• Called the finest map of the Old West of its era, a 4 by 5-footer shows railroads, Indians, gold and silver in 1867 ($4,500-5,500) ...
• Photo card of a cowboy and “gun toter” who served in the Civil War – as an 11-year-old! ($120-150) ...
• Much political history, including letter about the 1876 Presidential election impasse, still undecided in Feb. 1877 ($160-200) ... a printed 1869 Republican circular urging supporters to enlist “foreigners in your election district” ($100-125) ... and a pre-Civil War 7-page manuscript on women in politics, “What Consummate Nonsense!” ($130-170) ...
• Group relating to accused 1916 domestic terrorist Tom Mooney, framed by forces so powerful that even Pres. Wilson could not secure his release from jail (19 pieces, $475-625) ...

And many other items.

All items are fully described at http://cohascodpc.com. A free 160-page printed catalogue is available by mail, while supplies last.

Cohasco, Inc. has been in business for 66 years.

About Cohasco, Inc.: Established 66 years, Cohasco is a dealer in and auctioneer of historical documents, manuscripts, books, antiquarian materials and collectibles. Over the years they have handled the sale of numerous prominent collections, in a range of fields, from colonial to Confederate, mediaeval to modern. Past highlights included the lamps that illuminated Lincoln’s wedding, an archive of the Duryea, America’s first “mass-produced” automobile, and the Bible owned by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother, setting a world record price for a twentieth-century Bible. Cohasco’s Document Preservation Center (DPC) division offers a concise range of their own specialty archival protection products, unavailable elsewhere.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JANUARY 4, 2012 – On a September day in 1864, Confederate Private J.J. Veeck found himself in the vortex of history. The Battle of Harrisonburg, Virginia was brief, but would turn the tide of the Civil War.In the chaos, as George Custer, Stonewall Jackson, and future President Rutherford B. Hayes clashed around him, Veeck was captured.

And his prized engraved revolver, made by Rudolf Eickemeyer - the number-thirteen all-time patent holder in U.S. history - was lost.

Unearthed over a century later, the revolver is among nearly 500 lots of historical documents and collectibles to appear in the traditional mail-phone auction ending January 31, conducted by Cohasco, Inc. of Yonkers, N.Y. The revolver’s presale estimate is $4500-6500.

Private Veeck’s unit, the 30th North Carolina, claimed to have fired the last shot of the Civil War.Every one of the 49 months of the Civil War is represented in the sale, including original battle letters, military documents, newspapers, and other items. Just a few highlights:

• An offering of 40 postally-used Confederate and Union covers from an old collection, including one to an Irish immigrant in New York arriving the day before the Civil War began ($125-150), and another from a Texas Ranger killed in action fighting for the South ($350-450). The selection includes a variety of adversity materials used for home-made Confederate covers, including wallpaper, wrapping paper, military forms, and crude papers;
•  Diary of a draft dodger from Pennsylvania, fleeing during the Draft Riots ($1600-2200);
• Among nearly 50 Northern and Southern letters, in January 1865, a woman writes from North Carolina, “...almost cut off from the world...Our dear home, once the abode of peace and plenty, is now laid in ashes...The flames...rolled from street to street...The chimneys and burnt trees stand as monuments of the past...” ($550-750);
•  Autograph album of about 300 signatures of the Congress just preceding Lincoln’s inauguration, including Jefferson Davis and many future Confederate officers and statesmen ($14,500-17,500);
• Postally used 1864 Lincoln campaign envelope, in unrecorded color, postmarked five days before the historic election ($750-950).

In thirty other historical fields:

•  All three elements of the notorious Triangle Trade are contained in a rare 1768 letter. It illustrates the three-way trade of slaves from Africa, for rum, and “good sugars” at St. Croix and Newport, Rhode Island. The prominent slave ship owner abandoned his ships, warehouses and home in 1776, to join the American fight for independence ($4000-6000);
•  An archive “drenched in the blood, sweat and tears of the Old South” tells the story of economic growth and human suffering, spanning 1793-1859. For example, a Richmond letter of 1849 describes two black men placed on a railroad train in a crate by a white man, in an attempt to transport them to freedom (archive, $48,000-65,000);
•  The miraculously-surviving hand-tooled mess kit of a World War II hero named “Wing” Eagle, possibly Native American, carved while in captivity at Bataan, Corregidor, and in Japanese slave labor camps (with photos, medals, and documents, $2100-2500);
• Volume of one of the first successful American magazines, 1792, proudly noting that the national debt has been reduced to $400,000 ($750-950);
•  Collection of a saga of Antarctica, Operation Deepfreeze, called “perhaps the single most striking international scientific endeavor of the twentieth century” ($8500-10,500), and a Navy flying suit designed for polar missions, with plug and hundreds of wires for electric heating woven into fabric ($450-550);
•  1768 document for land sold by a free black man in New Hampshire, signed with his “X” ($275-350);
•  Gold Rush ledger from the California town that was literally at the end of the road. Known as “Bagdad,” for its exotic connotations, North Fork, Calif. was notorious for its mingling of American, German, Mexican, and Chinese adventurers ($1600-2400);
•  Extremely scarce “Bickerstaff’s Boston Almanack” of 1779 ($2250-2750);
•  Exquisite proof of vignette used on $500 bill ($1900-2500);
•  Enormous map of coal fields of Pennsylvania, 1890, measuring 4 by 21 feet ($475-675);
•  Fascinating letter shedding light on the story that John Wilkes Booth escaped, and lived in Oklahoma til 1903 under the name St. George, who recited Shakespeare, had a limp, and would drink himself into a stupor every April 14th - the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination ($150-200);
•  Significant document providing financing for the first nail factory in America, 1795, in Ramapo, N.Y., signed by inventor ($950-1450);
•  Rare 1881 Wells, Fargo express cover to Vulture City, Arizona Territory ($950-1250);
•  And many other items.

All items are fully described at http://cohascodpc.com. A free 152-page printed catalogue is available by mail, while supplies last.
Cohasco, Inc. has been in business for 66 years. 

About Cohasco, Inc.: Established 66 years, Cohasco is a dealer in and auctioneer of historical documents, manuscripts, books, antiquarian materials and collectibles. Over the years they have handled the sale of numerous prominent collections, in a range of fields, from colonial to Confederate, mediaeval to modern. Past highlights included the lamps that illuminated Lincoln’s wedding, an archive of the Duryea, America’s first “mass-produced” automobile, and the Bible owned by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother, setting a world record price for a twentieth-century Bible.

YONKERS, N.Y. - April 21, 2011 – Artifacts capture the Civil War - from outbreak of fighting in 1861, through surrender and Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.

A major collection of more than 700 genuine Civil War documents and other historical items will be auctioned on May 17th, by Cohasco, Inc., of Yonkers, NY.

Forty-four of the Civil War’s 49 embattled months are represented by original items in the sale.

Included:

•  Battlefield telegram sent at the zenith of the South’s last great victory: Cold Harbor, Virginia, 1864. In eight deadly minutes, more men fell than in any other like period of the war (presale estimate $450/600);
•  The handwritten premonition of the first Union officer to die – in the War’s first land battle, fought in Virginia. Major Theodore Winthrop’s original poem not only portends the cloud of Civil War – but also predicts his own death ($1100/1400);
•  Future President Andrew Johnson’s workbook, prepared in the two frantic weeks preceding Fort Sumter, as he tried to avert war in April 1861 ($1900/2500);
•  Rare signature, token, and card of Elmer Ellsworth, the first martyr of the Civil War (signature $550/750);
•  On War’s eve, an appraisal for 100-year-old slave ($150/200);
•  Confederate Gen. Beauregard - who had ordered the first shots of the War - sends Gen. Hood an urgent letter, implying the end is near. Two days before Christmas 1864, Beauregard writes: “No reinforcements can possibly be sent from any quarter...No troops to spare...Every man required to oppose Sherman, who is not on a raid, but on an important campaign....” One day earlier, Pres. Lincoln was presented with Savannah as “a Christmas gift” by Union Gen. Sherman ($350/500);
•  Scorched 1865 order - possibly from the fire of burning Richmond - appointing Robert E. Lee as General-in-Chief of the Confederacy ($1750/2150);
•  Seven-page letter by the true author of the words woven into Pres. Obama’s new White House rug. Attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr., the prose was actually written by abolitionist Theodore Parker: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." His words were adopted by King years later – and miscredited on the new Oval Office furnishing. This 1852 letter of Parker acclaims the rescue of Jerry, a slave fleeing “government kidnappers” ($1200/1800);

And many other items spanning twelve centuries, including:

•  Rare manuscript fragment of the 9th century, with links to Charlemagne, from an imperial abbey in Germany ($9500/14,500);
•  Document of black soldier, kidnapped from Africa as a boy, who bought his freedom fighting in the Revolutionary War ($900/1400);
•  1945 WWII soldier’s newspaper echoing today’s radiation peril: “Most Terrible Weapon Launched on Japan - Could Destroy Man” ($80/100).

YONKERS, N.Y. – Some 500 lots of historical items in an array of collecting fields will be sold at auction by Cohasco, Inc. in August. The mail, phone, fax, and e-mail auction will conclude August 10.

A number of the lots are world-class, including:

•  A manuscript dated 1331/32 with Robin Hood association. From the thousand-year-old castle of the Bishop of Hereford, it refers to the man appearing in outlaw tales and ballads of Robin Hood, Adam of Orleton. Robin Hood has long been one of literature’s most fascinating characters. The manuscript is the first the auctioneer has handled with such proximate association to the folk hero, the “archer in green” (pre-sale estimate $11,500-17,500);
•  A complete Ptolemy atlas, one of the books that changed the world. Printed in 1561, it includes a map purportedly used by the Zeno Brothers in their voyage to North America in the 1390s – predating Columbus by nearly a century ($9,500-13,500);
•  A magnificent manuscript military document dated Philadelphia, July 4, 1776 – the birth date and place of America. The flamboyant flourish beneath the date suggests that the writer knew the significance of the date. It is signed by three officers, one of whom would be killed just weeks later at the Battle of Long Island ($30,000-45,000);
•  An unusual Lincoln note, casting a shadow on his thinking. Penned on a letter of the Astor House - an unusual form of his autograph - Lincoln discharges “a young man of delicate constitution.” What is unsaid is that the young man is the nephew of the writer - and research reveals that he had recently visited the White House. The writer, Leonard Swett, was one of Lincoln’s closest confidantes, and ironically the man whose legal work led to the confinement to an insane asylum of ... Mary Lincoln ($9,500-13,500);
•  An excessively rare Autograph Letter Signed of Milton Wright, father of the Wright Brothers. Mentioning all five of his children, he remarks upon the closeness between Orville, Wilbur, and their sister Katherine ($10,000-15,000);
•  One of only two known complete copies of the 1748 atlas by the father-and-son Geographers to King Louis IV. With all 209 copper-engraved maps, its publication was an important event in the history of cartography. The original hand-coloring is vividly preserved ($45,000-55,000);
•  An example of the book that arguably won the Revolution, von Steuben’s 1782 military manual. Signed by three different noted Continental soldiers, all from Sturbridge, Mass., as it passed from one to the other in the 1790s. Such multiple provenance of a Revolutionary War book is seldom seen ($4,500-5,500);
•  A collection, probably now unique, of original wire service photographs showing landmark events of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Including several photos which have become part of the national consciousness, most were actually printed in an identified Chicago newspaper. The group forms a photographic chronicle of that tumultuous period (20 pieces, $2,000-4,000);
•  An archive of the Old South, including an early, 1821 manuscript from French Louisiana on sugar production. The ensemble includes a rare 1824 letter of Isaac Ross, the wealthy slaveowner who sent his slaves back to Africa, and another planter’s letter to an overseer admonishing him “not to strike a Negro in anger...” (60 pieces, $9,000-12,000);
•  Museum-grade bronze statues of a Western European gentleman and lady, both signed by noted sculptor Celestine Anatole Calmels (c. 1822-1906). Heavy and intricately cast, they offer richly detailed figurative studies, with lifelike features, including sword and tricorner hat ($3,000-4,500).
•  An original brochure for the World Trade Center that was never built: a series of modest buildings – with a berth for ocean-going ships – circa 1962 ($150-200);
•  A broad range of tokens and medals, including a very scarce Dakota Territory post trading token, from the Wild West ($1,400-1,900) ... the first “good for” token in America, an 1817 copper admission to New York’s Park Theatre ($175-225) ... an apparently unlisted Civil War saloon token, showing a large beer mug ($800-1,000);
•  Political items, including the first American political party “button,” issued by the Whigs in 1834 ($175-225) ... a low-production, finely struck Lincoln medal of 1891 ($80-120) ... and an example of the celebrated George Washington “Success Medal” ($475-675);
•  A bound volume of 1876 newspapers recounting Custer’s rise and fall, including lurid details of his clash with Rain-in-the-Face (about 52 issues, $1,750-2,250);
•  A painted whale’s tooth, depicting the famed ship “Charles W. Morgan” ($140-180);
•  A turn-of-century Hawaiian guitar-like instrument, made with white seashells and a fruit for the sound box, given to a missionary as a gift ($175-275);
•  Rare original photographs of the devastation at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, and other World War II scenes (various lots, $40 to $700)
•  The actual combat knife carried by a commander of the true “Band of Brothers” - the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment - through three wars ($225-350);
•  And much more.

Hundreds of other lots are offered, at valuations as low as about $20, in thirty different fields of collecting, including Air & Flight, Black History, Civil War, Colonial and Revolutionary War, Confederate, Judaica, Letters, Newspapers, Old Books, Old New York, Philatelic, Political, Presidents, Tokens and Medals, Transportation, and others – even including cast iron toys and an aluminum toy Zeppelin, and a pair of decorative wooden soapboxes. Cohasco V.P. Bob Snyder remarked, “There is something for all pocketbooks, and for all levels of collections. Whether one is just beginning, or a mature, specialized collector, there is bound to be material of interest.”

The vast majority of lots will be sold without reserve. Auction catalogues will be available beginning the first week of July, from Cohasco, Inc., P.O. Drawer 821, Yonkers, NY 10702, 1-914-476-8500, info@cohascodpc.com. The catalogue will also be online at  http://cohascodpc.com beginning early July. (There will be no Internet bidding component).

Cohasco, Inc. was founded in 1946.

October 26, 2009, Yonkers, NY – When Walt Disney wrote to a Minnesota man on November 29, 1935, he never dreamed what that letter would be worth one day.

Typed on his “Silly Symphony” letterhead, with a large Mickey Mouse in orange and black, it is today something of a holy grail for Disney collectors.

For six years, Disney’s Silly Symphony cartoons won Academy Awards. Among many other characters, Silly Symphony gave birth to Donald Duck.

Signed with his cartoonists’ pen, Walt Disney’s letter, with its Mickey Mouse envelope, is estimated to sell in the Nov. 12 Yonkers auction of Cohasco, Inc., for $3,500-5,000.

Six hundred other lots of collectibles in the auction include:

•  the world’s largest private collection of U.S. Capitol Building memorabilia. Capturing the heart of a collector, 575 items - every one showing the famed structure - were gathered over decades. The one-of-a-kind collection even includes a shoe, a miniature piano, and a bell, all depicting the Capitol Building. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the model for the Statue of Freedom, which sits atop the Capitol dome (pre-sale estimate, $2,000-4,000);
•  a letter from New Orleans writing of the “dreadful gale of wind” - certainly a hurricane - in 1837. Part of a 245-item archive of life in New Orleans and the Old South, the original letters and documents describe the lost world of steamboats, cotton trading, plantations, great wealth, the early frontier, sugar, tobacco - and slavery ($48,000-60,000);
•  “the pamphlet that shaped a nation,” a 26-page booklet printed in Spring 1776 by the same man, John Dunlap, who printed the Declaration of Independence on the night of July 4th. Included in the Library of Congress’ online presentation “Creating the United States,” only three other original examples of this pamphlet are known ($1,500-2,500);
•  advertising booklet for one of the very first hybrid cars, the 1905 Gas-Au-Lec of Peabody, Mass. Combining gas, steam, and electricity, only four cars were ever built ($110-140);
•  description of the fabled “letter from Jesus,” in an English schoolboy’s notebook of 1698-1702. According to tradition, King Abgar wrote to Jesus, asking for help in curing his illness; he received a reply, and was visited - and cured - by one of Jesus’ disciples ($400-600);
•  1816 letter of a plantation overseer, ordering striped fabric for slaves’ clothing ($90-120);
•  and many other unusual historical items, in thirty-four categories.

February 3, 2009, Yonkers, NY – The set of three lamps by which the young Abraham Lincoln read and studied, and which illuminated his 1842 wedding to Mary Todd, will be sold at auction on February 25.

This is only the third appearance of these iconic bronze and crystal lamps on the market in some 166 years.

For decades they were displayed at the Lincoln Homestead in Springfield, Illinois, and were seen by millions. The pre-sale estimate for the trio is $40,000-70,000.

Also to be sold is the original handwritten letter ordering the Springfield cemetery to stand by for arrival of Lincoln’s body, April 26, 1865 ($7,500-10,000).

Over 500 other lots of collectibles in the auction include:

•  slaves offered as intact families, in an 1850s poster ($2,750-3,500);
•  very rare letter of Emma Lazarus, the poet who wrote the immortal words at the base of the Statue of Liberty ($10,000-13,500);
•  from 789 makes and models of vehicles ... to 3: an automobile archive of nearly one thousand official documents, each with the identifying marque of a different bygone car, truck, or bus. These are the “birth certificates” for GM’s doomed Oakland, Oldsmobile and Viking cars, the first Chrysler of 1924, oldtime Fords, 1930 Checker Cab, Duesenberg, Lincoln, Rolls-Royce, Studebaker, Tucker, and many more. The now-unique documents reflect the golden era of an industry that once had hundreds of American auto manufacturers, from Aerocar to Wizard - far from the Big Three struggling today (total of 919 items, estimate $45,000-65,000)
•  handwritten journal of a plantation overseer during the Civil War, part of a major collection of rare letters and documents on life in the old South (over 110 items, $40,000-60,000);
•  rare complete sheet of 100 labels sold to raise funds for the Scottsboro Boys, the nine blacks falsely accused in 1931. The case attracted international attention, and is regarded as an early cornerstone of the civil rights movement. All were found innocent; it took twenty years for one of the defendants to gain his freedom ($850-950);
•  and many other unusual historical items, in thirty-four categories.

MORE THAN six hundred forty lots, containing thousands of historical documents and related collectibles, are featured in Cohasco, Inc.’s upcoming auction, their 56th. Closing on March 18, 2008, the new auction includes items in over 33 different specialties, from Americana to World Wars I and II. Important and interesting items from both major collections and private holdings appear in this mail, phone, fax, e-mail, and Internet sale.

A sampling of the varied lots reveals:

•  A major unpublished manuscript archive of Southern history, including a 1775 manuscript map of Natchez - which would later boast more millionaires than New York City, a Mississippi plantation Bible maintained from 1839 to 1979, a set of encyclopedias from the personal library of a slaveowner and the largest cotton planter in the world, and much more (pre-auction estimate $80,000-110,000).
•  The lost treasures of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s family: the massive leatherbound album of his Aunt, containing over 270 items, including original photographs of family members on vacation, at Christmas time, and at formal gatherings. Spanning six decades of King family life, the items offer a candid, flattering look at the most famous and influential family in modern African-American history. ($9,000-12,000).
•  A Boston theatrical broadside advertises John Wilkes Booth in the lead role, two years before his fateful appearance at Ford’s Theatre ($300-400).
•  A special group of colonial and Revolutionary War pamphlets captures the fervor of America’s road to independence. Among the printed tracts: the forerunner of the Declaration of Independence, 1774 ($2,500-3,000); the first appearance of the Constitution in any magazine, Sept. 1787 ($4,000-6,000); and the first British edition of the new U.S. Constitution ($3,500-5,000).
•  A single sentence in Abe Lincoln’s hand, penned as a young lawyer, reads, “If I ever knew, I do not now remember” ($450-650).
•  A broadside from Palestine, just weeks before Statehood in 1948, urges a call to arms ($250-350).
•  A miniature portrait of a beautiful blonde Englishwoman, painted on ivory, dates from the Napoleonic era ($900-1,200).
•  Ancient manuscript fragments date from Egypt c. 400 B.C., 7th century Greece, and 13th century Spain ($90-120, $75-100, and $500-700, respectively).
•  A World War I fired artillery shell boasts intricate art from a French trench ($75-125).
•  A 5-page handwritten letter of Gen. and Civil War veteran James Allison tells a Harvard professor in 1914, “You are...our worst enemies....” ($300-400).
•  An archive of the most costly print advertising campaign up to its day, Cadillac of the 1950s and ‘60s. The 450-plus items include original color negatives by celebrated photographers Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Horst, gown swatches, designs for jeweled Cadillac crests by Cartier, and much more ($40,000-60,000).
•  An elaborate 1932 program offers a hotel banquet for Mrs. George Palmer Putnam - otherwise known as Amelia Earhart ($125-175).
•  A 1721 book from the print shop where Ben Franklin worked was bound without all its pages. Was this the error of the young Ben, just 15 at the time, daydreaming of other things? ($450-650) ... and many other items.

MORE THAN six hundred thirty lots, containing thousands of historical documents and related collectibles, are featured in Cohasco, Inc.’s upcoming Auction, their 55th. Closing on January 3rd, 2007, the new auction includes items in over 35 different specialties, from Americana to World Wars I and II. Important and interesting items from both major collections and private holdings appear in this mail, phone, fax, e-mail, and Internet sale.

A sampling of the varied lots reveals:

•  The world’s most extensive private collection of Duryea automobile material, America’s first “mass-produced” car and winner of America’s first auto race in 1895. Covering over thirty of the Duryea brothers’ ventures, it includes original drawings by Frank Duryea of their very first car of 1892-93. The Duryea was the first American company organized for the manufacture of cars (pre-auction estimate $125,000-150,000).
•  A wool jacket of the Army’s famed all-black “Buffalo Division,” medals still attached to its pocket, dates from World War I ($750-950).
•  A jacket of a black driver in the Red Ball Express, which drove dangerous roads to resupply troops in WW II, bears their insignia ($850-1,150).
•  A Custer newspaper collection covers his adventures through the fateful year of 1876, with blood-curdling details of Little Big Horn (full volume, $400-600).
•  An exceptional letter of John Rowe, the man whose tea was thrown overboard in the Boston Tea Party, portends the Revolution ($300-450).
•  “Traveller,” Robert E. Lee’s favorite war horse, offers long hairs from his mane ($300-350).
•  Ninety-nine inches of AP teletype tell the unfolding drama of Kennedy’s funeral and Oswald’s shooting, Nov. 24, 1963 ($3,900-5,000).
•  An anti-partition map of Palestine, issued by the “Stern Gang” in 1947, was actually removed from a street wall ($650-800).
•  A very early slave document from New York City, 1755, accuses a Manhattanite of allowing black Jenny to escape from “His Majesty’s gaol” ($200-300).
•  The hunchback knight Stephanus witnesses four brothers joining the Crusade to Jerusalem, in a medieval document dated 1147 ($10,000-15,000).
•  The caption, “Of course, not all gorillas are shy,” suggests the content of one of a collection of original, highbrow cartoons published in the New Yorker in the 1940s ($100-150 each).
•  A gloriously colorful Valentine’s card in envelope is postmarked Valentine’s Day, 1896 ($75-100)
•  Eleanor Roosevelt writes from the White House, 1934, “I am afraid that I shall never be a pilot...” ($800-1,000).
•  Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund, modestly pens “...there is nothing interesting to tell about me” ($400-600, plus large history of psychiatry archive).
•  A metal suitcase contains its original cargo: a World War II Naval Aviator’s leather bomber jacket, with pilot’s name ($1,400-1,800).

IN OUR AUCTION NO. 55 of January 3, 2007, a remarkable archive relating to the Duryea automobile sold for $108,780.00, including buyer’s premium.

This is the highest price fetched for a single lot in a Cohasco auction, continuing a trend of progressively higher standouts in recent sales. (It also realized more than an actual Duryea automobile!)

A RECORD six hundred forty one lots, containing thousands of historical documents and related collectibles, are featured in Cohasco, Inc.’s upcoming Auction, their 54th. Closing on January 31st, 2006, the new auction includes items in over 38 different specialties, from Americana to World Wars I and II. Important and interesting items from both major collections and private holdings appear in this mail, phone, fax, e-mail, and Internet sale.

A sampling of the varied lots reveals:

•  An unrecorded, larger variant of the 1843 Force-Stone copperplate engraving of the Declaration of Independence, never folded (pre-auction estimate $17,500-20,000).
•  Archive of a Union Navy surgeon’s assistant off Florida’s coast, including diary, sea log, medals, and 59 family photos ($3,500-4,500).
•  Autograph Letter Signed of renowned classical composer Franz Liszt ($1,300-1,700).
•  Lengthy letter from a steamboat captain describing the Mississippi River flooding the country for miles inland, water up to the eaves of houses, in 1874 ($100-200).
•  A Civil War ambrotype of a Union drummer boy depicting a uniformed lad only in his early teens ($1,000-1,500).
•  A Civil War diary predicting “our war will be the bloodiest volume in the annals of mankind” ($450-650).
•  A major collection of signed photos and letters of World War II pilots includes an airman recalling that Dec. 7, 1941 was “the longest day of my life” (one of many lots, $250-350).
•  Tintype of a slave in Ohio bears the name “Old Alice” ($475-575).
•  The personal bible of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother includes her handwritten entries chillingly recording the births, marriages – and untimely deaths of both sons Martin and Alfred ($1,100-1,400).
•  A medieval manuscript fragment from the Monastery of the White Monks, Burgundy, France, dates from c. 1150 ($110-140).
•  With early American floral design, a large antebellum needlepoint bears the name and 1859 date of its maker ($150-175).
•  Unusual forms of old money include hippo teeth from the Sudan ($300-350) and a double bell from the Congo, one hundred of which would buy a slave ($400-500).
•  A long letter from the once-richest man in the world, J. Paul Getty, laments he feels no more intelligent upon reaching his fortieth birthday ($575-675).
•  An ornate silver-lace valentine c. 1875 features three-dimensional splendor ($60-80).
•  Massive manuscript ledger from the earliest days of General Motors, 1911-12, records telephone expense of 27¢ for one month ($900-1,200) ... and many other items.

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

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

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.

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

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

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 74th year.

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

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

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 74th year.

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

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

And hundreds of other items in many different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 74th year.

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

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

And over 690 other items in 30 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 74th year.

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

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

And over 720 other items in 35 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 56th year.

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

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

And over 700 other items in 30 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 74th year.

Keen competition for interesting and unusual lots marked Cohasco, Inc.'s semi-annual Auction of historical documents, autographs, and collectibles. Ending June 6, 2000, some highlights of the sale include:

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

And over 700 other items in 34 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 74th year.

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

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

And over 700 other items in 35 different specialties.
Cohasco's next Mail/Phone/Fax/Internet Auction is planned for 2020, the firm's 74th year.

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