Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 35

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Americana

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 422		1805 Musical Primer: The Art of Singing. By Andrew Law, published by E. Lincoln, according to an Act of Congress, 5½x9", in three parts, single hard-cover volume, 264pp. Professionally rebound; interior has some expert repairs and 7 pages are torn out. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 423		1812 Engraving of A Baptist Minister. 10¾x8½" engraving of " Revd. William Staughton D.D. Pastor of the Baptist Church in Sansom Street Philadelphia," painted and engraved by John Eckstein 1812. Very good; light overall toning and a couple of marginal chips. A rare example of an early American printer's portrait art. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 424		1833 Therapeutic Institute of Materia Medica Botany & Toxicology Certificate. Issued to "Clement A. Finley of the State of Ohio, U.S. Army, Doctor of Medicine" and signed by William Barton, Professor of Botany and Senior Surgeon in the U.S. Navy, 9½x12¼", Philadelphia, 9 Nov. 1833. With a lovely printed acorn "emblem" type seal and red wax paper seal. Very fine. Matted to 18x20½" and shrink wrapped. Rare. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 425		1848 Philadelphia Infant School Society Donation. Partly-printed document certifying that Mrs. Mary P. Moore is a member for life of the Infant School Society by payment of one hundred dollars, 11,9", matted to 19½x17" and shrink wrapped. Fine. Signed by Directress Theodosia P. Smith and Secretary Keith Linnard. Headed by a vignette of Jesus surrounded by children, with "Feed my lambs" above. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 426		1856 American Philosophical Society Membership. A rare and desirable membership into the invitation-only intellectual society founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 and still in existence today, 9½x14½", Philadelphia, 18 Jan. 1856. Very fine. Electing Clement A. Finley (U.S. Army doctor), signed by President A.L. Bache, three vice presidents and four secretaries. Matted to 18x22½" and shrink wrapped. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 427		1898 Prototype "Monkey's Donation" Party Game. A rare and unique presentation copy consisting of six pieces: the transmittal envelope sent to the Library of Congress by Charles Zimmerling 14 April 1898, Copyright No. 15,350; the primer-coated cloth, 35x32", printed sheet with a large monkey in a festive jester's costume, holding an upturned cap outstretched in one paw; three large sheets, each 18x15", showing oversized, individually-numbered (1-20) "Indian Cent Pennies" entitled "One Penny For The Monkey's Donation," as well as a card containing a packed row of straight pins; and an additional 14¾x11¼" illustrated two-color advertising folio with "Copyright 1898 C.ZIMMERLING, PHILA." at the lower corner. Fine except for some creases and splits on the "penny sheets" from having been ensconced for so long. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 428		A Ship, A Mining Company, and An Industrialist. Papers of the U.S. Sailing Ship "Jasper" of Fairhaven, Mass., captained by Elihu Gifford. A group of 19 papers related to the "Jasper": crew list, promissory notes, accounts, receipts, port charges (including those from a voyage to Bahia); and expenditures for a visit to St. Helena: payments to captain and crew, disbursements, etc. Many sizes; some soiling; overall very good. With a group of some 20 1904-1906 letters and bulletins regarding investments by a Mrs. Bolster of Canada in the U.S. Smelting Company; and an unaccomplished engraved invitation to the Gramercy Park home of industrialist Cyrus W. Field. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 429		"A Sketch from 'The Belle of New-York.' At the Shaftesbury Theatre". Original ink drawing, c. 1898, showing American and British soldiers, with their respective flags, which they plan to set "floating in the Breeze together" to show that "…we are Brothers, Birds of a Feather." Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 430		Archive Of A 19th Century California Judge. An archive from the family of Elisha Cotton Winchell, whose family originated in Massachusetts and in 1837 moved to Elmira, Missouri. (an 1898 47-page, typed document recalls the family's journey). The family moved to Sutter's Fort in 1850 and settled in Sacramento, then Fresno, and finally Oakland. Winchell was a lawyer, tax accessor, councilman and judge in Oakland. This collection includes checks, court documents, biographies, and some 20 photographs (many c. 1890), ranging in size from cabinet photos to 11"x14". Should be seen to be appreciated. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 431		Baby Boomer Primer About Dick, Jane, Sally, and Spot. First Edition of Good Times with Our Friends, by Dorothy Baruch and Elizabeth Montgomery, New York: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1948, 128pp. Fair condition; some soiling; one tear. Obviously used and loved. Estimated Value $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 432		"Bringing Up Father" Jiggs Tobacciana Statue, c. 1915-20. A wonderful chalk Tobacciana advertising statue of the famous cartoon character "Jiggs" of "Maggie & Jiggs" from the famous cartoon created by George McManus that ran from 1913 into the 1950s, 10½x5½"; the figures stands on a circular base that is incused with the name "Father" and emblazoned on the front of his shirt is "I Smoke Edgeworth Tobacco." Jiggs is handpainted with black evening coat, pants and spats. His hair and lips are painted a cinnabar red, with a red-tipped nose, hand-drawn eyes and eyebrows, and a "cigar" sticking out of his mouth (Jiggs always had a cigar in his mouth in the cartoon). Some light scuffing, mall paint chipping, and dirt smudges, but no breaks or repairs. This figure would have been on display in tobacco shops. Accompanied by a partial sample page of the cartoon from the Boston Advertiser Sunday, April 1, 1923, with a 1972 book entitled "Bringing Up Father," showing hundreds of Maggie & Juggs cartoon strips. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 433		California Orange Crate Labels. Two albums of over 90 beautiful, pristine orange crate and other fruit labels, most of them 10x11". Citrus labels were printed between 1880 and the 1950s and placed on the wooden crates in which the fruit, primarily navel oranges, was shipped. They were created by lithography studios in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and represented sunny California to snow-bound cities in the East. The fruits are shown in rich, lush colors, as well as images of Indians, padres, mountains, waterfalls, haciendas, animals, ships, lovely women, cute children, Queen Victoria, and more. Some of the brands represented in this collection are: Sunkist, Chapman's Old Mission, Redskin, Pacific Explorer, Polo, Popey, Pride of Valencia Cove, Reindeer, Rose, Royal Feast, Tom Cat, Unicorn, Silver Moon, Silva, Shamrock, Southern Cross, Silver Tips, Evening Star, Silver Moon, Morning Sun, Splendid, Sun, Vandalia, Victoria, Yo-semi-te, Yokohl, Airship, and many, many more. The owner paid almost $2500 for these labels over 25 years ago. They are a collector's item. Accompanied by a soft-cover book, "Orange Crate Art," a 94-page booklet from 1901, "Brands of Oranges and Lemons Controlled by the Southern California Fruit Exchange," and other articles and information on the labels. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,990
Lot 434		Californiana. A collection of items related to California. Three items are related to Stanford University: two vintage photos labeled "Stanford Collection": Old Felt Ranch", 4"x6½"; an outside picnic, 4¾"x7¾"; and an autograpah letter signed by Stanford president David Jordan to Jane Lathrop Stanford, 28 May 1902, regarding "commencement exercises." Other California-related items are: a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's last photograph, taken in 1894; 2 different 5"x7" photos of Kearny St. Hill in San Francisco; 2 books by Albert Shumate: Mariano Malarin and Francisco Pacheco of Pacheco Pass; The Apache-Yumas and Apache-Mojaves by Dr. Wm. H. Corbusier, 1886; a late 19th century, 32-page booklet on San Mateo County; two 1881 invoices from Sacramento; and an 1896 land grant in Santa Clara County to Horace Wilson. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 435		Captain Hall: Travels in North America. 2 Vols, published by Carey Lea & Cary, Philadelphia, 1829. Written by a British Royal Navy Captain, discussing his observations on various subjects, including the "wretched state" of the U.S. military, admiration of Benjamin Franklin and a visit to his grave, a description of Philadelphia, and of the slave owners and slaves whom he saw in Virginia. Both volumes have the original slate-blue boards (some wear) with professionally rebound spines and new title plates; normal rough-cut pages of the period. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 436		Collection of 35 Oversize 19th Century Song Books. Most are approximately 13x10". Ten songs by Stephen Foster are included, among which are: "My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Folks At Home," "Gentle Annie," "Lizzie dies To-Night," "Fairy-Belle," "Under the Willow She's Sleeping," "Farewell My Lilly Dear," and "Maggie By My Side." There is also a mazurka, a gavote, a schottisch, a galop, Episcopal church music, polkas, "Geronimo's Own Medicine Song," "The Octoroon Polka,""The Knights Templar Grand Entree March," "Our Union Right or Wrong Song and Dance," "Mele Hawaii," "The Cork Leg" and more; only one song book, "To the World and Budweiser," is 20th century (1909). Condition ranges from fair to very good. Estimated Value $600 - 900. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 437		Collection of Late 19th Century Photographs. A group of some 195 photographs of men, women, children and places. Various sizes: 80 are cabinet size or larger; over 55 are carte-de-visite photographs (including a soiled one of Mary Todd Lincoln); 23 are CDV size tintypes of men and women; plus 38 5x5" photos of towns, buildings, trees, etc. Most are good or better; some soiling. Various photographers' imprints. Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 438		Collection of Postal Stationery. Group of 28 used envelopes, including 14 Wells Fargo envelopes, 9 cacheted, patriotic Civil War envelopes; one each of Pacific Union Express Co., The Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company, Langton's Pioneer Express, one with a very early Reynold's Express forwarding mark to Stockton, CA from N.Y., and a cover sent by British packet boat and carried over the Western Overland Trail (or Mormon Trail) by hand. Some of these covers are quite rare. Should be seen to be appreciated. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $604
Lot 439		Collection of Scarce Song Sheets: 1820s-1880. A collection of over 150 song sheets, the majority of which are from the Civil War period or earlier. Over 90 have fully illustrated black and white (some with color) covers, ranging from the comic to the patriotic; those from the 1840s-1860s are relatively scarce. Included is a wide variety of musical material, with Stephen Foster songs such as "My Old Kentucky Home," "Massa's in de Cold Ground," "Beautiful Dreamer," etc. Ethiopian medodies include songs sung by the Christie Minstrels. Some 30 pieces are from the 1820s to 1830s, about half of which are Scottish songs, the balance being from New York or Philadelphia. Average to fine condition, with small to larger tears on some sheets; light age toning. Should be seen in person to be appreciated. Sold "as is." The retail value is much higher than our estimate. An excellent lot for the dealer or serious collector. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,750. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 440		Fr. 1382 1866 Fractional Currency Shield. Re-constructed shield with gray background containing 39 specimen notes of the first three issues of postage and fractional currency, including the Grant and Sherman essays. Fair to good condition with some repaired tears. The gray background shield has been cut out and remounted into a period-style wooden frame, 31¼" x 27¼". An attractive display item. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,105
Lot 441		German Embossed Cigarette Cards. "Greiling Münz Sammlung," issued in Dresden in 1929. There are between 500 and 600 cards from numerous countries laid in the original album, including 14 from the United States; it also includes Canada and Hawaii. Rare. Estimated Value $400 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 442		Group of Assorted Americana. Sixteen handcolored political cartoons, one from 1879 by Currier & Ives (framed), but most from the 1890s by Keppler and Schwarzmann, touching on Tammany, tariff reform, the Supreme Court decision on wool and other subjects relevant to the day. Sizes vary from 10x8" to 10½x17". All matted. Fine condition. With Eleven 1905 & 1906 Color Cards From the Boston Globe Art Supplement depicting famous scenes from American history, each 10x12"; a 500-piece Spiro Agnew puzzle; and a Wanted poster for Patricia Hearst from 1974. Overall fine. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 443		Group of Some 230 Advertising Cards and Postcards. Approximately 200 advertising cards of various sizes, many for companies from the New England area, selling clothing, shoes, soap, cough syrup, thread, etc. Also includes a large round card for J.P. Alley's Hambone Sweets featuring a black man flying a plane, and a 5¼x8½"American flag, "Blanket Issue," from the American Tobacco Co., 1908. Plus 30 scenic postcards, four with black themes. Fine overall. Should be seen. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 444		Groups of 23 Stereo Views From Around the World. Most by Underwood & Underwood, early 1900s, all fine. Includes historic sites in Palestine and Syria, tea preparation in Japan, a Chinese execution, the palatial home of a Mexican silver king, a castle in North Wales, a slaughter house in Chicago, a weaver in Ireland, etc., plus two early movie scenes. Should be seen. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $132
Lot 445		Haraszthy, Agoston, Attila, and Arpad. Carte-de-visite photograph of Agoston Haraszthy, the Hungarian aristocrat who planted the first vineyard in California; he is called the "Father of Modern Viticulture in California." Also, a Western Union telegraph written to Attila, one of Agoston's sons in Sonoma; and a book, Wine-Making in California, Arpad Haraszthy (The Book Club of California, 1978) about another of Agoston's sons. With nine labels for wine, whiskey and port. Very good to fine. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $219
Lot 446		Lot of 50 Late 19th and Early 20th Century Advertising Labels. Colorful labels for a variety of products, such as sewing machines, life insurance, soaps, clothiers, coffee, etc. Overall fine. Should be seen to be appreciated. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 447		(Massachusetts) Two Thanksgiving Proclamations. Issued by Governor Levi Lincoln on 19 Oct. 1832 and Governor Edward Everett on 28 Sept. 1838, ordering a "Day of Public Thanksgiving and Praise," 23"x19". Docket has "Revr. Mr. Roberts." Very good; toning and some print transfer; a couple of small holes at folds. Attractive and suitable for framing. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $259
Lot 448		National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. 2 Vols, published by Monson Bancroft, New York, 1834 and 1835. This was the first issue of these volumes, which contain 70 portraits and biographies of important figures in American history. Vol. I has covers and several pages separated, and covers to Vol II are worn, but these volumes can be broken up and sold for the wonderful steel engravings. Estimated Value $600 - 900. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $357
Lot 449		Photographs of Tom Thumb, P.T. Barnum & Other Personalities. Carte-de-visite photograph of Tom Thumb's wedding (10 Feb. 1863), published by E. and H.T. Anthony from a Mathew Brady negative with facsimile signatures of the wedding party on the reverse. With miniature ¾"x1¼"visiting card of "Gen. Tom Thumb" (c. 1844) printed in gold on porcelain coated card. Both fine. Plus, 18 photographs of P.T. Barnum, Henry Irving, Adelina Patti and other figures from the world of entertainment. The 3½xx2" photos are glued to both sides of a 14x8¼" sheet. Very good; a few edge chips and tears. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 450		San Francisco 1893 Vaudeville Show Broadside. An announcement for the "Farewell Tour of the Golden Gate Vaudevilles" of "100 Performers 100 Count Them!", Feb. 18, 1893. Printed in black on buff colored paper, 23" x 8". Depicts a pair of minstrels in black face with mouths agape as in song, along with a listing of the various acts to be seen, including a "Skirt Dance" by Mlle. Wilhelmina "who has received diamonds galore from the Crowned Heads of Europe and the Bald Heads of America". A few folds, otherwise very good condition. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 451		Six 19th Century English Handcolored Caricatures. 5¼x7", each attractively matted and framed to13½x16". Most are caricatures of The Hunt; the artist on three engravings is "I. Lee"; no name is visible on the others. Two mention "Mr. Jorracks"; another pictures "Michael Hardey," and one is titled "Mr. Barege & The Draft." Another is titled "The Kill, on The Cat & Custard Pot Day," and the last is "Pigg in the Melon Frame." Fine condition and ready for display. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 452		Three Numismatic Plates. Labeled "Judea," "Tyre," and "Saxon Coins," the first two are approximately 11x8½"; "Tyre"has an edge tear, not affecting images. "Saxon Coins has a "March 1795" date was drawn by C.R. Ryley, and engraved by E.W. Thomson. All age toned. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 453		15th Century Vellum Manuscript. Two pages from a French missal, 9¼x6½", written on vellum in liturgical black letters and gracefully decorated with alternating red and blue penwork initials whose flourishes extend deep into the margin. The four-line staves are drawn in red, on which the black square notes are placed. Fine; normal age toning. Missals rested on the altar during mass. Estimated Value $250 - 450. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 454		Collection of 26 19th Century Song Sheets. Eighteen are listed in Wolf's American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides (Philadelphi: Library Col, 1963). Many have decorative borders (four are colored). Titles include: "John Brown"; "Three Hundred Thousand More," beginning "We are coming, Father Abraam…."; "Sweet Mississippi"; and "The Sword of Bunker-Hill"; and "Witching Dinah Crow."" Sizes vary, the largest being 9¾x6"; each is housed in an archival mylar holder. Condition is very good to fine; some toning, edge chips, and small paper loss. Song sheets are single, printed sheets, usually 6x8", with lyrics but no music. Accompanied by six pieces of advertising ephemera: three touting organs and/or piano, one a camera, one a stationery store, and one the 1916 San Diego World's Fair. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 455		Cornwallis, Admiral Sir William (1744-1819) British naval officer; brother of Charles, 1st Marquis and Earl Cornwallis. Vellum Indenture Signed "William Cornwallis" at the bottom of the first page, 2pp, 21x28" (1819). Fine. Concerning the lease of Rookcliffe farm at Hordle, Hampshire. Written in a neat flowing script with Cornwallis' personal wax seal. Cornwallis rose from Commander (1762) to Admiral (1799), taking part in actions off Grenada, St. Kitts, Dominica and East India. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $259
Lot 456		Nuremburg Chronicles. Two large folio pages with wood-block printing and illustrations on both sides; one page has hand-applied red highlighting on capital letters. One page is headed "Sexta tras müdi Folium CXXXIII" and the other "Sexta etas mundi Foliü CCXV." Very good; light toning; one light marginal statin. The Nuremburg Chronicles was a history of the world printed in 1493. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 457		Nuremburg Chronicles and Boethius. Three pages, two being 17x12", CXXXVII and CCXLII, written in middle high German and printed in Gothic print with handcolored woodcuts, probably executed in part by a young Albrecht Dürer; light toning and some edge soiling. The third page is from "The fifth book of Boecius, Fol. 243" (Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy) translated by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1380s and printed by William Caxton in 1478; toning and small edge tears at top. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $460
Lot 458		Six English Indentures. Land transactions from the years 1676, 1678, 1692, 1717, 1720, 1737. Four indentures are vellum; two are paper; sizes vary. Good to fine condition. Estimated Value $400 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $242
Lot 459		Six Pages From Holinshed's Chronicles, c.1577. 11x7¾", five with woodcut illustrations. Two pages are headed "The Historie of Englande; one is numbered "69" on one side and "70" on the other; the second page has "150" on both sides. One page is headed "Henry the fifth 1191" on one side and "Henrie the fifth 1192" on the other. Another page has "Henrie the fifth" on both sides, with "1205" on one and "1206" on the other. The fifth page has "Henrie the seuenth" and the date "1453" on one side; the other side has "Henrie the seauenth" and the date "1454." The sixth page has "Queene Mary" on both sides and the dates 1729 and 1730. Overall toning; light soiling; light stain at bottom of one page. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 460		Six Pages of A Spanish Translation Of Livy's History of Rome. C. late 16th or early 17th century. The pages are as follows: From Decada I, Libro II, p. XXXV; and Libro IIII, p. LXIII. From Decada III, Libro VIII, pp. CCCVIII and CCCCLXXX; Libro IX, p. CCCXXXI; and Libro X, p. CCCLIIII. The subject matter is the founding of Rome, the Asian war, and the second African war. Overall toning; numerous large woodcuts; light stain at bottom of one page. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 461		Two English Vellum Land Transactions. 1769 document, 27x35", being a deed of covenants relating to the transfer of an estate in Great Sankey, county of Lancaster between Thomas Roughsedge and Joseph Haunlet; wax seal with griffin in oval; one shilling sixpence embossed stamp. Accompanied by a 1773 document, 3pp, 22x28", releasing land from William Farrer to Samuel Clarke in the county of Devon; one shilling stamp on each page; wax seal at bottom of third. Both have decorative scroll work on the front. Two large and impressive documents. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 462		Two Pages From A Pontifical Mass, c. 1500. Both pages are 14x9½"; one (p. 223) is headed "De missa pontificali" on both sides and is printed almost entirely in red. The other page (183) has "serie in cena domini" on one side and "De officio quinte serie" on the other; it has a woodcut illustration on each side and one bar of music; browning in one corner and a couple of small edge tears. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 463		Vellum Deed. A 1769 vellum deed, 2pp, 26x35", between Thomas Makin and Roger Rogerson and Joseph Hamlet in the county of Lancaster. Scalloped top edge, decorative scroll work, VI pence revenue stamps on both pages. Fine. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold