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Paper Gallery

Collection of 24 Period Civil War Covers

Most of the covers are unused. Several are related to Col. Ellsworth, two have "contraband" illustration (one used), one of the 69th NY, and one with the Boston State House.
Dimensions of each: 5.5 by 3.25-inches.

Price: $525 for the lot

576-24

ALS
Navy Yards Charlestown Mss.
William Bainbridge
To: John Rogers
President of the Navy Board
Washington City
18th March 1824

In pursuance of Rogers requesting the deficiency, if any, of materials of copper, wood and iron for vessels being built at the Navy Yards under the act of the "Gradual Increase of the Navy"...Bainbridge writes, -That a sufficient quantity of each of the materials named is on hand, to complete Gun Ship No. 1 with the exception of about 55 feet pine boards & plank. Bainbridge reports inventory needed to complete Gun Ship No. 2 and materials needed to complete 44-Gun Frigate. (As depicted, center crease; a 1.5-inch tear, long ago taped at upper right. Old collectors tape at top and bottom crease line...about Ľ-inch each.)

Price: $625

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ANDREW J. TATE ANSWERED THE ROLE CALL OF THE DEVINE COMMANDER AND WAS MUSTERED OUT SEPTEMBER 27, 1897

COMRADE TATE WAS MADE A FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN BY THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Memorial Testament:

This handwritten memorial is dedicated to "Comrade Andrew J. Tate", a member of the Gordon Forrest Command No. 12 of the Union Veterans' Union.

Former Union soldiers who felt that the GAR had too many members who had spent little time in the service and no time in actual front line combat formed the Union Veterans' Union in 1886. Unlike the GAR, which encouraged black veterans to form their own posts, the UVU was an integrated organization. This explains why the document notes that Andrew J. Tate "...was made a free American citizen by the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln..." According to the citation, Tate served as a soldier in the First United States Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Albert W. Mann, who wrote History of the 45th Regiment, M. V. M., the "Cadet Regiment", and who served in the 45th during the Civil War, signs the document. It is also signed by Lewis Ripley, who served in the 18th and 32nd Mass. Infantry, and by Charles E. Tompson. The post is named after Sergeant Gordon Forrest, who was killed at Blackburn's Ford in 1861, while serving with the 1st Mass. Infantry. Forrest was from Malden, Mass.

Tate certainly would have had to produce documentation to join the UVU, more so than if he joined the GAR. The UVU, had as a written requirement, limited its ranks to men who had seen at least six months' active duty, including time at the front, declaring "Into our ranks no man can come who has not heard the zip, zip of the Minies, or dodged the screaming shell..." To become a member, Tate only need met the requirements of the UVU, and could have been a member of any U.S. Colored Troop of the war.

Our research produced one Andrew Jackson Tate who was born at Wilson, Tennessee in 1827 and died...whereabouts unknown...in 1897, and to several other Tate's who fought for the Union cause. We are reluctant to definitively assign this genealogical information to a specific A. J. Tate, and encourage the future owner of the rare document to embark on a personal journey of discovery. In addition to the focal document, we offer a nice accumulation of related Tate family material found with the document, and suggest this additional material will offer great assistance in leading any researcher to the correct attribution.

Accompanying the Union Veterans Union memoriam are family documents:
- Five pre 1919 letters to and from family members.
- Two mortgages granted by Massachusetts's financial institutions.
- Seven covers with stamps addressed to Orlando Tate from various mines.
- One receipt to Carroll Tate related to receiving money from a mine claim.
- One hand written conveyance of mine stock; O.F. Tate to Carroll Tate.
- Five pre 1917 receipts; Orlando Tate purchasing mining stocks.
- Approximately twelve reports to share holders related to mine investments.
- One Salvation Army Band Member's Commission to Harmon Tate-1933
- Six Malden Massachusetts High School band concert programs-1930's.
- Inscribed on various documents are other names...all ancestors of Tate.

The above listed documents seem to suggest that the younger (Andrew's son?) Reverend Orlando Tate was investing money in dry holes out west.

This project will bring out the Sherlock Holmes in any adventurous researcher. This remarkable manuscript tribute to a former slave, emancipated by Lincoln, who in return fought for the Union cause is a rarely found tangible tribute to our American History.... fully embodying the American principles of freedom and the very soul of our American Heritage. The tribute to Tate could easily be the centerpiece of any Civil War, Abolitionist, Emancipation or Lincoln collection.

This 7.5 by 9.625-inch "mustering out" manuscript document remains in fine condition with typical folds and edge wear.

Price: $1,450

ACD

Cancer Cure Broadside

Quackery 19th C.J. H Savage Broadside on the Cure of Cancer; and interesting view on the social paranoia caused by cancer over 100 years ago.
9 x 11" unframed, but perfect candidate for medial office wall.

Price: $135

ACD

Drawing of Uncle Sam
By James Montgomery Flagg

Dimensions: 10.75 by 6.875-inches.

Price: $1,825

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Calligraphic Tribute to Andrew Jackson
Circa 1840

Calligraphic tribute to Andrew Jackson in blue ink; "Genr'l Andrew Jackson / The Hero Of / New Orleans / President of the United States of / America;" the word "America" is flanked by "Executed 1840" on the left and "by A. Goodale;" the whole flanked by two eagles; in what appears to be the original frame in old red paint, painted in black script on the backboard is "Goodale / Watertown / Mass;" light toning, some light stains and a few spots of foxing, no tears or creases. The frame measures 12.25-inches by 10.5-inches, and the view area measures 9.625-inches by 7.5-inches.

Price: $3,125

913-15

Large Historical Calligraphy Drawing

Dimensions: 20.375 by 25.375-inch frame, 17.625 by 22.625-inch sight size.

Price: $1,295

232-120

Lot of Mining Material

11 pieces of Mining related belonging to a single owner. New York and Austin Silver Mining Company, Features several mining documents, some revenue stamped pay documents, stock/bond issues, a commercial insurance log, Wells Fargo waybill, et. Mostly 1860s and 1870s, with some interesting forms and content. Very worth lot of early mining paper representing New York, Florida, Nevada and California during some of the peak years.

Price: $650 for the lot

808-11

Pen and Ink Calligraphy
"GUARDIAN SPIRITS OF AMERICA"
Eagle With Breast Marked "Freedom"
Jackson, Crogan, Harrison, Bainbridge
Respectfully inscribed to Columbia's
free-born sons by the writer
August 20th 1822
A, Maclaurin

There are two four-line poems surrounded by names of War Of 1812 heroes including Porter, Ripley, Hull and Jones. Minor soiling and toning, all else fine.
(Dimensions: 21.75 by 32-inches framed; 29.375 by 19.25-inch view area.)

Price: $2,495

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