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11:00 AM PT - May 8th, 2003

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Preview hours for the sale are on Thursday, May 8, 2003, 9 AM to 12 Noon, AND Friday, May 9, 2003, 9 AM to 12 Noon, at the Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Sharonville, Ohio 45246. (Conveniently located immediately off I-75, just south of I-275).

Americana

644 items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
608
Lot 608
Photos of American Indians from White's

Institute, Wabash, Indiana, lot of 37, mostly cabinet style...

3,000
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4,000
609
Lot 609
Platinum Photographs of Custer Scouts at

Little Big Horn, dramatic scene of white marble headstones of 7th...

300
-
400
610
Lot 610
Cabinet Card of Dakota Indian Baseball P

layer, his jersey with lettering of "White's Institute" and...

400
-
600
611
Lot 611
Cabinet Card and Booklet from Carlisle I

nstitute, includes a "before and after" gelatin silver image of...

300
-
400
612
Lot 612
Sioux Chief Long Wolf and Family Cabinet

Card, with imprint of Anderson, New York on verso. Title line...

300
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500
613
Lot 613
John B. Rich Photograph of Tepee and Cro

w Indians, platinum photograph, 6.4 x 8.5". Scene lit by firelight...

400
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600
614
Lot 614
Rinehart Iron Hawk Print

, signed in print "1889/W.H. Rinehart/" in lower left with title...

400
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600
615
Lot 615
Early Chippewa Indian Reservation Photos

, lot of 6 albumen images, 5 x 7", mounted on larger boards...

300
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500
616
Lot 616
D.F. Barry Photographs

, circa 1910, three silver gelatin prints of Rain-in-the-Face...

1,000
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1,500
617
Lot 617
Jesse James Theater Poster

, chromolithographed, marked lower right "The Donaldson Co...

2,000
-
2,500
618
Lot 618
West Point Yearbook, 1887

, of Cadet Charles Gerhardt. Large folio, morocco leather with...

2,500
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3,500
619
Lot 619
Broadside on Silk, Adam Forepaugh Circus

Season 1891, printed in black on gilded silk; advertising the...

500
-
700
620
Lot 620
Promotional Photograph of the Parry Sist

ers, by Floyd, NY. Fine 8 x 10" silver gelatin image of Juanita...

300
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500
621
Lot 621
Great White Fleet Chinese Silk Flag

, machine sewn, white silk ground with polychrome silk embroidery...

150
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200
622
Lot 622
Original Art by Lucius Curtis Pease

, WWII crayon drawing of a Miss Liberty type maiden in a flowing...

400
-
600
623
Lot 623
Spanish-American War Archive

, lot of 4. Includes 2 uniform jackets reportedly belonging to a...

300
-
400
624
Lot 624
Original Art by Lucius Curtis Pease

, WWII pencil & crayon drawing with Mussolini emerging from the...

400
-
600
625
Lot 625
Original Art by Lucius Curtis Pease

, WWII ink and crayon drawing of Rommel, depicted as part fox...

400
-
600
626
Lot 626
Japanese Aikuchi Type Dagger

, has finely carved bone grip of Japanese children playing in...

300
-
400
627
Lot 627
Scarce WW II Flying Tigers Patches and M

emorabilia, lot of 5. Includes a tri-color leather shoulder patch...

300
-
500
628
Lot 628
Samurai Sword

, unsigned with two Nakago-ana and Nakago recut for new hilt...

400
-
500
629
Lot 629
Samurai Sword

, signed on left face of uncut Nakago with single Nakago-ana. WWII...

400
-
500
630
Lot 630
Samurai Sword

, 27" blade having a Midare type Hamon (heat treatment); single...

800
-
1,200
631
Lot 631
Japanese Short Sword

, Tanto type signed blade, 16", long with single Mekugi Ana, Sugba...

1,000
-
1,500
632
Lot 632
Japanese Signed Short Sword Case

, lacquered wood with brass chrysanthemum mounts and Japanese...

300
-
500
633
Lot 633
Ben Stahl (1910-1987) WW II Pencil Illus

tration, probably of the siege of Leningrad, where the Germans...

400
-
600
634
Lot 634
Photo Album of 1937 China Upheaval

, assembled by Walter E. Houck a member of the 15th "Can do...

300
-
500
635
Lot 635
Folk Carved World War I Era Box

, carved from a single piece of pine with hinged lid and added...

300
-
400
636
Lot 636
Huge Lot of American WWI Posters

, over 100 posters, including full, half, quarter sheets and...

500
-
1,000
637
Lot 637
Gee I Wish I Were A Man Poster by Christ

y, full sheet chromolithographed on heavy card stock paper, with...

800
-
1,000
638
Lot 638
They Kept the Sea Lanes Open by L.A. Sha

fer, full sheet chromolithographed Victory Liberty Loan poster...

600
-
800
639
Lot 639
They Kept the Sea Lanes Open by L.A. Sha

fer, lot of 2, both full sheet chromolithographed Victory Liberty...

600
-
800
640
Lot 640
WWI U.S. Military Recruiting Posters

, lot of 42. 11 Army posters including "Men Wanted for the...

1,000
-
2,000
641
Lot 641
German WWI & Communist Posters

, lot of 7, all chromolithographed on various quality papers...

600
-
800
642
Lot 642
Italian WWI Posters

, lot of 4, including works by Capranesi, Craffonara, Mauzan and...

600
-
800
643
Lot 643
Collection Sword Type Bayonets Plus

, lot of 7. European, 19th and early 20th centuries, 6 with...

200
-
400
644
Lot 644
Dupont Powder Chromolithograph,


Dupont Powder Chromolithographed Calendar, By H. Pyle, entitled...

500
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600
645
Lot 645
Huge Lot of French, British, Italian, Ge

rman Posters, Art & Trench Papers, over 100 pieces including about...

300
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500
646
Lot 646
Huge Lot of American WWI Posters

, lot of over 120, includes most of the Liberty Bonds, W.S.S., U.S...

1,000
-
2,000
647
Lot 647
Lot of Three Bayonets

includes Hall Model with old Ms paper label, unmarked...

400
-
600
648
Lot 648
Pro-Prohibition Posters

lot of 46, including 4 full sheet (3 different posters), 24 half...

400
-
500
649
Lot 649
Jack Johnson Boxing Photo

, wonderful image taken at the July 4th, 1910 championship battle...

1,000
-
1,500
650
Lot 650
Helen Wills Tennis Advertising Banner

, printed on polished cotton by Sweeney Litho Co., Inc...

500
-
700
651
Lot 651
Heavy Weight Boxing Championship Belt, 1

918, elephant hide, sterling and porcelain. Belt 4.5 x 39.5" with...

3,000
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5,000
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