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"My beautiful book arrived well packed and in the exact condition it was represented."
— Bill P. purchased Naval History of the Civil War by Admiral David D. Porter, published in 1866

"Superb, in excellent condition." — H.A.P. purchased an 1876 Centennial Exhibition silk flag

"Couldn't be happier. Thanks for making priceless items like this available for people to procure and treasure." — A.R. purchased the Federalist, published in 1826

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  • Cased USS Constitution Ship Model from Lannan Ship Model Gallery — with marquetry inlay table

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  • Carved gold leaf eagle with sailing ship — 42" wide — One of a kind

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  • Carved Walnut mirror celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation

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  • General Omar Bradley Collection — Signed photo, pair of his five star pins

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  • Mark Twain Hand Signed Letter in an antique frame from the period — Documented by scholars

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  • Ship's Passports - Signed by John Tyler

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  • Document signed by Thomas Jefferson for the import duty on his famous Louis Chantrot Obelisk Clock

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  • Mounted metal eagle atop a ball and wooden base

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  • Ornate “Bulls-eye” Convex Mirror — Late 19th/early 20th C.

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  • 400th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America — Bronze Medal — 1892

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  • 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Bronze Commemorative Medal — Head of Ceres

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  • Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition — The Medal of Award — Philadelphia 1926

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  • "The Wright Brothers" medal awarded by Congress in 1909 — Bronze

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  • World’s Columbian Exposition Dedication Ceremonies Ticket — October 21, 1892

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  • US Centennial Liberty Bell Milk Glass Small Platter — 1876

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  • 1780 "Bowles's New Map of the World" Double-page engraved map with hand-colored cartouches

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  • Calendar Tiles with Historic Scenes of the Mayflower, USS Constitution, and Historic Boston Landmarks — 1908 - 1920

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  • 1893 World's Fair Ruby-Stained Early-America Pattern Glass

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  • 1893 Columbian Exposition Chicago World's Fair Wedgwood Plates

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  • 1890's 44-Star Parade Flag — Framed

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  • 1887 Map of New England with Adjacent Portions of New York and Canada

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  • Famous Gettysburg Battlefield Map by John Bachelder — Hand colored — Framed and matted

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  • 1893 "Grant and the Generals of the Army of the Potomac" — Framed print

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  • Historical Staffordshire blue plate showing the landing of Gen. Lafayette at Castle Garden in New York, early 19th c.

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  • The Congressional War on Kansas over Slavery and Statehood: 59 speeches covering 1854 - 1858

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  • Presidential appointment signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison - 1807 - In an antique frame

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  • Lincoln Assassination Trial — New-York Tribune — May 10, 1865 — Reporting on the first day of the trial

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  • George Washington 1789 "GW" Inaugural Button — "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT" — Includes certificate of authenticity

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  • "The March of Miles Standish" — Framed, matted 1873 print

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  • Framed "Fortune" Magazine, June 1937, Vol XV Number 6 — Antonio Petruccelli

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  • Chippendale mirror with veneer and inlay — 1700s

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  • "VI Corps Order of Battle 1943 - 1945" WWII small poster — Framed

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  • Printed for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition: US flag surrounded with the flags of participating nations — Framed

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  • "Adrian Daily Times" with stories about the life and career of Gen. Ulysses Grant — Adrian, Michigan, March 31, 1885

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  • Thirteen star parade flag — Likely made for the first Centennial Celebration of American Independence

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  • "Landing of the Pilgrims" — Historical Staffordshire blue plates c1825

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  • "Louisburg" Large Wooden Eagle — 44" wide — in the style of John Haley Bellamy

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  • 1856 "The First Landing of the Pilgrims" — In a beautiful, antique frame

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  • George Washington Statue — Parian porcelain

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  • Two Continental Soldier Pay Documents and a Continental one third dollar note - Framed

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  • “Ironclads steaming past Vicksburg” — Original oil painting published in the Gold Book series

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  • Douglas MacArthur Signed Occupation Currency — With certificate of authenticity

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  • Battle of Manila, May 1, 1898 — Framed 1898 print

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  • Original WWII poster — 1943 "Americans will always fight for liberty"

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  • 1860 "The Courtship of Washington" Engraving by John C. McRae — Framed

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  • Framed Steel Engraving & Card — Signed by Gen. George Mcclellan - c.1864

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  • 48 Star Flag "Defiance" - 50" x 88"

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  • Original WWI poster — "That Liberty Shall Not Perish from The Earth" bond drive poster

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  • General Douglas MacArthur - Framed with signature - "Duty, honor, country . . ."

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  • Paul Revere - North Church Lantern — Sterling Silver — Numbered — Authorized by the Concord Antiquarian Society

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  • Roosevelt Bronze — “Fighting for the right” — 1920

    Roosevelt Bronze — “Fighting for the right” — 1920

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  • Teddy Roosevelt Relief Portrait c. 1910

    Teddy Roosevelt Relief Portrait c. 1910

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  • Five Colonial Currency Notes from 1770 to 1779, including North Carolina (1776), South Carolina, and Maryland

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  • Historical Staffordshire "Landing of Fathers, Plymouth Rock" Pitcher

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  • The First Landing of the Pilgrims — 1856 engraving of famous painting

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  • Enola Gay print signed by pilot Col. Paul Tibbets, navigator Capt. Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, and bombardier Maj. Thomas Ferebee — Framed

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  • President Calvin Coolidge signed photograph with a note from his secretary, on White House stationery, in a handmade frame

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  • Small, framed George Washington silhouettes

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  • Paul Revere's Ride — Original oil painting by Alton S. Tobey for "The Golden Book History of the United States"

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  • CDV of President Lincoln with Tad — 1865 — In a handmade, solid wood frame

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  • Four historic framed prints of American soldiers in uniform 1774 - 1783 that were commissioned by the Quartermaster General of the Army (1890 - 1907)

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  • Seth Thomas "Banjo Clock" with a depiction of a naval engagement

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  • Boston Massacre print made from Revere's original plate — Framed

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  • Historical Staffordshire blue plates c1825 commemorating the landing at Plymouth and four other historical events

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  • Teddy Roosevelt Bronze Plaque — The Strenuous Life — c. 1910

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  • 1901 Pan-American Exposition Decorated Miniature Lamp

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  • Theodore Roosevelt — Signed photograph with certificate of authenticity

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  • Hand hammered copper eagle flagpole topper

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  • Large, framed, hand-colored 1841 etching of U.S. ship in the Port of Liverpool

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  • USS Constitution Models—Enclosed in glass with a custom built display table

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  • Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Appointment — Signed March 7, 1904

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  • Currier & Ives hand-colored original print, "The Fall of Richmond, Virginia, on the Night of April 2nd, 1865," in an antique frame

    Currier & Ives hand-colored original print, "The Fall of Richmond, Virginia, on the Night of April 2nd, 1865," in an antique frame

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  • Chippendale-style Mahogany Inlaid Scroll-frame Mirror — 19th C.

    Chippendale-style Mahogany Inlaid Scroll-frame Mirror — 19th C.

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  • Cast iron eagle — 19th / 20th C.

    Cast iron eagle — 19th / 20th C.

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  • George Washington 1789 First Inaugural Button—“Memorable Era / March the Fourth 1789”

    George Washington 1789 First Inaugural Button—“Memorable Era / March the Fourth 1789”

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  • "Washington and His Generals" - 1870 - Framed color print

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  • Naval despatch on August 15, 1945, announcing the end of the war in the Pacific, with 48-star flag — matted and framed

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  • Photograph of Grant and his family on their porch shortly before his death — Framed

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  • Battle of White Plains map — Hand colored — 1834

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  • Siege of Yorktown - Surrender of Cornwallis — Steel engraving from France — Framed 1860 print

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  • Paul Revere Desk Statue

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  • 509th Composite Group Signed by Tibbets, Van Kirk, and other crew — Framed

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  • "Victory" — Vintage WWII Cotton Tablecloth

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  • Original "Remember Dec. 7th!" WWII Posters — Linen backed — Two sizes, one very large

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  • "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln" Engraving — Matted and framed

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  • "Washington's Reception at the Bridge at Trenton" — Hand colored — In an antique frame

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  • 1876 Philadelphia World's Fair Centennial Exposition Glassware from Gillinder and Co.

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  • George Washington at Valley Forge Medalion — Freedoms Foundation — Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania

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  • Claire Chennault print hand signed by 11 Flying Tigers

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  • Ulysses S. Grant — Original oil painting by Alton S. Tobey for "The Golden Book History of the United States"

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  • "A New and Correct Plan of the Town of Boston" from the "Gentleman's Magazine" — October 1775 — In an antique frame

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  • "Midnight Ops" Print — Signed by the pilots and artist

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  • "Cornwallis resigning his sword to Washington" steel engraving — Framed

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  • 1893 Chicago World's Fair & Columbian Exposition Bronze Award Medal — Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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  • "Battle Over London" — Signed by pilots and crew — Framed — Includes Certificate of Authenticity

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  • The Taking of Yorktown — Framed print with the title in French and English — 1840 or 1855

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  • "The Battle at Bunker's Hill" — c 1870 print — Framed and matted

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  • Carved wooden eagle with a shield and two flags — 29” wide

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  • 1820 Historical Staffordshire blue plate showing the 15 states

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  • Small creamware pitcher with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin

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  • Copper eagle on ball on wooden block

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  • 1868 "Johnson's North America" — Hand-colored — Framed

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  • Carved wooden eagle — "Live and Let Live" — 36" wide

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  • President Theodore Roosevelt Naval Appointment — Signed December 23, 1908

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  • Reverse-painted Federal mirror with Paul Revere

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  • Carved wooden eagle — "Don't give up the ship" — 28" wide

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  • 1945 VIII Corps WWII Route Map

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  • Hand-colored 1762 Map of North America

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  • A carte de visite (CDV) of President Lincoln in a large solid wood frame

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  • Admiral Chester Nimitz signed photo aboard USS Missouri as he is signing the surrender documents — September 2, 1945

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  • Liverpool creamware pitcher commemorating George Washington after his death

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  • Original WWI poster — "Books wanted for our men in camp and over there" — Framed, with museum-grade acrylic

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  • Battle of Boston Harbor with the Frigates Chesapeake and Shannon — 1813 — Two historic framed prints

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  • 1783 View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town, June 17, 1775 Framed print

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  • Preparing for the Battle of Bunker Hill — original oil painting by Alton S. Tobey for "The Golden Book History of the United States"

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  • Large Historical Platter with several scenes of Plymouth in 1622 and after

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  • Civil War Grand Army of the Republic Trumbull Post, No. 16 — In black frame

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  • Civil War Grand Army of the Republic Stanley Post, No. 11 — In ornate wooden frame

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  • Uncle Sam "I Want You" WWI recruiting poster — Framed

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  • Historical plates from Staffordshire and Wedgwood

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Books and Publications

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