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Abraham Lincoln National Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863

by HALL, J.C.

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N.p.: Hallmark, n.y.. Small 4to (7" X 9½"). Heavy stock single-fold card with printed glassine overlay in original transmittal envelope. Near fine. This undated (circa 1970) keepsake greeting from the Kansas City businessman (1892-1981) who founded Hallmark cards bears a large head-and-shoulders portrait by artist Donald Edward Dubowski (1947-2020) of a bearded Lincoln on front wrapper, with heavy glassine overlay filled with stylized text quoting part of his National Thanksgiving Proclamation. arranged so that the text block fills the space of Lincoln's head underneath. Inner panel bears printed message: "With gratitude for your loyalty and friendship, / and sincere wishes for a happy Thanksgiving," followed by a printed facsimile of Hall's signature. Original transmittal envelope (blank, never mailed) also present. Interesting and unusual.
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Address Delivered by Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador... at a Dinner Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of President Lincoln...

by CACCIA, Harold

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Springfield, IL: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1959. Folio. Two leaves (rectos only). Near fine. Stapled at upper left. Press release of the diplomat's comments on Lincoln and Anglo-American relations.
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All Chicago Greeting for Adlai E. Stevenson...

by (STEVENSON, Adlai E., II)

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Chicago: N.p., n.y. [1956]. Printed ticket. 24mo (5½" X 2½"). Fine. Ticket printed in blue and red on heavy orange card stock. Full text reads: "All Chicago Greeting for / Adlai E. Stevenson / Chicago Stadium / Wood and Madison Sts. / Saturday, November 1st / Greet and Hear the Next President of the United States / See and Hear Outstanding Stars of Stage -- / Screen -- Television and Radio / in a Salute to Governor Stevenson / Doors Open 6:30 P.M.," etc. Lower left corner (part in ink) notes this ticket is for "Aisle 10 Sec. L / Row A Seat 7." Stub portion on right side present, indicating this ticket is for the exclusive "Reserved Section." Very attractive and quite uncommon. These orange cards are far scarcer than the similar white cards for nonreserved seats.
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Americana Calendar: Circus Wagon Edition
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Americana Calendar: Circus Wagon Edition

by CURRO, Evelyn

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New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pink wrappers (plastic spiralbound) with color front cover label housed in original presentation box with color label. Near fine/very good. Minor separations on the box corners, but archivally repaired, thus strong and attractive -- and the calendar itself, having remained in the box, is as close to pristine as it gets. 1955 calendar featuring twelve handsome, color, heavy stock prints of early circus wagons. Difficult to find in unmarred condition with the original box. Fifth annual calendar in this particular form, tight and attractive.
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Anglo Saxon. One Tongue. One Purpose

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N.p.: N.p., 1898. Patriotic envelope. 16mo (6" X 3½"). Near fine. Cachet at left shows crossed U.S.A. and Canadian flags printed in red and blue, with the phrase "Anglo Saxon" above them and "One Tongue. One Purpose." below them. Between the flags above appear the scales of justice, captioned "Justice. / Copyright / 1898." This envelope was never stamped but address portion bears the printed address of The New York News Company in New York City. Unusual.
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Another Profile.

by OSTENDORF, Lloyd

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Editorial cartoon from the February 12, 1964 Dayton, Ohio "Journal Herald." 6½" X 9". Fine. Minor age toning. Inscribed by Ostendorf. Striking JFK assassination commentary reminiscent of Bill Mauldin's renowned "Grieving Lincoln," inscribed vertically to Arnold Gates. Lincoln is depicted standing behind JFK's famous rocking chair, clutching a copy of "Profiles in Courage," head bowed. Facing him is a head-and-shoulders profile of Kennedy.
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An Appeal to Humanity

by (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -- PUERTO PLATA -- BROADSIDE)

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Broadside. 4to (9½" X 12"). Near fine. Faintly age toned and with just the slightest bit of edgewear. Puerto Plata (also spelled Porto Plata) is the capital city of a province bearing the same name on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, and on the night of August 21, 1871, a fire engulfed that city's commercial district, crippling this remote district. On this occasion the province's governor, RAMON D. PACHECO, and the president of its Ayuntamiento (municipality council), FEDERICO M. LEYBA, signed (in type) this broadside, which consists of two side-by-side columns in English. In highly flowery language and twisted grammar, Pacheco and Leyba describe the fire and what it did to their city and its residents. In part: "Forty six buildings which encircled the only and most valuable, that held the greatest credit, that represented the complement of the towns welfare, the support of the majority of the population and, in short, were the prop of the Government, the guarantee of wealth, the fountain… Read More
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Article of Agreement...

Article of Agreement...

by (BELL & GOULD -- LEGAL FORM)

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New York: Bell & Gould, n.y.. Folio (13½" X 8"). 2pp (4pp lettersheet). Very good. Single light horizontal fold, else bright and nice. Handsome condition blank legal form published by this noted early 19th century publisher of legal blanks; at the death of one of the sons of company founder Alexander Gould in 1884, "The American Stationer" noted, "Legal forms bearing its imprint are known from one end of the country to another." This particular form, printed on pale blue stock typical of the 1850s, is an "Article of Co-partnership," and consists of boilerplate text with blank areas meant to be filled in by hand. Interesting example from one of the leading lights in the legal form field of the day.
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Autograph Letter Signed

by (SOAP / BATHING). WATSON, David S. (?-?)

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This Boston businessman was partner in the firm of Winslow, Rand & Co. Wholesale Grocers. ALS, 1p, 8" X 10½", Boston, MA, 23 December 1881. Addressed to "Friend Nutter." Very good. Original folds; single archivally closed (on verso) edge tear. On imprinted company letterhead listing the four principal officers, Watson comments interestingly on the use of soap: "I shall see that you have the soap today. Some fellows are awfully particular, and think that they must wash once a week. Now annual baths, or monthly baths, are great institutions, but I know you are a 'stubborn cuss', and will stick to your old habits and customs, and I trust that the superior quality of the goods sent you, will satisfy the fastidious tastes of you revellers in luxury." Handsomely penned in black ink and signed in full at the close. Intriguing remarks about personal hygiene of the day -- sounds like recipient may have been, as the Brits say, a "right Nutter"!
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Autograph Note Signed

Autograph Note Signed

by (LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WRITERS)

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In 1935 the American Communist Party formed this motley group of writers -- poets, playwrights, critics, novelists, etc. -- who sympathized with their ideology and supported their view, with Writer Waldo Frank their first president and a stellar "Who's Who" membership of "fellow travelers"; they issued a newsletters, published titles and were active in various causes such as the Spanish Civil War, but dissolved in 1943. ANS, 1p, 8½" X 7¼", New York, NY, 20 March 1939. Addressed to future notable Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. On "League of American Writers" letterhead that also boasts famed officers such as Van Wyck Brooks, Erskine Caldwell, Malcolm Cowley, Paul DeKruif, Langston Hughes, Meridel LeSueur, Upton Sinclair and Donald Ogden Stewart, the organizations apparently unknown secretary -- she signs off "Dorothy [Paitz?], Sec'y" -- writes this young supporter that "Under separate cover we… Read More
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BALLS Health Preserving CORSET is the best in the world

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Chicago: Chicago Corset Co., n.y. [ca. 1880s]. Single heavy stock card. 3" X 4 3/4". Very good. Mild bit of quite minor soiling. Color lithograph on recto depicts a Victorian parlor with a white-haired granny seated reading the "Morning News" featuring the headline cited above. One child clutching a book sits next to her, another stands behind her reading over her shoulder, and two white puppies are seated by her feet -- the picture of domestic bliss. The all-text verso proclaims "Guarantee," which states: "Any Lady purchasing one of BALL's Coiled Spring Elastic Section CORSETS can return it, after wearing it three weeks, to the dealer from whom it was bought, if not found Perfectly Satisfactory in Every Respect...." This colorful card has been handsomely free-floated against a blue matte and framed in a ½" ornate gilt frame (overall dimensions 5¼" X 7") with a copy of the all-text verso mounted on the back of the frame.
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Certificate of Stock... Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company

Certificate of Stock... Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company

by (PEORIA AND HANNIBAL RAILROAD COMPANY)

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N.p.: Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company, n.y. [1850s]. Handbill. Small 8vo (7 3/4" X 5¼"). Near fine. Very slight age toning. Handsome printed "Certificate of Stock" for shares in this Midwest locomotive concern, with standard boilerplate text, with blanks (none filled in) for shareholder's name, number of shares, amount paid, date, etc., as well as blank areas for the usual secretary and president's signatures. Some elaborate borders and elaborate typefaces. Altogether an attractive and evocative item of railroad ephemera.
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Chicago & North-Western Railway -- Madison Division. (Between Milwaukee and Madison.)

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N.p. [Chicago]: Chicago & North-Western Railway, 1882. Broadside. 14½" X 9". Very good. Bit of sporadic soiling, but overall remarkably clean and attractive -- given it's printed on a thin tissue paper, a rare survivor. Timetable "No. 4," which "Takes Effect Sunday, May 7th, 1882, at 12 o'clock Noon" and is meant "For the Government and Information of Employes only," containing two columns (headed "Trains Going West" and "Trains Going East") showing all stops for both freight and passenger trains between Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin. Signed in large type at the bottom by J.D. Layng as General Superintendent, C.A. Swineford as Superintendent and Wm. F. Fitch as Assistant Superintendent. Rare to find in ANY condition, given its inherent fragility, much less this attractive condition. Newly and archivally framed under UV-filtering glass with a single archival cream matte and 3/4" thick dark wood and antiqued gold… Read More
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Collection of U.S. Naval Expedition Patriotic Envelopes
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Collection of "U.S. Naval Expedition" Patriotic Envelopes

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12 covers, each 5½" X 3", New York, NY, n.y. Near fine. Unused and with faintest of age toning only and original gum present. Exceptional complete set, printed entirely in brown ink by Charles Magnus at 12 Frankfort Street in New York. Undated, although Steven R. Boyd in his "Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers" dates it to August 1861. While most of the dozen feature naval ships prominently in the middle ground or foreground, often with groups of soldiers (not sailors!) in various activities, only two covers actually depicts naval battles at sea and the final three covers depict infantry soldiers battling with no apparent nautical references whatsoever. A fascinating grouping seldom found complete and in uniform outstanding condition.
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Collection of Three General Orders

by (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR -- WISCONSIN). THOMAS, Lorenzo, and TOWNSEND, E.D.

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Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1862. Handbills. 12mo. Very good to near fine. One is 4-punched at left edge (not affecting text). Unusual gathering of three Wisconsin-related "General Orders" issued in 1862, 1863 and 1864, all issued from the Adjutant General's Office at the War Department in Washington, DC, as follows: General Orders, No. 217 (30 December 1862), 1p, Notes three miscellaneous actions for three individual servicemen, the last of which involves 2d Lieutenant Samuel B. Morse of the 7th Wisconsin Volunteers, who resigned before the order dismissing him. General Orders, No. 11 (10 January 1863), 1p, dismissing Colonel R.C. Murphy of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteers from the Army "for allowing his command to be surprised at Holly Springs, Mississippi, without having taken proper steps to protect his post, or repulse the enemy, and his troops having been found in bed at the time of attack." General Orders, No. 211 (15 June 1864), 1p, text… Read More
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Collection of Six Printed Items

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Minneapolis: Soo Line Railroad Company, 1982. Soo Line Railroad was the U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, formed in 1961 as the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad and undergoing a number of consolidations and changes in name and ownership into the 1980s and '90s; its lines operated mainly in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. Grouping of half a dozen items: 1.) Soo Liner -- The "Intermodal" Concept: Very much a part of Soo's future. 4to. Glossy wrappers. 15pp. Numerous illustrations, heavy stock centerfold "Santa Rides the Soo" map of the Soo Line. Near fine. Company magazine. 2.) News to Know: A Soo Liner Supplement. Small 4to. Self-cover. (4pp). Map. Fine. Newsletter. 3.) Soo Milwaukee System: Train Planning and Tonnage Profiles. Wide 64mo. Stiff red wrappers. (8pp). Two foldouts. Very good. 4.) 1983: Your Rail Gateway to America. Heavy stock 10½" X 8". Yearly calendar with "Dates of Holidays for Soo… Read More
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Collection of U.S. Postal Cancellations
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Collection of U.S. Postal Cancellations

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Hardcover. Folio (14½" X 11"). Grey cloth, front board bearing large ornate "ALBUM" in gilt and extensive black and gilt decorations, with small color plate at lower right. (31pp), (55pp blank). Very good overall. Binding rather edgeworn and rubbed, but tight and sound; text leaves heavy, age toned thick stock typical of Victorian album leaves, with some showing more age toning. Fascinating Victorian album with about 23 pages' worth of tipped-in content amongst the first 31 pages, the final 55 pages being blank. For the most part this is a collection of U.S. postal cancellations clipped off envelopes -- approximately 555 total: Eight pages bear about 63 per page and three pages contain a dozen or more each. Most date from the early to mid-1880s from communities large and small across the U.S., with a bit of concentration in the Midwest (especially Illinois and Iowa). Many of these small towns likely no longer exist. One bizarre page bears a delightfully weird Joseph Cornellesque montage featuring… Read More
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. / 1858

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N.p.: William White, 1858. 20" X 29". Very good. Normal folds; a few small edge tears. This remarkable broadside charts the state's entire executive and legislative branches. At the top, beneath the boldface title given above, is "Executive Department," headed by soon-to-be Union general Nathaniel P. Banks and listing his lieutenant governor, cabinet members and councillors. Next comes "Senators," listing all state senators by county and city. Finally, comprising two-thirds of the broadside, is "Representatives," a county-by-county directory of state representatives. A "Special Notice to the Members of the Senate and House" at the bottom makes it clear that this broadside was intended for public display in the state capitol building. A fascinating and attractive piece.
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Compliments of J.C. Furry, Virden, Ills

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Toledo, OH: E.B. Terry & Co., n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single, coated heavy stock card. 6¼" X 4". Good plus. Bit of edgewear. Full color lithography. Pair of huge open scissors bisects this space into four triangular scenes, each depicting children using scissors: a girl snips flowers off a tree into her friend's hat, a girl gives a little boy a haircut, a naughty girl cuts the tassels off the bottom of a Victorian parlor chair for her kitty to play with, two little girls play at cutting and sewing. Verso is blank.
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Conundrums

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Boston: Rust Craft, n.y.. Heavy stock 6" X 3½" printed envelope that opens to reveal two pockets, one containing 16 heavy stock 5" X 3" printed cards and the other containing a single heavy stock bifold 6" X 5" printed card. Very good. Printed envelope faintly age toned and lightly edgeworn, with small discreet archival mends along couple of weakened folds; cards near fine, with the occasional small foxing. This pioneering greeting card company was founded in Boston by Fred Rust in 1906, and their product line also included packets such as this (noted as product number "599"). Each of the 16 cards contains several clever word play questions such as (#1) "When did the fly fly?" and the last (#49) "When was beef the highest?" The bifold "Answers to Conundrums" card lists all answers ("1. When the spider spied her" and "49. When the cow jumped over the moon"). Undated, although the typeface and style… Read More
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