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period Southern Sympathizer Satirical HAND BILL
Offered here with some age staining and a bit dog eared just the way we found it, is this scarce 6 ½ X 9 period cartoon depicting the plight of the South under the thumb of the Yankees. Printed on one side on typically poor local paper stock for handout or public posting, this satirical cartoon with the unkempt Confederate and the classically portrayed U. S. Grant still retains its hurriedly done period watercolor embellishment. As we say a bit dog-eared from age and on poor paper stock but this rarely surviving piece of Americana remains solid and will lay nicely in any period collection. As with all direct sales, we are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with refund of the purchase price upon return as purchased! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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Civil War era Medical / Surgical ¬- INDIA RUBBER COURT PLASTER
This original, Civil War era India Rubber Court Plaster remains in its nicely printed, INDIA RUBBER COURT PLASTER, / WARRANTED / Manufactured by J. H. Thacher / Portsmouth, N.H. The unopened packet remains in fine original condition containing a single surgical plaster measuring approximately 4 ¼ by 3 ¼ inches. The antique court plaster was a thin sheet which when wetted adhered to the skin so as to offer protection of the wounded surface. (see: India-Rubber & Gutta-Percha In The Civil War Era by Mike Woshner , also National Museum Of Civil War Medicine collection Pamplin Park)
Joseph Haven Thacher began his druggist’s business at the corner of State and Pleasant Streets in Portsmouth, New Hampshire sometime before 1851 (see period City Directories) and may be found in the 1861 New Hampshire Apothecary Directory. We’d guess that his brother who also ran an apothecary operated the business for a time during the Civil War as Joseph is listed as serving as Capt. Co. K of the 16th New Hampshire Infantry.
A neat addition to any Civil War vintage medical / surgical grouping without spending a lot of money. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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earlier to mid 19th century ladies Fur Gloves & Muff
A wonderful companion piece to lay in with earlier to mid 1800s antique ladies collectables, this beautiful vintage fur muff and gloves grouping show good age and originality yet remain in excellent eye appealing condition. Clearly crafted as a matched set, the hand stitching and decorative lining remains solid and in pleasing condition. Buy with confidence! All direct sales are backed by no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased ! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item is being returned per these previsions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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gold - Ladies of the GAR – PAST PRESIDENT MEDAL- Gen. Lew Wallace Circle, Indiana
A beautiful 14k gold Ladies of the G. A. R. past president medal inscribed Carrie J. Dalton – Lew Wallace Circle No. 68 – 1911. The medal weighs 13.5 grams and remains in fine as new condition with crisp relief and hand engraving.
A lawyer by trade Lewis (Lew) Wallace (1827-1905) is best remembered today as the author of Ben-Hur, though he served in the Mexican War and rose to the rank of Major General in the Civil War and in the reconstruction period served as Territorial Governor of New Mexico when he worked to end the fighting of the Lincoln County War. When the Civil War broke out, Wallace raised a Zouave regiment which was afterward known as the 11th Indiana Volunteers. Lewis Wallace continued to distinguish himself through the Rebellion with promotion to Division Commander then in recognition of his action at the storming of Fort Donnellson was promoted to Major General.
A nice item for the Civil War and G. A. R. Axillary enthusiast as well as the antique collector. A good chance to have your cake and eat it to given today’s gold prices! Buy with confidence! All direct sales are backed by no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased ! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item is being returned per these previsions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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c.1822 - 8th CONN. MILITIA INSPECTION RETURN
This attractive 10 5/8 X 17 5/8 antique document is print entitled Inspection RETURN of the 4th Company of the 8th Regiment of Connecticut Militia and offers a penned roster of 51 names of Company members. The document records the individual issue of Espontoons - Swords – Guns – Bayonets – Bayonet Belts – Cartridge Boxes – Cartridges – Flints – Primer Wires – and Knapsacks to include the fife and drum to Co. Fifer and Drummer . An attractive early Americana document specific to a leading regiment of the American Revolution, the 8th Connecticut Regiment wintered at Valley Forge. All in nice original condition on rag paper with period folds but no tears repairs or restoration. ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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c. late 1700s / early 1800s BLEEDING CUP
This nice antique cupping device measures approximately 2 ¼ inches in height and is about 2 inches in diameter at the mouth with a bulbous body swelling to over 2 ½ inches in diameter. These glass medical devices were used in the widely utilized medical cure process of bleeding with this example dating in the 1800s with use through the Civil War period. This cupping device or bleeding cup would be a staple in any physician's bag or medical chest of the period. A nice original example in excellent condition with no chips or flakes, this piece demonstrates all the characteristics glass collectors of the period appreciate. We are fortunate to have a small number of these of varying size shape and construction (use our search feature to see item #2710 # 3297) and are offering them individually priced for the antique medical collector who would like one. ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !
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7th Vermont attributed NILES Pat. 1860 – RUBBER DRINKING
All complete and in nice condition save a small period chip at the base flange, this antique NILES DRINKING CUP * PATENTED * JUNE 5TH 1860 marked telescoping cup retains its faintly discernible Goodyear’s Patent marks on the upper ring. On the base of the hard rubber cup are the initials F. N. P. Acquired some time ago from the personal collection of a Vermont, Civil War scholar / collector who’s hand written identification tag remains with the cup. F. N. P. are the markings of Francis N. Prevost of Pittsford, Vt., Co. B 7th Vermont, Regt.says he with enlisted 1/15/62 – re-enlisted 2/24/64 as a musician – discharged 8/5/65 for disabilities added. Our own research found corresponding information on the HDS db forFrancis Prevost with no middle initial given. A nice item for the Civil War smalls, personal item or hard rubber collector, priced with the identification as a bonus. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! |
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important - Union Mjr. Gen. Henry F. Clarke GROUPING
This outstanding grouping of Mjr. General Henry Francis Clarke, (won his Brig. General star for gallantry at the battle of Gettysburg), includes a plaster bust of Clarke by noted sculptor Leonard W. Volk,best known for his earlier work with Abraham Lincoln. The 12 inch high painted plaster bust is inscribed Genl. H. F. Clark U. S. A. on the front and L. W. Volk 1889 on the back. The bust depicts Clarke in uniform wearing his Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States medal. Included in this grouping is General Clarke’spersonal issue gold Loyal Legion Medal #733. ( see published MOLLUS roster with inscribed medal numbers: UNION BLUE by Robert G. Carroon and Dana B. Shoaf) The group also includes two Loyal Legion lapel rosettes, his Grand Army of the Republic membership medal,complete with its original well worn and tattered suspension ribbon. With the group a GAR, 1902 Washington National Encampment medal and Clarke’s jeweler made monogram cuff buttons(HFC). These were fashioned from 1854 and 1855 US silver quarters, nicely handengraved with blue enamel highlights. Last but not the least is a personally inscribed carte de viste of Clarke from the Matthew Brady, Washington studio . The CDV remains in excellent condition and is signed on the verso Yours truly H F Clarke. As to provenance, all of the preceeding General Henry Francis Clarke artifacts, with the exception of the signed Clarke photograph, came to us as a group when offered as such by an established New England auction house. In our own research we found sale of Clarke material, to include a camp chair offered by Cowans, leading back to the family and a sale of the estate of the General’s Great Granddaughter Mary Clark.. While the time and location of that sale will take some additional research. The Volk bust of Clarke had been offered by the Heritage auction house in Texas with the attributation of the Clarke family via the Tharpe collection of American Military History, exhibited by the Liberty Heritage Society Museum. General Clarke’s MOLLUS medal will speak for itself with its recorded and inscribed issue number as will the silver cuff buttons which offer the the General’s HFC monograhm. We added the signed CDV to the grouping when we had the opertunity.
Mjr. Genl. Henry Francis Clarke
Henry Francis Clarke was born in Brownsville, Pa., Nov. 9, 1820. He was graduated from West Point, in 1843, and was commissioned 2nd Lt., 2nd US Artillery. A veteran of the Mexican War, Clarke was wounded at Chapultepec, where he was brevetted captain for his gallantry, Sept. 13, 1847. Clark served as an instructor of artillery at the Military Academy at West Point, 1848-49, then as professor of mathematics, 1850-51. He served in the Seminole War, 1851-52; then as Adjt., 2nd US Artillery at Fort Monroe, 1852-53 then at Pensacola, 1853-55. Assigned back at West Point as instructor of artillery in 1855-56 Clarke was then stationed at Fort Hamilton in New York, 1856-57. Promoted Captain Jan. 12, 1857 Clarke served in the challenging position of chief of commissariat on the Utah Expedition, (a.k.a. Utah War / Mormon Rebellion) 1857-60. Clarke was assigned Chief of Commissariat, Dept. of Florida, April and May, 1861 then served as Chief of Commissariat of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-64. He participated in the campaigns of the Peninsula, Maryland, the Rappahannock, Pennsylvania, and the Rapidan, and was brevetted colonel Sept. 11, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services in the Maryland campaign. He received the brevet of brigadier-general, March 18, 1865, for services at gallantry at Gettysburg and was at the same time brevetted major-general of the United States army for faithful and meritorious services in the subsistence department during the war. He was in charge of the subsistence department in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, 1864-67; division of Missouri, 1867-75; and of the division of the Atlantic, 1879-84. He was promoted colonel May 20, 1882, and was retired Nov. 9, 1884. He died in Washington, D.C., May 10, 1887. (Source: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans)
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4347 |
original Pat 1863 NEEDLE PACKET
This attractive paper sewing needle packet is all original and retains its original content of needles. Illustrated here with a quarter for size comparison this neat little needle packet is dated U.S. Pat. Oct. 18,1863 and is labeled BLOOD’S Genuine Helix NEEDLES. An eye appealing companion piece for the Civil War vintage ladies sewing basket or soldiers personal things. ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques ! |
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4303 |
Vintage Brass Plated SAFETY PINS
Not a big deal but when we found these as new and un-used old safety pins in a vintage country store grouping we felt they were worth preserving. Just the thing to lay in an old sewing basket or period housewife sewing kit, these early brass plated safety pins are priced by the group of a dozen in graduating sizes just as they were offered those many years ago. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best.
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lot of 6 – c. 1860 / 1870 POLICE BUTTONS
Illustrated here with a quarter for size comparison, our photographs will likely do best to describe this group of 6 matching antique POLICE frock buttons. Maker marked SCOVILL MF’G CO. WATERBURY, these buttons are dated c. 1860 1870 in McGuinn & Bazelons AMERICAN MILITARY BUTTON MAKERS AND DEALERS; THEIR BACKMARKS & DATES p.88 top ctr. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques ! |
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Civil War era - D. Goff & Son Worsted Braid Binding
Utilized in the period as textile binding braid or tape, this original 5 yard packet of early ¾ inch D. Goff & Son Worsted remains in unopened as newcondition and will serve well in any appropriate textile restoration effort or simply as a display piece with 19th century textile or sewing antiques.
Darius Goff set up his textile machinery in 1861 in what was known as the old stone millon the east side of the river in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The little weaving operation was the first worsted mill in the country when the younger Goff joined his father to form D. Goff & Son in 1862. A neat old attic find. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !
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hand crafted vintage CLOTHES PINS
A neat pair of vintage clothespins hand cut from a young sapling or tree branch (illustrated here with a U.S. quarter for size comparison) and bound with a strip of tinned iron to form what must have been a very effective clothes pin. We have seen this style in years past usually found among 19th century household and camp things but like most everyday utilitarian items of the period they seem to have vanished. With pleasing age and originality this pair will go well with other period country items or in any grouping of Civil War vintage personal things. ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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Pat. 1864 WICK TRIMMER
A nice example of a hard to find antique oil lamp wick trimmer, this nicely maker marked W. B. HARNARD and patent dated Dec.27th 1864 lighting utility remains in excellent, fully functional condition, yet offers eye appealing evidence of period use and handling. These all original trimmers will fit well in any grouping of period lighting or Civil War vintage personal item grouping. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! |
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especially nice early BONE DOMINOES – full set
An especially attractive full set of antique ebony mounted bone dominoes. Each game piece sports a colorful red line border with green dots and is of Civil War era materials and construction with an eye appealing age patina. Twenty-eight game pieces of hand cut, bone and ebony, each piece is secured by a single swedged brass pin. All are nestled in their period dovetailed slide top box. An especially nice set for the collector who strives for authenticity and the period charm of the Civil War camp, home parlor, road house or tavern game table. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! |
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Bayou Goula, Louisiana – Serpent Walking Stick
Fashioned from a single piece of wood cut and shaped to form a serpent entwined around a stout 35 inch shaft, our photographs will likely do best to describe this wonderful old folk art walking stick. With good evidence of age and originality, contrasting color and texture are provided by the simple retention of natural bark on the snakes body. The set in eyes appear to be from period shoe buttons. Bayou Goula is penned on the shaft in period brown ink. Located in the low country of Iberville Parish, Louisiana the name of Bayou Goula will be familiar to students of the Civil War deep South. An especially neat companion piece for the collector of Louisiana relics. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !
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19th century SHAVING CUP
This especially nice old shaving cup is fashioned from tinned sheet iron with die struck soldered in bottom and removable cover insert. The cup stands approximately 4 inches high and measures 4 ¼ inches across its base tapering to a 3 5/8 inch diameter mouth. The cup sports a razor compartment and lid is designed to hold the brush upright in the lather and ready for the next shave. Though the die struck bottom is more common to the later 1860s and on, the die striking technology did exist in the Civil War period though it was yet to be commonly used. The cup has Civil War vintage potential but we’d be more comfortable calling the piece Indian War period. All in nice shape with no condition issues, this will be an especially nice item for the tin enthusiast. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques ! |
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Maine BALLOT BOX
Our illustrations will likely do best to describe this neat old Maine ballot box except to advise that it measures approximately 9 5/8 inches in length, 6 ¾ inches wide and 5 inches high. Hand crafted with decorative cast iron hardware, Maine military staff buttons set on the ballot drawer and retaining the original wooden ballots, this old ballot box remains in nice condition ready to set out with any period military, lodge, Loyal Legion or G. A. R. grouping. As with all direct sales, we are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with refund of the purchase price upon return as purchased! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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Antique SALT or SNUFF HORN
A classic 18th century / early 19th century personal item referred to by collectors as salt or snuff horns in line with their most frequent use. As a small screw top container measuring approximately 3 ¼ inches long with a handy suspension chain, these little traveling containers of natural cow horn would have served well to carry the usual personal bit of salt or other food seasoning, snuff, herbs or other medical preparations. Practical use would have been limited only by imagination. This scarce original example remains in excellent condition with its original suspension chain and screw cap. With no cracks or splits as usually found in original examples, this one displays a most attractive age patina. (see: Newman & Kravic's COLLECTOR'S ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION ) Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques ! |
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antique Masonic / Eastern Star - Lodge Hall Coffee Cup
A classic old Masonic hall ironstone coffee cup, totally original and in fine condition with no chips, dings, cracks or imperfections of any kind. Illustrated here with a U. S. quarter for size comparison this neat old lodge hall cup sports a Masonic device on one side and the emblem of the Eastern Star on the other. Not a big deal but for the Masonic collector a nice piece of turn of the century Americana without spending a lot of money. Some of us old-timers can still attest to the pleasantness of a cup of joe from one of these heavy old pottery cups. ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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