Items 26-50
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26. Ephemera. DON’T FAIL TO SEE COSTELLO’S SAIL REEFER AND FURLER. PATENTED SEPT. 9, 1890. This broadsheet measures 9 x 5 1/2 inches on salmon colored paper. It advertises a new invention for working rigging, “By this system a Cabin Boy can reef the mainsail of any vessel,” with about 20 lines of such puffery. No specifics are given, but “A working model can be seen in the basement of Mechanics Building during the Fair, under Main Hall.” Printed by P.J. Brady, 478 Shawmut Ave., Boston. VG $25 |
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27. Ephemera. LAWRENCE QUICK STEP. Bos. 1839. b/w litho. Folio. 4 pp. Lithograph of the encampment at Barnstable drawn by Fitz Henry Lane. “Respectfully dedicated to S. Abbott Lawrence and the members of the New England Guards.” Scene shows tents, soldiers and lounging civilians, with waters off Cape Cod in background. Wilmerding p. 188. $275 |
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28. Ephemera. LOT OF CANADIAN ROWING REGATTA PROGRAMS. Jubilee Rowing Club Regatta, Halifax, 1938. 32 pp. Club history, results, ads. North Star Rowing Club Regatta and Fair. Dartmouth, 1937. 6 pp. Results and ads. St. Mary’s Rowing Club Regatta, Halifax, 1937 and 1938 Results and ads. 8 pp. each. 4 items in self wrappers. $35 |
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29. Ephemera. MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE FOR THE BOSTON SEA FENCIBLES, 1830. Folio printed sheet, 11 x 16 1/2 inches, accomplished in manuscript. This certificate admits Winslow W. Seaver of Boston to the Sea Fencibles. It is signed by Levi Lincoln, Governor of Massachusetts, and by Edward Bangs, Secretary. Membership was open to those over the age of twenty-one who had commanded a vessel on a foreign voyage or had served on one as a first mate or supercargo. A handsome document, suitable for display. Fine condition with paper seal of Massachusetts intact. $150 |
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30. Ephemera. NASSAU BOAT CLUB. ANNUAL FALL REGATTA... 1877. This little broadside advertises five rowing races to be held on the Harlem River, Saturday October 6, 1877. Tan card stock printed one side only, measuring 3 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. $15 |
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31. Ephemera NOTICE FOR AUCTION OF THE YACHT WATERFALL. A handbill measuring 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, announcing the auction in Lynn, Mass. May 15 (no year given) of four shares of the yacht. With a wood engraved picture of a schooner yacht and a lighthouse at the top of the page. No mention is made about how the 4 winners might consolidate their prizes. Appears to date from the mid-late 1800s. Obviously, a scarce and unusual piece of yachting ephemera. $25 |
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32. Ephemera. PORTSMOUTH, PORTSEA, AND GOSPORT REGATTA. Handcolored flags. Two flyers on card stock. These two cards list events for the first and second days of the regatta. The card for the first day, August 13, 1828, measures 6 x 4 ½ inches. The three races of the day were for yachts not exceeding 45 tons, rowing galleys and sailing wherries. A small handcolored flag for each vessel is drawn next to the vessel's name. The day was capped off with a round of fireworks. On the back of the card are printed regulations for the various classes racing that day. The card for the second day, August 15, 1828, measures 4 ½ x 3 inches. Races that day were for yachts not less than 35 tons, galleys, vessels under 17 tons and amateur galleys. On this card the flags are described rather than printed. This was quite a do. Sponsors were the Duke of Clarence (soon to become "the Sailor King" of England) and the Duke of Gloucester. Very early for an event of this sort - it wasn't until five years later that the Sailor King himself organized the Royal Yacht Squadron. It is also noteworthy that this regatta featured three rowing competitions. Both cards lightly tanned, but in VG condition. $850 |
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33. Ephemera. SHELLBACK CERTIFICATE SIGNED BY HARRY TRUMAN ABOARD THE USS MISSOURI, 1947. Large oblong folio sheet printed in color. A wonderful tongue-in-cheek naval document conferred upon William Hasslett, President Harry Truman’s secretary, to celebrate his “crossing the line.” It is signed by Capt. Robert L. Dennison and by Truman in the role of Neptunus Rex, on board the USS Missouri, September 11, 1947. Shellback certificates were part of the age-old ceremony to celebrate (and harass) sailors who were crossing the equator for the first time. This certificate measures 16 x 20 1/2 inches. It is printed in color and adorned with mermaids, sea horses, the figure of Neptune and a seal of the Navy. Truman’s signature is clear and strong. With another, smaller but similar shellback certificate that underscores the special nature of this document. $1500 |
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34. Ephemera. SILHOUETTE OF CAPT. AMOS BONSELL, PHILADELPHIA. 4to. Single sheet. Signed by Bonsell beneath his likeness, and mounted on a card measuring 11 1/4 x 14 inches. The silhouette was cut by a Mrs. Parker, who also signed the silhouette, with a note that Bonsell was the “sole survivor (of the) Kane Arctic Exploration.” In fact, according to a news article written in 1853 at the time of the departure of the Expedition, Bonsell, Kane’s third mate, was also the expedition’s photographer. “Mr. Amos Bonsell, one of the officers, takes charge of the Daguerreotype apparatus with which it is intended to take views of the scenery and portraits of the different tribes which may be met with.” This silhouette was probably cut later in the 19th century, when Bonsell was an old man, and the last of the original party still alive. Intruiging aritifact! $750 |
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35. Ephemera. SONG OF THE PRIVATEER. BY “QUIEN SABE?” Balt. 1861. Five five-line verses and five four-line choruses honor the southern privateer Sumter. “Away o’er the boundless sea/ With steady hearts and free,/ We man the Sumter, we;/ Who for the South and liberty,/ Are ready all to die.” Datelined “Baltimore, Oct. 10, 1861.” A rare confederate song sheet with a wood engraving of a full rigged ship at the top. Marred by a few brown spots, but still in acceptable condition. Most unusual. $100 |
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36. Ephemera. SOUVENIR PROGRAM. P.A.A.O. FIRST ANNUAL REGATTA OF THE PACIFIC ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR OARSMEN. 1905. Names and photos of officials and participants, with events and lots of period ads. The competition was held at Vallejo. Rare. In color printed wrappers. $100 |
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37. Ephemera. THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE. DESIGNED FOR YOUTH. Cooperstown, NY. 1834. b/w wood engraved title and ills. in text 16mo. 27 pp. Hamilton, Early Am. Book Illustrators says, “ten wood engravings, seven of which bear John H. Hall’s initials, one by Abel Bowen, and one probably by Alexander Anderson.”—Hamilton 783. Some foxing throughout, some chipping to orange decorated wraps (dated 1831), later sewing. Back wrap chipped at corners, but a Good copy of an early American toy book with a nautical theme. $100 |
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38. Ephemera. THE OLD ARM CHAIR, A BALLAD. LITHOGRAPHY BY FITZ HENRY LANE. Folio sheet. “The music composed and respectfully dedicated to Holton Olmstead, Esquire. By Henry Russell... F.H. Lane del. Thayer, successor to Moore...” The lithographed image depicts a woman leaning against a chair with a piano behind her. It is one of the few works by noted American luminist painter Fitz Henry Lane to center on a human figure. Wilmerding p. 188. $200 |
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39. Ephemera. THE SHIPWRECK: SHOWING WHAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS ON THE SEA COASTS... NY. n.d. b/w wood engravings. 32mo. 16 pp. “Also giving a particular account of a poor sailor boy, who was refused any assistance by the wreckers, and who died in consequence of their inhuman conduct.” As you might expect in this penny publication of the American Tract Society, there are moral parallels to be drawn. Light soiling and wear to original printed wrappers, but a pretty little thing. $50 |
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40. Ephemera. THE WONDERFUL CONVERSION OF POOR JOSEPH. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE CONVERSION OF JAMES COVERY, A SAILOR... Falkirk. 1814. 12mo. 24 pp. Religious pamphlet groups several tales of conversions, among which is that of James Covey “who had both his legs chopt off in the battle of CAMPERDOWN.” (He is the subject opf the broadside ballad, item #5, above.) There is a detailed description of this bit of naval action. The “stout-hearted and wicked Covey” eventually finds Jesus and, “Those eyes which had never shed a tear when he had lost his legs... now wept in copious streams.” This is followed by “A Remarkable Account of Some Seamen in the Battle of the Nile,” a woman who’d committed a murder, and a sailor with a guilty conscience. Quaint, but rare, with only one copy appearing on worldcat. Lacks what must have been paper wrappers, but text is complete and in VG condition. $100 |
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41. Ephemera. TRADE CATALOG. ATLAS BOAT SUPPLY COMPANY. NY. 1948. b/w ills. throughout. 166, (5) pp. Illustrated catalog of marine harbor and yachting and boat supplies from this firm located on Chambers St. in New York. Wraps, VG $35 |
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42. Ephemera. TRANSFER OF PRIZE MONEY SHARES, BOSTON, 1817. 4to sheet. Printed form accomplished in manuscript. Cotton Nye of Boston transfers to David M. Doyle “all such prize money as is now due or which may hereafter become due, from the proceeds of the sales of prizes or captures made by the United States Frigate Congress under the Command of the late John Smith Esq., deceased.” Signed by Nye and two witnesses, and docketed and signed on verso by Josiah Waters, Justice of the Peace. Congress, one of the six original frigates, was laid up in Portsmouth at this time, so Doyle, an innkeeper, probably didn’t get enough to pay Nye’s bar bill. Document shows light tanning, faint old fold marks and a short split on one fold with no loss, but is in excellent condition overall $650 |
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43. Ephemera. TWELVE ADVERTISING CARDS FOR KENDALL “SOAPINE” CLEANING PRODUCTS. These are postcard-sized, advertising cards, printed in color, and bearing the distinctive Soapine whale logo. Two are diecut whales. The Kendall heirs, of course, were the founding geniuses behind the Kendall Whaling Museum which, in 2001, merged with the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The lot. $35 |
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44. Ephemera. TWENTY 19TH CENTURY TRADE CARDS FOR ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MARINE-RELATED BUSINESSES. Ship chandlery, brokers, stevedores, chronometers and watches, ship medicine chests, shipwrights and caulkers, marine railway, and commission merchants. Firms include William Sagee, Chandler, Philadelphia; Wm. E. Harpur, Chronometers, Philadelphia; L. Blanchard, Commission Merchants, New York; John G. Nichols, Medicine Chests, Boston; I. P. Farrington, Clothing, Partland, Maine; Baker & Stetson, Commission Merchants, Philadelphia; Birely’s Shipyard, Philadelphia; McGinness & Co. Shipwrights, New York; T.A. Foster & E.D. Leighton, Shipwrights, East Boston; Francois Schnabelius & Co, Chandlers, Havana; and several firms from Cardiff, Wales, and locations unstated. All Good - VG. The lot $500 |
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45. Ephemera. TWO CATALOGS FROM THE NEW YORK BOAT OAR. CO. NY. 1905. b/w ills. Oblong 12mo. 16 and 24 pp. The first is for oar locks and similar fixtures. The second, dated 1905 is for sculls, oars and canoe paddles. Each items illustrated, with prices. As issued in printed stiff paper covers, each measures 6 x 3 1/2 inches. Not in Romaine. The pair, VG $100 |
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46. Ephemera. TWO COLOR TRADE CARDS FOR ARBUCKLE’S ARIOSA COFFEE, FEATURING ARCTIC SEALING, WHLAING AND HUNTING SCENES. Two postcard-sized color trade cards, with maps of Greenland and Alaska inset over views of sealing and hunting. $25 |
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47. Ephemera. TWO ENGRAVED TRADE CARDS FOR FISH MONGERS, SAMUEL RACKSTRAW AND H. CHAPMAN. Both measure about 3 x 4 1/2 inches. Rackstraw’s card is probably from the late 1700s. He worked at the “corner of the Bell & Crown, No. 132 Holborn.” It is decorated with a mermaid and a merman. Chapman’s is probably 19th century. It features and ocean scene, with fish, lobsters and oysters on the shore. Both are in excellent condition. Rare. 2 items $200 |
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48. Ephemera. TWO INK AND WASH DRAWINGS WITH NAUTICAL THEMES. Both highly accomplished. One, measuring 4 1/2 x 6 inches shows a gaff rigged workboat with a windmill in the background. The other, measuring 4 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches is an iconic design featuring flags, cannon and falls of chain. Quite attractive! the lot $25 |
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49. Ephemera. USE SEASIDE LOTION! This handsome color lithographed card depicts a yacht race off Fort Independence in Boston Harbor, and advertises Seaside Lotion “For Chapped Hands, Tan, Sunburns, Roughness of the Skin &c.” On the verso are ferry schedules for New London, Block Island, Fisher’s Island, Shelter Island and Greenport, among other destinations. The card measures 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches. VG $25 |
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50. Ephemera. W. COUNTY POST EXTRA!!... BRITISH OUTRAGE! THE AMERICAN SOIL INVADED, AND UNARMED AND UNRESISTING AMERICANS BUTCHERED! IN COLD BLOOD. Salem, NY. 1838. Small broadsheet, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. In 1837, a band of Canadian rebels took refuge on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, and declared themselves the Republic of Canada. American sympathizers supplied them with money, provisions, and arms via the steamboat SS Caroline. On December 29, Canadian loyalists crossed the international boundary and seized the Caroline, towed her into the current, set her afire, and cast her adrift over Niagara Falls, after killing one American. (His body was later exhibited in front of a recruiting tavern in Buffalo.) It was falsely reported that dozens of Americans were killed as they were trapped on board; in fact the ship had been abandoned before being set adrift. This early and ephemeral mis-representation of the incident was published Jan. 3, and was based on newspaper reports published December 30. It was intended to stir up American outrage, and it succeeded. In 1838 American forces burned a British steamer. The whole embarrassment was settled by the Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842. I can find no record of this broadside in Worldcat. $1000 |
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