Maine Antique Digest March 2015

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Maine Antique Digest, March 2015 9-C
Octagonal poker table with two small plaques inscribed “Harry
S. Truman/ President U.S.A.” and “Blair House/ Washington,
D.C.,” scattered scratches and nicks, some wear and tear to
the felt, $6000. Truman lived at Blair House between 1948 and
1952 when the White House underwent major renovation. The
table lacked provenance to definitively link it to Truman.
Fascinating manuscripts related to IraWeaver,
a fruit tree grower in western and central New
York, active from at least the 1820s to the
1840s, three items, $17,400.
Mathematical Collections and Translations by Galileo, the first English
translation by Thomas Salusbury, printed in London in 1661, $20,400.
Colorful stone lithograph advertising “M.W. Baldwin & Co./
Locomotive Builders/ Philadelphia,” 1850s, 19½" x 37½" plus
mat and frame, some short tears, a few scattered spots, toning,
vibrant colors, $3960.
Panama Canal photo album, circa 1887, French, title translated from French Mr. G.A. Burt. Superinten-
dent General of Panama Railroad. Views & Works in the Isthmus of Panama, having 100 albumen photo-
graphs, minor wear to the boards, all images fine, a map torn and in poor condition, $11,400.
Scarce albumen photograph of the officers’ quarters at
Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, in the late 1860s, 9"
x 12" plus mount, the image likely made by A.J. Russell
during his visit to the fort in 1869, the print very good, the
mount with light soiling and discoloration, $3120.
Ink and crayon drawing by Chief Rain-in-the-Face (1835-
1905) while at Standing Rock Agency, Dakota Territory,
1881-85, showing a Lakota Sioux rider firing a pistol at
a bison, 5" x 8" plus mount, with inked inscription, light
fold line, $3000. Rain-in-the-Face was a Hunkpapa Lakota
known for leading warriors against the United States at the
Fetterman Fight in 1868 and Little Bighorn in 1876. Very
few drawings by the chief are known to exist.
Rare pose of George Armstrong
Custer as a lieutenant general, by
Jose M. Mora, New York, circa March
1876, only about three months before
Custer’s death, creased upper-left cor-
ner, otherwise very good, $2880.
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“Pillow Cases, Used at the Time of the
Death of President A. Lincoln,” cabinet
card, $1020. The back had the hand-
stamp signature of theater owner John T.
Ford under the text, “Your evidence of the
great crime committed at my Theatre, on
the 14th of April 1865, is all authentic.” A
second hand stamp showed the signature
of John E. Buckingham, the doorkeeper
at Ford’s Theatre that night.
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