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December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 12/18/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #635: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #636: British General John Burgoyne 1790 Document Signed -- Rare Document Signed by Man Who Surrendered to America at Saratoga

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #637: Guy Carleton Autograph Note Signed 1748 -- Commander-in-Chief of British Forces During the Revolutionary War

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #638: Declaration Signer George Clymer Autograph Letter Signed Regarding a Slave Exchange -- ''...Captain Litle proposed...to exchange his black girl registered in Penn'a for Judy...'' -- 1768

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #639: Letter Signed by Revolutionary War General Henry Dearborn as Secretary of War

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $178

• Lot #640: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

  

  # Bids: 15

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #641: 1876 Centennial Broadside Print of The Declaration of Independence

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #642: Benjamin Franklin 1785 Document Signed as President of Pennsylvania -- Excellent, Bold Signature

  

  # Bids: 24

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $15,436

• Lot #643: WITHDRAWN

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: W/D

• Lot #644: Patrick Henry 1779 Autograph Letter Signed as Governor of Virginia to Benjamin Harrison, Declaration Signer & Speaker of the Virginia House, Regarding the Capture of a Female British Spy

  

  # Bids: 19

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #645: American Revolutionary War General Robert Howe Autograph Letter Signed

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #646: Enlightenment Philosopher David Hume on Vociferous Debate on the Stamp Act -- ''...the King had said...he was for the repeal of the Stamp Act...The King has since said, that this was a mistake...''

  

  # Bids: 20

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #647: Lafayette Letter Signed Re: Cornwallis' Final Stand -- ''...The enemy are fortifying at York...vessels are gone to bring some of the troops remaining at Portsmouth. Lord Cornwallis is at York...''

  

  # Bids: 19

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #648: Lafayette, Acting on an Intercepted Letter to Cornwallis, Asks for Reinforcements ''To Come as Fast as Possible'' as He States ''...We are Near the Enemy...'' -- Just 4 Months Until Surrender

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #649: Four Months Until the Yorktown Surrender, Lafayette Writes About the Continuing Theme Since the Days of Valley Forge for the American Army -- Lack of Supplies, Especially Ammunition & Shoes

  

  # Bids: 16

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $8,711

• Lot #650: Lafayette Writes Re: the Virginia Campaign to Pin Down Cornwallis Just Four Months Before Yorktown's Surrender Noting That the Enemy Has Left Richmond and Was Possibly Headed to Williamsburg

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #651: Lafayette Letter Signed Just After Arriving in Virginia in Early 1781 Where by the Fall, the British Would Surrender -- He Writes of His Strategy But Notes He Is Hampered by No Ammunition

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #652: One Month Away From the Surrender at Yorktown, Just Across the River Lies Gloucester, Where Lafayette Writes From, in Hopes of Finishing Cornwallis With Vessels Not Occupied by Washington

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #653: Gloucester, Across the River From Yorktown, Two Months Before the Surrender Was Made, Lafayette Writes That Cornwallis Is There With His Whole Force as the Aforementioned Readies U.S. Troops

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #654: Correctly Ascertaining that the British Are Sailing to Yorktown Just Three Months Before the Surrender There, Lafayette Writes General Weedon Asking for More Intelligence on Future Moves

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #655: Lafayette: ''...From the time...the ennemy appear at the mouth of Pottowmack, I can in 4 days be with you...that having been frustrated [entering] Richmond, the ennemy will [go] to Frederisburg...''

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: $8,711

• Lot #656: Henry ''Light-Horse Harry'' Lee Unheard of & Urgent Revolutionary War Dated ALS -- ''...but sir what are we to do for arms?...The arms we had were sent down with our last detachmt. to Wmsbg...''

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #657: Richard Henry Lee Autograph Letter Signed 3 Months Before His State Hosted the Yorktown Surrender -- ''...Since the country was first invaded by [Benedict] Arnold we have had a string of lookouts...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #658: Colonial Patriot Richard Henry Lee 1781 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...come quickly & silently into Chesapeake Bay for the purpose of entrapping Arnold & his banditti...''

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #659: Richard Henry Lee Long 1779 Revolutionary War Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Patrick Henry -- Detailing How the British Were Unwilling to Exchange Prisoners of War With the Americans

  

  # Bids: 8

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #660: Revolutionary War General and First Secretary of War, Benjamin Lincoln Autograph Letter Signed -- Rare

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $468

• Lot #661: Thomas Mifflin Tries to Have Philadelphia Become the Permanent Federal City by Financing a Presidential Mansion in 1792 -- Washington Declined as He Was a Strong Advocate of Washington, D.C.

  

  # Bids: 11

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #662: British General Sir John Moore 1808 Document Signed -- Just Months Before His Heroic Death at Battle of Corunna

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #663: American Revolutionary General Samuel Holden Parsons Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Dr. Cogwell applied to me for the purchase of the Horseneck farm...'' -- 1785

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #664: Rare William Penn 1697 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...it is oppression when even justice is unjustly done...''

  

  # Bids: 14

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #665: 1776 Land Deed for Property in Providence, Rhode Island -- Very Attractive Presentation

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass