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

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

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Lot #635: WITHDRAWN

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

Min Bid: $100

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

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

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #639: Letter Signed by Revolutionary War General Henry Dearborn as Secretary of War

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $178
Lot #640: Exceptionally Beautiful Force 1843 Copper Plate Engraving of the Declaration

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #641: 1876 Centennial Broadside Print of The Declaration of Independence

Min Bid: $100

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

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $15,436
Lot #643: WITHDRAWN

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

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #645: American Revolutionary War General Robert Howe Autograph Letter Signed

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...''

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...''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...''

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...''

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...''

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...''

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

Min Bid: $500

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

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.

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

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

Min Bid: $100

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

Min Bid: $500

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

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass

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