Fall 2023 Premier Auction

SABER. Overall length: 39 3/4". Blade length: 33 1/2". The blade has a single wide fuller and is etched nearly over half its length with v...

Overall length: 34 1/4". Blade length: 28 7/8". An early cutlass with a quite refined figure 8 guard indicating manufacture in the federal...

SWORD. Overall length: 37 1/2". Blade length: 31 5/8". An interesting eagle head sword possibly of a Baltimore style, perhaps by Weaver. I...

HORSTMANN. Overall length: 39 1/8". Blade length: 32 1/4". Blade has a single wide fuller with gold highlighted etching on a blued field o...

SWORD. Overall length: 36 1/2". Blade length: 30 1/4". Blade has a single wide fuller and boasts tri-colored decoration. There are gold hi...

Overall length: 35 3/8". Blade length: 30". Blade has a single wide fuller with gold highlighted etching on a blued field extending 16&quo...

OFFICER'S SABER BY SPIES. Overall length: 35 1/2". Blade length: 29". Blade has a single wide fuller and appears to be at one time a t...

Overall length: 37". Blade length: 31 3/4". This heavy quillback blade has the remains of gold highlighted etching and is marked at the ri...

Overall length: 37 3/4". Blade length: 32 5/8". Plain blade with a single wide fuller. Brass hilt with a plain crossguard having a downtur...

Overall length: 24 1/2". Blade length: 19". This knife, or cutlass, is typical of weapons carried in the American Civil War and are primar...

POSSIBLE CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION. This sword was purchased by the consignor from a Central North Carolina estate and dates from the mid-1800s. It is p

Overall length: 34 7/8". Blade length: 29". Blade has a raised medial ridge and is etched over the first 14 1/2" with various foliate...

BY RICHARDS & UPSON. Overall length: 33 1/4". Blade length: 27 3/4". Blade has a single wide fuller and is decorated over half its len...

Overall length: 35". Blade length: 29 3/4". Plain blade with a single wide fuller. Brass hilt with a downturned quillon. Plain cross guard...

Overall length: 35 1/8". Blade length: 30 1/4". This sword likely dates between 1810 and 1835. The blade has a single medium fuller and is...

Overall length: 40". Blade length: 34 1/2". Plain triple fullered blade, likely of German manufacture. Brass hilt of semi-basket form with...

Overall length: 36 1/2". Blade length: 30". Plain, flat blade with a slightly rounded tip. Sheet iron hilt is quite heavy and void of deco...

Overall length: 31". Blade length: 26 1/2". The plain blade has a single narrow fuller near the spine and a running fox stamped on one sid...

Overall length: 33 1/8". Blade length: 28". This is an interesting sword, likely of the Revolutionary War period, made by a reasonably ski...

This French saber dates from about 1750 to 1770 and is typical of weapons carried during the French & Indian War. A very similar example is pict...

This short saber was discovered in Pennsylvania and obviously shows Germanic influence in its construction. Overall length: 28 3/8". Blade leng...

ENGLAND ARTIST AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY. These exceptionally well-illustrated paintings have a sight size of approx. 58 1/2" x 23 1/2", and th...

ARTILLERY "TARBUCKET" HELMET. This helmet stands approx. 8" high without the plume and 17 1/2" high with the plume. Width at the...

This box measures approx. 9 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2". The box is a leather covered, wooden insert with a single front flap with a sewn ...

Drum measures 15 1/4" across and 17" high. It has an upper & lower skin intact with the lower skin having 4 snares. The 2 hoops are th...

REVOLUTIONARY WAR "MINUTEMAN" ARCHIVE. This small archive of documents mostly relating to American patriot Colonel William Henshaw (1735-1...

Over 50 images, 19th century cabinet cards with photos of paintings or engravings of Morris family founding fathers: Judge Richard Morris (1830-1910)

Family photos including fine 19th century miniature painting on ivory of well-dressed young lady in oval bezel, sixth plate unidentified daguerreotype

This archive (1879-1920s) consists of several hundred letters Fred received and sent to his father Joseph A. Sladen when stationed on frontier posts.

1872. Unique archive including firsthand 119 page manuscript account written by Capt. Joseph Sladen concerning the secret General O.O. Howard mission

1812 JAMES MADISON SIGNED APPOINTMENT AS MIDSHIPMAN. James Ludlam Morris (1796-1878), Matthew Brady quarter plate daguerreotype possibly James L. Morr

WAR & RECONSTRUCTION ERA ARCHIVE. Over 600 letters received from 1864-1871 chronologically bound in three volumes. 2) transcribed diary from Jan...

The frame of medals with missing with 2 empty spaces where Medals of Honor originally sat. The MOHs were previously donated to a national museum. Rema

ULYSSESS S. GRANT. 17.5x13.5" board, 13x11" image published by HF Warren, Waltham, Mass "photographed on the field, March 15 1865&quo...

"W Alvin Lloyd's Southern Railroad Map" 23x18" lithograph by WR Robertson, Mobile, ALA 1863. Hand tinted. Few copies listed in Pa...

32 maps bound into 14x16" book, 12 are original pen & ink field maps, many fold out to several feet in size. All maps from 1864 campaign fr...

AWARD & MEDAL ARCHIVE. General Sladen was awarded most medals other than MOH for his service, medals include Distinguished Service Cross (# 2158...

FLAGS. 4' x 5' infantry field guidon, 3rd Division, 5th Infantry Brigade, Philadelphia QM depot Nov. 6, 1918 dated label. General Sladen com...

ARCHIVE (1880-1931). Large group of Fred Sladen's uniform Insignia though the ranks are among affects found in his 25x16x12" trunk, aiguill...

MAJOR GENERAL FRED WINCHESTER SLADEN & BRIGADIER GENERAL FRED WINCHESTER SLADEN, JR. 1887-1949. Archive contains materials from Major General Fr...

About 500 postcards, most real photos, most WW1 or earlier, many travel related to Asia, WW1 from Europe, most military. Many postally used by Fred Sl

BOOKS, & MILITARY BOOKS. 1) three bound volumes containing over 250 signed General Orders concerning Sladen, the first is dated May 21, 1863 mak...

GENERAL FRED SLADEN: over 50 maps, most bound in binders, many backed with fabric and hinged for use in the field, most are folio, the largest about 3

MEDALS & ARCHIVE. Brigadier General Fred Sladen, Jr. (1906-1980) Fred "Jim" W. Sladen Jr was captain in 36th regiment Infantry during ...

PHOTOGRAPHS. Brigadier General Fred Sladen, Jr. (1906-1980) Fred "Jim" W. Sladen Jr. was born on March 13, 1906 at Vancouver Barracks in W...

Fred Sladen toured Asia around 1900 when stationed in Manila, and has 4 oversized 18"x14" & 18"x12" albums, one titled JAPAN...

PHOTOS, SOME SIGNED & PANORAMIC WW1 ERA MILITARY PHOTOS. Fred Sladen loved his photos as there are at least 50 of him in previous lots. This lot...

52x28x30” beautiful take-down solid hardwood desk of this type sometimes seen in Spanish American, WW1 & WW2 era images of officers in ten...

Joseph Sladen was O. O. Howard's clerk and aide through the Civil War, Indian Wars, Freedman's Bureau days, and West Point. 12" x 22&qu...

AS SUPERINTENDENT. Robert E Lee was among the greatest American military officers. He was renowned among his West Point peers and later generations of