Found 5 items in the class "Memorabilia/Civil_War_Era".

	quality CIVIL WAR era AMERICANA: 1863 READY RECKONER An original copy of Daboll's READY RECKONER for SHIP BUILDERS & ALL PERSONS WHO BUY, SELL OR MEASURE TIMBER. Daboll's little pocket references were published in various categories. This particular one contains tables that would enable the user to calculate by sight the quantity of stacked, milled, or log timber. We suspect the billing by the New England publisher / author as a shipbuilder's reference was more a reflection of marketing than common practice as the little book of tables saw nearly as wide use as the farmer's almanac of the day. All complete and original with good evidence of age and decades of storage this little twelve page pocket reference with it's boldly printed 1863 date on the cover will lay nicely in any personal grouping of the Civil War era. With it's title the book will offer an eye catching addition to a period nautical grouping. A neat and inexpensive every day item of the period.1957     $25.00
	quality CIVIL WAR era AMERICANA: outstanding 1840s / 1850s MILITIA CAP – DAGUERREOTYPE This beautifully tinted sixth-plate daguerreotype depicts a young boy in his finest attire standing beside a draped table displaying a wonderful large, distinctively designed militia hat. If we had to title this image we’d call it ‘His Father’s Cap’. While we will never really know the circumstances of the pose of the little boy and the striking piece of militia headgear, the size of the cap is clearly definitive of adult use. An attractive daguerreotype in excellent condition, this piece will be of special interest to the militia headgear and Americana enthusiast as well as the photography collector.     $375.00
	quality CIVIL WAR era AMERICANA: rare Civil War PATRIOTIC LADIES APRON This attractive ladies apron measures approximately 32 inches from waist to hem and is entirely hand stitched from a homespun beige and brown checked cotton. the word UNION is cross stitched in one inch letters on a waist pocket and across the hem are six, 2 ¼ X 1 ½ inch Union Flags, each separated by USA in 1 ½ inch high cross stitch letters. The apron remains in pleasing condition and is sound but with clear evidence of period wear and originality. While the occasion of this patriotic piece has been lost in time it is most likely that such a piece was done for Sanitary Fair volunteer wear. A popular social function during the time of the Civil War, city and town halls throughout the Union were festooned with patriotic decoration and filled with display tables holding all manner of home made items donated and offered for sale for the benefit of Union Volunteers preparing to leave for or already serving in the South. Sales tables were most frequently tended by ladies of the community. The popular wearing of patriotic attire, especially among the younger of these ladies has been well established in period photography. A rarely surviving utilitarian item in and of it’s self, the patriotic bent of this original period apron will make it especially desirable to the Civil War era collector as well as the antique textile enthusiast. As with all direct sales, we are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with refund of the purchase price upon return as purchased!    $455.00
	quality CIVIL WAR era AMERICANA: earlier 19tyh century through Civil War - SHIP’S TABLE LAMP Standing approximately 6 inches with a rich dark patina reflecting it’s age and the burning of whale or coal oil, this classic gimbal mounted lamp remains complete even to it’s early double wick, whale oil burner. The classic spun brass burner with it’s heavy figural cast brass mount sits atop a heavily weighted spun brass base all with the intent of stability in the pitch & sway environment of a ship’s table or desk. (The core of it’s heavy iron base was cast so as to accommodate peg or hook wall mounting.) While we located this scarce lighting fixture illustrated in Civil War vintage catalogues of Russell and Erwin Mfg. of New Britain, Conn. we would expect production earlier of Hardware & Lighting catalogues would place the manufacture of this design back to at least the 1830’s. The Russell and Erwin Mfg. reference we found refers to this fixture as a SHIP LAMP or brass double swinging lamp with the notation also used on trains. An outstanding piece of lighting Americana! Buy with confidence! All direct sales are backed by no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased ! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item is being returned per these previsions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly.     $325.00
	quality CIVIL WAR era AMERICANA: 1831 BLACK UPRISING News account / forerunner, NAT TURNER Affair Nestled away on the second page of this September 30, 1831 edition of the Portland [Maine] Adviser is a small but historically compelling Sept. 21, 1831 dispatch from the Fayetteville[N.C.] Observer offering The Conspiracy. – On Wednesday last, Nat was arrested but advises that the slave denies the charges against him. Two other men were arrested and two more runaways were apprehended near a meeting, about twelve miles south east from town. After the infliction of some punishment, they confessed that they had been sent ahead to get information by a small party of runaways, some of them armed. Though the article emphasizes that all seemed under control and that the incident, in the opinion of the writer, had been overstated in other news accounts, the correspondent advises that Women and children in several of the counties have fled to the swamps, from which, after a day or two, they emerge, wet, muddy, and half starved. Seeming protective of public opinion north of us the Fayetteville North Carolina writer laments that reports are extravagantand not having the shadow of foundation while at the same time advising in his report that; Thousands of militia have assembled in arms, even in the upper counties, which might have been supposed beyond the influence of the supposed danger. While the author of this reported Black uprising fails to record a surname for the runaway leader Nat, (an all too common occurrence in a time when many slaves had no surname) the simple reference to Nat and date of this report (Sept. 21, 1831) in relation to the time frame of the historic Nat Turner Slave Rebellion in the fall of 1831 offers reasonable speculation. Is this period news account, found buried in the folds of a Northern New England newspaper, a record of activity of Nat Turner just days before the historic Slave Rebellion that carries his name to this day? Or is it a simple case of confusion by a correspondent and a melding together of occurrences in North Carolina with slave unrest lead by Nat Turner in boarding Southhampton County, Virginia ? This offering is complete in four pages each measuring approximately 11 ½ X 17 inches offering, aside from the subject article, the usual mix of period newspaper fair of commercial adds, time tables &c with the usual smattering of articled intended to inform and entertain. Though trimmed at the left margin edge to be removed from a period binding, the old paper remains in excellent condition and all original with no tears or repairs. A nice piece of Americana.     $45.00

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