Envelope Signed by Astronaut Charlie Duke
Moonwalker. United States Air Force envelope with stamp commemorating the first moon landing. Signed "Charlie Duke."
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Moonwalker. United States Air Force envelope with stamp commemorating the first moon landing. Signed "Charlie Duke."
[Legal Dispute] [Government] California Claims. In Senate of the United States. February 23,1848. 30th Congress, 1st Session [Senate] Rep. Com., No. 75. Washington, D.C., 1848. First edition. 83 pages. Disbound. 6.5 x 9 in. “Half a million dollars would pay all the just claims of California”. Mr. Cass made the.....
[African American Military],[African American Fiction] Edwards, Junius. Dust Jacket Illustrated by Ellen Raskin. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1963. First Edition. 137 pages. Bound in red and wheat cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Two-toned red and orange dust jacket with a sketch of a man's face and white.....
Union admiral. Credited for ordering, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" Carte-de-Viste. 2.5 x 4", sepia toned bust image of Farragut in Uniform . No back mark, in excellent condition.
[Women's History] Original Carte-de-Visite Photograph of a woman in full military uniform, holding a sword. Washington DC: Ulke Bros, 1873. Measures approximately 2.5" x 4" inches. The woman is in a poorly fitted Military Uniform of a United States Naval Captain from the mid-19th century. The photographer Henry and Julian.....
Thomas Ferebee, bombardier of the Enola Gay. Japanese war currency, issued during World War II, and printed in English. "Ten Pesos" bill signed on the front "Thomas W. Ferebee/ Bombardier Enola Gay/ Over Hiroshima Japan, Aug. 6, 1945" in black ink. Stamped on the back in purple ink "Japanese War.....
Signed Typescript from the Japanese Home Service KON 630 KCS at 6:00 AM Tuesday 8/7 which reads, in part: “A small number of B-twenty-nines penetrated into Hiroshima city a little after eight AM yesterday morning and dropped a small number of bombs. As a result a considerable number of homes.....
Photo Archive of 82 high-definition color and B&W photographs of automatic weapons, mounted guns, pistols, and vehicles, including an M113 armored personnel carrier (APC), believed to be taken at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in the late 1960's or early 1970s in Independence, Missouri. Photos mostly 8" x 10".....
U.S. record holder for submarine top tonnage sunk in WWII. Signed Photo, 8" x 10", Signed in blue ink, "Eugene Fluckey" . In excellent condition.
Sylvanus Urban. The Gentleman's Magazine. London: Edward Cave, June 1746. 7" x 5" inches. pp. 280-332. This edition of The Gentleman's Magazine focuses on current events, political affairs, poetry, and opinion pieces of 18 century England. The Gentleman's Magazine ran for around 200 years, and was one of the first.....
Beautifully engraved uncancelld certificate from the German Reich issued in 1922. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the Reich's eagle. This item has the printed signatures of various officials 5,000 Anleihe des Deutschen 1922 German Reich Mark Treasury Bond. This 1922 bond dates.....
ORIGINAL May 7, 1945 NEWSPAPER [ the day the war ended in Europe] of the Daily Advance, published in Lynchburg, Virginia. Lynchburg is quite close to Bedford, Virginia, a small town which lost a record number of servicemen (in proportion to its population) on D Day. The headline story begins.....
19th Century Stereoview card bearing a double 6" x 3" photograph showing the rocks of Devil's Den at Gettysburg with soldiers with rifles in the image. Verso identifies the scene as: "Dead at Little Round Top, position of Berdan's Sharpshooters". Published by W. H. Tipton, Gettysburg on yellow mount from.....
[Women Education] [Europe] Identification Card for Sophia State Girls’ High School (Софийска държавна Дъвиуеска гимназия), 1916. Sophia is the largest and Capital city of Bulgaria. 4.5 x 3.25 in. Original blue cloth folder. Identification photo of teenge girl pasted inside, dated 19.III.1916. Original silver gelatin print, 2.75 x 2 in.....
18th U.S. President and premier Union General of the Civil War. U.S. Grant ferrotype token for the 1868 Presidential Election. Approximately 1 inch (25MM) round brass frame consisting of three concentric rims: inner one plain; central one a rope twist-like design; outer one plain. Edge plain also. Ferrotype in center.....
Francis Grose. Antiquities of England and Wales is a compendium of historical monuments, richly illustrated with many engravings. Hardcover. Folio size. 4 large volumes. Publisher: S. Hooper. Publication Date: 1773. This work is considered one of the most important antiquarian publications of the 18th century. It was published in an.....
GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGES, George. Les Arts de L’Homme D’Epe’e, Ou Le Dictionnaire Du Gentil-Homme… Full title in English: The Military Art, explaining the Terms and Phrases us'd in Field or Garison, the Terms relating to Artillery, the Works and Motions of Attack and Defense, and the Post and Duty of.....
Photo of German soldiers in present day Namibia next to the gallows where a number of emaciated African men have been hung. Circa 1896. Black and white albumen photograph. 6 x 4 inches. Caption reads: "German So. W Africa Hanging Party. 312 Negroes Hanged." This event took place in the.....
[John Brown ] Stereoview of John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brady, Matthew, photographer. N.p., ca 1870s. 6.25" x 3.5". Featured are three men standing outside of the one-story brick guardhouse with words "John Brown's Fort" painted over arched doorways. The building became famous as John Brown's refuge during.....
[Hawaii] [Military] [WWII] Vintage Original Photo Album from 1943-1944 featuring World War II-Era Men, Women and families and much more in Hawaii just one year after the Pearl Harbor Attack. About 173 photos, all silver gelatin photos in black and white. 47 photographs are loose. Range in size from 8".....
[Hawaii] [WWII] Vintage 1945 Hawaii Photo Album featuring World War 2 US Navy Sailor in uniform, Native Hawaiians, and various landscape shots. Album contains about 250 black and white silver gelatin photographs depicting Hawaii pre-statehood. Album measures 9.5" x 12.5" with photos measuring between 8" x 10" and 2.75" x......
American author. Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover, 4.5" x 6.5" inches, 355 pages. Signed and inscribed on the dedication page, “To Helen Mauldin, with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway.” A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's semi-autobiographical first-person account of American Frederic Henry.....
Fascinating World War II Newspaper. Daily Express, dated Wednesday, March 28, 1945. "GERMANS IN THE WEST ARE WHIPPED - AT LAST - COLLAPSE". Large map shows Allies drive into Germany. On back page is the last photo taken of Hitler shaking hands with a Hitler Youth, at unspecified headquarters (outside.....
L'Ecole du Cavalier, Poeme Didactique et Militaire. Paris: 1820. Second edition. Measures 4 x 6 inches. Original blue marbled boards with blue quarter calf, gilt titled spine. 68 pages. Text in French. Three didactic poems giving lessons in military horsemanship written by a military officer who fought in the Napoleonic.....
Archive of 12 silver gelatin photos pasted to dark grey board and clipped from original photo album of WWI era soldiers and jockeys partaking in horse racing. Measurements are 3" x 4" with the photos themselves measuring 2.5" x 3.25". Horses were vital in military usage during the First World.....