475
●
(MARITIME.) Old Colony
Line.
Old Colony Line to the Cottage
City of America, Oak Bluffs Martha’s
Vineyard and to Nantucket.
Large
advertising broadside in red and blue with
a central vignette of the “River Queen”
paddle-wheeler, 32
3
/
4
x15 inches sight size;
framed. Boston, 1874
[250/350]
476
●
(MISCELLANEOUS.)
Two boxes
of miscellaneous ephemera,
including
pamphlets, letterhead, billhead, postcards,
pinbacks, badges, philatelic material,
cased images, and more. Hundreds of
pieces. Plus—Over 50 full-page color
comic strips fromThe NewYork Herald
featuring either Buster Brown or Little
Nemo in Summerland; tender. Vp, vd
477
●
(NEWYORK CITY.)
Engraved
membership certificate for the
General Society of Mechanics and
Tradesmen,
engraved by R.Tanner after
Charles Canda, with a very large central
vignette showing aid being given to
children, 17
1
/
2
x22 inches; 2 vertical creases.
NewYork, circa 1850
[80/120]
This certificate probably dates to the 1840s or
1850s, though we find the same design being
used as early as the 1820s. As this example
has not been accomplished for a specific
individual, it is impossible to accurately date it.
478
●
(NURSING—FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.)
Archive of 17 pieces related
to the founding and purpose of the Imperial Memorial Society for the
remembrance of Florence Nightingale.
The society was founded to aid aged nurses
and nurses in ill-health. London, 1910
479
●
(PHOTOGRAPHY.)
Two small photo albums containing over 60 gem
tintype portraits,
one marked “Fairy Album” and the other unmarked, 1
3
/
4
x1
3
/
4
inches
and 2x3
1
/
4
inches. Np, last quarter 19th century
480
●
(POLITICS—AMERICAN.)
Group of approximately 90 pieces,
given over
largely to pinbacks, plus some paper items (convention tickets), etc. Principally from F.D.R.
to the present, but with some earlier examples as well.Also includes a glass commemorative
bowl for the Garfield assassination. United States, last quarter 19th-20th century
475
I...,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127 129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,...138