Cauldron of Curiosities Auction, 2024 October

April 13, 1945 Times Herald cover on the day after FDR died. Picture reflects folds to frame FDR portrait. 19x15", creases and small tears. Pl...

Pair of RPC postcards of President William Howard Taft's visit to Utica, Ohio, during his 33-state train tour of 1909. Two different views. Albu...

A letter from Wayne Levere Hays to a Miss Myrtle Strabley, c1960, saying that he recommended a Mr. Loch's confirmation. Has canceled cover. Hays...

A collection of 14 letters, c1898-1900, typed & signed by Robert Walker Tayler, a United States representative from Ohio from 1895 to 1903. One ...

A collection of 3 political advertisements from Ohio, c1914-18. Includes: Homer A. Bell, Millersburg, Ohio, Candidate for Recorder, 1914; Judge Louis

RPC postcard of Reed Smoot, LDS Apostle and U.S. Senator from Utah, c1910s-20s. In 1904, the Smoot Hearings took place when members of the senate trie

A collection of 8 postcards featuring photos from the SmithsonianñRoosevelt African expedition from 1909-1911 led by former U.S. President Theo...

Three trade cards with now POLITICALLY INCORRECT caricatures of African Americans on two of them, c1890s. Includes 2 with advertisements for the Hotel

Presidential election fact book and advertisements, undated, post 1888.16pp. Cover and first page have small tears, please inspect.

Vintage U. S. political medals: Grover Cleveland; Wm. McKinley; Herbert Hoover (2); Robert La Follette; Harrison & Morton (1888); Franklin Roose...

A carte de visite of Colonel William Prescott, an American famous for commanding the Patriot forces against the British in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

This lot of three buttons depicting the Ohio State Seal; two are made by Superior Quality at 5/8 in. & 7/8 in. & a third button is made by W...

A letter from one Louisa M. Grams to an unnamed Civil War soldier, written in 1864 as part of a 'comfort bag' for the soldier. The letter is...

Deposit form in the amount of $10,000 in bonds for the Confederate States of America. It's dated May 1887 & is a result of a bad investment ...

Supposed Custer photograph, c. 1870's. Likeness is good, provenance needs verification. 6.5" x 4.25", good condition.

A lot of 2 pieces of French ephemera, circa WWI & after. Includes: RARE Association des Dames Francaises Croix-Rouge Francaise (French Red Cross...

"Snapshot of an Austrian control meeting along with proposal to eliminate the neck disease".

1918 World War 1 war bonds poster with German soldier carrying a rifle. Litho by W E Powers, NY. 14x9.5". Some upper edge small tears, please i...

Three photographs of World War II military subjects. Two photographs feature the U.S.S. General J.R. Brooke, a Navy transport vessel, in the harbors o

Operating manual for WWII German aircraft engine warmer. It's dated 1939 and highlights parts as well as instructions on maintaining the unit a...

A trio of postcards related to Japan during WWII. Includes: 1 RPC with two "FIRE THE JAP" stickers, postmarked Sierra City, Cal., illegibl...

12 Russia postcards with 5 RPC's. Red Square, WW 2 artillery, gun mount, soldier column etc.

c. 1862 Raw Recruits Civil War sheet music. Bryants Minstrels of NY on cover.

An 1880 letter from H. Austin of Fargo, Dakota Territory to a Leo H. Ellsbury Esq. regarding the desire of Austin and other soldiers to claim land dee

1889 letter from one Mrs. Elizabeth Brouchton to her friend Miss C. Frost regarding recent news and her personal travels. Elizabeth writes from Ontari

This is an alert card used by the military to warn personnel in case of a nuclear attack. It's dated April, 1956 and obviously was in the posses...

A collection of 36 postcards of the Russo-Japanese War, c1904-on. Includes 27 RPCs (actual photo/print), & 9 other. Most are unused, a few with ...

A collection of 15 postcards of caricatures from the Russo-Japanese War. Over half, 10, with postmarks, c1905-20, & 5 blank.

1850 land grant awarded to Walter F Evans, a corporal in Captain Morehead's company for 160 acres in Fairfield, IA.

A group of eleven interesting military-related letters and pieces of ephemera, dating 1869-1944. The letters include personal accounts of military lif

White metal US military lighter with X/US. 1.6x1.2".

33 pounds of household collectible references. Gas station, Mom and Pop Saloons, toy sewing machines, country store antiques, kitchen glassware, cooki

1891 Magazine of Western History Illustrated. Has an article on extinction of the buffalo. Some cover issues and a few uncut pages. Please inspect.

Choice 1910 reprint of Standard Oil Company by Elbert Hubbard in a private printing. 24pp.

A Mansfield, Ohio, telephone directory, dated August, 1933. Softcover. 28 pp. Advertisements throughout. Prefix names & four digits. Penned name...

Millennium 2000. Paperback booklet: Rush to the Rockies "Pikes Peak or Bust! by Nora A. Slifer, Curator. Published by the Denver Public Lib...

Lot of 6 different books related to Germany. There are two German history books written in English. They are A History of Modern Germany by Hajo Holbo

Bound, Birds & Mammals of the 1909 Alexander Alaska Expedition by Swarth. 162pp. Page cover has corner tape repairs. Foldout map and lots of bir...

4 hardcovers, The Palimpsest, 1926, 1931, 1957, 1958. First church in Iowa, Hobo Convention, The Fur Trade, The Sioux & more. Iowa

Rare, Nevada Footprints. Prehistoric remnants discovered at Nevada State Pen in Carson City. 28pp with photos and illustrations. Front cover detached

Not Peace But a Sword by Sheean, Flynn of the Inland by Idriess. The Marital Adventures of Henry & Me by White. Vicar of Wakefield & Rassela...

The Ford Foundation in India, Iraq Before & After The Revolution, The Near East & the Foundations for Civilization, art print booklet. The H...

Published in the U.S. Lot of 2 German books that were published in the US for the German-American community. One was published in New York in 1880 &...

The First Part of Jacobs & Doring's Latin Reader by EA Andrews, 1871, 293pp with board wear. Partial 1842 Wowapi Mitawa, page 5-64, with wro...

"Salt-Making Processes in the United States," Thomas M. Chatard, an undated reprint of the 7th annual report of the United States Geologic...

Canadian & American Mines Handbooks, 2005-06 & 2010-11. Extensive mine details.

A trio of hardcover books about copper metallurgy. Includes: "Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting," by Edward D. Peters, Jr., M.E.,...

A pair of books about copper smelting by Edward Dyer Peters professor of Metallurgy, Harvard University. Includes: "Modern Copper Smelting,&quo...

Pair of early editions of mineral reference books. Includes: "The Metallurgy of Gold," M. Eissler, third edition, 1891, Crosby, Lockwood a...