Date: Fri 16-Jul-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: GWARD

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Jenack Auction Attracts Specialty Buyers

By Rita Easton

CHESTER, N.Y. -- William J. Jenack held a June 12 auction featuring quality

sports, military, ethnographic and American Indian items, following three

preview sessions. Over 100 bidding numbers were issued to the late spring

crowd, which was made up of specialty buyers.

After travelling a long way to preview a fine engraved bowie knife, a Chilean

collector bid by phone to win the lot for $3,630. The knife, signed "Harry D.

Hasson, 72nd Pennsylvania Regt." was also engraved with "E Pluribus Unum." It

was sold together with Hasson's complete military history, and records which

contained details saying that it was the Pennsylvania 72nd Volunteer Regiment

who were called from Reserve at the Battle of Gettysburg to stop Picket's

charge when the Confederate troops broke the Union line. The 72nd held

Picket's forces and drove them back with massive casualties. Harry D. Hasson

was killed in this hand-to-hand encounter, which also marked the farthest

point north Confederate troops ever advanced.

A vintage Manco "Minnow" with Jersey rig fishing lure by S. H. Friend of Kent,

Ohio, circa 1903, was shipped to a Georgia collector who bid $3,100. It was

believed never to have been used.

Fireman collectors competed for a rare and important presentation silverplate

fireman's trumpet engraved "T. Alescander of the Phoenix Hose Co. #1,

Poughkeepsie Fire Department May 9th 1859," which was hammered down for

$2,090, going to a Somerset, New Jersey collector; and a 1926 National

Baseball League bronze medallion for MVP (Most Valuable Player) Robert A.

Farrell, with case, went to a New Jersey collector for $1,320.

Headlining the CDV and Civil War/military tintypes was a single lot of three

Civil War CDEVs from the 21st USCT, dated December 17, 1864, fetching $385.

They were autographed by A. Blanchard 2nd Lt., W. H. Fish, 1st Lt., and S. T.

Goodell, 1st Lt., with all three in good condition. A single Civil War CDV,

signed "A. A. Stratton," who was a former soldier who had both arms amputated,

did well at $275; a single Brady CDV of General Ormsby Macknight made $165;

and a 1/6 plate tintype of an unidentified soldier was purchased at $275.

An Eighteenth Century Flintlock Brown Bess Officer's Fusil in very good

condition was sold to a private collector for $1,100, following numerous

pre-sale inquiries; and a fine engraved powder horn with fine patina, engraved

with stylized birds and vines, dated 1776, consigned from an Orange County

home, was purchased by an absentee bidder from Orange County at $1,210.

Prices quoted above reflect a required 10 percent buyer's premium.