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GARTH'S CIVIL WAR AUCTION

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DELAWARE, OHIO -- Civil War collectors bid on ambrotypes, tintypes, firearms,

and other items during the latter part of Garth's Auctions November 6-7

auction.

A 1873 Winchester rifle sold for $5,940, followed immediately by the sale of a

percussion longrifle for $1,375. The longrifle was signed "Vanmetre," possibly

J.W. Van Metre of Ross County, Ohio. The rifle had old black finish with a

silver half moon and thumb piece.

The Winchester rifle, a .44 caliber with case colors on the buttplate and

hammer, was in excellent condition.

The two pieces were among about a dozen muskets, pistols, and revolvers

offered, along with a number of powder flasks and horns. An inscribed Ames

1850 Infantry Officers sword, with a blade etched and signed "Chicopee,

Mass.," sold for $1,980. The leather scabbard had brass bands that were

engraved "Lt. Geo. Trembley, 174th NYSI."

A 1851 Colt Navy revolver, .36 caliber, had a faint cylinder scene, and all

serial numbers matched. The revolver was sold with a "Colts patent" eagle

flask. The two pieces brought $962, while a pair of English percussion double

barrel pistols signed "Lang," with checkered grips, engraved frames, and

compartments in the grip, sold for $1,210.

The image collection consisted of 72 military images. Two Confederate

eighth-plate ambrotypes in a scroll work thermoplastic case, pictures of

brothers wearing battle shirts with three stars on the front, sold for $770.

A pair of cased, eighth-plate images of the Brittian Brothers, Hampton's

Legion, South Carolina, featured in More Confederate Faces, one an ambrotype,

the other on tin, sold for $550.

A quarter-plate ambrotype of a jaunty Union infantryman, wearing a military

coat and kepi and resting his elbow on a red and white flag, sold for $302; a

framed Confederate tintype, thought to be "U.S. Benson, 20th N.C." showing a

gentleman from the waist up playing a flute, sold for $522.

A quarter-plate tintype of a cavalry man standing and holding a saber included

a thermoplastic case with a eagle and a stand of flags. With the label

"Littlefield, Parsons & Co.," the tintype sold for $412. A cased tintype of a

Union Officer, wearing a Hardee hat, holster, and sword, sold for $522.

A Hardee hat signed "US Army extra manufacture" with a bugle, "I" and "2"

insignias, and a brass eagle and shield plate, sold for $1,540.

William Joseph Hardee, 1815-1873, was an officer who fought at Shiloh,

Perryville, Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta, among other battles.

A copy of his softcover book, Hardee's Tactics, published in 1861, signed in

pencil "James C. Cole from his brother Dr Whalin Cole CSA," sold for $550.

A Civil War-era artillery kepi manufactured by "Bent & Bush, Boston," in red

wool with white piping and a black band, had eagle "A" buttons and, in spite

of moth damage, sold for $605.

A Civil War drum, with red hoops with traces of a painted eagle and a head

stenciled "D.C. Commely Stewarts Run, PA," marked inside "Edward Baack, N.Y.,"

sold for $797.

A group of three letters and a tintype of Samuel Fayden, "8th Conn.," Essex,

Conn., sold for $330. The tintype shows a man presumed to be Fayden and a boy.

Both have navy shirts. Fayden was a cook on the USS Chasseur during the

"Burnside Expedition."

A dozen, unused, Civil War-era envelopes with interesting graphics, brought

$99.