Phineas T. Barnum. Famous American showman (Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus), signature on Sep. 13, 1880 National Park Bank check for $100.00 payable to himself, full frontal bust portrait of Barnum at left with facsimile signature beneath, 2c Revenue Stamp Paper RN-G1 at center, Very Fine, another portrait with facsimile signature accompanies, ex Tolman

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George Clymer. Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania, signature on Apr. 15, 1800 60-day Promissory Note for $1,500, 30c Pennsylvania First Federal Issue Embossed Revenue RM-179 at top left, spindle cuts slightly affect signature, otherwise Very Fine, with Clymer portrait (slight toning)

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Simon Lake. Mechanical engineer and naval architect, incl. 1p ALS on Lake Torpedo Boat Co. letterhead dated Sep. 12, 1901 writing to a Mr. G.B. Wheeler, applying for the position of bookkeeper, also 1915 signed check, another signed check from 1934 with his ms. "The Lake Submarine Salvage Co." above signature, also with Lake Torpedo Boat Co. stock certificate from 1920, last item is postcard with view of one of his submarines, Very Fine, an excellent holding from one of the fathers of the modern submarine

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1846 Letter from Arkansas to William Marcy, Secretary of War. Folded letter with "Van Buren Ark. Aug 16" circular datestamp and numeral "10" handstamp at right addressed to William Marcy, Secretary of War under President Polk, letter (fully transcribed) refers to an individual who was stripped naked, tied to a pine tree and inflicted with 77 lashes, the writer seeking investigation against commanding officer, Very Fine, fascinating military content from Arkansas

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Samuel Ward. 1725-76, Quaker farmer, politician, Supreme Court Justice, Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island, and a delegate to the Continental Congress, 3pp autograph letter signed "Sam Ward" (vertically along inner fold of last page), datelined Westerly R.I., Feb. 10, 1775 -- after his May 1774 election as one of two delegates from Rhode Island to the Continental Congress and about one year before his untimely death from smallpox while attending the Congress in Philadelphia -- to his sister, Isabel Ward Marchant, in Newport, carried outside the mails, an important letter concerning slavery, in which Ward explains his "Duty to discountenance Slavery" stating "this I did from a Principle which I wish may direct any public Act of my Life a sincere desire to promote the Happiness of human nature and as Liberty is the great Source of that Happiness...", in 1774 the Continental Congress passed a resolution to ban slave importation and prohibit Americans from engaging in the trade, some wear and splitting along folds, minor paper loss at top and bottom edges, still Fine, a rare Revolutionary War period letter from Samuel Ward on the subject of the "Guinea Trade", a great patriot who strongly opposed the Stamp Act and joined the cause for American Independence, had his life not ended abruptly from smallpox in Philadelphia just three months before the Declaration of Independence was signed, he undoubtedly would have been one of the country's Signers

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Checks and Financial Document Signed by American and English Writers and Poets. 15 incl. 14 different signatures on checks or other financial instruments, mounted on pages, nearly all with engraved portrait with facsimile signature beneath, incl. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ("Two Years Before the Mast"), Charles Dickens ("Oliver Twist"), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes ("Old Ironsides"), John Greenleaf Whittier, Ernest Hemingway ("A Farewell to Arms"), Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), two James Russell Lowell (edited "Atlantic Monthly"), Harriet Beecher Stowe ("Uncle Tom's Cabin"), John Ruskin ("King of the Golden River"), George Bernard Shaw ("My Fair Lady"), Alfred Lord Tennyson ("Ulysses", "Charge of the Light Brigade"), Christina Rossetti ("Goblin Market"), also Henry Ward Beecher, congregational clergyman and eloquent preacher, virtually all Fine-Very Fine, ex Tolman

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Marc Chagall. Thirteen signed items, mostly covers or cards, incl. cacheted First Day of Israel King David stamp designed by him, several other Israel stamps on unaddressed covers, signatures are bold are easily readable, overall Fine-Very Fine

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Joan Miro, Salvador Dali. One cacheted First Day signed by Miro from Paris with stamp designed by him, seven items signed by Dali (incl. First Day of cacheted cover with 1978 France stamp designed by him), overall Fine-Very Fine

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