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Fleischer's Auctions: Civil War & Militaria

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Civil War & Militaria	Total Sales (USD)	448,031.25
Auction Date	April 26, 2025 - April 26, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	120,500.00
Sale Number	#18141	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	232,750.00
Total Lots	184
Sold Lots	183.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	122,000.00
% of Lots Sold	99.46%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	235,750.00
Unsold Lots	1	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	190.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
330		[CIVIL WAR] Identified Confederate Firmin & Sons Dolphin-Head Naval Officer's Sword	1871	USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 81,250.00
533		[CIVIL WAR] 1864 Defense of Macon Broadside	30 July 1864.	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 53,750.00
523		[CIVIL WAR] Female Photographer's Soldier Portrait	3 August 1861	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 25,000.00
312	Winslow Homer	[CIVIL WAR] 23 Winslow Homer "Life in Camp" Chromolithograph Prints	1864	USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00	USD 15,000.00
412		[CIVIL WAR] Gay Sex in Camp, Soldier's Letter	14 January 1862.	USD 250.00 - 500.00	USD 11,250.00
398		[CIVIL WAR] Generals CDV Album incl. Sheridan, Custer, Mosby + More		USD 750.00 - 1,500.00	USD 9,375.00
311	Cpt. Ellis Merrill Sawyer	[CIVIL WAR] Cpt. Ellis Merrill Sawyer Photography Archive		USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00	USD 8,125.00
470	Genl. Samuel G. French	[CIVIL WAR] Genl. Samuel G. French Grouping		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 7,500.00
534		[CIVIL WAR] Half Plate Confederate Cavalry Officer		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 6,250.00
393		[CIVIL WAR] 82nd US Colored Troops Officer Archive		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,937.50
508		[CIVIL WAR] Half Plate Ambrotype of Confederate Captain		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,937.50
536		[CIVIL WAR] British Confederate Officer Archive		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,937.50
562	R.E. Lee	[CIVIL WAR] Signed R.E. Lee CDV & Program	[December 1891].	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,937.50
342		[CIVIL WAR] Extensive 30th Illinois Archive and Diaries		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,625.00
552		[CIVIL WAR] Rare Chambersburg Special Order No. 1 Broadside	15 September 1862.	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,312.50
287		[CIVIL WAR] Casualty Album, 39th IL Infantry Ft. 18 WIA/KIA Soldiers & Rare US Grant View		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,000.00
276		[CIVIL WAR] Piatt's Zouaves Recruitment Broadside	[October 1861].	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,687.50
270		[CIVIL WAR] 3 Identified Massachusetts Minutemen	September/October 1997	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 4,062.50
288		[CIVIL WAR] Appomattox Relic & Surrender Eyewitness Letter		USD 750.00 - 1,500.00	USD 4,062.50
415		[CIVIL WAR] Confederate Rectal Acorn		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,062.50
525		[CIVIL WAR] IDed 14th Tennessee Infantry Soldier Pair of Ambrotypes		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,062.50
563	R.E. Lee	[CIVIL WAR] Robert E. Lee Autograph Letter Signed	6 August 1866	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,750.00
278		[CIVIL WAR] 121st Pennsylvania Infantry Recruitment Broadside	[1861?].	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,437.50
420		[CIVIL WAR] Wounded Officer CDV		USD 750.00 - 1,500.00	USD 3,125.00
511		[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] Older Southern Man w/ Huge Bowie Knife		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,125.00

Sotheby’s
Year in Review

Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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