Heritage Political Auction is Historic in More Ways Than One On March 1, 2008, Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries will present the Edward C. Gillette Collection of Early Political and Presidential Display Items . The auction includes 446 items.
china; a superb miniature portrait on ivory of Andrew Jackson, attributed to James Longacre, a noted portrait artist and engraver who went on to become Chief Engraver of the United States Mint and the designer of the ubiquitous Indian Head Penny; a magnificent Paris porcelain cup picturing Henry Clay, the towering statesman and sometime presidential candidate; a coin silver Gale and Hughes teapot, presented to future Lincoln Vice President Hannibal Hamlin by the son of former U.S. vice president Daniel Tompkins in memory of his father; perhaps the finest known example of an 1860 Currier Grand National Banner print picturing the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket; a huge, colorful Barnum and Bailey circus poster featuring McKinley and Roosevelt; and the aforementioned Theodore Roosevelt Persian carpet.
The Edward C. Gillette Collection of Early Political and Presidential Display Items will be offered in Heritage Auction Galleries upcoming Grand Format auction, to be held on March 1, 2008 in Dallas, Texas.
Thomas Jefferson: Rare Personal Check Signed as President:
Hannibal Hamlin: Important Coin Silver Teapot by Gale & Hughes of New York, Engraved to Lincoln's Future First Vice President in Memory of an Earlier Vice President, Daniel D. Tompkins:
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