Land under First Building Hit on 9/11 Sold - for $9,000 - - World Trade Center documents at auction A researcher has recently discovered original antique documents for the land under the World Trade Center.
They are part of a unique 200-piece World Trade Center collection, in the Nov. 13th aucti
• Pre-Civil War 7-page manuscript on women in politics, “What Consummate Nonsense!” ($130-170) ...
• Typewritten letter of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1940, on the arrival of 3,000 young activists in Washington. “...They believe in some things with which we do not agree” ($350-475) ...
• A trio of newspapers on the “original” tea party - the Boston Tea Party - including an excessively rare “extra.” Issued hurriedly on Christmas Eve 1773 by the future printer of the Declaration of Independence, the broadside describes how the patriots “threw the tea over the side” of the ship ($19,000-23,000) ...
• Important 1755 manuscript from the very voyage of the slave-trading ship Snow Venus on which the violent “slave drum” torture was documented ($4,250-5,000) ...
• Report of a team of Confederate spies in Elvis Presley’s hometown of Tupelo, Miss. ($550-750) ...
• Collection of 71 different leaves tracing the evolution of printing from 1465 to 1830. Beginning in the lifetime of Gutenberg, the twelve-language group showcases the development of the most important facet of modern civilization – the transmission of ideas through the printed word ($1,900-2,500) ...
• Pay order for a black soldier in George Washington’s favorite unit, the Connecticut Line. He was promised payment “in gold or silver” – seven years in the future! ($450-750) ...
• And many other items.
All items are fully described at http://cohascodpc.com. A free 160-page printed catalogue is available by mail, while supplies last.
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About Cohasco, Inc.: Established 66 years, Cohasco is a dealer in and auctioneer of historical documents, manuscripts, books, antiquarian materials and collectibles. Over the years they have handled the sale of numerous prominent collections, in a range of fields, from colonial to Confederate, mediaeval to modern. Past highlights included the lamps that illuminated Lincoln’s wedding, an archive of the Duryea, America’s first “mass-produced” automobile, and the Bible owned by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother, setting a world record price for a twentieth-century Bible. Cohasco’s Document Preservation Center (DPC) division offers a concise range of their own specialty archival protection products, unavailable elsewhere.
