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Post by elisabeth on Jun 11, 2007 10:18:34 GMT -6
If anybody has some money to spare, Alexander Autographs have a sale next weekend that includes a nice (if ferociously illegible) Keogh letter: tinyurl.com/yo9fu3At present, the bidding hasn't gone terribly high ... There may well be Custer letters too, or others of interest; so far I've only looked for Keogh. P.S. Have now looked. There's a Custer autograph, and a CDV, plus a photo of Libbie that I for one have never seen before -- quite nice. |
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Post by harpskiddie on Jun 11, 2007 15:34:41 GMT -6
I was wondering when you were going to discover this site, Elisabeth. Somebody posted the link a few days ago [somewhere] and I thought of you when I saw [but could not read] the Keogh letter.
Gordie,
it was not so long ago, maybe just a year or so, when I was lonely and went lookin' for someone...
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Post by Melani on Jun 11, 2007 23:15:53 GMT -6
I notice they also have a book belonging to Henry Nowlan, Nolan's System for Training Cavalry Horses. It would undoubtedly answer the question of how they trained horses to dodge arrows! ;D
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Post by elisabeth on Jun 12, 2007 2:46:51 GMT -6
These things are changing hands fast, then. Nowlan's Nolan was in another auction only a few months ago. Weird. You'd think whoever bought it would want to hang onto something like that ...
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Post by harpskiddie on Jun 12, 2007 10:43:11 GMT -6
It seems a lot of people are looking for a quick turnover on investment - one sees it a lot on Ebay, where even 20 or 30 dollars profit seems to be sufficient to trigger a sale. I just missed out on acopy of Graham's Custer Battle Flags, which is almost impossible to find, and expect to see it relisted soon. The Nowlan/Nolan book, with its various ownership/signatures and authorship virtually guarantees a safe investment, if that is all one is seeking. Me, I'd want it for its associations. I once had a copy of Nolan's History of Cavalry in my hands at the Toronto Reference Library, and was sorely tempted to stick it in my bootleg [for a true bootleg copy] and walk out with it.
Normally, signed copies of a book, or limited editions in special bindings, hold no special attraction for me, since it is the content that is of primary interest. In this case, I would make an exception, had I the money to spare. The pre-sale estimate seems low enough.
Gordie,
is it true what they say about Dixie? Does the sun really shine all the time?............................
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Post by elisabeth on Jun 12, 2007 10:54:10 GMT -6
Yes, the lure of the quick buck ...
Where this rapid turnaround is particularly distressing is with things like letters. It's desperate for research. If a historian wanted to see, and get permission to quote from, a particular letter, he'd have trouble enough persuading the auction house to put him in touch with the buyer; and by the time he'd done that, the thing would have changed hands again. It's so dangerous, too. Every time one of these precious things moves from consignor to auction house to new buyer, there's a fresh risk that it'll be lost or damaged. Terrifying.
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