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 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT MAP OF NORTH AMERICA WITH CALIFORNIA SHOWN AS A PENINSULA
American School (USA, 1790 - 1800)A detailed manuscript map, circa 1790, measuring 12 x 16 inches; floated in a modern frame. Possibly taken from a 1787-printed map by the British cartographer Thomas Kichin. It delineates the states along the Eastern seaboard, western discoveries, parts of Alaska, gives locations and names of numerous Indian tribes, and shows California as a peninsula. In an excellent state.
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  | AN ORIGINAL PLATE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE DINNER SERVICE OF PRESIDENT JAMES KNOX POLK
China Honoré (France, 1846 - 1847)A shallow dinner plate from the White House Service of President and Mrs. James K.Polk. On the reverse is the orange printed mark (see insert) of Edward Honoré, meant to simulate an invoice from his Paris firm. Circa 1846.
One of the most desired forms of Presidential China. A beautiful hand painted floral design graces the center surrounded by a light green border framed by gold leaf at the center and edges. At the top is the first use on china of the Presidential seal and the motto, “E. Pluribus Unum” in a ribbon across a shield. It is also the first time the colors of red, white, and blue appeared in a motif on the President's china.
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   | RARE PARIS PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE DINNER SERVICE OF PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON
Nast Factory (France, 1806 - 1807)Rare Paris porcelain plate, 10 and five-eighths inches in diameter; The Nast factory, circa 1806. Undecorated center, the orange-ground rim painted in black and thick white enamel with a neoclassical border of nine floral and foliate medallions alternating with fern and scroll devices between gilt bands, NAST 1/2 Paris mark on reverse in iron-red.
When the British burned the President’s House during the Madison administration, the President and Mrs. Madison resided in the Octagon House. Although unable to salvage china from the President's House they had sufficient china from their home in Virginia. This very china was used on state occasions.
Susan G.Detweiler in American Presidential China, pp 17 and 18 provides a full account of this china where a plate identical to this is illustrated. Another identical piece is illustrated in Margaret Klapthor's Official White House China, p.35.
According to Mrs. Detweiler in her book, page 18, "the few pieces of indisputable Madison china surviving today came for the most part through descendants to a sale in Philadelphia in 1899 [of the estate of Dolley P. Madison, the catalogue having been compiled by Stan V.Henkels], the others having probably been sold to pay debts incurred by Dolley's son, Payne Todd.
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   | Broadside Announcing the Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1826, the Fiftieth Anniversary of American Independence
Howe & Norton (USA, 1826 - 1826)Broadside, 1p, tall folio,470 x 285 mm, no date but printed in Boston in 1826. Titled, Funeral Thoughts Excited by the Death of JOHN ADAMS and THOS. JEFFERSON on the Fourth of July, 1826, The Jubilee of Independence.Bears the imprint at bottom of Howe & Norton, Printers, 14, State Street, Boston. Text in two columns within a fancy woodcut border. In an amazingly fresh original state with large margins; one small repaired tear, lower right, not affecting text, plus a few flattened creases.
On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of American Independence, in one of the great historic coincidences, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. Adams, not knowing that Jefferson died hours earlier uttered his famous final words from his deathbed, "Thomas Jefferson survives". Curiously, the broadside is peppered with Old Testament biblical quotes including a loosely translated first question asked at the Passover Seder: What mean ye by this service? In researching this incredible broadside I could only find one other example, that in the collection of the Library of Congress.
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