Cohasco, Inc.

Biography

Cohasco, Inc.
Established 65 Years

Telephone: 914-476-8500
Fax: 914-476-8573
Websites: http://cohascodpc.com • http://dpc.nu
e-mail: [email protected]

Closing date for Cohasco’s newest Mail/Phone/Fax Auction is
MAY 17, 2011 at 8 P.M.

ORIGINAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS,
LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, RARE BOOKS,
NEWSPAPERS, PHOTOGRAPHS, EPHEMERA,
and a wide variety of
COLLECTIBLES AND ANTIQUARIAN MATERIALS

In 30 Fields of Interest

* Featuring a Special Selection of Civil War Items *
Representing 44 months of the War!

Containing 749 lots in 30 fields of collecting, Cohasco’s upcoming auction will include important Civil War items, in commemoration of
the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States.

The auction includes dated items representing all but five months of the Civil War. From these 44 months are found rare and desirable material, spanning April 1861 (relating to Fort Sumter), through April 1865 (Lincoln’s assassination and the surrender of the Confederacy).

Just a few highlights of the auction include:

• The personal workbook of future Pres. Andrew Johnson, prepared in the weeks and days leading up to outbreak of the Civil War, documenting through printed items in his possession his attempts to avoid war (pre-sale estimate $1,900-2,500);
• Poem in the hand of the first Union officer killed in the War, in which he foresees his own fate ($1,100-1,400);
• Rare medal showing Fort Sumter, made during the War (“So-Called Dollars” HK-11), one of only about twenty known ($1,400-1,800);
• Unique group of manuscript Confederate and Union telegrams. One is penned in secret code from Gen. Beauregard on Christmas Day ($375-475);
• Book signed by the sister of John Wilkes Booth ($750-950).

In other subjects, some highlights include:

• Important ninth-century large manuscript fragment, with scholarship ($9,500-14,500);
• Pay order for a noted black soldier in the Revolutionary War ($900-1,400);
• Exceptional archive of submarine history, including original photographs of primitive turn-of-century craft ($9,000-12,000);
• Documents on Smith & Wesson’s formation of a railroad ($2,000-3,000);
• Set of massive red Great Seals of King William IV ($900-1,400);
• Rare 1806 volume of New Orleans laws, including slave stealing and dueling ($950-1,400);
• And much more.

Cohasco auctions include unusual and eclectic material not generally found elsewhere, in all price levels. Catalogues also include a fixed-price section, with items priced as low as five dollars.

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About Cohasco, Inc. and Document Preservation Center (DPC)

Cohasco, Inc. is one of the oldest full-time dealers in manuscripts and collectibles in North America.
Established 1946, and presently conducting auctions, we offer consignors the largest postal mailing list of any auction house in the field.
With expertise in original historical documents, autographs, letters, and manuscripts, our offerings regularly include allied materials such as antiquarian books, maps, prints, newspapers, posters, topical collectibles and artifacts, and much more. Such fields as Americana, aviation, black history, finance, naval and military, numismatic, philatelic, Presidential, Revolutionary War, and World Wars I and II are frequently represented.
We regularly conduct appraisals of manuscripts, documents, and related collectibles for a variety of needs, and actively build collections, often to meet highly specialized interests, for scholars, archives, and investors.
Because of extensive background in the history of papermaking, ink, and printing processes, we are often able to authenticate, and then date items which would otherwise require extensive and costly laboratory analysis to arrive at the same result.
Among ?elds of particular concentration are the history of transportation, including automobiliana, the history of technology and industry including early computing, mediaeval manuscripts and incunabulae, and paper chemistry.
The latter ?eld led to augmentation of our services in the 1960’s with establishment of the Document Preservation Center (DPC). In response to the need for suitable materials for storage, display and preservation of manuscripts and paper collectibles, DPC offers a range of products for every requirement. Many items are proprietary and custom-made. In addition, special solutions are designed and created where items do not presently exist.
Cohasco has also designed, compiled and published a variety of historical titles, including the de?nitive reference work on Confederate autographs, signed for us by Robert E. Lee IV.

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Cohasco’s current auction ends on May 17, 2011.
The current catalogue is available both on our website, and as a 144-page printed booklet.
Collectors and institutions gladly placed on our mailing list at no charge; please advise your collecting interests.
Consignments are invited for future auctions. We offer a combination of well written and researched descriptions, personal attention, favorable commission terms, and price protection options. We have been in business for 65 years.

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