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Categories • Stack's January 2005 → The John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part VII → Militaria → War of 1812 Medals and Decorations → United States |
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Lot # |
Description |
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Hammer Price |
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Major General Jacob Brown. Julian MI.11
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CH AU |
$500.00
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Copper, bronzed. 64.7 mm. Choice About Uncirculated. Some stray marks. Brown. Carlson noted 128 struck. |
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| 371 |
Major General Jacob Brown. J.MI.11. White metal
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CH UNC |
$2,800.00
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64.6 mm. Choice Uncirculated. Prooflike, with brightly reflective fields and frosty central devices. Some minor staining. Struck from perfect dies, not rusted and obverse rim unbroken. Extremely rare: Carlson noted only one auction record for a white metal Brown and wrote in 1981 that there were no records of one struck after 1854. Missing from Dreyfuss in this metal. |
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| 372 |
Major General Edmund Gaines. J.MI.13, Loubat 44. Silver
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AU |
$8,500.00
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Overall Extremely Fine, sharpness of About Uncirculated. 64.4 mm. Rims 3.5 - 3.7 mm. thick. 1,783.3 gns. (115.4 gms.). Specific gravity 10.47 (per the late Ted Craige). Bright silver in color, once cleaned. Extremely rare: Carlson noted four auction records for a silver Gaines but the cataloguer can only trace three different specimens: this; Dreyfuss:5261 (Uncirculated, 1,774.8 gns.,... more |
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| 373 |
Major General Edmund Gaines. J.MI.13
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UNC |
$400.00
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Copper, bronzed. 65.0 mm. Technically Uncirculated. Small obverse spot. Some stray marks. Mahogany. |
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| 374 |
Major General William H. Harrison. J.MI.14
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CH UNC |
$425.00
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Copper, bronzed. 65.1 mm. Choice Uncirculated. A nice example with good brown color. |
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| 375 |
Major General William H. Harrison J.MI.14 obverse/Governor Isaac Shelby J.MI.21 Battle of the Thames reverse muling
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CH UNC |
$525.00
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Copper, bronzed. 65.1 mm. Choice Uncirculated. Good, even deep brown. Cabinet friction on Harrison's hair. Fairly rare: these mules made for partisans and collectors do not come up very often. The one in Kessler-Spangenberger, for example, went from there into David Dreyfuss' collection and was bought for Ambassador Middendorf at the Dreyfuss sale. There was another in Presidential Coin... more |
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| 376 |
Major General Andrew Jackson. J.MI.15
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GEM UNC |
$425.00
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Copper, bronzed. 65.0 mm. Gem Uncirculated. Prooflike. A lovely specimen with light brown color, pale rose iridescence, brightly reflective satiny fields. One of the nicest seen. Obverse broken from rim into field under EN; reverse rim crumbling in several places. |
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| 377 |
Major General Andrew Jackson. J.MI.15. White metal
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CH UNC |
$3,750.00
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64.8 mm. Choice Uncirculated. Prooflike. Bright silver gray in color. The fields brightly reflective while the central devices are frosty. Quite rare and missing from the otherwise comprehensive Dreyfuss collection. |
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| 378 |
Major General Alexander Macomb. J.MI.16. White metal
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UNC |
$3,500.00
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64.7 mm. Uncirculated. Prooflike. Frosty devices, brightly reflective fields. Some light spotting. Quite rare: missing from the Dreyfuss collection. Kessler-Spangenberger had one and Carlson noted one other auction record. Nagy had one once, too. |
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| 379 |
Major General Peter B. Porter. J.MI.18. White metal
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UNC |
$3,000.00
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64.6 mm. Technically Uncirculated. Prooflike. Frosty devices, mirror fields. Some hairlines. While very scarce in white metal this is not rare on the order of the previous two. Carlson did not list any auction records for a WM MI.18 but the cataloguer knows of five examples. |
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| 380 |
Brigadier General Eleazer W. Ripley. J.MI.19
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UNC |
$525.00
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Copper, bronzed. 65.0 mm. Uncirculated. Reddish mahogany and brown, not entirely attractive. |
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| 381 |
Major General Winfield Scott. J.MI.20
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UNC |
$650.00
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Copper, bronzed. 65.0 mm. Uncirculated. Nice and fairly even mahognay color. Old obverse encrustation in right field. |
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