Important acquisitions we have made

SCHMITT
INVESTORS LTD.

Here are some of the
important acquisitions
we have made...

• Two tickets belonging to a doctor who attended Ford's Theater the night Lincoln was shot

• Descriptive first hand letters describing Lincoln's funeral in Washington, DC

• Blood stained piece of dress belonging to an actress at Ford's Theater who held Lincoln's head in her lap the night he was shot

• The black memoria1 ribbon from Lincoln's funeral at Springfield, IL

• The unique Boos Collection of Lincolniana

• Earliest known correspondence from Antarctica {1821)

• Earliest known letter from Hawaii (1821)

• Earliest known Oregon letter (1838)

• Illinois pioneer correspondence (1768)

• Earliest known San Francisco letter (1845)

• First hand letter account of the taking of California by the U.S. in 1845

• Correspondence of Jay Gould, the Robber Baron when he was starting out in business

• The Clara Adams estate of aviation ephemera, including a large piece of the GRAF ZEPPELIN

• Builders papers and letters for the schooner yacht AMERICA of the America's cup fame

• Letter report of the U.S. Customs officer at New London, CT announcing the capture of the slave ship AMISTAD

• Important correspondence of Lydia Sigourney, the famous 19th century feminist writer

• Leahy correspondence of an officer in the 2nd Mass. Regiment (Afro-American) in the Civil War

• Postal cover cancelled at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard at the exact hour and date of the attack

• Original manuscript of the patriotic hymn "America" in the hand of, and signed by, the author

• Original manuscript order banning flogging in the U.S. Marine Corps

• Letter mailed from RMS LUSITANIA immediately before her fateful voyage

• First hand letter describing the burning of the White House during the War of 1812

• Earliest known use of the first U.S. postal card, 1873

• Daybook of regiment of Marquis de Lafayette while in Newport, RI, during American Revolution

• First hand letter describing the opening of the Cherokee Strip .

• Document signed by Mercator Cooper, lst American to enter Japan (1845}

• Plus tens of thousands of other important historical items