Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-30
DIR. HITCHCOCK's ODDS AND
 ENDS.
A singular Collection of the Neees-
 saries of Life at Auction.
New Youk World.I

.
 Dr. T. :. Hitchcock, of Omaha,
 must have been occupied long time
 in making the collection of coins. | primitive pottery, arms, stone imple- ments, costumes, relics, curiOsities
 and junk which was sold by Messrs. Bangs X Co.,, yesterday. The sale
 was attended first and foremost by W |. Elliott Woodward, the author of the
 highly entertaining catalogue of these
 highly curious goods, and there were
 also present number of professional
 dealers Tn antiquities and bric-a- brac,
 to whom nearly all the 800 lots. and
 tO whom they were sold from one
 cent upwards. A fine bronze medal,
 cemmOratiDg the first visit of the Ja-
 panese Embassy tO the United States,
 was sold for Sl.25. 4 bronze proof medal bearing a bust of Benjamin
 West, and on the reverse the names of the subscribers for the purchase of hls picture, Christ in the Temple, " sold for g 5. A United States dol lar of lS04 brought $35O, and silver admission ticket for two persons to the New National Theater. Philadel- phia. from William E. Burton, $S. 10. An original kearney cross, and pho- tOgraph of kearney and a piece of the scarlet cloth and ribbon of his corps brought $10 A tifteen-cent piece of fractional currency bearing the DOT traits of Grant and Sherman and au- tographs of Allison and Spinner, sold for $5.75. X pair Of curious old Mexican spurs inlaid with silver and with rowels of great size went at g. A clapper of one of the nine bells that used Co hang in the bell-tOwer of the old church of San Xavier, Tucson, Arizona, was ceru- fled to as genuine by the owner, who says in the catalogue stole it my self" It was sold for 50 cents A ! lancet carried by Dr. Kane on his Are tic expedition and marked with his | name sold for l0 cents. A Dutch | cash box, of brass, bearing the dates | l452 and l407 and covered with math- | imaticai tables, sold for s2. =. It is ] said to have formerly belonged to the | Nnn Shaacks, of Albany. Another | similar box, dated ITO, and known to | have been in the Lawrence family, of | New York, for lO0 years, sold for | S22j. 4 battle-aNe of the sixteenth | century, with an engraved blade and d l carved oak handle, went for $11 A l piece of Peun's treaty tree, guarau- tecd genuine, brought D cents. A | fine ancient R.Aan bronze spearhead l from thc Thames was sold for $5 9. | X lOt 1SJ old buttons, mostly an- cient. but some from the American R. .oIutiOn and the Rebellion, were knocked down ai $4 O.. Twelve pieces of blessed soap from Jerusalem sold for two cents a cake, and lot of .iae JJ.C- of Japanese tooth powder brought one cent. A lot of strange figures of gods, men and animals of Chinese manufacture and gFotesque designs brought S9.40 They were formerly 'he property of MT. Laisuu, iLc Chinese COmmis- 5iOuer of Education at Spring field, Massachusetts. A large col lection of old pistols was sold. It brass aud steel bdrreled weapons of various designs, with match. Gju. a-d needle locks. One bearing the date of lSlJ vas sold for 5. 9; another bearing the mark of Dubli1 Castle. with the crown and monogram of George I, brought $2 3 Japanese pistol inlaid with silver md gold, and mounted in brass, sold or T50j; a pair of German pistols with engraved steel barrels and flint Ocks, and marked 60 Adolph NOn JuetZ, Cadet der DivisiOn,' brought s9.j0; a pair of dueling pistols sold or S6. An ancient battle-aN of un- Isual design, found in Arizona, near inc New Mexico ljue, brought S10. :, ' BrOadside. containing an ' Ac- .0uut Os Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson; Illustrated with Eighteen Collins and an Interesting ,'iev of General Jackson Murdering samuel Jackson in Nashville sold Or 90 cents.
 Dr. Hitchcock k well known by lumber of our citizens, as he at one ime resided in Tucson.