An important collection of relics of Benjamin Franklin, inherited in direct descent by his granddaughter, the late Mrs. E.D. Gillespie, and her daughter, Ellen Duane Davis ...
Subtitle: to be sold Monday afternoon, June 16th, 1924
Publisher: Stan. V. Henkels & Son
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 358 lots.

"Catalogue no. 1356."

" ... consisting of the celebrated Duplessis miniature of Benj. Franklin; Sully's portrait of his daughter Sarah, and the protrait of Franklin's only son, Francis Folger Franklin; Franklin's high-case clock, chess table, bedstead, clothes press, silver tea caddy, his daughter's shoe buckles, and other relics.  Letters of Franklin, his daughter Sally, and other members of the Franklin family; letters and papers of Wm. J. Duane in reference to the controversy with President Jackson on the Bank of the U.S. and relating to the estate of Stephen Girard.  Hawthorne's manuscript of Tanglewood tales. Autograph letters of presidents, crowned heads, foreign and American authors and notables, bishops, early American divines, generals, naval officers, &c."

McKay, 8731

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Date of sale: June 16, 1924.