Society of the War of 1812

[qdoggmets]

Hi,

I am a new member and this is my first post.

I found an item at a flea market. It is a binder which appears to be a series of notes which were recorded by the secretary for the Society of the War of 1812. It contains about 175 to 200 articles/notes/receipts etc in the binder all of which are in chronological order from the year of 1903.

Some of the more notable items are:
1. Letters discussing the letterhead designs for the club
2. Letters regarding Lapel pin design
3. Letters from some Colonels, Generals and Captains

I extracted some notable information from the letter heads that I have not had a chance to research yet, because I wanted to get this post on here first.

Here is the research items I extracted. There are probably more than this, but this was a good first pass:
society of the war of 1812

• general society of the war of 1812
• ny state library
• pennsylvania society of the sons of revolution
• russell convention dates in newark nj
• alabama plytechnic institute
• colorodo springs gazette
• general robert patterson
• society of the army of santiago
• russell duane attorney at law
• headquarters department of dakota
• clerk of los angeles cal
• holdridge o. collins - lawyer
• reynold webb milrox/wilrox - masison ave new york
• record and pension office, war department, washington
• headquarters department of the lakes - colonel heyl
• pennsylvania office of the secretary of the commonwealth harrisburg
• e boyd weitzel - germantown
• commercial union assurance company
• law offices of george j denis
• a. bain bridge-hoff
• franklin national bank
• department of insignia
• the army and navy club washington
• society of the second ar with great brian in the state of new york
• department of insignia the baily banks and biddle company
• record and pension office, war department
• dr L napoleon boston
• department of the interior, beauro of pensions
• william herrick griffith - fire agency
• united service club
• dewey and eakins
• whitehead and hoag co, advertising novelties, signs, badges, buttons, banners, and flags
• lyman rhoades
• wisonsin graphite co
• russel duane attorney at law
• nery harmon noble, eqsuire secretary
• capt b.a. poore 6th u.s. infantry, fort worth kans.
• edward c. lee drexel building
• emmett gherst
• de young de young - law
• ausgustin runyon peale jr
• peiffer brothers engravers
• baltamore bade and novely co, designers and manufacurers: badges, enamel buttons, medallions and advertising novelites
• major m.w. wood, us army
• at the citadel, charleston south carolina
• republican county committee, madison avenue new york
• the cg braxmar co, manufacturing jewelers

I had a couple of questions:
1. Is there a standard price for pre world war 1 letters
2. What do you think the whole binder is worth?
3. Should I try to sell some of them individually or the thing as a whole.


Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin

 

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[vpnavy]

Until someone pipes in - I would start is by jumping over to General Society of the War of 1812 and letting them know what you found - bet they could help ya out.

 

[david680]

Selling them individually would probably not significantly increase your return, but would definitely increase the time/effort you put into selling them. However, checking with a ephemera expert might say otherwise. Selling this as a lot, would probably do well at a auction house that specializes in this type of thing. However VP's suggestion should be checked out, they may even be interested in it themselves. Good Luck!