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Lot 1063
Unknown Union Veteran's GAR Grouping and Family Ephemera
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Possibly from Pennsylvania, to include: Booklet, The American Polite Letter Writer (Philadelphia: John B. Perry, 1850); leather wallet with remnants of a paper pad (5.25 x 2.5 in.); two civilian CDVs with York, PA backmarks and one paper print of a man and child; a coin purse; ten (10) GAR uniform buttons; a GAR badge with hanger and ribbon; a GAR lapel stud; a silverplate Swiss pocket watch (not working); an 1850s-1860s broken bank note from West Union OH or IA (nearly obliterated); eight postal covers, one retaining a civilian letter, to a Miss Julian Grove, York County, PA. Four are from Virginia locations and Washington, suggesting Army origins.