Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Auction: April 19, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
Including printed sheet music, "Highland Fling Schottisch" by Mark Hassler, 1855; a printed receipt for Congregation Mickve Israel, Rosh Hashanna service, for 1866; a copy of "New-York Enquirer, for the Country," August 4, 1826, published by Mordecai Manuel Noah; "The Independent Gazetteer or, The Chronicle of Freedom," September 17, 1782, with a notice for Haym Salomon's Brokerage; and a small book, "Elisama: or, the Captivity and Restoration of the Jews: including The Period of Their History from the Year 606 to 408, B.C" by the author of Selumiel, published in Philadelphia by the American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street.
5 3/4 in. x 5 1/2 in. (book)The Mark Hassler Orchestra was a famous Philadelphia group in demand up and down the east coast from about 1870 to 1900. Hassler was credited with introducing the waltzes of Strauss to America and was the musical director for the Arch Street Theater.
Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was born in Philadelphia and was a journalist--the founder and editor of four newspapers--diplomat, playwright and utopian who attempted to found a Jewish homeland on Grand Island in the Niagara River.
Philadelphia broker Haym Salomon (1740-1785) played a vital role in ensuring that the fight for independence from the British was maintained by brokering a number of large financial transactions that kept American soldiers clothed, fed, and armed.