$1,185
Ephemera and Photographs Relating to the Clark and Swain Families of Nantucket, early 19th to mid-20th century, highlights including an 1860 "Certificate of Character... and Discharge" of the seaman Benjamin Clark, a letter written in 1850 aboard the ship Three Brothers by the whaler Edward A. Coffin to his sister on Nantucket, discussing after 44 months out, his dislike of whaling and wanting to give it up for the "diggings in California," and two letters from the same written in San Francisco where he settled with his wife Deborah, a "Souvenir of Ice Embargo 1912" from the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror , several photographs of family members and several postcards depicting Nantucket. Provenance: Descendants of the Swain and Clark families of Nantucket.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-03-07
