Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
(your local time)
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
Terms of sale
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LOT 150:
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
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Sold for: $200
Start price:
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200
Estimated price:
$300 - $400
Auction house commission: 25%
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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
Samuel Mordecai (1786-1865). Manuscript Document Signed, written to Joseph Marx.
Check for £300 sterling (with the dollar equivalent given as $1300.33).
Two pages.
Richmond, VA: 5th September 1808
A son of Jacob Mordecai, pioneer of women’s education in the United States, Samuel Jefferson Mordecai fought in the Richmond Light Infantry in the War of 1812. He was a teacher in his father’s school, and the author of “Richmond in By-Gone Days” published under the pseudonym “An Old Citizen” in 1856. Joseph Marx (1772-1840), originally of Hanover, was active in the Congregation Beth Shalome in Richmond, along with Mordecai. He was an acquaintance of Thomas Jefferson (see Rosenbloom Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews).
