![]() The New York Times offered readers a couple of affecting portraits of potential buyers: an 11-year-old from Manhattan, Zack Pelosky, had bid on a “low-ticket item,” which ultimately went to a phone bidder for $1,500. ![]() Y-o-w-! more than twice the high estimate. Sold for (with buyer’s premium) $118,750. LOT 1040 – a group of 17 letters from Philip Schuyler to his son-in-law Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton’s family archives drew a cool $2.6 MILLION once the hammer fell on the last item. Good thing, then, that I don’t have to worry about it…. If your family archive (mine has NONE, I must confess) could fetch money – whether “enough” or “millions”: Would you seek to sell? See this “ Admiral Lord Nelson’s Bachelor Teapot“, the estimates were £8,000-12,000 – it sold for £56,250! ![]() Estimates being up to a cool quarter-of-a-million-dollars means the price could be even higher. Or, the five-page love letter (Lot 1007) from Alexander Hamilton to his “dearest girl” Eliza Schuyler, the earliest surviving letter of his to her: estimate $40,000-$60,000.Įven with the monies the musical Hamilton has brought to composer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda and historian Ron Chernow, even a handful of items could break their banks: Either of them might like General George Washington’s letter appointing Hamilton as his aid-de-camp (Lot 1004). They fascinate me.įor instance: Lot 1006, Autograph Hamilton letter to Peggy Schuyler, confessing his love for her sister Eliza Schuyler: estimate $15,000-20,000. I know what I’d love to sit and read: Letters to, from, or about the Schuyler Sisters. You can look through the online Catalogue, Alexander Hamilton: an Important Family Archive of Letters and Manuscripts, in order to draw up your own lists of “wouldn’t that be nice to have”. The photo, above, shows TWO of the gut-wrenching articles up for sale: a letter of Eliza Hamilton, and a lock of Alexander Hamilton’s hair. be faced with anything similar (and not over just one item)? ![]() placed on Kelly Clarkson’s purchase (at auction) of Jane Austen’s ring. Two Teens readers will recall the embargo the U.K. I, personally, wonder if the archive – together for over 200 years – will be fractured beyond repair of ever being reunited.Ĭonversely, now that they’ve seen the light of day, will the precious letters and other artifacts be swooped upon by deep-pocketed collectors – bringing up the possibility that these “national treasures” might depart the U.S. Good news for the family but what institution, even, can afford, item after item, to pay such prices. No “Ham for Ham” ($10) here…ĮSTIMATES are in the tens of thousands. Paige Smallwood from Hamilton and Gena Oppenheim, Hamilton Education Program Senior Education Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Institute and educator at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, helped explore a love letter from Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler and Angelica Church’s letter announcing Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr.Ĭlick here to download the slides from the presentation.On Wednesday 18 January 2017 the LARGE family archive of Alexander Hamilton will be on the auction block at Sotheby’s in New York. Originally broadcast on June 12, 2020, in this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection curators discussed documents relating to history’s favorite sisters: Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy.
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