AFA Autumn 2019

1783 Discharge and Badge of Merit Certificate for Sergeant James Bright, 2nd Continental Artillery, signed by General George Washington and countersigned by Colonel John Lamb and Colonel Jonathan Trumbull. Unpublished manuscript containing eyewitness account of John Paul Jones and the Battle of Flamborough Head, 1779. The Revolutionary War Camp Chest of Major Benjamin Tupper, 8th Massachusetts Regiment. Breech detail of a Rare 26-Bore Board of Ordnance Flintlock Rifle Made For Presentation To Canadian Indian War Leaders By Henry Tatham, London, circa 1816. A Presentation Gorget of a Native American “Gorget Captain”. Engraved silver, 5⅛ x 4⅝ in.; bearing London hallmarks for 1813 and the marker’s mark of silversmith Crespin Fuller.