November 7-8, 2018 Edged Weapons, Armor, & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/7/2018
Lot contains: A) TRYON, George W., noted gunmaker and founder of Tryon, Son & Company ,Gun Manufacturers (1836-1841). Autograph document signed (ADS), 1 page, docketed on recto, dated 17 February 1841, Philadelphia. A large and handsome, partially-printed document, 22 x 16 1/4 inches (two joined folio sheets of laid paper), being an Indenture of Mortgage "BETWEEN George W. Tryon of the Northern Liberties of the City of Philadelphia[,] Gun Manufacturer of the one part and John Frederick Schmidt...Hair Dresser" in which the latter agrees to loan the former $1000 "lawful Silver Money" with interest for the period of one year, the collateral to be a "certain Two Story Brick Messuage or Tenement and Lot...situate on the East side of Marshall Street", within the Spring Garden District of Penn Township." The document bears the signatures of both Tryon and his son and partner, Edward K. Tryon, who attests that the mortgage was witnessed and sealed in his presence. George Tryon's signature is later struck out, indicating that the terms of the mortgage were later fulfilled and settled. B) BALDWIN, Eden A. ADS, dated New York City, 15 January 1862, 4 pp., being the "Articles of agreement between Joslyn Hutchinson of the City" and Baldwin to "to be copartners together, under and by the name, or firm, Hutchinson and Baldwin, in the general business of manufacturing firearms...and to occupy as an armory, for the present, a building in Newark in the State of New Jersey...." Baldwin had earlier established E. A. Baldwin & Co. at Worcester, Massachusetts in 1855 to manufacture percussion "magazine" arms to his 1854, but no production is known by either firm. From the Walter O'Connor collection.