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Below is a recent realized price for an autograph letter signed by inventor and businessman Samuel Colt. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:

Samuel Colt Autograph Letter Signed. Sold for Nearly $3,000.

The following are some related items we have sold:

Six Page 1839 Letter Signed by Samuel Colt — With Lengthy Content on Firearms Issues & Selling His Carbine to the U.S. Military — “…the cost would be a serious difficulty to get over in introducing them into the service…I think you had better offer the Guns at as low a price as you can…”

Extremely rare letter signed by Samuel Colt. Letter, dated 12 March 1839, is addressed to “The President and Directors of the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company” and written from Washington, D.C. Likely penned by Colt’s secretary, but signed boldly “Samuel Colt” by the inventor. The letter outlines Colt’s meetings in connection with obtaining patents, his dealings with Secretary of War Joel Roberts Poinsett and his demonstrations of the new Carbine longarm gun to the military, including trials by officers and Army/Navy gun sales. Letter reads in part: “…creating favor with the government I continued to neglect the business of making sales of the arms entrusted to me and devoted my whole time to establish the merits of the Carbine with the Officers of the Army and Navy to effect which my first move was to send to every officer then in Washington a printed Note of invitation to attend the Shooting and after experiments to be tried with our Carbine…” There is also a postscript detailing how Colt suggests pricing the Carbine: “…[Poinsett] said the cost would be a serious difficulty to get over in introducing them into the service…I think you had better offer the Guns at as low a price as you can…” The final two pages are an affidavit of 34 military officers who have tried the Carbine and liked it. Six pages, front and verso, on 8″ x 12.75″ paper. Expected folds from mailing, some chipping and toning at edges. In very good to near fine condition. Sold for $3,000.

Autograph Letter Signed by Samuel Colt, Founder of Colt’s Fire-Arms Company — The Company That Brought the Revolver to the Masses — With JSA COA

Samuel Colt autograph letter signed as president of Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, the company that pioneered the mass-production of revolvers. Letter appears in the center of a handwritten invoice from the Hartford and New Haven Rail Road Co., and reads in full: “Sir / Your favour of the 29 April is received and agreeable to your request we make out a bill of the rail road ties and the barrer of this Samuel H Colt the youngest partner of our firm is autherised [sic] to sine [sic] receipt in full / Yours respectfully, Samuel Colt & Son”. Document runs 2pp. on a sheet of card-style stationery. Measures 7.5″ x 9.25″. Colt adds a notation to verso alongside other signatures and ink notations. Ink blot to verso, pinhole separation to fold intersections and pencil notation to lower edge of first page. Very good. With JSA COA. Sold for $1,566.

Scarce Nikola Tesla Letter Signed on His Tesla Company Stationery

Scarce letter signed by inventor and entrepreneur Nikola Tesla, whose electric inventions helped light the early 20th century. Dated 4 March 1919 on his Tesla Company, Inc. stationery at 8 West 40th St. in New York, Tesla writes to Edwin Fulton Pottenger, an inventor of internal combustion engines. Tesla writes in part, ”…my turbines can operate at practically any pressure obtainable, the higher the better, and they carry easily 200% overloard [sic] without damage.

I am at work now on an outfit which will be particularly suitable for tractor purposes and also am perfecting my turbo-blower, making a small and compact unit…[signed] N. Tesla”. Single page measures 8” x 10”. Folds with one slightly affecting ”N” in signature, light wear, and three hole punches on left side, with reinforcement. Very good condition. Sold for $15,836.

Scarce Nikola Tesla Letter Signed on His Tesla Company Stationery

Scarce letter signed by Nikola Tesla, composed on his Tesla Company, Inc. letterhead at 8 West 40th St. in New York. One of the most storied inventors of the 20th century, Tesla’s rivalry with Thomas Edison was so intense that both men refused a Nobel Prize rather than share the Prize together for their contributions to electric power.

Letter to inventor Edwin Fulton Pottenger on 14 April 1919 reads in part, ”…I have been expecting to make a trip west on which occasion I intended to confer, in regard to our proposal, with my associates there who are manufacturing all kinds of machinery on a vast scale and have also taken up the tractor business…[signed] N. Tesla”. Single page measures 8” x 10”. Folds, with one through ”N” in signature, light wear, and three hole punches on left sides with reinforcement. Very good condition. Scarce. Sold for $10,068.

Thomas Edison Signed Portrait Measuring Over 7” x 12.5” — With JSA COA

Beautiful signed portrait of Thomas Edison, with his characteristic umbrella signature signed in fountain pen, ”Thos A Edison”. Very large portrait measures 7” x 12.5” (visible portion), matted and framed to a size of 15.75” x 21.25”. Not examined out of frame, but matte photo appears in very good to near fine condition. With JSA COA. Sold for $4,950.

Eli Whitney Autograph Letter Signed — “…a remittance of six thousand dollars or on acct of my contract for manufacturing arms…”

Eli Whitney autograph letter signed. Letter by the inventor of the cotton gin is datelined New Haven, 4 May 1818 and written to the second auditor of the Treasury Department, William Lee. Denied a renewal on his cotton gin patent, Whitney changes careers and goes into the manufacture of firearms. Letter reads, ”Sir: I have this day received your favor of the 28th ult and also from the treasurer of the U. States a remittance of six thousand dollars or on acct of my contract for manufacturing arms and am / Respectfully your very obedient servant Eli Whitney”. Single-page letter measures 8” x 9.75”. Creasing with toning to creases and tape repairs to verso upon separated folds, else near fine.  Sold for $4,375.

Thomas Edison & Henry Ford Rare Signed Photo

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford signed photo, dated 28 March 1915 via copyright marking. Photo depicts Edison posing with Henry Ford, both of whom had winter homes nearby each other in Florida. Signed along mat, “Thos A Edsion” and beside his signature, “Henry Ford” with “To Hutch” written above signatures in an unknown hand. Black and white photo measures 9.75″ x 7.5″ and is mounted to a mat to an overall size of 13″ x 11″. Near fine condition. Sold for $3,490.

Thomas Edison Signed Stock Certificate for ”Edison Phonograph Works”

Thomas Edison signs a stock certificate ”Thos A Edison” as President of Edison Phonograph Works of New Jersey. Dated 18 May 1888, the year of the company’s founding, it’s issued to R.L. Cutting in the amount of 200 shares. Best known as inventor of the incandescent light bulb, Edison was also the genius behind the phonograph, kinetoscope (an early machine to view motion pictures), ore-mill machinery, the dictating machine and more. With the phonograph, Edison pioneered sound recording. Stock certificate measures approximately 8” x 4”. Some discoloration along left side and various unobtrusive cancellation marks. In very good condition with a bold signature by Edison. Sold for $2,520.

Alexander Graham Bell Autograph Letter Signed Regarding ”Visible Speech”

Alexander Graham Bell autograph letter signed regarding ”visible speech”, the system created by Bell’s father to help deaf individuals such as Bell’s mother. Composed on ”Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes” letterhead on 6 March 1872, Bell writes to Charles Perkins, Secretary of the Social Science Association in Boston, offering to ”purchase two hundred copies of the article on Visible Speech”. In addition to his mother, Bell’s wife was also deaf, and he dedicated much of his life to the advancement of those with hearing and speech disabilities, in addition, of course, to the pursuit of his inventions such as the telephone. Single page measures 5.25” x 8.25”. Light toning, separation starting at top vertical fold, and minute smudging to signature. Overall in very good plus condition. Sold for $1,500.

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