As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I have in my possession now the 1866 AD in the year of our Lord, examination of the Game Birds of the northeastern United States by Robert Roosevelt, uncle of Theodore Roosevelt.
The Roosevelts were apparently bug eyed creatures from the lowlands of the Peninsulas you can ascertain from the photo below of Robert.
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America, by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt This eBook is for the use of anyone
You can also read this book, as I have not yet started to peruse it, as I’m most interested in the examination of square loads in shotguns for birds. A square load is the same amount of shot and powder or the sweet spot for a good pattern and charge to down your birds.
This though is about me. I was thinking about this book in Abraham Lincoln had not been dead a year when it was published. The Civil War had just ended months before. George and Libby Custer were still army children. There was not even a transcontinental railroad. Theodore Roosevelt was but a little boy with asthma yet.
That is amazing to me to touch a book from that era. It was new then, no foxing (that is water spots on the pages. I had to ask Echo what that meant.) and the buffalo were still in vast herds, not yet wiped out to deal with the Indian terrorists of the West. I ponder those things of an era I would have relished to experience as the Sharps Buffalo Rifle had yet to be invented. Then I think of me. Here I have an antique book worth 20 dollars. It is written by the relative of a well known celebrity President. As the Lame Cherry is a celebrity, that is the ironic thing in my owning this book increases the value of it.
I wonder if other celebrities sell things, you know they do, but could make a living off of this beyond Comicon, and autographs, in would a celebrity just buy things like this old book, maybe sign it as their property and then sell it to people who would like to invest in something as signatures are worth a great deal of money as are old things those signatures would appear in.
I actually by fortune, have a limited edition Richard Nixon book series which he signed that a person just tossed out to the Thrift. It cost me a 1.60. Is something I ponder in I have something a President of renown, not only, owned, touched and signed, but there will not be any more of this appearing.
Would the Lame Cherry as celebrity owning such a volume increase the value? Of course it does as a collector would desire this. This is the added value of things celebrity on top of antique and on top of celebrity.
Most artifacts are the first person in ownership and nothing following. What would be the value of a Ronald Reagan book in which George Washington had in his library?
I should sign all these books, but I just do not have it in me to deface literature. This book I have has the signature of some woman from a notable family that settled in California. It is interesting as it is signed with an ink well pen. People were so meticulous with writing in those days as paper was not plentiful and there was not any room for any mistakes as nothing could be erased.
Books were rare too and you put your name in them so no one could steal them. I wonder if this woman who seems to have an Italian name, was sport shooter, out in her dress, and shooting the things that the hapless east coast is stuck with shooting. I wonder if this book covers the Brant, the sea lettuce eating geese who almost died out because the sea lettuce got a disease and that is all the Brant geese ate.
I will know when I read it, but am still hoping one day to acquire a muzzleloading shotgun which are too expensive in current form and too unavailable in production. That interests me in gunning, even if killing things no longer has any appeal.
I though am a celebrity with an antique book from the Uncle of a President. What such value is in such a book.
Nuff Said
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