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CIVIL WAR US BOX PLATE FOUND 1895 ANTIETAM WITH LETTER
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This Genuine and Historical Civil War Relic was among an extensive 45-year collection assembled by an accomplished, advanced militaria collector who died last year at age 58 of a massive heart attack while asleep in bed in his house in Princeton/Trenton, New Jersey. John Michael Shivley. never married, had worked some 26 years as a NJ state prison guard in Trenton, and his 86-year old father who lives in Keysville, Virginia a few miles from me, saw my ad in the local paper wanting to buy military items, and called me. He and a volunteer neighbor had rented the largest U-haul rental truck and drove up to NJ to clean out his late son's apartment and large storage unit crammed full of 1,000's of military and vintage collectible items. They returned to Keysville and put all the material in the largest self-storage unit available and there it sat for many months until he and I came to an agreement on a price for the contents. His father had no specific idea as to what all his son had bought and told me that his son had started collecting militaria at age 13 and continued right up to the time he died, leaving many dozen unopened priority mail envelops and packages full of items he won on eBay and other sources and never bothered to open and inspect. He made a very good salary, nearly $100,000.00 annually, and spent most of it on military items he bought at militaria shows, dealers, celebrity conventions, mail order and during the last ten years, from eBay. The period range of the militaria dates from the Civil War to Vietnam and everything in-between. I plan to eBay as much as I can and I have to choose from ample amounts of American, German, British and Japanese historical items from these wars.
Her we have a US Brass Cartridge Box Plate recovered from the Antietam Battlefield and the accompanying period hand-written letter describes and tells the details of its recovery. The 5" x 8" paper is in great surviving condition, reads: This plate was found by Henry Miller, a tramp upon the battle field of Antietam, July 4th, 1895. I gave him a small piece of chewing tobacco for it, I received the plate on Sunday evening July 14, 1895. This shall be a remembrance of the battle and also of the tramp Henry Miller. C.F. Stick, Charley Francis Stick, July 14, 1895. The paper was originally folded in thirds, and in the center panel is written, U.S. Plate found July 4th 1895. The impressed outline of the box plate is visible in the paper denoting that the plate was folded inside the paper and remained that way for many generations. The brass box plate itself was hand-inscribed with the gist of the information that was detailed in the short letter. The box plate is in very good condition. Many such cartridge box plates still turn up, especially through metal detecting, however, it is highly desirable to come across an example, such as this, that was battlefield recovered some 30-odd years after the battle, documented and put away until coming to light perhaps one hundred years later. A preview of things to come on eBay. After spending over 6 months going through the Shively collection, I have assembled some 44, that's right, forty-four, original Civil War letters that Mike Shively apparently bought mostly in the 1960s and 1970s from historical document dealers for their interesting war content. Most of the letters are transcribed by typewriter and I see many of the letters were classified by the dealers as "KILLER" letters for their graphic content and that attracted Shivley's interest. Interestingly and shockingly, a few of the letters I've read by Union soldiers in the deep South who wrote back home describing their first encounters with Negro slaves and they use the "N" word and express their thoughts and negative opinions on slavery. I believe these letters should be in a museum. There are also an additional number Civil War US government documents. I am agonizing as to how to proceed with the sale of these 44 letters, individual sale or a group sale, but I will solicit good advice and proceed accordingly, so please stay tun... 
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