?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DAVIS, JEFFERSON. Letter Signed, as Secretary of War, to Senator John Bell, sending a report [not present] by the Colonel of Ordnance concerning shells purchased by the Army from Mr. [Robert L.] Stevens in 1818, pointing out that the report includes information about the number of shells purchased and how to make them but nothing about whether a patent was taken out for their design. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; minor scattered soiling, folds. Washington, 4 August 1856
