Source : Cowans Auctions

Source Title Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Description Cowan's Auctions is based in the American Midwest in Cincinnati, Ohio. Despite its location far from the major urban centers of America, it has developed into one of the country's most important auction houses in the field of Americana. Its Americana auctions offer major collections of collectibles, political memorabilia, books, manuscripts, photographs. etc. The firm also offers much in the way of art, particularly Native American and folk arts, as well as firearms and other military items.

Cowan's was founded by C. Wesley Cowan in 1995. Cowan had gained much of his expertise serving as Curator of Archeology at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. Prior to that he taught archeology at Ohio State University. Mr. Cowan will be familiar to many as an appraiser on PBS' television series Antiques Roadshow.

Cowan's Auctions generates around $20 million is sales annually, attracting over 1,000 bidders from all over the world. It features a department dedicated to the sale of books, autographs, and manuscripts.
Scope of Text
Total Records in AED 36503
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.