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William Taylor Doxey Partial Biography 7/13/1841 Born Tippecanoe County, Indiana 7/1861 Joins Company A 19th Regiment Indian Volunteer infantry in the Union Army 1862 Given rank of Captain Company K 16th Infantry 8/1862 Taken Prisoner at Battle of Richmond, KY. Paroled and exchanged. 4/1863 Took Command of his regiment. Wounded in the knee and face at the battle of Pleasant Hill. Could not talk for a year. 1863-1864 Served on Court Martial Court in Indianapolis for about 5-6 months. 9/23/1864 Discharged from Army due to his wounds. 1864 Marries Clara Craycraft 1865-1866 Opens Doxey Brewery with William Craycraft in Anderson, In. Brewery destroyed by fire in 5/1866 and not rebuilt. 1866-1869 Retail Grocery Business. 1870-1877 Opens a Staves and Headings Business. Destroyed by fire 3 times. 1870's Serves on the City Council for 6 years. 1875-1877 Co-Owner "Walden and Doxey" Grain Warehouse 1876 Serves on Ind...

A love of baseball and history directed me to a site that is simply one of the best on the Internet. Gary Bedingfield has done extensive research on Major and Minor League baseball players who served in WWII. He has a weekly newsletter devoted to those who served and is currently writing a book on those who gave their lives to the war effort and their country. It is truly fascinating stuff !!! I've subscribed to the newsletter and plan on purchasing the book when it is published. Here is the site: www.baseballinwartime.blogspot.com

Many years ago, I purchased the following vase at a local auction. The auctioneer did not know who made the piece, but, correctly stated that he thought it was European. The piece has 3 marks, two of which are hard to read. After repeated efforts to identify the maker, the closest I could come was to think that it was made by a student at The Imperial Technical School for Ceramics & Associated Applied Arts in Austria. This was a stretch though and I put it away until I one day would find the rosetta stone to unlock the mystery. Today I found it !!! While researching a piece for my upcoming January 10th, 2010 auction, I discovered that my art nouveau acorn vase was made by Bernhard Bloch in Bohemia in the 1890's. One of the difficult to read marks is actually the BB mark of Bloch's factory. The mold number is consistent with other pieces I've found. Discovery at last. It's a beautiful vase. I dont collect, but, I'm tempted to keep it a while longer.....or it coul...

I picked up a nice game today at auction. It is a 1941 drop coin amusement arcade game called Jigger, made by Blake Mfg Co out of Holly, MI and released in September of that year. Blake is attributed to 4 amusement games made in 1941 and 1942. The other games were called Jumper (10/1941), V (10/1941) and HU-LA (2/1942). The top of the Jigger case is stamped 3100 Brown Mfg Co - Detroit. I have no idea how Brown Mfg Co would have been associated with the game. In another odd note, a company named Planet Mfg Co out of Detroit is also named as a maker of the Hu-La and V games. The Hu-La game is almost identical to Jigger, except that it has one knob instead of 2 and it's name was written on the side of the case. Here is a picture of a trade ad for HU-LA A vendor could pick up a Jigger game for between $5-7 in 1942. Not long after 1942, I doubt they were available from distributors. The object of the game is to drop a penny in and use the two knobs to rotate the Hula girl back and fort...

I recently acquired an original 1968 Doors Poster advertising their appearance at Cobo Arena on May 11th. The poster was designed by the famous Gary Grimshaw. This poster is fairly scarce and was only printed prior to the concert. I also acquired an unused ticket from the concert and a Doors membership card that belonged to the owner of the poster and ticket. I was able to sell the poster for $1,800, it's value affected by the fact that it had accordion folds in it. Better examples tend to bring $3,000-4,500. The ticket sold for over $500 and the membership card for over $100. The market for original concert memorabilia is still strong in this unstable market. Vintage bands or artists can command big money if the item is right and original. Be leery of fakes and reproduction material. 499 out of 500 posters are likely a later printing.

Every so often, we run into a really neat piece of history. We will be offering a Jar that once was filled with corn as a promotion by The Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road Company for selling land in Missouri and Iowa. The railroad had purchased millions of acres and after laying out the land that was needed for the railroad they tried to entice Easterners and Foreigners to head westward. They were selling land on 10 years credit at 6%. You can find fliers that exist in archives that were heavily distributed promoting the land sale. As far as my research goes, the agreement was good from Jan 1 to Dec 31, 1873. George S Harris is mentioned as the Land Commissioner for B&MR R.R. He was commissioner from about 1869-1873 and passed away in 1874. That would date this great piece of history to about 1872-1873. The jar stands about 8" tall and has a tin lid that has a paper B&MR R.R. paper label. The label on the jar says "NO. 527. Corn (Yellow) from Montgomery Co. ...

The Detroit News' 8/7/2009 weekend supplement's "Trash or Treasure" article had an unidentified reverse painted lamp as it's feature. Long established Detroit auction house, DuMouchelles, was asked to evaluate the lamp, but, did not establish a manufacturer. CT's has identified the lamp as being made by Charles Parker Co. out of Meriden, CT. Parker was known to make a boatload of products and was famous for it's hanging lamps. The only identifiable trait on their table lamps was a cloth label that was sewn into the felt on the bottom of the lamp. It is completely understandable that these labels could be lost over time. Even with the proper identification, DuMouchelles was on the mark in it's estimate...the lamp is worth $800-1,200.