Item # 13
Title: UNBELIEVABLE USMC ENLISTED WARRANT AND RECORD BOOK SIGNED BY THREE MARINE COMMANDANTS AND OTHER MARINE HEROES; ELLIOTT, LEJEUNE, BARNETT, WALLER, MAHONEY, LAUCHHEIMER
Description:  An amazing tri-fold leather bound warrant and record entry book for Sergeant Harry E Darr, a career Marine whose career spanned an amazing 33 years; from 1898 to 1931.  Darr's career was vast and he ended up a Lieutenant and served all over the world on ship and station.  He was big in the Banana Wars with the Guardia Nacional Dominican Republic and Gendarmerie d'Haiti.  The warrant is a heavier vellum like quality and is stitched to the folder.  The Sergeant's warrant is signed by the 10th Commandant of The Marine Corps George F. Elliott (1903-1910) and dated March 23, 1905.  In addition, the warrant serves as a record book and contains signatures/autographs of many famous Marine notables!!  These are all original signatures.

Elliott has also signed the record book for 1905 appointing Darr to Sergeant and again signed the record book in 1908.  That is three signatures of Commandant Elliott!  Colonel Charles Lauchheimer (of Lauchheimer Trophy fame, famed USMC pioneer marksman) signed it twice, once in July 1906 appointing Darr a 1st Sergeant and again in Nov 1906 reducing him to Sergeant.  Colonel Littleton W. Waller (Brevet Medal - Tientsin, China; Boxer Rebellion, Span-Am War, Philippine Insurrection- Samar Campaign and tried for war crimes and Court Martialed, famous for saying "civilize 'em with a Krag") signed it in 1912, Colonel John Mahoney (Brevet Medal - Cuba 1908) signed in 1912 for the Commandant, and in 1915, Colonel John A Lejeune (Army 2nd Division CO in WW1, 13th Commandant (1920-1929)) signed it.  Finally, the Major General Commandant George Barnett (12th Commandant (1914-1920)) signed it again in 1916, twice.  The folder is torn through one of the folds.
Size:  11-1/2" x 9"
Year: 1905-1916
Price: $1200

Item # 64
Title: WW1 USMC BRONZE MARINE REGIMENT AND COMPANY LETTERS FOR THE CAMPAIGN FIELD HAT
Description:  Four darkened bronze WW1 era USMC Regiment and Company letters for the Campaign Hat.  11th Marine Regiment and Companies C, D, and G.  These letters and numerals are getting very hard to find. 

Size: 1/2"
Year: 1918
Price: $40

Item # 66
Title: WW1 USMC BELLEAU WOOD WAR CORRESPONDENT, FLOYD GIBBONS 1ST EDITION BOOK AND AUTOGRAPH LOT
Description:  

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Year: 1918
Price: $150

Item # 59
Title: 1908-1909 DATED USMC NCO ENLISTEDMAN'S TROUSER PANTS, TWO BUCKLE BACK, METAL MARINE CORPS BUTTONS
Description:  A beautiful set of NCO trousers stamped and dated "QUARTERMASTER'S DEPT U. S. MARINE CORPS 1908-1909".  Has early two claw buckle back and US MARINE CORPS marked metal buttons at the fly and for suspenders.  Two names are stamped inside.  The first one is faintly penned and looks like J. B. or J. R. HURT or HUNT and the other is more prominent and stamped H. M. WARNOCK.  I think HUNT or HURT must have been the first owner.  Muster information shows that Corporal Harry M. Warnock served from 1911-1915, mostly at the American Legation in Managua, Nicaragua.  Under the names is written "TENT 29".  Only damage are two very light moth holes near the right knee and wear to the very top of the fly where it looks like the trousers rubbed.  Very hard to find 114 year old trousers this clean.

Size: 30 X 30 
Year: 1908-1909
Price: $250

Item # 33
Title: HISTORIC 1918 PHOTO OF WW1 USMC 2ND AERO SQUADRON, FIRST MARINE AVIATION FORCE (FMAF), MIAMI, FLORIDA
Description: An extremely early Type 1 photograph of one of the very first Marine Aviation units that would end up forming the Northern Bombing Group in France during WW1. Seen standing on the sandy area of the Everglades on land given to them by the Curtiss Flying School in Miami, Florida in Spring to Summer of 1918, appears to be Squadron C, under command of Douglas Roben.  4 Squadrons, A, B, C and D formed the FMAF. 
The FMAF went on to France in 1918 and conducted daylight bombing raids in Belgium and France.  These are the very first Marine pilots and aircrew right here. Marines of the likes of Alfred Cunningham, William McIlvain, Karl Day, Roy Geiger, Douglas Roben, Robert S Lytle, and Francis Mulcahy. They went on to win Medal of Honors and Navy Crosses conducting the very first all Marine bombing raid and downing the first aircraft in aerial combat. Pretty rare photo, over 104 years old!  Has inscription to rear that reads "Second Aero Squadron, U.S.M.C. First Marine Aviation Force Marine Flying Field, Miami, Fla."
Size:  8-1/2" x 6-1/2"
Year: 1918
Price: $350