Antebellum & Frontier Documents & Ephemera Price Guide
What Antebellum & Frontier documents & ephemera have actually sold for — 18 recorded sales from 2 auction houses and dealers, 2026.
$363–$2,813
middle half of sales
Figures are computed from realized prices (hammer or total with premium, as reported by the seller) — never asking prices. Small sample: 18 sales is enough to show a range, not to price a specific piece. Condition, attribution, and provenance move individual results far outside these bands. How these numbers are calculated →
Recent Recorded Sales
| Item | Sold | Seller | Realized |
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| [TEXAS] Davy Crockett Lives?! 7 May 1836 Newspaper | July 10, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $350 |
| Civil War History A Journal of the Middle Period | June 28, 2026 | Akins Americana | $6 |
| Civil War History A Journal of the Middle Period | June 28, 2026 | Akins Americana | $6 |
| 1837 Louisiana Letter re: Family Conflict w/ Rare Postal Cover | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $100 |
| [MAPS, TEXAS] ca. 1835 Hand-Drawn Map w/ Oregon & Missouri Territories | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $2,250 |
| [NATIVE AMERICAN] Letter re: Gunfight w/ "Indian" & Hangings at Jefferson Barracks | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $400 |
| [SLAVERY] 1833 Forced Indenture of Young Illinois Boy | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $800 |
| [AFRICAN AMERICANA] 1834 Free Francophone Black Man Buys Land in Louisiana | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $450 |
| [SLAVERY] 1840 Forced Indenture of Young Girl in Illinois | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $950 |
| [SLAVERY] Free Black Man Who Owned Slaves in Charleston: 1860 Tax Receipt | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $500 |
| [SLAVERY] Abolitionist's Eyewitness Diary in Slaveholding Mississippi | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $20,000 |
| [SLAVERY] 1855 Tennessee Slave Sale Broadside, Mother & Child | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $6,000 |
| [SLAVERY] 1851 Kentucky Slave Sale Broadside | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $3,750 |
| [SLAVERY] 1857 Slave Auctioneer's Bill | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $850 |
| [SLAVERY] Black Slave Owner, Rare Envelope Addressed to William Ellison | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $450 |
| [ABOLITION] Maria W. Chapman ALS, Private Critique of the Abolitionist Circle | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $3,000 |
| [LINCOLN] Abraham Lincoln SIGNED Commission: Anti-Slave Trade Officer | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $7,500 |
| [LINCOLN] Harper's & Leslie's featuring Lincoln & Tad | April 24, 2026 | Fleischer's Auctions | $350 |
Currently for sale: 10 Antebellum & Frontier documents & ephemera listings from 3 sources.
Browse listingsSold-price data via ArtifactSearch.com's sold archive; each sale links to its record. Relics of War does not appraise, authenticate, or sell.