Germantown (Philadelphia) Homing Club (Pigeons) 1885 - 1889 Minutes - Original - Handwritten
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Germantown Homing Club, minutes 1885 (October 5, 1885) - May 1889. Includes some correspondences and clippings regarding pigeon raising & racing. Each entry , hand-written & signed by club secretary, most by J. C. Bockius (Jacob), and then later secretaries : James Dunn (sic) , John Hart & Thomas Brooks. 44 pages of text. Important archive of pigeon homing history and of Philadelphia (Germantown)
13" x 8" lined notebook of Club's minutes including tipped in clippings from Journals & loose correspondence of the time 1885 - 1889. Front board worn & just about detached, literally hanging on by a thread) , leather sine roughed & torn, much missing, Internally Clean & Tight, clean aside from glue marks, and shadows of such, see photos. 88 leaves, 44 pages of text, book probably contains 150 leaves, last 1/3 blank. Available for inspection at my place in Bensalem, PA, Andalusia Bookman
13" x 8" lined notebook of Club's minutes including tipped in clippings from Journals & loose correspondence of the time 1885 - 1889. Front board worn & just about detached, literally hanging on by a thread) , leather sine roughed & torn, much missing, Internally Clean & Tight, clean aside from glue marks, and shadows of such, see photos. 88 leaves, 44 pages of text, book probably contains 150 leaves, last 1/3 blank. Available for inspection at my place in Bensalem, PA, Andalusia Bookman
