manayunkman Posted July 30, 2017 Share #1 Posted July 30, 2017 The Brown family of Brown University on Bellevue Ave. Newport, RI Many items from General Gillespie the Civil War MOH recipient all the way through WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 30, 2017 Author Share #2 Posted July 30, 2017 Here is a link https://www.estatesales.net/RI/Newport/02840/1589337 I have old school mates in Newport and one of them emailed the info to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryResearchAssociates Posted July 30, 2017 Share #3 Posted July 30, 2017 I had been watching this sale for a few weeks but I'm 400 miles away. If anyone on the forum bought the DSM and British medals then I'd be interested in them. Thanks. Tim www.militaryresearchassociates.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted July 30, 2017 Share #4 Posted July 30, 2017 What a shame that this stuff will be split to the high winds. No one is going to be able to get in there and keep all the military stuff together. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludwigh1980 Posted July 30, 2017 Share #5 Posted July 30, 2017 It would be great to keep Col. Slocums uniforms together. I wonder what the prices will be like. I like that M-1895 coat very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitaryResearchAssociates Posted July 30, 2017 Share #6 Posted July 30, 2017 Uniforms we're $2500.00 for the 13th Cav and $3000.00 for the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludwigh1980 Posted July 30, 2017 Share #7 Posted July 30, 2017 Wow, it would almost be worth flying out there. Nice M1899 Campaign hat as well! Well maybe not for those prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludwigh1980 Posted July 30, 2017 Share #8 Posted July 30, 2017 Did they sell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #9 Posted July 31, 2017 They originally wanted over 100,000 to keep all of it together. That's the type of sale that doesn't come by too often. I don't understand why the family didn't use an auction house. Have all kinds of people racing through that glorious house. The patriarch John Nicholas Brown graduated from my high school and the family was active in the school. So a bunch of us from school went to a party there back in the 70s. In the 70s that place was so over the top old money like a museum. Today would have been the day to be there as the pressure would be on to sell. Guillespie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #10 Posted July 31, 2017 Slocums West Point Jacket but I'm not sure if it is ID correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #11 Posted July 31, 2017 Slocums Order Of Bath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #12 Posted July 31, 2017 The lid to the Bath box and medal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #13 Posted July 31, 2017 The main hall and front doors. Truly amazing and apparently the place was packed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #14 Posted July 31, 2017 President Roosevelt thanking the Colonel for letting him use his horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Ragan Posted July 31, 2017 Share #15 Posted July 31, 2017 Slocums West Point Jacket but I'm not sure if it is ID correctly That's not a West Point jacket. Looks to be a civilian band uniform. West Point Cadets have always worn grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 31, 2017 Share #16 Posted July 31, 2017 Yeah, an auction would have been nice and brought more money in the end, but it is what it is. Got to love those old Newport mansions. Who knows what else is hiding in the attics still! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludwigh1980 Posted July 31, 2017 Share #17 Posted July 31, 2017 Last uniform coat pictured is from a New York National Guard Cavalry Troop, I believe Troop A, 1st New York Cavalry. New York had probably the most gaudy of all the National Guard units and state militias. A pill box type hat was worn with the uniform as well as a plumed helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted July 31, 2017 Share #18 Posted July 31, 2017 Last uniform coat pictured is from a New York National Guard Cavalry Troop, I believe Troop A, 1st New York Cavalry. New York had probably the most gaudy of all the National Guard units and state militias. A pill box type hat was worn with the uniform as well as a plumed helmet. Looks like the moths were attracted to the bright colors too! Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniformcollector Posted July 31, 2017 Share #19 Posted July 31, 2017 Now that is an estate sale! I tried to see if I could work something out with those running the sale, but as mentioned above, they were strict on keeping it all together. It seems like it would take someone special to be able to offer something around 100K! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #20 Posted July 31, 2017 If I had stacks I would have offered several thousand just to get in to look around. That way I could have found everything that pertains to the family's military and put it all together. Then they would tell me that they want 100,000 and I offer 150,000 game over and I'm out chump change. Back sometime in the late 70s Admiral Ingersol's Newport mansion Bois Dore was sold off including a substantial collection of WW1 Naval Aviation pilot items. Ingersol was the recipient of the Navy Cross for action he took while in command of a destroyer squadron in WW2. His grand daughter was one of my best friends in high school. They had an incredible collection of French impressionist art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share #21 Posted July 31, 2017 Here are a DSM and a Boer War medal that belonged to Lt. Col. Stephen L'Hommedieu and this might be a picture of him too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted July 31, 2017 Share #22 Posted July 31, 2017 Stephen L'Hommedieu Slocum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lieutenant Colonel Stephen L'Hommedieu Slocum (August 11, 1859 − December 14, 1933) was an American military attaché who served in several countries. He was born in Cincinnati and was a nephew of the financier Russell Sage.[1] HIs father also reached the rank of colonel.[2] Slocum was involved in the Nez Perce War in 1877, during which he was a volunteer with the 7th Cavalry. He became a second lieutenant in the 18th Infantry in September 1979, and transferred to the 8th Cavalry in 1883, the year he graduated from infantry and cavalry school. He was promoted to first lieutenant in September 1889.[1][3] He was stationed in Montana, Texas, the Dakotas, Kansas and Missouri at different times between 1881 and 1905, and was an aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier General David S. Stanley until 1886. He marched with the 8th Cavalry from Texas to Fort Meade, South Dakota, in 1888.[1][3] In 1896 he married Laura Garrison in Christ Church Cathedral, in St. Louis.[2] In 1899 he was assigned to be the U.S. representative to observe the Second Boer War.[4] Between 1899 and 1912 he was at various times military attaché in Lisbon, London, St. Petersburg, Sweden, and Norway, as well as being on detached service in India in 1907. He also was on the General Staff at Manila in the Philippines from 1905 to 1907. He was stationed on Governors Island in New York before World War I. He was assigned to United States Embassy in London during World War I and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the U.S. and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath by the U.K. government. He died in Washington at his home, 2201 R Street.[1][3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted July 31, 2017 Share #23 Posted July 31, 2017 I wonder where his Indian Wars Campaign medal is? On the other hand, how many Boer War medals awarded to an American even exist? 1 ? Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share #24 Posted August 1, 2017 Great info Kurt. As far as the Indian Wars medal it might have been there. Stuff is everywhere and in some pictures you can see things under behind and in the distance. There was a beautiful MP helmet there, who did it belong to? Gillespies' uniform and other items were there too but no photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Kibler Posted August 4, 2017 Share #25 Posted August 4, 2017 Some great treasures for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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