04/09/2015
The New England Primer
by John Waite
John Waite discusses one of the rarest American books of them all, a late-18th-Century edition of The New England Primer.
John Waite
John Waite is a specialist in Appraisals, Autographs, Documents, Manuscripts and Ephemera. John has a particular interest in the appraisal and placement of archives, large and small.
Articles by John Waite
02/09/2015
The Doctor, the Murderer, and the Governor
by John Waite
John Waite details the macabre story behind an 1806 letter to New Hampshire Governor John Langdon.
01/14/2015
Collecting the History of Early Television
by John Waite
The early days of television as a technology and cultural force are relatively under-explored by collectors.
11/03/2014
Dear Mr. Dearborn...
by John Waite
What was it like to teach in a rural New England schoolhouse in the 1830s? John Waite delves into a trove of letters written to a schoolmaster and ponders how to appraise them.
