Letter from Cohen & Fosdick of Savannah to J. G. Weld of Boston.
Auction 92 |
Thursday, February 18th,
2021 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Lot 161
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
Letter from Cohen & Fosdick of Savannah to J. G. Weld of Boston.
Savannah, GA: 2nd December 1853
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $150
Octavus Cohen (1814-76) was the son a Charleston Jewish family with pre-Revolutionary roots. His grandfather was Moses Cohen (1709-62) of London, a “learned Jew” as his epitaph reads, who acted as the rabbi in Beth Elo-him, Charleston’s first synagogue. Octavus was a commission merchant, selling cotton to the North. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army as quartermaster of Georgia troops.