(July 21, 2008)—A collector from Canadian, Texas paid $42, 000 over the weekend for the original land grant issued to one of McLennan County’s earliest white settlers.
The grant was among items from the estate of the late Central Texas Congressman W.R. “Bob” Poage that were sold at auction over the weekend.
Auctioneer Scott Franks said the collector who purchased the original and grant issued to Neil McLennan by Republic of Texas President Anson Jones for a 17.5-acre tract on the South Bosque River said he had never encountered anything like it during his years of collecting.
Franks, meanwhile, said Monday he has discovered another potential treasure among items in the estate of Poage’s late nephew Scott, who died on May 13 in Waco at the age of 76.
His estate includes a mint condition first edition of Mark Twain’s,” A Tramp Abroad,” from the collection of publisher William Randolph Hearst, Franks said.
The book was published in 1880, but the copy Poage owned was issued through subscription in 1879, Franks said.
A&S Antique Auction Company
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