The lot features a unique circa 1890-1900’s hide young boys first war shirt with wonderful beadwork from the Plateau Native American Indians. The piece shows an Indian tanned hide construction with period correct glass trade seed beaded panels. The beadwork is all linear geometric being both sinew and trade thread sewn, typical of the pieces age. The beadwork shows colors of greasy yellow, sky padre blue, Cheyenne pink, medium greasy green and cobalt. The war shirt shows the typical design with long beaded panels stretching from the chest over the shoulders to the back. The back of the shirt shows three oblong diamond shapes beaded in Cheyenne pink. The panels are accompanied by a row of long hand cut hide fringe which cut glass Czech trade beads. The arms show a short row of fringe which is also shown on the neckline an along the base of the shirt. The shirt itself has a nice coloring from age and use. Provenance: From a large Montana American Indian Collection. The shirt measures 36”L across the arms by 18.5”L. Young Boys's war shirts are very rare with this piece being similar to the example sold by Cowan's in their 2013 sale for $8,000.
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This is an excellent carved wood polychrome painted bow from the Mandan Hidatsa Native Americans of the Missouri River region dating to the mid-19th Century. The piece shows a curved wood warrior’s bow which is expertly carved showing well made notches at the end, tapering design and slightly recurved pattern. The entire bow shows a brown pigment mineral paint with the outside edge showing a zig-zag river like red and yellow polychrome mineral pigment paint which extends the entity of the bow. On the inside edge a banded painted design. The bows is very similar to the example collected in 1845 from the Mandan of the Upper Missouri River at Fort Clark sold in our June 2020 sale and valued at $6,000. The piece shows very well-preserved condition and exceptional rare paint. Provenance: From a historic Eastern Montana American Indian Collection, where the piece was found to be an authentic original, one of the finest collections of American Indian weaponry and antiquities in Montana. Measures 49”L end to end and is about 1.5” by 1” thick.
Offered in this lot is a rare walrus ivory trinket case with scrimshaw on it. This case, that is shaped like a spool of thread, has an American eagle symbol done in scrimshaw on both side and on the top of the case lid. The eagle is holding branches in one claw and arrows in the other and has flowers and leaves on the breast shield. Behind the eagles head is a sunburst arc with stars. The ivory of this item is in very good condition with no splits or cracks. The lid to this case fits snug. The term “scrimshaw” was coined in 18th Century America aboard a whaling vessel. There are Inuit ivory carving that pre and post-date the whaleman’s scrimshaw, which may indicate simultaneous development of this art form. As whaling faded at the turn of the 19th century so did the scrimshaw trade. However, in the 1960’s President John F. Kennedy’s collection created a revival in the creation and collection of this unique art. The case is 1 3/4" tall and 1 3/8" across the bottom. Please see pictures for an accurate assessment of condition.
For your consideration is this original Rare 1908 Large Map of Montana Railroad Commission. Railroad Commission Map of Montana Copyright, 1908, by Rand, McNally & Co Engravers, Chicago. This is a very rare Montana map that has been backed in linen and folds into a red cloth book with gold lettering across the front. The map measures 41.25"x53.25" and the book The map features Railroad lines such as: Northern Pacific; Northern Pacific (proposed); Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (proposed); Billings & Central Montana; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Oregon Short Line; Montana, Wyoming & Southern; Butte, Anaconda & Pacific; Gilmore & Pittsburg; Gallatin Valley; Montana Western; Yellowstone Park; White Sulphur Springs & Yellowstone Park; Big Blackfoot Railway; Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie and Three Forks, Helena & Madison Valley (proposed). (One of the most impressive Montana maps). Canvas covered binding shows good well preserved condition and is highly collectable. The measurements of this commission map is 8 1/2" x 6 1/4".
Offered in this lot we have a rare Ojibwa Native American rawhide snowshoes originating from the early 1900's. The snowshoes feature a woven lattice work of rawhide on a wooden frame. The pieces show puffs of red fabric along the sides where the rawhide crossed through the wood. The shoes where hand made by the Ojibwa Native American tribe located near Lake Superior. The snowshoes show good condition overall with some wear due to use and age. The shoes measures 33" long by 10 1/4" wide.
The lot features an interesting rare 18th-19th Century wax seal knife from renowned knife maker, Jonathan Crookes of Sheffield, England. The knife shows a double edge short blade which would have been used for an antique wax seal knife, ink scraper tool or bleeder scalpel. The knife is finely stamped on one side, “JONATHAN CROOKES (hallmark of a horizontal heart coming out the barrel of a flintlock dual pistol)”. The hallmark is referred to regularly as the Heart & Pistol touch mark. The knife is secured into a large beautiful polished section of mother of pearl which has a fine tapering design and is capped with a silver like pressed repousse engraved finish and yellow gold wash. Jonathan Crookes knives with the heart and pistol marking with “Jonathan Crookes” dates to circa 1780-1827 (after 1827 the marking changed to Jonathan Crookes & Son) and are highly collectible pieces. Measures overall 3 1/8”L by 1.25”W by ½”D.
For your consideration is this rare, well preserved copy of author John S. Roberts's "The Life & Explorations of Dr. Livingstone; Including Extracts From Dr. Livingstone's Last Journal, By Rev. E.A. Manning", published by E.C. Allen & Co. Augusta, ME, 1875. The book is decoratively bound in green cloth with gilt decoration and title; contains a tissue-guarded portrait of Dr. Livingstone, illustrated plates and a map of Southern Africa. David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) was a British physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion. The book shows a bright, crisp guilt cover and spine with a tight binding. It is in very good condition, and measures 5.25" x 7.5" 1.5".
For your consideration is this rare 18th century Dutch Dogon trade bead necklace. This piece shows a mixed strand of Dutch Dogon glass trade beads. The beads are beautiful examples of African craftsmanship and are shown on a twine string. Believed to date back as far as the 17th century, these beads were often used in Dutch villages to make garden mosaics, instead of having flowers in the formal gardens during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This was before they found their way to the shores of West Africa to make jewelry for the Dogon people. Popular colors for Dutch Dogon beads are most often blue but can also be back black, white or brown. These wonderful old beads are mostly smooth, with some pitted and rough surfaces. The condition of this bracelet is good with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this necklace is approximately 8" diameter and 27" in circumference.
For your consideration is a rare, original New York Times newspaper page from Sunday, July, 9, 1876 with an article reporting on General Custer's Last Fight. The article reports on, "General Terry's official report - A painful duty performed - The force engaged in the indian fight - The movements of General Custer - List of officer's killed - Number of indians engaged." This page from the New York Times also includes headlines regarding General Custer and the war including, "Dispatches from Gen. Sheridan" "General Cook's Whereabouts" "The Causes Leading to the War" "General Sherman on the Situation" "Gen. Custer" and "Letter From Terry's Staff." This piece is in well preserved condition and showing some sign of wear appropriate to it's age and use. This piece measures approximately 18" x 22"
This is an original handmade custom knife showing a folded forged raindrop Damascus blade with Turquoise and rare Spalted Beech wood grips. The knife is from Santa Fe Stone-works. The grips display turquoise bands with silver linings and scarce Spalted Beech exotic wood grips. The Spalted Beech found on both sides of this knife are responsibly harvested from Denmark and shows an outstanding rich grain and durability. The blade shows a wonderful "Raindrop Damascus" steel pattern blade. The knife also shows a set of polished silver nickel bolsters. This is a liner lock knife showing a total length when open of 5 1/4" long with the blade measuring 2 1/4" long.
Offered for sale in this lot is an outstanding third-quarter 19th Century Lakota Sioux Native American Indian beaded pipe bag. The bag is constructed of Indian brain tanned Buffalo Bison hide and is sinew sewn accented by extraordinary beadwork on both sides. The beadwork is all 1800’s period correct glass trade seed cen beads in a geometric pattern showing a nice rectangular section at the base wrapping around both sides with a single band vertically attaching the fancy beaded top edge. The beadwork is in colors of greasy yellow, sky padre blue, cobalt, greasy rose and greasy blue. Each side shows a five-point star in greasy rose along with various rolled tin jingle cones. The original hide tie straps are still intact at the top and the bag shows expected wear from age and use withs some drying of the hide and fringe, but overall a nice supple condition with little to no bead loss. This iconic pattern of pipe tobacco bag predates the more often seen “beaded on one side with quillwork and fringe at the bottom” examples that were made during the early reservation period. The circa 1860’s pipe bag shows traces of old yellow ocher mineral pigment on the bag and fringe. The base of the bag shows long hand cut frilly hide fringe with nice patina and staining from honest age and use. The five-pointed red morning star has been documented by scholars as being a Sioux “Warrior Society” symbol. Provenance: The pipe bag was acquired by noted Indian artifact dealer Jim Aplan of Piedmont, South Dakota in the 1960’s directly off the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation. Aplan later sold the bag to Mitchell Hodgkins of Rapid City, South Dakota who later sold the piece to wealthy London, England collector Cyrus Eaton back in the 1980’s. This is truly a fantastic rare authentic example shows fine beadwork, very early age and wonderful patina with amazing owner lineage. The pipe bag measures 29 inches long including the fringe by 5 inches wide.
The lot features a rare and important circa 1890 Ghost Dance Shield attributed to the Lakota Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. There are three known authentic Ghost Dance shields attributed to the Sioux; one example in a museum in Rapid City, South Dakota, the second sold by NAAC at our Bozeman, Montana sale in 2018 attributed to Grandma Holy Bear and this third example. Provenance: The piece was acquired at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by Dr. Charles Eastman who later gave the piece with other relics to Reverend Joseph Ward’s Yankton Indian College Museum. It was part of the Ghost Dance display at the Yankton Museum which also included a shirt, two dresses, a few drums and pipe tomahawks. There had previously been four shields from the Sioux Ghost Dance movement that exited at the Wounded Knee Memorial Site Museum that was attributed to American Horse, but was destroyed in a fire set by A.I.M. (American Indian Movement) members in 1973 under Russel Means and Dennis Banks, who set the museum ablaze during their standoff with Federal agents (this was known as the Wounded Knee Incident or Wounded Knee Occupation). This example shows a wetted and stretched Buffalo Bison parfleche rawhide over a bent wood frame that is secured together with hide lacing and old hide glue. The shield shows old mineral pigment polychrome painted figures and symbols in colors of red, yellow, black and blue. At the center shows a black large waterbird flying up towards the sky with wings spread; at the top shows a yellow background with ten four-point morning stars in blue, a single crescent half moon and single full moon both in blue. The bottom shows a red background and the shield overall shows four tied drops of Indian tanned hide, a drop of old trade clothe at the bottom and a drop of partridge feathers at the center. The paint has a nice patina with some fading from age. At the back shows the hide lacing and parfleche ties wrapped over the bent wood along with the long, braided hide shoulder strap still attached. The current collector believes that Lakota Sioux Chief Fast Thunder’s third wife, “Little Bird” and community elder “Grandma Holy Bear” likely made the Sioux Ghost Dance dresses, shirts, drums and shields as items attributed to them have very similar art appeal and styling. Provenance: The piece was acquired at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by Dr. Charles Eastman and given to Reverend Joseph Ward’s Yankton Indian College Museum where it was on display in the Ghost Dance collection until the museum and college closed in 1984 and the contents were acquired by Jim Aplan of Piedmont, South Dakota. Aplan sold many of those pieces to wealthy collector Cyrus Eaton of London, England in 1985. The shield measures 18 ½ inches across and is in well preserved condition for its age.
Dia.: 20,3 cm - H.: 10 cm Provenance: - A Dutch private collection. - Acquired from Feng Chun Ma art consultancy. Painted on the exterior with a rice production scene showing farmers sieving rice, while a boy is trying to prevent cockerels from picking grain from a basket. A lady and a boy are watching from the window in a house. In the distance a figure in a thatched hut pounds grain in a large mortar. The scene is divided by large rocks and inscribed with a poem relating to this specific scene. The interior is painted with a central medallion enclosing a farmer and buffalo tilling the fields. This bowl belongs to a very rare series of blue and white bowls with scenes of rice and silk production derived from the album 'Yuzhi gengzhitu' or' 'Imperially Commissioned Pictures of Tilling and Weaving', commissioned by the Kangxi emperor and designed by the court painter Jiao Bingzhen, to serve as a model for prints and paintings. The print with this specific scene is number 19 of 23. The print shown here is one from the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art in the Jordan Schitzer museum of Art, University of Oregon. Only a few bowls from this series are known. One is in the Shanghai Museum and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and one was sold at Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2019, lot 752.As the four known examples, including the present bowl from this rare group, are all painted with different scenes, it is very likely that there exists only one series, probably painted by the same artist.
A rare nautical G.M. Balance, c. 1900, Stanley of London, for the S.S. Ayrshire, in a mahogany fitted case with ivorine scale with brass mounts inscribed "Water in Boilers" and "Anchors and Cables" verso, beneath a spirit level and an ivorine plaque "Heights above Top of Keel at Different Positions Fore & Aft..." etc. , the case bearing a label inscribed "No. 26". Case 11cm by 73cm by 15cm. Note: the S.S. Ayrshire was built on the Tyne and launched in 1903 for Scottish Shire Lines. It operated between the UK and Australia and sank of the coast of India in 1926.
Britains Rare Lead Metal Farm set, complete, with various figures and accessories. Generally very good, some minor paint loss, age related in original, fair only box. Enhanced Condition Reports: We are more than happy to provide further images of any lot. Please contact us by email or via the catalogue listing.
A Very large Vintage Merrythought Giant Pink Rabbit. Features bendable limbs and ears. Would benefit from a careful clean otherwise good with original stamp on bottom of foot. Rare. Enhanced Condition Reports: We are more than happy to provide further images of any lot. Please contact us by email or via the catalogue listing.
Britains No. 784 Ayrshire Bull. Superb example is ex-shop stock hence little or no paint wear, some very minor factory scuffs, expected on these sorts of figure otherwise excellent. Rare. Enhanced Condition Reports: We are more than happy to provide further images of any lot. Please contact us by email or via the catalogue listing.
Antique German All-Bisque Doll, 890 , by Simon AND Halbig. 6" (15 cm.) Bisque socket head, blue glass eyes, painted features, open mouth, four porcelain teeth, brunette mohair wig, swivel neck peg-jointed bisque arms and legs, painted below-the-knee white socks and black original Antique costume. Marks: 890 3. Excellent condition, although hair needs some attention. Rare. Enhanced Condition Reports: We are more than happy to provide further images of any lot. Please contact us by email or via the catalogue listing.
Scarce Large 12" Plastic Mainstream Industries (England) Ferrari Type 250 Le Mans. Kit Built Radio Controlled Compatible Car. Needs some attention but looks predominantly complete with instructions and additional components. Very Rare. Enhanced Condition Reports: We are more than happy to provide further images of any lot. Please contact us by email or via the catalogue listing.
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