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Click here to subscribeLarge poster within a green painted wooden frame, for XMOUT(H) South Devon Go By Train, brochure from Information Bureau (Box W, Exmouth) with a Southern British Railways stamp, printed in Great Britain by Leonard Ripley & Co Ltd, shows a girl in a bikini running to the beach with a towel, on the back in chalk is written Ex Oakhampton Station (damaged), 114cm x 74cm
The New Naturalist - Swinnerton, H H"Fossils", one colour plate by Maurice Wilson, black and white photographs and text images, Collins 1962, school stamp inside front board, green cloth, dj not price clipped Gilmour, John and Walters, Max"Wild Flowers, Botanising in Britain", colour and black and white photographs, Collins 1954, green cloth, dj a little chipped and price clipped Wainwright, A "The Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, 50th Anniversary Edition ...", Francis Lincoln, 7 vols, djs within original slip case "The Southern Fells, Book 4", 16th impression, mustard cloth, blue titles, dj chipped"Fell Wanderer, The Story Behind the Guide Books" 1966, Westmoreland Gazette Limited, Kendall, green cloth, gilt titles, dj not price clipped, oblong 8voRogerson, Sidney and Tunnicliffe, Charles "Both Sides of the Road, a Book about Farming", Collins 1949, colour frontis, ills through the text, colour plates, school stamp on ffep, orange cloth, dj not price clippedBone, Muirhead (ills) "Came to Oxford" by Gertrude Bone, Basil Blackwell 1953, colour frontis, numerous plates and ills, inscriptions on ffep and a bkpl Jefferies, Richard "The Gamekeeper at Home", Smith Elder 1890, frontis, ills throughout, green cloth, gilt titlesBell, Adrian"Men and the Fields" with drawings and lithographs by John Nash, B T Batsford Ltd 1939, colour plates, ills, no dj, brown cloth Jarvis, Alfred F "Charles Baring Young of Daylesford 1850-1928, His Life and Work", London, The Church Book Room Press Ltd, photographic portrait frontis, photographic ills, inscriptions on ffep, blue cloth, no dj (9 vols and boxed set)
Fine Bindings to include:-Mrs Gaskell"Cranford" ills Hugh Thomson, Macmillan 1894Sheridan, R B "The Rivals and the School for Scandal", ills by Edmund J Sullivan, Macmillan 1896, very small bkpl inside front board, some offsetting, small sticker inside front board, feint stamp on ffep read 'New Club', name inscription on half-title, stamp New Club on back of frontis, foxing throughoutWinter, William"Shakespeare's England", Macmillan & Co 1893Thackeray, W M "The History of Henry Esmond", ills by T H Robinson, George Allen 1896Jacobs, Joseph (ed) "Goldsmiths Comedies", ills by Chris Hammond, George Allen 1896, name written on ffep both sides, stamp for Deighton Bell & Co, CambridgeWalton, Izaac "The Compleat Angler - New Edition edited with an introduction by Andrew Lang ...", J M Dent 1896Dobson, Austin (intro) "Coridon's Song and Other Verses ...", ills by Hugh Thomson, Macmillan & Co 1894, tissue guard foxed, small booksellers plate inside front boardMiss Mitford"Our Village", MacmIllan & Co 1893, tissue guard foxed, small booksellers plate inside front boardScott, Sir Walter"The Lady of the Lake", A & C Black 1891, numerous ills by Birket Foster and Sir John Gilbert, Kings College London prize bkpl inside front board, maroon cloth, gilt crest for the college front board, raised bands and gilt decorations and title to the backstrip, blindstamp rules to boards, gilt dentelsIrving, Washington"The Alhambra", ills by Joseph Pennell with an introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennel, Macmillan & Co 1896, frontis tissue guard, tp foxed, foxing throughout, all bright pictorial cloth, all a.e.g. (10)
Richard Hayley Lever (Australian-American, 1876-1958), impressionist view of the River Seine, oil on canvas laid on board. Painting depicts city walls along a river and a barge or peninsula with figures, foreground, possibly a view of the city Asnieres-sur-Seine. Pencil inscription (partially illegible) en verso reads "The Seine at _____ after the painting by Monet". French art supplier stamp also en verso. Signed lower left "Hayley Lever". Housed in a possibly original giltwood frame with carved corners. Sight: 10 1/8" H x 13" W. Framed: 14 1/8" H x 17 1/8" W. Biography: Australian born Hayley Lever was known for his impressionist town-shore landscapes and his use of color, which was deeply influenced by Van Gogh. He studied in London in the 1890s and then went to Cornwall, where he painted seaside paintings at an artist's colony on the coast of St. Ives and also some scenes in Northern France. Lever came to America in 1911 and soon became one of the most widely exhibited artists in New York; he taught at the Art Students League from 1919 to 1931 and became director of the Studio Art Club in Mount Vernon, New York. He maintained a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts and traveled internationally throughout his career. His work is in the collection of several major museums. (Source: Michael David Zellman: 300 Years of American Art). CONDITION: Minor scattered wear and abrasions to frame. Painting overall very good condition.
Four (4) Royal Crown Derby porcelain items, including Imari Cigar and Red Aves patterns. 1st-2nd items: Pair of Imari Cigar pattern candlesticks. Both with red Royal Crown Derby logo and stamp and numbered 1128. 10 3/8" H x 6 3/8" square. 3rd-4th items: Two (2) Red Aves pattern items, including one (1) candlestick and one (1) cachepot. Both with red Royal Crown Derby logo and stamp and numbered XLIII. Candlestick - 10 1/2" H x 6 1/2" square. Cachepot - 4 3/4" H x 5 5/8" dia. All items 20th century. Provenance: Living Estate of Frances Fulton, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition.
Two (2) blue and white Historical Staffordshire pottery items by Enoch Woods & Sons, including a platter or vegetable dish depicting a Highlands, Hudson River scene with a dark blue glaze and shell border and maker's stamp en verso (10" H x 12 3/4" W) and a sugar bowl depicting Commodore MacDonough's Victory with a dark blue glaze and scrolling foliate border (6 1/2" H x 8" W x 4 3/4" D). Both items circa 1825-1830. CONDITION: Both items overall good condition with light general wear, light crazing and minor staining. Sugar bowl top with minute fleabite to one edge.
Seven (7) Historical Staffordshire plates and bowls. Subjects include Abolition, States and Washington, Lafayette, Victory of MacDonnaugh, and views of Conway, New Hampshire, New York, and Montmorenci. 1st item: Rare plate commemorating the death of Elijah P. Lovejoy, a journalist and abolitionist, at the hands of a pro slavery mob. The scalloped rim is decorated with multiple vignettes, including one at top depicting a slave kneeling before figural "Blind Justice." Center of plate contains text from the U.S. Constitution. No maker's mark. 2nd item: Wood & Sons Soup bowl with view of Montmorency Falls, stamped "Fall of Montmorenci" en verso. 3rd item: A Clews Historical States plate with scalloped rim, decorated with 15 state names encircling a vignette with bust of Washington. Impressed Clews mark en verso. 4th item: Wood & Sons Victory of MacDonnaugh plate with maker's mark impressed en verso. 5th-6th items: Clews plate and soup bowl, both depicting Lafayette's landing at Castle Garden In N.Y., August 16, 1824. Maker's marks impressed en verso, additional "J. Greenfield's China Store" stamp to back of soup bowl. 7th item: Red and white Staffordshire plate with impressed border and scalloped rim, "View of Conway N. Hampshire U.S." stamped en verso. All ranging in size from 6 1/2" dia. to 10" dia. All items early to mid 19th century. CONDITION: All with minor surface wear and crazing, scattered chips, largest 3/4" L. 1st item: repair from previous breakage, 7 1/2" L. 4th item: Two hairlines. Longest 2 1/2"L, visible from either side. 5th-6th items: Hairline en verso on soup bowl (6" L).
Two (2) oil on canvas English landscape paintings by George Boyle and Joseph Thors. 1st item: George Boyle (United Kingdom, 1826-1899) landscape depicting a forest with a trail leading between the trees, and figures visible in the distance. Signed "G. Boyle" lower left. Housed in a Rococo style gilt wood frame. Sight - 11 1/2" H x 9 3/8" W. Framed - 17 1/4" H x 15 1/4" W. 2nd item: Joseph Thors (United Kingdom, c. 1835-1900) landscape depicting a figure fishing on the bank of a river, with a clearing visible through the trees. Signed "J Thors" lower left. Winsor & Newton faded stamp to back of canvas. Housed in gilt wood frame. Sight - 12" H x 9" W. Framed - 16 3/4" H x 13 3/4" W. Both mid to late 19th century. Provenance: Living Estate of Frances Fulton, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition. 1st item: Previous repair (3/4" x 1/2") with inpainting in lower left quadrant, on closest tree trunk. Visible en verso, covered by patch. 2nd item: Light overall craquelure, with stretcher creases to all sides. Minute losses ( both 1/8" L), one on bottom left quadrant, on shrubbery next to right tree, and other on center of bottom edge.
Three (3) Country Store / Advertising items, including De Laval Cream Separator Parts cabinet and two (2) mincemeat firkins, one Nashville related. 1st item: De Laval Cream Separator Parts advertising country store oak display cabinet, comprised of an overhanging top and base, hinged front door with embossed chromolithographic tin sign reading "AGENCY FOR DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS THE WORLD STANDARD" depicting an image of the machine, opens to reveal interior with adjustable shelves and paper labels reading "Oklahoma Mail From Factory", "Iowa Mail From Factory", and "Minnesota Mail" with additional illegible labels. Includes a cardboard board of De Laval Bowl Rings containing ten rings. 25" H x 16 3/8" W x 11" D. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) stave constructed mincemeat firkins, including one (1) yellow painted firkin with white paper label for Grocer's Special, Ervin A. Rice Co., Chicago, wooden handle, and one (1) firkin with light blue paper label for Atmore & Son, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, depicting a cow in a field, center, wire bail handle. Both with ink stamps to lids, including Robert Orr Co. Nashville TN stamp Grocer's Special lid on yellow firkin. Ranging in size from 13 5/8" H x 11 1/4" dia to 15 1/8" H x 11 7/8" dia. All items early 20th century. Provenance: The estate of James (Jimmy) Neely, Smyrna, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with wear to cabinet, wear and stains to sign. Back panel partially separated from nail, top left, with areas of loss, largest 3 3/4" x 1 3/4". Interior with dividers missing. 2nd-3rd items: Overall good condition with wear, areas of staining/loss to labels to be expected from age.
Group of eighteen (18) containers, treenware, spice boxes, snuff boxed and funnel, nineteen (19) total items. Items include: one (1) round covered spice box, one (1) round covered spice box with checkerboard inlay, one (1) barrel shaped container, one (1) finial shaped container, one (1) kettle shaped container with wire handle, one (1) round covered spice mill with pestle, one (1) covered urn form container, two (2) cups, one (1) miniature vase, one (1) pill box with glass top, one (1) round covered snuff box, one (1) rectangular mother of pearl inlaid snuff box with carved edges, one (1) snuff and pipe box with sliding cover, one (1) snuff box with nickel silver ends and a nickel silver inlaid house scene, one (1) stamp box with inlaid figure and lamb to lid, one (1) leather covered horn snuff box, and one (1) carved bone snuff box with hinged lid. Lot also contains one (1) treenware miniature funnel with stencil. Ranging in size from 1" H x 1" H to 3" H x 7" dia. Most items American, 19th century. Provenance: The estate of James (Jimmy) Neely, Smyrna, TN. CONDITION: All items with general use wear. Pill box with split to top. Pipe and snuff box with losses to the top.
Two (2) Southern pottery items, Charles Decker and Solomon Bell. 1st item: East TN cobalt decorated jar, attrib. Charles Decker of Keystone Pottery, Washington Co., TN, 2 gallon capacity, having extruded lug handles, bold cobalt decorated flower or tulip design on both sides with cobalt accents to the extruded lug handles. Stamped "2" to rim denoting capacity. 11 3/4" H. 19th century. Biography (Courtesy of Carole Wahler): Charles Frederick Decker was born in Germany in 1832. He arrived in Philadelphia in his late teens. Oral tradition suggests he worked at the Remmey Pottery before establishing his Keystone pottery there at the age of 25. He moved his family to Delaware for a few years and then back to Philadelphia. After 1869, Decker moved to Virginia, six miles north of Abingdon. The pottery he operated there was located on land owned by a man named Mallicote (Mallicoat). In 1872, he established his pottery in the Nolichucky River Valley near present day Johnson City, Tennessee. For a year or so he operated in both Virginia and Tennessee. He was one of a number of potters who settled in the region during the early years of Reconstruction. He named his Chucky Valley pottery the same name that he had used in Pennsylvania, Keystone Pottery. His pottery was marketed not only in East Tennessee, but also in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. 2nd item: Solomon Bell (Virginia, 1817-1882) Strasburg, Virginia stoneware pottery bottle partially stamped "Solomon Bell" with undecipherable stamp below. Upper shoulder with cobalt "winged" style decoration. 7 3/4" H. 19th century. Provenance: Estate of Anne Harrison Taylor & Joseph F. Taylor, Morristown, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Tight hairline approximately 3" emanating from rim into flower. Chip to the base. 2nd item: A couple of small chips to the rim, overall crazing to the glaze, and a couple of firing flaws to the body.
Leon Levinstein (American, 1913-1988) gelatin silver print titled "Lower East Side", of a New York man with a cigarette in his mouth; the tilted head of another man is slightly out of focus in the foreground as he walks by. Writing en verso of photograph reads, "Leon Levinstein: New York, c. 1955, gelatin silver print, Gift of Stuart E. Karn, 1996.753, Ry21484". Rectangular Stamp with artist's name and "LL.78.6" en verso. Housed behind glass in a matted contemporary black frame. Sight - 9 3/4" H x 12 3/4" W. Framed - 19 1/8" H x 23 1/8" W. Note: this image is also in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Biography: Leon Levinstein attended the Maryland Institute of Art after his family removed to Baltimore from West Virginia during the Great Depression. He served in the Army Air Force (Air Corps) during World War II. Levinstein studied photography under Sid Grossman at the Photo League and later at Grossman's residence. He gained national attention during the 1950s when he was featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art. (Source: National Gallery of Art). Provenance: private Nashville, TN collection. CONDITION: Excellent condition.
Charles Gates Sheldon (Washington, 1889-1960) pastel painting on paper, laid on board, titled "Coquette"- depicting a young woman with a blonde bob haircut and black hat wearing a high neck, sleeveless dress, standing in front of a red heart and holding a black mask her right hand. Signed "Sheldon" lower right. "Hacker" labels above and beneath image, likely agency labels. Ink stamp with artist information, en verso. Unframed. 28 1/2" H x 22 1/2" W. Circa 1940. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of toning/acid burn, areas of loss, flaking, largest 2 1/2", and pin prick holes to perimeter, does not affect image. Errant marks, larger 3/4", lower left. Bottom "Hacker" label in fragmentary condition.
Three (3) book or magazine illustration art paintings, by artists including Arthur Sarnoff, Will Grefe. 1st item: Arthur Saron Sarnoff (New York, 1912-2000) pastel on board illustration depicting an apprehensive young blonde woman wearing a pink nightgown and a prominent gold wedding band, in bed with a brown haired man in yellow and white striped pajamas. Signed "Arthur Sarnoff" twice, lower right. American Artists Company, New York, NY ink stamp with additional handwritten inscriptions en verso. Unframed. 20" H x 26 3/8" W. 2nd item: Will Grefe (New York/Iowa/Florida, 1875-1957) watercolor and gouache on board story illustration titled "Consolation" depicting a seated man and a woman standing before a doorway in early 20th century dress conversing in a living room setting. Signed "Will Grefe" lower right. Pencil inscriptions en verso. Unframed. 27" H x 18 1/4" W. 3rd item: Watercolor and gouache on board story illustration titled "The Love Thief" for "Champagne" magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 12-13, 1964. Depicts a young nude brunette woman peacefully sleeping in a bed in a castle-like setting, while a shirtless, frenzied man is being restrained with a lasso held by a balding elderly man, while a third man in a suit enters the room. Titled, in pencil lower center, numbered and dated "2/3 1964 85", in pencil and red crayon, lower right. Typed information label with Bill Starr artist or writer attribution en verso. Unframed. Image - 11 1/2" H x 13 5/8" W. Board - 15 3/4" H x 22 1/8" W. All items early/mid 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with surface scuffs, 5/8" x 3/8" area of peeling, lower right corner. 2nd item: Overall good condition with toning, foxing spots, largest 1/8", area of loss, flaking, largest 3/4" x 1/4", edges of board. 3rd item: Overall good condition with surface scuffs, largest 8" (slightly affecting image). Corners slightly bumped.
Garth Montgomery Williams (Colorado, 1912-1996) archive of forty-two (42) pen and ink or pencil on paper drawings related to his illustrations for George Selden's children's books THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE published by Ariel Books, 1960; TUCKER'S COUNTRYSIDE and HARRY CAT'S PET PUPPY, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969 and 1974; and CHESTER CRICKET'S NEW HOME, published by J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1983. 1st item: Pen and ink on stock paper illustration titled "Max Lifted a Paw and Cuffed Miss Catherine," included in the children's book HARRY CAT'S PET PUPPY, p. 128, depicting Max, smacking Miss Catherine on the side of the head in close proximity to Huppy, Harry Cat, a pigeon, and Tucker Mouse in a street setting. Unsigned. Pencil and ink notations, lower right. Ink stamp for Farrar Straus and Giroux, Inc., Production Department, New York, NY with pencil numeral, en verso. 13 3/4" H x 9 1/4" W. 2nd item: Pen and ink on stock paper preliminary illustration for TUCKER'S COUNTRYSIDE, depicting Tucker Mouse outside in the rain before a grasshopper on a patch of grass, fore and middle ground, a stump in the background. Signed "Garth Williams" lower left. Pencil numeral en verso. 13 7/8" H x 11 1/8" W. 3rd item: Pen and ink on stock preliminary illustration for CHESTER CRICKET'S NEW HOME, Chapter 5, p. 54, in which Walter Water Snake "...discovered a hunk of floating wood...and slithered on top of it...And promptly capsized". Signed "Garth Williams", with addition ink and pencil inscriptions, lower center under image and top left above image. Pencil and ink numerals en verso. Piece of transfer paper taped en verso and folded over image with additional pencil notations. 14 3/4" H x 11 3/4" W. 4th-42nd items: Thirty-nine (39) pencil on paper preliminary drawings and rough sketches for illustrations from THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE, depicting Tucker Mouse, Harry Cat, Chester the cricket, and other characters from the book. All signed "GW", twenty (20) with page numbers or other pencil notations. Pencil numerals, en verso. Ranging in size from 10 7/8" H x 8 1/2" W to 13 1/8" H x 8 7/8" W. Mid/third quarter 20th century. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall very good condition. 3rd item: Overall good condition with light toning. 3 1/2" area of tears top right of transfer paper. 4th-42nd items: Largest drawing with horizontal crease, all other items with minor thumb soiling, stains, largest 1/2".
Will Hulsey (American, 20th Century) oil on board illustration painting titled "The Cowpoke and His $50,000 Date", featured on the cover of "True Men Stories" magazine, December 1958. Depicts a distressed, rope bound, red haired woman in a low cut red blouse and black jeans, hiding behind a rock in a stream, foreground, a man in a cowboy hat further downstream shooting at men on horseback, middle ground, another gunman on a hill against a yellow background. Unsigned. Ink stamp and inscriptions with information about the specifics of the cover art with date stamps reading "Jul 2 1958" and "Jul 24 1958" en verso. Unframed. Includes a color Xerox copy of the magazine cover. Image - 25 1/2" H x 19 1/8" W. Board - 26 1/4" H x 20 1/4" W. Mid 20th century. Alternate spelling: Wil Hulsey. CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface grime. Corners are creased, areas of paint loss, largest 2 1/4" H x 1". Pin prick holes to perimeter. Board is slightly convexly bowed.
Four (4) Gary Lee Price (Utah, b. 1955) bronze sculptures of children. 1st item: "Bugs and Bulbs," depicting a young boy in overalls, holding a garden watering can. Signed and dated "2000" and numbered "No. 11" on base. 20 1/4" H x 9" W x 10" D. 2nd item: "Harvest Joy," depicting a young boy and girl holding a basket. Signed and dated "02" with "No. 2" and an impressed stamp of K in in circle. 6 1/2" H x 7" W x 3" D. 3rd and 4th items: Two (2) "Story Time," sculptures of a young girl and boy, each reading a book. Both signed and numbered (45 and 49, respectively) with impressed stamp of K in circle. Ranging in size from 3 5/8" H x 2 3/8" W x 3" D to 4" H x 2 1/4" W x 4 3/4" D. All items early 21st century. Provenance: a Nashville, TN estate, purchased circa 2004. Photographs of "Bugs and Bulbs" being used for a fundraiser in the late owner's home, along with original sale brochure for the other sculptures, is available to the winning bidder. Biography: Gary Lee Price attended the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he studied with Alvin Gittins. He was elected a member of the National Sculpture Society 1991 and in 2002 he received the Governor's Mansion Artist Award for visual art from Utah Governor Michael Leavitt. His sculptures, usually of children, can be found at the Hong Kong Central Library; the American Community Schools in Surrey, England; the Springville Museum of Art; Rich De Voss Women's and Children's Hospital of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Birmingham Botanical Gardens; Scottish Rite Children's Hospital of Dallas, Texas; Bluegrass Airport of Lexington, Kentucky; and the Indianapolis Children's Museum. CONDITION: 2nd item (Harvest Joy) has a few scattered spots of oxidation, otherwise all items in excellent condition.
Louisiana, as formerly claimed by France, now containing part of British America to the East in Spanish America to the West of Mississippi map, by Thomas Kitchin, published in the London Magazine, for R. Baldwin, Vol. 34, opp. pg. 276, June 1765. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring depicting the Louisiana territory, center, and the surrounding areas including the Country of New Mexico, lower left, and Native American territory, including Cherokees and Creeks, designated as "Upper Cherakees [sic]", "Lower Cherakees [sic]", "Upper Creeks", and "Lower Creeks", along with other tribes, right. Cities and towns, including New Orleans, bodies of water, and other points of interest including "Country full of Mines" are labeled. Compass rose, scale of miles, and title cartouche, lower right. Map surrounded by scale notations and line border. Secured to a mat with two pieces of white archival tape, top left and right edge. Sheet - 8 3/8" H x 9 5/8" W. Sight - 7 1/4" H x 9 3/8" W. Mat - 11 1/8" H x 13 3/4" W. Third quarter 18th century. CONDITION: Light toning, few minute foxing spots. Few tears, largest 1/4", to fold lines. Two areas of loss, largest 1 1/4" x 1/4", to corners of sheet. Pencil inscription en verso. David Lloyd Swift ink stamp indicates that the map was professionally deacidified in March 1998.
Two (2) Southern Maps. 1st item: Abraham Bradley, Jr. (American, 1767-1838), MAP OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, engraved for The American Gazetteer by Jedidiah Morse, published by S. Hall, Boston, 1797. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring of the Southern United States and Native American territories east of the Mississippi River including Part of Kentucky, Part of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia Western, South Carolina, Chactaws [sic] Territory Georgia, West Florida, and East Florida, prior to the establishment of Mississippi and Alabama in 1817 and the Louisiana Purchase. Cities from Norfolk to St. Augustine, towns, districts, including the Mero District near Nashville, bodies of water, and other areas of interest, including the locations of Native American tribes, including the Upper Creeks and Cherokees in eastern Kentucky, are labelled. Title and scale of miles, center to lower right. Map surrounded by scale notations and a line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve and secured to a mat. Sight - 8 1/8" H x 15 1/4" W. Mat - 14 1/4" H x 20 1/4" W. Late 18th century. 2nd item: John Bartholomew (Scottish, 1831-1893), KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, drawn and engraved by John Bartholomew, for Black's Atlas of North America, published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1856. Steel plate engraving with printed coloring depicting Kentucky and Tennessee and the surrounding areas with cities and towns, including Nashville and Knoxville, counties, bodies of water, roads, and other areas of interest labelled. Title and scale of miles, top left. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve and secured to a mat. Sheet - 12 1/4" H x 16 3/4" W. Mat - 18 3/8" H x 24 3/8" W. Mid 19th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Areas of toning/acid burn, foxing spots, largest 1/2". 1/4" x 2 1/2" area of loss, lower right corner of sheet. Areas of tape repair, largest 1 3/4" x 3/4", visible en verso. Possible pencil inscriptions en verso. Map with paper backing. David Lloyd Swift label indicates that the map was professionally encapsulated, cleaned, and deacidified in 1998. 2nd item: Areas of toning, minute foxing spots. Pencil inscriptions, en verso. David Lloyd Swift ink stamp label indicates that the map was professionally deacidified.
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA map, engraved by Benjamin Tanner, for The American Atlas, published by John Reid, New York, 1796. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring depicting an early map of Virginia with cities and towns, including Richmond, counties, roads, rivers, lakes, islands, harbors, bays, court houses, along with topographical details labelled. Title cartouche and scale of miles, top left. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve and secured to a mat. Plate - 14 1/4" H x 19 1/2" W. Sheet - 16 3/8" H x 20 1/8" W. Sight - 15" H x 19 3/4" W. Mat - 20" H x 26" W. Late 18th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition with toning, foxing spots, largest 1/4". David Lloyd Swift ink stamp label indicates that the map was professionally deacidified.
American School, 19th century portrait painting of President Andrew Jackson. Three quarter view, bust length portrait of the 7th President of the United States after the daguerreotype portrait attributed to Anthony Edwards, taken shortly before his death in 1845. Jackson is depicted wearing a dark suit and tie with white shirt. Possibly oil on paper, laid down on canvas. Spurious signature and date "G C BINGHAM 1840" near subject's upper right shoulder. Housed in a mid-19th century lemon gilt molded wood frame. Stamp en verso of frame for previous exhibition at the Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood (Nashville, TN), paper label on stretcher for McCaughen & Burr Fine Arts and Picture Framing, 1010 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO. Sight - 17 1/2" H x 13 1/4" W. Framed - 25" H x 21" W. Provenance: the estate of Andrew Jackson scholar and author Stanley Horn, Nashville, Tennessee, by descent to consignor. In 1845, less than two months before Jackson's death, New York photographer Edward T. Anthony visited the Hermitage to photograph the ailing president (source: The Tennessean newspaper, April 16, 1845). This portrait appears to be a posthumous portrait based on Anthony's daguerreotype, with artistic liberties taken to make Jackson look slightly younger, and a retrospective date assigned. 1840 was an important year for Jackson, as it marked the Silver Jubilee of his victory at the Battle of New Orleans, celebrated by a return trip to the city for a series of ceremonial events. While George Caleb Bingham (American/Missouri, 1811-1879) is known to have painted a full length portrait of Jackson (after Thomas Sully) in 1860, no confirmed account of him painting the president in 1840 in New Orleans or anywhere else has been found, and the signature and date exhibit some fluorescence, suggesting possible later addition. Please note the Riverbank Foundation has declined to add this painting to their update of the George Caleb Bingham catalog raisonne. In our opinion, this painting is likely instead the work of a lesser known 19th century artist seeking to meet increased demand for likenesses of President Jackson following his death or near the 100th anniversary of his birthday. Stanley Horn (1889-1982) was a Nashville, Tennessee historican and author of books including THE HERMITAGE: HOME OF OLD HICKORY. His collection of Andrew Jackson papers was gifted to the Tennessee State Library and Archives upon his death. An interesting transcription of an interview with Horn can be found here: https://foresthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HornOHI.pdf CONDITION: Painting has had significant restoration including relining, overpainting, and revarnishing. Ultraviolet light reveals two fluorescent areas under 1/2" located on subject's right eyebrow and lower forehead area, and a small spot on subject's right eyeball, along with two small areas, each under 1", at his lower right chin and collar. Frame: Scattered abrasions and small losses, 5" area of repair to upper right side. A few small areas of re-gilding at edges.
153 pieces Gorham Chantilly pattern sterling silver flatware, including 22 hollow handle dinner knives, 8 Old French hollow knives with "LATEMA" stamp to blades (16 - 9 5/8" L, 6 - 8 7/8" L), 23 dinner forks (16 - 7 1/2" L, 7 - 7" L), 10 salad forks (6 3/8" L), 19 individual fish/salad forks (5 3/4" L), 38 teaspoons (5 7/8" L), 1 five o'clock spoon, 1 bon bon spoon, 1 sugar shell spoon, 1 jelly server, 15 cocktail/seafood forks, 1 lemon fork, 1 cream ladle, 1 cucumber server, 6 hollow handle butter spreaders, and 13 flat handle butter spreaders. Some monogrammed "S". 128.88 total weighable troy ounces. CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal surface scratches. Repair to one Old French hollow knife where blade meets the handle. One teaspoon with 1 1/2" area of wear underside of bowl.
Archive of sixty three (63) 19th century Tennessee and Alabama Civil War related items, including McMinn County TN related Confederate Soldier Ambrotype, Alabama Civil War era autograph album, forty-five (45) envelopes postmarked to and from Blount County, Tennessee and Johnson's Island Union prison, Sandusky, Ohio, and more. 1st item: Ninth plate ambrotype depicting an unidentified Civil War Confederate McMinn County, Tennessee soldier, seated in his coat with a revolver in a holster at his waist, tinting to his cheeks. Housed in a partial decorative gutta percha case. 3" H x 2 1/2" W. 2nd item: Civil War era autograph album belonging to Laura Burtwell, Florence, Alabama, dated August 11, 1858, containing signatures, poems, and drawings, many dated circa 1860-1864. Most written directly onto the paper with one (1) cut signature. Album titled Casket of Mementos, published by Moss and Brothers, Philadelphia. Comprised of gilt edged pages, engraved frontispiece with tissue paper guard, hardbound in black and tan leather covers with blindstamp decorations and gilt lettering to covers and spine. 8 1/8" H x 6 5/8" W x 3/4" D. Note: Laura C. Burtwell was born in Florence, Alabama in 1848, and lived in Nashville for 46 years until her death in 1943. She had two brothers who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. John Robertson Bedford Burtwell was a graduate of West Point and rose to the rank of Colonel by the end of the War, and the other brother James Burtwell served as a private in 16th Alabama Infantry. 3rd-30th items: Twenty-seven (27) envelopes addressed to Mr. William Hall, Prisoner of War, Johnson's Island, Block 9, Mess 2, near Sandusky, Ohio, postmarked in various places in East Tennessee, dated between circa January 2-December 11 1864-1865, two (2) with illegible dates. Seven (7) with ink stamp indicating that the letter had been examined by a Johnson's Island official. All with red George Washington 3 cent stamps. Approximately 3 1/4" H x 5 5/8" W. 31st-55th items: Twenty five (25) envelopes addressed to Mrs. Elvira Hall, Knoxville, Greenback, and areas around Loudon and Blount County, Tennessee, eighteen (18) postmarked in Sandusky, Ohio, dated primarily between circa January 8-December 28, 1864-1865, one (1) postmarked December 22, 1879, one (1) postmarked May 11, 1895, and five (5) with illegible dates, no dates, or unclear dates. Nine (9) with ink stamp indicating that the letter had been examined by a Johnson's Island official. Twenty (20) with red George Washington 3 cent stamps, three (3) with blue locomotive 3 cent stamps, one (1) with a green George Washington 3 cent stamp, and one (1) with a red George Washington 2 cent stamp. One (1) envelope contains six (6) circa 1893 Columbian Commemorative stamps, including five (5) red Landing of Columbus 2 cent stamps, one (1) postmarked April 10, 1894, and one (1) blue Columbus in Sight of Land 1 cent stamp. Approximately 3 1/4" H x 5 5/8" W. 56th-57th items: Two (2) envelopes, one (1) addressed to Miss C. M. Howard, Four Mile Branch, Monroe County, East Tennessee, dated May 25, 1864, and one (1) addressed to W. R. Kerr, Knoxville Tennessee, dated June or July 1864, both postmarked in Sandusky, Ohio. Both with red George Washington 3 cent stamps. Approximately 3 1/4" H x 5 5/8" W. Note: William S. Hall resided in Blount County, Tennessee with his wife Elvira (listed on the 1860 census records as Nancy E). Hall enlisted in Company H, 62nd Tennessee Infantry on September 26, 1862. Hall's records are incomplete, however it is likely that he was captured at Vicksburg with the 62nd and was paroled but never reported to the parole camp in Mississippi. On September 13, 1863 he was arrested as a citizen and sent to Johnson's Island. Burial records show that William and Elvira are buried in Pine Grove Presbyterian Cemetery in Greenback, Loudoun County, Tennessee. (additional documentation available upon request). (Research courtesy of Bill Floyd). 58th-63rd items: Six (6) documents pertaining to East Tennessee Baptist churches, including one (1) related to The Baptist Church of Christ at Cedar Fork, Claiborne County, Tennessee, dated 1846, two (2) related to The Baptist Church of Meigs County, Tennessee, one (1) dated circa November 1860 and one (1) dated November 2, 1862, one (1) related to the New Hopewell United Baptist Church, Tennessee, dated circa May 1866, and two (2) unidentified, including one (1) dated November 1, 1841 and one (1) dated May 4 1866. Ranging in size from 3" H x 7 5/8" W to 7" H x 8" W. CONDITION: 1st item: Image in overall very good, visible condition. Cover of case is not intact. 2nd item: Worn condition with rubbing to edges and corners, 5/8" area of peeling to spine. Pages in overall good, legible condition. 3rd-63rd items: Overall good condition with tears,areas of dampstaining, foxing spots, etc. to be expected from age.
Archive of fifty-five (55) items pertaining to the family of French soldier and fireman Paul Didier, including World War I military medals and World War II era concentration camp photographs. 1st-9th items: Nine (9) military medals belonging to Paul Didier, mounted on a fabric covered board with frame and glass. Includes the Medaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre, Medaille des Evades, Medaille Coloniale with "Maroc" clasp, Medaille Commemorative de Syrie-Cilicie with "Levant" clasp, Croix de Combattant, Belgian variant of Medaille de la Victoire (no impression/stamp en verso), Medaille Commemorative Francaise de la Grande Guerre, and Insigne du Blesse Militaire. Medals are late 19th or first half 20th century. 10th-13th items: Four (4) photographs relating to a liberated concentration camp, likely Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany, including an image of the crematoria ovens with human remains inside. Two (2) images showing piles of deceased and emaciated bodies, with decorative holiday wreaths hanging from windows in the background of one. One (1) image included shows Clement Collini, Italian immigrant from Pennsylvania, among fellow American soldiers on the path to liberate the camp with "France August 1944" written in ink en verso. Photographs of Buchenwald attributed to Clement Collini. 14th-45th items: Box with "Souvenire de papa jules" inscription in red ink to interior of lid containing thirty-one (31) uniform accessories, including three (3) samples of extra ribbon, fourteen (14) assorted military pins, including one (1) ship-shaped pin with "Toulon" across hull (supposedly crafted while Didier was stationed in Toulon Harbor by a relative who was a jeweler), and fourteen (14) uniform fasteners or pins. 32nd item: One (1) metal dog tag bracelet, stamped "Paul Didier" on one side, and "Vesoul 64" on the other. 46th-48th items: Three (3) photographs of Paul Didier, including one (1) portrait fired or transferred onto an oval porcelain plaque depicting Didier wearing nine military medals on his lapel, one enhanced photo of Didier with a cigarette, and one (1) group photo mounted on cardstock of Didier among cohorts from his days as a fireman. Most items later half of 20th century. 49th-55th items: Seven (7) family photographs, of Paul Didier and relatives. Includes one (1) large photo framed of Paul Didier and his wife, two (2) small images of their respective fathers, three (3) images of their daughter, Carmen Didier, including one (1) large framed oval portrait, one (1) small portrait of her as a young child, and one (1) of her holding her daughter as they made passage to Europe on a ship, c. 1956. One (1) small image of Carmen Didier's brother, Leau Didier, who passed away at Buchenwald prior to the camp's liberation. Writing and name in ink en verso, presumably signed by subject. All items late 19th/mid 20th century. Provenance: Descended through the family of Paul Didier. Biography: According to oral family history, Paul Didier was a French soldier from the late 19th century through the early to mid 20th century. He and his family lived on a farm in France during World War II. While Didier was stationed in Toulon Harbor, the family was taken by German forces to a concentration camp (presumably Buchenwald) where Leau Didier passed away. Carmen Didier, survived the camp and eventually met her liberator and future husband, Clement Collini, in August 1945. The two shortly left for America and returned years later to retrieve these photographs and items from Europe. CONDITION: 1st-9th items: fading to ribbons, some fraying at creases. Mount fabric faded and fraying at edges. Loss to red enamel on Insigne du Blesse Militaire medal. To all photographs: Creasing, foxing, and scattered stains, consistent with age. Staining throughout fireman photo. Largest stain 3 1/4" x 2". Largest tear 1 3/4" L, with tape repair. Minor areas of loss to outer margins of Buchenwald photos, largest 2 1/4" x 1/2".
Keuffel & Esser (K&E) 4015 Fuller's Spiral Cylindrical Slide Rule, Model 1, serial number 1948. Composed of an exterior wooden movable cylinder with two brass rings lined with felt over a longer interior wooden cylinder, both covered with paper and marked with decimal, conversion, sine tables, and a logarithmic scale graduated into 7,250 parts, two brass indexes. Housed in a wooden box with ink stamp reading "Calculator". Maker's marks to exterior cylinder. Slide rule - 17" L x 3 1/2" dia. Box - 4" H x 18" W x 4 1/2" D. Early 20th century. (See: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_694149). Provenance: Private West Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Toning, areas of surface abrasions to cylinders. Some wear, scratches, natural wood shrinkage to case.
Twelve (12) Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio art and antiquity related books. 1st item: THE ART AND MYSTERY OF TENNESSEE FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS THROUGH 1850, by Nathan Harsh and Derita Coleman Williams, published by the Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, 1988. Octavo, 344 pages with photographic illustrations, hardbound in brown cloth with gilt blind stamp to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers. Includes original dust jacket. 11 1/4" H x 8 3/4" W x 1" D. 2nd item: Author Signed COLLECTING KENTUCKY 1790-1860 by Genevieve Baird Lancer and Libby Turner Howard, published by Cherry Valley Publications LLC, Prospect, 2013. Quarto, 344 pages including photographic images, hardbound in tan cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Includes original dust jacket and off white ribbon bookmark. Signed by both authors to title page. 12 1/4" H x 10 1/4" W x 1 1/2" D. 3rd item: TENNESSEE SILVERSMITHS, The Frank L. Horton Series, by Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr., published by The Museum of Early Decorative Arts (MESDA), Winston-Salem, 1988. Octavo, 216 pages including photographic images, hardbound in blue cloth with gilt silver lettering to spine, grey end papers. Includes original pictorial dust jacket wrapped in plastic. 11 1/2" H x 9" W x 1" D. 4th item: ART OF TENNESSEE, Frist Center for the Visual Arts exhibition catalog, curated by Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr., et al., 2003. Quarto, 376 pages including photographic images, hardbound in black cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, navy blue end papers. Includes original pictorial dust jacket. 12 1/2" H x 10 3/8" W x 1 3/8" D. 5th-6th items: OHIO FURNITURE MAKERS: 1790 to 1845, Vol. I, by Jane Sikes Hageman, and 1790 to 1860, Vol. II, by Jane Sikes Hageman and Edward M. Hageman, published by Ohio Furniture Makers, Terrace Park, circa 1980's. Octavos, 421 total pages including photographic images, hardbound in red cloth with gilt lettering to front covers and spines. Includes original dust jackets. 11 1/4" H x 9" W x 3/4" D. 7th item: BY SHAKER HANDS by June Sprigg, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975. Quarto paperback, 212 pages including illustrations, softcover, bound in a light brown pictorial wrapper. 12" H x 9 1/8" W x 1" D. 8th item: INNER LIGHT: THE SHAKER LEGACY, photographs by Linda Butler, text by June Sprigg, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Octavo paperback, 58 photographic images with additional text, softcover, bound in a light grey pictorial wrapper. 11 5/8" H x 10 1/8" W x 1/2" D. 9th item: Author Signed and Inscribed ART & FURNITURE OF EAST TENNESSEE: The Inaugural Exhibit of the Museum of East Tennessee History by Namuni Hale Young, published by The East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, 1997. Octavo paperback, 113 pages including photographic images, softcover, bound in a stiff grey pictorial wrapper. Author signature with inscription to title page. 11 1/8" H x 8 5/8" W x 1/2" D. 10th item: Author Signed WILLIAMSON COUNTY: MORE THAN A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE by Rick Warwick, published by Panacea Press, 2005. Octavo, 215 pages including photographic images, hardbound in brown coated cloth with black lettering to front cover, pictorial end papers. Includes original dust jacket. Author signature and inscription to title page. 11 3/8" H x 9" W x 7/8" D. 11th item: THE TUTTLE MUDDLE: AN INVESTIGATION OF A KENTUCKY CASE-ON FRAME FURNITURE GROUP exhibition catalog, published by the Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, 2000. Octavo paperback, 76 pages including photographic images, softcover, bound in an off white pictorial wrapper. 9" H x 6 1/8" W x 1/4" D. 12th item: Author Signed and Inscribed BASKETS AND BASKET MAKERS IN IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIA by John Rice Irwin, published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Exton, 1982. Octavo paperback, 191 including photographic images, softcover, bound in a multicolor pictorial wrapper. Author signature and inscription to title page. 11 1/8" H x 8 5/8" W x 1/2" D. Provenance: The estate of James (Jimmy) Neely, Smyrna, TN. CONDITION: All items in overall good condition.1st item: Wear, tears, largest 1 1/4", to dust jacket. 3rd item: Slight wear to dust jacket. 4th item: Slight creasing to dust covers near spine. 5th-6th items: Retail stickers to back of dust jackets. Tears, largest 1 1/8", to dust jackets. 7th item: Toning, to pages and wrappers. Some damp staining to wrappers. 8th item: Some damp staining to wrapper. 9th item: Pages separated from spine. 10th item: Crease to back flap of dust jacket. 11th item: Light wear to wrapper. Minute foxing spots to top edge.
Four (4) Tennessee history, furniture, and early material culture-related books. 1st item: THE ART AND MYSTERY OF TENNESSEE FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS THROUGH 1850, by Nathan Harsh and Derita Coleman Williams, published by the Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, 1988. Octavo, 344 pages with photographic illustrations, hardbound in brown cloth with gilt blind stamp to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers. Includes original dust jacket. 11 1/4" H x 8 3/4" W. 2nd item: HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, East Tennessee edition, illustrated, published by The Goodspeed Publishing Company, Nashville and Chicago, 1889. Octavo, 1317 pages, 41 illustrations, hardbound in three-quarter dark red leather with grey cloth sides, with gilt blind stamp to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, five raised hubs, floral endpapers. Covers wrapped in brown paper. 10 1/4" H x 7 1/4" W x 4 1/4" D. 3rd item: THE ANTIQUITIES OF TENNESSEE AND THE ADJACENT STATES, Second Edition, by Gates P. Thruston, published by The Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati, 1897. Octavo, 369 pages with black and white illustrations, hardbound in green cloth with gilt blindstamp to front cover and gilt lettering to spine, floral endpapers. 10" H x 7 1/4" W x 1 1/4" D. 4th item: HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, ITS INSTITUTIONS AND ITS PEOPLE, by William Robertson Garret and Albert Virgil Goodpasture, Brandon Printing Company, Nashville, 1900. Octavo, 351 pages with black and white illustrations, hardound in grey cloth boards with blind stamped covers and black lettering to spine. 8 3/4" H x 6 1/2" W x 1" D. Provenance: Estate of Anne Harrison Taylor & Joseph F. Taylor, Morristown, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Tears, largest 5/8", to corners of dust jacket. 2nd item: Bumped corners, wear to covers and spine. Pages almost completely separated from spine. Pages with tears, toning, foxing sports, acid burn, ink and pencil inscriptions, etc. All illustrations collated except for frontispiece map (missing). Pages 427, 428, 425, and 426 are out of order. 3rd item: Bumped corners, wear to covers and spine. Toning, foxing spots, to pages. Front end paper and frontispiece, pages 215-218 separated from spine. Old scotch tape repair to front endpaper. 4th item: Slightly bumped corners, wear to covers and spine. Toning to pages.
Two (2) Arthur Prince Spear (Massachusetts/California/District Of Columbia, 1879-1959) offset prints, including one (1) after his oil painting titled "Sunrise", 1921, depicting three water nymphs surrounded by fish lifting the sun from the water towards the early morning horizon. Signed "Arthur Spear" in pencil, lower right under image. Second lithograph is after Spear's pastel drawing titled "The Swing", 1921, depicting a young woman in a flowing dress on a swing against a naturalistic background. Inscribed and signed "To Alice Arthur Spear" in pencil, lower right in the image. Ink stamp with date "Sept 8 1953" with framing gallery label, en verso. Both housed under glass in black wooden frames. Sights ranging in size from 14 5/8" H x 19 3/8" W to 26 3/4" H x 20" W. Frames range in size from 20 1/2" H x 25" W to 28 1/2" H x 22" W. Mid 20th century. Provenance: The items included in this lot and Lot 664 are believed to have been gifts from Spear to family members of Ruth Norton White, daughter of Edward Little, subject of the painting in Lot 133. Note: "Sunrise" is featured as the cover art of the book "Arthur Spear 1879-1959", published by the Warren Historical Society, 1981. CONDITION: Overall good condition with toning. Not examined outside of frames.
Twenty-eight (28) Confederate States of America (CSA) bills, issued in Richmond, VA, including $50, $20, $10, $5, $2, $1, and 50c notes, circa 1862-1864. Twenty-five (25) engraved by Keatinge and Ball, B. Duncan, Columbia, SC, three (3) unspecified. 1st item: $50 fifty dollar bill, Series unspecified, February 17, 1864. Serial # 3072. Plate A. 2nd item: $2 two dollar bill, Series 2, June 2, 1862. Serial # 7896. 3rd-4th items: Two (2) $20 twenty dollar bills, February 17, 1864. One (1) Series 4, Serial #82758, Plate D. One (1) Series Six, Serial # 65353, Plate D. 5th item: $10 ten dollar bill, Series 2, April 6, 1863. Serial # 22590, Plate D. Ink stamp reading "SEPT'R, 1863." top right of bill. 6th-20th items: Fifteen (15) $10 ten dollar bills, February 17, 1864. Series 1 (includes sequential numbers): Serial # 28600, Plate D; Serial # 94488, Plate C; Serial # 98801, Plate G; Serial # 98808, Plate G; Serial # 98809, Plate G; Serial # 98817, Plate G; Serial # 98819, Plate G; Serial # 98824, Plate G; Serial # 98831, Plate G; Serial # 98832, Plate G; Serial # 98840, Plate G; Serial # 98868, Plate G; Serial # 99527, Plate A; and Serial # 99548, Plate A; Unspecified Series: Serial # 108221, Plate D. 21st item: $5 five dollar bill, Series 4, February 17, 1864. Serial # 40380, Plate C. 22nd item: $2 two dollar bill, Series 2, April 6, 1863. Serial # 31355, Plate F. 23rd-25th items: Three (3) $1 one dollar bills, one (1) April 6, 1863 and two (2) February 17, 1864. Series 2: Serial # 4734, Plate E; Unspecified Series: Serial # 81498, Plate A and Serial # 81901, Plate G. 26th-28th item: Three (3) fifty cents fractional notes, Series 1, April 6, 1863. Serial # 5245, Plate F, 50720, Plate A, and 99879, Plate I. Twenty-five (25) with "For Registrar"/"For Treasurer" signatures, three (3) with Registrar/Treasurer signatures. Provenance: Estate of Anne Harrison Taylor & Joseph F. Taylor, Morristown, TN. CONDITION: All in circulated condition.
Sixty-two (62) Early Southern obsolete paper currency bills and fractional notes, including South Carolina Colonial $2 bill, 1817 Corporation of Jonesborough fractional remainder note, 1855 $50 Bank of the State of Georgia bill, Civil War era, and more. 1st item: 1776 $2 two dollar South Carolina Colonial Currency Bill. Issued on December 23, 1776. Printed by P. Timothy, Charlestown. Serial # 2097. J. McCall/W Green/Ed Lightwood/W Blake signatures. 2nd item: 1817 $12 1/2 twelve dollar and fifty cents Corporation of Jonesborough fractional remainder note, issued in Jonesborough, TN. No serial #. No signature. 3rd item: $50 fifty dollar Bank of the State of Georgia bill, issued in Savannah, GA, December 21, 1855. Serial # 161, Plate D. Ink stamps reading "PAID 25 PR. CT. GOLD" and "E" to surface. Cashier/President signatures. 4th item: $10 ten dollar City Bank, State of Georgia bill, issued in Augusta, GA, January 1, 1853. Serial # 2880, Plate A. Cashier/President signatures. 5th item: $5 five dollar Monticello Bank, State of Virginia bill, issued Charlottesville, VA, June 19, 1860. Serial # 487, Plate A. Cashier/President signatures. 6th item: $5 five dollar Bank of Commerce bill, issued in Fredericksburg, VA, February 1, 1854. Serial # 1718, Plate B. Cashier/President signatures. 7th item: $5 five dollar Bank of Charleston, State of Virginia bill, issued in Charleston, VA, July 9, 1851. Serial # 4909, Plate A. Cashier/President signatures. 8th-11th items: Four (4) $1 one dollar Virginia Treasury Notes, issued in Richmond, VA, including one (1) May 15, 1862, Serial # 8039, Plate A; one (1) July 21, 1862, Serial # 77.455, Plate A; and two (2) October 21, 1862, Serial # 55677, Plate A and Serial # 82891, Plate A. All with "For Aud. Pub. Accts."/"For Treasurer" signatures. 12th item: $4 four dollar Bank of North Carolina bill, issued in Raleigh, NC, 1844. Serial # 611, Plate A. Cashier/President signatures. 13th item: $2 two dollar Merchant Planters Bank State of Georgia bill, issued in Savannah, GA, illegible date. Illegible serial #, Plate D. Cashier/President signatures. 14th item: $1 one dollar Bank of Charleston bill, issued in Charleston, VA, June 1, 1861. Serial # 2768, Plate B. Cashier/President signatures. 15th-16th items: Two (2) Central Bank of Virginia bills, issued in Staunton, VA, July 4, 1862, including one (1) $2 two dollar bill, Serial # 1186 and one (1) $1 one dollar bill, Serial # 5208. Both with Cashier/President signatures. 17th-18th items: Two (2) Bank of the Old Dominion, State of Virginia bills, issued in Pearisburg, VA, including one (1) $1 1/4 one dollar and twenty-five cents, May 1, 1862, no serial #, and one (1) $1 one dollar bill, February 1, 1862, Serial # 71. Both with "For the Cashier"/"For the President" signatures. 19th-34th items: Sixteen (16) Greenbrier County bills, issued in Lewisburg, VA, including one (1) $1 one dollar bill, November 1, 1862, Serial # 2308; four (4) seventy-five cents fractional notes, three (3) September 1, 1862, Serial # 475, 752, and 1821, and one (1) November 1, 1862, Serial # 1821; six (6) fifty cents fractional notes, two (2) September 1, 1862, Serial # 493 and 1277, and four (4) November 1, 1862, Serial # 349, 388, 861, and 911; and five (5) twenty-five cents fractional notes, two (2) September 1, 1862, Serial # 738 and 2572, and three (3) November 1, 1862, Serial # 173, 424, and 429. All with Clerk signatures. 35th-42nd items: Eight (8) State of North Carolina bills and fractional notes, issued in Raleigh, NC, including one (1) $2 two dollar bill, October 6, 1861, Serial # 7152, Plate D; one (1) $1 one dollar bill, September 1, 1862, Serial # 236, Plate C; one (1) seventy-five cents fractional note, January 1, 1865, Serial # 139, Plate E; two (2) fifty cents fractional notes, January 1, 1866, Serial # 1824, Plate D and Serial # 55699; one (1) twenty-five cents fractional note, January 1, 1864, Serial # 536, Plate P, ink stamp reading "25 Cts"; one (1) ten cents fractional notes, January 1, 1863, Serial # 296, Plate T; and one (1) five cents fractional note, January 1, 1863, Serial # 407, Plate L. All with "For Pub. Treas." signatures. 43rd-48th items: Six (6) currency bills and fractional notes, issued in Monroe County, Union, VA, including (1) $1 one dollar bill, January 1, 1863. Serial # 3839. Newspaper backing en verso; two (2) seventy-five cents, one (1) June 16, 1862, Serial # 464 and one (1) January 1, 1863, Serial # 2541; two (2) fifty cents fractional notes, June 16, 1862. Serial # 1564 and 1872; and one (1) twenty cents fractional note, January 1, 1863. Serial # 5144. All with Clerk signatures. 49th item: $1 one dollar Farmers Bank of Virginia bill, issued in Richmond, VA, December 10, 1861. Serial # 5716, Plate B. "For the Cashier"/"For the President" signatures. 50th item: $1 one dollar County of Blount bill, issued in Maryville, TN, December 16, 1862. Serial # 09, Plate B. Chairman signature. 51st item: Fifty cents Bank or Confederate Treasury fractional note, Eufaula, AL, April 15, 1862. Serial # 441, Plate B. Young, Woods & Gardner signature. 52nd item: Fifty cents Palace Mills fractional note, issued in Columbus, GA, December 26, 1861. President signature. 53rd item: Fifty cents fractional note, issued in Botetourt County, Fincastle, VA, July 5, 1862. Serial # 18566. Presiding Justice/Clerk signatures. 54th-55th items: Two (2) fractional currency notes, issued in Richmond, VA, April 14, 1862, including one (1) thirty cents note, Serial # 716768; and one (10) ten cents note, Serial # 138299. Both with "For the President" signatures. 56th-57th items: Two (2) fractional currency notes, issued in Augusta County, Staunton, VA, May 25, 1862, including one (1) twenty-five cents note, Serial # 24751; and one (1) fifteen cents note, Serial # 31270. Both with "By Order of Court" signatures/printed Presiding Judge signatures. 58th item: Twenty-five cents Union Bank of the State of Tennessee fractional note, issued in Nashville, TN, 1837. No serial #. No visible signature. Affixed to paper backing. 59th item: Twenty-five cents fractional note, issued in Montgomery County, Christiansburg, VA, June 1, 1862. Serial # is not present. Clerk signature. 60th item: Twenty-five cents State of Georgia fractional note, issued in Milledgeville, GA, January 1, 1865. Serial # 31384, Plate C. "For Compt. Genl."/"For Treasurer" signatures. 61st item: Twenty-five cents Merchants and Planters Bank fractional note, issued in Savannah, GA, March 1, 1863. Serial # 346. President signature. 62nd item: Fifteen cents fractional note, issued in Highland County, Monterey, VA, September 15, 1862. Serial # 2738. Treasurer signature/printed Presiding Justice signature. Provenance: Estate of Anne Harrison Taylor & Joseph F. Taylor, Morristown, TN. CONDITION: All in circulated condition.
Four (4) Northeastern stoneware pottery items. 1st item: Salt-glazed stoneware pottery cake crock, likely Pennsylvania, with cobalt tulip decoration to one side and applied lug handles. 5 1 4" H x 10 3/4" dia. 2nd item: Samuel Irvine, Newville, PA, four-gallon salt-glazed stoneware pottery jug with a pulled applied handle and cobalt "Splitting tulip" decoration to one side. Maker's stamp and 4, denoting capacity below the spout. Cobalt decoration to terminus of the handle. 16 1/2" H. 3rd & 4th items: Pair of 2 salt-glazed stoneware bottles stamped in different fonts "F. T. Sanford" below the thick spouts and highlighted in cobalt. 7 3/4" H & 8" H. All items 2nd half 19th century. Provenance: The estate of James (Jimmy) Neely, Smyrna, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Chip to rim and one handle, also glaze exfoliation to the rim. 4" x 2" are fluoresces on and below rim near chip. 2nd item: 4" x 6" area fluoresces at base beneath handle. 6 1/2" hairline across base. Old chip to rim, scattered firing flaws. 3rd & 4th items: Overall good condition, some scattered firing flaws.
New York and New England cobalt decorated pottery items, 2 items total. 1st item: Brown Brothers, Huntington, Long Island, NY stoneware pottery pitcher with cobalt double crossed stem tulip design below the spout with maker's stamp and "2" denoting capacity above the initial "W". Dark brown glazed interior. Last quarter 19th century. 12 3/8" H. 2nd item: New England 2-gallon pottery jug with bright cobalt floral stem and "2" decoration to the body and cobalt to the handle terminus. 13 1/2" H. Late 19th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Four areas below handle, largest 2 1/2" x 3 1/2", and one 1 3/4" x 3 1/2" area to underside of base floresce under UV light. 2nd item: Minute chipping to spout, otherwise overall good condition.
Group of five (5) Kentucky miniature advertising whiskey jugs, 6 items total, including one (1) barrel form with white slip and handle with cobalt stamp "J. W. Mason/ Nelson Co./ Old KY Whiskey", one (1) two-tone brown and white glazed jug with cobalt acorn stamp reading "Old Continental Whiskey", one (1) jug with brown glaze inscribed "J. W. Mason/Nelson County Ky./Whiskey", one (1) jug with brown glaze inscribed "Old Continental Handmade Sour Mash Whiskey, B.B.U.", and one (1) jug with brown glaze incised "Old Continental, Nelson County, Sour Mash, B. Bro's". Lot also includes a brown glazed miniature advertising jug for Mammoth Cave incised "Mammoth Cave, Ky., "Little Brown Jugs", Handmade". Jugs range in size from 2 5/8" H to 4" H. All late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: All jugs with minute fleabites to the base. Mammoth Cave jug with one area of rubbing/loss to the glaze.
Six (6) Southern Pottery Items, including Kentucky and Mississippi advertising whisky jugs. 1st item: Kentucky advertising whisky jug, two-tone brown and white slip glaze and cobalt stamp reading "Glenmore Distilleries Co. Owensboro, KY". Inscription on base indicating that this jug was purchased in 1954 in Indiana. 6 1/2" H. 2nd item: John Brennan Vicksburg, Mississippi stoneware whiskey advertising jug, incised "John Brennan/990 S. Washington St./Vicksburg, Miss". 10 1/4" H. 3rd item: Hirsch Brothers Kentucky miniature stoneware vinegar jug, brown glaze with incised inscription. 3 1/8" H. 4th item: Kentucky stoneware miniature pickling jug, brown glaze with incised inscription. 2 3/4" H. 5th item: Kentucky Jones Brothers & Co. miniature vinegar jug, white glaze with cobalt stencil decoration. 3 3/8" H. 6th item: Southern or Midwestern figural stoneware pottery flask in the form of a recumbent pig, brown and white slip glaze. 3" H x 7 1/8" L. All items late 19th/mid 20th Century. CONDITION: 1st item: Blistering to glaze on lower half of body, in the making, otherwise overall good condition. 2nd item: Wear and losses to spout with scattered chipping/losses to body. 3rd & 4th items: Both overall good condition. 5th item: Chipping to rim, one chip to base. 6th item: Overall very good condition.
Group of coin silver flatware, including makers from Savannah and Columbus, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana and Hagerstown, MD, together with a snuff box and tongs, likely Continental .800 silver. 1st-3rd items: 3 coin silver tablespoons in a Classical style pattern, incuse stamp S.B. Purple for Samuel B. Purple (1813-1858), working Columbus GA in partnership with William Foster 1844-1845, as a solo silversmith in Columbus, GA 1845-1856, and for approximately one year (1856-1857) prior to his death in Northfield, MA. Engraved monogram LG. 8" L. 4th item: Tablespoon with double swell fiddle tipt handle marked H. Bliss in rectangle (working New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1830), monogram A.A. Logan. 9" L. 5th item: Teaspoon with fiddle and thread handle marked Horton & Rikeman (working Savannah, GA, c. 1850-1856), 5 7/8" L. 6th item: Table/serving spoon with coffin handle marked J. Reynolds in rectangle (attr. John Reynolds, 1770-1832, working Hagerstown, MD c. 1790-1832). 9 1/4" L. 7th item: Snuff box with engine turned decoration to top and sides, the hinged top engraved YB; interior lid marked FB with some illegible numbers (probably .800). 1/2" H x 3 1/4" W x 1 1/2" D. 8th item: Pair of sugar tongs with bright-cut decorated arms, shell grips and monogram JM in oval on bridge. Marked "d" in square to one arm with illegible (IFG?) mark in square to other arm. 6" L. Snuff box and tongs: 3.96 oz troy. Coin silver flatware total weight: 9.44 oz troy. All items early to mid 19th century. CONDITION: Bliss and Reynolds spoons have dents to bowl and wear to bowl ends. Horton and Rikeman spoon: possible monogram removal. Snuff box: Overall good condition but lid does not seal tightly. Most items monogrammed.
Two (2) Teresa Vito (Colorado, 20th Century) impressionistic oil on board paintings. 1st item: Landscape painting titled "Cottonwood Reflections" depicting a still body of water, foreground, a line of trees and greenery reflected in the water, middleground, with hills and mountains benather a hazy blue sky, background. Signed "Vito" lower right. Titled, signed, and copyrighted with a crossed out ink stamp address and contact information for the Elkhorn Art Gallery, Winter Park, CO en verso. Housed in a contemporary black wooden frame with a gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight - 8 5/8" H x 11 1/4" W. Framed - 16" H x 19" W. 2nd item: Landscape painting titled "Yellow Mountain Home" depicting a dirt road leading to a small yellow house with a grey roof, situated in a copse of trees, fore and middle ground, a mountain range beneath a thin sliver of blue sky, background. Signed "Vito" lower right. Titled, signed, and copyrighted en verso. Housed in a contemporary gilt wood frame with carved floral sprays to each corner. Sight - 11 1/2" H x 8 1/2" W. Framed - 17 3/4" H x 14 3/4" W. CONDITION: Both items in overall excellent condition.
Two (2) Southern Furniture books. 1st item: THE ART AND MYSTERY OF TENNESSEE FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS THROUGH 1850, by Nathan Harsh and Derita Coleman Williams, published by the Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, 1988. Octavo, 344 pages with photographic illustrations, hardbound in brown cloth with gilt blind stamp to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers. Includes original dust jacket. 11 1/4" H x 8 3/4" W. 2nd item: SOUTHERN FURNITURE 1680-1830: THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG COLLECTION by Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown, published by The Colonial Foundation and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1997. Octavo, 639 pages including index, illustrated with color and black and white photographs, hardbound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, includes dust jacket. 11 3/4" H x 9 7/8" W x 2" D. Provenance: the estate of Victor T. Patterson, Franklin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Some wear and fading to dust jacket. Some minor markups on pg. 51. 2nd item: Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Paint stuck to spine of dust cover.
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