- BOYLE & GAMBLE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA CIVIL
WAR SWORDA Confederate Foot Officer's sword made by Boyle & Gamble of Richmond, Virginia (unmarked, but researched by appraiser to identify thusly) and carried by a Richmond,...
[more like this] - SMITH & WESSON AND COLT REVOLVERSSmith
& Wesson Old Army model 2 Revolver, .32 caliber rimfire, 4 in. octagonal barrel stamped "SMITH & WESSON. SPRINGFIELD. MASS. PAT D. APRIL 3. JULY 5. 1859. &NOV. 21. 1865."...
[more like this] - 7 COLIMA, AZTEC, JALISCO & TLATILCO
POTTERY FIGURES**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; West Mexico, Jalisco, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE; Valley of Mexico, Tlatilco...
[more like this] - IMPORTANT VIRGINIA PORTRAIT(American
School, 19th Century)
John Mason McCarty (1795-1852), not visibly signed, oil on canvas, 26 x 20 in.; gilt wood frame, 33-1/2 x 27-1/4 in.
Provenance: Descended in the family...
[more like this] - RARE MAYA BIRD PECTORAL W/ APPLIED SHELL
& TURQUOISEPre-Columbian, southern Mexico to Guatemala, Proto-Maya to Maya culture, ca. 300 BCE to 900 CE. An exceedingly rare and endearing bird pendant or pectoral carved...
[more like this] - EARLY EASTERN SHORE VIRGINIA ROOT HEAD
GOOSE Attributed to Eastern Shore Virginia, circa 1900, carved and painted wood....
[more like this] - RAFAEL FERRER, PUERTO RICO (1933), HALLWALLS,
1977, BLOCK PRINT ON PAPER BAG, 17"H X 11 7/8"WRafael Ferrer, Puerto Rico, (1933) Hallwalls, 1977, block print on paper bag Biography from the Archives of askART: Following...
[more like this] - SELECTION OF FIVE BOOKS MAINLY ON HUGO
BLACK Selection of five hardcover and softcover books mainly on the politician and associate chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Hugo Black (American 1886-1971) comprising,...
[more like this] - Colt firearms related books: three copies
John Parsons, The Peacemaker ; two copies Ted Tivey, The Colt Rifle ; R. L. Wilson, Colt An American Legend ; A Century of Achievement: Colt 100th Anniversary Firearms Manual...
[more like this] - Books, U.S. Military Arms and related:
James E. Hicks, 1971, dust jacket, Notes on U.S. Ordnance: Volume II ; two copies, Gluckman, 1948 and 1959 with dust jacket, United States Muskets, Rifles and Carbines ; Green,...
[more like this] - Wythe County Virginia painted blanket
chest circa 1800 red sponge-decorated rectangular top above conforming case decorated with two astragal panels each featuring a large tulip below an arch flanked by two smaller...
[more like this] - CARVED YELLOWLEGSBy Mark McNair of Craddockville
Virginia. In root head style. Incised wings. Wire legs. Nice dry finish. Signed on belly McNair''.''...
[more like this] - Twenty-three Secretaries of State of
the United States, 1831-1913, signed items: "Edw.[ard P.] Livingston" autograph check, New York, October 8, 1829", cut-canceled ; "Louis McLane",...
[more like this] - Three presidential appointments, all
military, partially printed on parchment: one signed "Theodore Roosevelt" as President, and Elihu Root as Secretary of War, December 5, 1903, minor edge chips ;...
[more like this] - Six Mary Custis Lee letters, each signed
"MC Lee" in brown ink to Dr. Leadbeater, ordering pharmaceuticals: four lines "15 November 1859 verso . Please send 1 gallon paint oil & 1 gallon turpentine...
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