NOTAPHILY. ASSORTED OBSOLETE AMERICANCURRENCY. Including a 1858 $5 Bank of Commerce Erie, Pennsylvania note; an 1854? $2 State Bank Of Ohio, Dayton Branch, Dayton note; (2) 1861 $2 Bank Of Penn Township Philadelphia...
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ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)AutumnWoodcock Shooting, 1895
signed "A.B. Frost" lower right
watercolor and gouache, 13 1/2 by 21 1/2 in.
titled on The Old Print Shop, New York label on back
Charles Porter...
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VA BIRTH/SLAVE RECORD INC. JOHN OVERTONCirca1760s birth and baptism record from the area around Louisa County and Spotsylvania County, Virginia, including reference to the birth of John Overton and baptisms of two of...
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EAST TN POLITICAL BROADSIDE, 1857 ANDWM. DICKSON SIGNE...1st item: East Tennessee political broadside dated June 27th, 1857, "CIRCULAR: TO THE VOTERS OF BLOUNT, SEVIER, COCKE, AND GREENE COUNTIES", written by...
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10 PCS 19TH C. TN EPHEMERA, INCL. GOVERNORSIGNED1st item: 1806 letter sent from William Dunlop, Hackettstown, New Jersey to James V. Anderson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inquiring about the worth of goods including...
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AN ANTIQUE MAP, "RAND MCNALLY STANDARDMAP OF OKLAHOMA,...AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Rand McNally Standard Map of Oklahoma," color ink engraving on paper, with four unusual hand drawn concentric circles over remote areas...
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AN ANTIQUE MAP, "RAND MCNALLY STANDARDMAP OF OKLAHOMA,...AN ANTIQUE MAP, "Rand McNally Standard Map of Oklahoma," color ink engraving on paper, with four unusual hand drawn concentric circles over remote areas...
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THREE VARIOUS CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CABINETPLATES, 19TH...Three Various Chinese Famille Rose Cabinet Plates, 19 th Century, the largest decorated with butterflies and insects amid a robust bouquet of fruiting and flowering...
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WARTHOG TUSK LION CANECa. 1890-Substantialwarthog tusk left in its naturally curving shape and adorned with a lion head at the front, silver collar modeled with two prone lions, malacca shaft and a metal ferrule....
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MEL CRAWFORD B. 1925) "YUKON" ORIGINALMelCrawford (Canadian, B. 1925) "Yukon" Signed lower left. Original Mixed Media painting on Cold Press Illustration Board.
Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008),...
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TOM MCNEELY (B. 1935) "JAMES DEAN"TomMcNeely (Canadian, B. 1935) "James Dean - American Icon" Signed lower right. Original Watercolor on Paper.
Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder...
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17TH C. CHINESE MING DYNASTY GILT BRONZESEATED GUANYIN...East Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 17th century CE. A wonderful bronze statue rich with iconography of a Bodhisattva known as Avalokiteshwara (also Guanyin,...
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PUBLISHED ROMAN STONE MOSAIC HEAD OFOCEANUSRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A very fine Roman stone mosaic comprised of thousands of stone tesserae, depicting the head of Oceanus - the personification...
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LOT OF 3 SASANIAN STONE STAMP SEAL BEADSAncientNear East / Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian / Sassanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. A trio of stone stamp seal beads, two orange-red carnelian or quartz, the third...
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LOT OF 3 NEAR EAST STONE AMULETSAncientNear East, Jemdet Nasr (Iraq), ca. 3100 to 2900 BCE. Two stone pendants, each of an abstract avian form. Also, Mesopotamia, ca. 1500 BCE. A stone bull/phallic amulet. Size...
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PAIR OF HUGE BYZANTINE STONE MOSAICSW/ GEOMETRIC MOTIF...Near Eastern, Eastern Empire, Early Byzantine Period, ca. 7th century CE. An opulent pair of ornamental floor or wall mosaics, each of a massive, rectangular...
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19TH C. AMERICAN PAINTING - "WHEN BUFFALOWAS KING"American oil on canvas - "When Buffalo was King" ca. late 19th century. Impressive and quite touching, a large-scale painting depicting three bison grazing on snow-covered...
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BACTRIAN STONE BOWL W/ PROCESSION OFLIONSCentral Asia, Bactrian, ca. 2500 to 2250 BCE. Skillfully carved from grey-blue chlorite schist, this is an ornately incised vessel of a cylindrical form extensively embellished...
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EGYPTIAN GLAZED FAIENCE WINGED SCARABMUMMY ORNAMENTSEgypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A set of mold-formed faience ornaments used to decorate the linens of a freshly-wrapped...
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GREEK FIKELLURAWARE TREFOIL OINOCHOE,EX-ROYAL ATHENAEastern Greece, Rhodes or Asia Minor, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. An elegantly constructed ceramic trefoil oinochoe with radiating crescent bands painted...
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ROMANO-EGYPTIAN LEADED COPPER APIS BULLSTATUEEgypt, Late Ptolemaic to Romano-Egyptian Period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A gorgeous cast-leaded copper votive figure representing the sacred Egyptian bull god...
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[A PRIVATE SCOTTISH COLLECTION, EDINBURGH]COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
ON CHINESE ART: MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS ?????????????????????Including but not limited to:Art Chinois: Musée Cernuschi acquisitions...
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[CHINESE JADE]
A group of referencebooks and catalogues about Chinese jades, including several important early publications, with titles comprising:
LAUFER, Berthold. Archaic Chinese Jades Collected in China...
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[CHINESE JADE]
A group of referencebooks and catalogues about Chinese jades, including several important early publications, with titles comprising:
LAUFER, Berthold. Archaic Chinese Jades Collected in China...
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ASIAN CHINESE ART & CULTURE REFERENCEBOOKS, 16 Sixteen reference books on Asian or Chinese art and culture comprising "China: a history in art" by Smith & Weng, "The Han Dynasty" by Michele Pirazzoli-t'Sterstevens,...
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18TH CENTURY ARABIC QUADRANT FROM THEMAGHREB REGION OF NORTHWEST AFRICA CIRCA 1776 HEIGHT 7.5". WIDTH OF ARC 10.25". MAGHREB REGION OF NORTHWEST AFRICA, Circa 1776, Signed in Arabic along one of the sight vanes...
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EDGAR LOUIS YAEGER, MICHIGAN / FRANCE(1904 - 1997), UNTITLED ABSTRACT, 1937, OIL ON CANVAS, 20 1/2"H X 27 1/2"W (SIGHT), 25"H X 32"W (FRAME)Edgar Louis Yaeger, Michigan / France, (1904 - 1997) untitled abstract,...
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GUSTAVE BAUMANN, INDIANA, NEW MEXICO,CALIFORNIA (1881 - 1971), THE TOWN OF NASHVILLE, 1910, COLOR WOODCUT, 9" X 13" (WOODCUT), 17" X 21" (FRAME)Gustave Baumann, Indiana, New Mexico, California, (1881 - 1971)...
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TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK
‘JAPANESQUE’TEA CADDY, CIRCA 1875 silver with parcel-gilt, stamped TIFFANY & CO/ STERLING-SILVER/ 3 and numbered 3683 M 8880, the body applied with a gilt flying dragonfly and a spider...
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Joseph P. Frey (1892-1977 HawthorneCA) View of Mount Ritter and the Thousand Island Lakes Basin Looking East...
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Photographic Archive of Miles City MontanaPhotographer R.C. Morrison 1880s-1890s Cowan's is proud to present the photographic archive of pioneer Montana photographer Robert C. Morrison (1850-1938) descended directly...
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Historic Guthrie Oklahoma/ChickamaugaPresentation Gavel to First Major D.B. Dyer With associated newspaper clipping and printed pamphlet relating to the opening of the Oklahoma Territory in 1889. The symbolic...
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GEMS OF THE EAST sixteen thousand milesof research travel among wild and tame tribes of enchanting islands A. H. Savage Landor. London Macmillan 1904, 1904. 2 volumes. First edition. With numerous illustrations...
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Letters Between the Sturges BrothersMost Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield...
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