- ANTE-BELLUM MARINE PAINTING OF WARSHIPS
Three Ships of the Line moored in harbor, the closest having a plain pale blue jack flying at the stern, several smaller craft rowing about, watercolor on paper, initialed...
[more like this] - VAN VEEN "BATAVORUM CUM ROMANIS BELLUM"
1612Otto van Veen (1556-1629), engravings by Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), "Batavorum cum Romanis Bellum, a Corn. Tacito lib. IV & V Hist olim descriptum, figuris nunc aeneis...
[more like this] - AMERICAN QUILT REFERENCE BOOKSAMERICAN
QUILT REFERENCE BOOKS, topics relate to American regionalism as well as women and African American quiltmaking, titles include: The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Tinwood Books, 2002;...
[more like this] - AMERICAN QUILT REFERENCE BOOKSAMERICAN
QUILT REFERENCE BOOKS, topics relate to American regionalism as well as women and African American quiltmaking, titles include: The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Tinwood Books, 2002;...
[more like this] - FOLK ART BIRDHOUSE IN FORM OF A MANSION
Southern Style Ante-bellum House with large two story open front veranda, gabled roof with cupola, 19" x 21" x 12", weathered....
[more like this] - MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN American
Bust Portrait off an Ante-bellum Beauty with chestnut ring curls, two-strand coral necklace with gold brooch, oil on ivory, unsigned, housed in a black lacquer and brass beaded...
[more like this] - RARE ANTE-BELLUM CIVIL WAR ERA BOOK
ON ARTILLERY BY DAHLGREN, 1856 "Shells and Shell-Guns" by J.A. Dahlgren, Commander in Charge of Experimental Ordnance Department, Navy Yard, Washington", Philadelphia, King...
[more like this] - RARE CURRIER & SIMPSON 1860 'UNION'
BAROMETER Rare Union Barometer by Currier & Simpson, pat'd date Jan 31, 1860, an ante-bellum American version of a tendency barometer with intact mercury. Bottom knob is used...
[more like this] - ROBERT SCOTT DUNCANSON OH/MI/OK, 1821-1872)
"Boatman Delivering Goods on the South Fork Shenandoah River, Virginia", c1850s, oil on canvas, unsigned, depicting cattle at a fork in the river, single boatman hauling material...
[more like this] - ANTE-BELLUM PORTRAIT OF A LADY Bust
Portrait of a Kindly Looking Middle Aged Woman, oil on canvas, unsigned, circa 1855, her face framed by her black hair, wearing a lace bonnet and collar, having a cameo pendant...
[more like this] - CARTRIDGE BOX - Late 19th c. leather
cartridge box with applied gilded crown. Red and gold shoulder strap with heavy cast buckle marked 'PAX AUT BELLUM'. 5'' X 2'' X 6'' dried brittle condition....
[more like this] - VICTORIAN CENTER TABLE - American Baroque
Revival Ante-Bellum Marble Top Center Table in black walnut with variegated white marble set into heavily molded deep rim having shaped and carved skirt ornately carved set...
[more like this] - A Fine American Gilt Bronze Four Arm
Camphene Chandelier c. 1850 possibly by Michael Boyd Dyott Philadelphia grape and grapeleaf corona cast foliate and ring-form chains central fluted support ornate bowl issuing...
[more like this] - US Pre-Civil War Connecticut Militia
Shako Shako has the Connecticut state shield and infantry horn with the letter C for Company C. Connecticut's militia variant of the common M1851 dress cap prescribed under...
[more like this] - 4 vols. American Ante Bellum South:
(Alabama.) Constitution of The State of Alabama, December 6, 1819. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1819. 1st ed., 2nd issue. 8vo, disbound. Unopened. Slightly browned. Sabin 557;...
[more like this] - Books on the Battle of Fort Pulaski
and Partial ALS of Charles Olmstead 1p 6. x 9.5 in. Partial ALS signed by Charles Olmstead on Chas. H. Olmstead & Co. Bankers letterhead. Savannah n.d but 1880s from preprinted...
[more like this] - MINIATURE W/C ON IVORY - Ante Bellum
Waist-Length Portrait of a Fair Young Lady in wispy white dress with her hair in ringlets seated next to a table covered by a blue paisley cloth and holding a box with a red...
[more like this] - Collection of Twenty-Seven Volumes of
Art and Architecture, including The Art of the Old South, by J. Poesch, 1983; Ante-Bellum Homes of Natchez, by J. W. Cooper, 1983; and History of Notable American Houses,...
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