- AMERICAN FOLK ART OIL PAINTED CLOTH
BODY DOLLScarce American Folk Art oil painted cloth doll, forth quarter 19th c., cloth body, slightly modeled features, painted hair, stitched fingers, elbow, hip and knee...
[more like this] - (2) FRAMED HARPER'S WEEKLY CIVIL WAR
ILLUSTRATIONS(lot of 2) Framed illustration prints on paper, from Harper's Weekly, including: (1) "The Siege of Vicksburg - Approach of McPherson's Saps to the Rebel Works,"...
[more like this] - JOHN DAVIS AND FAMILY ARCHIVEArchive
of items related to John Davis (1770-1853), early surveyor of Nashville, Tennessee, and his family. Includes Davis's will, numerous land documents, survey maps and some slave...
[more like this] - 2 SLAVE DOCUMENTS, NASHVILLE TN & NORTH
CAROLINA2 Slavery related items pertaining to Charles Ordway, Hardee Murfree, and Gen. Thomas Eaton of Tennessee and North Carolina. 1st item: Handwritten one-page inventory...
[more like this] - TN LUNSFORD BRAMLETT ARCHIVE, INCL.
POLK WHITE HOUSE IN...Archive of six (6) documents pertaining to Lunsford Meredith Bramlett, Esq. (1785-1858), Tennessee judge, planter and politician, 8 items total. 1st-2nd...
[more like this] - PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF LUNSFORD BRAMLETT
OF TENNESSEEMiniature watercolor portrait of Tennessee judge, planter, and politician Lunsford Meredith Bramlett (1785-1858), depicted at about age 35, wearing a dark coat...
[more like this] - 15 DECORATIVE ARTS & SOUTHERN POTTERY
REFERENCE BOOKSTwo groups of fifteen (15) total reference books, general decorative arts and Southern pottery. The general decorative arts grouping includes seven (7) general...
[more like this] - FORT FAMILY OF NC/TN ARCHIVE, 19 ITEMS
INCLUDING SLAVE ...Archive of documents and letters related to the Fort Family of Tennessee, primarily Elias Fort (1730-1819) of Edgecombe, NC who came west on a Revolutionary...
[more like this] - SIGNED AND DATED DAVE DRAKE EDGEFIELD
JUG(Edgefield, South Carolina, b. circa 1800s, d. after 1873) attributed to Lewis Miles Stoneware Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, light olive green runny...
[more like this] - DON BALKE (B. 1933) "ROSS' GOOSE"Don
Balke (North Carolina, B. 1933) "Ross' Goose" Signed lower right. Original Watercolor on Illustration Board.
Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder...
[more like this] - LATE FEDERAL PERIOD COMPENDIUM OF NORTH
CAROLINA LAW Haywood, John. A Manual Of The Laws Of North Carolina, Arranged Under District Heads, In Alphabetical Order, With References From One Head To Another, When A...
[more like this] - A Rare North or South Carolina “Colored
Republicing Club” Stoneware Cooler
Dated July 7, 1892
in Southern alkaline glaze, with distinctive doubled collared rim, tooled body, two lug handles set low on the body...
[more like this] - LETTER ADVISES LEASING SLAVE TO SITTING
GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA James A. Waugh Autograph Letter Signed, "J. A Waugh," Raleigh, North Carolina, December 28, 1850, 8vo, 3 pp. with integral address panel, to his...
[more like this] - TWO CROCHETED COVERLETS The first with
tag reading "Tobacco Twine Wedding Coverlet crocheted by freed slaves on the Nathan Stanley Plantation for F. A. Whitaker and Stanley Daughter, Beaver Creek, Jones County,...
[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] - MICHEL BAYNE, DAVE THE SLAVE 18.5" TRIBUTE
JUG Michel Bayne (American/South/North Carolina b. 1959), "Dave the Slave", double handled glazed stoneware jug, inscribed "Dave was the finest Slave Potter so I am told/Little...
[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] - North Carolina slave bill of sale, 22
line manuscript court copy, October 23, 1830, "…I the said James Ellis…do Bargain and Sell unto…David George a negro girl named Alcey about twenty...
[more like this] - Confederate state currency collection,
42 banknotes, 1840-1864: 18 North Carolina: 10 cent, 25 cent and $1 issue of Sept. 1, 1862, 25 cent on back of $1,000 bond coupon remainder ; 5 cent, 50 cent, 75 cent, $1,...
[more like this] - Edgefield pottery jar, ovoid with mottled
alkaline glaze, notched rim (under glaze), shoulder with two large circular impressed marks with three smaller dots (attributed to Dave the Slave, 1780-1866), 13-1/4 in. Several...
[more like this] - Letters Between the Sturges Brothers
Most 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...
[more like this] - Ten slavery related manuscripts: two-page
letter, Martindale, North Carolina, July 3, 1864, "…we had considerable stir in our county last Wednesday about the Yanks taking Morganton & Camp Vance…Our...
[more like this] - North Carolina Chippendale china press,
walnut with yellow pine secondary, upper case with shaped and molded cornice over two glazed doors opening to deeply shaped interior shelves, lower case with pull-out slide...
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