- GROUP CHINESE CARVED SCHOLAR'S OBJECTS
19th/20th c., carved wood and bamboo, incl. (2) brush pots, a page turner with mother of pearl inlay, and (2) wrist rests, 6.5"h x 4"w x 3.75"d (larger brush pot), 17"l x...
[more like this] - EARLY KNOX CO., TN ARCHIVE, SLAVE RELATEDEarly
Knox County, Tennessee document archive relating to slaves, total 8. Item 1: 1798 slave bill of sale between John Williams of Logan County, KY to William Peterson of Knox...
[more like this] - 2 GIERS PORTRAITS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS2
Tennessee Photographic portraits of African Americans. 1st item: Thuss cabinet card photograph of "Uncle" Alfred Jackson (born about 1802-d. 1901), slave to President Andrew...
[more like this] - VA BIRTH/SLAVE RECORD INC. JOHN OVERTONCirca
1760s 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...
[more like this] - WALKER SISTERS POEM DRAWING PLUS GREAT
SMOKY MOUNTAINS ...1st item: Louisa and Hattie Walker, "My Log Cabin Home," framed handwritten poem and illustration, pencil and colored pencil on cream paper. The poem recounts...
[more like this] - TWO NORTH CAROLINA JAMESTOWN SCHOOL
LONGRIFLESunsigned lock, double set triggers, 37 in. octagonal barrel, brass blade front sight, raised curved rear sight, maple half stock, metal inlays including heart, petals,...
[more like this] - CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (SCOTTISH
1868-1928)
IVY SEED, WALBERSWICK pencil and watercolour, inscribed, signed and dated lower right IVY SEED/ WALBERSWICK/ 1915/ CRMMMM25.5cm x 18.2cmProvenance: Acquired after...
[more like this] - "FLORIDA ARCHITECTURE OF MIZNER", TARBELLIda
Tarbell's book FLORIDA ARCHITECTURE OF ADDISON MIZNER was published in 1928 by William Hellburn, Inc. This very large, 16" x 12" book consists mainly of full-page photos of...
[more like this] - (6) INTERNATIONAL STAMP ALBUMS + LOOSE
ASSORTMENT Over 1,500 stamps, including Scott Great Britain: British Colonies in Europe and Oceania: approx. 100 stamps: (46) Great Britain 1841-1946, mostly used, incl. 1841...
[more like this] - SCARCE BRONZE 1979 TEXAS A&M "12TH MAN"
STATUEBronze sculpture "The 12th Man", number 18 in a limited edition of 50, signed, dated 1979, Foley (George E. 'Pat' Foley, Houston,1922-1998), celebrating the Texas A&M...
[more like this] - DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Works.
Andrew Lang, editor. London and New York: Chapman & Hall, and Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1897-1899].
34 volumes, 8vo (194 x 139 mm). Half-titles, engraved frontispieces...
[more like this] - LION, MAY YOU REST IN PEACE AFGHANISTAN
1980-2002. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO GENERAL POWELL BY DR. ABDULLAH ABDULLAH, 2003 12 X 9 IN. (30.48 X 22.86 CM.) 1980-2002. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO GENERAL POWELL BY DR. ABDULLAH...
[more like this] - GROUP OF ANTIQUE RELIGIOUS BOOKSGroup
of antique religious books, to include The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living , 1703; La Sainte Bible , 1842; A Catechism and Confession of Faith , 1793; The Saints' Everlasting...
[more like this] - SEBASTIAN MUNSTER. COSMOGRAPHIAE UNIVERSALIS
LIB VI. 16TH CENTURY. LATIN LANGUAGE. WITH ALL MAPS 12 X 8 3/4 IN. (30.48 X 22.23 CM.) LIB VI. 16TH CENTURY. LATIN LANGUAGE. WITH ALL MAPS, [Early Printing] Munster, Sebastian....
[more like this] - TWO 19TH C BOUND ATLASES TO INCLUDE
NEW BEDFORD1881, PUBLISHED BY GEORGE H. WALKER, BOSTON, MA, 79 PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS. 18" X 14 1/4". SPINE IS BROKEN, CORNERS BADLY SCUFFED, BLANK FRONTISE AND...
[more like this] - SHERATON TALL CASE CLOCK. Ohio 2nd
quarter-19th century curly maple cherry and poplar. The case has a broken-arch pediment fully turned quarter columns and rests on turned feet; the wooden movement signed...
[more like this] - Fine Wedgwood Black Basalt Vase and
Cover, ca. 1780, after a design by Edme Bourchardon (1698-1762), the campana-form vase with handles in the form of mermen resting on a giant oyster shell, h. 12-1/4", dia....
[more like this] - DECORATED CHEST OF DRAWERS. Western
Pennsylvania or the Midwest dated 1872 cherry walnut and poplar. Three drawers over four drawers a low backsplash and resting on turned feet. Retains its original red...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Pare, Ambrose. The Works. London:
Mary Clark for John Clark, 1678. Folio, 19th-Century 1/4 morocco & bds.; joints rubbed, edge wear. Title page repaired & rehinged, rest of first signature rehinged. Internal...
[more like this] - Pair of Nimschke-Style Engraved Smith
& Wesson Model No.2 Revolvers Inscribed to D.B. Dyer .32 caliber RF 6'' octagonal barrels S/N 19189 S/N 17780. Nimschke-style engraving with nickel finish and pearl grips;...
[more like this] - * (FINE PRESS YOLLY BOLLY PRESS) GIDE
ANDRE Theseus. Translated by John Russell. Drawings by Sidney Goodman. Covelo CA: Yolly Bolly Press 1998. Folio original quarter suede and cork boards with pastedown etching...
[more like this] - VICTORIAN CARVED WALNUT MUSIC STAND:
Carved and turned base with three carved lion paw feet swivel and adjustable page support with acorn finial 47''h. 16 1/2'' x 11'' page rest approx. 20'' dia. base....
[more like this] - ANDY WARHOL (american 1928-1987) '25
CATS NAME SAM AND ONE BLUE PUSSY.' Circa 1954. Bound book with 17 offset lithographs, 11 with watercolor. (Missing cover and justification pages). Printed by Seymour Berlin....
[more like this] - Auguste Hiolle (French late 19th/early
20th c.) "A Roman Couple Watching a Town in Flames" 1892 oil on canvas signed and dated lower right 71 in. x 92 in. in a good period frame. Note: This evocative painting...
[more like this] - Fine Chinese elephant ivory wrist rest
19th centruy Of narrow rounded form, deep high relief carving of eight mythical beasts and horseman among a mountainous landscape, landscape in low relief verso. Ivory...
[more like this] - CSA Account Book of Capt. W.S. Wickham
from Creation of Army of Tennessee 7.5 x 3 in. leather-bound memo book inscribed on cover CS Army / Captain / W L Wickham / Pay Department / 1862 - 63 with similar inscriptions...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Bound Collection of Christopher
Sower Germantown Imprints: Bromley, Thomas. The Way to The Sabbath of Rest... With Two Discourses... viz The Journeys of The Children of Israel... And a Treatise of Extraordinary...
[more like this] - Rare John Abbot watercolor (British/Georgia,
1751-1840), Summer Sparrow or Grass Sparrow, No. 49, Abbot notes "is the only one I believe that stays with us all the year, the rest leaving us in the spring, has a...
[more like this] - Rare and exceptional Chinese carved
red cinnabar picnic box ming dynasty Of four tiers, the long and straight geometric carved handle rest over straight similar carved supports framed by shaped spandrels...
[more like this] - 157 works by Arthur Fuller (Arthur Davenport
Fuller, Connecticut, 1889-1967), held in a scrapbook titled "Arthur D. Fuller: Record of his Artistic Career/Compiled by H.K.F" (probably Fuller's daughter);...
[more like this] - OOC - 'Schooners at Rest' by Colin Page
(ME 1977 - ) signed lr and titled on stretcher in gilt molded frame SS: 18'' x 22'' OS: 24 3/4'' x 28 3/4'' fine condition....
[more like this] - Fine Japanese Namikawa Yasuyuki cloisonne
covered koro signed silver tablet to base Of wide ovoid form, the kiku-mounted domed cover worked to show small petal band to finial, base rests over an ovoid base worked...
[more like this] - Antique leather-bound photograph album.
Reads ''The Photograph Album Philadelphia William W. Harding''. Contains a few pictures and death certificates/notices. Outside leather shows heavy signs of wear and age....
[more like this] - Fine Asante Peoples Carved Wood Linguist
Staff with Seated Maternity Figure, or "Okyeame Poma", Ghana, the staff disassembling into three parts, the bottom two sections consisting of poles decorated with various...
[more like this] - Chinese bronze and silver inlaid brush
rest, palette and vase inlaid yutang shisou, 17/18th century Comprised of a mountain form and convex brush rest, flat based circular palette and a tapering cylindrical...
[more like this] - Charles Hook Armco Steel Company Lot
of Manuscripts & Documents Lot includes letters photographs pamphlets mostly from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Born in 1880 the youngest of four children of Henry and...
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