August 5, 2017 Auction Highlights

Birger Sandzen (American, 1871-1954), oil on board Colorado landscape painting titled TWILIGHT, depicting a lake with rocky, tree-lined bank at sunset. Mountains are visible in the background, and a crescent moon shines in the pink sky overhead. The scene is rendered in vivid color using a thick impasto technique. Signed lower right Birger Sandzen. Titled, signed and dated en verso TWILIGHT/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK/COLORADO/1927/BIRGER SANDZEN/LINDSBORG, KANSAS. Additionally inscribed Metzger A or H22215 en verso. Housed in a carved, whitewashed frame. 19 1/2″ x 23 1/2″ sight, 28″ x 32″ framed. This lot is accompanied by a 1983 letter from the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery attributing the work to Sandzen circa 1928-1931. According to the letter’s writer, co-director Larry Griffis, “The colors and brush strokes are characteristic of the period of his life that produced his finest work.” Griffis compares this work to two other known Sandzen works, “Silent Lake” and “Lake in the Rockies”. A letter from Douglas Hyland, director of the Brooks Museum in Memphis, regarding the Sandzen painting and calling it “one of his best works” is also included, along with a softcover book, “The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen” by Charles Pelham Greenough, and various photocopied biographical materials relating to a past owner, Lois Eason, and to Birger Sandzen. Provenance: the estate of Lois Eason (Mrs. Jeter Eason) of Memphis, inherited circa 1980 by Mrs. Eason from her aunt (a faculty member in the University of Denver’s Art and Architecture Department); by descent to present consignor. Biography (source: the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery): Birger Sandzen was born in Sweden in 1871. He studied art in Stockholm with Anders Zorn and Richard Berg and also studied briefly in Paris. He came to Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas in 1894 to teach language and art, and remained there the rest of his career. He retired in 1946. In the meantime, he produced a large number of oil paintings, watercolors, and prints. Sandzen was a founder of the Mid-West Art Exhibition held annually in Lindsborg and the Smoky Hill Art Club. He also belonged to several art organizations including the Taos Society of Artists. PRE-APPROVAL IS REQUIRED TO BID ON THIS LOT. PLEASE CONTACT CASEANTIQUES, INC. AT THE KNOXVILLE GALLERY FOR DETAILS. 865-558-3033 or BID@CASEANTIQUES.COM. CONDITION: Painting – excellent condition with slight craquelure overall concentrated in areas of heavy impasto. Outer edge of one thick brushstroke may have break (1/8″L by 1/32″W) in an area at the top right center (sky region) of the painting (very inconspicuous). Frame – shrinkage cracks to miter joints, some small edge losses. [See more photos →]

John Frederick Kensett (New York/Connecticut, 1816-1872), “Early Autumn,” oil on board Luminist landscape painting depicting sunrise or sunset over Contentment Island, site of Kensett’s studio, near Darien, Connecticut. Circa 1872. Unsigned. Titled verso, with 1960s-1970s exhibition labels for Wickersham Gallery, New York. Housed in a giltwood Hudson River School style frame. Sight – 13 1/2″ H x 17 3/8″ W. Framed – 20 1/8″ H x 24 1/8″ W. Note: Celebrated American Luminist painter John Frederick Kensett died in 1872, attempting to rescue the drowning wife of fellow artist Vincent Coyler. The following year, this work was included, along with many other works from his studio, in the Kensett Memorial Exhibition held at the National Academy of Design. It is illustrated on page 45 of the photographic album of the exhibit (refer to scan of photograph, upper left corner). This newly rediscovered Kensett painting will be included in the forthcoming John Frederick Kensett Catalogue Raisonne being prepared under the direction of Dr. John Driscoll. Provenance: The Estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee, acquired from Orrin Wickersham June in the 1970s. Case is grateful to Dr. Janice Simon, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Art History at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia; guest curator and principal author of the 2001 exhibit and catalog “Images of Contentment: John Kensett and the Connecticut Shore,” for the following essay: In 1867, painter John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), ordinarily a New York City resident, bought nine acres of Contentment Island from his friend, fellow painter Vincent Colyer. Composed of the three Fish Islands, five Crabb Islands, salt meadow and marsh lands of Long Island Sound at Darien, Connecticut, this property permitted Kensett to engage eye and mind, senses and feelings with one place over an extended period without the interference of tourists. Indeed, his contemporaries equated his Contentment Island paintings with subjective responses to nature “very near to his own door,” so that artist, nature, and “God’s abounding gifts” became poetically one. “Early Autumn’s” sunrise scene, with two thirds of the painting displaying an intense rainbow of colors from orange-red along the horizon to bright chrome yellow blending into cerulean and grayer blue with painterly wisps of clouds at the top, displays Kensett’s intense absorption with place, atmosphere, and spirit. Looking down and across the shadowed point of land populated with cedars and pines jutting into Long Island Sound, this scene recalls the exact coloring, size, and proportions of Sunrise Near Darien (oil on panel 14″ x 18″, University of Michigan Museum of Art), though the waters are on the opposite side of the canvas. Both canvases appear side by side in the upper left of the photograph of the Kensett Memorial Exhibition held in 1873 at the National Academy of Design. Both paintings, along with the dramatic sunsets and twilights Kensett recorded while living on Contentment Island, convey an artist engaged with the modernist sensibilities of Tonalism with its emphasis on suggestion over definition, poetry of color over niggling detail, deep feeling over topographies of place. With Early Autumn and other paintings of Contentment Island, Kensett approached the aesthetics of George Inness and John La Farge. Unfortunately, his unexpected death in December 1872 cut short his modernist experiment. PRE-APPROVAL IS REQUIRED TO BID ON THIS LOT. PLEASE CONTACT CASEANTIQUES, INC. AT THE KNOXVILLE GALLERY FOR DETAILS. 865-558-3033 or BID@CASEANTIQUES.COM. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Lower right quadrant has area of bloom in varnish; small pinprick indention near side; and three small gouges near bottom edge, largest 1/4″ L. Top center has 5 scattered semitransparent blue accretions and 2″ diagonal scratch. 1/8″ area of paint loss and accretion at left top corner. Left bottom corner has a 1″ faint splatter accretion 2″ from side. [See more photos →]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), JANE AVRIL, 1899, original brush lithograph poster printed in four colors (from three stones) on wove paper, printed by H. Stern, Paris. Titled, dated and monogrammed in the stone. Depicts the famous Moulin Rouge dancer with a snake coiled around her dress. Jane Avril was one of Lautrec’s lifelong friends and a devoted patron; this was the final poster commissioned by Avril to advertise her work. To create it, Lautrec used a technique which enabled four different colors to be applied in only three printings. Sheet – 563 mm x 381 mm (22 3/16″ x 15″). Frame – 828.67 mm x 635 mm (32-5/8″ x 25″). Ref. Wittrock P-29B, Delteil 367 II , Adriani 360 III. Note: “Jane Avril” was used as the cover image for the 2014 book accompanying the recent exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art: “The Paris of Toulouse Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art” by Sarah Suzuki. Provenance: From the collection of the late Dan Evins, co-founder of the Cracker Barrel Restaurant chain. CONDITION: Sheet adhered to auxiliary support. Image printed to edges at top and lower sheet edges, left side with 10 mm margin. General toning and fading overall; examined out of frame, less faded colors are evident in 5 mm sections at bottom of sheet edge and top left edge where they have been covered by a mat. Five repaired tears, largest being 48 mm, smallest being 3 mm; two on left sheet edge, one at top and two on right sheet edge. Hinge mounted. [See more photos →]

(3 items) – Carroll Cloar (Tennessee, 1913-1993) acrylic on board painting titled, The Waiting, depicting figures standing in an open field, a brick building in the background covered with FS Chapell The Rabbit’s Foot Minstrel show advertising posters and a solitary seated figure in the foreground, wearing a bee keeper’s head gear/suit and eating an apple. Signed lower right Carroll Cloar. Titled, signed and dated 1-83 en verso, label for New York Forum Gallery. Housed in a silver-gilt molded frame. Sight – 22″ H x 33 1/8″ W. Framed – 29″ H x 40 1/2″ W. Also included with this painting is the original pencil study for the painting, signed and dated by the artist, 23″ H x 33″ W. Note: This painting was featured in the exhibit and used as the catalog cover for CARROLL CLOAR: TIMELESS TALES OF THE SOUTH at Belmont University in Nashvillle, May 22-July 13, 2003. A poster for the exhibit accompanies this lot, 24″ H x 33″ W. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography (Courtesy of The Johnson Collection): Arkansas-born Carroll Cloar was known for incorporating nostalgic images from his Southern childhood, often merged with dreamlike motifs, into powerful magic realist scenes. Cloar graduated from Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee, and went on to study at the Memphis Academy of Arts under the artist George Oberteuffer. In 1936, he moved to New York to attend the Art Students League. There, Cloar’s achievements earned him a McDowell fellowship which he used to travel across the American Southwest, West Coast and Mexico. Cloar served with the Army Air Corps during World War II and was deployed to Saipan and Iwo Jima. Upon his return from the war, he was awarded a Guggenheim traveling scholarship to fund an extended sojourn to Central and South America in 1946. Two years later, several of his images were featured in a Life Magazine article titled Backwoods Boyhood, and Cloar’s career went on to receive additional national acclaim. By the mid 1950s, Cloar had settled permanently in Memphis, where he produced paintings, often executed in casein tempera and acrylic paints. His works are in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooks Museum of Art, and Library of Congress. In 1993, Cloar’s painting, Faculty and Honor Students, Lewis Schoolhouse, was one of six paintings by American artists selected to commemorate the inauguration of President Clinton. CONDITION: Painting: Very good condition. Darker areas of varnish indicate that the varnish layer may not have been applied evenly. Frame with minor scattered abrasions, primarily lower left corner. Study: Pin-pricks to upper corners. Poster: Some bending top and bottom margins, 1/2 tear lower margin, pin-pricks to corners. [See more photos →]

Pair of Tennessee portraits by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (1788-1838), unsigned, oil on canvas, depicting Thomas Claiborne Jr. (b. Petersburg, Virginia, 1780- d. Nashville, Tennessee ,1856) in white linen shirt with tie, waistcoat and brass buttoned coat and a woman, likely his wife Sarah Lewis King Claiborne (1786-1867); in lace bonnet with yellow and purple ribbon and emerald green dress. Both housed in original matching 19th century gilt wood and composition slope-molding frames with corner leaf and scroll decoration, European, one with original framer’s label verso. Both portraits measure: Sight – 29 1/2″ H x 24 1/2″ W. Framed – 42″ H x 37″ W. Circa 1825. Provenance: Descended in the Claiborne Family through Henry (Harry) Laurens Claiborne; sold to dealer Charles Elder of Nashville, Tennessee; sold to Dr. Benjamin Caldwell circa 1960s; acquired from the Caldwell auction in 2006 by a Maryville, TN collector. †These portraits were exhibited at the Tennessee State Museum’s Exhibit, “Portrait Painting in Tennessee,” in 1988 and are illustrated and discussed in the catalog of the same name (ref. The Tennessee Historical Quarterly, winter 1987, p. 210). They have also been exhibited at Cheekwood Fine Arts Center in Nashville (dates unknown). Note: Thomas A. Claiborne served as a major on Andrew Jackson’s staff during the Creek War and in the Tennessee House of Representatives for two terms, 1811-1815 and 1831-1833. He became a U.S. Representative to Congress for Tennessee 1817-1819. Claiborne was also a Mason, and served as Grand Master of Tennessee from 1813-1814. Biography (Courtesy of James C. Kelly, Virginia Historical Society, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 1998): Ralph E. W. Earl was the son of Connecticut painter Ralph Earl (1751-1801). Earl studied under his father in Northhampton, Massachusetts, before traveling to London in 1809 to study under Benjamin West and John Trumbull. In 1817, Earl arrived in Nashville to paint General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the battle of New Orleans. Later that year, in Natchez, he met and married Jane Caffrey, Rachel Jackson’s niece. She died the next year, but Earl moved into the Hermitage and would from then on remain in Jackson’s circle, accompanying the newly elected president to Washington. During the next eight years, Earl turned out numerous paintings of Jackson. Politicians, especially Democrats, knew it “did not hurt to order a portrait of General Jackson from Earl.” He painted many of Jacksonís friends and a few of his foes. Earl returned to the Hermitage with Jackson in 1837 and died there in September 1838. CONDITION: 1st item (Mr. Claiborne): Relined. Overall craquelure. Heavy varnish. Areas of inpainting on face and blouse and some minor scattered inpainting in background. Frame: Top left corner area reinforced and top right corner molding repaired and reglued. 2nd item (Mrs. Claiborne): Relined. Overall craquelure. Heavy varnish. Areas of inpainting on face and background. Area of repainting in green dress at base of image, approximately 4″ x 1″ then 2″ x 10″. Frame: Losses to corners lower left, lower right (1″ x 2″) and upper right. [See more photos →]

Victor Coleman Anderson (Texas/New York, 1882-1937) oil on canvas painting, together with three pencil studies for this work. 1st item: Victor Anderson oil on canvas titled “Barn Swallow – Children Playing in Hay Loft”, circa 1935. Depicting children swinging from the rafters of a barn onto the hay below, signed lower right, Victor C. Anderson. Likely housed in the original molded giltwood frame, attributed to Newcomb Macklin. Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago label en verso, lower left. Sight – 29 7/8″ H x 24 1/2″ W. Framed – 34 3/8″ H x 29 1/2″ W. 2nd item: Vertical pencil sketch on paper, depicting female swinging from hook central, titled sketches for ‘Barn Swallows’ Helen Costello, Dick Anderson, Harry Bohenlos, upper mid-margin. Float mounted in a contemporary gilt frame. Sight – 10″ H x 6 1/2″ W. Framed 17″ H x 13″ W. 3rd item: Horizontal pencil sketch on paper, depicting several figures swinging and sliding, titled, signed and dated Jumping in the barn/ July 15, 1935/ VCA Large Oil ‘Barn Swallows’. Float mounted in a contemporary gilt frame. Sight – 8 1/2″ H x 11″ W. Framed – 15 5/8″ H x 18 1/4″ W. 4th item: Horizontal pencil sketch on paper, titled, signed and dated Helen and Dick/ VCA /July 22, 1935. Float mounted in a contemporary gilt frame. Sight – 8 1/2″ H x 11″ W. Framed – 15 5/8″ H x 18 1/4″ W. Provenance: This painting descended directly from the artist’s daughter Joan Anderson Howe. It was exhibited at Illustration House in 1989 and previously exhibited at Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries in Chicago circa 1985. Letter of provenance from Illustration House, Inc., New York, accompanies this lot. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists’ Bluebook): A painter and illustrator who lived briefly in Texas in the early 1930s, Victor Anderson spent most of his life in New York state, settling in White Plains where he died in 1937. He was the son of Frank Anderson, a Hudson River School painter, and although his father died when he was eight years old, Victor drew and painted from the time he was a youngster. When he enrolled in the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he was accomplished enough to go directly into the life-drawing class. He studied with Birge Harrison at Woodstock, New York during one summer and also took classes from Hobart Nichols and Herman Dudley Murphy. In New York City, while he maintained a high-powered illustration career, he was an active fine-art painter and had memberships and exhibited at the Grand Central Art Galleries, Salmagundi Club and National Academy of Design. As an illustrator, he did commission work for magazines including Life, Woman’s Home Companion, Collier’s, Country Gentlemen and The Ladies Home Journal. He illustrated two children’s books, Tommy Trot’s Visit to Santa Claus and Moonbeam Wish Book. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. Re-lined with new stretchers and wax treatment to back of canvas. Please refer to blacklight photos. 2nd-4th items: All three (3) sketches are in good condition with slight burn, curling, and losses to edges. [See more photos →]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), CONFETTI, 1894, original brush, spatter and crayon lithograph, printed in three colors on wove paper with the Kleinmann blindstamp, printed by Bella & de Malherbe, London and Paris. Note: The poster was commissioned by Bella & de Malherbe “to advertise the flecks of paper they sold to replace plaster confetti which, considered too dangerous, had finally been outlawed in Paris in 1892” (“Toulouse Lautrec, A Life” by Julia Frey, p. 385). Sheet – 570 mm x 445 mm (22-3/8″ x 17-5/8″), Image – 570 mm x 390 mm. Frame – 833 mm x 637 mm (32-5/8″ x 25-1/8″). Ref. Wittrock P-13, first and only state. Provenance: From the collection of the late Dan Evins, co-founder of the Cracker Barrel Restaurant chain. CONDITION: Laid to wove-back linen support. Mat stain along sheet edges, mainly to left and right margins. Three tears, largest is 2.85 cm, extending from right edge near yellow hat. Other smaller tears at top margin and lower left margin. Pin holes at each corner. [See more photos →]

Mid-19th century birdseye view of the Charlottesville, Virginia, area, graphite on cardstock, titled on two separate caption strips in faint period hand-written pencil script: THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA / CHARLOTTESVILLE AND MONTICELLO IN THE BACKGROUND / TAKEN FROM LEWIS MOUNTAIN. The panoramic view shows the Lawn of the original grounds of the University of Virginia, including the Annex to the Rotunda (constructed 1851-54, destroyed by fire in 1895), and the Anatomical Theater (completed in 1828, partially destroyed by fire in 1886, restored with modifications in 1888). The town of Charlottesville and Monticello Mountain are visible in the background. Unsigned. The drawing shows numerous similarities, and is possibly related, to the lithograph of the same subject and title drawn by Edward Sachse (1804-1873) of Sachse & Co. and published by Casimir Bohn in 1856, although it lacks several details (including the horses seen in the upper right foreground of the print). Sachse & Co. was responsible for several mid-19th century views of American towns including: Richmond, VA (1851), Norfolk, VA (1851), and Alexandria, VA (1854). Other artists drawing views of Virginia during the period included James T. Palmatary, John Serz (who also did an engraving of the University of Virginia for Bohn), Edward Beyer and David Hunter Strother. Housed in an early, possibly original silver-gilt molded wood frame; framing materials include square nails. Sketch – 11″ H x 18″ W. Sight – 11 7/8″ H x 17 7/8″ W. Framed – 15 1/4″ H x 21″ W. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee, estate, descended in an early Charlottesville, Virginia, family. CONDITION: The drawing itself is in overall good condition with some minor losses upper margin, primarily at corners, and edge toning. Significant toning and some dampstaining to paper below sketch, with significant fading to penciled writing on captions. Sketch and caption strips are not adhered to backing. Frame: shrinkage and scattered oxidation and wear to frame, losses to upper left corner, right center margin; retains much of original gilding. [See more photos →]

Malles Goyard Aine Steamer Trunk with original metal labels upper case side right and left corners reading “Malles Goyard/233 Rue Saint Honore PARIS/MONTE CARLO/BIARRITZ”. Front brass latches stamped “Goyard Aine”, side brass handles additionally marked “E Goyard Paris” with the address below and “Depose”. Retains the original interior label. Original quilted interior with all three (3) fitted trays. 26 1/2″ H x 36″ W x 23″ D. Circa 1900. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Exterior overall good condition with general use wear. Missing front center leather strap, breaks to two center leather strap holders. Interior with minor wear and spotting. Some tray ribbons retained but not intact. [See more photos →]

John Vanderlyn (New York, 1775-1852) ink wash, conte crayon and graphite oval portrait, possibly Thomas Jefferson, signed in pencil, “J. Vanderlyn,” in margin lower left, and in pencil “at Paris 1804,” in lower right margin. Paris, France artist supply store label en verso (partially hidden by brown tape). Oval image – 8-1/2″ x 6-1/2″. Oval image with border – 9-11/16″ x 7-1/2″. Board – 10-3/4″ x 8-1/2″. Framed – 15″ x 12-3/4″ x 2″ D. Early 19th century two-inch wide giltwood and composition frame having concave outer edge, applied acanthus and palmette decoration, concave burnished band and bead course interior edge. Note: A similar image of Thomas Jefferson at about this age can be seen on a Staffordshire historical transferware pitcher sold at Northeast Auctions, August 21-22, 2010, lot 765. See the link to this pitcher at: http://northeastauctions.com/product/thomas-jefferson-and-american-eagle-english-creamware-black-transfer-printed-jug-probably-staffordshire-circa-1801-08/. Biography: Born and raised in New York, John Vanderlyn was known as a painter of portraits and landscapes. He studied art in Paris twice, in 1796-1800 and again in 1803-1804 (during the time Jefferson served as President) before traveling to Italy. He had training in Neo-Classicism as espoused by Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Auguste Ingres. It was a style of “strong line, especially in the molding of figures, somber coloration, and an adherence to antique and mythological subjects or poses.” (sources: Zellman 81; Askart). The practice of painting portraits of important figures of the day from other sources (often oil portraits or even engraved prints from oils) was common in the Federal era. In fact, Vanderlyn’s later oil portrait of Andrew Jackson would become the basis for a number of paintings and prints done “after” his work. The Jefferson Papers connect Jefferson and Vanderlyn with a notation of a purchase of a pair of prints by the President from Vanderlyn on 31 December, 1805, however, those are believed to have been landscapes. CONDITION: Portrait: in need of conservation. Scattered foxing and discoloration; insect damage along upper border area. 3/8″ tear upper left in background. 7/16″ L paper loss with hole on subject’s jacket below a 7/8″ L white abrasion. Overall surface grime. Frame: Two loose braces on back and one missing brace. Losses to gilding on all sides. Older one-inch molding loss lower right edge. [See more photos →]

John J. Audubon Havell Edition aquatint etching, TRUMPETER SWAN (YOUNG) – CYGNUS BUCCINATOR, plate CCCLXXVI . Printed lower right margin: Engraved, Printed and Coloured by R. Havell 1837. (Published 1838). Titled center margin and printed lower left margin: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon. F.R.S. F.L.S. Watermarked J. Whatman 1838. Intaglio and watercolor on paper. Image – 22-7/8î H x 34-3/4î W. Sheet – 26-5/8î H x 40î W. Sight – 24 1/2″ H x 37″ W. Framed – 40″ H x 52 1/2″ W. Provenance: The estate of John Donnelly, Nashville, Tennessee. Note: In about 1820, John James Audubon declared an ambitious intent to paint every bird in North America and to fund it by selling groups of printed plates of his paintings to subscribers. He insisted on the bookís large format — printed on the largest handmade sheets available at that time — in order to portray the birds in their actual size and natural habitat. The result was the ornithological masterpiece, THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, Havell Edition, published periodically 1826-1838. There were 435 different prints of 497 bird species and an estimated 180 complete sets were produced; today about 110 (some sources say 120) remain intact as bound book volumes owned by museums, institutions and private individuals. – source: The Audubon Price Guide by Ron Flynn. CONDITION: Conserved in 2014, refer to scan of conservator’s report. Note: While conservation did much to stabilize the print by removing the dangerous tape adhesive and acid burning and minimize tears, the loss of original color (particularly to the swanís head) and margin chipping remain condition issues on this print. The decision was made to not recolor the faded areas, in order to maintain the historical integrity of the piece. [See more photos →]

George III sterling silver epergne, large oval center basket with pierced sides and undulating gadrooned rim with acanthus and cartouche ornamentation; eight detachable round footed baskets with pierced sides and intertwined chain style handles, each suspended from a curved naturalistic branch that sockets into a tall frame, resting on four C-scroll legs ending in pierced rocaille feet. Center basket is engraved with a coat-of-arms crest and fits into a socket at the top of the frame, stamped with hallmarks for John Kentenber (IK), London, 1769. Center and side baskets also marked IK, some additionally marked with lion passant, and engraved with crest of a griffin-like creature. Overall height – 17″ H. Center basket – 13″ x 8″. Small baskets – 5 1/2″ dia. Base – 9″ square. Weight of all baskets: 49.97 oz troy. Stand and arms: 43.25 oz troy. Combined weight: 93.22 oz troy. Provenance: purchased by consignor’s mother at a store in Nashville in 1943 with an oral history of having been made for the Horners of Mells Park, Somerset, England. CONDITION: Overall good condition. One small basket handle is split and needs resoldering. Large basket has two repaired 1/2″ tears to side areas, near rims, on each long side. Branches are loaded with a substance which has caused some red discoloration to underside of feet. [See more photos →]

Alexandre Hogue (OK, TX, MO, 1898-1994), “The Gate – Taos.” Oil on artist’s board landscape painting depicting a fence with a red gate and a large tree with pueblo in the background. Signed and dated: Alexandre Hogue /’27 lower right. Titled, signed, and dated: The gate-Taos/October 1927/Alexandre Hogue, with artist’s address: 912 Moreland Dallas, Texas, en verso. Housed in original gilded Art and Crafts frame, 2-3/4″ wide. Board: 6″ H x 8″ W. Framed – 11 3/4″ H x 13 1/2″ W. American, early 20th century. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists’ Bluebook): Alexander Hogue was a painter, printmaker, and muralist known for his Dust Bowl series and early 20th-century depictions of Indian life in Taos, New Mexico. In Taos, where he first arrived in 1926, he was especially interested in the Pueblo Indians’ spiritual lives and relationship to the land. From 1945, he held an art faculty position at The University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, having taught earlier at Texas State College for Women in Denton, and the Hockaday School for Girls in Dallas. His formal art education was at the College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, and he was a student of Texas artist Frank Reaugh. He was an illustrator and cartoonist for the Dallas Times-Herald, and in Texas did black and white lithographs of the oil fields. In Dallas, he lived at 912 Moreland Street. His works are included in the following museums: Musee National D’Art Moderen Pompidou Center Paris, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Harry Ranson Center University of Texas at Austin and the Art Museum of South Texas. Provenance: Painting was acquired by one of Hogue’s fellow art teachers in Tulsa and descended in the family. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Moderate grime and varnish discoloration to sky, top left of board. 6″ x 2″ area of dampstaining, en verso. Construction of frame slightly loose. [See more photos →]

Art Deco Tiffany & Co. 18K green jadeite pendant and 14K yellow gold and green jadeite demi parure – pendant necklace that converts to necklace and two bracelets. The central round Tiffany & Co. 18K pendant has floral, leaf and seed pearl frame and carved and pierced jadeite chrysanthemum, bird and foliage plaque, 1-3/4″ diameter. Marked Tiffany & Co. 18K on back of pendant. 1/2″ 14K bail (tested, not marked). The necklace consists of 14K (tested, not marked) octagonal framed carved and pierced jadeite plaques depicting foliage and birds interspersed with 14K (tested, not marked) foliate motif links. Necklace unmarked. Collar necklace – 15-1/4″ L plus each bracelet 7-5/8″ L. 30-5/8″ L overall. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate. CONDITION: Two consecutive carved plaques with hairlines. Plaque with fleabite loss at rim of gold mounting in right end link of the bracelet laying in horizontal line; see photo. [See more photos →]

2.53 ct. round brilliant diamond, approximately L-M color and Imperfect-1 clarity, set in 14K white gold mounting with 4-prong head and approximately 34 diamond baguettes set in shoulders. Ring size 8. 6.3 grams. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Center diamond graded by GIA GG jeweler. [See more photos →]

Alexandre Hogue (OK, TX, MO, 1898-1994), "Mexican Barn, Las Vegas." Oil on artist's board landscape painting depicting a Nevada farmstead with log barn and fence, a small stone structure, wagon or plow, and, in the left background, a stucco building. The scene is set against rolling hills, under a blue sky with white clouds billowing in the background. Signed and dated: Alexandre Hogue/1926, at lower right. Titled, signed, and dated: Mexican Barn/Las Vegas, N.M./August 1926/Alexandre Hogue, with artist's address: 912 Moreland St. Dallas, Texas, en verso. Housed in original gilded Art and Crafts 2-3/4" W frame. Board – 5 7/8" H x 8" W. Framed – 11 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. American, early 20th century. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): Alexander Hogue was a painter, printmaker, and muralist known for his Dust Bowl series and early 20th-century depictions of Indian life in Taos, New Mexico. In Taos, where he first arrived in 1926, he was especially interested in the Pueblo Indians' spiritual lives and relationship to the land. From 1945, he held an art faculty position at The University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, having taught earlier at Texas State College for Women in Denton, and the Hockaday School for Girls in Dallas. His formal art education was at the College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, and he was a student of Texas artist Frank Reaugh. He was an illustrator and cartoonist for the Dallas Times-Herald, and in Texas did black and white lithographs of the oil fields. In Dallas, he lived at 912 Moreland Street. His works are included in the following museums: Musee National D'Art Moderen Pompidou Center Paris, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Harry Ranson Center University of Texas at Austin and the Art Museum of South Texas. Provenance: Painting was acquired by one of Hogue's fellow art teachers in Tulsa and descended in the family. CONDITION: Painting in good condition with minor rubbing to canvas, lower 1/8 quadrant and 1/4"L. gouge, center towards left side. Some loss to frame gilding at corners. [See more photos →]

Maker signed Virginia inlaid Federal sideboard. Walnut, with figured walnut veneers, and yellow pine. Signed, ìMade by/Jacob Thalwigî, top of bowed yellow pine board above center drawer. Thalwig lived at Mount Vernon, Virginia (Fairfax County) from 1803 to 1806. In 1806, when Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), the Presidentís nephew and heir, was in possession of the plantation, his farm manager recorded in the farm diary, ìToday Jacob Thalwig a Cabinet-maker who has lived with Mr. W for near 3 years left this [place].î MESDA Craftsman Database ID 71659. Photos of this sideboard are included in the MESDA Object Database NN-1649. The sideboard has a top with string-inlaid edges and bowfront center section, over a conforming case with center bowfront, dovetailed and banded drawer having two brass oval pulls, divided visually with a strip of crossbanded veneer and a kite inlaid escutcheon, above two banded bowfront cupboard doors flanked by concave molded sides. Center section is flanked by a banded drawer on each side over a banded cupboard door, all having kite shaped inlaid escutcheons, and framed by string-inlaid stiles extending into six square tapered legs with banded cuffs. Plain sides and single board back. 44_ H x 68 1/2_ W x 19 1/2_ D. Circa 1805. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with older refinished surface, light wear and scattered abrasions. Horizontal shrinkage splits to both sides of case. Scattered veneer shrinkage to front of case. Possible small area of fill to veneer on lower left corner of center left cabinet door. Shadow lines of old oval pulls on top drawers. Appears to have a few contemporary drawer and interior case supports, the lower right cupboard well appears to have an old modification to accommodate a drawer or shelf (no longer in use). [See more photos →]

Temperance jug, with thin brown glaze over light colored clay. Jug is incised to give the appearance of bark. Four dark brown animal forms are applied to the jug. The largest is a monkey which serves as a handle. A lizard, snake, and turtle are neatly placed on the other side facing the monkey. A large “B” and “1885” are incised vertically between the monkey and the lizard. “Bray” and “1885” are incised on the glaze covered bottom. 7 3/4″ high. The jug is attributed to Simeon Lewis Bray (1849-1914). He was born in Massachusetts, however, before he was a year old, the family was in Wisconsin, where they remained through 1855. By the 1860 census, they were in Anna, Union County, Illinois. This lot also includes 9 homemade seaweed calling cards. One has Maria H. Bray, Thatcher’s Island, Rockport, Mass on the back. Description, history and biography (Courtesy of Carole Wahler): The Kirkpatrick family established the Anna Pottery in 1859. Simeon’s occupation was listed as Turner in pottery and he was living 12 households from Wallace Kirkpatrick in 1870. Wallace was producing his now famous snake jugs during the 1870s and 1880s. These jugs reflected his interests in the temperance movement and wildlife, especially snakes, which he collected. Simeon married in 1876 in Evansville, Indiana and remained in the area until at least 1901 when he registered his second patent related to pottery production. By 1910 he was located in St. Louis City, Missouri still working as a potter. Simeon died there in 1914 but was buried in Evansville. He had two younger brothers, James W. and William F., who were also potters. Initially, it was theorized that James W. was the maker of this jug. Support for this notion was drawn from the 1880 Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois census where his occupation was listed as Clay Artist. At the time, he was working at a pottery which was originally established by John Kirkpatrick and one of his brothers-in-law. More support for the attribution resulted from discovering the existence of a temperance snake jug signed by J. W. Bray. Another very similar jug incised 1886 is attributed to him. However, the timely listing of a temperance jug by Schmidt’s Antiques in Michigan persuaded us of the error of our thinking (see https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/52092487_stoneware-temperance-snake-jug). The Schmidt jug is of similar size, clay color, glaze and decoration. It is overall qualitatively very similar and incised S L B and 1885 on the bottom. It provides the greatest support for the Simeon Lewis Bray attribution. The two J. W. Bray jugs are visually quite different from the two Bray 1885 jugs; and both the J. W. Bray jugs and the Bray 1885 jugs are different from Wallace Kirkpatrick’s realistic snake jugs. The Bray jugs have more of a folk art quality to them. An unsuccessful attempt was made to connect the Bray families that are associated with the seaweed calling cards to Simeon’s family. No guesses were formed as to how they came to be with the jug. Maria’s husband’s family and her mother’s Bray side of the family were in the United States long before Simeon’s family arrived. Maria was a remarkable woman and an enthusiastic supporter of the temperance movement (see http://www.nelights.com/blog/tag/maria-bray/). IMPORTANT UPDATE: Simeon Bray was in Huntingburg, Indiana at least during the early months of 1885 according to information provided by Brian Moore of Indianapolis. Additional communication with him suggests it may be more difficult to discriminate between pottery made by JWB and SLB than originally thought. Research continues. cw CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Ladies 2001 Rolex all 18K yellow gold 26mm Presidential Datejust watch, 179138, mother-of-pearl face with diamond hour markings and Rolex brand diamond bezel, 18K bracelet with clasp marked 83138. Serial #K582500. 6-5/8″ L interior opening. In working condition at time of inspection. 103.2 grams total. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: In running order at time of inspection. Original band has been repolished. [See more photos →]

Early Andrew Jackson signed letter to Richard K. Call (ALS), protege and former military aide to Jackson during the War of 1812, later Governor of Florida Territory. Written from The Hermitage, Tennessee, dated January 4, 1821, prior to Jackson’s appointment as Military Governor of Florida and election as President, two and one half-page letter signed Andrew Jackson, lower right of second page, with postscript initialed A. J., middle right of third page. The letter refers primarily to Call’s romantic relationship with his future wife Mary Letitia Kirkman, Nashville, TN, despite the fact that her parents were enemies of Jackson and deeply opposed the union. The postscript refers to Jackson’s approval of John C. Calhoun’s, Secretary of War, proposal for what would become the Reduction Act, passed by Congress March 2, 1821, as well as his opinions on the Missouri Compromise controversy, stating “The house of Representatives has rejected Misouri [sic], the Senate has admitted it, [John Henry] Eaton, (United States Senator from Tennessee and friend of Jackson’s), has done himself musch credit by an amendment which is said produced the admission by the Senate Should the house reconsider its vote Misouri [sic] will I expect sequester the property of the U.S. and hold it for their own use, untill [sic] it is invited into the Union by Congress, this is the only course she can adopt as an independant [sic] State, unless she returns to her Teritorial [sic] government, this would be a course too humble for a free people to submit to…”. Includes typed transcription of letter. Also includes a stipple engraving of Andrew Jackson by Henry Bryan Hall after a portrait by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (American, c. 1785/88-1838). Letter, transcription, and engraving housed in an archival letter box with marbled paper boards, black leather half-binding with gilt title lettering and five raised hubs on spine. Letter – 9 7/8″ H x 8″ W. Transcription – 11″ H x 8 1/2″ W. Engraving – 8 5/8″ H x 5 3/4″ W. Archival Box – 11 3/4″ H x 9 1/2″ W x 1 1/8″ D. American. Provenance: Anne P. and Thomas A. Gray Library and MESDA Research Center. CONDITION: Letter in overall very good condition. Five brown stains, largest 3/4″, right vertical crease of letter. Few minute holes, surface of last page. Right and left vertical creases have been professionally repaired (very inconspicous). Areas of light overall toning surrounding image, surface of engraving. Toning visible en verso, engraving. [See more photos →]

Lexington, Kentucky coin silver soup or punch ladle, round bowl with coffin style handle having script monogram B, marked on back of handle S AYRES LEX K in banner for Samuel Ayres (c. 1766-1824, working Essex County, VA c. 1780-86, Lexington, KY 1786-1823, and Danville, KY 1823-1824). 12″ L, 3.53 oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Greene County, Tennessee cherry press, two part construction, cherry primary with poplar and yellow pine secondary woods. Top section in cherry with stepped ogee cornice over a frieze of figured cherry veneers, and quarter-turned stacked ring pilasters flanking two astral glazed doors with 26 panes total. Doors opening to three shelves with dish ledges. Lower section in cherry with top front edge having mahogany veneers and the sides having cherry veneers. Two cockbeaded dovetailed drawers having figured cherry drawer fronts with wide band surrounds of diagonal mahogany veneers and wooden pulls. Lower case with highly figured cherry veneer stiles, half-turned stacked-ring pilasters flanking two doors of matched figured walnut panels with cherry surrounds, opening to one interior shelf. Four carved tassel shaped feet with ring turnings at tops. Cherry inset paneled sides. 92 1/2" x 45 1/2" x 21 1/2". Greene County, TN, circa 1830. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. Former collection of Pace Estate, Greeneville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall good condition with a couple of minor breaks to early panes. Repairs made to right rear leg and a couple of veneer looses to base and lower top molding of press as well as veneer loss to hinge area of right lower door, largest: 2-1/2" L. Minor veneer losses to top case with largest area being veneer to cornice above right pilaster. Age separation along top board. One lower door lock replaced. 2" x 1" stain, top left surface. [See more photos →]

Four (4) piece US Navy dive helmet and dive suit consisting of Morse Diving Equipment Co. Mark V copper and brass diving helmet with air hose, diver's canvas suit, leather weight belt with 10 lead weights and pair weighted shoes. Plaque on helmet marked "US Navy Diving Helmet/Mark V/ A.J. Morse & Sons Inc./Boston, MASS/No. 2749/Date REC 39" with matching numbers 2749 on collar and brails stamped "front" and "back". 80" H x 55" W arm spread x 14" D plus 47" L hose. Cloth shoes/Lead and brass boots: 9-1/2" H x 5-1/2" W 14-1/2" L (all measurements are approximate). American, 1939. Provenance: Private Florida collection. Please note: spanner wrench for this Mark V helmet is being sold in Lot 786 in this sale. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Helmet with few dents. Suit with few patches and some staining. Suit stuffed with newspaper. Leather strap on one boot damaged. [See more photos →]

John James Audubon (1785-1851) hand-colored aquatint engraving with etching on wove paper, Great Northern Diver or Loon, plate #62. Robert Havell and Son, engravers, circa 1838. J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark lower right edge. Housed in later stained wood molded frame. Sheet – 25 3/8" H x 37 1/2" W. Framed – 29 3/4 H x 41 1/2" W. Mid 19th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Water or adhesive stain lower right edge, 14" L, with 1/8" spot of foxing; scattered small losses to top and lower edges including a 1/4" tear, paper dry, brittle, and lightly faded/ toned. Label en verso states that it was cleaned and deacidified 1985 by paper conservator David Lloyd Swift and framed with cleaned, acid free 100% rag backing. [See more photos →]

Partially engraved Civil War period appointment, completed in manuscript with signature of President Abraham Lincoln, appointing R.S. or R.P. Gould Jr. Additional Paymaster in the Union Army. Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Dated May 24, 1864. Patriotic eagle and flag vignettes at top and bottom of document, blue wafer seal upper left with docketing notations of the Adjutant General’s office, signed E.D. Townsend. 18 1/8″ x 14 1/2″. Unframed. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee area collection. CONDITION: Typical folds, some light toning (especially at edges) and fading to ink, couple of very tiny tears at edges of document, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

North Carolina coin silver ladle with oval downturned fiddle handle, marked N VOGLER in rectangle (attrib. Nathaniel Vogler, Salem NC gunsmith and silversmith, 1804-1872). Script monogram “WM” to the handle with engraved date in script verso 1865. Note: The “1865” appears inconsistent with the style of the ladle, suggesting the date engraving is likely later. 12 1/2″ L. 4.505 total troy ounces. 2nd quarter 19th century. Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Very minor pitting to bowl, light surface scratching throughout, more noticeable around monogram. [See more photos →]

Boston Chippendale mahogany block-front secretary-desk or desk and bookcase. Two part construction, white pine secondary wood and possibly sycamore on drawer sides. Top section with molded broken arch pediment and three flame finials, over a dentil molded cornice; two serpentine molded paneled doors flanked by columnar pilasters, opening to three book shelves. Desk with finely veneered slant front having cleated ends, opening to a fitted interior with prospect section having two half turned columnar hidden drawers flanking two short drawers, over a bank of three long drawers; four open cubbyholes and six side drawers; hidden compartment behind drawer section. Block front lower case with four graduated, dovetailed drawers with original brass batwing pulls and escutcheons, drawer sides with lip molding, on abbreviated cabriole legs with claw and ball feet. A second set of three ball-shaped finials is included. 96" H including flame finials x 44" W at base x 22-1/2" D to front block. Boston area, late 18th century and later components. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. Illustrated and briefly discussed in the article on the Caldwells' home published in The Magazine Antiques, Sept. 1971, p. 438. Note: Staining to top of desk section suggests top and base may be associated. Modifications appear to have been made, likely in the early 20th century, changing the lower section from a straight front desk to a blockfront desk. Dr. Caldwell corresponded with both Winterthur and Israel Sack, Inc. regarding this piece in 1965. Winterthur responded in part: "Mr. Sweeney (John A. H. Sweeney) has asked me to reply to your letter concerning your block-front secretary. He believes that it is entirely possible for your secretary to be of eighteenth-century origin. Gluing on the blocking was not uncommon. As you observe on your desk, it was always carefully done." Albert M. Sack responded in part:"The only answer I can give you from your description is that Boston was a center for rebuilding blockfronts from straight fronts 30 to 40 years ago and applying blocks. I have seen a few Connecticut pieces with blocks applied but can't recall seeing a Massachusetts example but there is no reason why it could not have been done. I would say that if the ball & claw feet are original with the blocking conforming to the contour of the front, it would make it a hard piece to convert." CONDITION: Top and base most likely associated. Modifications appear to have been made in the early 20th century, changing the lower section from a straight front desk to a blockfront desk. Bookcase extended in depth by 1/2 inch and desk extended in depth by 1-3/4 inch. Ball and claw feet are likely later than the period. Doors on top case appear to be modified. Repaired break to pediment and central plinth across frieze. Two replaced slats on the bonnet top. Some age cracks to drop front lid, longest 33-1/2" L located 1" from bottom edge. Three other age cracks measuring approx. 4", 6-3/4" and 9-1/2" L located to left or right sides from edge. 3-1/4" L loss to right top thumb-molding of slant lid present but not reglued. Wood section (7/8" x 1/8") along top edge plus lockplate missing on desk. Some abrasions to interior molding of bracket feet and along sides of case. [See more photos →]

Early Williamson County, Tennessee cherry sugar chest in the Hepplewhite style. Poplar secondary wood. Dovetailed case with hinged rectangular top having bread board ends and ogee molding; interior divided into three sections, over a base with single dovetailed and scratchbeaded drawer, all raised on tall tapered square legs. 36-3/8" H x 28-5/8" W x 16-1/2" D. First quarter 19th century. Provenance: Descended in the Robert F. and Lena Linton Buchanan family of Rosemount Plantation on Old Natchez Trace. Illustrated page 53, "Williamson County: More than a Great Place to Live" by Rick Warwick. CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected repairs for age. Hinges replaced. Locks removed and newer lock plate on case. Old scattered stains, largest 13" x 6", on lid. 2" L horizontal gouge, now stained, at left upper front of case. Drawer sides built up. Older but not original wooden knobs. Approximately 12" of the molding on the top left side of chest has been replaced. Largest interior compartment with apparent insect damage upper left corner. [See more photos →]

Southern cherry sideboard, possibly Southwest Virginia, poplar and yellow pine secondary wood. Two board top with half-round molded edges, two scratch-beaded short drawers with wooden knobs over three paneled cabinet doors with scratch-beaded outer edges and ogee-molded inner edges, each opening to an interior shelf; half-turned pilasters, short turned front legs ending in compressed ball feet, and tapered square back legs. Inset paneled sides, 3-board back. 41-3/4" H x 66-3/4" W x 21-3/8" D. Southern, 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: Kite or diamond shaped escutcheons are inlaid over patches. Knobs and locks also appear to be replacements. Back of left drawer replaced. Both drawers with sides built up. Dark black stain to back. [See more photos →]

Tennessee Federal cherry sugar chest, poplar secondary, pegged construction throughout. Rectangular box fitted with single divider and original lock. Sides with paneled lower sections and shaped skirts. Dovetailed long drawer over shaped skirt, knobs replaced, all on tall shaped tapered legs. 31-1/2" H x 37" W x 16-3/4" D. Attributed to Linden (Perry County), TN. 1835-1850. Illustrated in Williams and Harsh, "The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture", pg. 142. Previous Nathan and Jean Harsh collection. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Hinges and lock replaced and scattered scratches, age cracks and abrasions. Drawer sides built up. Knobs absent. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) rare Civil War Confederate Artillery brass coat buttons, 2-piece construction with block letter "A" on lined background and raised border design. Includes two (2) coat buttons stamped en verso "Chatwin & Sons, Birmingham" and two (2) cuff/sleeve buttons stamped en verso "London, Quality". Two (2) coat buttons – 22 mm. Two (2) cuff/sleeve buttons – 15 mm. Note: John Chatwin & Sons was a small English manufacturer that produced a limited offering of Confederate buttons. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Three with fronts with natural age patina, untouched finish, and general service wear, one cuff button with a couple areas of general service wear. One coat button with general service wear to back, both cuff buttons with general service wear, one more so than the other. [See more photos →]

Greene County, Tennessee walnut lift-top blanket chest, tulip poplar secondary. Retains MESDA documentation label. Top having breadboard ends with exposed tenon construction, wrought-iron strap hinges, dovetailed case, cavetto mid-molding. Base with two thumb-molded dovetailed drawers, front skirt with incised center section and double reverse curled pierced carving, sides with double arched skirts, pegged construction with stiles extending to form tall supports. Documented by MESDA field research project, reference S-13003, see label inside one drawer. This blanket chest is illustrated in "The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture", Harsh & Williams, p. 226, Fig. 307. Illustrated in Richard Doughty, "Greenville: 100 Year Portrait", page 306. 30" H x 45" W x 19 3/4" D. Greene County, TN, circa 1805-1815. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. Formerly Overall Estate, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Refinished, wear and losses to mid molding. Some renailing at dovetails on drawers. Older, possibly original, brasses. [See more photos →]

Set of twelve (12) handmade Kentucky sterling silver Presidential julep cups, each marked MARK J. SCEARCE SHELBYVILLE KENTUCKY/STERLING along with the eagle cartouche on the base and marks commemorating the American President during the period in which it was made. Eleven (11) with the initials "LBJ" for President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) and one (1) with the initials "RMN" for President Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974). All in the tapering cylindrical form with molded and beaded rims. Eleven original storage jackets included. 3 3/4" H. 56.105 total troy ounces. CONDITION: All cups with minor use and general wear. One with pit to base. Two with pitting to top and base rims. Two with personalized engraving to the bases. No apparent evidence of removal of monograms on surface of cups. [See more photos →]

Set of eight (8) handmade sterling Kentucky julep cups with tapered bodies and beaded upper and lower rims, marked on underside MARK J. SCEARCE SHELBYVILLE KENTUCKY / STERLING with eagle symbol and JFK mark commemorating the American president during the period in which it was made (John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963), 3 3/4"H. 37.2 oz troy combined weight. CONDITION: Very good condition with a few scattered minor small dents and scratches. No apparent evidence of removal of monograms on surface of cups. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee oval inlaid tilt-top tea table, center of top with line and dot quatrefoil inlay, outer edge with double line inlay, over a birdcage section and an urn-and-baluster support with scalloped edge, tripod base with double line inlaid legs and inlaid cuffs. 29" H x 36" W x 28 1/4" D., Greene County, TN, early 19th century. Illustrated in Richard Doughty, GREENEVILLE: 100 YEAR PORTRAIT, page 308. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. Formerly Overall estate, Greeneville, TN. Oral history states that it was originally purchased from the Stuart Family near Limestone, TN. CONDITION: Older finish with an old narrow patch to the top center. Repairs and possible rebuilding to birdcage with losses to turnings, birdcage rotated and battens reset with one screw missing. One leg with small patch and screw repair at joint with support. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) rare Civil War Confederate Artillery brass coat buttons, 2-piece construction with block letter "A" on lined background and raised border design. Includes three (3) larger coat buttons stamped en verso "Chatwin & Sons, Birmingham" and one (1) small cuff/sleeve button stamped en verso "London, Quality". Three (3) coat buttons – 22 mm. Cuff/sleeve button – 15 mm. Note: John Chatwin & Sons was a small English manufacturer that produced a limited offering of Confederate buttons. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: 3 coat buttons with natural age patina, untouched finish to the fronts and some oxidation/rubbing to rims, 2 with general service wear to backs. Cuff button with general service wear to front below "A" and minor wear to back edge. [See more photos →]

Gilbert Gaul (New York/Tennessee/New Jersey, 1855-1919) oil on board landscape painting titled in pencil en verso SOUTH NASH, depicting a country road with a female figure and a small dog standing at a crossroads. Signed GAUL, lower right. Artist name and painting dimensions, along with possible exhibition number “185,” en verso. Housed in a contemporary 22k gold leaf fluted cove molded frame with carved corner ornaments. Sight – 11 3/4″ H x 15 3/8″ W. Framed – 19 3/4″ H x 23 1/4″ W. Circa 1895. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists’ Bluebook): New Jersey born Gilbert Gaul studied at the National Academy of Art and the Art Students League and was a member of the National Academy of Design. He worked as an illustrator for Harper’s Monthly and made numerous trips West to record visual images during the late 1870s, often living on Army posts and with Indian tribes. Gaul maintained studios in New York City and Middle Tennessee. In the 1880s, he was among a group of 11 artists commissioned by the Federal Government to illustrate the Eleventh Census of 1890. He also traveled and painted in Mexico and South America. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. 1 1/4″ crack to paint, top left of board. Minute area of loss/pinprick, lower center of board. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Chinese Jade and Gilt Bronze Belt Ornaments. 1st item: Chinese carved celadon jade and gilt bronze belt ornament with chilong dragon motif and pierced foliate decoration to the back. 2 1/2" L x 2" W. 2nd item: Chinese carved pale celadon jade and gilt bronze belt ornament with pierced jade bird and foliate decoration and engraved foliate decoration to the back. 2 1/2" L x 1 1/4" W. Both Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: Private West Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Both items excellent condition. Note: 1st item has a metal reinforcement plate between the pierced bronze buckle back and jade that may be visible in photos. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee inlaid cherry tall case clock, Greene or Hamblen County, hood with ogee cornice, turned columns to each side, rope and tassel inlay across the top with an arched dial; scalloped inlay at the top of the waist, arched case door with unusual four-pointed quatrefoil / bellflower inlay near the center, vine inlay to the quarter columns; Base section with dart inlay along the canted corners, shaped skirt. Retains the original wooden works. 81" H x 20" W x 10 5/8" D. Greene or Hamblen County, 1st quarter 19th century. CONDITION: Base section has been cut and reduced in height. Some wear and abrasions to case, light wear to dial. Three cracks in glass to dial door, longest a curved crack across front. No pendulum or weights present. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) rare Civil War Confederate Artillery brass coat buttons, 2-piece construction with block letter "A" on lined background and raised border design. Includes two (2) coat buttons stamped en verso CHATWIN & SONS, BIRMINGHAM and two (2) cuff/sleeve buttons stamped en verso "London, Quality". Two (2) coat buttons – 22 mm. Two (2) cuff/sleeve buttons – 15 mm. Note: John Chatwin & Sons was a small English manufacturer that produced a limited offering of Confederate buttons. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Fronts and backs to all buttons overall good condition with natural age patina, untouched finish. Coat buttons with bright fronts and general service wear and slight dent to back of one coat button. Both cuff buttons with general service wear. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee walnut corner cupboard, poplar secondary wood. Top with deep cove cornice, straight-back side returns, mortise and tenon construction, glazed doors with eight panes each, stained interior with three shelves with plate moldings, medial ogee molding; Lower section with paneled doors, one interior shelf, base molding with shaped bracket feet. 90" H x 47" W cornice x 42" W center x 24" D. Tennessee, circa 1820. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: Older refinished surface. Reinforced back leg. Vertical age crack to one lower door panel. [See more photos →]

Erte (Romain De Tirtoff, Russian/French, 1892-1990), limited edition gilded and cold painted cast bronze sculpture titled Riggoletto. Numbered 336/500, signed and stamped Chalk & Vermillion and Sevenarts, 1988, on the side of the base. 20" H x 18" W x 4 1/4" D. 37 lbs. Note: A Certificate of Authenticity included with this lot. Provenance: Private Middle TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Helen LaFrance (Kentucky, born 1919) oil on canvas painting depicting an outdoor African-American country church scene. Signed and dated -98, lower right. Housed in a gilded contemporary frame. Sight – 15″ H x 19″ W. Framed – 24 1/2″ H x 28 1/2″ W. American, late 20th century. Biography (courtesy “Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories” by Kathy Moses): Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her “memory paintings” – drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work. Now nearly 100 years old, she resides in a Kentucky nursing home. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Confederate Navy Revolver holster, manufactured by the Confederate Naval Yard in Richmond, Virginia in 1862. Comprised of 5 components including the body, flap, belt loop, bottom plug and closing strap all stitched and reinforced with copper rivets, brass closing button. Flap and belt loop marked/stamped "C.S. Naval Yard/Ins. 1862/Richmond, VA" within an oval. 15 1/2" L x 7 1/2" W. Provenance: Private Florida collection. Note: See page 62 of "U.S. Military Holsters and Pistol Cartridge Boxes" by Edward Scott Meadows, for example of this holster. CONDITION: Fraying/losses to seam stitching lower body. Overall general wear and scuffs. Some losses/drying to lower body end. [See more photos →]

Lloyd Branson (Tennessee, 1861-1925) panoramic watercolor on paper of a pastoral farmscape. Sheep in foreground with a path leading to fenced farmstead in the distance with more sheep and chickens outside of house and barn to right. Sunlight is coming through clouds. Signed lower right “L. Branson”. Three-inch wide period flame mahogany veneer wood frame with reverse profile and gilt fillet, likely original to painting. Sight – 12-3/8″ H x 29-5/8″ W. Framed – 18-1/2″ H x 35-3/4″ W. Biography: Branson is known as the first East Tennessee artist to receive formal art training in Europe (at the National Academy of Design in Paris) and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York. He returned to Tennessee and entered into a business partnership with Frank McCrary from 1885 to 1903, and became a leader in the East Tennessee arts community. Research courtesy of James A. Hoobler, Tennessee State Museum. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Paper adhered to auxiliary support. Minor toning to paper. Frame in very good condition. [See more photos →]

Wharton Esherick (Paoli, PA, 1887-1970) walnut and hickory three-legged stool in original patina with sculpted seat, through tenon construction, initials and date carved under seat: "WE 1960". 16-1/4" H x 13-1/4" W x 11" D. Provenance: Passed to the family from an Escondido, CA collector. Biography (courtesy the Wharton Escherick Museum): Wharton Esherick has been called the link between the Arts and Crafts Movement and the resurgent interest in furniture making following World War II, the dean of American craftsmen and the foundation of the current Studio Furniture Movement. Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he is most widely known for his sculptures and non-traditional furniture designs from the late 1920s and 1930s onward. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with a couple of fine line age separations on seat surface including one near edge measuring 6" L and a second separation of 2 1/8" L. Two fine line age separations on underside of seat measuring 2" and 3 1/2" L each. Few small (1/8" to 1/4" L) scattered white paint stains under seat. [See more photos →]

Extremely scarce Confederate General John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864) signed one-page extra broadside to THE VIDETTE, a camp newspaper of Morgan's 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, more commonly called John Hunt Morgan's Brigade. Signed boldly on the upper left corner in pencil: "Respects, Gen'l. Jno. H. Morgan." Published Hartsville, TN, August 17, 1862 as a one-page extra on large folio pink necessity paper. Edited and published by Capt. Gordon E. Niles (d. 1862), a New York newspaperman who was a Southern sympathizer and volunteer for Morgan's Brigade. Current Civil war content and events discussed including: News of the Day, Kentucky to be the Battlefield, Galatin Taken – Col. Boone with his whole command unconditionally surrendered, and the exploits of Col. George St. Leger Grenfell (1808-1868), a former officer with the British Army in India, Southern Sympathizer and Adjutant of Morgan's End Kentucky Cavalry. 17 1/2" H x 12" W. Provenance: Originally part of the Marshall B. Coyne document and manuscript collection sold by Sotheby's in June, 2001. Marshall B. Coyne collection stationary included with the lot. Note: The Vidette was first published in Hartsville, Tennessee and continued on an irregular basis until Morgan's death. The first editor, Captain Niles, was killed shortly after this Extra publication. John Hunt Morgan was killed at Greeneville, Tennessee in September, 1864. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Toning lines, center vertical crease. Foxing spots, surface of sheet. 1/8" hole, top center of vertical crease. Smudges, top left and right of sheet. Toning, foxing spots, visible en verso. [See more photos →]

Civil War ambrotype, quarter plate, Confederate officer in a Zouave style Confederate or Militia uniform, hand painted highlights, depicting a seated Lieutenant holding a sword and tassel, pre war U.S. Militia Eagle buckle (purposefully worn upside down). Housed in an embossed leather case. Case – 4 5/8" H x 3 5/8" W. Private Knoxville, TN collection, purchased from Gary Hendershott, Little Rock, AR. CONDITION: Ambrotype with slight halo around figure. Leather case with overall general wear. [See more photos →]

1993 Men's Rolex Datejust Thunderbird Watch 16263, 36 mm stainless steel with 18K yellow gold case, black stick dial, date eye, Turn-O-Graph bezel, 18K and stainless steel deployment bracelet, Serial No. S828212 with original box and papers. purchased 1996, 7-inch interior circumference. Provenance: Private collection, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: In working condition at time of inspection. Scattered surface scratches and surface grime. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Asian and American silver walking sticks. 1st item: Chinese walking stick with embossed silver handle, decorated with dragon and birds. Character marks at front of handle. No maker's marks found. Rosewood stick. 37 1/2" L x 4 1/4" W x 1" D. Late 19th century. 2nd item: Walking stick with round sterling silver embossed floral and leaf knob, marked Sterling, on dark horn stick ending in lighter horn end cap. 35 1/4" L x 1 3/4" W top. Late 19th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with some minor wear to surface of canes. [See more photos →]

Edward Robert Physick (British, c. 1836-1880) oil on canvas dog portrait depicting a chained white terrier dog resting by a barrel, with a turtle in the foreground. Inscribed en verso on the stretcher in red: "Painted by R. Physick" and stamped "4493 Mr. T. T. Edwards/91 Park Street/ Camden Town". Housed in a burlwood frame with gilt wood liner. Sight – 12" H x 16" W. Framed – 14 3/4" H x 18 1/2" W. Provenance: Private Middle TN collection. CONDITION: Painting in stable condition with some buckling to canvas. Scattered chipping and paint loss to perimeter of painting, particularly at corners. Four previous patch repairs to upper half evident en verso. Water stains also visible en verso. Canvas fluoresces above the dog's right ear under blacklight inspection indicating retouch. Heavy varnish present to dog. [See more photos →]

English School, mid-19th century, oil on canvas group portrait of a family of four with dog and pony. The family is depicted in an outdoor setting beneath a tree, with the mother attired in a white lace trimmed dress with bright red sash or belt and holding a parasol; the father attired in a black suit, holding a top hat and leaning against a gate; and the son attired in a white suit trimmed in blue, leaning against a pony and holding a hat and riding crop. The daughter is attired in a blue satin dress, standing with the pony's bridle in her hands and a small dog at her feet. Canvas is stamped en verso "Brown, 163 High Holborn, London" in two places, for Thomas Brown, a leading supplier of canvas and painting materials to Royal Academy artists in London. (Brown was located at this address from c. 1805-1853, according to the archives of the National Portrait Gallery, London). Faded "James P. Silo, auctioneer, NYC" label bottom right corner frame stretcher. Housed in a deeply carved period Neoclassical style giltwood frame with laurel, acorn and oak leaf molding; frame retains one upper corner spandrel. Unsigned. Sight – 35" H x 39 3/4" W. Framed – 46 1/4" H x 50 1/2" W. Circa 1845. Note: Although unsigned, this very traditional portrait reflects the earlier influence of London's 18th century Grand Manner paintings in its size, composition and opulence, depicting fashionably dressed subjects in a landscape setting and even incorporating the family pets. It is similar to works of the period by British Royal Academy artists Francis Grant and Ramsey Richard Reinagle. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee, estate, descended in an early Charlottesville, Virginia, family. CONDITION: Painting on original canvas with recent restoration to stabilize some areas of loose and flaking paint. A small amount of inpainting was done to the trees and the woman's white skirt. Moderate retouching done to tree trunk center over man's head and to woman's right eye. Three tears repaired with patches evident en verso on right side. New varnish applied. Marked alligatoring to canvas, with multiple bullseye drying cracks, left upper quadrant. Canvas is embrittled and appears to have been originally pieced with 34" L vertical seam evident en verso. Minor grime and accretions to left side along frame edge. Frame has moderate losses to gilding with right arch detail missing and left arch detail loose. [See more photos →]

Southern Stretcher or Side Table, maple, attributed to Northeastern North Carolina, possibly Chowan County. Plain, single board top with batten board underside; straight skirt, finished on all sides, with ovolo-molded lower edge; four turned legs joined at chamfered blocks by four ovolo-molded stretchers. 27-1/2" H x 30" W x 26-1/2" D. Circa 1735. For similar examples, see "The Furniture of Coastal North Carolina, 1700-1820" by John Bivins, Figure 5.32, page 127 and Figure 7.4, page 385, and "The Regional Arts of the Early South," published by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, figure 12, page 25. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee, acquired from L.A. Cox, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. CONDITION: Older refinish. Scattered surface stains. 2-1/2" L shrinkage split at edge on table top. [See more photos →]

ANDREW WYETH, published by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970, by Frederick A. Sweet (Editor), David McCord (Introduction), with a signed Andrew Newell Wyeth (Pennsylvania/Maine, 1917-2009) sketch depicting the dog Nell Gwyn on the title page, signed lower right. This sketch is based on the 1974 tempera painting titled "The Ides of March" that depicts the same dog. Letter of authentication dated May 17, 2013 where Mary Landa, the Wyeth Collection Manager, confirms that the dog in the sketch is the same as the dog in the painting. The book is also included in Betsy James Wyeth's Catalogue Raisonne. Book measures – 9" H x 11 3/8" W. Custom wood stand with glass case including with the book. CONDITION: Page with sketch overall very good condition, very slight wear to the upper corner and there is a small area of toning that corresponds with the cutout of the protective plastic sleeve. Wear to dust cover with losses to edges, some toning. Interior bright and clean. [See more photos →]

American Brilliant Cut Glass rectangular serving dish with deep Gorham sterling silver foliate rim. Gorham mark to underside of rim with date mark. Large hobstar to center of dish with radiating lines. 1 3/4" H x 14 1/4" W x 10" D. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Couple minor scratches to interior. Minor wear and scratches to base. [See more photos →]

George Rodrigue (American/Louisiana, California, 1944-2013) artist's proof serigraph, depicting Blue Dog seated in a field of yellow flowers at night with the moon in the background. Signed Rodrigue, lower left in gilt pen, and numbered Artist Proof 2/5, lower right in gilt pen. Housed in a contemporary carved gilt frame with black liner. Sight – 15" H x 18" W. Framed – 29 1/2" H x 32" W. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Very early Andrew Jackson signed document, dated November 8, 1788 and written before he was President while he was serving as a prosecuting attorney for North Carolina in Davidson County, in what would later become the state Tennessee. Document reads "The jurors for the state upon their oath present that Samuel Martin late of the county of Davidson yeoman…the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty with force and arms at the County aforesaid on Gelding of a bay colour of one Elija Robertson then and there being found feloneously did steal take and lead away to the great damage of him the said Elijah contrary to the statute in that case made and provided an against the … and dignity of said state." Signed lower right "Andrew Jackson, att. for the state". Docketing en verso also written by and signed by Jackson. 6 1/4" H x 8 1/4" W. Provenance: Anne P. and Thomas A. Gray Library and MESDA Research Center. CONDITION: Toning to fold lines, minor toning to edges. Some areas of fading to ink. [See more photos →]

Coin silver soup or punch ladle, attrib. Tennessee; round bowl and plain fiddle handle, marked on back GARNER in rectangle, with scratched mark BROWN in serrated rectangle. Mark attributed to Griffin Garner (working Fincastle, Virginia circa 1808 and Knoxville, Tennessee 1816-d. 1821) or John Garner (working Knoxville 1809-1811 and Nashville 1812-1815?). 13 1/2" L. 5.120 total troy ounces. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall general light scratching, very light scattered pitting to interior of bowl. [See more photos →]

Signed Folk Art miniature chest, possibly Soap Hollow, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Poplar primary, square nail and joint construction with a shaped gallery, allover red paint with additional yellow and green paint highlights throughout. Tree decoration to the shaped gallery and each side along with painted initials to the top reading L.R.F., within a decorative painted border and painted scrolling vine decoration above. Carved wood handles to each of the three drawers. Underside of top drawer with pencil inscription reading Made by A. K. S. Ward/ 73 years. 13 1/2" H x 11 3/8" W x 7 3/8" D. 2nd half 19th century. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Some scratching to top, minor wear to paint decoration. 1/4" loss to lower left corner, top drawer. Top right facing backsplash return fluoresces under blacklight inspection, indicating paint retouch. [See more photos →]

Charles Krutch (Tennessee, 1849-1934) East Tennessee river watercolor and gouache landscape painting, depicting a tree lined river bank with meadow or blue skyline in the background. Signed KRUTCH in red, lower left corner. Housed in a molded gilt frame. Retains old partially legible Knoxville framing label. Sight – 4 3/4″ H x 8 3/4″ W. Framed – 13 1/2″ H x 17 5/8″ W. Late 19th/Early 20th century. Biography (Courtesy Knoxville Museum of Art): Krutch is regarded as one of East Tennessee’s first painters to specialize in scenes of the Smoky Mountains. Krutch earned the nickname “Corot of the South” for his soft, atmospheric watercolor and oil paintings of the mountain range that served as his sole focus. Totally untrained as an artist, he often applied thick layers of oil paint with brushes as well as his fingers. Krutch’s goal was to capture the changing “moods” of the mountains. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Painting overall very good condition. Back of painting with slight bowing, water stain, not affecting the image. Minor rubbing/losses to gilt frame. [See more photos →]

Three (3) items: Venetia Studium floor lamp and pendants.1st Item: Venetia Studium (London/Venice, founded 1994) contemporary Cesendello floor lamp in the Oriental-Renaissance taste, designed by Mariano Fortuny, decorated with Murano glass, silk tassels and brass ornaments, with a spiral shaped shade mounted to red silk wrapped frame with donut shaped base. Tag mounted just above base reads "Venetia Studium". Top of silk shade also labeled. Lamp – 69" H x 15" W. Shade – 12" L without hanging cords or tassel. 2nd-3rd Items: Pair of Cesendello wall sconces with silk shades matching floor lamp. Shade – 12" L w/out hanging cords or tassel, Sconce – 38-5/8" L when mounted. Italian, 20th century. CONDITION: Lamp base overall good condition. Minor scattered grime to burgandy covered pole from use. Shade on lamp overall good condition, some minor fraying to fringe. Two shades pristine/new condition. Sconces unused and in original packaging. [See more photos →]

John W. McCoy (II) (Pennsylvania/California, 1910-1989), watercolor on paper painting titled, Clam Diggers, depicting two figures on a shore, digging in sand, with a small boat in the water. Signed John W. McCoy, lower right. Gilt plaque with title and artist name, lower center of frame. Housed in a contemporary gilt wooden frame. Sight – 20 1/2" H x 28 1/4" W. Framed – 32 3/4" H x 40 1/2" W. American, mid/late 20th century. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): John McCoy was born in Pihole, California. He studied art at Cornell University and later studied at the Beaux-Art-School in Fontainebleau, France, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He was a student of N.C. Wyeth and was married to Wyeth's daughter, Ann. McCoy taught at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1947 to 1970, and his work is displayed at the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania. The year 2001 had two major exhibitions of John McCoy's work: the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine) and the Biggs Museum of American Art (Dover, Delaware). CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Frame having minimal losses, largest 4" L., surface of frame. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

10 ct. Lightening Ridge opal and diamond dinner ring set in 14K white gold mounting. Oval black opal measuring 13 mm x 10 mm x approx. 3.7 mm and containing 12 round brilliant diamonds with a total weight of 1.20 ct and 12 round brilliant diamonds with a total weight of .84 ct. (all G, VS1). Ring size: 5 3/4. Manufacturer mark of IBG or JBG. 7.1 grams. CONDITION: Very good condition. No apparent surface crazing. [See more photos →]

Greene Co. Sheraton chest of drawers, cherry with variegated grain, yellow pine secondary wood, top board with incised reeded edge, two dovetailed and scratch beaded half drawers over three dovetailed and scratch beaded long drawers, oval brasses, inset molding on paneled sides, four ring turned tapered half bun feet. 42" H x 41-1/2" W x 20-1/4" D, Tennessee, 1st quarter 19th century. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Scattered stains on top surface. Drawer sides built up. Some drawers missing locks. [See more photos →]

Virginia cobalt decorated stoneware jar by Henry Lowndes (d. 1842), Petersburg, Virginia. One side with stylized floral cobalt decoration and the other side signed in cobalt HENRY LOWNDES/MAKER/PETERSBURG,VA, with additional cobalt applied to the handles. 10" H. Second quarter of the 19th century. CONDITION: 4" hairline separation from rim to mid-body. Firing flaw to rim. Two old paint drips to inside upper rim. [See more photos →]

Continental School, mid 19th century oil on canvas painting of a King Charles Spaniel, black and tan, seated in front of a red drapery back drop and with green feather and a multicolored ball. Signed and dated 1844 in gold paint right lower center above paw; signature illegible but possibly Theodor Petter (Austrian, 1822-1872). Partial Glasgow, Scotland gallery label en verso. Housed in carved floral and swag gilt frame, early 20th century. Sight – 12" H x 15" W. Framed – 23" H x 26" W x 3-3/4" D. Provenance: The Estate of Paul Frayer, Morristown, TN. CONDITION: Painting is in good condition with slight craquelure overall and uneven heavy layer of varnish (visible under blacklight). Small 1" L. vertical dark accretion left of dog's face. Two vertical hairlines on dog's face, largest 1 3/4" L. Small loss of paint, approx. 1/2", lower right margin. Canvas has been relined. [See more photos →]

Helen LaFrance (Kentucky, born 1919) oil on canvas painting titled Laundry Day. Signed, lower right. Titled, en verso. Housed in a contemporary woden frame. Sight – 18″ H x 36″ W. Framed – 19 1/4″ H x 37 1/4″ W. American, late 20th century. Biography (courtesy “Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories” by Kathy Moses): Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her “memory paintings” – drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work. Now nearly 100 years old, she resides in a Kentucky nursing home. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. A few light minor scattered scuffs, largest 1/2″, top right quadrant of painting. [See more photos →]

Five (5) Whiskey Related Items, including Jack Daniels. 1st item: Vintage Jack Daniel's glass flask with leather cover having gilt lettering reading: Compliments of Jack Daniel/Old Time Distillery/Lynchburg, Tenn, and silver metal shot glass cap. 6" H. 1st half of the 20th century. 2nd & 3rd items: Two (2) stoneware advertising whiskey jugs with brown slip tops and white slip bodies, one stamped J. COONEY & CO. / WHOLESALE LIQUORS NASHVILLE TENN, and incised A3 upper shoulder (9 1/8" H) and the other stamped in cobalt SOUVENIR / EXCELSIOR SPRINGS MISSOURI (5" H). Both late 19th/early 20th century. 4th & 5th items: Two (2) Jack Daniel's Old No 7 bottles, square form with ribbed shoulder and neck, one retaining the original green label partially reading: Awarded the highest Gold Medal at St Louis, MO Exposition in 1904 and also at Liege Belgium in 1905. 11" H & 10 7/8" H. Early 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Moderate to heavy wear to leather cover, especially at seams with moderate cracking on back. Area of oxidation on the cap. 2nd & 3rd items: Larger jug with approx. 2" L. scratch to lower body below lettering, approx. 3"L. hairline emanating from base. Firing flaws, surface of larger jug (visible under blacklight). Smaller jug with 1/4" dia. chip to rim. 4th & 5th items: Taller bottle with scattered losses, green label. Shorter bottle with minor chip to rim. [See more photos →]

Frederick Elliott Hart (District of Columbia/Virginia, 1943-1999) clear acrylic resin sculpture mounted on a lucite base titled "Herself." Depicts the head of a woman with a second female face carved in deep relief in her flowing hair. Signed, dated, and numbered "Frederick Hart [copyright] 84#15/CB Edition #116" top left of base. 15" H x 19" W x 8 1/2" D. 24.8 lbs. American, late 20th century. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): Hart was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in South Carolina. A sculptor and stone cutter in the Classical style, Frederick Hart learned his art while an apprentice at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. Public recognition increased when he won a competition to design the facade of the Cathedral, which incorporated his thirteen year masterpiece of "The Creation." He also designed "Three Soldiers," realistic in style, for the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in DC to contrast with the abstraction of Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial. As a proponent of Realism, he was made an honorary member of The American Society of Classical Realism Guild of Artists. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Sculpture with a couple of areas of discoloration from the production process. [See more photos →]

May Ames (Ohio, 1863-1943) oil on canvasboard painting titled en verso: HOLLYHOCK COTTAGE, BRECKSVILLE, OHIO. Signed and dated 1922 lower left. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 7 3/4" H x 9 1/2" W. Framed – 20" H x 21 1/2" W. American, early 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Canvas board slightly loose in frame. [See more photos →]

Leszek Piasecki (Ukraine/Poland/Germany, 1928-1990) oil on canvas painting of a Middle Eastern marketplace. An Oriental rug trader, standing alongside several carpets, conducts business with two men in the foreground as their horses and two dogs watch on. In the background, people are sitting and talking in front of several tents. Signed Leszek Piasecki lower left. Housed in a decorative gilded frame. 26" x 46" sight, 33" x 53" framed. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): Leszek Piasecki attended the School of Applied Arts and received artistic training from Stanislaw Batowski and Zygmunt Rozwadowski. Starting in 1951, he was trained by Ignacy Pienkowski, Fryderyk Pautsch, Jan Hoplinski, and Jerzy Fedkowicz. Around the same time, Piasecki became acquainted with Jerzy Kossak, the son of the Polish horse painter, Wojciech Kossak, and his future teacher. From 1956 to 1962, Piasecki worked as a graphic artist for the magazine PANORAMA, while he also established himself as a history painter. In 1974, he emigrated with his family to Austria, where he settled in Vienna and focused on depictions of battle and horse scenes. Alternate spellings: Lescek Piaseki, Leczek Piaseck. CONDITION: Light overall discoloration to varnish and a few scattered small inclusions, particularly along lower edge and upper right sky area. A couple of small areas of loss to frame molding (largest 1" x 1" at corner). Frame appears to have been regilded. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Pennsylvania Frakturs, both unframed. 1st item: Watercolor family record fraktur, dated 1820, in the manner of the work of Joseph Lochbaum, also known as the Nine Hearts Artist (Southeast Pennsylvania, 1738-1815/active 1799-1806). Comprised of nine (9) hearts flanked upper left and right by two primitive angels, floral, tulip and leaf garland and 3 mariner's compass stars. Fraktur measures 13 1/8" H x 15 5/8" W. Overall – 16" H x 18" W. 2nd item: Hand-colored birth and baptismal fraktur, printed by Johann S. Wiestling, Harrisburg, PA, dated 1823. Fraktur – 15 3/4" H x 13 1/4" W. Overall – 16" H x 18" W. CONDITION: 1st item: Laid down on brown paper. Fold line down center. Creasing and foxing to perimeter. Some tears to margins, largest measuring 3" long, upper left quadrant. Bending to upper right corner. Scattered minor losses to paint, primarily lower and right margin, less than 5%. 2nd item: Laid down on brown paper. Scattered foxing and creasing; some staining to lower left corner; small tears to right margin. [See more photos →]

North Carolina coin silver ladle with coffin end handle, marked J. SCOTT in a banner (Jehu Scott, working Raleigh, NC, 1st quarter 19th century). 14 3/4" L. 5.770 troy ounces. Note: George Barton Cutten states in SILVERSMITHS OF NORTH CAROLINA that Scott first advertised in Raleigh, NC on December 1, 1806 as a seller of jewelry and silverware. He died in 1821. Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Scattered pitting/small dents and scratching to bowl, light surface scratching to handle. [See more photos →]

14K white gold diamond line bracelet containing 50 round brilliant diamonds with a total weight of approximately 6 cts. (G-H, SI2-I1) set in 4-prong box mounting. 7-1/2" L x 1/8" W with safety clasp. 17.1 grams. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Approximately 10 diamonds fluoresce. [See more photos →]

German 800 silver stag head stirrup cup, mark for J.L. Schlingloff of Hanau, incised and embossed cup featuring bear hunt, gilt interior, 7" H x 5 1/4" D. 11.595 oz troy. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. Minimal wear to interior. [See more photos →]

Mississippi River Valley one drawer table, cherry primary, poplar and walnut secondary wood. French vernacular style, with a nearly square top over a single deep dovetailed drawer with small round brass pull, raised on four slightly protruding square tapering legs, each with a slight cabriole curve. 20th century owner signature to underside of drawer. 29" H x 18" W x 17" D. 2nd quarter 19th century. CONDITION: Scattered stains to top. Wear to corners. Small patch repair front left corner. [See more photos →]

Gorham Mythologique pattern (#1986) sterling silver flatware, service for eight (8), 46 total pieces, including 8 oval soup/dessert spoons (7-3/8" L), 8 teaspoons (6" L), 8 dinner forks (8" L), 8 salad forks (7" L) , 8 knives (9-1/2" L), one (1) ladle, one (1) medium cold meat fork (8-3/4" L), one (1) serving spoon (8-5/8" L), one (1) pierced serving spoon (8-5/8" L), one (1) master butter knife (7" L), and one (1) sugar shell. 81.9975 weighable troy ounces. Not monogrammed. CONDITION: All pieces overall very good condition, minor wear. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Semi-antique Persian Afshar, 87" x 64-1/2", wool on wool, all over design of diamond medallions and three primary borders and five secondary borders. Colors of salmon, rust, ivory, blues, teal and orange. Old fabric label, MADE IN IRAN, stapled on reverse. Persian, circa 1940. CONDITION: Pile in good condition. Small area of corduroy, 1" x 1/2", in one blue outside diamond. Some bleeding into ivory color. Three areas of loss at one end, 1" to 3" L. Wear to fringe at same end. Losses to selvage. [See more photos →]

19th century French oil on canvas depicting two young artists painting and drawing a young model, after the drawing LES ENFANTS PEINTRES by Charles Andre Van Loo (France/Italy, 1705 ñ 1765). Signed lower left C. LeBRUN, most likely added at a later date. Housed in a simple gilt wood frame. Sight: 35 3/8" H x 49" W. Framed: 36 5/8" H x 50 1/2" W. Estate of Paul Frayer, Morristown, TN. CONDITION: Old relining. Rubbing to canvas along right vertical stretcher. [See more photos →]

Kirk sterling silver oval cake basket with repousse decoration of castles amid roses and foliage and lattice style bail handle, all raised on a cartouche shaped floral repousse foot. Engraved crest to top of handle. Marked "S. Kirk & Son Co. 925/1000 171" on underside. 10" H (including handle) x 12" W x 9" D. 28.2 oz troy. Provenance: Descended in the family of Edward Jacob McGavock to consignor. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Carroll Cloar (Tennessee, 1913-1993) pencil and marker on paper landscape drawing depicting a long haired female figure wearing a checkered apron left foreground with hands in her pockets, standing in an open field rendered in colored marker. Signed, Carroll Cloar, lower left. 23″ H x 36″ W. Provenance: The Estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Scattered pin holes to all corners. Some light creases to paper. [See more photos →]

John Rankin Barclay (Scottish, 1884-1962) oil on canvas portrait of Hamish and Alister Gunn. The boys are depicted wearing Scottish tartan kilts. One boy stands with hands on hips, while the other is seated on a low footstool near toy soldiers and a toy train. A hallway and window are visible in the background. Signed lower left John R. Barclay and dated 1925. Label verso reads, "Hamish and Alister Gunn painted by John R. Barclay". Original grain painted frame with ripple molded rabbet and outer edges. Sight – 41 1/2" H x 39 3/4" W. Framed – 47" H x 49" W. Early 20th century. Provenance: Found in a Frankin, Tennessee estate. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): John Rankin Barclay, also known as John Rankine Barclay, was born in Edinburgh and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy Schools. A Guthrie Award and a Carnegie Traveling Scholarship allowed him to visit and work in France, where he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists. At The Royal Institution, he became a member of the progressive Edinburgh Group of painters which included J.G Spence Smith, D. M. Sutherland, William Oliphant Hutchison, William Mervyn Glass, and A R Sturrock. He painted in both oil and watercolour, frequently depicting figures in a landscape or town setting. His style was individual and often experimental. His work was exhibited at RSA, RA, RSW and Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts. CONDITION: Painting was under glass when found. Glass has been removed, but some bloom is present over the varnish on front of the canvas, and there are accrections to the back of the canvas. A few scattered small flakes to the background at the center of the painting and to the right of the standing boy's head (largest 1/4"). Area of inpainting, lower left of canvas. The molded edges of the frame are chipping off, with several large areas of loss. Several chips retained. [See more photos →]

Semi-antique Persian Tabriz carpet, 13' x 10'2", wool on cotton, center medallion with brick colored field of floral and palmette sprays, three primary wide borders and four secondary borders, secondary colors of taupe, blues, maroon, greens, orange, ivory, peach and pink. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate. CONDITION: Overall good condition with some wear in field. Edges rebound but with areas of fraying. [See more photos →]

Two (2) etchings of NYC. 1st item: Luigi Kasimir (Austrian, 1881-1962) colored etching titled Brooklyn Bridge, pencil signed lower mid-margin. Plate – 11 3/4" H x 17" W. Sight – 12 3/8" H x 17 3/4" W. Framed – 19 1/4" H x 24" W. 2nd item: Colored etching depicting lower Manhattan, possibly from the Brooklyn Heights promenade. Pencil signed by the artist lower right. Plate – 11 3/4" H x 15 1/2" W. Sight – 18 1/4" H x 21 1/4" W. Framed – 19 7/8" H x 22 7/8" W. CONDITION: 1st item: Etching overall good condition. Foxing to matte, abrasions to frame. 2nd item: Some toning, spotting to back. [See more photos →]

Reed & Barton Francis Ist pattern sterling silver flatware, 81 pieces, including 8 dinner knives (9-1/8" L), 8 forks (7-1/4"L), 13 salad forks, 9 round bowl soup spoons, 9 teaspoons, 1 dessert/oval soup spoon, 6 iced teaspoons, 10 seafood forks, 2 pickle/olive forks, 1 lemon fork (5" L), 2 sugar shells, 1 large jelly spoon, 6 hollow-handled butter spreaders, 1 hollow-handled pastry server, 2-pc carving set (10-1/2" L), 2-pc salad set with wooden servers. Approximately one-half and one-half assortment of Eagle, R, Lion and Reed & Barton maker's marks. Not monogrammed. 76.84 weighable oz troy. CONDITION: Not monogrammed. Very good condition with some surface scratches due to age. [See more photos →]

Kentucky Agricultural or Horse Racing Premium. Coin silver mint julep cup inscribed in period script to one side "Premium by J.H. Moffett & Co. for the second best Morgan Colt of 1861". Underside with incuse stamped mark H HUDSON LOUISVILLE (Henry Hudson, Louisville, Kentucky, working 1841-1856). 3 3/4" H. 4.885 troy ounces. CONDITION: Side with a couple of small dimples, general all over surface wear. Bending/damage to lower rim. Rim slightly mis-shapen. [See more photos →]

Attrib. Thomas Birch (Pennsylvania, 1779-1851) miniature portrait pin, enamel on copper, circa 1820s, depicting General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, possibly after the painting by Joseph Wood. The Wood portrait in particular was commonly reproduced on Jackson's presidential campaign memorabilia, and it is possible this pin was intended to be worn on a campaign ribbon. A note found with the pin notes that it is signed "Jackson" en verso, but we have not attempted to open it. 1" x 7/8" in a gold frame marked 750 verso. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, purchased from a Virginia dealer in 1995, and, according to Dr. Caldwell's notes, authenticated by the Philadelphia historian Marian Carson. An article about Birch in The Magazine Antiques, September 1933, features a list of his portraits which includes a likeness of Jackson made "in 1820". CONDITION: A couple of very light small scratches/abrasions to background, overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Helen LaFrance (Kentucky, born 1919) oil on canvas painting depicting shoppers at a roadside vegetable or farm stand. Signed, lower right. Label en verso with title “Farm Stand,” and alternate handwritten title, “Vegetable Stand.” Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 17 1/2″ H x 23 1/2″ W. Framed – 19 1/4″ H x 25 1/3″ W. American, late 20th century. Note: This painting was included in the exhibition titled “Helen LaFrance: Folk Art Memories” in the Changing Galleries of the Tennessee State Museum, July 1-August 12, 2012. Biography (courtesy “Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories” by Kathy Moses): Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her “memory paintings” – drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work. Now nearly 100 years old, she resides in a Kentucky nursing home. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Texas coin silver tablespoons, rounded fiddle handles with incuse marks BELL & BRO'S SAN ANTONIO and script monogram TEW. 8 1/4"L. The mark is that of Samuel Bell (1797-1881) and his sons. Bell worked as a silversmith in Knoxville from 1819-1852 before moving to Texas with his family, including his sons, who joined him in the silver business. 5.02 total oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Mersad Berber (Former Yugoslavia, 1940-2012) oil and mixed media on canvas painting depicting a young woman with a white horse, background. Signed BERBER lower right. Label with artist and purchase information, en verso. Housed in a gilt shadowbox frame. Canvas – 13 1/8" H x 16 1/8" W. Framed – 19 1/2" H x 22 1/2" W. Continental, late 20th/early 21st century. In addition to the painting, a limited edition hardback catalog (69/75), signed by the artist, of Mersad Berber's work presented by the Albemarle Gallery is included, 9-3/4 x 12 x 5/8 inches. (2 items total). Provenance: Private collection, Knoxville, TN. Painting purchased by consignor in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2000. Biography: Mersad Berber was the most considerable artist to emerge from the chaos the Balkan wars of the 1990s. A member of Bosniaís Muslim community, Mersad Berber's work was featured in exhibitions in London (Albemarle Gallery), Hamburg, Istanbul, Chicago, Abu Dhabi, Moscow, Madrid, Zurich and New York. His last substantial showing before his death was a large retrospective, covering his whole career, held in 2009 at the CaixaForum in Barcelona. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Latour, Major Arsene Lacarriere. HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE WAR IN WEST FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA IN 1814-1815. WITH AN ATLAS. Philadelphia: Published by John Conrad and Co., J. Maxwell, printer. 1816. Two volumes, text plus atlas. 8 vo, both in the original paper boards, housed together in half red morocco slip-case. Nine (9) plates, including the portrait of Jackson, atlas has title page plus eight maps and plans (seven folding). Largest volume – 9 3/8" H x 6" W x 1 1/2" D. Smaller volume with maps – 8 3/4" H x 5 6/8" W x 3/8" D. Slip-case – 9 5/8" H x 6 3/4" W x 2 3/8" D. CONDITION: One original owner of both volumes. Personal inscriptions on the cover and title page of each volume. Covers in worn condition to be expected from age. Areas of loss, largest 1 1/2", top and bottom of text volume spine. Stain to cover of Atlas. Text volume with interior toning and spotting, dust cover page with losses to right page margin. [See more photos →]

Kentucky coin silver mint julep cup, round tapered form with beaded lip and foot, incuse mark on base McDannold (George W. McDannold, Mt. Sterling, Winchester and Covington, Kentucky, working 1829-1863). 3 1/2" H, 5.34 oz troy. CONDITION: Couple of small minor scratches and tiny dents, overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Nine (9) Civil War era letters of Corporal William J. Rogers, Owen's Battery or Monticello Artillery, Arkansas Light Artillery, 10 items total. The letters are addressed to Francis M. A. Rogers, his wife, from locations in Tennessee and Mississippi where the company was active, dated March 11, 1862-April 23, 1863. Rogers' letters include references to battles and events that occured during his service, including the Battle of Pea Ridge, the Battle of Island Number Ten, the capture of the [USS] Queen of the West and the [USS] Indianola, the First Battle of Franklin, the Siege of Corinth, the Siege of Port Hudson, the Capture of New Orleans, the Battle of Fort Jackson, the events two years prior to the Battle of Fort Pillow, and more. His first letter addressed from Fort Pickering, incorrectly identified as Fort Pickens by Rogers, Shelby County, TN, March 11, 1862 refers to the recent Battle of Pea Ridge, also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, stating: I heard very bad news this evening Generals [Benjamin] McCulloch and [James McQueen] McIntosh were both killed and General [Sterling] Price wounded in his arm…the Battle was fought in Benton County Arkansas. We also had a fight on the Potomac in which our side worsted [sic] them a gooddeal… Rogers also alludes to the involvement of African Americans in the Battle of Island Number Ten, writing: They are taking negroes by hundreds up to Isleland [sic] no 10 to fortify it…. In a letter written from a camp near Columbus, MS, March 13, 1863, Rogers states: We have taken two of the Feds gun boats the [USS] Queen of the West & the [USS] Indianola. General [Earl Van Dorn] had a fight not long ago not far from Franklin in Tennessee & taken 2200 of them prisoner…. Days later, still stationed at a camp near Columbus, MS, March 26, 1863, Rogers writes: We got a dispatch yesterday evening stating that the Feds under took to pass Vicsburg [sic] yesterday morning and our guns sunk on of the Gun Boats & cripled another very bad so they had to succum [sic]. They had fights at Port Hudson about two weeks back. One of the Yanks boats got burned up &one other that was shot all to pieces it had to fall back. Loss on our side was nothing at all. They took 37 men prisoners. They also had a fight at Fort Pemberton about the same time. We were successful there two [sic]. They had to skedadle with their Gun Boats there two [sic]…. Rogers continues, offering his criticism of the Capture of New Orleans by the Union, stating: If our men had been as resolute last spring as they are now the Feds never would have got New Orleans. But old [Mansfield Lovell] give up the place without ever firing a gun I just as much believe that if he had stood his ground [we] would have had New Orleans in our posession now just as much as I believe anything…. Writing from Fort Pillow, TN, April 10, 1862, two years before the The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, April 12, 1864, Rogers states: The Yankees have taken (Isleland) [sic] no (Ten) and we are looking for them every hour. I suppose that our men gave the Yankees thunder at Corrinth [sic] the other day…Two thousand Arkansas troops landed hear [sic] yesterday. Capt. Barnets Company are hear [sic]…I have just saw some men from Isleland [sic] Ten. They say that the Yankees have taken all the rest of them north. I suppose they are about one hundred of them that mad[e] there escape that landed a few minutes ago. All of our Gun Boats are hear [sic]. They are not worth anything but to run So soon as they Gun Boats pass Isleland [sic] No 10 they brok[e] for this place. One of [Lincoln's] Gun Boats are worth fifty of these that are hear [sic]. We are looking for fifteen thousand more men hear [sic] in a few days. I do not care how soon….. Another letter from Fort Pillow, April 26, 1862, Rogers discusses the positions of the Union Army on the river near the fort, writing: The Yankees stay behind aboard in the river and we can not tell the effect of our shells. But it appears that they are afraid to come around so that we can see them. Two of their men deserted and hailed one of our boats the other day They say when they came down they brought twenty thousand men with them. and [sic] (aimed) to storms [sic] us but they found out they could not do it and they have sent their men up Tennessee River. They say that they have nine (Mosler) Boats and eight gun boats and forty transport boats and about nine hundred men besides them that was on the boats. From what I can learn they expect a big fight at Corrinth soon…They commenced fighting at Fort Jackson the same day that the Yankees made there [sic] appearance at this place. Henry Berk landed hear yesterday he said the telegraph to Memphis (that) the Yankees had taken Fort Jackson but I dont [sic] believe it…… In the same letter, Rogers also discusses the health, welfare, and morale of his company, stating: There is a good deal of sickness in the camps. There are about forty sick in our Company at this time. But there has been no deaths in our Company. Some has the measels some the diarhera [sic]. Some bad colds and one case of slow fever…One of our men got his leg shot off ther [sic] day. He is doing very well I think he will get well. His name is Brown. Another man got his left arm shot off and his right arm broke. I do not know what Company he belonged….. In a letter written from Corinth, MS, May 3, 1862, Rogers mentions that despite illness in the camp: We are in high spirits hear [sic] in war matters. We think that we will be able to whip them out at this place, regardless of the fact that: We have not got any guns assigned us yet. I am afraid that the fight will come off before we can get our guns. If it does we intend to go in the battlefield and get guns as they are dropped and fight any how. Each letter includes inquiries about her life, their son, information and well wishes for family friends and relations, and pleas for his wife to write to him with directions regarding where she should send her letters, many of them: in the care of Capt. [James A.] Owens, ending his letters with the sentiments: I remain your true and affectionate husband until death. W. J. Rogers. Envelopes included with seven letters, addressed to: Mrs F.M.A. Rogers, Monticello, Arkansas, each with one or two Five Cent Jefferson Davis stamps. Eight letters include typed transcriptions; one letter from a camp near Columbus, MS, dated Dec. 21, 1862 is in fragile condition and has not been transcribed or examined for content. Also includes a love letter written by Rogers from Drew County, AR, to his future wife, Miss Francis M. A. Goodwin, Green Mours, AR, dated Oct 12, 1838, with envelope. Letters and envelopes housed in plastic sleeves, approx. 5 1/4" H x 8" W. Envelopes approx. 3" x 5 3/8" W. Transcriptions – 11" H x 8 1/2" W. CONDITION: Overall very good condition considering age. Heavy dampstaining, Dec. 21, 1862 letter. Areas of dampstaining, fading, top horizontal crease of Oct 12, 1838 letter and envelope. Ink bleeding, front and back of March 13, 1863 letter. [See more photos →]

Two (2) detailed folk art watercolor views of the Travis Placer Gold Mine and Camp in Montana, each depicting figures engaged in mining activities. The view of the mine is signed lower right: Jack Kidd or Jack Kiddo and dated '99. The mine, which is no longer active, was purchased circa 1889 by James Mead and was located in Helena, Montana. 18" x 26" sight, 21" x 29" framed. Circa 1899. CONDITION: Considerable acid burn and possible light water staining to paper, staining to frames. [See more photos →]

Harpers Ferry Model 1840 US type three conversion musket, .69 Caliber, fitted for a bayonet. Lock marked Harpers Ferry 1842 and US with the Eagle above. Round barrel, walnut stocks, standard sights. Both sling swivels present. Bayonet length – 19". Barrel length – 42 1/8". Overall length – 57 1/2". Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Carved initials "RH" to side of stock. Various scratching and normal wear to stock. Barrel with some very minor pitting, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Southern miniature cherry child's chest, cherry primary and secondary wood primarily poplar, four graduated drawers with square nails and oval wheat brasses on tapered feet with shaped sides. 26 1/8" H x 18 1/8" W x 9 5/8" D. Southern, possibly Tennnessee. 2nd Quarter 19th century. CONDITION: Older refinish. Old splice repair to back left foot, small patch to left corner of top drawer, small patch to front left foot. Scratch to front drawer, minor scattered abrasions. [See more photos →]

Erte (Romain De Tirtoff, Russian/French, 1892-1990), limited edition gilded and cold painted cast bronze sculpture titled Le Danseur. Inscribed "Erte", numbered 224/250, the Joel Meissner mark, foundry mark RKP Int. Corp., and dated 1980 on the side of the base. 18 1/4" H x 6 1/2" W x 8" D. 15.7 lbs. Note: A Certificate of Authenticity included with this lot. Provenance: Private Middle TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Wolf Kahn (New York/Vermont, born 1927) pastel on paper abstract composition in orange, blue, brown and green. Signed lower right “W. Kahn”. Housed under glass in a molded giltwood frame with matte. 9″ x 11 1/2″ sight, 16″ x 18″ framed. American, mid 20th century. Biography: Wolf Kahn studied under Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann (later becoming Hofmann’s studio assistant) and at the University of Chicago. He is known for his works which which blend abstractionism and realism with Color Field painting. CONDITION: Light toning to paper, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Walter Inglis Anderson (American/Mississippi, 1903-1965) pen and ink drawing on paper depicting the heads of three cows, all in a line. Unsigned. Double matted in a faux burlwood frame. Brown's Fine Art & Framing, Jackson MS label en verso. 8" x 10 1/3" sight, 16 1/2" x 19" framed. Provenance: Jackson, Tennessee collection, purchased directly from the artist's son, John Anderson, in 2005. CONDITION: 3 1/2" x 4" dampstain to lower left corner. 1" repair to center lower edge. Small foxing spot, top right of sheet. [See more photos →]

Large Early Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky archive, including land indentures, slave related letters, 100 plus items. Mostly letters, promissory notes, and receipts. 1st item: Land Indenture made between Daniel McDonald, Knox County, TN, and James Reynolds, Knox County, TN, November 10, 1802, to: confirm onto James Reynolds and his heirs…that piece parcel or tract of land lying and being on the north [s]ide of holsten river on the west fork of Flat Creek…, witnessed by Reuben MDonal [sic] and Michel Trout, signed by Daniel McDonald. Entered in the Knox County Court record by Charles McClung, first County Clerk of Knoxville, TN, April 1803. Signed by Thomas Chapman, Register for Knox County, October 5, 1803. 2nd item: Land Indenture made between William Beard, Payne County, KY, by G. M. Gibbs, his attorney, and Reuben McDonnell, Knox County, TN, June 13, 1806, to: confirm onto Reuben McDonell and his heirs…a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and fifty acres more or le[s]s lying and being in the county of Knox and state of Tenne[s]see on the waters of Flatt Creek part of a 4000 acre survey…, witnessed by Johannes Point[?], Jeremiah Wilson, and James Reynolds. Entered in the Knox County Court record by John N. Gamble, deputy clerk for Charles McClung, first County Clerk of Knoxville, TN, January 1807. Signed by Samuel G. Ramsey, Register for Knox County, March 23, 1807. 3rd-9th items: Seven letters between members of the Reynolds Family, Boutefort/Giles County, VA and Knox County, TN, 1811-1819. Letter from William Reynolds, Botetourt County, VA, to his brother James Reynolds, favored by James Sarver [Son?], and sister [unnamed], Nox County, TN, February 11, 1811, mentions: …five neigors hung in our town the firs[t] day of this instant month for murdering two men. Letter from John and Magdelin [sic] Reynolds, no location given, to their son John Reynolds, Nox [sic] County, TN, October 4, 1811. Letter from John and Magdlin [sic] Reynolds, Bo[u]tetourt County, VA, to their son John Reynolds, favored by John Sarver, Nox [sic] County, TN, October 3, 1814. Letter from Magdalin [sic] Reynolds, Fincastle, VA or TN [unspecified], to her son James Reynolds, TN, Flat Creek, Knox County, TN, March 14, 1815, writing again to let him know that his father had died, that she was dealing with his estate, and that he should come to see her. Letter from Magdalin [sic] Reynolds, Sinking Creek, Botetourt County, VA, to her son James Reynolds, Big Flat Creek, Knose [sic] County, TN, May 26, 1815. Letter from James and William Reynolds, Botetourt, VA, to their brother James Reynolds, Big[ge] Flat Creek, Knox County, TN, September 10, 1815. Letter from John Reynolds, Giles County, VA, to his brother James Reynolds and his sister [unnamed], Knox County, TN, October 17, 1819, stating that: there is a great[e] disturbance…respecting the negroes of father's Estate old Robert Hickison has br[o]ught to s[uit] for there [sic] freedom in our Cort [sic]…the Cort [sic] mad[e] the order that Joseph Graves [for] mother shall give security for the delivery of the negroes if the[y] are free and the Sheriff came and served the order of Cort [sic] and it was compl[i]ed with. They ask their brother to come if he can in November. 10th item: Land Indenture made between James Reynolds, Knox County, TN, and William Peterson, Knox County, TN, July 3, 1818, witnessed by Morton Peterson and Thomas Grham, signed by William Peterson. 11th item: Land Indenture for the Dowery [sic] of Ruth Peterson, Knox County, TN, witnessed by William Zachary and George Hickle, marked by Ruth Peterson, September 20, 1828. 12th item: Bill of Complaint of William Lovelace and his wife Elizabeth Lovelace, citizens of Knox County, TN, against Permanus Lovelace and his wife Sarah Lovelace, citizens of Knox County, TN, addressed to the Hon. Thomas L. Williams, Chancellor for the Eastern Chancey Commission of Tennessee by Sneed Sol, undated Pre Civil War, refers to the ownership of three negroes, Jude, David, and Ben and the sale of a slave girl: $75 as stated on the sale of said girl Lildy. 13th item: Ink on coated drafting paper survey map for Ganium C. McBee containing 408 acres by R.A.J. Armstrong, County Surveyor, Knox County, TN, May 23, 1892. Labeled features include Road to Mascot [TN], Little Flat Creek, Washington Road, and Road to Knoxville. 14th-16th items: Three Knox County, TN, Sheriff Summons signed by William Swan, February 13, 1826. 17th item: Letter in German from Jacob Dewen/Johannes Herberger, Sevier County, TN, August 22, 1826. 18th item: Agreement to end: disputes and controversies, between John Hickle, Knox County, TN, and George Deary, Knox County, TN, unsigned, August 13, 1828. 19th item: Captain Hickles Company list of 87 names including Joseph Mynatt, John Reynolds, John Sawyers, with columns for acres of land, School lands, number of slaves, seasons, etc. Undated Pre Civil War. Also includes copy of the Constitution of the Polemic Society at Pleasant Grove Academy, Meigs County, TN, July 26, 1826, additional land bonds/indentures, three small survey maps and one report, receipts, promissory notes, personal letters regarding financial matters, undated writing exercise, undated newspaper clipping, two fragmentary leather wallets filled with receipts, promissory notes, etc. Provenance: Descended through the family of Revolutionary War soldier, Colonel John Sawyers. CONDITION: All items exhibit toning, dampstaining, foxing spots, tears to be expected from age. 1st and 2nd items: Overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Civil War era pocketwatch, open face with enameled Roman numerals and gilt hands, marked on dial "John Kitts & Co. Louisville KY" (mark used 1857-1864, ref. Boultinghouse, p. 180) on dial, gilt hands, decorative engraved back cover. Inside back cover marked Warranted Coin Silver. 2 1/4" dia. Note: While many silversmiths and watchmakers advertised their services in Kentucky, few watches marked by Kentucky silversmiths dating from the antebellum era have surfaced on the market. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Glass cover has some scratches, hairline to seconds dial, small area of damage to hinge. Not running at time of inspection. Key found with watch may not fit it. [See more photos →]

Mississippi Runaway Slave Broadside, issued by Albert G. Brown, Governor of the State of Mississippi, and Wilson Hemmingway, Mississippi Secretary of State, dated January 24, 1844, reading: BILL, a negro slave, the property of Talbot Parsons, Esq. of Hinds County, Miss., did, on Friday the 19th instant, commit an Assault and Rape on the person of a highly respectable white woman in the town of Clinton, in the State…I, ALBERT G. BROWN…have issued this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the delivery of said Bill to the jailor of Hinds County, Miss…, with a full description of Bill below. Docketing information written in black in en verso reading: "Proclamation for Negro Bill/Recorded/pages 430-31.-. " 12-1/2" H x 7 3/4" W. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Fold lines with text printed on right side of sheet, sheets have separated. Toning, surface of broadside sheet. Ghost impressions of text, visible on blank sheet. Foxing spots, largest 1/4", surface of sheets. Paper tears, largest 1", top and bottom margins, chipping to top and bottom edges. 1" piece of clear tape, surface of blank sheet. [See more photos →]

18k yellow gold tanzanite fashion ring containing one trilliant cut tanzanite weighing approximately 10 cts. Mounting marked 18K with maker's mark. 16.4 grams. Ring size 7-1/4. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Surface scratches on the mounting and minor fleabites and surface dust on stone. [See more photos →]

Coin silver cream pitcher with inscription for the Cannon/Maney families of Tennessee. Creamer with repousse foliate decoration and central cartouche engraved: Miss Marie G. Cannon from her sister Ada Maney. C scroll handle with floral overlay. Base marked 120 COIN, with old Gorham Lion-anchor-G hallmarks. 7 1/2" H. 7.640 troy ounces. Ada Maney likely refers to Adaline Cannon Maney (1826-1911), daughter of Tennessee Governor Newton Cannon. She married Lewis Maney of Oaklands Mansion, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her sister, Maria Graham Cannon (1839-1915), married John Davis Horton. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with a few light, small abrasions/scratches. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) wooden Shoenhut circus and safari animals and 1 Humpy Dumpty Circus cage style wagon (10" H x 10" W x 5" D), one (1) tiger (4 1/2" H x 8" W), one lion ( 5 1/4" H x 7" W), one bison (6" H x 7 3/4" W) and one giraffe (11" H x 9" W). Lot also includes one painted stand. 6 items total. 1st half 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: All items with general wear/losses/scuffs to paint. Lion and bison with some losses to fur. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Southern glass whiskey bottles, including Gunter Jack Daniels. 1st item: W.T. & C.D. Gunter Jack Daniel's No. 7 clear glass cylinder whiskey bottle with cork finish, quart capacity, embossed W.T. & C.D. Gunter Jack Daniel's No.7 No 205 Broad St Nashville, Tenn., with embossed fleur-de-lis to center. 8 3/4" H. Circa 1885. 2nd item: F. W. Baker cylinder quart clear glass whiskey bottle, embossed F.W. Baker & Co. Dealers in Fine Wines & Liquors Nashville, TN. 9 1/4" H. Late 19th century. 3rd item: J.C. Marks Liquor Co. clear glass cylinder whiskey bottle, quart capacity, embossed to the front J.C.Marks Liquor Co./Wholesale Liquors Guaranteed Full Quart/2024 2nd Avenue/ Birmingham, Alabama. Back embossed with 3 Red Barrels pictorial trademark and Our Sign 3 Red Barrels/Purity/Refilling This Bottle Prohibited By Law. 9" H. Late 19th century. Provenance: Property of a private Middle TN collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Firing flaw to rim interior, otherwise very good condition. 2nd item: Hairline crack emanation from spout down to upper shoulder, approx. 3" L. Crack to side of body and some scratching to upper shoulder. 3rd item: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Victorian cast iron walking stick or umbrella stand with central decoration of a saddled horse, titled "The Favorite," under an arched pediment. 35 1/8" H x 22" W x 11" D. CONDITION: Good condition overall; bottom tray with later added paint, paint with losses and flaking. [See more photos →]

Large Native American Apache polychrome figural tray basket, coiled willow construction with geometric devil's claw designs radiating from the center with partial devil's claw figure and cross designs around the rim, additional devil's claw cross designs to the center body. 4" H x 21 3/4" dia. Circa 1920s. Provenance: Collection acquired from Flagstaff, AZ relative upon his death in 1962. CONDITION: Some minor white residue to the back, minor fading. [See more photos →]

110 pcs. Towle sterling flatware, Candlelight pattern, including 12 dinner knives (8 7/8" L), 12 dinner forks (7 3/8" L), 16 salad forks (6 1/2" L), 16 teaspoons, 8 soup spoons, 12 iced tea spoons, 8 cocktail forks, 10 butter knives, 3 demitasse spoons, 1 carving set (knife & fork), 4 serving spoons, 1 cold meat fork, 1 ladle, 1 sugar shell, 1 master butter, 1 tomato server, 2 pierced bonbon spoons (5 1/2" L). Not monogrammed. 103.60 total weighable troy ounces. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, light general use wear. No monograms. [See more photos →]

Gorham Manufacturing Company sterling silver flatware, Chantilly pattern, 79 pieces, including 15 New French Hollow Knives (9" L); 1 Blunt Hollow Handle with bolster dinner knife (9-3/4" L); 17 forks (7" L); 4 dinner forks (7-1/2" L); 10 salad forks; 21 teaspoons; 3 serving spoons; 1 cake knife; 1 tomato server; 1 cold meat fork; 1 berry spoon; 1 sugar spoon; 1 cream ladle or mustard spoon with gilt bowl; 1 cocktail fork and 1 flat handle master butter spreader. Marks include "Lion, Anchor, G" and "Gorham Sterling". 5-1/4" to 9-3/4" L, 82.57 weighable oz troy. Not monogrammed. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: All in very good condition with minor surface scratches. One dinner knife with loose weight in handle. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Major James Sevier Signed State of Franklin sheriff summons order with handwritten text reading: to the Sheriff of Washington…We command you to take Thomas Dail if in your Belwick [sic] and him safly [sic] keep so that you have him Before the Justices of Our Court of pleas and Quarter Se[s]sions to be Held on the First Monday in November…than and there to Answer Patrick Kilpatrick in a plea of Debt to his Damage Fifty pounds…AD 1786. Additional writing, en verso. 5 3/8" H x 8" W. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. Note: A Revolutionary War soldier at the age of 16, James Sevier (1764-1847) fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain under his father Col. John Sevier, first governor of Tennessee. James Sevier served as Clerk of the Washington County, Tennessee Court for forty-six years. CONDITION: Toning lines, edges of sheet and vertical folds including one across signature. Minute foxing spots, right edge of sheet. Areas of dampstaining, largest 8", top and right edges of sheet. Foxing, dampstaining, visible en verso. Later pencil inscription "1786". [See more photos →]

John Sevier (1745-1815), First Governor of Tennessee, signed land grant and sheriff summons (2 items). 1st item: Land grant document signed by John Sevier as Governor, granting Abraham Maury, assignee of the Heirs of David Rogers, three hundred and eighty acres in Williamson County, dated May 25, 1808 (date entered: August 7, 1807). The land was granted to the heirs of David Rogers in consideration of military service performed by David Rogers to the State of North Carolina. 14 5/8" H x12 1/4" W. Early 19th century. Note: Abraham Maury Jr. (1766-1825), who eventually shortened his name to Abram Maury, founded Franklin, TN in 1799. 2nd item: Sheriff summons order signed by John Sevier as Court Clerk of Washington County, North Carolina, with handwritten text in brown ink reading "State of north Carolina To the Sheriff of Washington We command you that of the goods and Chattles [sic] and Tenements of William Flanary and Wilson in our Bailick you Caus [sic] to be with the sum of Two pounds Eighteen Shilling…have you the Said money Ready to Render at our next Court to be Held on the first monday in February next together with writ witne[s]ss John Sevier Clerk of Said court at office the 2nd Day of December anno Domini 1783", signed John Sevier C. C., lower right. Additional handwritten text in brown ink, en verso. Housed in an archival letter box with red cloth boards, brown leather half-binding with gilt title lettering and four raised hubs. Sheet – 4" H x 8" W. Archival box – 10 1/4" H x 6 3/4" W x 1 1/4" D. Provenance: Anne P. and Thomas A. Gray Library and MESDA Research Center. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with bold signature (few extraneous ink spots above, as signed). Foxing spots, largest 3/4", surface of sheet. Toning/ghost impression of seal, lower left of sheet. Archival tape repair, top left and center vertical creases, tape visible en verso. Minute holes at fold line, center of sheet. 2nd item: Three vertical creases, each with toning. 1/2" tear, lower right fold line (does affect signature). Areas of ink bleeding, writing en verso (visible front of sheet). [See more photos →]

Confederate Naval Knife or Dirk, double edged blade, with ricasso stamped Winchester on one side, possibly made by Simon Dodge of Winchester, VA. Turned walnut grip with a flat iron disk at the top. Heavy flat S-shaped brass guard. Blade length – 8 3/4", tip to guard. Overall length – 13 1/2". Southern, circa 1860. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Early Washington County, Virginia stoneware preserving jar signed and dated in script, Jesse Vestal 1879. 7 7/8" H. Note: Jesse/Jessee Vestal (born 1828 North Carolina-died 1904 Virginia) is known for his beautifully incised script on pottery. His family appears to have been in Washington Co. VA by 1833. In the 1850 census he is listed as still living with his parents. Both Jesse and his father are recorded as farmers. However, his most famous piece of pottery, a jug with a poem on it, is dated 1849. This jug is owned by the William King Regional Arts Center in Abingdon, refer to LEGACY IN CLAY: POTTERY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA and GREAT ROAD STYLE: THE DECORATIVE ARTS LEGACY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EAST TENNESSEE, Betsy K. White. While Jesseís father is listed as a farmer in the 1850 Population Census, he appears as the only potter in the 1850 Schedule of Manufactures for Washington Co. (Source: Potters on the Holston prepared by C. Espenshade). Jesse married into the Miller family of potters. At least one of his sons became a potter. Research courtesy of Carole Wahler. Provenance: Property of a private Virginia collection. CONDITION: Chips to rim, later applied gold paint. [See more photos →]

Edward Kellogg (Pennsylvania/Tennessee, born 1944) oil on canvas Fall landscape painting titled "Falls on Stream," depicting a mountain stream flowing over large rocks; trees with changing leaves in the background. Signed "E Kellogg", lower right. Titled and dated "2000" with medium on center stretcher, en verso. Housed in a contemporary floater frame. Canvas – 37" H x 40" W. Framed – 44" H x 47" W. American, early 21st century. Provenance: Nashville, TN estate. Biography (courtesy Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art): Born in Pennsylvania in 1944, Kellogg developed his early artistic interests by studying at the Philadelphia Art Institute. His education included a focus on painting three years at Wheaton College in Illinois, after which he transferred to San Diego State University receiving a BA in art in 1966 and an MA in painting and printmaking in 1968. He was an art professor at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA, 1973-2010, and resides in Chattanooga. His work is included in selected collections throughout the Southern United States and worldwide. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Chinese hornbill double snuff bottle, relief carved as conjoined double gourds draped with vines. 2 1/8" H. Probably early 20th century. Provenance: Nashville, TN estate. CONDITION: Lacking one lid. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Chinese Carved Jade Belt Ornaments. 1st item: Chinese carved grey jade belt ornament, lattice and floral design with double Longevity symbols. 2 3/4" L x 1 5/8" D. 2nd item: Chinese celadon jade belt ornament with inset cabochon carnelian and engraved foliate designs to the front, chilong dragon hook. 1 3/4" L x 1 1/4" D. Both late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private West Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Both excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Contemporary Stickley oak 2-door glass front cabinet, reissue of an original Gustav Stickley Craftsman Workshops design, each door with a pair of upper glass panels with soldered joints and lower panels divided by center mullion with key, 4 interior shelves, shaped crescent skirt. Cabinet branded on the lower backboard, STICKLEY in an oval in addition to having a Stickley Manlius NY tag. Stamped on back: 89-02 Jan 05 2000 #32. 58" H x 46" W x 14" D at top. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Sam Houston and James Buchanan signed letter and two prints. 1st item: Tennessee Congressman Sam Houston signed letter addressed to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C, dated May 15, 1824, also signed by PA Congressman James Buchanan, and by six other congressmen including John W. Taylor, Isham Talbot, Joseph Hemphill, Samuel Breck, Joseph Kent, and Daniel H. Miller. The letter of petition pertains to William Cottringer, a current clerk in a mercantile house in Philadelphia and asks for a clerkship in the War Department, due to their interest in the welfare of the widow Mrs. Cottringer, William's mother. Additional writing en verso, partially obscured by conservation tape. 9 3/4" H x 7 3/4" W. Note: Samuel "Sam" Houston (March 2, 1793-July 26, 1863) was a Tennessee Congressman from 1823 to 1827, re-elected in 1824, and was the 6th Governor of Tenessee, October 1, 1827-April 16, 1829. Houston moved to Texas and became a member of the Texas House of Representatives from the San Augustine district (1839-1841). He was twice elected President of the Republic of Texas (December 21, 1841-December 9, 1844 and October 22, 1836-December 10, 1838), served as United States Senator from Texas (December 18, 1847-March 4, 1859), and then went on to become the 7th Governor of Texas (December 21, 1859-March 16, 1861). James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791-June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States (1857ñ61), serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. He was the 17th United States Secretary of State (March 10, 1845-March 7, 1849) and served in the United States Senate (December 6, 1834-March 5, 1845), and United States House of Representatives (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1831). 2nd item: Steel plate engraving depicting the portrait of Sam Houston, engraved by George E. Perine, after a daguerreotype by Blanchard P. Paige (District of Columbia, c. 1818-1894), New York, 1884. From "Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston of Texas" by William Carey Crane. Facsimile of Houston's signature, below image. Sheet – 9" H x 6" W. 3rd item: Steel plate engraving depicting the portrait of James Buchanan, engraved by Henry Bryan Hall, Jr., after a daguerreotype by Mathew B. Brady (New York, 1822-1896), printed by D. Appleton and Company, New York, c. 1892. Facsimile of Buchanan's signature, below image. Sheet – 10 1/8" H x 6 3/8" W. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. Toning lines, horizontal creases of shee reinforced with conservation tape. Losses to lower left corner. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. 1/4" light brown stain, top right of sheet. 3rd item: Overall good condition. 8 1/4" trace of glue residue from removal from book, left edge of sheet. Toning, edges of sheet. Minute foxing spots, surface of sheet, visible en verso. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Civil War era rifles including Springfield and Perry. 1st item: Springfield Model 1863 Type II Rifle-Musket Dated 1864, .58 caliber. Lock plate marked 1864 U.S. SPRINGFIELD with eagle logo. Dated 1864, top of barrel near hammer. V over P over eagle head proof mark, left side of barrel. Walnut stocks, metal frame, standard sights, round barrel. Two cartouches, one reading "FWP" one reading "EM", in script lettering, incised left flat. Barrel length – 40". Overall length – 58". 2nd item: Perry Patent Firearms Company Breech Loading Percussion Long Frame Carbine, .54 Caliber. Serial number 464. Breechblock marked PERRY PATENT ARM CO. / NEWARK N.J. Receiver marked A.D. PERRY / PATENTED. Walnut stocks, metal frame, standard sights, round barrel, percussion cap tube in butt. Barrel length – 20". Overall length – 38 1/2". Third quarter of the 19th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Areas of rust, surface of barrel and frame. Numerous dings, scratches, largest 2", surface of stocks. Ramrod missing. 2nd item: Relic condition. Hammer locked. Lever action in movable condition. Areas of rust, surface of barrel and frame. Areas of loss, largest 3", surface of stocks. Numerous dings, scratches, largest 3 3/8", surface of stocks. [See more photos →]

Oil on panel oval portrait of an older gentleman, believed to be Thomas Helm of Kentucky (1785-1865). The subject is depicted in a black suit and tie and white dress shirt. Unsigned but attributed to Joseph Henry Bush (Kentucky/Natchez, 1794-1865) or possibly Washington Bogart Cooper (Tennessee, 1802-1888). Framed in a period giltwood and composition oval frame with elaborate moldings of egg and flower, oak leaf, leaf and berry clusters at corners and acanthus and shield borders. Sight – 29" H x 24" W. Framed – 34" H x 29" W. Circa 1850. Provenance: Descended through the family of Mr. Helm's daughter, Mary Montgomery Helm, who married Kentucky statesman, Joshua Fry Bell. According to oral history, the subject is Thomas Helm of Lincoln County, Kentucky. Helm was a property owner, served as Court Clerk of Lincoln County and was among the commissioners who drew up plans for the county courthouse. Artist Joseph Henry Bush was born in Mercer County Kentucky and grew up in Frankfort, Kentucky. He studied with Thomas Sully in Philadelphia but returned to settle in Louisville by 1819. He also worked in Cincinnati, New Orleans and Natchez. In the book "Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920," The Kentucky art critic and author Estill Curtis Pennington notes that in the 1850s, Bush's portraits began to exhibit more realism than his earlier ones, and were often oval in format. Jonesboro, Tennessee-born Washington Cooper also is said to have studied briefly in Philadelphia with Thomas Sully (as well as Henry Inman). Washington Cooper moved to Nashville in about 1833. Cooper and his brother, William, who was also artist, eventually became Tennessee's most prolific portrait painters of the mid to late 19th century. Washington Cooper painted a series of portraits of the Governors of Tennessee, as well as many prominent private Southern citizens. CONDITION: Painting in good condition. Possible area of inpainting, lower right of canvas (visible under black light). Cardboard backing not removed from frame. Frame with some scattered losses. [See more photos →]

Pair of 19th century bag grip flintlock belt pistols, .58 caliber, walnut stocks and octagonal barrels, each percussion black powder pistol with foliate etched hardware, ramrods and presentation plaques inscribed "To Mr. George Brown, By A Few Friends, As a token of respect, Glasgow, May 31st, 1843". Barrel length – 6 1/8". Overall length – 11-1/2". Also included is a molded metal and copper powder horn, 4-3/8" L x 2-1/8" W. Note: Family oral history states that the original owner of the pistols was George Brown Cameron, of the prosperous Brown/Cameron clan, who moved from Glasgow, Scotland to the United States due to health concerns, circa mid 19th century. CONDITION: Belt pistols in overall good condition considering age. Action good. 1/8" crack, back of one of the hammers. Normal storage dings, surface of stocks. Areas of pitting, surface of barrels. 2 1/4" crack to wood near barrel, one pistol. Dark bores. Small dent to one side of powder horn. [See more photos →]

Continental School, 18th century, oil on canvas painting of lady holding a white spaniel dog. Subject is attired in a lace cap, a turquoise dress with bow and large lace collar, ermine lined jacket and lace sleeves. A red cardinal rests on her shoulder, her hand is on her chin and her elbow rests on tassel trimmed pillow placed on table. Unsigned. Heavily carved late 19th century gilt frame with inner oval liner. Oval sight – 26-1/2" H x 21-1/8" W. Canvas – 29-1/4" H x 22-1/8" W. Framed – 38-1/2" H x 33-1/2" W x 4" D. Provenance: The Estate of Paul Frayer, Morristown, TN. CONDITION: Overall craquelure. Cleaned, old varnish visible out of frame. Blacklight reveals areas of inpainting on left side lower cheek and jawline, nose, and some scattered areas to background. [See more photos →]

Southern Hepplewhite inlaid walnut chest of drawers, poplar and yellow pine secondary woods, top with double ogee molded edge over four graduated dovetailed drawers, each outlined in bands of contrasting light and dark dash inlay, with inlaid escutcheons and oval acorn stamped pulls. Chamfered corners, later shaped skirt with inlaid semicircular fan in constrasting light and dark woods, French splayed feet. Paneled sides. 45" H x 41" W x 19 1/2" D. Southern, case is early 19th century with early 20th century base, feet, and possibly inlay. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Refinished with drawers having later line inlay around the drawers, base and feet are replacements from the early 20th century. One bale missing from brass pull. Split along right runner on second drawer. [See more photos →]

Southern Hepplewhite cherry dressing or writing table, poplar secondary wood; rectangular top over a single dovetailed drawer with string inlaid front and two oval shell-and-trident embossed pulls, all on four square tapered legs. Pegged and nailed construction. 29 3/4" H x 35 1/4" W x 17 7/8" D. Circa 1840-1850. CONDITION: Circular saw marks to underside of table (table top does not appear to be a replacement) and round nails on interior frame; pulls are replacements. Scratching to top and some shrinkage cracks to sides. [See more photos →]

Chinese Qing watercolor painting on silk signed Ding Yan (Chinese, 19th century) in the manner of Ji Sheng (Chinese, active circa 1400) depicting bees amid peonies in a rocky landscape. Calligraphy upper right indicates the painting was done in the style of the Northern Song Boneless Method, in which forms are made by ink and color washes rather than outlines. Later writing en verso: "R. Salterati Client Miss Cosby to Pocker, 824 Lexington Ave. at 63rd St." (Pocker is a well known framing company, in business in New York since 1926). Mounted to pink silk damask and housed in a silvered narrow frame. Image – 23" H x 10 1/2" W. Framed – 28" H x 14 1/2" W. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate. Note: Ding Yan was a female Chinese painter, active before 1853. Her work is held by the Jiaxing Museum, Zhejiang. Ji Sheng was a Chinese Imperial painter active during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. CONDITION: Light grime/discoloration and crease at upper third. Some smudges and light staining to silk mat. 1" area of loss to silvering of frame at top right corner. [See more photos →]

German 800 silver wolf head stirrup cup, mark for J.L. Schlingloff of Hanau, incised and embossed cup featuring bear hunt, gilt interior, 6" H x 3 7/8" dia cup. 10.945 oz troy. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. Minimal wear to interior. [See more photos →]

Ted Long (Nebraska/Montana, 1932-2007) oil on board painting depicting a winter encampment scene with Native American figures outside gathering wood with an approaching trader on horseback. Signed and dated Ted Long (C) 70, lower left. Housed in a rustic wood frame with gilt wood liner. Sight – 10 12" H x 13 3/8" W. Framed – 18 3/4" H x 21 3/4" W. American, late 20th century. Biography (courtesy Museum of Nebraska Art): Ted Long was born on February 5, 1932 in North Platte, Nebraska. He received numerous art internships, but had no formal art training. Most of his work covered 1800 Western U.S. culture. His North Platte, Nebraska, studio was situated in a century-old log cabin on a ranch that was his great-grandfather homestead in the 1800's. In 1987, Long presented President Ronald Reagan with "The Last Farewell," a bronze of Buffalo Bill Cody. In June of 1991, Long's bronze, "When Nature Kept the Balance," was placed in the permanent collection of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Minute pinprick, left center edge of board. Minute brown stain, center of board. [See more photos →]

French Lebeuf Milliet Creil painted porcelain relief plaque depicting cherubs in an outdoor field setting, one standing with cattle in the center, Roman building in left background with blue mythological border. LM&C impressed mark to back along with the number 8 and letter H. Old European label also en verso. Housed in a contemporary carved gilt wood frame. Sight – 9 3/4" H x 19 3/4" W. Framed – 15 1/2" H x 25 1/2" W. Mid to Late 19th century. CONDITION: Plaque overall very good condition. Contemporary frame. [See more photos →]

Coin silver Agricultural Prize julep cup, slightly tapered sides with band of floral decoration at rim and foot, incuse marks E. & D Kinsey (Edward & David Kinsey, working ca. 1836-1850, Newport, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio) and "1856" on bottom; the sides inscribed Highland Co. Agl. So. Premium 1856. 2 3/4" H , 2.93 oz troy. CONDITION: Scattered small dents, largest 1/4", others much smaller; small rubbed spots along decorative bands at top and bottom edge where banded decoration meets; otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Sterling Boyd Strauser (Pennsylvania, 1907-1995) oil on board still life paintings depicting a vase of flowers rendered in a heavy impasto technique against green beige backgrounds. Signed and dated "Strauser 1970" lower left and lower right. Housed in carved gilt wood frames. Sight – 13 1/4" H x 10 1/2" W. Framed – 20" H x 17" W. Provenance: Nashville, TN estate. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomburg, Pennsylvania. A self-taught artist, he began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist style which evolved into an assertive Klee-like modernism and later into a form of expressionism. Strauser and his wife, Dorothy, were also collectors and promoters of folk art. Retrospectives of his work were held at Lyzon Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee in 1996 and the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania 1999-2000. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Rare black and white memorial picture attrib. to the school of Mary Balch, Providence, Rhode Island; silk thread and ink on silk. The scene, likely worked by a schoolgirl mourning her parents, depicts a graveyard with weeping willow overlooking tombstones and a central urn set against a marbelized obelisk, the plinth base embroidered in fine silk thread "Consecrated to the remains of Mr. James Carpenter, who died Oct. 20th, 1812, in the 46 year of his age / And / Mrs. Lucy Carpenter, his wife, who died Sept. 21st, 1817 in the 49th year of her age." Eglomise mat with gold lettering "Lucy Carpenter." En verso is a label for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and apparent accession number 49.841. Housed in molded giltwood frame. Sight – 15" x 21 1/2". Framed – 20" x 26". Provenance: Lucy Carpenter was born 1794 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, to Lucy Bliss Carpenter and James Carpenter, who descended from the town's earliest settlers. Private Nashville collection. Note: Another needlework picture attributed to Lucy Carpenter memorializing her father and two sisters, apparently worked prior to this piece and to the death of her mother, is in the collection of Old Sturbridge Village and may be viewed on their website. (That work has the label of "Looking Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturers" Peter Grinnel & Son of Providence). The Sturbridge entry on that piece references this work and its prior sale in January, 1974 as part of the Garlusch Sale #3595, lot 131, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York. For a similar example from the Mary Balch School, ref. the Andrews Family Mourning Piece c. 1810, exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum, "White on White And a Little Gray," March 28-Sept. 17, 2006. http://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/white-on-white-and-a-little-gray CONDITION: Needlework has fraying with narrow losses along top edge and some rippling and light discoloration to silk at upper half. 2" L thread break to center area just below urn. 1" area of narrow loss to right edge of silk. Slight oxidation to mat. Not examined out of frame. Glass appears original, but frame appears later. [See more photos →]

Small Southern Federal inlaid mahogany sideboard, poplar, white and yellow pine secondary woods, rectangular overhanging top with a veneered edge, case with center satinwood banded and line inlaid drawer over a recessed hinged single cupboard door flanked by line inlaid short drawers over hinged cupboard doors, all of matched flame mahogany veneer with satinwood banding and line inlay, raised on tapered square legs. 40 1/2" H x 50" W x 21" D. Southern, circa 1800. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Replaced locks. Drawer sides built up. Repair to areas of hinge attachment, top repair (approx. 2" x 1/2") near front center and band of wear along back of top. Patches near escutcheons on left and right cabinet doors. Age splits on left and right sides. Underside of sideboard top with blocking around the perimeter to give the appearance of a top with greater thickness (several old blocks indicate old re-working or original to design). [See more photos →]

52 pieces of Gorham Chantilly pattern sterling silver flatware, including 7 knives (8 3/4") with stainless blades, 7 forks (7"), 6 salad/dessert forks, 8 iced tea spoons, 6 round bowl soup spoons, 15 teaspoons, 2 demitasse spoons, and 1 sugar shell. Note: With the exception of 3 teaspoons, marked Gorham Sterling, all pieces are marked with the lion-anchor-g mark. Combined weight: 47.78 oz (not including knives). CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Constant David Ludovic Artz (Netherlands, 1870-1951) oil on board landscape painting depicting a family of ducks resting in a sheltered meadow. Signed Constant Artz, lower left. Housed under glass in an ornate antique giltwood carved frame with floral and acanthus leaf decoration. Sight – 6" H x 8 1/8" W. Framed – 15" H x 17" W. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): Constant Artz was born in Paris, the son of David Adolph Constant Artz (1837-1890). Constant Artz lived and worked in Holland. He was a student of The Hague Academy and in 1899, became a pupil of T. Offermans. His father studied primarily with the Dutch painter Jozef Israels and became intimate friends with artists Jacob and Matthijs Maris. Their brother, Willem Maris, was a great influence on Constant Artz, and along with fellow artists Neuhuys and B.J. Blommers, Constant's father played a great role in nineteenth century genre painting. Like his father, Constant Artz followed his love of nature and painted open-air cameos in a realistic style; he was particularly drawn to depicting ducks. CONDITION: Painting in excellent condition. Frame with losses along lower edge and upper right edge, inside right corner and outside corners. Board slightly loose in frame. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Tennessee Advertising Stoneware Whiskey Jugs. 1st item: East Tennessee, Knoxville, whiskey or liquor jug with cobalt stenciled letters reading, "Dan & Pat's Saloon/DAN DEWINE, prop./ 124 South Central Street" on a continuous cream color. 9 1/4" H. 2nd item: Middle Tennessee, Nashville, whiskey or liquor jug with cobalt stenciled letters reading "Womack Bros./ Proprietors/White Maple Distillery/217 Broad St./Nashville…Tennessee". Brown colored top, cream colored lower body. 10 3/4" H. Both Early 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. Some rubbing to glaze on spout and handle. Chip to base. Light overall cracklure to glaze. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Scattered chipping to shoulder, a couple of chips to base. Some scratching visible over stenciled area. [See more photos →]

American School oil on canvas painting depicting a man with a double trigger shotgun over his shoulder against foliage and tree bark. Unsigned. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 29 1/4" H x 24 1/2" W. Framed – 35 3/4" H x 31" W. American, late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Canvas relined. Craquelure, surface of canvas. Surface abrasions, largest 1 1/4", lower left quadrant or canvas. [See more photos →]

53 pieces sterling silver flatware, Royal Danish and Joan of Arc patterns by International Silver Co. 49 pieces in the Royal Danish pattern, including 11 dinner knives (8-7/8" L), 10 forks (7-1/4" L), 9 salad forks (6-3/8" L), 15 teaspoons (6" L), 1 pierced table spoon, 1 jelly server, 1 lemon fork (4-3/4" L) and 1 butter spreader, 50.6 weighable oz troy. Group also includes three pieces International Silver co. sterling silver Joan of Arc pattern: table spoon, medium cold meat fork and jelly server plus 1 misc. sterling cream ladle. 6.27 oz troy/4 items. 56.87 total weighable oz troy/ 53 items. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. No monograms. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Minnie Adkins and Garland Adkins (Kentucky, 20th century) painted wood folk art carvings of an adult opossum and three babies with hooked tails. Signed and dated G & M Adkins 1996, underside of front paws and underside of middle section of adult carving. Babies unsigned. Carvings range in size from 2 3/4" H x 1 1/4" W x 6 3/4" D to 12 1/4" H x 4 1/2" W x 42 1/2" D. American, 20th century. Illustrated, OUTSIDER ART OF THE SOUTH by Kathy Moses, p. 30. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Minute scuffs and paint flakes, surface of carvings. [See more photos →]

Bill Sawyer (North Carolina/Tennessee, b. 1936) oil on board painting of a young girl in plaid dress standing under an arched bridge next to a curb, a discarded newspaper by her feet and tricycle to her left. A poster for "Pete Byrn State Sen." hangs above it and in the distance a man stands beside a shed with his back to the girl, facing a road. Signed Bill Sawyer, lower right. 24" x 20". Unframed. American, mid 20th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography (courtesy Askart: The Artists' Bluebook): Bill Sawyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Sawyer, was born in 1936 and was a self-taught artist. He graduated from Hillsboro High School, North Carolina, in 1954 and then took up painting "just to kill 30 months in France" while in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His first exhibition was in Nashville in May of 1959. Subsequently, he had one-man shows at Daniel Orr's Gallery in San Diego, the Little Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the Parthenon in Nashville. Joseph Patterson, then the president of the American Association of Museums, arranged for a show of Sawyer's work at the Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York in 1964. A second show there, in 1966, sold out. Sawyer was the first untrained artist to have a one-man show at Durlacher's. His work went on to be represented at the Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood in Nashville and in many private collections. Shortly after this time Sawyer traveled overseas, and after his trip Sawyer went through a transformation and vowed never to paint again. CONDITION: 1 1/2" scratch upper center. 1/2" stain upper right corner. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Georgia Reconstruction era single sided broadsides. 1st item: 1874 Anti- Ku Klux Klan broadside, published by Sarah E. Carter of Fort Valley, Georgia, originally of New Jersey, recounting the attack on her by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Montezuma, Georgia. In an account written in both the first and third person, she describes a horrific attack in which she is taken from her home, stripped of her clothes and whipped, struck in her face "so hard as to drive one of her teeth out of the upper jaw", with "pistols cocked on her". She was about to be left alone when "one of the klan took compassion on her by helping her up to a colored man's house near by." Carter, a widow who says she sold patent medicine and "practiced medicine among her sex" to earn a living, continues, "since my whipping, one of the Ku Klux, a colored man the six whites used as a decoy, has been scared by the rest of his race to give himself up, and tell all he knows." She goes on to name her attackers, and recount her extensive (and ultimately unsuccessful) efforts at the local, state and federal level to have them arrested. When an arrest warrant was finally issued, Carter says, "instead of the dispatch being sent to Atlanta it was sent to Montezuma and for the Klan to hide out, and they have been hiding out ever since." She adds that lawyers "refused to take my case because I am a Northern woman and wish to get my rights against southern Ku Klux," and closes by asking "in the name of all that's good, if Northern citizens found in Georgia cannot get their rights, and be potected in person and property, for I learn not one in this whole State, by the State or Federal Courts, has yet been convicted of whipping, shooting, or murdering people of northern birth since the war." 13 1/2" H x 8" W. 2nd item: TO THE VOTERS OF LEE, DOUGHTERTY & WORTH. Circa 1872 Republican Broadside urging support for Hon. Joseph Armstrong, Independent Democratic Candidate for state senator. Armstrong's name surfaced after Col. Carey Styles was named the Democratic nominee. (Styles was founder of the Albany, GA News and part owner of the Atlanta Constitution Newspaper). This move infuriated Republicans, who had agreed not to contest the Senatorship "provided the Democrats selected a candidate unobjectionable to the Republicans". Allegations against Styles include that [he] is "he most objectionable man in the district" and that he "relies on the probability of the non-payment of the Poll Tax by colored people" to win. 12" H x 9" W. 3rd item: PROCEEDINGS OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF THE 10TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT HELD AT ALBANY, GEORGIA FEB. 20 1872. Republican Broadside regarding the nomination of candidate to fill a state senate vacancy of the seat of Hon. F.O. Welch. Published by the Georgia Republican Campaign Club. Concerns the above-mentioned state senate race. 11 5/8" H x 9" W. CONDITION: Overall good condition with edge creases, small losses, light fading, and discoloration appropriate for age. [See more photos →]

Ida Jolly Crawley (Tennessee/North Carolina, 1867-1946) charcoal drawing on woven paper depicting a horse. Signed and dated 1900, lower right. Housed in a decorative gilt frame. Sight – 27 3/8" H x 21 1/2" W. Framed – 30 5/8" H x 24 5/8" W. American, early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good to fair condition. Overall toning to paper, due to wood back board and spoting, largest 3" due to knots in wood back board. White spots show evidence of loss to surface, possibly insect or acid damage, primarily focused upper right quadrant. Minute foxing spots, scattered surface of sheet. 1/4" area of insect damage, lower center of sheet. Scattered creases to sheet. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Civil War CSA ambrotype, sixth plate, possibly Mississippi Volunteers. Soldier is seated and wearing an unusual coat with a kepi, holding an artillery officer's sword. Housed in a carved gutta percha case labeled "Holmes, Booth and Haydens' daguerreotype, Photographic and Ambrotype Goods, of every description". Case – 3 3/4" H x 3 1/4" W. Private Knoxville, TN collection, purchased from Gary Hendershott, Little Rock, AR. CONDITION: Ambrotype with slight halo around figure, case very good condition. [See more photos →]

Antique Ferehan Sarouk area rug, 5'9" x 4'2-1/2", wool on cotton, allover design, dark blue ground color, secondary colors of rust, orange, blues, ivory, taupe, brown and peach. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some fraying on sides and losses at ends. Generally low pile. [See more photos →]

Large State of Tennessee sheriff summons archive, most issued by William Sawyers, Justice of the Peace, Knox County, 100 plus items. Includes seventeen bundles of over a hundred warrants, tied in string, with twenty two loose warrants, dated c. 1821-1830. Warrants approx. 6 1/8" H x 7 3/4" W. Largest bundle – 2 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W x 2 1/2" W. Provenance: Descended through the family of Revolutionary War soldier, Colonel John Sawyers. CONDITION: Warrants exhibit toning, foxing spots, dampstaining, areas of insect damage, to be expected from age. Bundles not examined for content or condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) items. 1st item: 18K yellow gold apple green jade ring containing cabochon jade measuring 15.10 mm x 12.51 mm, set in tapered signet ring mounting. Ring size 9-1/2. Marked 18K 750. 8.5 grams. 20th century. 2nd item: Spinach jade ornament with carved 5-toed dragon chasing a pearl, curved shape with slots at both ends, 1-7/8" L x 1/2" W, 20th century. 3rd item: Celadon-colored soapstone oval pendant with carved horse, 1-3/8" H x 7/8" W. 20th century. Provenance: Private Maryville, TN estate. CONDITION: 1st item: Minor surface scratches to gold mounting. 2nd item: Very good condition. 3rd item: Minor abrasions to back. [See more photos →]

Art Deco gents 18K yellow gold star sapphire and diamond dome ring, round star sapphire measuring approximately 12.62 mm diameter x 8.89 mm depth. Two bezel set step cut straight bullet diamonds with total weight of approximately .30 ct. Ring marked 18K. 15.3 grams. Size 9 3/4. CONDITION: Minor surface wear to sapphire. Bullet diamonds in very good condition. Minor surface scratches to 18K mounting. [See more photos →]

Frank Handlen (Maine/New Jersey, b. 1916) oil on board Luminist style painting depicting a river scene with a moored boat, under a luminescent sky. Signed and dated "Handlen 1970" lower right. Housed in a gilded American 20th century style frame. Sight – 17 1/8" H x 13" W. Framed – 24 3/4" H x 20 3/4" W. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Minute white paint mark, right center of board. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Pair of Chinese Qing dynasty blue and white porcelain plates, each with interior court scene, peach border and additional landscape decoration to the outer rim. Blue six character K'ang Hsi mark within concentric circles center en verso. 10 1/2" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: East Tennessee collection, by descent from Edwin V. Hill, M.D., deceased 1969. Dr. Hill was a faculty member of Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools and served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. He collected Asian arts during his military tour in the Far East theatre, including China and Japan, prior to 1964. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. One plate with fleabite to rim edge. [See more photos →]

Antique Persian Senna Baft Hamadan area rug, 4'3" x 8'1", single weft, palmettes and floral pattern, blue field and peach main border, secondary colors of lighter blues, rust, cream, taupe and brown. 1st quarter 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Pedersoli Waadtlander Target Rifle, .45 Caliber, with palm rest and double set triggers. Reproduction of a Swiss muzzleloading target rifle used by European match shooters. American walnut stock. Barrel length – 29 1/4". Overall length – 49". Italian, Late 20th century. Note: This particular rifle has won gold medals in World Muzzleloading Championships in 1898, 1990, 1992 and 1994. It also won the team championship in 1981. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. A couple scratches to stock in butt area. [See more photos →]

American tiger maple candlestand with square top having cut corners over a vasiform standard with ring turned base, terminating in three dovetail spider legs. 27" H x 19 1/2" W x 18" D. Probably New England, early/mid 19th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Old scratches and water marks, surface of candlestand. [See more photos →]

Walter Hollis Stevens (Tennessee/Illinois, 1927-1980) watercolor on paper abstract expressionist painting depicting shapes in grey, brown, blue, and orange against a light grey wash. Signed Stevens '70 lower left. Housed in a contemporary metal frame. Image – 16 3/4" H x 22 1/8" W. Sight – 17 1/4" H x 23 1/8" W. Framed – 40 3/8" H x 32 1/4" W. Note: Stevens was one of the Knoxville Seven and a professor of art at the University of Tennessee. His work is in collections of the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee State Museum, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Alabama, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Alice Latimer Moseley (Mississippi, 1909-2004) oil on board folk art painting depicting a country antiques store with spinning wheel, quilt, pot bellied stove and other objects in the foreground and a proprietor in the doorway. Signed Moseley, lower right. 13 1/2" x 10 1/2" sight, 18" x 15" framed. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Nine (9) pieces coin silver flatware, including some rare West Tennessee marks. 1st item: 1 Tablespoon with fiddle swell handle, incuse mark S. Freeman (Samuel Freeman, working Trenton, Gibson County, 1858-1860 and later). Monogrammed Mary Willard. Note: This spoon and the mark are illustrated in Tennessee Silversmiths, p. 87. 2nd item: 1 dessert spoon with fiddle swell handle marked S. SIMPSON in rectangle (Samuel Simpson, working Clarksville, Montgomery County, 1837?-1838; 1860. Ref. Tennessee Silversmiths, p. 154-155), monogram C. 3rd item: 1 fiddle pattern tablespoon marked W.D. KELLY in rectangle (attr. William Kelly, working Brownsville, Haywood County c. 1860 and Trenton, Gibson County after 1860. Ref. Tennessee Silversmiths, p. 118). Monogrammed EBL. 4th-9th items: Six coin silver teaspoons with fiddle handles and shell backs, marked E. Watson, monogrammed FBN or FBV. 6.64 total oz troy. Note: Tennessee Silversmiths lists an E. Watson working as a jeweler in Memphis/Shelby County TN c. 1850, and a mark similar to this one is pictured (p. 164-165). However, a similar mark is also attributed in other reference books to Edward Watson of Boston, circa 1821, and the shells on these spoons are more stylistically consistent with Boston than Memphis. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: All items in very good condition with handle of one Kelly spoon mildly bent. [See more photos →]

A near or altered pair of Federal mahogany dining chairs, reputedly from Hickory Hill Plantation in Alabama, home of Andrew Jackson's close ally and business partner, General John Coffee. Klismos shaped chairs, each with a top rail in the form of a rectangular molded tablet, rounded top rail and curving in at center, over a mid-rail with carved rosette flanked by open scrolled elements; curving stiles; trapezoidal slip seat with yellow damask upholstery, sabre legs with roundels at knees. One chair has a scrolled crest which appears to have been added or repaired, the other does not. 32 3/4" H and 32 1/2" H, seats 18 to 18 1/2" from ground. Chair with crest has small metal plaque reading: From Hickory Hill near Florence, Ala. Old Home of Gen. John Coffee, Presented by his great granddaughter Rachel Jackson Dyas, 1905. Note: John Coffee (1772-1833) commanded troops under General Andrew Jackson during the Creek War and the War of 1812 in Alabama and Louisiana, and was among Jackson's closest allies. Prior to the war, he and Jackson, along with John Hutchings, operated a tavern and dry goods store near the Hermitage in Nashville. Coffee married Mary Donelson, the niece of Rachel Donelson Jackson. After the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815, Coffee settled in north Alabama, where he became a surveyor, land developer, and planter, and he was one of the principal founders of Florence, Lauderdale County. Hickory Hill Plantation burned in 1865. These dining chairs resemble ones in the collection of The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson. They were likely made in Philadelphia, circa 1815. For the last several decades, they have been at Dozier Farm, a National historical register property in Nashville. CONDITION: 1st chair: added crest, 1 ear repaired or replaced. 1 front leg broken and repaired. Rear leg starting to split at joint of seat/leg. Small loss to veneer at bottom of one front leg. Stains to seat. 2nd chair: Both ears repaired or replaced, modern bracket reinforcements to under seat to top of leg joints. [See more photos →]

Louis Vuitton Hunting Satchel, LV monogram canvas with cowhide trim and gilt brass hardware. Comprised of two compartments with zip and buckle closure, rounded handle, detachable shoulder strap and removable luggage tag. Retains the original storage bag. 18.9" L x 15.7" H x 8.7" D. CONDITION: Excellent, almost new condition. No stains, very light wear evident to handle and cowhide trim. Retains the original storage bag. [See more photos →]

Revolutionary War period officer's liquor chest or cellarette, comprised of two compartments, the lower compartment fitted for sixteen (16) bottles and retains 13 similar blown glass bottles; top compartment fitted for decanters and various glassware and retains an assembled set of blown and cut glassware including 1 decanter, 5 matching shot glasses with gilt decoration, 1 single shot glass with gilt decoration, 7 various stemmed glasses, 6 with gilt decoration and one gilt rimmed glass, 15 pieces total. All housed in an oak cellaret case with iron fittings and hardware. Case – 15 3/4" H x 22" W x 15 1/4" D. 52.8 lbs. Set likely Continental, late 18th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Chest with overall general wear, some stains to top and minor losses to hardware on left side. Interior items not a matching set and not complete. Decanter with chip to rim, remaining glass items overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Gaspare J. Ruffolo (American/Illinois, 1908-1997) oil on board Western landscape painting titled "Mountain Bell Lake, Colorado" depicting a lake foreground with snow-capped mountains in the background. Signed "Gaspere Ruffolo" lower right. Housed in a molded wood frame with linen liner. 23 1/2" H x 29 5/8" W. Framed – 32" H x 38" W. Biography (courtesy Peter Hastings Falk, Who Was Who in American Art): Chicago-born Gasper Ruffolo studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago with Wellington Reynolds and George Oberteuffer, and exhibited at the Art Institute. He was known for his landscapes and portraits, and was a member of the Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, Chicago Galleries Association, and the All-Illinois Society of Fine Artists. Provenance: Consigned by a direct descendant of the artist. CONDITION: Some staining to linen liner. Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Xanthus Russell Smith (Pennsylvania/Maine, 1839-1929) pencil on paper drawings. 1st item: Pencil on paper drawing titled FARMSTEAD AT SHOEMAKERTOWN depicting a small farmstead and large trees. Titled, signed with monogram. and dated ,X.S. Aug 15th 1876, lower right. Dated, Aug 22d 1876, lower left center. Copy of Schwarz, Philadelphia, PA gallery label with artist information, en verso. Housed in a contemporary gilded frame. Sight – 7" H x 11 1/2" W. Framed – 15 3/4" H x 20 1/4" W. 2nd item: Pencil on paper drawing titled BARQUE WITH TOP MASTS CARRIED AWAY OFF GOUSTER N.G. depicting a ship and rowboat in the water. Titled, inscribed, signed with monogram, and dated, "Lower masts, very large – yellow – with white bands around them Fore sails aback & in shadow – movin sails full – in light – Bround days mass of shadow on bow – – X.S. July 30th. 1881", below image. Vose Galleries, Boston, MA gallery label with artist information, en verso. Housed in a contemporary gilded frame. Sight – 5 3/4" H x 5 3/4" W. Framed – 15 3/4" H x 15 3/4" W. Note: Xanthus Russell Smith was a noted painter of Marine and Civil War subjects. Born into a family of artists, he was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He served in the Navy during the Civil War, and became known as America's foremost painter of Civil War Naval engagements. Later in life he primarily produced landscapes and photographs. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. Minute foxing spots, surface of sheet. Not examined outside of frame. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Areas of toning, largest 1", top left and right of sheet. Minute foxing spots, surface of sheet. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Knox County TN Register Sampler and Family Bible, 2 items total. 1st item: Framed Knox County, Tennessee family birth/death register sampler, wrought by Elizabeth Jane Hunter (1821-1897) and dated May 27, 1836. Comprised of natural colored plain weave linen with single ply silk thread executed in cross stitch. The outer edge is decorated with coss-stitched zig-zag floral vine in colors of green and gold. The lettering is done in colors of brown, blues, greens golds and a light blue (reworked areas). Lines of gold cross-stitch delineate sections. Sampler is float mounted in a gilt wood frame. NOTE: This sampler has been documented by the Tennessee Sampler Survey. (TSS 183). Sampler – 17 1/4" H x 17 1/2" W. Framed – 22 1/4" H x 22 1/2" W. 2nd item: THE HOLY BIBLE: CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, TOGETHER WITH THE APOCRYPHA, published 1815, by Mathew Carey, King James Version. Hard bound leather cover. Family record on page 677, including the maker of the sampler along with her parents and siblings. CONDITION: 1st item: Sampler overall good condition with sound structure. Small 1/4" dia. hole bottom left corner. 2 loose threads right and left sides near center. Darkening from age. Later light blue replacement stitching. Frame overall excellent condition. Full condition report by P. Ewer 5/28/2001 available. 2nd item: Bible overall poor condition. Spine binding split in half. Cover is scratched and marked front and back. Pages have discoloration, tears, wrinkles, and water stains throughout. [See more photos →]

Lionel Type MBF compensating brass ship binnacle with maker's specification plate reading "Compensating Binnacle Type MBF The Lionel Corporation New York, N.Y. U.S.A. /Serial No. 11816/ 1942". Fitted with U. S. Navy Standard gimbaled compass, No. 37897/Nov. 1909, manufactured by Ritchie, Boston, hood with handles and compensating balls, varnished teak base. Keys included. 51 1/2" H x 35 1/2" W x 15 1/2" D. American, early/mid 20th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Hood with minor dents. Areas of tarnish, inside of hood and compensating balls. Areas of oxidation, surface of arms. Minor scratches, surface of teak base. [See more photos →]

Contemporary Stickley oak commemorative table with leather top and brass rivets, a reissue of an original circa 1900 Gustav Stickley designed table with keyed mortise and tenon joinery and brown leather top. Branded STICKLEY in an oval on the top underside and stamped underneath: #35 89-107 7 90 97 and impressed PH 2. 29-1/2" H x 42" diameter. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Chinese porcelain Items. 1st item: Chinese Ming style monochrome yellow porcelain baluster form vase with incised 5-toed dragons and lotus blossom decoration, converted to lamp and mounted onto a carved hardwood base. Older red and white sticker on base. 18-1/4" H overall. Vase without stand or lid – 8" H x 7-1/2" dia. Late 19th/Early 20th century. 2nd item: Chinese oxblood red porcelain mei ping form vase, red lettering and two older stickers on base, 7-1/4" H. 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Drilled at base. No visible cracks. Scattered surface grime. Not tested for functionality. 2nd item: Overall good condition, scattered abrasians to glaze, some uneveness to glaze. [See more photos →]

English Edwardian stained oak etagere in three tiers with three-quarter gallery, vase and block turnings at corners supported by casters, 44" H x 48" W x 18-7/8" D. English 1860. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Very good condition. One large stain on top shelf. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Brass fireplace fenders. 1st item: Classical Revival fireplace fender with cast urns at each end, each with bands of acanthus and figural decoration, topped by removable flame finials and joined by a base wtih repeating acanthus decoration. 28" H x 49 /12" W x 6 1/2" D. 2nd item: Neoclassical gallery style fender with balustrades joined by flaming urns atop plinths at each end. 11" H x 39" W x 3 1/2" D. 3rd item: Brass rail style fender. 4 1/2" H x 38" W x 18" D. All circa mid/late 19th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Some red paint drips to one side. Area of green oxidation to center. General wear, light oxidation and some polish residue in crevices. 2nd item: Overall good condition with light oxidation. 3rd item: Overall good condition with light oxidation. [See more photos →]

19 pcs. Archive of images of the Hermitage in Nashville, home of General and President Andrew Jackson. First 5 items: 5 Otto B. Giers cabinet card albumen photographs depicting The Hermitage as it appeared circa 1892. Subjects include the Front Parlor (showing Ralph E. W. Earl paintings of Rachel and Andrew Jackson); Slave Cabins (with Jackson's man servant "Uncle Alfred" in foreground); an Exterior View with figure (possibly Alfred) with back to camera, leaning against a tree); the Main Hallway (with wallpaper, Jackson bust, pier tables and barrel back chair said to have been given to Jackson by George Washington; and Jackson's bedroom. Card Sizes range from 4 7/8" x 8" to 7 3/4" x 10". Note: In 1892, Col. Andrew Jackson III, the president's grandson, hired Nashville photographer Otto Giers to take some photographs of the home. The following year, Col. Jackson and his family moved to Cincinnati, taking all of the contents with them. Remaining 14 items, Hermitage related Ephemera, are as follows: 1886 color lithograph, JACKSON'S HOME-THE HERMITAGE NEAR NASHVILLE TENN. published by the O.Judd Co. for the American Agriculturalist magazine, depicting the mansion viewed from the side, with 2 vignettes of Jackson's tomb and his original one story dwelling place. 17" x 22" (3" central tear at fold line and two margin tears at fold lines, largest 1"; some creases). — 27 page article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, January 1855, biographical article on Andrew Jackson with numerous illustrations of the Hermitage, Jackson's birthplace, Battle of Talladega, Gold Medal presented to Jackson by Congress, Map plan of the Battle of New Orleans, and the Tomb at The Hermitage. 9 1/2" x 6" with 1/4" dark stain to last few pages at edge. — Two Colored illustrations, signed in the stone "Pierson", one captioned THE HERMITAGE -THE HOME OF PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON, depicting the exterior of the mansion, the other captioned THE FIRST RESIDENCE OF ANDREW JACKSON depicting Jackson's original one-story home on the property. Both 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". — July 19, 1845 page from The Illustrated London News with article titled "Last Honours to General Jackson" with exterior view of Jackson's home and tomb, and "Procession in honour of the late General Jackson at New York." 15 3/4" x 10 3/4". Corner creases. — 1941 postcard depicting the miniature portrait of Rachel Jackson done by Anna C. Peale in Washington DC 1815, worn by Jackson after her death. — 8 small (3 1/2" x 2 1/2") black and white photographs of The Hermitage including The Entrance Gates, Exterior, Restored Brick Cabin, the Garden, Jackson's tomb, Jackson's bedroom, Hall and Stairway, and The Little Hermitage Church. Gates and exterior photos are additionally marked "Cline Photo." Provenance: Collection of Charles and Ann Wells, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Some general toning and fading and small abrasions to card mounts and images. Bedroom image has some corner creasing and dark marks across top right corner. Slave cabin image has losses to card mount along upper right edge, image not affected. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Native American Pottery Items, Navasie & Medina. 1st item: Joy Navasie (1919-2012) also known as Frog Woman, Hopi wedding vase with buff colored ground and polychrome geometric and tadpole decoration. Signed with artist's trademark frog pictograph on the base. 19" H x approx. 11" dia. 2nd item: Sofia Medina (1932-2010) Zia Pueblo pottery olla with polychrome bird and geometric decoration. Signed Sofia Medina, Zia on the base. 7" H x approx. 9" dia. Both items 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Very minor scattered wear/paint flakes to the body. 2nd item: Very minor scattered paint flakes. [See more photos →]

Miniature Middle Tennessee cherry box on turned legs, poplar secondary. Top with ogee molding, pegged stiles transition to a circular leg and spike foot. Bottom panel with pencil writing (most illegible) and underside beveled, retains the original lock and hinges. Found in Columbia, TN. 16 5/8" W x 11 1/2" H x 8 3/8" D. Second quarter of 19th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with refinished surface. [See more photos →]

George William Whitaker (Rhode Island/New York/Massachusetts, 1841-1916) oil on canvas Barbizon School landscape depicting a sparse field with trees against a small range of mountains and an overcast sky. Signed, G. W. Whitaker, lower right. Housed in a decorative carved gilded frame. Sight – 21 1/2" H x 27 1/2" W. Framed – 34 /4" H x 40 1/4" W. American, late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. Biography (courtesy Bert Gallery): Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, George William Whitaker was orphaned at the age of two and taken in by his maternal relatives. His uncles taught him draughtsmanship and engraving in New York City, allowing him to join the family business. This move to New York proved pivotal for Whitaker. In New York, artists Alexander Wyant and George Inness noticed his talent. Through their influence, Whitaker went to study art in France at the Julian Academy under the artist De Paal. While in France, Whitaker was influenced by the Barbizon School of Art, which focused on rural subjects and darker palettes, a trend which remained evident in his art. Returning from France to Providence, RI, Whitaker recognized the need to nurture art in Providence. In 1880 along with E.M. Bannister and Charles Walter Stetson, Whitaker founded the Providence Art Club. He also became the first oil painting teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design (1882-1885), bringing his knowledge of European art to the artists of the city. Whitaker also continued to produce paintings of the nature around him, keeping the dark tonality of his earlier work. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Painting has 1/4" dia. perforation top center of canvas with inpainting behind on stretcher. Two previous patch repairs visible en verso. Stretcher marks all sides of canvas. Rippling, top left and right of canvas. Frame has gap at top between inner and outer frame. [See more photos →]

Late 19th century Orientalist landscape, depicting several figures, including a team of oxen, along a road lined with ruins and a mountain in the background. Signed illegibly lower left, A. Alberick (?). Late 20th century brass nameplate reading: Road To Damascus 10 BC, with old label for the J.J. Gillespie Gallery, Pittsburgh, en verso. Elaborate scroll-carved and pierced giltwood frame with ovolo molded rabbet edge. Canvas – 19 3/4" H x 32" W. Framed – 32" H x 45" W. Provenance: Estate of Dr. Kirkland Wiley Todd, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Lined, overall grime, aged varnish, and light craquelure. 1/4" area of flaking with possible overpaint in center sky area. Small area of possible restoration to center of road near bottom edge. [See more photos →]

Marilyn Meiselman Newmark (American, 1928-1913) bronze sculpture depicting the race horse "Man O' War". Signed and dated on the base upper left "19@77 M Newmark/NSS". Mounted on a carved wooden base. Bronze – 8 3/4" H x 14 1/4" W x 2 3/8" D. Overall – 10 1/4" H x 15" W x 3-1/2" D. 14 lbs. 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Nashville, Tennessee coin silver teaspoon, pointed oval handle marked on back J.T. Ellifton in rectangle (sic; mark used by Joseph Thorp Elliston, 1779-1856, active Nashville, TN 1797-1820). Monogrammed MEK. 5 1/2" L. Circa 1800-1820. Note: Joseph Thorp Elliston was born 1779 in Culpepper, Virginia. He apprenticed with Samuel Ayres and in 1797, established himself as Nashville's first silversmith. This spoon is illustrated p. 79 (fig. 63H top) in the book Tennessee Silvermiths by Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Monogram and mark both show wear, some small dents to bowl. [See more photos →]

Pair of George III style mahogany and satinwood fitted knife boxes, likely English, both with hinged tops having satinwood and ebony star inlays, fitted interiors with bands of inlay, serpentine fronts with inlaid edges, five ogee bracket feet. 14 7/8" H x 8 1/2" W x 9 3/4" D. Early 20th century. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Both boxes with normal signs of age and wear: top to one box is slightly askew, interior with 2" natural wood crack left front, front opening lip with old nick. [See more photos →]

Group of Early Brass Candlesticks, 3 items total. 1st-2nd items: Circa 1740 pair of English brass candlesticks, seamed construction, with cartouche shaped bases, 8 1/4" H. 3rd item: Early hogscraper or push-up brass candlestick, also probably English, having seamed construction, a lobed base and integral nozzle, 7 1/8" H. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Candlesticks lack nozzles. 3rd item: Hogscraper candlestick knob does not go all the way down. [See more photos →]

Three (3) items Zuni needlepoint turquoise jewelry. 1st-2nd items: Zuni Squash Blossom necklace and earring set, necklace marked Ray & Eva Wyaco, earrings marked Sterling. The necklace (24-1/4" interior L) features 10 squash blossoms, each with 6 turquoise needlepoints. The Naja (2-1/8" L) at the center contains 48 turquoise needlepoints. Matching earrings with 6 turquoise needlepoints each, (1-5/8" total L). 2.495 oz troy/set. 3rd item: Zuni turquoise and silver metal cuff signed N & R Nez, displaying 85 turquoise needlepoint stones in hand cut bezel settings accented by mini silver beads and twisted silver strand designs. 3" H top x 2-3/4" W mounting w/ stones. 2-1/4" interior W x 1-3/4" interior D. 1-1/8" opening at back. 1.69 oz troy. Provenance: Property of a private Greeneville, TN collection. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Very good condition with minor polish residue. 3rd item: Very good condition with some surface grime. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee pie safe, likely Greene County, walnut primary, poplar secondary, with two dovetailed drawers over two lower doors, doors and sides with eight punched tins having central five- pointed star decoration flanked by hex star decoration, hearts and flowers at corners, and ogee molding surrounds. Interior with single shelf, all on delicate shaped bracket feet. 41 1/2" H x 42" W x 18" D. Southern, 3rd quarter 19th century. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Top of safe slightly offset, in the making, with some warping. Some oxidation to tins. Older blue interior stain and older surface. General wear to surface. [See more photos →]

Southern tiger maple blanket chest, poplar secondary with poplar base and till, top with bread board ends and exposed tendons, ogee molding, hinges likely original, ogee base molding and bracket feet, dovetailed front feet. 22" H x 38 1/2" W x 20 1/4" D. Southern, possibly Middle TN, 2nd quarter 19th century. Provenance: Private Warren County, TN collection, acquired from a McMinnville estate. CONDITION: Old refinish, scattered wear and abrasions to surface. Till lid missing. Some staining inside till. Split to right upper corner from hinge to second dovetail. [See more photos →]

Oil on canvas painting, possibly illustration art, depicting two men in a canoe on the water, the man on the right aiming a rifle at a stag or moose in the background. Signed and illegibly dated "h. E. Porthast 189_" lower left. Housed in a giltwood molded frame with carved corner ornaments. Sight – 17 1/2" H x 22 1/2" W. Framed – 24 3/4" H x 30" W. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Near pair German 835 silver cow creamers. 1st item: German 835 silver cow creamer with naturalistic body, curved horns and side-hinged bee decorated cover, 3 3/4" x 5 1/4" x 1 3/8" D. 7.5 oz troy. 2nd item: Very similar German 835 silver cow creamer, 3-3/4" x 5-3/8" x 1-1/2" D. 7.26 oz troy. 14.76 total oz troy/2 creamers. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Both in very good condition. [See more photos →]

Ted Burnett (Tennessee, 1908-1982) mixed media on board cubist painting titled "Noah's Ark". Signed Burnett, lower right. Label with artist's name and information, en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 18 5/8" H x 34 1/2" W. Framed – 25 1/2" H x 41 1/2" W. American, mid/late 20th century. Biography (Courtesy Village Fine Arts): Ted Burnett was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and studied at the Chicago Art Institute and Eliot O'Hara Watercolor School in Maine. Burnett's many awards included the Hallmark International Award, Nashville Arts Festival Purchase Prize, Art Association of New Orleans Watercolor Prize, Tennessee Valley Art Association Reynolds Metal Award, the Birmingham Art Association Jury Exhibition Award, and the Dixie Museum Purchase Prize. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Light craquelure, center of painting. [See more photos →]

Two (2) French Enamels. 1st item: French bronze and cloisonne blue enamel footed oval pen tray with bronze pen mounts. 2-1/4" H overall x 7" L x 3-5/8" W. Second half of the 19th century. 2nd item: French porcelain oval enamel box with gilt bronze mounts, hinged top with oval hand-painted cartouche of three cherubs playing with flowers, framed by step down gilt and blue enamel surround and shaped base. Spurious Sevres soft paste date mark for 1753 on base. 2" H x 5-3/4" L x 3-3/8" W. Second half of the 19th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Previous repair beneath pen bronze mounts, minor discoloration evident. 2nd item: Scattered beading missing on lid, otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Chanel Designer Items, including two purses, two pins. 1st-2nd items: Two Chanel black lambskin purses, one tote, one flat messenger bag. Stitched double "C" logo, surface of tote bag. Stamped "CHANEL", flap of messenger bag. Both stamped "CHANEL MADE IN ITALY", tote bag with registered trademark, messenger bag with double "C" logo, interior of bag. Includes two Chanel dust bags. Messenger Bag – 8" H x 8" W x 3/4" D. Overall – 30" H. Tote Bag – 12" H x 15" W x 5" D. Overall – 24" H. Italian, contemporary. 3rd-4th items: Two Chanel camellia pins, one black velveteen, one white satin. Both with secure closure and small oval gold tone tag stamped "CHANEL MADE IN FRANCE" with double "C" logo, back of pins. Includes two unattached retail tags embossed "CHANEL PARIS MADE IN FRANCE" and original boxes. Pins range in size from 1 1/2" H x 3 1/2" W to 1 1/2" H x 4" W. Boxes – 2 1/2" H x 4 3/8" W x 4 3/8" D. French, contemporary. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall good, gently used condition. Several scratches, largest 2 1/2", surface and interior flap of messenger bag. 3rd-4th items: Overall very good, gently used condition. Few areas of fraying, edges of camellia petals. [See more photos →]

Four (4) 19th century Fraternal Odd Fellows silk banners, each suspended from a brass bar and hand-painted with a variety of different symbols including all seeing eye, heart in hand, coffin, skull and crossbones, Holy Bible, etc. and adorned with silk braid/fringe around the edges. All housed within what appears to be the original paper lined wooden box, with stenciled label for F. Connell Clothing and Gents Furnishings, N. Lewisburg, Ohio. Banners – 29" H x 19" W. Box – 37" H x 25" W. Mid/late 19th century. Provenance: Private Franklin, TN collection. CONDITION: Banners are in very good condition but each has some detachment to some of the gold fringe and losses to some of the gold fringe. Box shows some wear to exterior and wear/ fading to interior paper lining, but is in fair to good condition overall. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Smith & Wesson .38 Cal. Special CTG revolvers. 1st item: Smith & Wesson Special .38 caliber Military & Police Model of 1905 4th Change revolver, serial no. 290483, bottom of butt, back of cylinder, and below ejector rod beneath barrel with B inspector mark, serial no. 9081, inside the crane and the frame. Round barrel with blued finish, stamped Smith & Wesson one side, 38 S&W Special CTG one side, bronze tone Smith & Wesson logo inlaid either side of checkered walnut grip, normal sights. Barrel length – 5". Overall length – 12". 2nd item: Smith & Wesson .38 caliber Special CTG revolver, serial No. K764549, bottom of grip and interior of cylinder frame with MOD 14-2, serial no. 5077, interior of cylinder frame with possible inspector initials AL. Round barrel with blued finish, stamped Smith & Wesson one side, 38 S&W Special CTG one side, silver tone Smith & Wesson logo inlaid either side of checkered walnut grip, normal sights. Barrel length – 5". Overall length – 11". Both items 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Majority of blue still present. 3/4" x 3/4 area of loss to bluing, back of frame near cylinder release. Loss to bluing, end of barrel. Bore is dark. Normal overall storage dings. Action appears good. 2nd item: Bluing in very good condition. Normal storage dings, areas of pitting, surface of barrel. Action good. Areas of possible waterstaning, largest 1/4", surface of frame near cylinder release. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Sulton Rogers (Mississippi, 1922-2003) outsider art carved wood figures, including a woman with uneven breasts, bent over a cane and wearing a long red dress; older man with a snake coming out of his ear and wearing a pink shirt and red pants; and a smaller devil horned couple, the man in red suit and woman in tight red dress, each with spade end tail. Unsigned. Carvings range in size from 8" H to 14" H. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Scattered tiny paint chips, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Folk art painted and carved wood whirligig, depicting a soldier with brass coat buttons and brass feather to hat, standing atop an arrow. Includes two contemporary black metal bases (removable) – one rectangular, the other circular . Whirligig – 18" H x 19 1/4" W. 22" H overall with stand. American, 19th century. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee Collection, purchased 1998 from Antique Associates at West Townsend, Massachusetts ( a copy of a Maine Antiques Digest ad featuring this item will be made available to the winning bidder). CONDITION: Some scratching to top, minor wear to paint decoration. 1/4" loss to lower left corner, top drawer. Losses to back, center of return and right side. Top right facing backsplash return fluoresces under blacklight inspection, indicating paint retouch. [See more photos →]

Early Jack Daniels clear glass cylinder whiskey bottle with raised lettering, JACK DANIEL'S OLD TIME DISTILLERY LYNCHBURG TENN. 9 1/8" H. Circa 1880-1890. CONDITION: Some bubbles, cloudiness and light iridescence. [See more photos →]

Five (5) 18th century English dining chairs. 1st group: Set of four (4) oak or elm side dining chairs, shaped crest rails, pierced splats, upholstered seats, and square legs. Overall: 37" H x 19" D x 21-1/4" W; Seat: 18-1/2" H x 15" D. English, second half 18th century. 5th item: One (1) oak or elm side dining chair, shaped crest rail, pierced splat, upholstered slip seat, banded tapering square legs ending in block supports. Overall: 37-1/2" H x 21" W x 16" seat D. English, second half 18th century. Provenance: The estate of Peter Fyfe, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: 1st group: Overall good condition with some repairs to back legs. 5th item: Horizontal split to crest rail, break to splat, wear to legs. [See more photos →]

Group of Georg Jensen USA Inc. and La Paglia Georg Jesen USA sterling jewelry, 6 items, including 3 sterling silver brooches, cala lily 134; leaf with 2 acorns 105; La Paglia for Georg Jensen Inc. USA round flower brooch 153; La Paglia for Georg Jensen Inc USA 15″ L link collar necklace 213 of ginko leaves and seed pods; Set of La Paglia for Georg Jensen Inc USA sterling link necklace 102, (17 1/4″ L) and bracelet 105, (7 1/4″ L) of beads and foliage. Brooches – 2 7/8″ x 1 1/2″ to 2″ x 1 1/2″. 8.45 oz troy total 6 items. CONDITION: All in very good condition. [See more photos →]

Edward Percy Moran (New York, PA, 1862-1935) oil on canvas portrait painting depicting a young female seated holding a bouquet of white roses and with pink roses adorning her dress. Titled on the frame plate, The Last of the Roses. Signed lower right E. Percy Moran. Housed in a contemporary gilt wood frame with gilt liner. Sight -19 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed – 27" H x 23" W. CONDITION: Old patch repair en verso left of subject's head, small patch repair to the center. Some rubbing on canvas on the stretchers. Some slackness to canvas. Uneven application of varnish. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Roy Pace (Tennessee, d. 2011) painted wood folk art carvings depicting scenes of rural life. 1st item: Carving of a woman holding a cannon ball, a box of cannon balls and an empty barrel at her feet. Signature and date 1977 carved underside of base. 10 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W x 6 3/8" D. 2nd item: Carving of a kneeling man holding a scythe and a ladle, a bucket of water at his feet. Signature and date 1978 carved underside of base. 13" H x 5" W x 8 3/4" D. 3rd item: Carving of two women, one holding a bucket of water and one holding a ladle. Signature and date 1978 carved underside of base. 11" H x 9 7/8" W x 4 3/4" D. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some scattered light fading and grime to surface areas. 1st item: Female figure has been reglued to base. Female figure and box loose on base. 2nd item: Area of repair to handle of scythe. [See more photos →]

Roy Ferdinand (New Orleans, 1959-2004) ink, pencil, and paint on paper painting depicting two women talking over a backyard fence while one hangs laundry with two male figures to the right. Signed and dated Roy Ferdinand (copyright) 92, lower right. Museum accession tag, en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 21 1/8" H x 26 7/8" W. Framed – 25 7/8" H x 31 1/8" W. American, late 20th century. Biography note: Self taught art artist Roy Ferdinand was known for portraying the street life and characters from some of New Orleansí toughest neighborhoods. He died of cancer at the age of 45. Provenance: Property of the Arts Center of Cannon County, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some waviness to surface of paper. [See more photos →]

Tennessee pieced quilt, honeycomb or mosaic pattern, comprised of cotton and velvet pieces with wide black satin border and backing. A signed letter accompanying this lot states that this was a "lap quilt" which once belonged to First Lady Sarah Childress Polk (1803-1891) and descended through the family of Ethel Baily and Adair Lyon Childress to the present owner. 64" x 74". Late 19th century. CONDITION: Some scattered fraying and losses to mosaic pieces, scattered stains. Some stains to satin. Split to satin backing, consistent with center fold line. [See more photos →]

Colt New Service Revolver, standard civilian model, .44 caliber, serial number 10836. Barrel marked Colt's Patent Fife Arms Manufacturing Co., Hartford, C.T. U.S.A. Pat. Aug 5 1884 June 5 1900/New Service 44 Cal. Hard rubber stocks, metal frame, round barrel, ejector rod, standard sights. U. S. inspector mark H, frame near cylinder above serial number. Also includes brown leather holster with Post Office Department/Railway Mail Service/53223, employee shield badge with US letters entwined in the center surrounded by 13 stars, an eagle above holding the badge in its talons. Badge number dated circa 1940's, before 1948 when the Railway Mail Service was renamed the Postal Transport Service. Barrel length – 4 1/2". Overall length – 11". Holster length – 11 1/4". Serial number corresponds to year 1904. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of blue still present. Barrel and stocks in good condition with normal storage dings. Action is good. Holster and badge in worn condition. [See more photos →]

Contemporary Stickley oak 4-high barrister bookcase, with low frieze and four compartments having alternating glass and oak paneled fronts, each with single brass knob. Bookcase branded upper left inside corner, STICKLEY in an oval with the round Stickley Manlius NY metal tag. Dated and numbered on the upper back: Jan 05 2000 #32 and 891780 #, consistent with the Stickley oak 2-door glass front cabinet in this sale, both from the same estate. 64" H x 33" W x 12-1/2" D. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Andrew Jackson Silk Memorial or Mourning Ribbons, including 1 rare Patriot and Statesman ribbon with classical mourning scene, Jackson portrait and crepe rosette remnant, 1 in memory of departed worth published by Edward Wheates, depicting President Jackson's Nashville home, The Hermitage, beneath his portrait; and 1 engraved by Shields and Hammonds with verse: A tear is shed o'er all who die/ A Mourners at the humblest grave / but nations swell the funeral cry/ and triump weeps above the brave. 6 1/2" to 8 1/4" L. All circa 1845. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Very good, light creasing, minimal fraying. 2nd item: Very good, minor fraying 3rd item: Discoloration, medium fraying, horizontal tear to lower fifth, vertical tear to top fifth. [See more photos →]

Four (4) pieces Chinese Export Canton porcelain. 1st item: Chinese lobed blue and white vase with foo dog finials, narrative scene of figures in landscape with animals, buildings and waterway. Bamboo decorated base. 12 3/4" H, late 19th century. 2nd and 3rd items: Large Chinese Export Canton blue and white porcelain platter with canted corners and matching shallow large serving bowl, scenes of Cantonese seascapes dotted with pagodas, temples and sailing vessels. Platter – 2" H x 18 1/2" W x 15" D and bowl – 2" H x 11" dia., both late 19th century. 4th item: Large Chinese Export Canton blue and white centerpiece bowl decorated with scenes of Cantonese seascapes dotted with pagodas, temples and sailing vessels, bamboo decorated outer rim, 5" H x 14 3/4" dia., late 19th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition with some minor surface grime. Black inventory number on inside base. 2nd item: Four areas of wear to decoration, lower left corner of design, largest 1/4" W. 3rd item: Shallow bowl slightly out of round, scratch to center. 4th item; Several surface cracks and repairs. See photos. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Chinese Export Canton Tureens. 1st-2nd items: Two near pair Chinese Export Canton porcelain blue and white covered tureens, one slightly more oval than other, both with boar's head handles and helmet finials and detailed scenes of Cantonese seascapes dotted with pagodas, temples and sailing vessels, 6" x 11 1/2" x 8" and 6" x 10 3/4" x 8", both mid to late 19th century. 3rd-4th items: Two near pair Chinese Export Canton porcelain blue and white covered vegetable serving dishes, both with shell finials, detailed scenes of pagodas, temples and sailing vessels on lid and in interior and with floral decoration on exterior rims. 3 1/2" x 10 3/4" x 8 1/2" and 4" x 11" x 8 3/4", both mid to late 19th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. The larger vegetable dish has glaze voids around the outer rim (appears to be related to the firing process, not damage). [See more photos →]

Pair of Civil War era Crow or Y-Strap leather saddlebags, comprised of double bags and connecting yoke. Flaps close with a "Y" shape billet, a characteristic of Confederate construction as illustrated on page 111 of the book CONFEDERATE SADDLES AND HORSE EQUIPMENT by Ken R. Knopp. Smaller example retains attached carrying straps. Stiching on both is very similar, possibly made by the same hand. Smaller saddlebags measure approx. 11 1/2" H x 16" W x 42 1/2" L. Larger bags approx. 15 1/2" H x 16" W x 43 1/2" L. Mid 19th century. Provenance: Both bags found in Greene County, TN, larger/darker pair ex. Broyles Estate of Greene County, Tennessee. CONDITION: Smaller set missing one of the iron bag latches, repairs to back seams at top of both bags. Larger set missing one of the iron bag latches. Both bags with separation to back seams at top and flap partially detached to one bag, small tear/cut to yoke, approx. 3" L. [See more photos →]

United Confederate Veterans (UCV) flag, based on the Confederate States of America (CSA) Naval Jack and Army of Tennessee Battle Flag, with thirteen machine stitched white five-pointed stars of equal size, inside a navy blue saltire with white outlining against a red field. Housed in a wooden frame under glass. Flag – 30 1/4" H x 45 1/2" W. Framed – 33 1/2" H x 49 1/2" W. First quarter 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of dampstaining, largest 3 1/2" x 4 1/2". Areas of brown staining on stitching. 1/4" tear, center left of flag. Areas of wear, largest 1/2". Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Southern stoneware crocks with cobalt. 1st item: Alexander Polk Donaghho (West Virginia) four gallon stoneware storage jar with lug handles stenciled in cobalt: A. P. Donaghho, Parkersburg W.Va., within a cobalt rectangle, additionally stamped "4" for gallon capacity. 16 1/2" H. Late 19th century. Note: Alexander Polk Donaghho moved to Parkersburg in 1890 and started the A. P. Donaghho Pottery company. Donaghho died in 1899 and the company went out of business around 1903. 2nd item: Southern stoneware pottery storage crock with lug handles and dated "1880" in cobalt to the upper body, just below incised lines on upper shoulder. 14 1/2" H x 12" dia. Late 19th century. 3rd item: Southern stoneware pottery jar with free-hand cobalt floral sprig decoration to one side of body. 13" H. Late 19th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. 2nd item: Minor scattered fleabites to rim and one handle. 3rd item: Scattered firing flaws, otherwise good condition. [See more photos →]

Washington County, Tennessee stoneware pottery jar attributed to Charles Frederick Decker (1832-1914) with cobalt multiple petal flower decoration to four sides, cobalt rings around the base of handles. Impressed "2" on top of jar rim denoting gallon capacity. 12 1/4" H x 9" dia. (at mid-section). Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. Biography (Courtesy of Carole Wahler): Charles Frederick Decker was born in Germany in 1832. He arrived in Philadelphia in his late teens. Oral tradition suggests he worked at the Remmey Pottery before establishing his Keystone pottery there at the age of 25. He moved his family to Delaware for a few years and then back to Philadelphia. After 1869, Decker moved to Virginia, six miles north of Abingdon. The pottery he operated there was located on land owned by a man named Mallicote (Mallicoat). In 1872, he established his pottery in the Nolichucky River Valley near present day Johnson City, Tennessee. For a year or so he operated in both Virginia and Tennessee. He was one of a number of potters who settled in the region during the early years of Reconstruction. He named his Chucky Valley pottery the same name that he had used in Pennsylvania, Keystone Pottery. His pottery was marketed not only in East Tennessee, but also in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with a 5/8" chip to the outer rim edge. [See more photos →]

1 pc Colonial Currency, paper money. Edmund Jennings Randolph (1753-1813) signed One Shilling and 3 Pence PISTEREEN note, No. 42592, issued on Virginia. Reads: One Shilling and Three Pence A PISTEREEN Current Money of VIRGINIA Pursuant to Ordinance of CONVENTION passed July 17, 1775. Fifteen Pence. Fifteen Pence, vignette of Virginia Colony Coat of Arms, top right. Signed, lower left. 3" H x 3 1/2" W. Late 18th century. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Mylar residue, largest 1/16", surface of note. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) 19th century scrimshaw carved whale teeth, one carved with a portrait of a gentleman (6 1/2" L), one carved with a portrait of a lady holding a parasol, flanked by two female heads (4 3/4" L) and one inscribed with a poem reading, "Oh, the rare old whale amid storm and gale, in his ocean home will be, a giant in might where might is right, and king of the boundless sea", flanked by a pennant with the letter "S" left and cresting sperm whale right (5 3/4" L). American, second half of 19th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: All in very good overall condition, some natural toning to tooth and age cracks. Tooth with females with possible old break to one side of opening. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) vintage dive accessories. 1st item: Bonze Morris Mark V spanner wrench for 1939 Mark V dive helmet, marked "D". Please note: This wrench fits the nuts on dive helmet in Lot 785 in this sale. 7-3/8" L. 2nd item: KA-BAR deep sea diving knife (6-7/8" L blade) with turned wooden grip and bronze scabbard, marked KA-BAR/REG. US PAT OFF to one side and UNION CUTLERY CO./OLEAN, NY, 13-1/4" L overall. 3rd item: Bronze and metal underwater gas cutting torch with three oxygen and gas mixing valves, maker's decal missing, marked M.U 450, near the base, 13-1/4" L. 4th item: Bronze underwater flashlight with two bulbs, battery operated (no batteries included). Maker unknown. 5" x 8" x 4-3/8". 15 lbs. All items first half 20th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: All items overall good condition with some wear due to use, some minor oxidation to metal. Cutting torch with some minor denting to large tube. Flashlight retains traces of red paint. [See more photos →]

Meteorite brass and copper port and starboard lanterns, 2 items total. Maker's specification plate, Meteorite P93891 (Port), P28892 (Starboard) Patent No 546575 and others pending. Red and blue glass Fresnel lenses, brass port and starboard badges, body of lanterns with original oil lamps and parabolic reflectors, brass carry handles, round lids with metal clasp, top of vented chimneys, handles and mounting flanges, sides of lantern. 21 3/4" H x 13 1/2" W x 13 1/2" D. Overall – 25" H. United Kingdom, early 20th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of tarnish and oxidation, surface of lanterns. Dents, scratches, largest, 4 1/2", surface of lanterns. Not tested for functionality, although the intact lamps and parabolic reflectors suggest thay are in working condition. [See more photos →]

Large Samuel Cole Williams archive of Tennessee related papers and ephemera, 20 plus items. Samuel Cole Williams (January 15, 1864-December 14, 1947) was a noted 19th and 20th century Tennessee jurist, historian, educator, and businessman. 1st item: Land Deed between Williams and Mr. James A. Preas and Mrs. Nannie Preas, Johnson City, TN, in which they "have bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey to Samuel C. Williams, of Johnson City, the following realty in Ninth Civil District of Washington County, Tennessee, to-wit: Lots (I) to thirty-two (32) inclusive in Block eighty-eight (88) of Carnegie Land Company Addition to the town of Johnson City. In Testimony Whereof, withness our hands and seals, this April 4th, 1904" for the sum of $400, signed by Mr. and Mrs. Preas, lower right. Notarized by R. C. Hunter, Notary Public of Washington County, TN, April 4th, 1904, entered into the register by W. I. Vines, Register for Washington County, November 23, 1904. 2nd item: Mock Land Deed between Williams and Fred W. Hoss, Shorthand and Court Reporter and Notary Public, Washington County, TN, in which Hoss "For and in Consideration of the sum of three hundred and sixty five days of cordial relations (#365.CR) during the year 1918, the receipt of which is is hereby acknowledged, [Hoss] [has] this day expressed, transferred and conveyed, and do hereby, by these presents, express, transfer and convery, unto Hon. S. C. Williams all the interest, good-will, prosperity, success and happiness in the following described boundary or span of life, located in the First Distinguised County of Reputation, State of Contentment, and described by metes and bounds as follows…" witnessed by Hoss and assistant Notary J. K. Hampton, December 25, 1918. Handwritten note from Williams with signature, en verso. 3rd item: Announcement pamphlet "To the People and Bar of Tennessee" in regards to his intention to stand as a candidate for the Supreme Judgeship of the Tennessee Supreme Court at the regular August election, 1914. 4th-7th items: Carbon copy of "Report of Law School", prepared by Williams, Dean of The Lamar School of Law, addressed to President Harvey W. Cox (1920-1942), Emory University, May 10, 1922. Williams writes "The Lamar School of Law shows a continued, and augumenting rate of increase of attendants; the aggregate for the current year being 71". He later speculates that the number of student for the next year would be about 75 to 80, suggesting the creation of a dormitory for the exclusive use of the law students. Williams ultimately recommends the increase of $2,000 over the previous year's budget "to meet the needs due to the growth of the School…". Includes a copy of the "Emory News Letter" Vol. II., No. 5, May 1924, announcing the resignation of Williams as Dean of the Law School. Also included are two letters from two student organizations at the Lamar School of Law in response to Williams' resignation, one from "Ways and Means Committee of Student Body" stating their intention to raise money for a portrait of Williams for the School's picture gallery, signed by Secretary E. E. Strickland, May 4, 1923, one from "The First Year Law Class" in which they state "Resolutions adopted by the members…upon the resignation of Judge Williams as Dean of the Lamar School of Law", signed by Secretary J. N. Gary, Jr., undated. 8th-9th items: Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Tusculum College, signed by President Charles Albert Anderson (1931-1942), Acting President Jere A. Moore (1927-1928 and 1944-1946), and Secretary B. B. Fraker. Secured to black leather diploma cover with off white ribbon, gilt lettering reading "Tusculum College", front of cover. Also included is a program for the "Tusculum College One Hundred and Forty-sixith Annual Baccalaureate and Commencement June First and Second Nineteen Hundred Forty-one Greeneville, Tennessee". 10th-13th items: "Sugge[s]tions as to Design For Tennessee Sesqui-Centennial Postage Stamp" report copy, prepared by The Tennessee Historical Commission, with Williams as Chairman, with typed and handwritten notes by Williams. Addressed to Honorable Frank C. Walker, Postmaster General, Washington, D.C., by Williams from Aquone, Johnson City, TN, April 17, 1945. "Judge Samuel Cole Williams: Businessman, Jurist, Scholar and Historian" by Billy Joe Crouch, for Dr. Frank L. Williams, Jr., History 506, Recent American History, January 1956. 35 typed pages, housed in a grey folder. Two essays titled "Sycamore Shoals 1780-1930" by Amy May Rogers, undated. 14th-20th items: Seven Photographs including images of Williams as a child, taken by McClintock and Langford, Jackson, TN, and as a young man about to graduate from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, taken by Rodney Poole, Nashville, TN, with inscription reading "Truly, your brothers in- kai- Sam C Williams…V. U. '84". Also included is a photograph of his wife Isabella Hayes Williams, dated October 19, 1956, and two photographs of Aquone, Johnson, TN, one of the house and one of the gardens, undated, and two photographic copies of portraits of Williams, undated. Also included are invitations to events, a postcard, newspaper clippings, and copies of biographical information about Williams or other historical figures. All items housed in two plastic brown archival folders. Provenance: Anne P. and Thomas A. Gray Library and MESDA Research Center. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some items exhibit toning, dampstaining, tears, wear commensurate with age. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Carved Canes and one (1) Victorian Shooting Stick, four (4) items total. 1st-3rd items: Grouping of three (3) Victorian carved canes including one (1) with female bust handle and carved snake to the shaft, one (1) with polished bone antler handle, silver band and straight shaft and one (1) with silver handle, straight narrow rosewood shaft and brass ferrule, possibly for a lady. Ranging in size from 33 3/4" L to 35 1/4" L. All Continental, late 19th century. 4th item: Victorian shooting stick, wood and metal comprised of a folding seat with inset dog plaque and scorched wood shaft, terminating in metal spike. 32 1/2" L. Circa 1890s. CONDITION: 1st-3rd items: Age crack to wood, lower section of snake cane. Others with general wear. 4th item: Wear, scratches to seat, overall general wear. [See more photos →]

Two (2) German-Austrian themed walking sticks. 1st item: Kaiser Franz Josef I Jubilee walking stick, curved handle of cast German 800 silver with the bust profile of Franz Joseph I, two laurel branches and dates 1840-1908, hallmarked KH. Dark hardwood shaft, 35 3/4" overall length x 4 5/8" overall width. Early 20th century. 2nd item: Mechanical walking stick of carved wooden bust of man with cigar, eyepiece and suede hat, all mounted on knotted wood shaft. 35" L, early 20th century. Note: When the hat is pressed down, the cigar retreats into the man's mouth. CONDITION: 1st item: Very good condition. 2nd item: Very minor wear to hat. Label residue on shaft. [See more photos →]

Brass Surveyor's Compass, 5 3/4" silvered dial engraved Benjamin Pike Jr., 294 Broadway, N.Y. , with cardinal points in block letters, fleur-de-lis representing north. Two spirit levels; sighting vanes in the original fitted mahogany box with brass escutcheon. Compass – 15 1/2" L. Case – 4 1/2" H x 16 1/2" W x 8" D. Note: Benjamin Pike, Jr. was born in New York City in 1809 and died in 1864. He was the eldest son of Benjamin Pike, Sr., optician. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Lacking cover, tiny edge chip to glass has allowed some dust to settle on dial and we have not attempted to clean it; functionality not confirmed or guaranteed. Some wooden parts of the interior case have come loose. Case exterior has several minor scratches, abrasions and stains. [See more photos →]

Set of four (4) sterling silver julep cups with tapered bodies and beaded upper and lower rims, marked on underside "TREES / STERLING" with shamrock mark. 3 3/4" H. 21.1 oz troy combined weight. CONDITION: Very good condition with a few minor dents including one cup with a 1" dent to footring, but sits flat. No apparent evidence of removal of monograms on surface of cups. [See more photos →]

Buffalo Pottery Roosevelt Bears ceramic pitcher or jug, with four sides having brown and polychrome transfer vignettes of bears engaged in various scenes from the book THE ROOSEVELT BEARS, THEIR TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES. Brown transfer mark on base: BUFFALO / POTTER / 1907 / COPYRIGHT EDWARD STERN & C / UNDERGLAZE / WARRANTED. Buffalo, New York, circa 1907. 8" H. Note: After a famous hunting trip in which President Theodore Roosevelt spared the life of a bear, toymaker Morris Michtom and his company, the Ideal Toy Company, received permission from President Roosevelt to produce a toy called Teddy's bear. Other inspired products followed, including THE ROOSEVELT BEARS, THEIR TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES, about two bears who leave their home in the West to travel America. Written by Seymour Eaton and illustrated by V. Floyd Campbell, it first appeared as a serialized story in newspapers in 1905. In 1906, the story was published in book form, and this pitcher based on the bears' adventures was produced shortly afterwards. CONDITION: Overall crazing, some small spots of wear to spout and base, generally good condition. [See more photos →]

German sterling silver cow creamer, full naturalistic body with side-hinged embossed fly cover. Marked on belly of cow with maker's mark, unidentified. 5" H x 7 3/8" x 2 1/2". 14.96 oz troy. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Tommie Rush (Tennessee, b. 1954) yellow and aqua frosted botanical blown glass vase with applied leaf and stem decoration and shaped base. Impressed signature, T. Rush on bottom. 7 1/2" H x 9 1/2" diameter at widest point. Note: Tommie Rush lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee. She earned her BFA at the University of Tennessee and has studied at the Arrowmont School of Crafts. Her work is included in the collections of the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama; the Sheldon Art Museum and Sculpture Garden in Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition, minor scratches to underside of base. [See more photos →]

Two (2) pieces: Native American Squash Blossom Necklace & Cuff. 1st item: Silver metal Navajo squash blossom necklace with ten pomegranate blossoms, naja with turquoise set in leaf design setting. Unsigned. Measures 27-14" in length. Mid 20th century. 2nd item: Silver metal Navajo cuff bracelet features central turquoise stone sun pattern with chased scalloped side plaques. Unsigned. 5-1/2" interior circumference plus 1-3/8" W opening. 2" W top. Mid 20th century. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor surface tarnish. [See more photos →]

Tim Lewis (Kentucky, b. 1952) folk art carved sandstone sculpture depicting a baseball catcher in a kneeling stance with mask on and catcher's glove holding a baseball. Signed and dated T Lewis '14, one lower edge of side. 19" H x 10" W x 7 1/2" D. 67.6 lbs. Illustrated, OUTSIDER ART OF THE SOUTH by Kathy Moses, p. 58. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Roy Ferdinand (New Orleans, 1959-2004) ink, pencil, and paint on paper painting depicting a woman in a straw hat holding a goose. Signed and dated Roy Ferdinand (copyright symbol) 92, lower right. Housed in a contemporary gilded frame. Sight – 28 1/2" H x 21 1/4" W. Framed – 38 3/8" H x 31 1/2" W. American, late 20th century. Biography note: Self taught art artist Roy Ferdinand was known for portraying the street life and characters from some of New Orleansí toughest neighborhoods. He died of cancer at the age of 45. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Rare Southern coin silver chop or asparagus tongs, acanthus decoration to handles with teardrop shaped pierced decoration to the blades, marked J. M. Freeman in rectangle (Joseph M. Freeman, working Norfolk, Virginia 1806-1882). 11"L, 8.95 oz troy. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

33 pieces American shell-handled coin silver flatware, most bearing the mark of Marshall and Smith, a short-lived partnership in Philadelphia, circa 1837. Comprised of 21 pieces with Marshall and Smith mark, including 7 dinner forks (4 monogrammed Camp, 3 monogrammed JBP), 6 salad forks (monogrammed JBP), 2 tablespoons (monogrammed Camp), and 6 dessert spoons (monogrammed JBP); plus 4 shell handled dessert spoons marked Curry & Preston Standard (working Philadelphia, 1825-1831, monogrammed ABM), 6 shell handled teaspoons marked for R & W Wilson (working Philadelphia, 1825-1846, monogrammed EAB), and 2 shell handled teaspoons marked BW & Co. (mark unidentified; monogrammed CR). According to the book Philadelphia Silversmiths by Catherine Hollan, Marshall and Smith (first names unknown) were listed as Jewelers in the Philadelphia City Directory of 1837. At the time of publication, only one spoon bearing their mark was known. Marshall & Smith flatware: 35.25 oz troy. Total weight: 45.03 oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition with some spoons exhibiting minor wear to tips and small minor dents (mainly tablespoons). [See more photos →]

Governor of Tennessee Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) signed land document granting Jacob Peck and David Ragan and their heirs twenty-five hundred acres in Sevier County, Tennessee "including the East prong of the West fork of Little Pigeon River — Beginning at the three mile tree…" dated December 12, 1853. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 16 1/2" H x 11 1/4" W. Framed – 18 1/8" H x 12 3/4" W. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN estate. Note: Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869, and the 16th Vice President of the United States under President Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865-April 15, 1865. CONDITION: Signature clear with no fading. Document with areas of separation to fold lines, largest 8 1/2", surface of sheet. Foxing spots, largest 1/4", surface of sheet. Areas of dampstaining, largest 1 3/4" x 5", surface of sheet. Overall toning, surface of sheet. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Civil War military appointment commission document signed by Military Governor Andrew Johnson and Secretary of the State of Tennessee Edward H. East in black/dark brown ink, dated September 1, 1862, conferring the rank of Surgeon in the First Regiment Middle Tenn Calvary to Thomas G. Hickman of Davidson County, TN. Oath, signed by Thomas G. Hickman and Captain John H. Young, October 28, 1862, en verso. 15" H x 10 3/4" W. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Johnson signature strong and bold. Dampstaining, largest area, 3 3/8" x 10 3/4", top quadrant and edges of sheet. Toning, largest 4 1/2", lower quadrant and edges of sheet. Minute foxing spots, surface of sheet. [See more photos →]

Souvenir United Confederate Veterans (UCV) chromolithograph poster titled "Heroes and Leaders of the Civil War – Let Us Have Peace" published by Peter Tracy, Memphis, Tennessee, 1901. Issued for the occasion of the United Confederate Veterans Eleventh Annual Reunion in Memphis, TN, May 28-29, 1901. Depicts Generals Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) and Ulysses S.Grant (1822-1885), 18th President of the United States (1869-77), reenacting the conclusion of the "Surrender Meeting" at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865) in a Neoclassical setting in uniform, flanked by the numbers "61" and "65", representing the duration of the Civil War. Behind them are each of their respective armies at attention with a Revolutionary War soldier, left, and a Spanish-American War soldier, right. The scene is surrounded by labeled vignettes of Confederate officers, including a central portrait of Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest situated between flags of both Armies, Rear-Admiral Raphael Semmes, and Admiral David G. Farragut. Additional names of officers and excerpts of Confederate poetry by Theodore O'Hara (1820-1867) and The Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan (1838-1886) appear on the main arch and left and right pillars. Housed under glass in a black and gilt painted frame. Sight – 20 3/8" H x 26 1/2" W. Framed – 25 3/8" H x 31 1/2" W. Note: In 1901, Memphis hosted the eleventh Annual National Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, the largest reunion ever held. The citizens of Memphis raised an astonishing $80,000 to construct an 18,000 seat Confederate Hall on the site of Confederate Park – the building to be demolished at the end of the reunion. One of the largest single donations ($1,000) came from the firstblack millionaire Robert Reed Church. The three-day reunion celebration culminated in a parade of 15,000 veterans through city streets draped in bunting and flags. The Commercial Appeal called it "the most imposing spectacle ever witnessed in the South." As part of those festivities, 12,000 people attended the Confederate Ball hosted by the Forrest Camp in Confederate Hall. (courtesy historicmemphis.com/memphis-historic/ucv/ucv.html) CONDITION: Overall good condition. Loose debris, lower right of frame (does not affect poster). Dampstaining, lower right quadrant of poster. Brown stains, largest 3", top edges of poster. Scattered tears, 4 1/2". Scattered wrinkles, scratches, largest 2 1/2". Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Chinese glass snuff bottles. 1st item: Peking cameo glass snuff bottle with red relief cabbage leaf design and lion mask and ring handles, green hardstone stopper, spoon appears to be coral. 2 1/2" H. 2nd item: Cameo glass snuff bottle with lobster, wave, and boat designs in relief, green hardstone stopper. 2 3/4" H. 3rd item: Small snuff bottle with reverse painted mountain landscapes on each side and ring carved handles at sides. Unsigned. 1 7/8" H. All Chinese, Late Qing or Early Republic Period. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Excellent condition. 2nd-3rd items: Very good condition, but lids will not come off. [See more photos →]

Chinese cinnabar lacquer bowl, the interior decorated with hundred bats design set against clouds and central cluster of fruit; the exterior decorated with peony blossoms. Chinese seal mark to reverse. 12 3/8" dia. 20th century. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Three fleabites to rim. Some dust in crevices at one end from hanging on wall. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Chinese agate and gilt bronze belt ornaments, each with blue centers, inset into bronze bases. Ranging in size from 3 3/8" L to 5 1/2" L. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private West Tennessee collection. CONDITION: All very good condition. [See more photos →]

Antique Persian Sarouk area rug, wool on cotton, 6'9" x 4'4", central medallion with allover large floral palmettes, bronze field, maroon main border and secondary colors of blues, roses, greens and ivory. Circa 1920. CONDITION: Good condition. Scattered wear to pile, possible old insect damage. Some inpainting. [See more photos →]

Five (5) pairs of Designer sunglasses, including Prada, Chanel. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) Prada sunglasses, Minimal Baroque design, one black, one brown, both NWT (New With Tags). Round frames with baroque temples. Embossed PRADA left and right temples. Includes original white boxes with magnetic closure cases, three Authenticity certificate cards, two manufacturer's information notes, and two wrapped wiping cloths. Glasses – 2 1/2" H x 6" W x 5 3/4" D. Cases – 2 1/2" H x 7 1/4" W x 3" D. Boxes – 3" H x 7 1/2" W x 3 1/2" D. Italian, contemporary. 3rd-5th items: Three (3) Pairs of Chanel Sunglasses, including one brown and one black pair with elongated frames and one brown pair with oval frames. All pairs with raised metal double C logo, left and right temples. Three black CHANEL cases included, labeled exterior and interior, along with three tan microfiber cleaning cloths, two Chanel authentication cards, and one Chanel booklet. Glasses – 2" H x 5 3/4" W x 5 3/4" D. Cases range in size from 1 1/4" H x 6" W x 2 1/2" D to 1 3/4" H x 6 1/4" W x 3" D. French, contemporary. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Serial numbers present on all sunglasses. 1st-2nd items: New, unused condition. 3rd-5th items: Overall good, gently used condition. 3/4" scratch, right lens of black sunglasses. Frames uneven, black pair and oval frame brown pair. Cases scuffed, scratched, with faded, scratched logos. Smallest case does not close all the way when sunglasses are inside. [See more photos →]

Large Sawyers and McBee Family Archive, Tennessee and Kentucky, 1820-1907, 100 plus items. Mostly letters, promissory notes, and receipts. 1st-10th items: Ten letters to and from the Sawyers and McBee families, 1820-1907. Letter from Alex Crawford, Fayette County, IN, to his cousin, William Sawyers, Knoxville, TN, April 27, 1820, writing about a school in his county that: enable[s] every grade of life to read the scriptures…[including] the negroes…No slave is received into the school without a permit from their masters; about 50 or so blacks attend. Letter from Sarah Crawford, Fayette County, KY, to her cousin, Josiah Sawyers, Knoxville, TN, May 29, 1820. Letter from Sarah Crawford, Fayette County, KY, to her cousin, Josiah Sawyers, Knoxville, TN, November 20, 1820. Letter from Ruthy Peterson, Fayette County, KY, to William Sawyer, Knoseville [sic], TN, June 28, 1829. Love letter from B. K. Mynatt, Anderson County, TN, to Rachel Sawyers, Grainger County, TN, May 2, 1849, reading: I can no longer keep concealed within my own breast the sentiments of esteem and affection with which you have inspired me. Nor can I deem it consistant with the high respect I have for you, not to make known my inclination without my further delay. Letter from E. S. Cassady, Lafayette, GA, to his cousin, Nancy E. Sawyers, Knoxville, TN, June 10, 1860, reading: If you see Cousin Sallie before I write to her, tell her that the ring that we talked about will find the way there Some of these Day's [sic] or shortly afterwards. Letter from R. M. Cassady, to his or her cousin, Nancy E. Sawyer, undated. Letter from R. C. H. Sawyers, Murfreesboro, TN, to Ann Cassady, Knox County, TN, Sept 15, 1867. Includes envelope, no stamp. Letter from Andrew Graham, Murfreesboro, TN, to Gainem B. McBee, Jr., Strawberry Plains, TN, October 11, 1867. Includes envelope, no stamp. Letter from E. E. Patton, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., to Gainem C. McBee, Esq., expressing interest in: a book called RAMSEY'S ANNALS OF TENNESSEE….Would you sell the book, and if so for how much? dated June 1907. Includes envelope in partial condition. 11th-13th items: Captain Hickles Company list of 91 names including John Sawyers, with columns for acres of land, School lands, number of slaves, seasons, etc., 1820. Last Will and Testament of James Howell, appointing William Sawyers as his executor, witnessed by Joseph Mynatt, John Sawyers, and Martha L. Mynatt, July 25, 1825. Record of account current of James Mynatt with Ruth Hobb, July 15, 1845-November 8, 1847. Record of settlement of Samuel and Mary Shields with William Sawyer, February 24, 1846-July 25, 1846. Record of account current against the estate of Josiah Sawyers to Samuel Shields of Shields and Boyd, paid by William Sawyer, Executor of the estate, 1847-1848. Record of the subscribed individuals at Washington Church who have bound themselves to: pay the sums annexed to our names to the Rev. G. L. White for one half his ministerial labors…from the 1st of January 1842, to be paid annually in wheat, corn, oats, & pork…for the years 1842-1850. Names include William Sawyers, J. H. C. Sawyers, and Josiah Sawyers. 14th-16th items: Three pen and ink drawings of decorative lace and garlands, one signed Miss Nancy E. Sawyers, one signed and dated Nancy E Sawyers 1858. Includes financial documents, promissory notes, receipts, personal letters about payments, etc. primarily related to William Sawyers, John Sawyers, Gainem C. McBee, or other members of the Sawyers or McBee families. c. 1820-1891. Seven bundles of receipts and other financial and legal papers, bound in string. Also includes fragments of old newspapers, few leather and metal tools and personal possesions. Provenance: Descended through the family of Revolutionary War soldier, Colonel John Sawyers. CONDITION: Items exhibit toning, foxing spots, dampstaining, and tears to be expected from age. Bundles not examined for content or condition. [See more photos →]

Rare coin silver Fried Chicken Server, fiddle thread pattern with spoon and fork ends, marked HYDE & GOODRICH in rectangle (working New Orleans, 1828-1861). Script monogram JCK on bridge. 9 1/2"L, 5.09 oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition with some wear to monogram. [See more photos →]

Benson Bond Moore (District of Columbia/Florida, 1882-1974) oil on board painting titled "Along Sligo Creek, MD". Signed, Benson B. Moore, lower left. Titled and dated 1958, en verso. Housed in a contemporary gilded wooden frame. Sight – 19 1/2" H x 15 3/8" W. Framed – 23 1/2" H x 19 3/8" W. Provenance: Property of a private East TN collection. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Marion Cook (Tennessee, b. 1933) oil on canvas landscape scenes, one depicting a solitary barn during a winter snow, signed and dated lower left, Marion Cook/11-1979, and the other depicting a barn close up in Spring with nesting birds, signed and dated lower right, Marion Cook/8-1983. Both housed in rustic wood frames. Largest measures: Sight – 8 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Framed – 17 3/4" H x 20 3/4" W. Smaller measures: Sight – 7 3/4" H x 9 1/2" W. Framed – 12 1/2" H x 14 /2" W. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Frames with very minor abrasions. [See more photos →]

Nashville, Tennessee coin silver teaspoon, plain fiddle handle, marked on back J * E (mark attributed to John Elliston, 1809-1823, Nashville, TN). Monogrammed LOK (?). 5 5/8" L. Note: John Elliston was the nephew and business partner of Joseph Thorp Elliston. He was born in Kentucky and like his uncle, apprenticed with Samuel Ayres before moving to Nashville (ref. Tennessee Silversmiths by Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, p. 74). Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition. Minor wear to tip. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Asian Decorative items. 1st item: Cinnabar lacquer lidded jar, mounted to a bronze base and wired as a lamp. Jar decorated with a carved scene of scholars in a landscape, under willow and gingko trees with detailed leaves. Chinese bronze four footed base decorated with fret and floral designs. Jar – 7" H x 5 1/2" dia. Overall – 17" H. Chinese, likely Qing period with later mounting and electrification. 2nd item: Large and finely carved Cinnabar lacquer baluster form vase, the neck with floral and scroll carved cartouche design, over a body with carved landscape design featuring scholars and students amid mountains and trees, all set against an overall fret carved design, with a wider fret carved band at the foot. "China" inscribed on underside with paper label remnant. 12 1/8" H x 6 1/4" dia. Chinese Republic period, early 20th century. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate. CONDITION: 1st item: Bottom of jar has been drilled. Lamp was recently rewired. Jar has scattered small chips, largest 1/2" (tree top area); one small area of light discoloration. 2nd item: Wear at interior neck, a 3/4 chip and and some cracking to interior black lacquer inside upper throat and a couple of small minor chips to exterior of throat. Two dents to bronze foot ring (each 3/8" L) and small chips to lacquer at foot ring. Some craquelure to underside. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Schoenhut dolls, all with painted wood faces (damaged) and articulated heads, original or appropriate dress. 1st item: boy with brown intaglio eyes and dark blonde wig, fully jointed body, wearing brown cotton sailor style suit. 21" H. 2nd item: Girl with brown intaglio eyes, short dark blonde wig and voile dress with blue sash and ribbon (ribbon and sash possibly later), fully jointed body. 19 1/2"H. 3rd item: Girl with blue painted eyes, auburn short wig, limbs not articulated, cotton voile smock dress with pink ribbons at shoulders, black leather shoes. 13 1/2"H. All first quarter 20th century. CONDITION: All with significant flaking to faces, slight grime, and scattered crazing to limbs. Boy's wig is fragile. [See more photos →]

Jack Daniel's Old Time clear glass cylinder whiskey bottle, non-cork finish, quart capacity, embossed Jack Daniel's Old Time Distillery, Lynchburg, Tenn. 8 5/8" H. Circa 1880-1890. Provenance: Property of a private Middle TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, no chips or cracks. Interior with old residue. [See more photos →]

Two (2) American flags. 1st item: 38 Star flag, linen, with printed stars and patent date of April 26, 1870. Additional handwritten inscription: Camp Rochelle/ Aug. 3rd to 19th/ 1901, Oakland Beach, to one grommet seam with hand stitched initials" L.F.T." and handwritten inscription: SPARTA 88, en verso. 56 1/2" H x 36 1/2" W. 2nd item: 46 star flag, silk, with printed stars, possible parade flag. Housed in a black plastic frame. Flag -14 1/2" H x 24 1/4" W. Framed 21" H x 31" W. Early 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Flag has at least a 4" x 5" loss at bottom right corner and appears to be cut down at bottom and right side. Heavy staining and scattered small holes. Fragile condition. 2nd item: Scattered water stains, largest: 4 1/2" x 4 3/4". Three tears, largest: 3/4" L. Three folds along edges. [See more photos →]

Robert Edmund Lee (New York/California/Norway, 1899-1980) maritime oil on canvas painting depicting the sailing ship Montezuma, depicted at full mast navigating choppy ocean waters. Signed lower left Lio. with copyright symbol above, both in red. Leo. Zeitlhofer and Company, New York, NY label, en verso, top of frame. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 29 3/4" H x 39 3/4" W. Framed – 36 1/4" H x 46 1/2" W. 1st half 20th century. History (Courtesy: Jan Lettens): The American packet ship Montezuma was a 3-masted, square-rigged ship, built in New York in 1843 by Webb & Allen for the Black Ball Line of packets between New York and Liverpool. 924 tons; 162' x 35' 8" x 21' ft. Montezuma was wrecked on Jones Beach, Long Island, on 18 May 1854, on a voyage from Liverpool to New York, carrying approximate 500 immigrant passengers. All passengers and crew were saved. The MONTEZUMA was one of the fastest packets of her day, her westbound passages averaging 34 days, with her fastest passage being 27 days. Unusual for her time, she was painted with dummy gun ports, like a Blackwall frigate. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Craquelure and scattered surface grime. 1/8" gap at top between frame and canvas. Canvas professionally relined. [See more photos →]

Group of sixteen (16) sterling silver table items by American makers, including Meriden Brittania Co. set of 10 candly dishes, floral repousse borders, "23" on base, one bread tray with beaded rim, #463 on base and one pierced card holder with handle, #420 on base; one Tuttle Silversmiths porringer, dated 1933; one Gorham footed sauce boat, #A799 on base; one Lebkuecher & Co. coaster with applied floral border, #562 on base, retailed by Harris & Shafer, Washington DC, established 1870-1938; plus one separate round pierced strainer, marked Sterling. Sizes range 1" H x 3 1/2" D to 2 1/4" H x 12 1/4" W x 6 5/8" D. Candy dishes, card holder and strainer are not monogrammed. All other items with monograms. 38.705 total oz troy. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with scattered surface scratches and minor dents. Candy dishes, card holder and strainer are not monogrammed. All other items with monograms. [See more photos →]

Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) lithograph titled Summer Stock. Artist's Proof, pencil signed lower right. Housed in a carved gilt wood frame with white linen matte. Sight – 25 1/8" H x 19 1/8" W. Framed – 39 1/4" H x 33 1/4" W. Original Certificate of Authenticity available. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee, Hawkins or Greene County, cherry pie safe with Masonic pattern tins. Yellow pine secondary wood. Two dovetailed drawers over two cupboard doors with mortise and tenon construction, single interior shelf, and eight punched tins on doors and side panels, each tin depicting an arch with Freemason's compass and letter "G" with an upper center star. Shaped bracket front feet and square block back feet. 43 1/4" x 41 1/2" x 17 3/8". 3rd Qtr. 19th century. CONDITION: Older surface with scattered stains on top. Top appears to originally have been offset from the back edge of the case. Later added silver paint to tins. [See more photos →]

U.S. Historical Society Jefferson Davis Commemorative 1851 Navy Revolver, .36 caliber with shoulder stock. Nimschke style engraving on the octagonal barrel, loading lever, frame, and trigger, case hardened frame with silver plated brass backstrap and trigger guard. Includes engraved, silver plated detachable shoulder stock. Inscriptions from Sam Colt on grip strap of revolver and tang of shoulder stock. Only 1000 made in 1990, only year of production. In fitted wooden case with accessories. Barrel – 7 1/4" L. Revolver overall – 13 1/4" L. Shoulder stock – 17 3/8" L. Case – 3" H x 19 1/2" W x 10 7/8" D. Late 20th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Bluing in excellent condition. 3/8" ding, right side of revolver grip near hammer. Not fired or rotated. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Hermes Ladies Silk Scarves. 1st item: Hermes Cheval Surprise silk scarf designed by Dimitri Rybaltchenko, titled and signed in the scarf. Cream ground with marine blue modern design, 35" square. Retains the original box. 2nd item: Hermes L'Hiver silk scarf designed by Philippe Ledoux, titled and signed in the scarf. Cream ground in shades of green and browns, dark green border, 35" square. Retains the original box. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Both excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Model 1894 Winchester rifle, .30 WCF (Winchester Center Rifle) Cartridge. Serial number 970394. Barrel marked, MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN CONN. U.S.A. PATENTED AUGUST 21. 1894. 30 W.C.F. Tang marked, Model 1894 Winchester Trade Mark. Walnut stocks, metal frame, octagonal barrel. Standard sights. Barrel length – 26". Overall length – 44". Serial number corresponds to year 1925. CONDITION: Areas of blue still present. Heavy pitting, dings on barrel. Wood overall good condition with some areas of loss, largest 1/4", end of forearm. Action is good. Bore is dark. [See more photos →]

Seven (7) Nashville business directories, including three compiled by John P. Campbell. Each directory includes advertisements, listings, engravings, and text pages for local businesses located in the city of Nashville, TN. Three compiled by the Reverend John P. Campbell, one copy dated 1859, two copies dated 1860-61, one compiled by George H. Rogers, one copy dated 1878. Also included are two copies dated 1860-61, one copy dated March 1975, no compiler listed. Octavos, hard bound with paper or cloth covered boards [see condition report]. Books range in size from 8" H x 5 3/8" W x 5/8" D to 9 1/8" H x 6 1/8" W x 2" D. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Books in overall worn condition. Covers and sheets exhibit toning, foxing spots, stains, tears, to be expected from age. Two Campbell copies dated 1860-61 retain brown cloth boards with tooled covers, one with spine and gilt title lettering mostly intact, one missing spine. Five paper covered boards rebound in modern materials. Ex libris labels and stamps, interior of covers and edges of sheets. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) walking sticks. 1st item: Tippler's walking stick, copper handle and collar, maple shaft with interior fitted glass tube and small drinking glass. 36" L. Late 19th century. 2nd item: Flick stick walking cane, fruitwood shaft with 5" L sword blade hidden in handle. 33 3/4" L. Late 19th century. 3rd item: Horn handled walking stick with curved horn handle and 14k gold collar, engraved, hardwood shaft and horn end cap. 35 7/8" L x 4 1/4" W. Early 20th century. 4th item: Horse measuring walking stick with antler handle and ebony shaft. Handle pulls out to reveal a level and ruler in Centimeters and Hands. Stick – 37 3/4" L x 5 3/8" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. 5th item: Polished granite knob and rosewood walking stick. 36" L. Early 20th century. 5th item: Antler horn handled and ebony walking stick. 37 7/8" L x 5 1/2" W. Late 19th century. CONDITION: General surface wear and scratching overall with minor sticker residue on walking sticks. 3rd item: scattered surface cracks to horn handle. [See more photos →]

10K yellow gold oval rollo chain bracelet with five charms, three round 14K various discs, diamond melee and seed pearls, one oval 14K charm with pearls and one 10K (tested) door key. Bracelet: 7-1/4" L plus safety chain, charms: 1" to 1-1/4" H. 39.5 grams total. Bracelet also comes with 3 goldplated charms. CONDITION: Overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Eight (8) pieces of Norfolk, Virginia related coin silver, including 18th century spoons and a 4 pc. salt set in original Greenwood, Norfolk VA box. 1st and 2nd items: Pair of 18th century teaspoons with coffin end handles, period monogam FM or FH, marked J.Gaskins and Norfolk in separate rectangles (James Gaskins, working Norfolk 1770-1776 and 1804-1806). 3rd item: Tablespoon with pointed oval handle, monogram CEP, marked JG in rectangle (James Gaskins – note: he also worked Portsmouth, VA 1780-1804 and 1806-1827; ref. Silversmiths of Virginia by Catherine Hollan, p. 306-309, both marks illustrated). 4th item: Teaspoon with pointed oval handle monogrammed AKM, marked on back W.C in rectangle, possibly William Carter (Norfolk, VA 1771-1795, Gates County NC 1797). 5th-8th items: Two coin silver salt cellars or salt dips, circular with gadrooned edges and footed bases monogrammed CMG, and two salt spoons with shell bowls and twisted handles terminating in engraved ends monogrammed CMG. Spoons are marked for Wood & Hughes of New York with incuse retailer mark for C.F. Greenwood (Charles F. Greenwood, 1858-1904, Norfolk, Virginia). Salt cellars are unmarked. All housed in the original fitted case with paper label reading: CF Greenwood, 21 Main Street, Watches Jewelry Silverware &c, Norfolk VA . Salts – 2 1/4" dia. Box – 2 1/2" H x 7" W x 4" D. 5.8 oz troy combined weight. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Leonard spoon has worn, rubbed surface. Adam spoon has 1/4" tear to bowl base and some pitting. Greenwood silver box has some wear to exterior, light spotting and fraying to silk lined interior top. [See more photos →]

Kentucky coin silver beaker or julep cup, slightly tapered sides with molded upper rim, incuse mark E. C. Garner (Eli C. Garner, Lexington, KY working 1838-1842). 5.29 oz troy. 3.18" H. CONDITION: 1/4" dent and a few pinpoint sized scattered dents to side; some small dents to bottom edge. [See more photos →]

Two (2) agate snuff bottles, including double gourd. 1st item: Agate snuff bottle with relief carved bat design on each side and a carved coral lid. Spoon appears to be coral and is signed. 2" H. Late 19th/mid 20th century. 2nd item: Agate double gourd shaped snuff bottle with green jade lid. 2 1/2" H. Late 19th/mid 20th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Excellent condition. 2nd item: Very good condition (lid not removable). [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) Chinese partial glazed Ming Sancai tileworks figures depicting court attendants. Each holding one object in hand and having unglazed heads with traces of old pigment. Fitted with later paper and silk stands and silk covered storage boxes. Figures – 7 1/4" H, 8" H w/ stand. Ming period. Provenance: East Tennessee collection, by descent from Edwin V. Hill, M.D., deceased 1969. Dr. Hill was a faculty member of Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools and served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. He collected Asian arts during his military tour in the Far East theatre, including China and Japan, prior to 1964. CONDITION: All figures with some glaze wear/loss. One figure with moderate glaze loss to lower section and old break to one corner. One figure with break to neck, head not attached to body, old repaired break to object in hand. [See more photos →]

Two (2) mid-19th century English Old Sheffield silver plated oval meat cover domes with beaded rims and finely cast graduated beaded and scrolled handles. Smaller dome with interior hallmarks for William Hutton & Sons and the larger with interior hallmarks for Harrison Brothers & Howson. Larger dome with crest monogram. Smaller dome measures 14 1/4" L x 9" H (to tip of handle). Larger dome measures 18" L x 11" H (to tip of handle). Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Smaller dome with minor interior repair to inner rim, general surface wear to outer dome. Larger dome monogrammed, general surface wear/scratching to outer dome, scattered minor dents. [See more photos →]

Seven (7) Vintage diamond jewelry items. 1st-5th items: Group of 5 vintage 14k (tested) diamond stick pins, approx. 1.35 cts. total wt. diamonds; 11.4 grams total wt. 5 pins. 6th item: One Art Nouveau 14k white gold OMC diamond and emerald necklace, approx. .80 ct diamonds, with later additon of oval opal. Chain – 18" L, diamond and emerald drop – 7/8" L, opal – 7/8" L, 7 grams. 7th item: One 10K white gold filligree collar pin with one center single cut diamond, 5/8" x 1/2", 2.6 grams. CONDITION: One small chip on one p/s diamond in one stick pin. Large opal with crazing. One small emerald with chip on necklace. All diamond weights are approximate. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Russian School impressionist oil on board landscape paintings. 1st item: Oil on board landscape depicting a picket fence against a copse of trees. Signed and titled in Cyrllic characters, en verso. Housed in a Louis XIII style frame. Sight – 9" H x 12-3/4" W. Framed – 15-1/2" H x 19" W. Mid 20th century. 2nd item: Oil on board painting depicting a landscape with a red building and a church steeple, background. Signed and titled in Cyrillic characters, dated "1970" en verso. Housed in a contemporary gilded framed. Sight – 6-5/8" H x 10-3/4" W. Framed – 12-3/4" H x 16-3/4" W. Late 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. 1/2" x 1/4" yellow stain, top left of board. 1/2" brown stain, top right of board. 2nd item: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Vannoy Streeter (Tennessee, 1919-1998) wire sculptures. 1st item: Wire sculpture depicting a horse-drawn hearse with a casket, movable doors and wheels. Unsigned. Casket – 8 1/2" H x 2 1/2" W x 2 3/4" D. Hearse – 11 3/4" H x 25" W x 9" D. Published, OUTSIDER ART OF THE SOUTH by Kathy Moses, p. 135. 2nd item: Silver wire sculpture depicting a revolver with movable trigger and hammer. 7" H x 13 1/2" W x 2" D. Published, OUTSIDER ART OF THE SOUTH by Kathy Moses, p. 134. All items American, mid/late 20th century. CONDITION: Both items overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Galle cameo art glass vase with orange thistle design, in banner, inscription reading DE TIR X111 CONCOURS NATIONAL ET INTERNATIONAL. Signed in cameo Galle, after a star. 10"H. Circa 1904-1910. Provenance: Private Nashville area collection. Note an identical vase sold Bonham's, Los Angeles, April 7, 2008. CONDITION: There are two shiny patches, possibly from old sales label, on side, which we have not attempted to clean or remove. 2 dark scratches, longest one 1" near signature. Other scattered small scratches. Tiny fleabite to edge of foot, no other chips or cracks. [See more photos →]

Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) lithograph titled Jazz it Up, numbered #25/200 lower left and pencil signed lower right. Blind stamp lower left corner. Housed in a gilt wood frame with white linen matte. Sight – 27 3/4" H x 20 3/8" W. Framed – 38 1/2" H x 31 1/4" W. Original Certificate of Authenticity available. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980) colored lithograph depicting a horse and rider. Pencil signed, Marino, lower right corner, E.A., lower left corner. Housed in a gilt frame with beige linen matting. Sight – 23 1/2" H x 17 3/4" W. Image – 21" H x 15 3/4" W. Framed – 30 5/8" H x 25" W. Mid/late 20th century. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Cesar Villacres (United States/Ecuador, 1880-1941) oil on canvas painting depicting a Parisian street scene. Signed, C. Villarss, lower right. Housed in a Louis XIV style Italian frame. Sight – 15 1/4" x 19 1/2". Framed – 22 1/2" x 27". Early 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Brown stains, largest 3/4", top right of canvas. Craquelure, top left and right areas of canvas. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Civil War Union Tintypes. 1st item: Sixth plate depicting a Union calvary soldier standing with sword, with tinted highlights and patriotic gilt surround, housed in a patriotic gutta percha case by A. P. Crithchlow & Co. 3 3/4" H x 3 1/4" W. 2nd item: Sixth plate depicting Union infantry corporal seated with an officer's sword, housed in a patriotic gutta percha case. 3 3/4" H x 3 1/4" W. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Minor losses to gilt surround, right margin. Nick to edge of case. 2nd item: Overall very good condition, nicks to edge of case. [See more photos →]

Pair Tiffany Studios gilt bronze bookends, Adam pattern with blue and red enameled highlights. Stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1853. 5 5/8" H x 4 1/2" W x 5 1/4" D. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Minor general wear, some losses to enameled highlights. [See more photos →]

Persian silk area rug, 4'7" x 3' hand-knotted rug with large center medallion, black field of fine floral spray in colors of aqua, blues, greens, creams and rust. Rust corners with floral work. Seven primary borders and black outer border. 3rd quarter 20th century. Measurements exclude fringe. Provenance: Private collection, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Large Oilzum Motor Oil SST (single-sided tin) advertising sign, colors of cream, orange, black and turquoise. Manufactured by A.M Inc., Lynchburg, VA, dated 1963. Mounted to wooden support. Wood mounting – 36" H x 72 1/4" L x 3/4" D. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Leisy Brewing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, pre-prohibition lithographic tin advertising beer tray. Rim border with the company six-sided star trademark interspersed with scrolling gilt designs. Tray features a panoramic image of the company's brewery facility to the center with an American Eagle upper left holding a banner reading "Premium Lager/Strictly Pure" with company six-sided star company trademark center, the upper and lower center of tray reads "Annual Capacity 350,000 Barrels/ The Leisy Brewing Co., Cleveland, US.A./ Brewers of Fine Beers Exclusively/Otto J. Leisy, Mgr.". Made by the Standard Adv. Co. Coshocton, Ohio, marked lower right. 13 5/8" H x 16 1/2" W. Circa 1890's. CONDITION: Shallow dent left side of tray, scattered minor pitting, visible from underside. Overall general paint wear, minor losses to rim, mostly to left side. Light stain left mid-margin. Some scratching to back, errant paint and paper to back. Very slight rust to areas of paint loss. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Items – TN Circus Broadside and German Newspaper. 1st item: Scarce Nashville Circus Broadside, double sided, published by Hatch Show Print, circa 1905. Advertises the Nashville Athletic Club Society Circus including The Menagerie: lions, elephants and giraffes, The Big Show: Arab Acrobats, Mademoiselle Tapioca; the Hippodrome, Human Chariot Races, A Military Pageant of the Intrepid Nashville Grays; Side Show including the Fat Lady, Strong Man and the Bearded Lady, The Living Skeleton (man 6 feet tall and weighing 32 pounds). Broadside also notes that Lemonade is "not genuine without our trademark" and "Peanuts were fresh last season." Black and white illustrations on both sides, with Hatch Show Print in lower left corner each side and in the corner of the main illustration. 26" H x 10 1/2" W. Note: Hatch Show Print, established in Nashville in 1879, is one of the oldest letterpress operations in America. 2nd item: German language broadside, published Nashville, Tennessee, April 1871, Vol. 1 "Jahrgong 1" (Year 1). Single sided, with illustrated masthead of an American flag above a cannon and German flag to the right; headline reads "Fest Ezitung: Der Deutchen Ehrentag" or Festival or Celebration of the German Anniversary. Mentioned in the text is a reference to Nashville photographer C.C. Giers, lower far right column. He is listed as the Chief Marshall of the General Committe of the festival. 19 1/2" H x 12" W. CONDITION: 1st item: Very fragile and in need of restoration. Near full tear to center, tears along vertical fold lines (largest 3"), tear at left lower margin 2", but most graphics remain intact. Some pencil drawings to lower margin one one side. Some wear and losses to edges. Overall even toning. 2nd item: Toning and light spotting, some edge wear and losses. [See more photos →]

Cyrus Harris, "A Map of the State of Kentucky and the Tennessee Government Compiled from the Best Authorities," from Jedidiah Morse's The American Universal Geography. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1796. Engraving by Amos Doolittle. Indian boundaries and the Southern boundary of the military reservation set aside for veterans of the North Carolina troops are shown. Roads shown include the "New and Short Road to Virginia." Many forts are indicated including Fort Washington, Fort Massac and Fort Jefferson. Image – 7 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Plate – 8 1/8" H x 11 7/8" W. Sheet – 8 1/4" H x 12 1/2" W. CONDITION: Impression of map visible left and middle of paper. Toning and foxing spots, largest 1" top left. 1/2" paper rip, bottom right edge. [See more photos →]

Reed & Barton Francis I sterling silver serving flatware, Eight (8) pieces, including one (1) large pierced cold meat serving fork, marked "Eagle, R, Lion" (9-1/4" L), monogrammed; one (1) tomato server and Two (2)-piece solid salad set, all marked "Reed & Barton", not monogrammed; (15.60 oz troy/4 items); two (2)-piece large carving set, one (1) pie server with stainless blade and one (1) pastry server with stainless blade, all not monogrammed. CONDITION: All in very good condition with minor surface scratches. Only cold meat fork is monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Grouping of seven (7) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery items including three (3) pitchers with transition glazes and pulled handles, one (1) vase with strap handles, two (2) miniature pitchers and one (1) miniature jug. Ranging in size from 3 1/4" H to 7 7/8" H. All late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: One miniature pitcher with chip to rim and handle. Flower pot form with one handle broken and partially missing. Tallest pitcher with fleabites to rim. Widemouth pitcher with two fleabites to inner rim, chip to spout. [See more photos →]

Two (2) large 10 gallon Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery jars, attributed to the Lafever pottery of Middle Tennessee. Both with tapered rims, lug handles, incised line around the upper shoulder and incised "10" to body, denoting capacity. One with tan to brown transition glaze (21 1/8" H), the other with grey to brown transition glaze (20" H). Both late 19th/early 20th century. Note: For similar jars with similar gallon capacity script refer to page 80, figure 15 of "A Survey of Historic Pottery Making in Tennessee 1979", Division of Archaeology, Tennessee Department of Conservation. CONDITION: Larger jar with chips to both handles, scattered chipping to rim. Other jar with chips to one handle . [See more photos →]

44 pcs silver flatware including Gorham and Lunt. 1st grouping: 32 pieces Gorham sterling silver flatware in the King Edward pattern: 8 knives with stainless blades (8 7/8" L), 8 dinner forks (7 1/4" L), 8 salad/dessert forks, and 8 teaspoons (29.62 total weighable oz troy). 2nd grouping: 11 pieces of Lunt sterling flatware in the American Victorian pattern: 8 salad forks, 1 cheese or jelly knife, 1 seafood fork, and 1 butter spreader (11.24 total weighable oz troy). Also included is an Austrian-Hungarian berry spoon (marks for Vienna, .813 purity) having a repousse fruit decorated bowl and shell engraved handle, 8 1/2"L, 2.17 oz troy. Combined weight sterling flatware (excluding items with stainless blades): 40.86 oz troy. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Helen Keller (1880-1968) typewritten letter, signed. The 3-page letter with pencil signature, dated 1923 from Long Island, written in response to a letter from "Miss Bose" in India. In it, Keller discusses her views of Christianity, faith and World War I. "I am an optimist by temperament – not quite so confident, perhaps, as I was before the Great War unmasked the hatred and chaos upon which the Western world had built its house of life. But I still live in the faith that this life is a school, the seemingly harsh discipline of which will be made clear to us in God's own time. Such a faith makes life worth living, and gives one encouragement to struggle on, though the way is often dark." Keller also makes reference to "Your great poet Tagore," and expresses admiration for "the courage with which you and other Indian women have broken away from hampering conditions" and says she is "delighted to hear that there is a school for the blind in Kulpahar." Keller closes with a reference to Anne Sullivan: "My teacher commands me to convey to you her warm appreciation of your beautiful tribute to her." Keller was stricken blind and deaf by illness at the age of two, but with the help of Sullivan learned to read and write. She became the first blind and deaf person to earn a bachelor's degree, and gained fame as a humanitarian and writer. Lot includes Keller related clippings/ephemera and a postcard of Keller's home in Tuscumbia, Alabama. CONDITION: Light toning and scattered spotting, couple of small blue ink stains, old paper clip rust residue upper corner of first and last page. [See more photos →]

Early Kentucky walnut blanket chest, poplar secondary, one board top with molding surrounds having two incised chanels, satinwood diamond inlaid excutcheon, case and feet with exposed dovetails, interior till, ande shaped bracket feet. Appears to retain the original lock. 23-1/2" H x 42" W x 18-1/2" D. Southern, circa 1810. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: Old refinish, overall general wear to surface. Replaced lid hinges. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Burlon Craig (North Carolina, 1914-2002) folk pottery jugs including large face jug. 1st item: One-handled pottery jug, dark brown glaze with green rutile runs. Base stamped B.B. Craig/ Vale, NC. 11 1/2" H. 2nd item: Folk art pottery face jug double handled form with green alkaline glaze. Face having bulging eyes, ears, and open mouth with three porcelain teeth. Stamped on the bottom B.B Craig Vale N.C. 15 3/8" H x 10" W x 10 1/2" D. Late 20th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Firing flaw to body, near one rutile run, otherwise very good condition. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Eight (8) pcs Middle Tennessee Coin Silver flatware. 1st item: Sterling silver dessert spoon with fiddle tipt handle, incuse retailer mark JNO W. RUTH & SONS (John Wesley Ruth, 1839-1901, and sons Albert and Weakley Ruth, working Shelbyville late 19th century), additional maker's mark lion-anchor-G for Gorham. Monogram NHG. 8"L. 2nd and 3rd items: 2 coin silver teaspoons marked D. Williams (possibly Daniel Williams, working Winchester, Franklin County TN, circa 1860); one with coffin end handle marked D. Williams in rectangle and monogrammed DS, the other with rounded fiddle handle, marked Williams with pseudohallmarks star-D-star. monogrammed CAG. 4th item: Coin silver teaspoon with fiddle handle marked J.M. Cayce (John M. Cayce, working 1850-1870, Franklin, Williamson County, ref. Tennssee Silversmiths, p. 60). 5th through 8th items: 5 coin silver teaspoons with fiddle handles marked .SEHORN in rectangle (attrib. to George Sehorn, working Athens, McMinn County 1823-1843? ref. Tennessee Silversmiths, p. 151-152). No monograms. Bend to one handle, small dents to spoons. 5.24 total oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Good condition with light wear except where otherwise noted. [See more photos →]

Ten (10) pieces Memphis, Tennessee coin silver flatware. Includes 5 pieces marked F.H. CLARK & CO. and MEMPHIS in separate rectangles (Frederick Harvey Clark, mark used Memphis, TN 1850-1866, ref. Tennessee Silversmiths, p. 63): 1 Serving spoon (9" L) with rounded fiddle handle monogrammed CJB; 2 tablespoons with fiddle swell handles monogrammed Gregory; and 2 dessert spoons with fiddle swell handles monogrammed REJ (one has a deep scratch to bowl). Also includes 3 spoons marked F.H. CLARK & CO. in rectangle: 2 dessert spoons with fiddle handles monogrammed ELA and 1 teaspoon with fiddle swell handle monogrammed Gregory; 1 fiddle thread handled fork with incuse marks F.H. CLARK & CO. and Coin, and 1 teaspoon with fiddle handle and incuse mark WARREN, possibly A.J. Warren, working Memphis circa 1860 (ref. Tennessee Silversmiths, p. 164). Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Warren spoon has bend to tip of handle. 1 spoon monogrammed REJ has a deep scratch to the bowl. Other items very good condition with light wear to marks/monograms. [See more photos →]

Sheffield plate knife and fork, 2 items, King's pattern with knife blade having rubbed marks for John Brown & Co. Columbia Works Sheffield, 9 1/2" and 7 3/4". These two pieces are identical to ones owned by Andrew Jackson, some of which are now in the Hermitage collection. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Caldwell purchased these pieces from historian Stanley Horn with an oral history of their having descended in the Jackson family. CONDITION: Small dents and light wear, oxidation to knife blade and fork tines. [See more photos →]

Pair of coin silver goblets with beaded rims and foot rings, repousse strawberry decorated bowls with central cartouches having engraved monograms "EWY", probably for Ella Young McGavock (b. 1836-d. 1861) or her daughter Ella McGavock Wilson (born 1860, d. ? ). Unmarked. 6 1/4"H. 13.1 oz troy. Ella Young (middle name unknown) was born in Mississippi in 1836 to Alexander and Elizabeth Young. She married Edward Jacob McGavock of Nashville in 1857 and the couple lived at Pecan Point Plantation in Arkansas. Ella gave birth to three children, Louisa Grundy McGavock Tyner (1858), Frank McGavock (1859), and Ella Young McGavock Wilson (1860), before her untimely death in 1861 at the age of 25. She is buried in Lowndes County, Mississipi. Note: The style of these goblets dates them to around the time of Ella Young and E.J. McGavock's wedding (1857), however, the monogram may have been engraved later, around the time of the 1882 wedding of their daughter, Ella McGavock, to Sheldon Wilson. Provenance: Descended in the family of Edward Jacob McGavock to consignor. CONDITION: Goblets are in excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) items Vintage 14K Jewelry. 1st item: Pair 14K yellow gold Late Victorian dangle earrings, each with one rose cut diamond melee, one round white sapphire and bezel set oval handpainted young female portrait plaque, applied gold decoration highlighted with black enamel, small seed pearl and drop pendant. Made for pierced ears with screw-back posts. 2-1/2" L. Likely English, late 19th century. 13.4 grams/pair. 2nd item: 14K white gold diamond and sapphire circle pin, containing eleven round cut diamonds and 11 round sapphires. Total weight of diamonds approximately .88 ct., approximately H-I, SI. 1" diameter, 5.2 grams. CONDITION: 1st item: One white sapphire with nick on crown and nick on girdle. Same earring missing one S-curved applied decoration to left of portrait. Other earring with 1/4" L loss on left side of portrait. 2nd item: Scattered wear to sapphires. Gold tested, not marked. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Viennese Enamels. 1st-2nd items: Small gilt bronze and hand-painted enamel piano and stool, enamel plaques decorated with 18th century style lovers in garden setting, hinged lid to piano top opens to fabric lined interior. Both items marked Made in Austria, Stool – 1-1/8" H, Piano – 2" H x 3-1/2" L x 2-1/4" W. 3rd item: Pair gilt bronze, mother-of-pearl and hand-painted enamel opera glasses with painted scenes of children on the glasses and female on swing arm handle plus gilt fleur de lys on turquoise blue enamel ground, 8-1/8" L x 4-1/2" W x 1-1/2"D. All items second half of the 19th century. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall very good condition with minor wear to gilding. 3rd item: 2" x 3/4" loss to enamel on handle with poor repair. [See more photos →]

Limoges mirror and Norway enamel vase, 2 items total. 1st item: French Limoges enameled plaque in gilt bronze hand mirror, enamel on copper plaque of Lady in Red and signed and inscribed d'apres Henner, right edge, hand mirror with laurel leaf, ribbon, bell flower and pierced swag decoration. 9-7/8" L x 3-3/4" W, late 19th/early 20th century. 2nd item: Likely Norwegian small enamel and gilt metal vase with flared blue floral plique-a-jour border, emerald green guilloche enamel tapered body and four flared floral bun plique-a-jour and gilt metal supports. No marks. 4" H. Early 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Wear to rim of mirror. Minor loss to gilt . 2nd item: Tarnish to gilt metal. Few areas of repair to flowers at rim and skirt. [See more photos →]

Three (3) sterling items. 1st & 2nd items: Gorham Chantilly Dutchess pattern vegetable bowl and matching sandwich plate, both with shaped rims having swag and foliate scroll work decoration. Maker's mark, Sterling, pattern #745/#746 and date marks for 1948 to underside. Bowl – 2 1/4" H X 10 1/2" dia. Plate – 10 3/8" dia. 27.925 total troy ounces. 3rd item: Wallace Nordic pattern twin-handled round serving tray. Maker's mark, Sterling, 4340-9H and Nordic marked to the underside. 12 3/4" dia. 14.960 troy ounces. 42.885 total troy ounces. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: All items overall good condition, minor scattered surface scratches. [See more photos →]

Gorham sterling silver cake stand, the center with pierced and engraved grape and vine decoration, raised grape and leaf border to rim, handles and the circular footed base. Script monogram to center. Base with Gorham maker's marks, numbered 50A and date mark mark for 1909. 3 1/4" H x 15 3/8" dia. (handle to handle). 28.885 troy ounces. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Minor scratching to center from use. [See more photos →]

James "Son" Thomas (Mississippi, 1926 -1993) mixed media and clay folk art sculpture depicting a skeletal figure in a suit within a partially open coffin. Unsigned. Museum Accession tag attached. 9" H x 6 1/2" W x 3 3/8" D. American, late 20th century. Provenance: Property of the Arts Center of Cannon County, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Surface grime. Scattered paint flakes, largest 1/4", surface of sculpture. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Virginia (now West Virginia) coin silver spoons. 1st-2nd items: 2 coin silver serving spoons, the backs with incised pointed arch drops, downturned oval handles, marked I B WOLTZ in rectangle (John Bernard Woltz, active Shepherdstown c. 1811-1850+) with additional eagle in circle marks, monogrammed CEE. 9 1/2"L. 3.90 oz troy. 3rd item: Coffin end teaspoon with engraved swag and monogram handle (JRC), marked S. Young in rectangle (Samuel Young, working Hagerstown MD 1803, Winchester, VA 1808-1811, and Charlestown W. VA 1811-1851). .46 oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Denting (possible old repaired bend) to bottom of bowl on one spoon with each side showing irregularity, general slight wear, other spoon in very good condition with some very small dings to bowl and slight wear, crisp marks. 3rd item: Young spoon has 1/4" tear to bowl base and some denting to bowl edge. [See more photos →]

Large Asian gilt bronze lidded storage food vessel, bulbous form with pierced dragon handles, on a stepped shaped round base, lid with round finial with star mounting, stepped dome shape, all with applied incised gilt plaques of various shapes and sizes, all with floral decoration. 37-1/2" H overall x 30-1/2" dia. including handles (22" dia. w/o handles). Possibly Chinese, late 19th/early 20th century or earlier. Provenance: Private Maryville, TN estate. CONDITION: Good condition. Wear to gilding. [See more photos →]

George III or Regency period Old Sheffield-mounted inlaid mahogany writing box with blind dovetailed drawer and silver knob, resting on silver bun feet, the top clad with ink stand having square cut glass ink well and sand pot, and a round water pot topped with a taper candle stick holder and snuffer, between two pen trays; all silver elements accented by gadrooned edges. Interior of water pot stamped I N, in serrated rectangle. 6 3/4" H x 9 1/2" W x 6 1/4" D. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee, acquired from the late Dr. Lowry Dale Kirby, Nashville, Tennessee. Note: Several objects from the late Dr. Kirby's silver collection are now in the collection at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. CONDITION: Few minute chips to glass receptacles, some minor wear showing pink at edges of pen wells, light wear to exterior edges, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Antique Persian Afshar area rug, 6'2" overall x 4'5-1/2", wool on wool with cotton woven ends, design includes large vases, birds and stylized flowers, dark blue field, ivory main border, secondary colors of rust, yellow, light green, medium blue and peach. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Generally low pile. [See more photos →]

Four (4) framed English Fox Hunt Scene aquatint engravings by John Harris after J.F. Herring, published 1852, London. Plate titles include 1-The Meet, 2-The Find, 3-The Run and 4-The Kill. Molded ebonized and giltwood frames. Images – 41 3/8" H x 21" W. Plates – 44 5/8" H x 25" W. Sight – 48" H x 28" W. Framed – 52 1/4" H x 32 1/4" W. Mid 19th century. Provenance: Estate of Dr. Kirkland Wiley Todd, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: The Meet: General pale discolorations throughout image, largest 7 1/2"L. The Find: 1/3" repaired tear at upper margin edge, center. Couple of spots of light toning and creasing. The Run: Light scattered minor creasing. Water stain to left side edge (10") in margin. 1/3" repaired tear to upper center margin. The Kill: Light water stains to outer left edge, 1 at top corner, both 1" or less. [See more photos →]

Three (3) items from MacKenzie-Childs. 1st item: Mackenzie-Childs Taylor painted ceramic floor lamp, discontinued, 60-1/2" H including electric socket x 16" dia. base plus 5" H ceramic finial. 8-1/2" H harp. Shade available but not original. 2nd-3rd item: Two MacKenzie-Childs picture frames, mosaic pattern from Vicorian Putty Jug pieces, approx. 8-3/4" x 7-1/4" exterior, 2-3/4" x 3-1/8" interior picture. All items late 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: All items in very good condition. Lamp not checked for functionality. [See more photos →]

Group of thirteen (13) sterling silver bread plates including twelve (12) Towle #5405 pattern plates (6 1/4" dia.) and one (1) R. Wallace #5666 pattern plate (5" dia.). 38.43 total ounces troy. CONDITION: All with overall light surface scratching. [See more photos →]

Two (2) large Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery honey jars, one having buff to light tan transition glaze with lug and strap handle (17" H) and the other having grey glaze with strap handle and wide flaring rim (17 1/2" H). 28.7 lbs. Both late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Both overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Navajo turquoise and sterling cluster concho belt, oval buckle stamped P. Jones Sterling, with eight alternating round (1-7/8" dia.) and nine butterfly (1-3/8" x 3/8") conchos. Slides are copper type metal. Belt is 1" wide and approximately 39" long. 9.105 oz troy including leather. Provenance: Property of a private Greeneville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with some surface grime. [See more photos →]

Minnie Adkins (Kentucky, 20th century) painted wood folk art carving of a red fox. Signed and dated "M Adkins 1999", underside of snout. Signed with copyright, underside of front paws. 11 5/8" H x 3 1/2" W x 42 3/4" D. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Few scuffs, largest 1/2", surface of carving. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Glass and Aventurine snuff bottles. 1st item: Reddish glass snuff bottle simulating amber, round form with carved ring handles and carved red coral stopper, 2 1/3" H, possibly Qing Dynasty. 2nd item: Gilt splash Peking glass snuff bottle, round form and carved lapis stopper, 2 1/2" H, probably Qing Dynasty. 3rd item: Dark amber colored red-brown snuff bottle, probably aventurine, of tapering, flattened ovoid form with quartz stopper, natural inclusions and fissures, no spoon. 2 7/8" H. Late Qing-Early Republic Period. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st and 2nd items: Very good condition, lids will not come off. 3rd item: Very good condition with some natural imperfections, stopper lacks spoon. [See more photos →]

Group Chinese Export Nanking and Canton blue and white porcelain, 6 items, including Nanking oval food warmer base, 2" x 14 1/4" x 10; two Canton octagonal food warmers; small Canton octagonal platter; Canton leaf shaped serving dish, 1 1/4" x 6 3/4" x 8 1/4"; Canton diamond shaped serving dish, all decorated with pagodas, temples and sailing vessels, all mid-late 19th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good conition. Minor surface grime. [See more photos →]

6 pcs Chinese Export Canton porcelain. 1st-2nd items: Pair two-part blue and white candlesticks, copper wrapped rims with cloud, lion/foo dogs and bat decoration, 4 character marks on base, 10" H x 6" dia., Late 19th/Early 20th century. 3rd item: Covered serving dish with fruit finial, 5" H x 9 3/4" W x 8 1/2" D, second half of 19th century. 4th item: Small covered tureen with boars head handles and helmet finial, 4 1/2" H x 7 3/4" W overall x 4 1/2" D, second half 19th century; 5th-6th items: Two shaped deep serving dishes including butterfly shaped dish, both late 19th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item-2nd items: Very good condition. 3rd item: Hairlines to underside of lid and base of covered tureen. 1/2" x 1/4" loss to one side of outside of tureen base. Wear to some corners of tureen base. 4th item: Hairline crack along base and 1/4" chip along base rim. 5th item: Chips/glaze losses to rim of butterfly platter. 6th item: 1" chip below rim. [See more photos →]

A large Japanese Zushi lacquered and gilt carved wooden Buddha altar shrine. Comprised of three parts including the seated figure, the curved arched plaque with scrollwork and sun motif and the six-sided base with lotus leaf, garden wall, pierced floral plaques and wave motifs. 19-3/4" H x 10" W x 8-1/8" D overall. 19th century. CONDITION: Right hand reglued at wrist. Loss of gilding to Buddha figure. Repaired splits to plaque. Some surface grime. Age cracks to elbow, wrists, knees, front edge. [See more photos →]

Nobby Kid googley eyed boy doll. Armand Marseilles bisque head with incised mark Germany 258 AOM, fixed blue googly eyes and light brown wig, composition non-joined limbs, crocheted hat, cotton and lace shirt and black breeches, beige shoes. 12" H. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Missing one finger. Small white mark to cheek, otherwise excellent condition. Clothes have a few light stains. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Boxed Brass Model Trains. 1st item: SN3 Scale Brass P.B.L. Milestone Models Denver and Rio Grande Western Foreground Model #278-1930. Factory painted steam locomotive and tender, number 7 of 39 produced, to date 3/[19]87. Built by the Craftsmen of the Samhongsa Company, Ltd., Seoul, Korea, for P.B.L., Chama, NM. Includes original box and foam with tool and spare parts. Locomotive – 2 1/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 1 3/4" D. Tender – 2" H x 4 1/2" W x 1 1/2" D. Overall – 10" W. Box – 3 1/4" H x 8 3/4" W x 7 1/4" D. Late 20th century. 2nd item: HO Scale Brass United Scale Models Pacific Fast Mail (PFM) Union Pacific 2-8-0, #6201. Factory painted steam locomotive and vanderbilt tender. Manufactured by Atlas Industries, Inc., Kawaguchi, Japan. Includes original box and foam with PRM insert. Locomotive – 2 1/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 1 1/2" D. Tender – 2" H x 4 3/4" W x 1 1/2" D. Overall – 10 1/2" W. Box – 3" H x 8 1/4" W x 7" D. Late 20th century. CONDITION: Both items overall excellent condition. Not tested for functionality, appear to be in working condition. Boxes with some wear. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Parcel bronze candlesticks. 1st and 2nd items: Pair of Gothic Revival style gilt and patinated bronze candlesticks with trefoil and figural decoration to shafts and gargoyle decoration at bases. Removable bobeches. 11 1/8"H. 3rd item: Gilt and patinated bronze candlestick with figural dog on base and naturalistic branch candle holder, all raised on a circular plinth with beaded and laurel banded edges. 8"H. All late 19th – early 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Dr. Kirkland Wiley Todd, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Good condition overall with some light spots of oxidation and scratches. 1st item: one candlestick is loose at base. [See more photos →]

British or Continental School, 19th century, oil on canvas nautical painting depicting six ships with a rowboat, foreground. Signed FIRTH C58 en verso, inscribed Gomsay Castle NW in pencil, top stretcher of frame. Housed in a decorative gilded frame. Sight – 13 3/4" H x 23 5/8" W. Framed – 21" H x 30 3/4" W. Second half of the 19th century. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Overall surface grime and aged varnish. Slight draw to center of canvas. Areas of craquelure, lower left of canvas. Frame has areas of loss to gilding, largest 2", at edges. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Large Sulton Rogers (Mississippi, 1922-2003) outsider art carved wood figures of a couple, each with with devil horns and spade-end tails. The figures fit together to form an intimate pose. Male figure wears a red suit, black tie and white shoes, female figure wears a low cut, tight pink dress and pink high heels. Both figures unsigned. Male – 18" H. Female – 17" H. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Female figure has crack across face, possibly as made. Both figures in overall very good condition with a few scattered areas of minor paint wear. [See more photos →]

Jon Smith (Massachusetts/Florida, 20th/21st century) oil on canvas painting titled "National Gallery Wash D.C. Cy Monet". Contemporary scene of a woman viewing a Monet painting in a museum setting. Signed, lower right. Titled, signed, and dated 2003 en verso. Artist Statement and information included in envelope attached en verso. Housed in a wide molded giltwood frame. Sight – 9 3/8" H x 7 3/8" W. Framed – 18 1/4" H x 16 1/4" W. Provenance: Purchased by consignor from Jon Smith Original Oil Paintings, Inc., Clearwater, FL, in 2001. Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Frederic Remington letter and book, 2 items. 1st item: Framed letter written and signed by Frederic Remington reading "Art Director N.Y. Herald, Sir, In re. ___ 25- I am not at liberty to make picture for art job, Xmas Herald owing to contract with Collier's. Thanking you for your consideration. Yours faithfully, Frederic Remington. Sunday." Written on Telegrams/Hammond N.Y. – Ingleneuk, Chippewa Bay N.Y. letterhead. Framed with a modern print showing Remington in his New Rochelle Studio. Sight letter – 5 3/4" H x 4 1/2" W. Frame overall – 9 3/4" H x 12 3/4" W. 2nd item: FREDERIC REMINGTON'S OWN WEST, written and illustrated by Frederic Remington. Published by The Dial Press, New York, 1960. Retains the original dust cover. 10 1/4" H x 7 1/2" W. CONDITION: 1st item: Framed letter overall very good condition. 2nd item: Book jacket with wear to edges, interior clean and intact. [See more photos →]

Eliassiapik Aullalu Napatu (Canada, 1913-1966) large soapstone carved sculpture depicting an Inuit hunter capturing a seal. Signed Eliassiapik and numbered 33869, together with a Canadian government certification label designating the work as official Eskimo art, dated 29-9-74, on the base . 8 1/2" H x 9" W x 10" D. 17.5 lbs. Mid-20th century. CONDITION: Excellent condition with minor surface scratching/wear. No visible chips or breaks. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Reuben Aaron Miller (Georgia, 1912-2006) folk art items. 1st item: Painted tin cutout titled Shark, mounted to plywood board. Signed R A Miller, lower left of cut out. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Cutout – 56 5/8" H x 13 7/8" W. Board – 61 1/4" H x 16 1/2" W. Framed – 65 3/8" H x 20 5/8" W. 2nd item: Painted tin cutout titled Red Devil, mounted to plywood board. Signed R A Miller, lower right of cutout. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Cutout – 24" H x 10 1/2" W. Board – 26 1/2" H x 10 1/2" W. Framed – 31 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W. 3rd item: Paint and marker composition on plywood board titled Farm Animals. Signed R A Miller, lower left. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 23 3/8" H x 23" W. Framed – 27 3/4" H x 27 5/8" W. All items late 20th century. Provenance: Property of the Arts Center of Cannon County, Tennessee. CONDITION: All items overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Sulton Rogers (Mississippi, 1922-2003) painted wood folk art carvings including a man in a black suit, a woman in a grey dress, and a man in a blue suit with an elephant head. All carvings unsigned. Carving range in size from 15 5/8" H x 5" W x 2 3/4" D to 22 1/4" H x 4 3/4" W x 8" D. All items American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Traces of wax, bottom of feet, male carvings. Minute scuffs and paint flakes, 2" natural age crack to wood, surface of female carving. [See more photos →]

Assorted group of sterling silver items, 26 total, including 11 sterling ornaments of Christmas and childhood themes by Gorham, Towle, Hand & Hammer, Hallmark and more, 1" to 3-3/4" H; 14 assorted sterling napkin rings, 1/2" to 1-1/2" H; and 1 Reed & Barton nut dish, marked X823. 12.51 total oz troy excluding Peter Rabbit (marked "weighted") and Santa Claus (lead weights visible). Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: All items with minor surface scratches. All but 2 napkin rings with monograms. Some with minor dents. [See more photos →]

Six (6) advertising tobacco tins, including Sweet Mist, Sweet Burley. 1st-2nd items: Two rectangular Sweet Mist paper tobacco tins reading: Sweet Mist Chewing Tobacco Manufactured By Scotten Dillon Company Detriot, Mich., around image of three children playing by a fountain against a yellow ground, front and back of tins, with hinged lids. 10 3/4" H x 8 1/8" W x 6 3/8" D. 3rd-4th items: Two cylindrical Sweet Burley tobacco tins reading: Sweet Burley Tobacco, one labeled Light against a yellow ground, one labeled Dark against a red ground, both with images of wax tobacco wrappers, opposite sides. Both with square hinged lids. 11 1/2" H x 8 3/8" dia. 5th item: Beech-Nut store counter tobacco tin reading: We keep it Fresh Beech-Nut Chewing Tobacco Quality Made It Famous, against light blue ground on hinged lid and front, with images of wax tobacco wrappers, left, front, and right sides of tin. 8 3/4" H x 10" W x 8 1/2" D. 6th item: Round Sweet Burley tobacco tin reading: One Pound Full Weight Light Sweet Burley Fine Cut Tobacco, against light yellow ground, surface of lid. 2 1/8" H x 8 1/4" W. American, late 19th/early 20th century. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of rust, dents in varying degrees, surface of tins. 1st-2nd items: 5" crack, lower left if one of the tins. 4 1/2" x 6" area of rubbing, top left of back and top right side of one of the tins. Brown stains, surface of tins. Areas of loss to paper, largest 10 1/8", surface and edges of tins. Foxing spots, largest 1/4", top quadrant of one of the tins. White paint marks, largest 5/8", surface of one of the tins. 3rd-4th items: Uneven bottom, "Dark" tin. Areas of loss, scratches, largest 2 3/4", surface of tins. White paint marks, 1 1/2", surface of "Light" tin. Hinge lid does not close all of the way due to bends in metal on lid and top of tin. 5th item: 2 3/4" x 5/8" area of craquelure, staining, top right of lid. Areas of fading, largest 1", left side of tin. Fading, surface of lid and front side of tin. Dampstaining, largest 4 3/4" x 5", front side of tin. Fading spots, largest 3 1/2" x 5 1/2", surface of tin. 6th item: Areas of loss, rust, largest 1", surface of lid. Scratches, surface of lid. [See more photos →]

3 items total. Two (2) early Black Americana Smoking Tobacco advertising tins with derogatory depictions of African Americans, round form with handle, orange grounds and black graphics. Lot also includes one circa 1917 Tobacco 1/2 coupon. Tins – 6 3/4" H x 5 3/8" dia. All items 1st quarter 20th century. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: One tin overall very good condition, paint excellent condition, upper body with minor denting. The other tin with paint losses, primarily to side and lower bottom of base. [See more photos →]

Ten (10) Tennessee Related Books. 1st item: "The Practical Monitor. For the Preservation of Health and the Prevention of Diseases" 1st ed., by Thomas A. Anderson, A.M., M.D., published and sold by Z. Jayne of Philadelphia, Monroe County, 1831. 8" H x 5 1/8" W x 1" D. 2nd item: "The Savage" by Piomingo, a Headman and Warrior of the Muscogulgee Nation, republished at the "scrap book" office, Knoxville, 1833. 7 1/8" H x 4 5/8" W. 3rd item: "The Tennessee Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary" by Eastin Morris, published by W. Hasell Hunt and Company, Nashville, 1834. 7 1/4" H x 4 3/4" W x 1" D. 4th item: "Early Times in Middle Tennessee" by John Carr, published by E. Stevenson and F. A. Owen, Nashville, 1857. 6" 1/4" H x 4 1/8" W x 1" D. 5th item: "Down in Tennessee, and Back by Way of Richmond" by Edmund Kirke, published by Carleton, New York, 1864. 7 1/2" H x 5 1/4" W x 1" D. 6th item: "Old Times; Or, Tennessee History for Tennessee Boys and Girls" Book I: East Tennessee, by Edwin Pascall, published for the author, Nashville, 1869. 6" H x 4" W x 3/4" D. 7th item: "Old Times in West Tennessee" by Joseph S. Williams, published and printed by W. G. Cheeney, Memphis, 1873. 7 3/4" H x 5" W x 1" D. 8th item: "The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States" by Gates P. Thurston, published by Robert Clarke and Company, 1890. 9 7/8" H x 7" W x 1 1/4" D. 9th item: "History of Literature", 19th century. 9" H x 5 1/2" W x 1 1/4" D. 10th item: "Fain's Critical and Analytical Index and Genealogical Guide to Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee" compiled by John Tyree Fain, Nashville, 1920, with map. 9" H x 6 1/4" W x 2 1/4" D. CONDITION: 1st item: Wear, cracking to covers. 1" area of loss to spine. Heavy foxing, toning, dampstaining, tears, surface of text pages. 2nd item: Heavy foxing, dampstaining, surface of text pages. Front cover loosely attached to binding. Personal inscriptions, tears, largest 1/2" x 1", first matter page and back matter pages. Ex libris label, inside front cover. Back matter page separated from binding. 3rd item: Rebound in 20th century in full leather with stamped boards, new leather label, and new front and back matter pages. Original pages toned with some foxing and some dampstaining of varying degrees. Personal inscriptions, original front and back matter pages. 4th item: Rebound in 20th century in full leather with stamped boards, new leather label, and new front and back matter pages. Personal notations in pencil and ink, original front and back matter pages. Foxing, dampstaining, surface of original pages. 5th item: Overall good condition. Wear to covers and spine. Personal inscriptions, front matter pages. Scattered foxing, dampstaining, surface of pages and inside of covers. 6th item: Overall very good condition. Foxing, dampstaining, surface of text pages. Personal inscriptions, front matter pages. 7th item: Overall good condition. Wear to covers and spine. Dampstaining, front and back matter pages and inside of covers. Scattered foxing spots, surface of text pages. Pencil notations, first matter page. Ex libris label, inside of front cover. 8th item: Overall good condition. Wear to covers and spine. Personal inscription, pasted newspaper article, inside of front cover. Text pages in good reading condition. 9th item: Rebound in 20th century in full leather with stamped boards, new leather label, and new front and back matter pages. Title page missing. Original pages toned with some foxing and some dampstaining of varying degrees. Personal inscriptions, original front and back matter pages. Ex libris label, inside of front cover. 10th item: Overall good condition. Losses to spine, largest 1 1/2" x 1 1/4". Foxing spots, toning, surface of text pages and map. Personal inscription, first front matter page. Ex libris label, inside of back cover. [See more photos →]

Basilius Besler (Germany, 1561-1629) botanical hand colored engraving, depicting flowers: Lathyris Sylvestris, Lachryma Iobi, and Lathryis Narbonensis. Sage green silk mat. Framed under glass in a giltwood molded frame with green painted rabbet edge. Sight 20" H x 16" W. Framed 27" H x 23" W. CONDITION: Creasing or possible repair to center and to upper left corner. General toning and light foxing, especially to margins. Few smudges. Not examined out of frame. [See more photos →]

American, possibly Mid-Atlantic, Sheraton cherry chest, American pine secondary wood, mahogany and light wood rectangular block inlay on stiles, two half drawers over three long drawers, paneled sides, ring incised turned and spiked feet. 42-3/4" H x 40-1/4" W x 20" D. Mid-Atlantic, c. 1820. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Repairs and restoration including newer splice across top, large patch repairs to three drawer fronts. Patch to molding, lower right, below drawer. Replaced brasses. Some drawer sides built up. One backboard replaced. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Red Grooms (Tennessee/New York, b. 1937) painted polystyrene and wood figures from the artist's Saks Fifth Avenue New York series, depicting a blind male panhandler and a female perfume product demonstrator. Signed "Red Grooms" and dated '95, in white paint, bases of both figures. Plexiglass case included. Figures range in size from 14 1/2" H x 6 3/8" W x 6 3/8" D to 18 1/2" H x 6 3/8" W x 6 3/8" D. Case – 20" H x 20" W x 8 1/2" D. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Scattered creases, largest 5", surface of polysyrene side of figures. Scratches, 1/2" area of sticker residue, surface of case. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Tolliver Family folk art paintings. 1st item: Mose Ernest Tolliver (Alabama, 1919-2006) house paint on plywood painting depicting a pond and trees. Signed MOSET with backwards S, lower right. Museum accession tag, en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 15 1/2" H x 23 3/8" W. Framed – 21 3/4" H x 29" W. 2nd item: Annie Mural Tolliver (Alabama, b. 1950) house paint on plywood painting titled Dry Bone Charlie. Depicts the portrait of man with eyes all over his body against a white background with a yellow border. Signed Annie T., lower left. Titled with Museum Accession tag, en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 22 1/4" H x 13 1/2" W. Framed – 26 1/4" H x 17 3/4" W. Both items American, late 20th/early 21st century. Provenance: Property of the Arts Center of Cannon County, Tennessee. CONDITION: Both items overall good condition. 2nd item: 1" stain, top left corner. [See more photos →]

Group of ten (10) Herend porcelain animal figures including two (2) roosters (5 1/2" H x 4 1/2" W), bird with nest and chicks (3" H x 3 3/4" W), duck (2 1/2" H), guinea (3" H), goose with red head scarf (3 1/2" H) and miniature spotted bunny. Also included are three (3) placecard holders, one with chicken and two with rabbits (1 3/4" H x 3" W). All pieces marked on the base. 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: All pieces overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Rare and early Natchez, Mississippi coin silver spoon with elongated bowl and fiddle handle with oval shaped end monogrammed "B", marked on reverse R. Haughton in script in rectangle (Robert Haughton, active Natchez 1819-1829). 5 7/8"L, 0.54 oz troy. Note: Haughton was one of Natchez's earliest silversmiths. ART IN MISSISSIPPI by Patti Carr Black, published 1998, noted there were only two known examples of Haughton's work, both ladles, addl. Ref. NINETEENTH CENTURY NATCHEZ-MADE SILVER. Only a handful of other examples have surfaced since that time. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Wear, scratches, and small dents to bowl. Tip slightly worn. Only slight wear to handle including mark. [See more photos →]

Pair of Tennessee coin silver spectacles marked J. S. Curtis within a rectangle (J. S. Curtis, working Memphis, circa 1850). Oval tinted double lenses with hinged and adjustable arms. Glasses – 1" H x 4 1/2" W x 4 1/4" D. Case – 4 3/4" H x 1 3/8" W x 3/4" D. 1.10 total oz troy. Mid 19th century. CONDITION: Glasses overall good condition, light scratching on lenses, one inner lens has diagonal crack. Case with wear including crackling in leather with moderate to heavy cupping, losses along top. [See more photos →]

English sterling silver ink well stand or standish bearing the marks for John Edward, Jr. and William Barnard, London, with date mark for 1835. All pieces bearing maker's mark. 4 3/4" H x 7 1/2" W x 5" D. 20.34 total troy ounces. Provenance: East Tennessee collection, by descent from Edwin V. Hill, M.D., deceased 1969. Dr. Hill was a faculty member of Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools and served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. He collected Asian arts during his military tour in the Far East theatre, including China and Japan, prior to 1964. CONDITION: Minor denting to well of base. Very minor fleabites to edges of one bottle. Top of one bottle loose. [See more photos →]

Civil War era, likely Confederate, waist belt with brass snake buckle, possibly Enfield, snake body with duck head, British Import. Buckle with O ring split and brazed straddle of the belt loop portion on black leather adjustible belt. 36-1/2" L as shown. Circa 1860. Provenance: Purchased from John Sexton, Civil War memorabilia dealer and certified appraiser. Private Florida collection. Note: This type of English made belt was used by both sides, however it was more commonly used by the Confederates who relied on English imports more than Union soldiers. CONDITION: Old patination to buckle. Wear to two folds on leather belt. [See more photos →]

Tennessee coin silver small handled cup or mug, inverted bell shaped body with beaded rim and footring, C scroll handle. Marked on underside CAMPBELL & DONIGAN in rectangle (John Campbell and George Washington Donigan, working Nashville, TN 1853-1855). No monograms. 3"H. 1.1 oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1/4" dent to side, solder repairs to handle, scattered small minor scratches. [See more photos →]

Large archive of drawings and notes by the noted Civil War illustration artist Alfred Waud (1828-1891). Includes several sketches of people in period dress ranging from the 1600s-late 1800s, architectural drawings, Native American people and objects, Mexican places and artifacts, etc. There are 4 pen and ink drawings but the majority are rendered in pencil. Many seem to relate to a trip West (in 1886, Waud toured the Mississippi River Valley and the Dakota Territory). Some are captioned, including a floorplan titled Palace at Palenque, Iron Works at Pilot Knob (Ironton, Missouri), Canal Boats, etc. A couple are signed ARW, but most are unsigned. There are several notes referring to colonial missionary to the Indians, David Brainerd, suggesting Waud may have been planning to illustrate a book about him. Another scrap of paper refers to Harper's Weekly (Waud's employer) and is dated 1866. More than 50 illustrations total, ranging from 2" x 2" to 10" x 11". Circa 1866-1882. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography (Courtesy of John M. Cunningham): Alfred Waud was a British-born American artist and illustrator whose detailed sketches of scenes from the Civil War, which he covered as a press correspondent New York Illustrated News, captured the warís dramatic intensity and furnished him with a reputation as one of the preeminent artist-journalists of his era. At the onset of the Civil War, he was dispatched to cover the Army of the Potomac, the main Union military contingent. As a "special artist" for the newspaper, Waud produced a series of quickly rendered sketches in the field-including depictions of the First Battle of Bull Run-which were then printed as engravings. He remained with the army after joining the staff of Harperís Weekly magazine at the end of 1861 and went on to sketch scenes of the Battle of Gettysburg, among other significant military actions. After the war Waud continued to contribute sketches to Harperís, documenting American life in locales ranging from the Reconstruction-era South to the western frontier. As a freelance illustrator, he contributed work to a number of publications, including the illustrated Picturesque America (1872-74). CONDITION: Good condition overall with general toning and some with small tears including several partial pages. Refer to photos. [See more photos →]

Dr. Robert John Thorton (United Kingdom, 1768-1837) hand-colored aquatint, mezzotint, and stipple engraving titled The American Aloe, painted by Philip Reinagle (1749-1833), engraved by Thomas Medland (c.1765-1833). From TEMPLE OF FLORA : OR GARDEN OF THE BOTANIST POET PAINTER AND PHILOSOPHER, published by Thornton, London, 1807 folio edition. Partial watermark reading H. Smith 18…, lower left of sheet. Housed in a white matte. Image 17" H x 13 3/4" W. Sheet 23" H x 17 3/4" W. British, early 19th century. CONDITION: Unframed. Overall good condition with minor toning, edges of sheet, and a few foxing spots, surface of sheet. Black scuffs, foxing spots, toning, visible en verso. Partial plate marks remain across right and lower sections of sheet. [See more photos →]

Pair patinated and gilt bronze electric table lamps modeled as blackamoor figures holding torches, mounted on wooden bases, with black shades having marbelized paper liners. Figures – 15 3/4"H. 29 1/2" overall. Mid 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with some wear and white oxidation or polish residue to some crevices, some small minor dings to shades. [See more photos →]

Giuseppe Napoli (New York, 1929-1967) mixed media on board painting titled BirdBeast depicting a sea bird. Signed and dated 1959, top right. Additionally signed, titled, and dated, en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 20 5/8" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed – 26 1/4" H x 21 1/4" W. American, mid 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. 18" vertical shrinkage crack, left side of board. Scattered scuffs and scratches to board. [See more photos →]

Cornelius van Leemputten (Belgium, Netherlands, 1841-1902) oil on board painting of three sheep, one resting, on a dirt path with grass and rocks in background. Signed, C. Van Leemputten, lower right. Housed in a 20th century gilt paneled frame. Sight – 6" H x 9" W. Framed – 9" H x 11-3/4" W. European, late 19th century. CONDITION: Overall craquelure. Heavy varnish and some surface grime. Small repair (1/16") on chest of largest sheep. [See more photos →]

After Carl Kauba (American/Austrian, 1865-1922) cold painted bronze pheasant sculpture. Signed C Kauba, lower left of sculpture. Stamped AUSTRIA, underside of sculpture. 9 1/2" H x 3 1/2" W x 16" D. 7lbs. Austrian, early/mid 20th century, CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Losses to patina, largest 1", surface of sculpture. [See more photos →]

French gilt bronze and blue enamel trinket box with convex sides and ormolu mounts, hinged lid with hand-painted cartouche of two maidens in garden setting, Louis XIV style c-scroll supports. 3-1/2" H x 6" W x 4" D. Third quarter of the 19th century. CONDITION: Decoration in very good condition. Some wear to gilt ormolu. Bottom of box replaced. [See more photos →]

Chinese white jade snuff bottle, relief carved with melon or other fruit and leaves, 2 1/4" H. Late Qing/early Republic Period. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate. CONDITION: Coral stopper lacks spoon and may not be original to the bottle. [See more photos →]

Hunt Silver Company sterling water pitcher, round urn form with scrolled handle, pattern number #550. Maker's mark for Hunt Silver Co., Sterling, and 550, on the base. Not monogrammed. 10" H. 22.695 troy ounces. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: Couple of minor dings to lower body. Approximately 2" light scratch to body. [See more photos →]

Two (2) East Tennessee pieced cotton quilts. 1st item: East Tennessee pieced cotton quilt, Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern comprised of various calico prints in colors of red, brown, pink, tan and black on a cream backing, 61" x 84". 2nd item: East Tennessee pieced and embroidered cotton quilt, Irish Chain pattern in colors of red and green on a white ground with wide red inner border and with feather, diagonal and diamond quilting stitches, 86" x 75-1/2". Both quilts early 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Light staining to backing. Minor fraying to edge, largest, 2-1/4" L. 2nd item: Fading to green. [See more photos →]

Four (4) 14K yellow gold chain necklaces including two box chain necklaces, 18-1/4" L & 32-1/2" L; one herringbone chain, 18" L (all marked Italy) and one rope chain necklace, 18" L. 21.4 grams total weight/4 items. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: All in very good condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Jerry Brown (Alabama, 1942-2016) stoneware folk art pottery face jugs. 1st item: Red face jug with rear facing handle, small blue eyes, horns, unibrow, and goatee. Signed and dated 10-97/Jerry Brown/Hamilton/AL, underside of jug. 5 3/4" H x 5" W x 5 1/4" D. 2nd item: Red face jug with rear facing handle, blue eyes and ears, horns, and open mouth showing teeth. Signed and dated 2-98/Jerry Brown/Hamilton/AL, underside of jug. 5 5/8" H x 5" W x 5 1/2" D. 3rd item: Red face jug with rear facing handle, blue eyes and ears, blue horns, and closed mouth with large lips. Signed and dated 2-98/Jerry Brown/Hamilton/AL, underside of jug. All items late 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Few firing flaws, surface of jug. Wax residue, underside of jug. 2nd item: Few firing flaws, surface of jug. 1 1/4" hairline crack, rim of jug near handle. 3rd item: Few firing flaws, surface of jug. [See more photos →]

Herend porcelain handled cachepot, Rothschild Bird pattern with green naturalistic branch handles and basketweave ground. Marked on the base. 6 1/4" H x 10 1/4" dia. 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: Some interior staining, otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Scarce Southern coin silver pap boat or invalid feeder, oblong form with rolled rim and tapering spout, marked J. Ewan in serrated rectangle, (John Ewan, working Charleston, South Carolina, 1823-1852). 4 1/2" L, 2.03 oz troy. CONDITION: Some small minor dents, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st edition copy of THE JOHNSON IMPEACHMENT: HISTORY OF THE IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND HIS TRIAL BY THE SENATE FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN OFFICE, 1868 by Edmund G. Ross. Printed in1896 by New Mexican Printing, Co./Sante Fe. Original grey cloth boards, 180 pages, very scarce account of the Johnson impeachment by a Kansas senator who was one of three Republicans who voted against the wishes of his party. 9 3/4" H x 6 1/4" W. Provenance: Anne P. and Thomas A. Gray Library and MESDA Research Center. CONDITION: Very slight wear to spine, some light grime to cover. Clean interior. [See more photos →]

Large Middle Tennessee stoneware honey jar, tan to brown transition glaze, two bands of incised lines around the upper shoulder and one large strap handle. 16 1/2" H. Late 19th century. CONDITION: Very good condition with firing flaw to side of body. [See more photos →]

Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery jar with partially illegible cobalt stenciling reading: G. GONE.. & WING… /EDGEFIELD. TENN, with cobalt line decoration to neck and base, above and below stencil. Stencil most likely indicates a retailer in Edgefield (Nashville). 9 1/2" H. Late 19th/early 20th century. Private Middle Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Good condition with 7" L. hairline crack emanating from rim to base. Some minor chipping rim interior. Firing flaws near top of hairline crack. [See more photos →]

Grigory Stepanyants (Russian/American, 1927-2007) oil on canvas landscape painting titled Lake Thomas in Sea Pines Forest Preserve (Hilton Head, South Carolina) signed upper left. Signed and dated, '87, on reverse. Gilt 20th c. frame. Sight – 23-1/2" H x 35-5/8" W. Framed – 30-7/8" H x 42-3/4" W. Grigory Stepanyants was born in the former Soviet Union, and was trained at the Odessa Art Institute and the Surikov Moscow State Institute of the Arts. Graduating in 1970 as one of the top five students in the Soviet Union, Stepanyants was awarded the rank of "Excellence as an Artist-Painter". He emigrated to the United States in 1976 and established a career as a professional portrait painter and landscape artist living in NYC, Hilton Head, SC, PA, Iowa and TN. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Chinese Longquan celadon charger with central carved lotus blossom, carved scrolling foliate designs to the sides and scalloped rim. Underside with lobed body and burnt orange unglazed center. 10 1/4" dia. Ming Dynasty. Provenance: East Tennessee collection, by descent from Edwin V. Hill, M.D., deceased 1969. Dr. Hill was a faculty member of Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools and served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. He collected Asian arts during his military tour in the Far East theatre, including China and Japan, prior to 1964. CONDITION: Very good condition overall with some scattered firing flaws. [See more photos →]

American School, 19th century, oil on artist's board autumn landscape painting, titled en verso "The Old Homestead/1 yr. Chili Ave./Rochester, N.Y.", depicting a white house among trees with a white picket fence in foreground. Unsigned, but likely by the Rochester artist James Harris (New York, 1811-1874). Ink inscription en verso reads "Jan. 3th 1865/Presented by Mr. Harris (Artist)". Red writing en verso reads "Turner Grandma D born there. Give to Geo. Duncan unless you want it". Housed in a gilt and gesso wood frame. Sight: 12" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed: 16" H x 20 1/4" W. 2nd half 20th century. Note: An artist by the name of James Harris is mentioned in the AskArt biography of Norton Bush: "Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New York and took his first art instruction from James Harris, a local artist". Findagrave.com states that James Harris, father of landscape painter Edwin Landseer Harris, was the longest-serving teacher of landscape painting in Rochester, NY in the 19th Century and was the first teacher of noted landscape painter Norton Bush. CONDITION: Very good condition with slight overall crazing. 2" L. horizontal brush stroke above chimney, possible overpainting, may be original. [See more photos →]

U.S. Civil War Canister Round or Oval Grape Projector for 3-inch ordnance rifles, this example likely used for the Parrott rifle. Intact with the exception of the powder bag which would have been on the back of the sabot. 8 1/2" L. Approx. 10 pounds. 3rd quarter 19th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Powder bag not present. General wear consistent with age. [See more photos →]

Assembled group of 48-piece Civil War ephemera found in Middle Tennessee, including numerous dug items. Group consisting of twenty-seven (27) military and militia uniform buttons, some of the period, some Confederate reunion and others 20th century; seven (7) brass buckles and breastplates; two (2) artillery shells; one (1) canister shot; two (2) brass uniform pins; six (6) pieces of Confederate paper money; 1 sixteenth-plate tintype of a Union soldier; and sheet music titled "Just Before the Battle Mother", published 1865 in Richmond, Virginia by J. W. Davies & Sons. Lot also includes a Cuban 5 cent fractional note dated 1896. Mid/late 19th century. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Relics in dug, as found, condition. Currency is circulated and ranges from good to poor condition. Sheet music with period inscriptions, toning and staining. [See more photos →]

Three (3) gold coins. 1st item: 1926 2-1/2 dollar Indian Head gold coin, 900 fineness, set in 14K yellow gold frame mounting, 5.1 grams. 2nd-3rd items: 1911 and 1915 2-1/2 dollar Indian Head gold coins, 900 fineness, 8.3 grams together. 13.4 grams total weight. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: All in circulated wear. Ungraded. [See more photos →]

Grouping of Tramp art and folk art, six (6) items total. 1st item: Pine tramp art storage box with hinged lift top, wooden handle, iron clasp, lift-out tray and single drawer, applied molding with stamped and cut decoration, base of drawer made from side of storage crate, 6-1/2" x 11-1/2" x 7-3/4". 2nd-4th items: Three tramp art picture frames, two with black and white photogrphs of girls, smallest frame also with gilt paint; largest frame without image, 6-1/4" x 5-1/2" to 27-1/2" x 22-3/4" with 19" x 15" opening. 5th item: Wooden butter mold with cutwork image of swan, 5-1/2" H x 4-3/4" dia. 6th item: Stained pine checkerboard, colors of red and blue, 1-3/4" H x 13-1/2" sq. All late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition with minor losses to two smaller frames. General surface grime. [See more photos →]

English rosewood tea caddy and vanity box, 2 items total. 1st item: English rosewood sarcophagus form tea caddy, the interior with three fitted compartments. 7-1/4" H x 12" W x 6-1/4" D. 19th century. 2nd item: English rosewood vanity box with fitted interior including seven (7) silver plated capped bottles, and three (3) mother of pearl handled tools, blue velvet interior lining and brass trimmed case. 5" H x 12" W x 9" D. 19th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: 1st item: Minor loss to one lid edge, rubbing to top edges. 2nd item: Couple of vanity tools are missing. Wear to silver caps. General wear/scratching to wood case. [See more photos →]

Three (3) works of folk art, including May Kugler, Jesse Cooper. 1st item: May Kugler (Louisiana, 1916-2005) folk art oil on board outdoor scene depicting a white church with young girls and boys on lawn participating in their First Communion. Signed and dated May Kugler, 1984, lower left. Ink inscription en verso by artist describes her First Communion as a young girl of 9. Sight – 7 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Framed – 12 1/2" H x 14 1/2" W . 2nd item: Folk Art oil on board depicting an African American church service. Unsigned. Housed in a contemporary wood frame. 10" H x 12 3/4" W. 14" H x 17" W. 20th century. 3rd item: Jesse Cooper (Kentucky/Ohio, 1932 – 2013) Carved wood oil painting depicting the biblical scene of Simon Peter fishing, applied on particle board and framed. Signed and titled lower right. Painting – 9 1/4" H x 21 1/4" W. Framed – 13 3/4" H x 26" W. 20th century. Provenance: Property of the Arts Center of Cannon County, Tennessee. CONDITION: All in generally good condition with some wear and scratches. [See more photos →]

Two (2) large Middle TN stoneware pottery honey jars, both with grey glaze, incised ridge around shoulder and elongated extruded handles, shortest example with glaze to base. Jars range in size from 16 5/8" H to 18" H. 39 lbs. Both late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Both overall very good condition. Scattered firing flaws, surface of both jugs with area of abrasion, 3" L x 5" W, lower right of handle to taller jar. [See more photos →]

Two (2) American School impressionist oil paintings. 1st item: Oil on board painting depicting a country homestead with white house partially obscured by trees with a fence and dirt road leading to the house. Unsigned. Partial art store label for "F. W. Devoe & Co., New York" and illegible red chalk inscription, en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 8 3/4" H x 12 3/4" W. Framed – 12 1/2" H x 16 1/2" W. 2nd item: Oil on board painting depicting a red building behind trees and a picket fence. Unsigned. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 8 3/4" H x 12 3/4" W. Framed – 12 3/4" H x 16 5/8" W. Both items late 19th/early 20th century. Note: Both unsigned but likely by the same artist. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Both in excellent condition overall. [See more photos →]

Carl Sublett (TN, 1919-2008) watercolor painting of the Colonel James Van Deventer home which later became the University of Tennessee Faculty Club, and most recently Hodges Library. Signed and dated, '64 Sublett, lower left. Framed in stained wooden and goldtone frame. Sight – 17" W x 13 1/2" D. Framed – 24 1/2" W x 21 1/2" D. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) 14K diamond rings. 1st item: 14K white gold diamond band containing 5 prong-set round diamonds together weighing approximately .50 ct, ring size 6-1/2, 3.3 grams. 2nd item: 14K yellow gold Edwardian style diamond ring containing 9 round diamonds with a total weight of approximately .58 ct. Mounting with black enamel highlights, ring size 6-1/4, 5.8 grams. 9.1 grams total weight/2 rings. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: Small chips to some diamonds in each ring. [See more photos →]

Ron Williams (Tennessee, d. 2016) oil on canvas painting depicting a stream surrounded by autumn foliage. Signed Ron Williams, lower right. Dated 1991, en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 18 1/2" H x 25 7/8" W. Framed – 22 1/4" H x 29 3/4" W. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. 3" scratch, lower left of painting. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

German sterling silver cow creamer of steer with long horns, full body and attached fly figural on hinged cover. Marked on belly with pseudo lion hallmark. 4" H x 6" x 1 3/4". 8.09 oz troy. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Telford, Grier, and Mackay, Ltd. brass and copper anchor lantern with maker's specification plate reading, "Telford, Grier & Mackay Ltd./ Patent No 28334-1923 16/Carrick Street/ Glasgow". Stamped 1859 above instructional plaque and glass Fresnel lens, body of lantern with original oil lamp, handle and punch-hole markings, top of lantern. 20 1/4" H x 11" dia. Scotland, early 20th century. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of oxidation, especially around top plate, surface of lantern. Dents, scratches, largest 3", surface of lantern. Handle stuck in place. Light fixture loose, bottom of lantern. Not tested for functionality, although the intact lamp suggests it is in working condition. [See more photos →]

Chinese Export Canton blue and white porcelain partial tea service plus more, 42 items total, including one tall dome-top teapot, 8" H x 9 1/2" W x 6" D; 19 cups with handles, various sizes (1 broken, 2 marked CHINA on base), 1 7/8" to 2 3/4" H; 8 small plates/saucers, (1 marked CHINA on base); 4 1/4" to 4 3/8" dia.; 5 plates of various sizes, 7 3/8" to 8 5/8" dia.; 6 fish bone fish-shaped bowls of various sizes, 4 1/2" to 5 1/2" L; 2 cream jugs in 2 sizes, 3" and 4" H; 1 separate round lid with strawberry finial, 4 3/4" dia. Most items mid to late 19th century. 3 items early 20th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Teapot with repair to handle and staple repair to spout. 1 tea cup is broken. 1 saucer with kiln repairs. 1 teacup with rim chip, 2 teacups with handle repairs. Both creamers with some rim chips.Fish dish with hairline crack near head. All other items in good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) American landscape paintings. 1st Item: American School, possibly Kentucky, oil on board landscape painting depicting a wooded stream at night. Signed F. Ehrlich lower right. T.N. Lindsey Art Store, 552 S. Fourth Avenue, Louisville, KY label with illegible pencil marks, en verso. Housed in a contemporary gilt frame. Sight – 7-1/4" H x 4-1/4" W. Framed – 12" H x 9" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. 2nd Item: Impressionist Fall scene oil on board landscape painting depicting harvested haystacks against a wooded backdrop. Signed lower right H.R.H and dated 1903 lower right. Rothery's Custom Framing, Knoxville, TN label, en verso. Housed in a contemporary silvered and painted wood frame. Sight – 7 1/8" H x 9 1/8" W. Framed – 11 1/4" H x 13 1/4" W. Early 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Both overall good condition. 1st item: Painting has minute paint flakes to surface of board top quadrant. Frame has moderate losses, largest 1 3/4" at edges. 2nd item: Painting has black scuffs, largest 1 1/4" to surface of board. 7 3/8" incised line on left side of board. [See more photos →]

Federal pillar-and-scroll shelf clock, Ephraim Downes, Bristol, CT, c. 1825, Doughty Family (TN) provenance. Scrolled broken arch pediment with three brass urn finials, original painted wooden face, floral spandrels with gilt highlights, door with inlaid bone kite shaped escutcheon, lower door panel with reverse painted landscape, original feet and glue blocks, probably original finish. Partial paper label Ephraim Downs or Downes (1787-1860), Bristol, Connecticut, inside with pendulum, key, wooden gear, weight and one additional weight, 31-1/4" x 16-1/2" x 4-3/4". Clock originally owned by Robert Maloney, 1784-1848. Robert Maloney was the great-grandfather of W. H. Doughty, Captain and Lieutenant Willard's Regiment, Second East Tennessee Volunteers in the War of 1812. Provenance: Living Estate of John and Donna Rogers, Greeneville, TN; ex- Richard or Dick Doughty, Greeneville, TN. American, 19th century. CONDITION: Some corrosion to brass finials. 6" long crack to glass to upper glass section. Replaced spur returns on skirt and older repaired veneer to scroll on pediment. Some loss to reverse painting, lower panel. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery items including a chicken/bird feeder with transition glaze and finial (10 1/2" H), an unusual bird/chicken feeder with open top, tapered rim and curved body (10" H), flower pot with light tan glaze and drainage hole (6" H), grey glazed storage pot with rounded rim, incised line below and illegible script writing to the body (9 1/4" H), and cream pot with brown glaze, rolled rim and incised line around upper shoulder (6" H). 35.8 lbs. All late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: All items good condition overall with minor to moderate wear and scratching to bodies. Birdfeeder with transition glaze has 5/8"L chip to finial. [See more photos →]

Three (3) male dolls. 1st item: Helen Jensen bisque character boy doll head with blonde molded hair, blue sleep eyes, rosy cheeks and open mouth, incised on back GLADDIE COPYRIGHT BY HELEN W. JENSEN, GERMANY 10051-1420-48. 6" H. 2nd item: Boy doll with bisque head, blonde wig, blue sleep eyes and open mouth, composition limbs (not jointed); green wool coat and hat with black velvet trim and breeches, later black shoes. Incised back of head "6" (other markings obscured by wig glue). 13" H. 3rd item: Boy doll with Japanese bisque head marked MB in circle for Morimura Bros., "Japan" and "2", blonde wig, blue sleep eyes and open mouth, composition limbs (not jointed); beige cotton short and brown wool breeches, brown shoes. 14" H. Circa 1914-1926. CONDITION: 1st item: Scattered light spots to cheek and neck, some dark scratches near ear, dark marks back of head, no chips or cracks. 2nd item: Excellent condition (shoes later). 3rd item: Head in excellent condition, some scuffs to body, light discoloration to shirt. Paint above eyes shows flaking when eyes are closed. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) vintage German bisque dolls. 1st-2nd items: Two Gebruder Heubach #7602 bisque baby dolls with jointed heads, arms and legs, vintage cotton clothing, maker's mark on back of necks. 8" L. 1914. 3rd item: Simon & Halbig girl doll, still blue eyes, open mouth with teeth, composition ball jointed body, vintage cotton and lace garments, newer hair, socks and shoes, 22" L, circa 1900. 4th item: Simon & Halbig girl doll, sleeping brown eyes, open mouth with teeth, composition ball jointed body, vintage cotton and lace dress, newer socks and shoes, marked 1159, 30" L, circa 1900. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Good condition with slight to moderate grime and stains to bisque overall. 3rd item: Missing pinkie fingers both hands. 3rd item: Moderate to heavy grime and stains overall, leg mobility limited, fingers previously repaired, hair desintegrating. Wear to garment. [See more photos →]

French gilt bronze and champleve enamel Art Nouveau style tray with painted enamel on copper (likely), insert depicting a goddess playing a harp in a stylized garden setting, plaque signed with initials "MAS", lower right center. Tray with bronze and champleve Art Nouveau style floral, scroll and leaf shaped mounts, unmarked. 2" H x 13" W x 7-1/2" D. Late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Minor wear to gilding and enamel on tray border. [See more photos →]

Winford Estill "Wimp" Gibson (Tennessee/Kentucky, 1944-1994) painted wood folk art carving of Uncle Sam with movable arms in a red, white, and blue suit and top hat. Signed Wimp Gibson, underside of carving. 23 5/8" H x 7 3/4" W x 5 1/2" D. American, late 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Surface grime. 2 1/4" natural age crack to wood, groin area of craving. Left arm slightly loose. [See more photos →]

Two (2) silver medallion pattern serving pieces. 1st item: John Wendt Medallion Pattern sterling silver Ice Cream server, having a classical column style handle with a rosette midpoint, terminating in a Roman Bust and a classical chased and engraved blade. Stamped en verso Bailey, Black & Co./Patent/925. 10 1/2" L. 4.140 troy ounces. 2nd item: John Wendt Medallion Pattern sterling silver Serving Scoop, having a classical column style handle with a rosette midpoint, terminating in a Roman Bust and a classical chased and engraved bowl. Stamped en verso Bailey, Black & Co./Patent/925 and engraved with the initials "A. C. R.". 8 1/2" L. 2.600 troy ounces. 6.74 total troy ounces. Both pieces circa 1860. CONDITION: Both pieces with very minor pitting, some heavy tarnish residue not removed by polishing. [See more photos →]

Folk art stoneware pottery ink well with a brown/orange glaze with dark brown streaks. Stepped form, the top having 3 miniature jugs, central jug with attached legs, with strap handles atop the ink reserve with holder below and "ribbon" type decoration applied around the perimeter. Additional incised decoration throughout. Back of well initialed "DM". Found in the Huntsville, Alabama area. 5 1/4" H x 8 1/2" W x 6" D. English or American, late 19th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Good condition with 4 areas of minor chipping/glaze exfoliation to perimeter of base. Jug handles and attaching ribbon flourese under blacklight inspection. Center jug back handle previously repaired with possible repairs to other handles. Minimal damage evident, possibly due to applied spray/film from repair. [See more photos →]

Five (5) contemporary Tennessee and North Carolina baskets, including one (1) buttocks basket form with orange weavers to handle, rim and middle rib and faint dyed alternate weavers to body, signed by Nelda Merritt (10 1/4" H x 11 1/2" W), one (1) unsigned buttocks basket with faint dyed alternate weavers (10 1/2" H x 10 1/2" W), one (1) rectangular form carrying basket, unsigned but attributed to Mildred Youngblood (13" H x 13 1/2" W x 9" D), two (2) rounded rectangular forms with faint dyed alternate weavers (12" H x 13 1/4" W x 9" D & 15" H x 16" W x 10 3/4" D). All 20th century. CONDITION: All very good condition with no breaks or visible wear. [See more photos →]

Five (5) Sweet Cuba advertising tobacco tins. 1st-2nd items: Two cylindrical Sweet Cuba tobacco tins reading: Light Sweet Cuba Tobacco, one against cream and green ground, one against cream and brown ground, front and back of tins. Both with square hinged lids. 11 1/4" H x 8 1/2" dia. 3rd item: Sweet Cuba store counter tobacco tin reading: Sweet Cuba Fine Cut, surface of hinged lid with round wooden handle, with images of wax tobacco wrappers against yellow ground, front, left and right sides of tin. 8" H x 8" W x 11" D. 4th item: Rectangular Sweet Cuba paper tobacco tin reading: Sweet Cuba Fine Cut The Kind That Suits Spaulding & Merrick Branch of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. Chicago Illinois, around image of the Faro Castillo del Morro in Havana, Cuba on a yellow and green ground, front and back of tin, with hinged lid. Labeled American Can Co.. Pat. May 20, 1913, left side of tin. 11 1/2" H x 8 1/8" W x 6 1/4" D. 5th item: Round Sweet Cuba tobacco tin reading: One Pound-Full Weight. Light Sweet Cuba Fine Cut Tobacco, against green ground, surface of lid. 2 1/4" H x 8 1/4" dia. American, late 19th/early 20th century. Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Areas of rust, dents in varying degrees, surface of tins. 1st-2nd items: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 1", surface of tins. 2 1/2" area of light green paint, surface of green tin. Hinge lid does not close all of the way, brown tin. 3rd item: Areas of loss, scratches, largest 2 1/2", surface of tin. Hinge lid does not close all of the way due to bends of metal, left and right sides of tin. Wooden handle loose. 4th item: Brown stains, largest 10 1/2" x 3 1/2", surface of tin. Losses to paper, largest 2 1/2", edges of tin. Hinge lid does not close all of the way. 5th item: Five perforation holes, fours sides of lid. Areas of loss, scratches, largest 1", surface of lid. Lid does not close all of the way due to bends in metal. [See more photos →]

Four (4) 19th century Tennessee and Kentucky maps. 1st item: "Tennessee & Kentucky" Map by Thomas G. Bradford, engraved by George W. Boynton, published by William D. Ticknor, Boston, 1835. From "A Comprehensive Atlas, Geographical, Historical & Commercial" by Thomas G. Bradford. Copper plate engraving with hand-colored outlines of Tennessee and Kentucky depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and a notation on the location of the "Cherokee Indians", lower right of state of Tennessee. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map, "Longitude West from London", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Image – 7 3/4" H x 10" W. Sheet – 10 1/8" H x 13 1/8" W. 2nd item: "Tennessee" map by Anthony Finley, engraved by Young and Delleker, published by Anthony Finley, Philadelphia, 1828. From "A New General Atlas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps" by Anthony Finley. Copper plate engraving with hand-coloring of Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Sheet is mounted to white matte. Image – 8 1/2" H x 11 3/8" W. Sheet – 10 7/8" H x 13 7/8" W. 3rd item: "Kentucky and Tennessee" map by Jeremiah Greenleaf, 1848. From "A New Universal Atlas" by Jeremiah Greenleaf. Copper plate engraving with hand-coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Image – 10 5/8" H x 12 5/8" W. Sheet – 11 7/8" H x 14 5/8" W. 4th item: "Kentucky and Tennessee" Map, by George W. Colton, published by Joseph H. Colton and Co., New York, 1856. From "Colton's Atlas Of The World" By G. W. Colton. Steel plate engraving with hand-coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and fretwork border. Image – 12 3/4" H x 16 1/2" W. Sheet – 15 1/8" H x 17 5/8" W. CONDITION: 1st item: Foxing spots on surface, largest 1/8". Paper bent, top right corner. Water damage, largest 1-1/4", en verso. 2nd item: Toning, water damage on surface, largest 1/4" spot, top left. Toning around edges of paper. Toning, water damage, largest 1/8" spot, top right en verso. 3rd item: Toning, water damage on surface, largest 1", top left. Toning, water damage, largest 1/4" spot, top center en verso. 4th item: Toning around edges of paper. Tears along top edge of paper. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) black transferware ceramics including one (1) scalloped rim dinner plate marked en verso: Hartford.Connecticut. / Jackson's Warranted (10 3/8" dia); One (1) scalloped rim dinner plate marked en verso: Copeland/Spode/England (10 1/2" dia./20th century); one (1) oval serving platter with landscape scene and attached metal warming tray with wooden handles (15 3/8" W x 12 1/2" H); one (1) oval scalloped rim serving platter marked en verso: Continental Views/ M & P/Lago Maggiore (12 1/2" H x 15 3/8" W); and one (1) large oval serving platter marked en verso: Cologne/R.S. & S. (16 1/4" H x 20" W). Four pieces 19th century, one plate early 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Largest platter with scratching and wear to front, scattered chips to rim. Platter with warmer with scratches to front, warmer with repairs. Smallest plate with crazing to glaze, some chips to rim and stains. [See more photos →]

Ted Burnett (Tennessee, 1908-1982) mixed media on paper painting depicting an American eagle. Signed, top left. Housed in a contemporary gilded frame. Sight – 13 1/8" H x 16" W. Framed – 23 3/4" H x 26 5/8" W. American, mid/late 20th century. Note: Burnett made a series of prints from this particular work. Biography (Courtesy Village Fine Arts): Ted Burnett was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and studied at the Chicago Art Institute and Eliot O'Hara Watercolor School in Maine. Ted's many awards included the Hallmark International Award, Nashville Arts Festival Purchase Prize, Art Association of New Orleans Watercolor Prize, Tennessee Valley Art Association Reynolds Metal Award, the Birmingham Art Association Jury Exhibition Award, and the Dixie Museum Purchase Prize. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952) photogravure titled, Antelope and Snakes At Oraibi, unframed on Holland Van Goldier Zonen paper. Plate 404. Negative date 1910. Print date c. 1910, from 1907-1930, Suffolk Engraving Co., Cambridge, MA. Plate number upper left, titled lower left, copyright information mid lower margin and publisher information lower right margin. Image – 11 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W. Plate – 13 1/4" H x 16 7/8" W. Sheet – 17 3/4" H x 22" W. CONDITION: Unframed, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Group of sixteen (16) Native American Cherokee weavings, including nine (9) miniature honeysuckle carrying baskets of graduated size, two (2) larger miniature honeysuckle carrying baskets, three (3) rivercane rectangular miniature baskets, one retaining maker's tag for Ramona Lossiah, and two (2) framed rivercane woven mats. Baskets range in size from 1/2" to 5" H. Framed mats – 12" H x 10" W. All items 20th century. CONDITION: All very good condition, no breaks or visible wear. [See more photos →]

Assembled group of Herend porcelain dinnerware, 15 pieces, Rothschild Bird pattern, including 1 trembleuse cup with attached underplate, 1 sugar shaker with lid, 1 mini creamer, 1 shaped bon bon dish, 1 egg cup, 1 twin salt, 1 chocolate cup with saucer, 1 handled shell shaped dish, 1 heart shaped dish, 1 small dresser dish, 1 pot de creme with attached underplate and lid and and 1 covered jam/jelly cup. All pieces marked on the base. Ranging in size from 1/2" H x 2 3/4" W to 5" H. 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: All pieces overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

U.S. Model 1858 Canteen or "Bullseye" canteen with the original cotton sling, dark blue wool cover, and cork stopper with iron pull ring. All three original strap loops present. Cover comprised of the original, dark-blue kersey material and is handsewn along the canteen seams. 9" dia. (includes stopper). Possibly surplus. Provenance: Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Mold present to cotton sling, slight losses to wool cover at one side. [See more photos →]

Ruth Valerio (New Mexico, b. 1950) acrylic on canvas painting of a Western village with a storm cloud approaching overhead. Signed lower left corner, R. Valerio. Titled en verso Afternoon Storm, with additional stamp for Denver area framing company. Giltwood molded frame with reeded edges and corner ornaments. Sight – 11 5/8"H x 15 1/2"W, Framed – 17 3/4"H x 21 5/8"W. Biography: English born Ruth Valerio was educated at the University of Alaska. She lives in New Mexico, where she is represented by galleries in Taos and Santa Fe, and is an associate member of Women Artists of the West. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Ten (10) pcs Virginia and Washington, DC area coin silver flatware. 1st-6th items: 6 Virginia coin silver table or serving spoons with coffin end handles, all monogrammed MPD and marked W. WILLIAMS in rectangle (William Alexander Williams, working Alexandria, VA 1809-1834 and Washington DC 1832-1846; ref. Silversmiths of Virginia by Catherine Hollan, p. 816-819), 9" L. 7th item: 1 tablespoon with plain fiddle handle, marked W. MITCHELL Jr in banner (William Mitchell Jr., working Richmond, VA 1818-1845). 8" L. 8th item: 1 tablespoon with plain fiddle handle, marked R. KEYWORTH in rectangle (Robert Keyworth, working Washington, DC circa 1833). 8 3/4"L. 9th item: 1 teaspoon with fiddle handle marked J. L. LEONARD in rectangle (Jacob Leonard, 1787-1829, working Chestertown MD, Georgetown and Washington, DC, New Orleans, LA, and Fredericksburg, VA). 10th item: 1 tablespoon with fiddle handle, monogram C, marked on back J. ADAM. in rectangle (John Adam, 1775-1848, working Alexandria, VA and Georgetown, DC). 14.87 total oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st-6th items: Excellent condition. 7th item: Very worn monogram and some wear to mark. 8th item: Some wear to mark. [See more photos →]

Two (2) sterling silver repousse items. 1st item: S. Kirk & Son round footed repousse card tray with central vine cartouche within a textured mum floral field with repousse floral decorated rim and cast foliate edge, raised on three ball-and-talon feet, marked on base, "S. Kirk & Son, 11 oz". 1" H x 7-1/8" dia. Baltimore, MD, late 19th c. 6.825 oz t. 2nd item: Sterling silver round bowl of bulbous form with repousse floral, scroll and pierced rim. Marked on base with Shreve, Crump & Low Co., incised "eagle' mark, 97. 3-1/4" H x 8-1/4" dia. 10.945 oz t. (17.77 total oz troy/2 items) CONDITION: Both items in very good condition with some minor surface abrasions. No monograms. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Designer Handbags, including Judith Leiber and Prada. 1st item: Judith Leiber canvas and leather signature monogram carryall with rolled leather handles. Gold hardware, Judith Leiber nameplate inside with interior zipper pocket and two magnetic closures. Dust bag not included. 10 1/2" H x 15" W x 5" D. Overall – 20" H. 2nd item: Prada black leather handbag with double handles. Silver hardware, Prada Milano Made in Italy nameplate inside with interior zipper pocket, back zipper pocket, key bell with keys, and lock. Dust bag not included. 9 1/2" H x 12 3/4" W x 4" D. Overall – 18" H. Contemporary. Provenance: Property of a private East TN collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Gently used condition with minor ink marks and flaking on interior. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) antique snare drums, three with metal bodies, one with wood body and painted rim, three with rope bindings, three with painted bodies and all with animal skin heads. Ranging in size from 5 3/4" H x 7" dia. to 5 1/2" H x 12 1/2" dia. All late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: All drums with general wear and surface scratching. Three with damage to base, one with damage/tear to head. [See more photos →]

Four (4) 19th century Tennessee and Kentucky maps. 1st item: "Tennessee" by Thomas G. Bradford, engraved by George W. Boynton, published by American Stationer's Co., Boston, 1838. From "A Comprehensive Atlas, Geographical, Historical & Commercial" by Thomas G. Bradford. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring of Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, lower right. "Longitude West from Washington", centered above map, "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Image – 7 3/4" H x 10" W. Sheet – 8 1/8" H x 10 1/2" W. 2nd item: "Kentucky and Tennessee" map by Thomas Illman after David H. Burr, published by D. S. Stone, New York, 1834. From "A New Universal Atlas" by David H. Burr. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Image – 10 3/8" H x 12 5/8" W. Sheet – 12 1/4" H x 15" W. 3rd item: "Johnson's Tennessee and Kentucky" map, compiled, drawn, and engraved under the supervision of J.H. Colton and A.J. Johnson, published by Johnson and Ward, New York, 1866. From "Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, With Physical Geography, And With Descriptions Geographical, Statistical, And Historical…" by Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. Steel plate engraving with hand coloring of Tennessee and Kentucky depicting towns, roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and railroads. Features uncolored two vignettes, one titled "State House Nashville", top left, and one titled "Entrance to Mammoth Cave", bottom right. Title and scale of miles, top left corner. "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and fretwork border. "Historical and Statistical View of the United States" text pages en verso. Image – 17" H x 22 3/4" W. Sheet – 18 1/8" H x 26 1/2" W. 4th item: "Kentucky and Tennessee" by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr., published by William M. Bradley and Brother, 1886, from "Bradley's Atlas of the World" by William M. Bradley. Steel plate engraving with hand coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and decorative border. Image – 13 1/2" H x 20 3/4" W. Sheet – 19 1/8" H x 12 5/8" W. CONDITION: 1st item: Sheet has been cut down. Minute foxing spots, 1" area of water damage, visible en verso. 2nd item: Image plate printed off center. Toning lines around image. Toning around edges of paper. Water damage spots scattered on surface, largest 1/4" area, bottom left corner. Water damage visible en verso. 3rd item: Pages separated at middle seam. Toning around edges of paper. Minute foxing spots scattered on surface. Tears on right edges of paper, largest 1" area, lower right corner. Foxing spots visible en verso. 4th item: Slight toning around edges of paper. Paper tear, 2 3/4" top center. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery pitchers, all with tan to brown transition glazes, three (3) pitchers with rounded rims and pulled handles and one (1) small pitcher with tapered rim and pulled handle. Ranging in size from 6" H to 10 1/2" H. All late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Smallest pitcher with scattered chipping to rim. Midsize pitcher with very minor fleabites to rim, largest pitchers overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Lot of three (3) Middle Tennessee stoneware pitchers, all with incised lines around the bodies and strap handles. Two with light brown/green to grey glaze transition and one with brown/green/brown glaze transition and unglazed lid. Ranging in size from 10 1/2" H to 11" H. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private Warren County, TN collection. CONDITION: One light brown/green to tan pitcher with chip to spout. Pitcher with lid has scattered chips to rim, one chip to lid. [See more photos →]

14K yellow gold late Aesthetic Movement pin/pendant, shield shape with beaded fringe, 2" H overall x 1-1/2" W, circa 1890. 14.5 grams. Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Henry Robinson Hall (United Kingdom, 1859-1927) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a stream with birch trees. Signed H. R. HALL, lower left. Labeled SCHUU 119 TEIR en verso. Housed in a decorative gilt wood frame. Sight – 9 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed – 15" H x 21" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with slight surface grime. Two minute areas of loss, lower left corner near signature and right edge of canvas. 3/4" area of loss to frame, lower left corner. [See more photos →]

CHATTANOOGA. COUNTY SEAT OF HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1886 Map, drawn by Henry Wellge, lithographed by Adam Beck and Clemens J. Pauli, published by Norris, Wellge and Company, Milwaukee. Published as a supplement to the CHATTANOOGA DAILY TIMES, Wednesday, March 23rd, 1887. Depicts a bird's-eye-view map of the City of Chattanooga, with significant buildings, streets, rivers, rail roads, and other geographical points of interest labeled. Two inset maps, lower left and right. Title with population statistic, lower center, map keys, lower left and right. Housed in a gilded contemporary frame. Sight – 21 1/4" H x 28 3/8" W. Framed – 27 3/8" H x 33 1/2" W. American, late 19th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Tears, largest 1/2", top right of sheet. Creases, surface of sheet. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Fourteen (14) Native American weavings, including four (4) Cherokee round honeysuckle woven mats, one (1) Cherokee white oak square form miniature carrying basket, one (1) Cherokee miniature white oak wastebasket signed by Nancy Bradley, one (1) miniature square form white oak basket signed by Agnes Welch, one (1) miniature white oak wastebasket with tag for Elsie Watty, one (1) unsigned white oak low bowl , one (1) white oak flower basket signed by Evelyn Calhoun, one (1) unsigned white oak miniature wastebasket, one (1) low shouldered white oak bowl signed by by Nancy Bradley, one (1) wastebasket signed Eleanor Wilnoty and one (1) contemporary Native American basket comprised of twigs, lined with leather and decorated with fur and feathers. Purchased at the The Indian Store, Sallidsaw, OK, retains the original tag. Ranging in size from 2 1/2" H x 2 1/2" W to 10 1/2" H x 10" dia. All items 20th century. CONDITION: All very good condition, no breaks or visible wear. [See more photos →]

Group of Virginia and Maryland coin silver teaspoons, 20 pcs. 1st-10th items: Ten teaspoons with fiddle handles marked J. Hill (John Hill, working Richmond, Virginia, 1790-1860), in rectangle. Monogrammed "BFC". 6 1/4" L. 11th-17th items: Seven teaspoons with fiddle tipt handles marked Canfield Bro & Co (Ira and William Canfield, working Baltimore, Maryland, c. 1850-1881). Monogrammed "JELM". 5 3/4" L. 18th-19th items: Two teaspoons with fiddle tipt handles marked T. J. Brown 1015 (Thomas J. Brown, working Baltimore, Maryland, 1842-1884), in rectangles. Monogrammed "JELM". 5 5/8" L. 20th item: One teaspoon with fiddle handle marked S. Kirk 10.15 (Samuel Kirk, working Baltimore, Maryland, 1828-1846). Monogrammed "JEB". 5 1/2" L. 10.90 total troy ounces. Late 18th/late 19th century. Private Florida collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Most pieces show wear consistent with use. Damage to bowl, Brown teaspoons, one Canfield teaspoon. All pieces monogrammed. [See more photos →]

A late Georgian Old Sheffield mounted armorial carved coconut cup, featuring a coat of arms with banner below reading "EVER READY". 6 1/2" H. First quarter 19th century. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Slight wear to silver plate on foot ring, a few small minor abrasions to coconut. [See more photos →]

Pair of French baluster form porcelain urns, the bodies with scenic landscape decoration and swan figural handles, gilt highlights throughout. Unmarked. 12 1/2" H. Late 19th century. CONDITION: Both overall good condition, no evidence of breaks. General wear/surface grime and losses to gilt. [See more photos →]

RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER, 1st Edition, by Robert L. May, 1939. First printing, written exclusively for Montgomery Ward, 32 pages with 41 illustrations by Denver Gillen. Small quarto with the original pictorial wrappers, as issued. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Book – 10 1/2" H x 8" W. Clamshell box – 11 1/8" H x 8 1/2" W x 1 1/2" D. CONDITION: Some edgewear and slightly folded corners. Consistent toning to the pages as expected from age. This was a complimentary item and the quality of the paper was the type used for ephemeral items. A couple of small tears to wrappers (covers) and some tape reinforcement at hinges and edges. Custom clamshell box in very good condition. [See more photos →]