July 14, 2018 Auction Highlights

Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (French, 1860-1943), oil on canvas pointillist painting depicting a vineyard worker in a field, standing atop a wagon and working at a grape press. We wish to thank Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin, wife of Henri Jean Guillaume Martin’s grandson, Cyrille Martin, for adding this work to the Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin Catalog Raisonne and identifying it as a study for “Les Vendanges,” a triptych mural created by Martin circa 1927 for the Lot Prefecture Hotel in Cahors, France. The mural, located in a staircase leading to the General Council Hall, celebrates the importance of wine making in the region. (The triptych and more information about its history may be viewed here: http://henri-martin.net/troisieme-partie-le-decorateur/chapitre-iv-les-oeuvres-de-la-vieillesse/c-celebration-de-la-vigne-decoration-de-cahors-et-de-beziers/1-cahors-lescalier-dhonneur-de-la-prefecture/ ). Label en verso for Kurt E. Schon Ltd. Galleries (Vienna and New Orleans). Titled on brass plaque on front of frame, “L’Homme au Pressoir” and on remnants of other old paper label en verso. 24″ x 15″ canvas, 29″ x 20″ framed. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee, purchased from Kurt Schon Galleries, New Orleans, 1988 (receipt accompanies lot). Biography: French Neo-Impressionist painter Henri Martin lived most of his life in Marquayrol, near Bastide-du-Vert. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris starting in 1880, and won a medal at the 1883 Salon. A few years later, influenced by Georges Seurat and Edmond Aman-Jean, he began experimenting with pointillism, applying dots and stripes of color in order to capture the vibrant light of the South of France in his landscapes. It would become his signature style. Martin was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1896, won a gold medal at La Fete de la Federation in 1889, and in 1900 won the grand prize at the Exposition Universelle. He was named Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1914. (Source: Askart, Musee D’Orsay). CONDITION: Excellent condition. Relined. [See more photos →]

Civil War Confederate States of America shell jacket worn by Colonel Tomlinson Fort, 1st Georgia Infantry, Company L, plus shoulder straps and albumen print, 4 items total. 1st item: “Butternut” Richmond Depot woolen single-breasted shell jacket with six-piece body, one-piece sleeves, and six button holes with one wooden and three cloth buttons, osnaburg interior lining with one pocket. Unmarked. Also includes three loose buttons, two (2) wooden and one (1) mother of pearl. 28 1/2″ H x 21 3/4″ W x 11″ D. Note: This is the coat that Colonel Fort wore on his return to his home in Milledgeville, Georgia. The brass buttons were cut off in Savannah and replaced by the ones now on it, as a law had been issued forbidding Confederate States of America (CSA) buttons to be worn. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) gold tone metal and fabric Captain’s shoulder straps, manufacturer’s marks for James A. Smith, stamped en verso. 1 1/2″ H x 4″ W x 5/8″ D. 4th item: Early 20th century albumen print depicting a composite of three Civil War era cartes de visite (CDV) of the Fort Brothers: Colonel Tomilson Fort (1839-1910), lower right (depicted wearing the shell jacket and shoulder straps in this lot); Dr. George Fort (1828-1866), top center; and Lieutenant John Porter Fort (1841-1917). The three portraits are superimposed on a decorative shield dated “61-65” and flanked by two crossed Confederate flags, above, and two crossed sabers with a “CSA” canteen, below, with a row of ten stars, across the top of the shield. Fragmentary red “Art Department” label, en verso. Housed under glass in a black wooden frame. Print – 8 7/8″ H x 7 5/8″ W. Sight – 9 3/4″ H x 7 3/4″ W. Framed – 10 7/8″ H x 8 7/8″ W x 3/4″ D. Note: a CDV of Dr. George Fort and his surgeon kit are also included in this auction, lot 511. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960’s from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. Note: The 1st Georgia Infantry regiment, also known as the 1st Georgia Regulars, was organized at Macon, Georgia in April 1861. The companies first named were twelve months’ troops, a majority re-enlisting for the war, while others were mustered out when the twelve months expired. The regimental commander, Col. Charles J. Williams, died on February 8, 1862. Now led by Col. William J. Magill, the regiment served in the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. When Magill was wounded at Antietam, being part of Gen. G.T. Angerson’s brigade, the command developed to Cpt. Richard A. Wayne. The 1st Georgia was transferred to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida in early 1863. In Gen. George P. Harrison’s brigade it participated in the Battle of Olustee. When Magill retired on September 3, 1864, Wayne was named as his successor. The regiment was surrendered along with Joseph E. Johnston’s army at Bennett Place in North Carolina on April 26, 1865. Biography: Colonel Tomlinson Fort (1839-1910) was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Dr. Tomlinson Fort (1787-1859) and Martha Low Fannin (1804-1883). Tomlinson Fort graduated from Oglethorpe University in 1857, and moved to Savannah, Georgia to practice law. Fort returned to his hometown to care for his father’s estate in 1859. At the beginning of the Civil War, Fort joined the 1st Georgia Infantry regiment and served throughout the war. Fort’s two brothers also served in the war; Lieutenant John Fort joined the 1st Georgia Infantry regiment and Dr. George Washington Fort was a surgeon, 53rd Regiment, Georgia Infantry. Fort was wounded five times during the Civil War including Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, and John’s Island, SC. Tomlinson Fort was captured in late 1864 until the remainder of the war. Fort moved to Chattanooga in 1865, and though he came to the city with very little, he quickly found work, and by the mid-1870’s, was one of Chattanooga’s leading businessmen. Fort served as city attorney, city recorder and served on the Board of Public Works before being elected Mayor in 1876. Fort’s election to the office marked a turning point for the city, as he was the first ex-confederate elected mayor and was able to improve the city’s financial status. (source: http://www.chattanooga.gov/about-chattanooga/history-of-mayors/1876-colonel-tomilinson-fort). See related lots 507, 511, 540 and 544. CONDITION: 1st item: Jacket is in stable condition with insect damage and age deterioration. Three-fourths of surface has holes, tears, abrasions, and/or unidirectional loss. Most significant damage: 1 1/2″ tear top right shoulder; 1″ hole top of left sleeve; 1″ tear with fraying left side top of collar; 2″ tear with fraying right side top of collar; 1″ unidirectional loss with fraying lower left edge on back; 3/4″ tear right side near arm hole on back. Heavy wear to buttons. Moderate soiling to end of sleeves and front opening. Interior lining discolored and weak seam with fraying right side top of button placket where wool joins lining. 2nd-3rd items: Overall good condition with surface grime, area of tarnish to metal, and holes, largest 1/2″ x 1 1/4″. 4th item: Overall stable condition with repaired tears, largest 8 1/8″ x 1 1/8″. Several pieces of white archival tape and scotch tape, minute foxing spots, en verso. [See more photos →]

Arnold Friberg (Utah, Illinois, Arizona 1913-2010), oil on canvas painting, depicting a Native American scout watching the sunset and sitting on his Palomino horse while it drinks at a watering hole. Signed lower right, “A. Friberg RSA”. Titled “Gold and Silver” on back stretcher. Molded giltwood frame. Sight – 32″ H x 25″ W. Framed – 42 3/4″ H x 35 3/4″ W. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee, originally purchased from Dan May and Associates, Ltd. of Scottsdale, Arizona; receipt available to winning bidder. Biography: Arnold Friberg was a realist painter and illustrator who specialized in Western, religious and historical scenes. One of his most famous works is a painting of General George Washington kneeling beside his horse while his army winters at Valley Forge. Over a period of 42 years, Friberg was commissioned to paint a series of approximately 300 representative “Mountie” images for the Northwest Paper Company. He spent considerable time in Canada researching the Northwest Mounted Police as well as the the nearby Native American tribes, the terrain, and the culture of the region to provide accurate historical information in his images. He also had commissions from the British royal family, General Motors, and the movie director Cecil B. DeMille. His monumental paintings were the pictorial inspiration for Demille’s “The Ten Commandments”. (Source: Askart, and biographical and autobiographical information provided by Northwest Paper Co. of Cloquet, MN). CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Faint stretcher creases to left and right on canvas. Minor, small area of inpainting at top left corner. [See more photos →]

"King of Sorrows," a recently rediscovered oil on canvas by William Shakespeare Burton (United Kingdom, 1830-1916). The large scale painting, considered one of the painter's most important paintings, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1897. It depicts Jesus Christ just prior to his crucifixion, seated in a prison cell atop a Middle Eastern rug and stone bench, with a crown of thorns atop his head and rope bound hands, attired in a red robe having a sword as a closure and holding a whip, a cat-o-nine-tails to his right, with crushed grapes, spears and a Roman eagle banner finial at his feet. Inscription on stone seat reads in Latin, "Rex ludaeorum" or "Jesus the Nazarine, King of the Jews". A circa 1896 photograph of Burton working on this painting was pictured in a 1906 article in the English Illustrated Magazine by John S. Purcell, titled "A Veteran Artist: Mr. William Shakespeare Burton" (Vol. 35, pp. 238-48). A copy of page 238, showing the painting, accompanies this lot. This painting was also referenced but listed as "untraced" in a recent National Portrait Gallery catalog entry for Burton's self portrait, in the NPG collection. However, by the 1980s this painting had surfaced in the collection of The World Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When that museum closed in the early 1980s, the painting was sold to businessman and collector Larry Casey of Jackson, Tennessee, where it remained until being consigned to this auction as part of his estate. Housed in a gilt wood carved and cove molded frame with an oak leaf design to the outer edge and leaf and dart design to the inner edge. Unsigned. Sight – 53 1/2" H x 43 1/2" W. Framed – 64 1/8" H x 54 1/8" W. Biography: William Burton Shakespeare was an English genre and historical painter of the Victorian era. His grandfather was a printer and his father William Evans Burton, was a comic actor and playwright, who gained popularity in the United States. As an only child, Burton worked at copying prints as a teenager. He later studied at King's College and the Royal Academy School, where he won a gold medal in 1852 for a painting depicting Samson and Delilah. He is primarily remembered for his work "The Wounded Cavalier" which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856 and was considered as his only participation with the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the 1850s. In his later years Burton mainly painted religious subjects. He lived and painted into his 80's. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Canvas relined. Abrasions/rubbing to canvas upper left and right center margin. Scattered minor abrasions to the frame. [See more photos →]

Robert Morden (d. 1703) and William Berry (fl. 1669-1708) : A NEW MAP OF THE ENGLISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA BOTH CONTINENTS AND ISLANDS, “Shewing their true Situation and distance from England or one with another. By Robert Morden, at the Atlas, in Cornhill nere the Royal Exchange, and William Berry at the Globe between York House and the New Exchange in the Strand, London.” 1673, black and white line engraving with hand coloring on laid paper. Cartouche depicting Native American figures upper left; inset map upper right showing the true situation of the colonies in relation to Britain. 17″ x 20 3/4″ image; 17 1/2″ x 21 1/2″ sight, 28″ x 32″ frame. Ref. William C. Wooldridge, “Mapping Virginia,” fig. 74 p. 82-83; Wooldridge states that this rare map is “the first general map of the American colonies.” Private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: 1″ x 1/4″ loss to upper right corner. Two 1/2″ x 1/4″ losses at center edge and upper left edge (filled in on backing paper). 1″ tear upper right edge. Dark staining to entire upper edge, extending along entire right edge of map, other scattered lighter stains and pale discolorations. Taped down along top. [See more photos →]

American Classical Mahogany “Cumberland action” Dining Table, attributed to Thomas Seymour, Boston, circa 1815. Mahogany with white pine and poplar secondary; narrow top with broad hinged leaves, each with curved corners and comprised of a single board (24 1/2″ W), over a plain frieze; four reed columnar supports are joined by a beaded box stretcher and swing diagonally to support the extended leaves; reeded sabre legs ending in brass hairy paw caps and casters. 27 5/8″H x 57 1/2″D x 15″W (leaves down), 64″ (leaves extended). Note: English Cabinetmaker John Linnell is generally credited with devising the Cumberland Action table for the Duke of Cumberland in the late 1700s. The double gate leg feature allows diners to sit around the table without having a support leg in the way, while yet evenly supporting each leaf, and enables the table to be stored compactly when not in use. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of fourth U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Revolutionary War General Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother’s side. CONDITION: Older, possibly original surface; 11″ shrinkage crack to top, scattered paint drips to top and leaves; one 3″ area of varnish loss to top, scattered abrasions to top. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Civil War Confederate officer staff buttons. 1st item: Tennessee brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the Tennessee state seal, a scene with symbolism of agriculture and commerce, a plow, sheaf, cotton plant, and river boat. Blank back with depressed rounded channel, en verso. Approximately 21 mm dia. 2nd item: Virginia brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the Virginia state seal, Virtus slaying the tyrant with sword down. Manufacturer’s marks Steele & Johnson stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. 3rd item: North Carolina brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the North Carolina state seal, the goddesses Liberty and Plenty. Manufacturer’s marks S A Myers Richmond VA embossed, en verso. Approximately 23 mm dia. 4th item: Kentucky brass coat button, 3-piece construction, depicting the Kentucky state seal, two figures shaking hands on a lined background. “Superior Quality” embossed, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good, nondug condition with some minute areas of oxidation. All shanks present. 1st item: Shank slightly loose. Areas of tarnish, en verso. 3rd item: Areas of tarnish, en verso. 4th item: 1/8″ dent, center of button. [See more photos →]

Charles Herbert Woodbury (American, 1864-1940) oil on canvas painting titled "Bath House, Ogunquit" depicting figures sitting under umbrellas on a sunny beach, with the bath house in Ogunquit, Maine, in the background. Vose Galleries, Boston, label with artist's name and title en verso and number W-8. Unsigned. Housed in a giltwood molded frame with brass plaque engraved with artist's name and life/death dates. Sight – 11 7/8" H x 16 3/4" W. Framed – 18 1/2" H x 23 1/4" W. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography: Charles Woodbury remains among the most influential artists to work in Ogunquit, Maine and in Boston. He sold his first oil painting when he was 15 and at age 17 in 1884, was the youngest person ever elected to the Boston Art Club. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also studied at the Academie Julian in Paris. Returning to the Boston area, he became a prominent plein-air painter and living until 1940 embraced Impressionism. He was a leader among his artist colleagues in the formal application of paint in beach and marsh scenes, a unique subject for that time. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club (1899); an Associate (1906) and an Academician (1907) at the National Academy of Design; Ogunquit Art Association; New York Water Color Club; and the Guild of Boston Artists. He won awards at the Boston Art Club (1884, 1895); Atlanta Exposition (gold, 1895); Nashville, Tennessee Centennial (1897), Mechanics' Fair, Boston; Paris Exposition (1900); Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo (1901); Worcester Art Museum (1903,1907); St. Louis Exposition (1904); Carnegie Institute (1905); Buenos Aires Exposition (1910); American Water Color Society (1911); W.A. Clark Prize and Corcoran Medal (1914); Pan-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco (gold, 1915); Penn. Academy of F.A. (gold, 1924); Brooklyn (1931); Palmer Marine Prize and Ranger Fund Award, National Academy (1932); Noyes Prize, Society of American Artists (1933). He is represented at the Gardner Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Herron Art Institute; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis Art Museum; Boston Public Library; Berkshire Atheneum; Detroit Art Institute; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Joslyn Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum; R.I. School of Design; Telfair Academy, Savannah; Colby College; and Wellesley College, where he also taught. Woodbury was given over 60 one-man exhibitions, the first being at the J. Eastman Chase Gallery, Boston (1887) and the last at the Winchester Public Library, MA (1939). 18 Memorial Shows were given (1940-41). In 1945 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston held a Retrospective Exhibition. In 1968, Adelson Galleries, Inc. (then of Boston) and in 1978 Vose Galleries of Boston gave Retrospectives. In 1988 M.I.T. gave a monumental Woodbury exhibition titled Earth, Sea and Sky that traveled to museums through 1993. (source: Askart) CONDITION: Good condition with waxed relining. 4 1/2" repaired vertical crack with inpainting right side. Vertical line of infill with inpainting along right edge. Scattered infill with inpainting lower left corner in sand. See black light image for detail. [See more photos →]

Gunnar Mauritz Widforss (California/Arizona/Sweden, 1879-1934) watercolor painting on paper titled "In the Redwoods". Unsigned. Letter of authenticity from Daniel McDade, administrator for the Widforss estate, is included stating: "'Into the Redwoods' – This a photograph of the genuine watercolor painted by Gunnar Widforss and left unsigned at his death in 1934. The visual dimensions of this painting are 25 in x 19 in. Daniel McDade, Administrator". Artist's placard on frame reading "In the Redwoods/Gunnar Mauritz Widforss/1879-1934". Note: this painting is being added to the Gunnar Widforss Catalog Raisonne being prepared by Alan Peterson. Housed in a carved gilt and gesso wood frame. Sight – 25" H x 19" W. Framed – 36 1/2" H x 30 1/2" W. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. Biography: Originally from Sweden, Gunnar Widfors first came to the United States in 1921, to California, where he painted sea scenes of Catalina Island and numerous scenes of Yosemite Valley. In 1923, he traveled to the Southwest where he visited The Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park and Yellowstone. He eventually made his home on the South rim of the Grand Canyon. In 1933, he along with a select group of aritists created murals of the National Parks for the 1933-1934 Century of Progress exhibition in Chicago. In 1934, he suddenly passed away from a heart attack and is buried at the South Rim Cemetary in the Grand Canyon National Park. (Source: Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonne Project). Note: The book GUNNAR WIDFORSS: Painter of the Grand Canyon by Bill Belknap and Frances Spencer Belknap, printed in 1969 by the Northland Press, Flagstaff for the Museum of Northern Arizona accompanies this lot. (Not photographed). CONDITION: Painting visually overall very good condition, not examined out of the frame. Scattered abrasions to frame edge, 1 less than 1" chip to top edge. [See more photos →]

American 38-star flag, linen with printed stars arranged in an unusual floral pattern in the canton. No maker’s marks. Housed under glass in a wooden frame with gilt wood rabbet edge. Flag – 13″ H x 21 1/2″ W. Sight – 14 1/2″ H x 23″ W. Framed – 19 3/4″ H x 28 1/4″ W. Late 19th century. Provenance: Private Crossville, TN collection. Note: Letter in which Jeffrey Kenneth Kohn, M.D., Elkins Park, PA, the original dealer of the flag, writes to the consignor describing the rarity of the flag, stating that “I have never before seen this configuration of 4 clusters of 8 stars between, all encirling a star within a star. There is nothing like it in the Mastai book but if you have the Sotheby’s Mastai Auction catalog there is a similar larger sewn flag that has just 4 clusters of stars but no ‘star within a star'” included in the photos. CONDITION: Overall good condition. 1 1/4″ area of loss, top left of canton. Holes, largest 1/2″, surface of flag. 1/2″ x 1/2″ area of repair, lower center of flag. [See more photos →]

1796 United States Draped Bust silver dollar coin. Depicts the bust of Lady Liberty, obverse, and the American bald eagle encircled by a laurel wreath, reverse. PCGS graded 25/Very Fine. Note: While the identity of the Lady Liberty model is unknown, it has been suggested that Philadelphia socialite Ann Willing Bingham posed as the model. (See: Julian, R.W. (1993). Bowers, Q. David, ed. Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States. Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: Bowers and Merena Galleries). Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: PCGS graded 25/Very Fine. [See more photos →]

Richard Hayley Lever (Australian-American, 1876-1958) oil on panel post-impressionist landscape painting titled “A View of Boston” depicting buildings and trees set atop a hill, rendered in bold colors and thick impasto brush strokes. Signed lower left “Hayley Lever.” Painted and giltwood molded frame with linen liner. Label en verso lists title of painting with the year 1938, the artist’s name, and size of painting. Additional label for “The Crane Collection / 121 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116”. Sight -11 1/2″ H x 15 1/2″ W. Framed – 19 1/4″ H x 23 1/4″ W. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography: Australian born Hayley Lever was known for his post impressionist town-shore landscapes and his use of color, which was deeply influenced by Van Gogh. He studied in London in the 1890s and then went to Cornwall, where he painted seaside paintings at an artist’s colony on the coast of St. Ives. Lever came to America in 1911 and soon became one of the most widely exhibited artists in New York; he taught at the Art Students League from 1919 to 1931 and became director of the Studio Art Club in Mount Vernon, New York. Lever had a summer studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where many of his scenes were painted. His work is in the collection of several major museums. (source: Michael David Zellman: 300 Years of American Art). CONDITION: Surface of painting in excellent condition. Spots to linen liner, several small abrasions to frame. Examination under black light revealed no alterations. [See more photos →]

Civil War era Confederate first national parade flag, consisting of 7 applied nine pointed paper stars in the canton on silk ground. Includes wooden parade stick with sewn loop for stick to edge of flag closest to canton. Flag – 5 3/4″ H x 10 1/4″ W. Parade stick – 14 7/8″ L. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960’s from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: Fragile condition with foxing spots, dampstaining, to be expected from age. Areas of loss, largest 2″ H x 1/2″, to white center bar. Total of five stars not present to canton on either side of flag. [See more photos →]

Remnant of a burned White House timber removed from the White House during the 1950 renovations, from the 1814 White House fire started by the British during the War of 1812. Bears plaque to side reading “Original White House Material/ Removed in 1950″ with the Presidential Seal in the center. Housed in a custom made marquetry box comprised of walnut and oak from White House repairs and cedar from the White House grounds. Construction diagram pasted to the interior of the lid and signed by the maker F. C. Mayes. Wood artifact – 4 1/2″ x 2 1/2”. 2″ H x 6″ W x 3 3/4″ D. Note: From 1949 to 1952, the White House underwent a major renovation. President Harry Truman noticed when he moved in that the White House was quite dilapidated, and pressed Congress for funds to refurbish the mansion. In the House of Representatives, the White House renovation was overseen by the Public Works Committee, on which sat first-term Congressman Gerald Ford. Truman gave Ford and other committee members a personal tour of the White House, pointing out its defects. What Ford remembered most, however, “was when he took us into the Oval Office and I saw that little sign on his desk: ‘The Buck Stops Here’. I thought, Well, that’s a good description of a President’s job”. The three-year project included tearing down all but the exterior walls and rebuilding everything within. In the process, workers found charred lumber from the burning of the White House in 1814. Clearly these structurally unstable pieces could not remain. Instead, they were removed and sold to the public as souvenirs, as directed by the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion. In March of 1952, a small ceremony marked the end of the renovation and the opening of the refurbished and structurally-sound White House. Provenance: From the estate of Captain Gordon Wells, member of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division, the White House Police, from 1943 through 1967. During his tenure, Wells received mementos from sitting Presidents and First ladies of 5 administrations, from Franklin Roosevelt through Lyndon B. Johnson. CONDITION: Both artifacts in very good condition. [See more photos →]

Tiffany Studios “turtleback” table or desk lamp, comprised of two favrile turtleback panels of green, gold, brown and blue iridescent glass, in a verdigris bronze frame with rope and bead decoration over a single socket, shade is mounted within two bronze curved arms leading to base with stylized leaf design and green art glass cabochon jewels around base edge. Marked on underside base, TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/D545 and with the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company monogram. 14″ H x 8 3/8″ W. Circa 1892-1900. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Base and glass appear to be in excellent condition. Older wiring with some fraying to cord. Bronze fatigue crack visible to both arms near mounts to shade (appears stable). [See more photos →]

Two (2) autograph albums from the early Nineteenth Century to the Civil War, containing the signatures of Presidents and First Ladies, prominent Civil War figures, notable authors, and other important Americans. Approximately fifty-six (56) autographs are inscribed directly onto the pages, pasted to paper, or on loose paper, with a few images, drawn onto the paper and loose. Presidents and First Ladies: Two (2) JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826) clipped signatures pasted to page with Abigail Adams and Charles Francis Adams Sr. signatures (see below). Includes one (1) end of life signature with additional piece of paper with location and date reading “Quincy April 28th 1823” pasted below signature, located in blue album. One (1) ABIGAIL ADAMS (1744-1818), wife of John Adams, clipped signature pasted to page with John Adams and Charles Francis Adams Sr. signatures (see above), with additional piece of paper dated “1813” pasted below signature, located in blue album. Two (2) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1767-1848) clipped signatures. One (1) pasted to lower right corner of page with Louisa Catherine Adams autographed poem (see below), located in blue album. One (1) pasted to page with Samuel Adams and Charles Francis Adams Sr. signatures (see above), located in brown album. One (1) LOUISA CATHERINE ADAMS (1775-1852), wife of John Quincy Adams, one-page autographed poem written on the page, dated August 11, 1848 from Quincy, MA, reading “Yet let not hence, presumption dare to scan The scope and purposes of Almighty mind Or scrutinize with impious doubt the plan Of wisdom and of goodness still combinedÖ”. Includes a small engraved portrait of John Quincy Adams with his clipped signature pasted to the page (see above) with a notation in Louisaís hand indicating that the poem was written by John Quincy Adams, located in blue album. One (1) JAMES BUCHANAN (1791-1868) clipped signature pasted to page, dated April 25, 1845, located in blue album. One (1) JAMES MADISON (1751-1836) free franked panel pasted to page, dated February 19 [year unspecified], from Washington, D.C., addressed to Richard Cutts, his brother-in-law, located in blue album. One (1) DOROTHEA DANDRIDGE PAYNE TODD MADISON (1768-1849), also known as DOLLEY MADISON, wife of James Madison, one-page autographed quotation written on page, dated June 1, 1848 from Washington, D.C., reading “Temper, thy power more magical Than that which graced of old Amphion’s lyre, Can savage hearts with wondrous spell the mind enthrall Can clean suspicion’s mist with gladdening fire…”, located in blue album. One (1) JAMES K. POLK (1795-1849) clipped signature pasted to page, undated, located in blue album. Authors: One (1) WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) signature written on page, dated May 19, 1852 with notation indicating that it was “written at Rockwood”, above clipping engraving of Rockwood pasted to page below, located in blue album. One (1) HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) one-page autographed quotation written on separate paper, the top margin pasted to page, dated January 1856, containing the concluding stanza of his poem “The Day Is Done”, located in blue album. One (1) JOHN HOWARD PAYNE (1791-1852), author of “Home, Sweet Home”, clipped signature pasted to page, undated, located in blue album. One (1) LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865), an American poetess commonly known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford”, one-page, double-sided autographed letter written on separate paper, the left margin pasted to page, dated December 31, 1844 from Hartford, CT, sending New Yearís wishes, located in blue album. Civil War Generals/Leaders: One (1) WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, a leading Union general, clipped signature from the bottom of a letter pasted to page, dated February 28, circa 1860’s from Hilton Head, SC, located in brown album. One (1) JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN (1828-1914), a Union general remember for his heroic actions at Little Round Top at Gettysburg, one-page bifolium letter, left margin pasted to page, dated October 25, 1906 from Portland, ME, in which he responds to Emily D. Boyd’s request for his autograph, located in blue album. One (1) JUBAL ANDERSON EARLY (1816-1894), a Confederate general, one-page autograph written on separate paper, the top margin pasted to page, dated October 31, 1847, from Toronto, ON, Canada, located in blue album. One (1) GEORGE MCCLELLAN, Union general, clipped signature from the bottom of a “Head Quarters, Army of the Potomac” letter pasted to page with George H. Thomas signature (see below), located in brown album. One (1) LEONIDAS POLK (1806-1864), a Confederate general killed in action near Atlanta in 1864, autographed quotation written on the page, dated July 4, 1855 from New Orleans, LA, reading “Now in thy youth he served him who givest…That his light in thy heart…”, located on blue album. Two (2) GEORGE H. THOMAS (1816-1870), a Union general nicknamed “The Rock of Chickamauga”. One (1) clipped signature pasted to page, undated, located in brown album. One (1) clipped signature from the bottom of a “Head Quarters, Army of the Potomac” letter pasted to page with McClellan signature (see above), located in brown album. One (1) JEFFERSON DAVIS (1808-1889), an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States, clipped signature pasted to the page, dated February 25, 1867, reading “very truly your friend Jefferson Davis”, located in blue album. Others Notable Figures: Two (2) HENRY DEARBORN (1751-1829), a Revolutionary War general, Congressman and Jefferson’s Secretary of War, and Commanding General of the United States Army during the War of 1812 clipped signatures. One (1) clipped signature pasted to page, undated, located in blue album. One (1) franked panel pasted to page, dated December 3 [year unspecified], from the War Department, Washington, D.C. Includes red wax seal, located in brown album. One (1) SAMUEL ADAMS, an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States who signed the Declaration of Independence, elderly clipped signature pasted to page with John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams Sr. signatures (see above), located in brown album. One (1) WINFIELD SCOTT (1786-1866), a United States Army general and the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852, signature written on the page, located in brown album. One (1) GEORGE BANCROFT (1800-1891), an American historian and statesman, one-page autographed letter written on black bordered paper, left margin pasted to page, undated. One (1) BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, a prominent American scientist, one-page bifolium letter loose from album, dated March 14, 1845, New Orleans, LA, written to Miss Harrod as an introduction, located in blue album. Also includes clipped signatures of CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS SR. (1807-1886), LEWIS CASS (1782-1866), WILLIAM MARCY (1786-1857), JOHN PAULDING (1758-1818), CHARLES SUMNER (1811-1874), and others. Autographs housed in one (1) hardbound tooled navy-blue leather with gilt pictorial covers, containing approximately forty-three (43) autographs, with Boyd family crest ex libris label pasted to inside of front cover, gilt edged paper, and one (1) hardbound tooled light brown leather album with gilt pictorial front cover with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, containing approximately thirteen (13) autographs, inscribed “Annette M. Boyd from her Sister” in ink, front end paper, gilt edged paper (see above description for locations of specific autographs). 3rd item: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ALS. One double-sided, handwritten letter from Henry W. Longfellow, Cambridge, MA, to Mrs. Carroll, dated April 9, 1877. He writes to thank Mrs. Carroll for sending him photographs of the Wingate House. Housed under double-sided glass in a painted wooden frame with hook, top center. Sight – 6 3/4″ H x 4 3/8″ W. Framed – 7 3/4″ H x 5 3/8″ W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. The books and letter descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of United States Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Revolutionary War General Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother’s side. CONDITION: Autograph albums: Signatures in overall good condition with some foxing spots, old paste stains, toning impressions, minute tears (do not affect signatures). Covers in worn condition, majority of spine is no longer present, blue album. First leaf of pages separated from binding, blue album. Many of the pages are almost separated from binding, including page with John Adams and John Quincy Adams cut signatures, brown album. Several of the pages are blank, both albums. 3rd item: Overall good condition with foxing spots. [See more photos →]

Square Confederate Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia or "Southern Cross" machine sewn reunion flag, comprised of applied cotton stars on linen ground with five brass grommets. 31 1/4" H x 31 1/4" W. Late 19th century. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: Moth damage with holes, largest 1/2" x 1 1/4", surface of flag, tears. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Chippendale 18th century American side chairs. 1st item: Mid-Atlantic mahogany Chippendale side chair with yoke-shaped molded top rail curving down at ends, carved with acanthus leaf spray at center, curved molded pierced splat with scroll and leaf decoration at center and leaf topped trefoil at shoe set into rear seat rail. Cabriole front legs with leaf-carved knees and claw and ball feet and tapered back legs ending in square cut feet. Seat upholstered with older wool crewel fabric. 36 3/4" H x 21 1/2" W seat (23 5/8" W knee to knee) x 16 1/4" D seat (21" D overall). Older if not original finish. American, Circa 1770. 2nd item: American maple Chippendale side chair with yoke-shaped top rail curving up at ends, half-moon carving above splat, pierced vase-shaped splat with scrolls at upper section. Splat fitted into shoe set into rear seat rail. Slip seat and double molded seat edge and molded straight legs and cross rails, front rail with foot wear. 39 3/4" H x 20" W x 15" D seat (18 3/4" D overall). American, third quarter of the 18th century. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Both items descended in the family of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on the side of her mother, Pamela Augusta Gilman (1802-1880). Annette was married to Charles Harrod Boyd and had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd (wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Jr.). Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. was the son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835), fourth Chief Justice of the United States, a friend, attorney and biographer of George Washington. Note: Both of these chairs are shown in an albumen silver print that has descended through the Coleman family. The identity of the house interior is unknown at this time but speaks to these pieces of having a long history within the family. CONDITION: 1st item: Top rail split and reglued at both ears. Crack across crest at top rail. Four breaks in splat. Repaired split to right facing stile. Some minor losses to upholstery and old surface grime. Left facing cabriole leg missing its ear. 2nd item: Repair to top of the crest rail, two splits in splat at right. [See more photos →]

1st-3rd items: Three (3) cut book pages with signatures including one (1) George Washington and two (2) John Marshall. COAs from Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. will be provided for this lot. 1st item: George Washington (1732-1799) cut signature from the title page of an unidentified book, undated. Ink signature reads “G Washington” top right. 1 1/4″ H x 4 7/8″ W. 2nd item: John Marshall cut signature from the title page of “Sayings and Doings. A Series of Sketches from Life” by Theodore Hook, 1824. Ink signature reads “J Marshall” center right, with additional light pencil signatures by James Keith Marshall, John Marshall’s son, reading “James K. Marshall Leeds Fauquier” top and bottom center. 2 1/4″ H x 4 1/4″ W. 3rd item: John Marshall cut signature from the title page of “The Last of the Plantagenets: An Historical Romance” by William Heseltine, 1829. Ink signature reads “J Marshall” center right. 1 7/8″ H x 4 5/8″ W. All signatures accompanied by a leaf of folded laid paper identifying them as “two autographs of Chief Justice Marshall one of Washington” in 19th century script. Note: Marshallís ancestor William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146 or 1147-1219), also called called William the Marshal, was an important figure in the development of classic knighthood during the reigns of Plantagenet kings Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III, and Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. The ìLe Mareshalsî accompanied William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest of England in 1066. (courtesy: Robert L. Hawkins, III). Note: James Keith Marshall (1800-1862) was a Virginia planter and politician. He served in the Virginia General Assembly as a delegate and as a state Senator, including after Virginia declared its secession during the American Civil War. John Marshall (1755-1835) was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). 4th item: Albumen print of Mount Vernon, titled in pencil lower right and signed in pencil “Handy” possibly for Levin Corbin Handy (1855-1932), an American photographer who was related by marriage to Matthew Brady and apprenticed with him beginning at age 12. Image mounted on cardstock. Image – 7″ H x 9 1/2″ W. Cardstock – 9 3/8″ H x 12 3/8″ W. CONDITION: 1st item: Washington signature in overall good condition, slightly affected by pinprick holes. 1 1/4″ x 1/4″ area of toning, right side of paper (does not affect signature). 2nd item: John Marshall signature in overall good, strong condition, slightly affected by pinprick holes and areas of dampstaining. James K. Marshall pencil signature and inscription faint but visible. 3rd item: John Marshall signature in overall good, condition with areas of lifting to pen strokes, slightly affected by pinprick holes and foxing spots. 5/8″ x 1/4″ area of dampstaining, center right (does not affect signature). 4th item: Some grime and toning. Chipping to cardstock edges. [See more photos →]

Kentucky "bandy legged" chest of drawers, walnut primary, poplar secondary. Comprised of a slightly overhanging top with string inlay over four graduated dovetailed drawers with rectangular stringing and inlaid escutcheons, a scalloped skirt and sides with string inlay over cabriole legs. Underside of skirt and feet retain most of the original glue blocks. Appears to relate to a group of early "bandy-leg" chests tied to Northern Kentucky (Mason, Fleming, and Nicholas Counties). 37" H x 39 1/4" W x 18" D. Circa 1800. Provenance: Collection of Christine Fields and the late Emmett Fields, former president of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Lower 2" of all four cabriole legs have been tipped. Cornucopia brasses are replacements, evidence to drawer fronts of larger brasses. Older refinish with general wear and abrasions. [See more photos →]

1st item: Chinese carved and pierced celadon jade boulder in the form of a flowering prunus branch, with a conforming carved hardwood stand. 21 5/8" H x 4 1/4" W. Late 19th/Early 20th century. 2nd item: Chinese carved spinach jade snuff bottle with bird and pine tree decoration. 1 7/8" H. Late 19th/Early 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. 2nd item: Spoon missing, otherwise overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Neoclassical style brass and crystal chandelier, formerly from the Tennessee Room at the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. Twelve-arm chandelier with notched cut glass arms and hanging cut glass prism garlands, the standard hung with six descending layers of spear-point prisms terminating with center-cut faceted ball. Three electric sockets face lower interior. 46 1/2″ H plus 2″ oval hook x 35″ diameter. French or English, late 19th to early 20th century. Provenance: Originally donated by the Tennessee State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution for use in the Museum of the DAR in Washington, D.C. in the early 1900s, this chandelier hung the Tennessee Period room for approximately a century and was recently deaccessioned as part of a renovation. Refer to photograph, courtesy the DAR Museum, showing it hanging in the Tennessee Room as it appeared several years ago. A video on the DAR Museum may be viewed via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB_29w4n4Y4. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with a few minor scattered chips and scuffs to prisms. Wiring tested for working condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Mahogany Chippendale ribbon-back side chair, descended in the family of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) and mentioned in a family document as having been given to Marshall for his work in settling the estate of a George Washington family member. Mahogany primary, yellow pine and cedar secondary woods. Serpentine pierced crest rail over three pierced serpentine or “ribbon” form slats, each with a central pierced ellipse flanked by pierced leaves, over a trapezoidal seat; straight Marlborough front legs joined with an H-stretcher in the center and raked-back rear legs also joined by a stretcher. 15 1/2″ H x 18 1/2″ W x 21 3/4″ D. Philadelphia, circa, 1780-1800. Note: This chair bears a strong resemblance to a chair in the collection at Mount Vernon, which descended in the family of Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Martha Custis Peter, but which has a slightly different apron configuration. Ref: https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/collections-holdings/browse-the-museum-collections/object/w-2185/. The chair in this auction is believed to be the same one referenced in a 1950s inventory list complied by Charles Boyd Coleman of Chattanooga, TN, in response to a request that Mr. W. Melville Jones (Executive Director of the Marshall-Wythe-Blackstone Ceremonies) issued to the descendants of John Marshall regarding a complete compilation of Marshall’s papers, books, pictures, etc. in celebration of the John Marshall Bicentennial Year, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Saturday, September 25, 1954 (see attached scan). In this brief inventory, Coleman mentions “a silver gravy boat given to Marshall we understand in appreciation for helping settle estate of father of George Washington,” and “one chair which we also understand was among items given for settling Washington estate.” Research into the engraved crest on the gravy/sauce boat [sold by Case in our January, 2018 auction] linked the crest to Martha Washington’s niece, Fanny Bassett (1767-1796), who married George Washington’s favorite nephew, George Augustine Washington (1759-1793). The couple lived at Mt. Vernon until their untimely deaths, just three years apart. George Washington served as executor for the estate of his nephew George Augustine Washington (who was named after the President’s father, Augustine Washington, b. 1694-d. 1753). Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of fourth U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835), a friend, attorney and biographer of George Washington. Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Revolutionary War General Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on the side of her mother, Pamela Augusta Gilman (1802-1880). CONDITION: 1st item: Chair is structurally sound with natural overall wear commensurate with age. Front feet have been tipped approximately 1 1/2″. Tears to upholstery. [See more photos →]

Clementine Hunter (American/Louisiana, 1886-1988), "Sunday Leaving Church," oil on board painting depicting a procession of black figures in hats leaving church, while four other figures walk and hold hands lower right. Signed with monogram CH lower right, 23 3/4" H x 16" W. Unframed. Lot is accompanied by photographs of the consignor and her family visiting Ms. Hunter's studio in the 1960s, when they acquired the painting directly from the artist. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate of a former Mississippi resident. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some small losses at corners, a couple of small scratches lower right near tree, a couple of dark marks in sky area (possibly as made). Several marks and stains and some wear to back. [See more photos →]

Hand drawn Okefenokee Map, and 2 John Quincy Adams signed free franked envelopes, 3 items total. 1st item: Ink on paper hand drawn map depicting the area comprising the Cherokee Nation lands in Georgia, dated circa October/November 1830. The map depicts forts, trails, and other areas of interest including Hogan’s Ferry with a trail leading from Fort Gilman (established and abandoned within a year), Camp Pocket, the Indian Old Field Pino, several interconnect trails marked as Captain Beall’s Trail, and other locations in an around the Okefenokee Swamp. “Map Okefenokee” with several rudimentary sketches of buildings, rivers, and other topographical features and the signature “C.B. Mims”, en verso. Single directional arrow pointing North, center of map. 7 7/8″ H x 9 7/8″ W. 2nd item: John Quincy Adams signed free franked envelope after his term as 6th President of the United States (1825-1829) addressed to his nephew Thomas Boylston Adams, Jr., (1809-1837), High Tower, Cherokee Nation, GA, dated circa October/November, 1830. It refers to the Okefenokee Map with notation reading “Quincy Map Oct 22” with additional notation reading “Rec’d Nov 5th Friday 1830. Ansd ” 14th Sunday “. Address and notation about map in writing probably by a secretary or local postmaster, other notations possibly by Thomas B. Adams, Jr. 3 5/8″ H x 5 1/4” W. Biography: Thomas Boylston Adams, Jr. was a grandson of President John Adams; his father Thomas Boylston Adams, the president’s third son, was thus also a younger brother of President John Quincy Adams. He was a Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1824, to July 1, 1828, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to Bvt. Second Lieut. of Artillery, July 1, 1828. Second Lieut., 2nd Artillery, July 1, 1828. Served in garrison at Ft. Monroe, Va. (Artillery School for Practice), 1828-29, — and Ft. Moultrie, S. C., 1829, 1829-30; in Cherokee Nation, 1830; in garrison at Charleston harbor, S. C., 1830-31, 1831-32; in Cherokee Nation, 1832; on Ordnance duty, Dec. 13, 1832, to Jan. 17, 1836. He was promoted to First Lieut., 2nd Artillery, Dec. 1, 1834. In the Florida War against the Seminole Indians, 1836-37, being engaged in the Skirmishes at Camp Izard, Feb. 27, 28, 29, and Mar. 5, 1836,– and Action of Oloklikaha, Mar. 31, 1836. He died, Dec. 14, 1837, of a fever at Fort Dade, Florida, during the Second Seminole War. (source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/519*.html#note:additional_information). 3rd item: Fragment of John Quincy Adams signed free franked envelope after his term as 6th President of the United States (1825-1829). “FREE” stamped in red lettering below signature. Pencil notation reading “J Q Adams 1833″ above. Fragment of letter referring to a Cadet and a Squad, en verso (does not appear to be written in Adams’ hand). 2 3/4″ H x 2 1/8″ W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in his family from Charles Harrod Boyd, grandson of Charles Harrod (1787-1870). Charles Harrod was the brother of Ann (Anna) Frances Harrod Adams (wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, 1772-1832, the son of President John Adams). Note: Charles H. Boyd’s wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother’s side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd, who married Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, a direct descendant of John Marshall (1755-1835). John Marshall was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, and tears, largest 3/4”, surface of map. Writing in strong, clear condition. 2nd item: Adams’ signature in strong, clear condition. Overall good condition with foxing spots, surface of sheet (does not affect signature). 3rd item: Adams’ signature in strong, clear condition. Overall good condition with toning, left side (does not affect signature). [See more photos →]

42-star Cavalry Guidon flag, cotton with printed stars and stencil for 3rd Cavalry Regiment depicting two crossed sabers with “3” above and “C” below, center of field. No maker’s marks. Housed under glass in a burl wood frame. Flag – 18 1/4″ H x 24″ W. Sight – 20 1/2″ H x 28 3/4″ W. Framed – 23″ H x 28 5/8″ W. Circa 1889-1891. Provenance: Purchased from Jeff R. Bridgman Antiques, Dillsburg, PA, in 2002. Private Crossville, TN collection. Note: These flags are thought to have been special ceremony flags used at Fort Sheriden or at the Presidio in San Francisco in dress parades. Regardless, few have ever surfaced and they are all of the same configuration with different cavalry units. 42-stars were official for only two years, 1889-1891. CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of stains, fraying, holes, largest 1/2″, to be expected from age and manner of use. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Civil War Confederate officer staff buttons. 1st item: Arkansas brass coat button, 3-piece construction, depicting the Arkansas state seal, the goddess of Liberty over a shield surrounded by an eagle on a lined background. Manufacturer's marks Horstmann & Allien N.Y. stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. 2nd item: Georgia brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the Georgia state seal, a dome bearing "Constitution" supported by three pillars, "Wisdom", "Justice", and "Moderation", a solider in between the first and second columns. Manufacturer's marks Horstmann & Allien N.Y. stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. 3rd item: South Carolina brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the South Carolina state seal, a palmetto tree over an oak log, symbolic of the Revolutionary War victory at Sullivan's Island on a lined background. Manufacturer's marks Canfield Bro & Co. Baltimor [sic] stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. 4th item: Alabama brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the map of Alabama on a tree, map incised "Alabam [sic]". Blank back with channel, en verso. Approximately 21 mm dia. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good, nondug condition with some minute areas of tarnish. All shanks present. 4th item: Shank slightly loose, possible later resolder. Areas of tarnish, en verso. [See more photos →]

Scarce “Plan of the City of Knoxville, Tennessee” drawn by R. W. Patterson, surveyed and compiled under the direction of Albert Miller Lea, lithographed and published by Ferdinand Mayer and Company, New York, 1855. Rare map depicting the city of Knoxville, TN with streets, including Gay Street, railroads and railroad depots, including East Tennessee-Georgia and East Tennessee-Virginia Railroad, East Tennessee & Kentucky Railroad, and the Knoxville & Charleston Railroad, bodies of water, including the Holston River (later renamed the Tennessee River), roads with distances in miles to nearby towns, hills, and other points of interest, including the East Tennessee Cemetery, the Glass Works, and the Market Place (more commonly known as Market Square). Title and scale of feet, centered below map, References, top right, directional arrows, top left and lower right. Map surrounded by a five line border. Housed in a plastic sleeve and mounted to corrugated fiberboard. Image – 23 1/4″ H x 26 1/4″ W. Sheet – 25 1/4″ H x 31 3/4″ W. Sleeve – 26 1/4″ H x 32 3/4″ W. Fiberboard – 30″ H x 35 3/4″ W. Biography: Albert Miller Lea (1808-1891) was born in Richland, Tennessee, a small village not far from Knoxville. He attended the United States Military Academy. He graduated fifth of 33 cadets in the Class of 1831. Due to his high class ranking, he was assigned to the engineers and posted to Fort Des Moines in the Iowa Territory, serving until his resignation in May 1836. In 1837, despite his youth, he became the Chief Engineer for the state of Tennessee. He then worked for the Federal government determining the boundary between Iowa and Missouri. From 1839 to 1840, he was an assistant engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He became a brigadier general in the Iowa militia and then the chief clerk for the U.S. War Department. In 1844, he earned his master’s degree in engineering from East Tennessee University in Knoxville and joined the faculty as an instructor. From 1849 to 1854, was the city engineer for Knoxville, as well as managing a local glass manufacturing company. He moved to East Texas in 1855. During the American Civil War, Lea was an engineering officer in the Confederate States Army with the rank of major (later, lieutenant colonel). During the Battle of Galveston on New Year’s Day 1863, his 25-year-old son, Lt. Commander Edward Lea of the Union Navy, was mortally wounded while serving on the USRC Harriet Lane. Lea himself was among the Confederate officers who boarded the captured ship, and found his son shortly before his death. After the war, Lea lived in Galveston for several years. He moved in 1874 to Corsicana, Texas, where he purchased a farm. He died of heart failure in 1891 and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Corsicana. The City of Albert Lea, Minnesota, is named in his honor. (For additional reading, see: “The Early Settlement of Albert Lea”. Sequicentennial History. City of Albert Lea, and Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 198). CONDITION: Overall good condition with foxing spots, largest 1/4″, toning, creases, stains, largest 4″ x 1″, areas of loss, largest 3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″, visible to surface and en verso of map. [See more photos →]

Custom contemporary diamond and sapphire ring in matte 18K yellow gold mounting, The ring is a geometric study with a human figure supporting an emerald cut diamond (6.30 x 6.86 x 4.10 mm), weighing loose 1.51 ct, estimated by appraiser as VVS1-VVS2 clarity and F-H color range and one emerald cut Corundum sapphire (6.20 x 6.85 x 3.49 mm) and weighing loose at 1.56 ct, estimated very slightly greenish blue, medium tone, very slightly grayish to medium saturation and good clarity. Two straight baguette diamonds weigh approximately 0.24 and 0.28 ct. and are estimated as VVS clarity and E-G color range. Interior of band is stamped 18K and with incised signature of artist, partially legible. Ring size 5. Circa 1990. 13.1 grams. Provenance: From the collection of a private estate, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Group of 418 Regina Music Box record discs, 15" diameter, various titles and artists. Early 1900s and later. Sold "as is." A little more than half appear to be contemporary copper discs made by Porter Music Box Company of Vermont, while the rest are older zinc or steel discs made by Regina Music Box Company as well as a small variety of other makers. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Sold "as is." Various conditions, older discs with more use wear than newer discs. [See more photos →]

Late 19th century folk art oil on canvas landscape painting of Eastside Farm, the property of Captain Alexander A. Arnold of Galesville, Wisconsin. The painting depicts the Italianate Arnold mansion, designed by architect Samuel Luce and built in 1874 by Captain Arnold, and the original barn (no longer standing), with windmill and horse, carraige and driver in the background. In the foreground is a hay field, and in the middle ground, several of the farm's prized pureborn Shorthorn cattle, along with a figure of a man standing in the doorway to the barn. Later giltwood molded frame with beaded rabbet edge. Sight – 18" H x 27" W. Framed – 24" H x 33" W. Provenance: purchased circa 1970 from The Rocking Chair Antiques in Walla Walla, Washington. A 1971 letter from the proprietor, Mike Spence, included with this lot, notes that the painting was done in "about 100 years ago" and that the figure in the doorway was supposed to be "the man who built the barn and raised the cattle". The letter goes on to surmise that "it was either he or his son who did the painting". This lot includes a file of documentation on the property and on Arnold, a New York native and attorney who moved to Wisconsin and became a founding father of Trempealeau County in 1857. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the 30th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company C. After the war, Captain Arnold married Mary Douglas of Jackson County (his first wife, Hattie Tripp, died prior to the war). He set aside his law career to focus on his land, and became known for his progressive farming and breeding techniques. Arnold's 50 x 50 foot New York style barn with 12 x 12 foot cupola was said to have the first upright silo constructed in the United States. Through Eastside Farm, Arnold and his son Gerald introduced Shorthorn cattle to the area and raised sheep, peas and purebred hogs. Arnold helped organize the Trempeauleau County Agricultral Society and donated the land for the county fairgrounds. When he died in 1915, he was vice president of the bank of Galesville. Decades later, Eastside Farm fell into disrepair before being auctioned in 1981. It was acquired by the Garden of Eden Preservation Society, restored and reopened to the public as a historic house museum a few years later. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Good condition with some light grime; minor tenting along stretcher line visible in sky area. Scattered inpainting to sky area, largest 1 1/2" L. Frame is not original to painting and has 3/4" area of molding loss along rabbet edge. [See more photos →]

Stephen Juharos (Hungary/Arizona, 1913-2010) oil on canvas landscape titled "After Shower in Grand Canyon" depicting the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon and a mixture of dark clouds and sun overhead. Signed lower right and dated 1985. Casey Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ label, en verso. Faux burlwood frame. 35 1/2" x 36" sight, 45 1/2" x 46" framed. Provenance: the estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. Commissioned from the artist in 1984 and completed in 1985. Biography: A native of Budapest, Hungary, Juharos received a Master of Arts diploma at the Royal Hungarian State University for Fine and Industrial Art. He was also awarded the Gold Medal and a one-year scholarship. At his first solo show in Budapest, the City of Budapest purchased one of his watercolors for the City Art Museum. The National Museum of Fine Art also purchased another of his watercolors. Juharos moved to the United States in 1949. He painted portrait commissions, including those of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty for Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of the United States; United States Senator Barry Goldwater, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His portrait of Eisenhower is displayed in the Museum Hall of Presidents. His 35-foot by 50-foot ceiling mural for a Pittsburgh church is the largest ceiling mural in the United States. Other murals were commissioned for the Maplewood, New Jersey City Hall; main library of Northern Arizona University; Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and the Tempe, Arizona City Hall. Stephen Juharos also taught at the Academy for Arts in Newark, New Jersey; Rutherford, New Jersey; and in Prescott, Flagstaff and Sedona, Arizona. (source: Askart). CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Large Sevres style porcelain jardiniere, comprised of three parts, including a jardiniere, bowl and stand. All pieces in the Rococo style with a cobalt ground and detailed gilt highlights throughout. The jardiniere with vignette scenes to each side, one depicting figures engaging in a picnic, the other depicting a landscape scene with a large manor house. Signed “Boltic” lower right of the picnic scene. Spurious Sevres mark to the base of the stand. 20″ H x 27″W x 13 1/4″ D. 19th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Hairline crack to rim of jardiniere, just below one handle terminus, approx. 1 1/2″ L. Cracklure to interior glaze of jardiniere and bowl. Overall general light wear with a few minute fleabites to feet. [See more photos →]

Civil War era Colt Model 1851 London Navy percussion revolver, .36 caliber, serial #38701, owned by James Nelson III (1828-1907), Confederate States of America (CSA), Morgan’s Raiders. Barrel marked “-Address Col. Colt London -“. Marked “Colts Patent” to left side of frame under cylinder and top of cylinder. Cylinders with engraved ships, walnut stocks, octagonal barrel, ejector rod, standard sights, checkered hammer, iron butt strap and trigger guard. Eight English proof marks, six top of barrel, including “V” with crown, two left side of barrel lug. Serial number matches top of ejector rod, trigger guard, butt strap, cylinder, and frame. Barrel length – 7 1/2″. Overall length – 13″. Also includes a notebook with information about Nelson and his family, including a notarized affidavit from the widow of the previous owner dating November 29, 2017, documenting that the pistol had originally belonged to James Nelson III and had descended in the family until they decided to sell it “to someone who will appreciate its history and continue to care for it”. Also included is a typed transcription of a letter from James Nelson II, the owner’s father, to Elizabeth Thomson, his daughter, dated October 8, 1863. The Civil War era letter mostly discusses Nelson’s health but does mention his son, writing “A word about James Nelson, my son. I done all I could to keep him at home. He was with John H. Morgan in his raid through Indiana and Ohio, was taken prisoner, with a good many others at Buffington’s Island, Ohio. Is now a prisoner of war at Camp Douglaps [sic] Illinois. He wrote me that he reported for duty about the first of April last, that he never enjoyed better health in his life, that he had not taken a dose of medicine this year. The prisoners when captured had many of their clothes taken from them. He writes me he is treated with a great deal of humanity by the officers of the prison. He says they appear to be gentlemen. They let me furnish him money, say five dollars at a time, and I get a friend to furnish it to him as he needs it.” Also included is a check from “The People’s Bank” Lebanon, TN signed by James Nelson III, February 14, 1896. Notebook – 11 3/4″ H x 10 3/4″ W x 1 3/4″ D. Biography: James Nelson III was born on December 3, 1828 in Fayetteville, KY. He attended Bacon College for two years before enlisting in the CSA 8th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry. He fought in the Battle of Hartsville, TN on December 7, 1862. He rode in General John Hunt Morgan’s “Great Raid” in the summer of 1863 through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. Nelson was captured at the Battle of Buffington Island, OH on July 19, 1863 with about 700 others. He was imprisoned at Camp Douglas, IL, known as the “Andersonville of the North”. He never took the Oath of Allegiance to the Union and was released in 1865 and returned home to Wilson County, TN where he had bought a farm in 1859. Nelson’s occupation was listed as “Stock Trader” in the Census of 1870. He was elected as 9th District Magistrate (Justice of the Peace) in 1876. By 1886 he owned 470 acres of farmland in Wilson County and was listed as a “Farmer” in the Census of 1900. He attended several local reunions of Confederate veterans. He passed away on December 16, 1907 at 79 and was buried in the Nelson family farm in Lebanon, TN. CONDITION: Overall good antique condition. 50% of original finish to stocks present. Engraved scene of barrels visible. Three screw heads show damage. Action good. Bore is dark. [See more photos →]

Richard Hayley Lever (Australian-American, 1876-1958) oil on canvas painting titled "Low tide, Cornwall, England" depicting a harbor scene; at center is a boat with red sail. Signed "Hayley Lever" lower right. Titled in pencil (on stretcher) with date "1904", Clayton-Liberatore Art Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY paper label, en verso. Housed in a later giltwood frame with linen liner. Sight – 9 3/8" H x 12 3/8" W. Framed – 15" H x 18 1/8" W. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography: Australian born Hayley Lever was known for his post impressionist town-shore landscapes and his use of color, which was deeply influenced by Van Gogh. He studied in London in the 1890s and then went to Cornwall, where he painted seaside paintings at an artistís colony on the coast of St. Ives. Lever came to America in 1911 and soon became one of the most widely exhibited artists in New York; he taught at the Art Students League from 1919 to 1931 and became director of the Studio Art Club in Mount Vernon, New York. Lever had a summer studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where many of his scenes were painted. His work is in the collection of several major museums. (Source: Michael David Zellman: 300 Years of American Art). CONDITION: Very good condition. Light cracquelure throughout. [See more photos →]

Gents’ Rolex Submariner 18K yellow gold and steel watch, 3035, manufactured 2000, 40mm case, Serial # R130132, Reference # 16803, Oyster Perpetual Date, Officially Certified Superlative Chronometer, cobalt blue dial and bezel, 7″ interior circumference. Marked 493 on endlinks and 93153 on bracelet. Does not retain original box, warranty, manual or information. Provenance: The living estate of John and Donna Rogers of Greeneville, TN. CONDITION: In running condition at time of inspection. Scattered wear and scratches on blue bezel, touched up between 30 and 35. [See more photos →]

Kurt Vonnegut (American/Indiana, 1922-2007) black aluminum sculpture titled “Wasp Waist” depicting the silhouette of a curvaceous woman. Signed en verso and numbered “6/9”. 24″ H, 6″ square base. Kurt Vonnegut is best known as an award winning writer. As early as 1969, in his best seller Slaugherhouse-Five, he began including simple felt tip drawings in his novels. He was invited to enter a show where artwork by writers, including Norman Mailer and Tennessee Williams (both accomplished painters) were exhibited, and by the 1980s he had begun creating more formalized visual art (mostly 2 dimensional; his sculptures are rare). He had a one-man show at the Margo Fiden Gallery in Greenwich Village, opening on October 15, 1983. Perhaps his most widely recognized work of art is Absolut Vonnegut, created in 1995 as one of a series of Absolut Vodka advertisements by renowned American artists. (Source: Peter Reed, Volume 10, Issue No. 1 of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, copyright 1999 Florida Altantic University, Boca Raton, Florida). CONDITION: Some persistent white residue to back of base, 1/2″ area; couple of miniscule abrasions to edges (most notably in woman’s hair) otherwise excellent condition. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee Late Classical mahogany sideboard, poplar secondary. Stamped on top right interior drawer by the maker "Joseph Cutler". Comprised of a slighty overhanging top having a turned and carved Federal style gallery with arched center pediment and urn finials, over a center section with one long drawer over two center bottle drawers flanked by doors, opposing side sections each with one drawer over one door. Each section delineated by fully turned and spiral carved columns, four total, the whole resting on turned and carved urn form feet. Additional pencil inscription to underside and side of top right drawer reads, "Made by Joseph Cutler/1830/ for Joseph Harmon". 47" H (w/out gallery) x 79" W x 23 3/4" D. Provenance: Descended through the Harmon Family, originally from Morristown, TN. There is a Joseph Cutler living in Greene County, TN listed in the 1830 and 1840 United States Census and also listed in 1836 Greene County, TN tax records (Ancestry.com). Additional reference: https://archive.org/stream/cutlermemorialge00cutl/cutlermemorialge00cutl_djvu.tx lists a Joseph," married and settled, in East Tennessee, merchant and slave owner" which matches the 1830 and 1840 census information. CONDITION: Stains/discoloration to top, one patch repair. Repair to one column where detached from case. Scattered minor losses to mahogany veneer, overall general wear. Some paint residue to feet. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Confederate reunion large flags and banners. 1st item: Large Confederate machine sewn banner, comprised of applied cotton on cotton ground with two brass grommets. Stamped "C 9" with paper tag stamped "V 8 1" stapled reverse, near top grommet. 66 1/2" H x 107 1/2" W. 2nd item: Third national machine sewn flag, comprised of printed linen "Southern Cross" canton on cotton ground. Inscribed "Mrs. E. A. Wells" in pencil, right side of flag. 34 1/2" H x 62" W. Both items early 20th century. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with stains, largest 1", surface of flag. Tears, largest 1" x 2 1/2", surface of flag. 2nd item: Overall good condition with stains, largest 8" x 7", surface of flag. Tears, largest 1", right side of flag. [See more photos →]

Charles Krutch (Tennessee, 1849-1934) East Tennessee oil on board painting depicting a Smoky Mountain summer landscape with storm clouds upper right and a boulder filled creek in the foreground outlined by dense green trees. Signed KRUTCH in red lower right corner. Housed in the original molded gilt frame. Sight – 17 1/2″ H x 26″ W. Framed – 22 1/2″ H x 31″ W. Provenance: Knoxville, TN estate. 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. CONDITION: Painting overall very good condition, minor abrasions to sides of frame. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Civil War Confederate and one (1) Union officer staff buttons, 5 items total. 1st item: Texas brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the Texas state seal, a flat lone star surrounded by “TEXAS” on a lined background. Manufacturer’s marks Hyde & Goodrich New Orleans stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. 2nd item: Louisiana brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the Louisiana state seal, a pelican facing left on a lined background. Manufacturer’s marks Horstmann & Allien N.Y. stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. 3rd item: Missouri brass coat button, 3-piece construction, depicting the Missouri state seal, an eagle with two bears around a shield on a lined background. “Extra Quality” stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. 4th item: Florida brass coat button, 2-piece construction, depicting the Florida state territorial seal, an eagle over cactus on a lined background. Manufacturer’s marks S Scovill Mfg Co Superfine embossed, en verso. Approximately 20 mm dia. 5th item: Federal Militia general service brass coat button, 1-piece construction, depicting a left facing eagle with blank shield, holding a bundle of 13 arrows in its left talon and an olive branch in its right talon. Manufacturer’s marks Horstmann & Allien N.Y. stamped, en verso. Approximately 22 mm dia. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good, nondug condition with some minute areas of oxidation. All shanks present. 4th item: 1/4″ dent, center of button. [See more photos →]

Union Recruiting Banner, “Army of Georgia. Soldiers Wanted.” with Federal Eagle emblem to center of cloth banner. Housed under glass in a wooden frame with gilt wood rabbet edge. Banner – 21 3/4″ H x 40 3/4″ W. Sight – 25″ H x 44 1/4″ W. Framed – 28″ H x 47″ W. Circa 1864. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960’s from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. Note: In November 1864, General Sherman created the Army of Georgia from the remaining XIV and XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. This army was commanded under Major General Henry Warner Slocum and served as one of Sherman’s wings in the March to the Sea. CONDITION: Overall good condition with foxing spots, stains, largest 2 1/8″ x 1 1/2″, tears, largest 1/2″, to be expected from age and manner of use. Areas of loss, 2 1/4″ x 1 3/4″ to top left of eagle’s wing and 1 1/2″ x 1 5/8″ area top left corner of banner. Top and left edges appear to be slightly cut down. Printed lettering and emblem in very good condition. [See more photos →]

New Hampshire tiger maple chest on chest, white pine secondary. Two piece double chest with overhanging molded top. Upper section with five graduated dovetailed drawers, lower section with three graduated dovetailed drawers, joined by a molded mid-section, plain skirt, and tall bracket feet. 70 3/8" H x 39 1/2" W x 20 1/4" D. Circa 1780. Provenance: Descended in the family of Mrs. May Springfield, Rochester, New Hampshire, to Everett Yates, Rochester, New Hampshire; sold at Paul McGinnis Auction Jan. 2, 1983, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire to Kenneth and Paulette Tuttle, Gardiner, Maine; sold to The Unicorn Collection, St. Louis, Missouri; sold to Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, TN 1984. Accompanied by sale documentation including a letter guaranteeing authenticity from Kenneth Tuttle and additional letters stating opinions of authenticity from Samuel Pennington of the Maine Antiques Digest and conservators S. Wright Weston (Winthrop, Maine) and Henry Swanson, Jr. CONDITION: Refinished. Brasses replaced. Left front foot broken and repaired. Scattered minor abrasions, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Lucien Whiting Powell (American/Virginia, 1846-1930) oil on canvas landscape with waterfall visible at right, likely Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon, Bridalveil Fall in Yosemite Valley, or the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Signed lower left "Lucien W. Powell". Giltwood frame with fluted cove molding and laurel molded edge. George Muth, Artist and Painters Supplies, Washington, DC label en verso. 23 1/2" x 25 1/2" sight, 32" x 44" framed. Biography: Lucien Powell was born at "Levinworth Manor," near Upperville, Virginia. He served with the Confederate Army from 1863-65, after which he studied with Thomas Moran at the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. He was also heavily influenced by J.M.W. Turner. Powell traveled extensively in Europe and studied with Fitz at the London School of Art, circa 1876. Powell lived in Washington, D.C., 1885-1930 and was also patronized by Senator and Mrs. John B. Henderson, who established a studio for him in their Washington mansion, known as the "Castle". In 1901, Powell accompanied a group conducting a geological survey of the Grand Canyon. The expedition was among the factors prompting President Theodore Roosevelt to visit the Canyon personally in 1903 and proclaim it as a National Monument in 1908. (Roosevelt also became one of Powell's best known admirers and patrons). J. Edgar Hoover was also an ardent collector and owned more than a dozen of Powell's works. (For additional reading, see: Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800-1915, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983.) Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Few scattered small accretions and some light grime in sky area; overall good condition, relined. Frame with some regilding. [See more photos →]

English Staffordshire polychrome pearlware jug, eagle perched on a cannon with the American flag inscribed, “Arms of the United States-E. Pluribus Unum” on the side and under the spout inscribed with “Free Trade and Sailors Rights”. 6 3/4″ H x 7 1/2″ W x 6 1/2″ D overall. Provenance: From the Robert Teitelman collection. Pictured, pre-restoration state, page 280 of “Success to America, Creamware for the American Market”. Circa 1800-1820. Private East Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Some staining. Base with old restoration. [See more photos →]

Gents 18K Cartier tank watch, 30 x 24 mm, manual winding movement, white face, Roman numerals, back marked Cartier 18K Swiss, with 18K double-fold clasp and black leather strap, clasp marked Cartier 15679 Cartier New York 18K. 7″ interior circumference. Circa 1980. 33.5 grams. Cartier red box included. Also includes an additional black leather strap with buckle clasp. Provenance: From the collection of a private estate, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Watch running at time of inspection. Minor surface wear. Cartier box faded. [See more photos →]

John Wood Dodge (New York/Tennessee, 1807-1893) miniature oval watercolor portrait of Charles Thompson of Tennessee, painted 1852. The subject, who appears to be about age 30, has dark hair and blue eyes and a dark chin beard, and is depicted wearing a black suit with white shirt and black tie and a gold watch chain. Housed in an oval gold metal locket with engine turned decoration. Inscription on back: “Painted by John W. Dodge Nashville Tenn. April 1852 / Likeness of Charles Thompson”. Dodge’s account book contains an entry for a portrait of Charles Thompson, and also for George Torrence Thompson Jr. (Ref. Raymond White, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Spring, 2000). Charles A. R. Thompson (b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1825- d. Nashville, 1898), brother of George Torrence Thompson, was a wealthy Nashville merchant who built Edgehill Mansion. According to The Peabody Reflector Magazine (Vanderbilt University, Summer 2000), “Thompson and Company, located downtown on Fifth Avenue, was the cityís most prominent merchant of silver, china, furs, wools, linens, and laces, as well as exquisite items such as ball gowns, bridal trousseaux, gloves, shawls, and parasols. For most of the 19th century, century and until its closure in 1932, the store was a Nashville staple, serving as a social gathering place for the city’s gentry”. He married Kate Morton White, adopted daughter of John J. White, an attorney in Gallatin, TN. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Portrait – excellent condition. Locket has some discoloration around hinges and top ring. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) US. Navy uniform items belonging to Hugh Young Purviance (1799-1882), 6 items total. 1st item: Naval dress bicorn hat or Chapeau with the original custom fitted metal case, comprised of a beaver pelt over a hard shell form with gilt gold hat epaulettes. Retains the original retailer label reading “W. H. Smith & Co./No. 4/Maiden-Lane/N. Y. Hat – 17 1/2″ W x 9″ H. Case – 8″ H x 10″ D x 18 1/4″ W. 2nd & 3rd items: Pair of M1852 US Naval Captain dress epaulettes with gilt eagle button, silver bullion star and silver eagle medallion, housed in the original metal storage case. Case – 6″ H x 9″ W x 6 3/8″ D. 4th item: Collection of U S Navy embroidered insignias including a U.S. (Union) Naval Officers hat insignia, two (2) 1864-1866 Commodore straps and 1 tassel, all house in a red leather folio case. Folio – 7 1/4″ H x 5″ W. 5th-6th items: Two (2) American Military Hats including an American 18th century military tricorne or cocked hat, comprised of felt with gilt band and an Officer’s silk hat cockade with a small gilt eagle under an E. Pluribus Unum banner to the center, (10 3/4″ D x 10″ W), and a Red woolen cap, perhaps a seaman’s cap, with gilt bullion button to the center front above the brim and brass button closures at the neck, 19th century, (10 1/2″ H x 11” W, at widest point). Provenance: Baltimore estates of Virginia Howard Miller (c. 1880-1946) and Hugh Purviance King (1873-1966) passed down to present Living Estate of Virginia Johnston, Lookout Mountain, TN. Biography: PURVIANCE, Hugh Young, naval officer, was born in Baltimore, Md., March 22, 1799. He attended St. Mary’s college, Baltimore, and on Nov. 3, 1818, was warranted midshipman in the U.S. navy. His midshipman service was on the frigates Congress and Franklin of the Pacific squadron, 1819-23, and on the North Carolina of the Mediterranean squadron, 1824-27. He was promoted lieutenant, March 3, 1827; was an officer on the sloop Falmouth of the West India squadron, 1828-30; on the sloop Peacock of the East India squadron, 1833-34; on rendezvous at Baltimore, Md., 1836-37, and on the Brazil squadron, [p.431] where he commanded the brig Dolphin and the sloop Fairfield, 1837-38, and during this service he relieved an American schooner from the French blockade at Salado, River Platte, for which act he received complimentary recognition from the U.S. government. He was on the Brandywine of the Mediterranean squadron, 1841-42; in command of the brig Pioneer on the coast of Africa in 1843, and of the U.S. frigate constitution in the Mexican blockade in 1846. As commander, which rank he attained March 7, 1849, he was on the receiving-ship Consort at Baltimore, Md., 1850-51, and the sloop Marion on the coast of Africa, 1852-55. As captain, to which rank he was promoted Jan. 28, 1856, he commanded the frigate St. Lawrence in the blockade of Charleston and the southern coast in 1861, and captured and sunk the Confederate privateer Petrel when just twelve hours out. He also captured several other prizes and engaged his ship in the right with the Merrimac, March 9, 1862, and in the attack on Sewall’s Point, Hampden Roads. He was retired Dec. 21, 1861; was promoted commodore on the retired list July 16, 1862; served as light-house inspector, 1863-65, and was promoted rear-admiral on the retired list Feb. 25, 1881. He died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 21, 1882. (source: Ancestry.com). CONDITION: 1st-4th items: Overall very good condition with general wear use and normal age wear. 5th item: Overall mold, spotting, likely faded from original color. 6th item: Scattered insect damage, primarily to the back. [See more photos →]

Alfons Mucha (Czechoslovakian, 1860-1939) inscribed and autographed lithograph, The Four Seasons or Les Saisons, single sheet, depicting four beauties set in backgrounds representing Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. 23 1/4" x 12 3/8". Inscription lower right, "A Mademoiselle Anna M. Nelle a tout coeur en souvenir a se charmante visite. Mucha Paris le 28 12 1900". Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. Alfons Maria Mucha was born in Invancice, Moravia (Modern day Czech Republic), and began his career painting theatrical scenery. He did this for many years until a fire caused the business to be destroyed. He was later commissioned by Count Karl of Mikulov to decorate his residence, which led an impressed Mikulov to sponsor Muchaís formal art education. Mucha moved to Paris in 1887 where he studied art, while producing advertisement illustrations. He became an overnight sensation after producing a lithographed promotion for a play starring Sarah Bernhardt, one of the most famous Parisian actresses at the time. She signed an advertising contract with him for 6 years, and during this period the "Mucha Style" became known as "Art Nouveau". (source: alfonsmucha.org). Alternate spellings: Alphonce Mucha, Alfonse Mucha, Alfonse Mucha. CONDITION: Adhered to support board, mat also adhered to front of poster. 3 1/4" tear to upper right corner with additional adjacent 5/8" tear. 1" tear upper left corner and 5/8" tear lower left corner. General toning. Mat with stains and toning. [See more photos →]

Western Union Model 3-A 22 OHMS universal ticker tape machine, serial # 2671, with brass frame, telegraph mechanism, twin alpha-numeric rollers and tape feed, all housed on a cast iron base and mounted on an octagonal wooden base. Manufacturer name not present. Includes glass dome. Also included is a black painted metal paper winder mounted on a wooden base, and a roll of used ticker paper. Machine – 8 3/4" H x 8" W. Glass dome – 10 1/4" H. Wooden base – 3" H x 14" W. Overall – 11 3/8" H. 19 lbs. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Machine has been refurbished. No visible manufacturer marks to paper winder. [See more photos →]

Cartier Santos 18k yellow gold ladies watch, Automatic movement, number 090600745, 18K bracelet, white dial, Roman numerals, blue steel hands, 25 mm case diameter, deployment buckle, 6-1/4" interior circumference. 1980. 82.6 grams including works and additional links. Includes three additional links: 13/16" L. Also includes red Cartier box, possibly not original to watch, and paperwork with lifetime guarantee for this watch. Provenance: From the collection of a private estate, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Watch running at time of inspection. Light surface wear and some surface grime. [See more photos →]

Rare and early Chinese archaic bronze ritual wine vessel or Gu, wasted form with flaring rim, trumpet neck, straight sides and a slightly tapering foot. Lower section with three bands of archaic incised decoration together with cruciform apertures between the lower and middle bands. Incised animal figure to the underside of the base. 9 3/4" H. Possibly Shang Dynasty. Old Sotheby's tag (lot #6A) found inside. Provenance: Estate of Martha Lyman, Dayton, TN. CONDITION: Vessel has been broken in half. Evidence of bronze disease. [See more photos →]

American Federal carved mahogany square-back sofa, likely New York and similar to examples from the Duncan Phyfe shop. Modeled after the English Sheraton Style with exposed swag and reed-carved top rail, above reeded armrests sloping down to carved hand rests with vase-turned and reeded supports, reeded skirt with curved ends and four front reeded cylindrical legs. 36-1/2" H x 79-3/4" W x 30" D. Circa 1805 – 1815. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence, and published in Southern Accents magazine, May-June 1985. CONDITION: Old breaks to two center front legs where top of leg meets bottom of sofa at joint, visible from back. Scattered general use wear to exposed wood on lower sections. Stains, fading and wear to the silk upholstery. [See more photos →]

Two (2) United Confederate Veterans reunion ribbons. 1st item: Louisville, KY UCV reunion badge, June 14, 1905. Consists of a metal hanger with "Forrest Camp No. 4 Chattanooga, Tenn." with two silk ribbons, one red with a silk covered button with "U. C. V." in a laurel wreath and one off white ribbon. Manufacturer's marks for the Whitehead and Hoag Company, Newark, NJ, back of hanger and button. 5 3/8" H x 2 1/2" W. 2nd item: Atlanta, GA Fourth Regiment Georgia Volunteers UCV reunion printed silk ribbon, July 20, 1898. Includes stick pin, top of ribbon. 8" H x 2 3/8" W. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with stains, fraying, etc. to be expected from age. 2nd item: Overall good condition with stains, fraying, etc. to be expected from age. Areas of separation, largest 1 1/2", surface of ribbon. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee Hepplewhite inlaid sideboard, walnut primary, yellow pine secondary. Comprised of an overhanging molded top with reeded edges, over one central section enclosed by two doors with molded edges, flanked by two rows of dovetailed drawers with diamond inlaid escutcheons, over a plain skirt with angled returns and tall tapered Hepplewhite legs. Drawer fronts, doors and legs with line inlay. 41 7/8" H x 67 1/2" W x 24 1/2" D. 1st quarter 19th century and later. Provenance: Collection of Wilma & Jack Murray, Knoxville, TN. Formerly from the Ayres family of East Tennessee. CONDITION: Older refinish. Upper right drawer is a replacement. Dovetails of drawers in upper section differ from dovetails of lower drawers. Interior may have been reworked and reconfigured in the past. Staining and scratching to the top. Replaced brasses. [See more photos →]

Pair of German Black Forest carved wood roe deer head mounts, both with inset brown glass eyes, painted and stained accents. Illegible pencil description to the base of one. 22 1/4" H x 9" W x 10" D. Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: The estate of John Donnelly, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Minor scattered abrasions, minor cracking behind one ear on each head. Minute red paint transfer to one. [See more photos →]

Massachusetts, Seymour School, Hepplewhite inlaid game table, D-shaped with canted corners, flip-top beveled edge, swing-leg support, mahogany, light and dark mixed woods, pine secondary wood, center and canted corners of skirt with rectangular and oval inlay, line inlay and alternating light and dark inlay at edge. Tapered square legs with banded inlay near base of same alternating dark and light wood, light line inlay and center dark inlay. Possible signature underneath top. 29 1/2" H x 36" W x 17" D. Seymour School, MA, circa 1790. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Both items descended in the family of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on the side of her mother, Pamela Augusta Gilman (1802-1880). Annette was married to Charles Harrod Boyd and had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd (wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Jr.). Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. was Note: This table is shown in an albumen silver print that has descended through the Coleman family. The identity of the house interior is unknown at this time but speaks to this piece of having a long history within the family. CONDITION: Older surface with grime and alligatoring of surface. Minor abrasions and very minor inlay loss to apron. Ink stains on interior. [See more photos →]

Gorham Manufacturing Co. sterling silver flatware, Strasbourg pattern, service for 12 plus more, 174 pieces, including 12 dinner knives (9 1/4" L), 12 dinner forks (7 5/8" L), 24 salad forks, 12 place spoons (7 1/8" L), 21 teaspoons, 12 round bowl soup spoons, 12 iced beverage spoons, 12 cocktail forks, 10 salt spoons with gilt bowls, 12 hollow handled butter spreaders, 12 steak knives, 4 table serving spoons, 2 pierced table serving spoons, 2 cold meat forks, 2 tomato servers, 2 master butter knives with hollow handles, 2 pie servers, 2-piece carving set (12 1/4" L), 1 cheese server, 1 gravy ladle, 1 cream ladle, 1 sugar shell spoon, 1 2-tine butter pick, 1 pierced bonbon spoon, and 1 lemon fork. All marked "Gorham Sterling". 174 pieces total. Not monogrammed. 161.445 weighable oz troy. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

128 pieces of Whiting Lily Pattern sterling silver flatware, consisting of 12 Old French blade dinner knives (9 1/2" L), 12 dinner forks (7 5/8" L), 12 salad forks (6 1/8" L), 12 ice cream forks with gilt wash tines (6 7/8" L), 12 oyster forks (5 7/8" L), 18 teaspoons (5 7/8" L), 12 boullion spoons (5" L), 12 ice cream/dessert spoons with gilt wash bowls, 12 tablespoons, 12 individual butter spreaders, 1 bacon fork and 1 lettuce fork. All pieces monogrammed "G". 135.48 weighable troy ounces. Provenance: The estate of Martha Goldsmith, Clarksville, TN. CONDITION: All pieces monogrammed, overall very good condition with light general use wear. [See more photos →]

Large Frank Herbert Mason (New York/Ohio, 1921-2009) oil on canvas interior scene titled "Winged Victory", depicting the artist seated in his studio sculpting with various objects and tools scattered about, a chair with a painter's palette right foreground and a life sized alabaster sculpture in the right background. Signed and dated 1971 lower right. Housed in a carved gilt wood framed. Sight – 59 3/8"H x 48 1/2" W. Framed – 66 1/8" H x 56 1/4" W. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. Biography: A long-time teacher from 1951 at the Art Students League in New York City, Frank Mason had a forty-four year career in the classroom. In 1996, an exhibition of his work as well as that of many of his students was organized by many of his students and held at the G.C. Lucas Gallery in Indianapolis. As an artist, he emphasized respect for the Old Masters such as Michelangelo, Rubens, Vermeer and Velasquez. He was dedicated to the effective use of light and the appearance of it moving throughout the painting. He had numerous church painting commissions including San Giovanni di Malta in Venice and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. (source: AskArt). CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Very slight areas of wear to frame. [See more photos →]

Blanc de Chin porcelain Quan Yin figure, depicted standing with a foo dog in one arm, atop a wave base with foo dog fish. Impressed seal mark upper back. 14" H. 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with several drying cracks to interior base. [See more photos →]

Roy Lichtenstein (American/New York, 1923-1997) signed poster for the art exhibition "Art About Art", held 20 July-24 Sept 1978, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Signed lower right. Float mounted in wood frame. Sheet – 36" H x 33" W. Framed – 43 3/4" H x 33" W. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Alexander John Drysdale (American/Louisiana, 1870-1934) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a lakeshore scene with lone building by a large tree and a boat at the shoreline. Housed in the original early 20th century giltwood frame. Signed lower right "A. J. Drysdale". Sight – 20" H x 29" W. Framed – 26" H x 35 1/2" W. Provenance: Consignor inherited from grandparents who lived in New Orleans in 1930 and '40s. Biography: Drysdale was born in Marietta, Georgia and moved to New Orleans as a teenager. There he studied at the Southern Art Union and with Paul E. Poincy. He also studied with the Art Students League in New York City under Charles Curran and Frank DuMond. Back in New Orleans, he opened a studio in the French Quarter and began to paint landscapes inspired by local subjects. He is known for using the technique of oil wash, using oil paint thinned with kerosene, that gave his works a characteristic hazy, humid look. Significant commissions included D.H. Holmes Department Store and Sushan Airport. His work is in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and The Historic New Orleans Collection. (source: Askart). CONDITION: Accretions left center margin. Overall surface debris to canvas, most noticably on darker areas. Foxing to backside of canvas due to humidity. [See more photos →]

Kentucky inlaid cherry sugar chest, tulip poplar secondary, with tall tapered legs, molded top with breadboard ends, pegged case construction with interior divider, diamond inlay escutcheon, vine inlay to the front within a rectangular string inlay outline, and string inlay to the front case and leg stiles. 27 1/2" H x 32 1/4" W x 15 3/4" D. 1st quarter 19th century. Provenance: Originally from the estate of General Roger & MaryPolly (Kerfoot) Williams of Bourbon County, Kentucky. CONDITION: Refinished. Interior divider replaced. Top appears to be an old replacement. Evidence of string and petal inlay replacements. Feet were removed and improperly re-installed with screws in the 20th century. Screws were removed and feet were properly reattached by Williamsburg Art Conservation Inc. in 2014. Base molding on front of case replaced. Conservation report from Williamsburg Art Conservation Inc. available upon request. [See more photos →]

Pair of Suzanne Caporeal (American, b. 1949) abstract etchings with hand painting titled "Cobalt Orange" and "Cobalt Violet," from her series for Tandem Press, "Periodic Table of the Elements". Each float mounted and framed under glass in natural wood frames. Signed lower right and dated 1998 with blind stamp, numbered lower left 28/30. 29 3/4" H x 20" W sheet, 35 1/2" H x 26" W framed. Article explaining the motivation and methodology behind the "Elements" series is pasted verso. Provenance: Private Alabama collection. Note: Suzanne Caporael is a West Coast artist whose work is in museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institue in Pittsburgh, the High Museum of Atlanta, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. CONDITION: Prints: excellent condition. Frames: some minor abrasions to sides. [See more photos →]

1st item: 22K yellow gold chain necklace with toggle clasp, 28-1/4" L, small flowers interlocked to form thicker chain. 73.3 grams. 2nd-4th items: Matching 22K yellow gold ring, size 5 and pair matching stud earrings, 5.9 grams together. Items not marked but tested as 22K. 79.2 grams total. Provenance: The estate of Ann Cook Calhoun, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Large Civil War hand painted photographic portrait of three Confederate officers, depicted in a landscape setting, two seated with one holding a trumpet and one holding a sword, the third officer standing directly behind them holding a Confederate States of America national flag. Unsigned. Matted and housed under glass in a carved gilt wood frame. Sight – 13 3/4" H x 11" W. Framed – 22 1/4" H x 19 3/8" W. Circa 1860s. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Painting in overall very good condition with slight waviness to card stock. Areas of dampstaining, largest 12 1/2" x 4", visible en verso of card stock. Mat in poor condition. [See more photos →]

John Adams archive, 4 items total. 1st item: Autograph book belonging to Susan Dayton Harrod Boyd (b. 1813), signed by John Adams, Second President of the United States and her great-great grandfather. Hardbound with marbled paper covers and red leather spine with gilt line decorations. The signature, written in Quincy, Massachusetts, less than a year before his death, appears on the first page of the book with an inscription reading "My young friend Remember thy Creator in the days of thy growth and in the extreme stage of thine old age, He will be thy comfort and support. John Adams Quincy August 8th 1823". The inscription was written by Susan's cousin Elizabeth Coombs Adams and is based partially on Ecclesiastes 12:1. The book is mostly filled with poems and letters from Susan's friends and relations, including Elizabeth and Caroline Harrod, Elizabeth's first cousin. Two inscriptions, one in pencil reading "Ever remember your friends Susan and Elvira Dec 19 1827" and one in ink reading "Emily Dearborn Boyd–from Father. 1905–", inside of front cover. 7 3/4" H x 5" W x 1/2" D. 2nd item: Pamphlet titled "A Sermon Delivered on the Lord's Day Succeeding the Internment of Madam Abigail Adams, Consort of the Hon. John Adams, Late President of the United States. November 1, 1818. By the Rev. Peter Whitney, Pastor of the Church in Quincy", printed by Hews and Goss, Boston, 1819. The pamphlet also includes a extract of a letter written to Thomas Jefferson to John Adams from Monticello, November 13, 1818, along with four obituary notices from noted newspapers of the day, including the "Boston Gazette". The pamphlet is inscribed "C.H. Boyd", for Charles Harrod Boyd, who was Abigail's great-great-great grandson, and contains scattered corrections, written either by Charles or another member of the family. 9 1/2" H x 6" W. 3rd item: Letter from Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, sister of Abigail Adams, to Anna Harrod Adams (1774-1845), wife of Thomas Bolyston Adams (1772-1832), and daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams, dated May 16, 1805. Written less than ten days after Ann's marriage to Thomas, the short letter contains blessings for their union writing "May mutual affection le[s]sen the cares of life…". The letter does not contain a direct address but was written in "Atkinson [New Hampshire] five Clock, written while [s]ick in the Bed". 9" H x 7 5/8" W. 4th item: Poem addressed to the Honorable John Adams, possibly written by a friend or relative. Faded postmark stamp from Bangor, Maine, dated September. 7 3/4" H x 4 5/8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in his family from Charles Harrod Boyd, son of Susan Dayton Harrod Boyd, who was the daughter of Charles Harrod (1787-1870). Charles Harrod was the brother of Ann (Anna) Frances Harrod Adams (wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, 1772-1832, the son of President John Adams). Note: Charles H. Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd, who married Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, a direct descendant of John Marshall (1755-1835). John Marshall was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with areas of dampstaining and foxing spots to be expected from age. Adams signature, while highly visible, was executed in a shaky hand (Adams suffered from arthritis in his later years). Boyd signature in faded, yet legible condition. 2nd item: Overall good condition with foxing spots and areas of dampstaining to be expected from age. Original stitching intact, final leaf loosely attached. Tears, largest 2", edges of pamphlet. 3rd item: Overall good condition with foxing spots to be expected from age. 1/2" x 1 3/4" tear obscuring the last word of the letter. Elizabeth's signature in strong, clear condition. 4th item: Overall good condition with foxing spots to be expected from age. Tears, largest 3/4" x 1 3/8", edges of poem. [See more photos →]

1st item: Chinese jade, hardstone and gilt bronze belt ornament comprised of two parts, with center blue stone flanked by celadon jade stones with carved lingzhi mushroom decoration, all inset into a gilt bronze base (1 1/2" H x 3 1/2" L). 2nd item: Chinese jade, hardstone and gilt bronze belt ornament comprised of three parts including a central celadon jade plaque flaked by pink quartz carved bats inset into carved gilt bronze foliate bases, (2 1/2" H x 6" L). Both buckles late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private West Tennessee collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Center blue stone loose from mount, chip to one corner, losses to gilt on bronze mount. 2nd item: Wear to perimeter of jade ring, losses to gilt on bronze mount. [See more photos →]

Rondina Huma (Hopi, b. 1947) pottery bowl with intricate polychrome geometic decoration. Signed on the base in faded script “Rondina Huma/Tewa Village/Polacca, AZ”. 3 1/4″ H x 6 1/2″ dia. 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: A couple of areas of slight wear to body near the base. Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Antique Talish area rug, 86" x 43", plain navy blue center field, cream primary border with flower medallions, secondary colors of rust, taupe, green, blues, salmon, yellow and black. Southeast Caucasus, late 19th century. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from Ro's Oriental Rugs, Nashville, TN in 1990. CONDITION: End borders reduced and reinforced. Sides rebound. 4" L crease wear near one end. Some corrosion to black wool. [See more photos →]

John Adams free franked envelope signature and portrait lithograph, 2 items total. 1st item: John Adams signed free franked envelope as 1st Vice President of the United States (April 21, 1789-March 4, 1797) addressed to his son Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832), Cambridge, MA, dated June 10, 1790. Address and date in writing probably by a secretary or local postmaster with "1790" written en verso. 3 3/4" H x 4 7/8" W. 2nd item: Lithograph depicting a portrait of John Adams, lithographed by Peter S. Duval (Pennsylvania/France, b. 1800), Philadelphia, after an image by Albert Newsam (Ohio/Delaware, 1809-1864). Includes a facsimile of Adams' signature below image. Housed under glass in a black wooden frame. Sight – 6 1/2" H x 4 1/4" W. Framed – 9 1/2" H x 7" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in his family from Charles Harrod Boyd, grandson of Charles Harrod (1787-1870). Charles Harrod was the brother of Ann (Anna) Frances Harrod Adams (wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, 1772-1832, the son of President John Adams). Note: Charles H. Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd, who married Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, a direct descendant of John Marshall (1755-1835). John Marshall was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). CONDITION: 1st item: Adams signature in strong, clear condition. Scattered foxing spots, largest 1/8", and pinprick holes surface of sheet (does not affect signature). 2nd item: Foxing spots, largest 1/8", surface of print. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) oil on board painting of a young gentleman seated and attired in a patterned silk vest with black coat and neck tie. Signed and dated along the lower edge "Geo. PA Healy/Jan'y 1840/London". R. Davy, London, Artist Supply paper label, en verso. Housed in a gilt carved frame with acanthus leaf and laurel leaf decoration. Sight – 14 3/8" H x 11 3/8" W. Framed – 23 1/4" H x 19 1/4" W. Provenance: Private Texas Collection; purchased in the 1980s at an estate sale auction in upstate New York. Biography: George Healy was born to impoverished parents in Boston, but became one of the best-known portrait painters of the mid to late 19th century. At age 17, Healy opened a portrait studio. His talent was soon recognized by Thomas Sully. In 1834, Healy, supported by Sully and one of his patrons, Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, left for the first of many trips to Paris where he studied with Antoine Jean-Gros and with Thomas Couture. After 8 years in France and England, he had gained an international reputation. He spent the remainder of his life traveling between the United States and Europe. His subjects included Louis Philippe, Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Pope Pius IX, Franz Liszt, and other notable figures. (Source: Michael Zellman, 300 Years of American Art). CONDITION: Horizontal cracks to upper and lower margins of board and very light rubbing to margins. Flouresces between eyes, around both jaw lines, left forehead and cheek, and above the head under blacklight inspection, indicating possible inpainting. Scattered losses to frame and later gilt paint touch up to frame. [See more photos →]

Newcomb College matte glaze art pottery vase with low relief trees, moss and full moon decoration in colors of blue, green and cream. Base with Newcomb College cipher mark, date mark "W79", the initial F (denoting red clay body and opaque glaze) and the letters "AA". 5 3/4" H. 1902. Provenance: The estate of Martha Goldsmith, Clarksville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, couple areas of errant line residue to lower body, no attempt to remove. Some interior staining. [See more photos →]

Whiting Art Nouveau sterling silver overlay biscuit jar or humidor with lobed red art glass. Sterling lid with knob pull and gilt washed interior, cartouches of floral and crisscross patterns and scroll rim, jar of lobed cranberry glass overlayed with open sterling cartouches, swags and floral sprays, all on scroll base. Dated and engraved on lid perimeter "1855 M 1905". Traces of gilt wash to body. Marked Sterling with Whiting maker's mark and 3367 on base. 9" H. CONDITION: Liner on top of jar rim re-attached. Wear and losses to gilt wash on sterling overlay exterior. Scattered areas of scratching on glass lobes. 1 3/8" crack to sterling overlay emanating from rim down to body. [See more photos →]

Kurt Matzdorf (1922-2008) hand wrought modern design sterling silver Kiddush cup, tripod design with round bowl over a central knob engraved with Hebrew symbols, supported on a circular base. Stamped hallmark on underside with additional number 313. 6" H. 5.22 oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Martha Goldsmith, Clarksville, TN. Note: American silversmith Kurt Matzdorf was nationally known for his ceremonial work, including 16 university maces, 20 presidential chains of office and 10 presidential medallions. His work has been exhibited in major public museums on both sides of the Atlantic, including Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Jewish Museum in Berlin. He completed his undergraduate work in sculpture at London University and his master of fine arts in silversmithing at the University of Iowa. He founded the metals program in the art department at SUNY New Paltz, and was awarded the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of North American Goldsmiths. This is the society's highest award, which recognizes a lifetime of exceptional service to the metalsmith community. CONDITION: Slightly uneven form; bowl slightly out of round, possibly as made. [See more photos →]

William Hart (American, 1823-1924) oil landscape, canvas laid down on board, depicting cows at a watering hole, with tall trees in the background, under a blue sky filled with billowing white clouds. Signed and dated Wm. Hart 1888 lower left. Stencil en verso of board for "P. De Chaun & Co. Artists Colour New York". Giltwood scroll carved frame with flax colored linen liner. 10" x 8" sight, 16" x 14" framed. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography: Scottish born, second generation Hudson River School painter William Hart was known for bucolic, romantic landscapes with smooth and finely executed brush-work, often featuring cattle – a motif he began in the late 1880s when he was inspired by the Lower Keene Valley in northern New York state. Hart was the first president of the Brooklyn Academy of Design and also an instructor there. He was founder and three-term president of the American Watercolor Society, and his popular landscapes were exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design and the American Art Union. (sources: Askart; Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art; Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art; Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art). CONDITION: Canvas laid down on board, with a few spots of light craquelure. Blacklight reveals a few tiny scattered spots of infill painting in grass area; overall very good condition. Frame is later. [See more photos →]

Frederick Elliott Hart (District of Columbia/Virginia, 1943-1999) clear acrylic resin sculpture mounted on a lucite base titled "Spirita" from the Age of Light Collection. Limited Edition #127/350. 15" H x 14" W x 7" D. 20 lbs. American, 20th century. Provenance: Private East Tennessee Collection. Biography: 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. Original purchase receipt available for this item. (source: Askart). CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Sheraton sugar chest in the form of a desk, attributed to Kentucky, cherry primary, poplar secondary. Hinged slant top having breadboard ends, over three false cockbeaded drawers with small round brass "pulls" and diamond shaped inlaid escutcheon. Turned and tapered feet are extensions of stiles. Plain sides and back. 25 1/2" H x 31" W x 15 3/4" D. Circa 1830. Provenance:†The collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee.†† CONDITION: Refinished with sunbleached surface, lacking divider; shrinkage separations to sides and front of lower drawer, scattered wear, scratching and abrasions. Patch to upper left stile: 1" x 7/8". Two small patches to slant front: 1/4" sq ea. [See more photos →]

18th century Federal card or game table from the home of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, descended in the Marshall family. Mid-Atlantic or Southern origin; mahogany with pine secondary wood. Folding thumbnail molded serpentine top with projecting rounded corners; rear leg swings out to support top, revealing dovetailed backboard. Flame mahogany veneered skirt, stiles with dark wood band at intersection of skirt and top of front legs. Retains glue blocks to corners. Top recessed for felt or leather (now removed). 29" H x 35 7/8" W x 17 3/4" D center. Possibly Maryland or Virginia, circa 1790. Note: This is one of two matching game tables shown in the 1913 printed catalog featuring the John Marshall home and its furniture titled "John Marshall and His Home" by Mary Newton Stanard, shown in the photo of the Drawing Room, opposite page 18. The matching card table is additionally listed on a 1964 John Marshall House acquisition catalog sheet and a 1972 appraisal letter where the provenance is listed as Maryland, possibly the Annapolis shop of John Shaw (although that attribution has been questioned). Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of fourth U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835), a friend, attorney and biographer of George Washington. CONDITION: Split across center of top of table. Veneer losses at back corners. Interior surface missing lining. 9 1/2" L x 7/8" W patch at top left front stile of leg. [See more photos →]

Pablo Picasso ( Spanish, 1881-1973) Madoura Unglazed Terra Cotta Plate, “Visage En Gros Relief”. Numbered 18/100 en verso with impressed stamp “Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso” and ” T106.” 10 1/2″ diameter. Circa 1963. CONDITION: 3/4″ rim chip, two rim stains (largest 2 3/8″L.) [See more photos →]

Carved Italian giltwood pier table, rectangular form, having an elaborate Rococo carved apron with swag and shell decoration, squared tapered legs with rosette and bellflower carved decoration, all surmounted with a variegated rose marble top. Wooden frame underside supporting marble top stamped with the initials "CGB" within an oval. 36" H x 33 1/2" W x 14 1/2" D. 18th century. Provenance: The estate of John Donnelly, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Scattered breaks and losses to gilt and gesso throughout, most noticeably to apron. Losses to moulding return on top and base of left leg, also some vertical age cracks. Replaced wood bracing to the underside. Repaired break to one corner of the marble top. [See more photos →]

Panamint (Timbisha Shoshone) coiled basket, bottleneck form and wove from willow, Joshua tree root and devil’s claw root with repeating stair pattern to the sides and sun-burst pattern on the base. 4 3/8″ H x 6 3/4″ dia. Inyo County, California near the Nevada border, circa 1930-1940. Note: Basketmaker unattributed but in the tradition of Grandma Ness, Isobel Hanson and Mary Wrinkle. Provenance: The estate of Martha Goldsmith, Clarksville, TN. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Polychrome transfer decorated Liverpool creamware jug, with swag and tassel decoration along top, one side showing Boston Frigate flying American flag and with cannon, floral branch and other battle emblems. Other side depicting busy harbor scene and with battle rallying verse. Area below spout is decorated with initials "MW" framed by laurel wreath cartouche, with winged eagle emblem. 10 3/8" H x 9 1/2" W x 6 1/4" D overall. English, early 19th century. Private East Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Faint 3" L hairline to right of spout. 1/4" L loss along base. 1/2" L scratch on side of handle. [See more photos →]

Large Lucien Delarue (French, 1925-2011) oil on canvas landscape. Depicts a coastal town above a quiet harbor, surrounded by mountains. Signed lower right. Giltwood frame with rabbet edge. Sight – 34 1/4" H x 46 3/8" W, framed – 42" H x 53" W. Provenance: Private Nashville, TN collection. CONDITION: 3" line of crazing to upper right quadrant. Yellowing to varnish layer. 2" area of craquelure. [See more photos →]

Companion pair of Virginia profile portraits, pencil and charcoal on paper, unsigned but attributed to Charles Burton (1782-after 1847), depicting Dr. James H. Wheatley (1798-1842) and his wife Mildred Lewis Williams Wheatley (1800-1878), seated in fancy painted Sheraton style chairs and attired in circa 1820s clothing. Pencil inscriptions, early 20th century, en verso of each, noting the name of the sitter, birth & death dates and marriage dates, as well as the recipient of the drawings, Mary Mildred Williams, from Mary Lewis Williams Wheatley's grandson, James Bowen Wheatly. Housed in the original ebonized wooden frames. Old wood backing has been removed but retained. Inscription geneaology labels retained and fixed to the back with conservation plexi-glass. Male portrait: Sight – 5 3/8" H x 4 1/2" W. Framed – 8 1/8" H x 7 1/4" W. Female portrait: Sight – 5 1/4" H x 4 3/8" W. Framed – 8" H x 7 1/8" W. Note: Dr. Wheatley (birth date uncertain, d. circa 1849) was the son of James and Mary (Martin) Wheatley and brother of Albert G. Wheatley of Culpepper County, VA. In 1824, he married Mildred Lewis Williams (1800-1878) in Lynchburg, VA. They had two children, James Howell Wheatley and James Bowen Wheatley. The couple likely moved to Middle Tennessee: 1836 Montgomery County, TN tax records list a James Wheatley, and after her husband's death around 1849, Mildred Wheatley was listed living in Clarksville, TN. Death records also list a Mildred L. Wheatly death in 1878 in Brooklyn, NY. Most of these dates correspond with the pencil inscriptions en verso. (sources: the genealogical book "Lewis from Warner Hall: The History of A Family" by Sorely; Ancestry.com Marriage, Tax and Death records). Note: Although these portraits bear some similarities to a growing body of identified works by Virginia portrait artist Silon Henkel, the biographical dates of the Wheatleys point to a Burton attribution. A similar pair of Burton-attributed portraits was sold by Case Antiques in 2015: https://caseantiques.com/item/lot-198-pair-va-charcoal-profile-portraits-attrib-charle/. Biography: London-born Charles Burton (1782-after 1847) received some training at the Royal Academy before immigrating to New York around 1817. Once in America, he abandoned oils for graphite and watercolor, and began traveling to find work between New York and Virginia. His works, which are rarely signed, are typically skilled, detailed, and finely shadowed, with the subject nearly always depicted in a "Fancy" painted chair. Burton's portraits are in several museum collections including The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center at Colonial Williamsburg. (source: the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts). CONDITION: Overall toning to paper on each portrait. Light scattered foxing to both, mostly to the right of the male figure, right margin. Slight losses to paper, right margin, of male figure, rubbing to right shoulder area of male figure. Abrasions and paint loss to frames. [See more photos →]

Old Master, European, possibly Italian, oil on canvas mythological scene depicting the introduction of Aphrodite to the Olympian gods and goddesess and their attendants. Aphrodite, in the center, is having a wreath placed on her head by the Horae (Hours, Seasons), with Hera to her left and with Zeus at the right, with her future husband Hephaestus and her lover Ares, flanking the scene. Signature not found. Old red wax seal verso. Housed in an older gilt paneled frame. Sight – 28" H x 13 1/2" W. Framed – 22 1/2" H x 37" W. 18th century or earlier. Provenance: Private Tullahoma, TN collection. CONDITION: Heavy varnish on canvas surface and some areas of possible attempts at cleaning. [See more photos →]

J. S. MacDonald, Baltimore, sterling silver flatware set, two repousse patterns, 93 pieces in same pattern consisting of 13 dinner knives (9 1/2" L), 11 luncheon knives (8" L), 12 dinner forks (7 5/8" L), 12 luncheon forks (7" L), 12 tablespoons (8" L), 9 spoons (7 1/8" L), 12 ice cream forks with gilt bowls, 10 teaspoons plus 2 solid sterling curved handles in same pattern. Group also includes 10 flat butter spreaders and 2 teaspoons from similar but different repousse pattern. 105 pieces total, 143.65 total weighable oz troy. All items come in J. S. MacDonald, Baltimore gilt stamped fitted oak case with hinged lid and single drawer (7 1/2" H x 19 3/8" W x 16 1/4" D). All sterling monogrammed. Early 20th century, CONDITION: All sterling in good condition with some signs of wear due to use. All items with same monogram. Fitted case with one loose hinge. [See more photos →]

Randy Miller Native American/Cherokee turquoise inlaid lidded pottery jar, tall ovoid form. Signed on the base “RANDY”. 12″ H x 9″ DIA. 20th Century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Frank DiVita (Italy, born 1949) cold painted bronze sculpture titled "Summer Lilies", depicting a blooming triad of pink lilies, a pair of feeding hummingbirds and a butterfly, all on a naturalistic rock base. Signed and numbered 81/125 on the back of the rocky base. Sculpture mounted onto white marble and wooden base. Sculpture – 16 3/4" H x 9 1/2" W x 7" D. Overall – 18 1/2" H x 12 1/2" W x 11" D. 15 lbs. Provenance: Private La Follette, TN collection. Biography: "Frank DiVita is known for wildlife sculpture and text book illustration". (source: AskArt). CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Kentucky schoolgirl needlework sampler with verse, signed by Mary Ellen Ellis (Hadley, Warren County, b. 1854) and dated 1865, rendered primarily in red and green wool/cotton on linen. Depicts an upper and lower case alphabet over a large red house flanked by a ship and flowering plants, over a verse and signature "I am the Lily of the Valley / Mary Ellen Ellis Age 11 1865. Charity". Framed under glass in a wide walnut frame. 11 3/4" x 10 1/8" sight, 19 1/2" x 18" framed. Note: Mary Ellen Ellis was the daughter of William Lewis Ellis and Nancy W. Stratton. Mary Ellen married James Warren Stratton in Robertson County, Tennessee on Dec. 21, 1869, at the age of fifteen (four years after completing this sampler). The couple moved to Adairville, KY and had three children. She died in 1936 and is buried in the Adairville City Cemetery. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition with a few miniscule spots of thread loss to red thread, few spots of light ground discoloration. Not examined out of frame. [See more photos →]

Stanley Quentin Johnson (American/Utah, b. 1939) large bronze sculpture titled "Ponca Eagle Boy" depicting a young brave on horseback holding an eagle with outstreached wings in his right hand, mounted on a marble base. Signed, dated 1988 and numbered #50 on the base. 57 1/2" H x 33" W x 28" D. American, 20th century. Provenance: Private East Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

18K yellow gold Leopold Huguenin Locle hunting case watch with 1/4 second foudroyante, Switzerland, third quarter 19th century, engine turned cover with coin-edge band, two-piece construction, white enamel dial, split second chrono function by pusher at 12. Marked inside case “Warranted 18 carat fine 12990”. Dust cover inscribed “John Young from Friends and Employees of the Allegheny Heating Co. as a token of Respect, March 18, 1886”. 2 1/4″ W, 174.1 grams including works. CONDITION: Watch running at time of inspection. Approx. 2 faint small dents to cover. Scratches on bezel of glass face on watch mechanism. [See more photos →]

East TN pieced and appliqued quilt, North Carolina Lily pattern variant with red and cheddar yellow flowers on green stems with green binding and cream backing. 81 3/4" H x 63 1/2" W. 19th century. CONDITION: Minor staining lower right front corner. A couple of minor areas of staining on reverse. [See more photos →]

George Ayers Cress (Alabama/Tennessee, 1921-2008) large oil on canvas abstract painting rendered in shades of red, purple, orange, yellow, and blue. Signed and dated "George Cress 1966" lower right. Housed in a wormy chestnut frame. Sight – 51 1/2" H x 41 1/2" W. Framed – 49 3/4" H x 39 3/4" W. Biography (from the Tennessee Historical Quarterly Vol. XLIV No. 2: "Landscape and Genre Painting in Tennessee 1810-1985"): "George Cress was born in Anniston, Alabama and studied at Emory University, American University, and the University of Georgia, where he studied under fellow Southern contemporary artist Lamar Dodd. He was a central figure in Chattanooga's arts community and served as President of the Tennessee Arts Council and sat on the board of the Hunter Museum of Art. From 1951-1984 he was painter in residence at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga; the Cress Gallery of Art at UTC is named in his honor". CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of paint exfoliation, largest 3/4", surface of canvas. Overall craquelure. Stretcher marks visible to center and perimeter of canvas. Cracks, largest 3", to frame. [See more photos →]

American Federal dimunitive inlaid camel back mahogany sofa, comprised of an arched back, slightly scrolled arms, and serpentine seat, with four front straight inlaid legs ornamented with bellflower and line inlay, and four plain curved feet to the back. Front and back legs connected by flat stretchers, feet with brass castors. Gold striped damask upholstery. 37 1/2" H x 75" W x 26" D. Circa 1790. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: Sofa frame structurally sound with later added casters and metal bracket supports for underside of joints. Internal frame with newer support replacements. Stains, fading and extensive wear to fabric. [See more photos →]

The New American Practical Navigator, First Edition, by Nathaniel Bowditch, 1802. Printed by Edmund M. Blunt, Newburyport, MA, for John West, Boston, MA. Octavo, 589 pages with copper plate illustrations including "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean" frontispiece folding map, errata pages and Catalogue of Blunt's publications, hardbound with brown leather covers and gilt lettering to spine. 9 1/4" H x 5 5/8" W x 2 1/8" D. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835; U.S. Chief Justice (1801-1835)and Secretary of State (1800-1801)). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of General Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Covers in worn condition with areas of loss, largest 6 3/4" x 1", to leather to covers and spine, corners bumped. Back cover separated from spine, front cover almost separated from spine. Folding map backed with old pieces of paper. Foxing spots, areas of dampstaining to pages. Ink inscription from previous owner, top right of title page. [See more photos →]

Transfer decorated polychrome Liverpool creamware jug, on one side showing portrait of George Washington supported by two maidens with banner above reading "Deafnefs to the Ear that will patiently hear and Dumbnefs to the Tongue that will utter the calumny against the IMMORTAL WASHINGTON, My Favorite Son, Long live the President of the United States". Opposite side with ship flying the American flag and heraldic eagle under the spout with remnants of gilded letters, possibly "JH". 8 1/4" H x 8 1/4" W x 5 1/2" D overall. Late 18th century. Together with wooden framed display plaque from 1937 loan to New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, MA. reading: "Liverpool Pitcher…Belonged to Jethro Hillman. He and His Brother Zachariah built the ship Charles W. Morgan. Lent by Mrs. Fred Hillman". 1 1/4" H x 7 1/2" x 3". Provenance: Once belonging to John Hillman. He and his brother Zachariah built the last large wooden whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan, built in 1841 and now on exhibit at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT. The ship is the oldest surviving merchant vessel and the only surviving wooden whaling ship from the 19th century American merchant ship. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. This jug was displayed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in 1937 and a record of it is documented in the museum's display ledger. For additional reading, see Schroer, Blanche Higgins; Bradford, S. Sydney, "The Charles W. Morgan", National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination, National Park Service, December 11, 1974, and "Accompanying 4 photos, from 1974 and undated", National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination, National Park Service, December 11, 1974. Private East Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Restoration to spout. Wear to side of handle. Losses to gilt decoration. [See more photos →]

2 Bohemian Cut and Enameled Art Glass Moser style Decanters, including one ruby glass decanter and one green glass decanter. Both with triple rings at necks, polychrome enamel floral and scroll decoration, gilt highlights to cut crosshatch and feather designs, and tall faceted spire shaped stoppers/ lids with cut and enameled decoration and gilding. Both have numbers painted on the bottom (3. for green, 2. for red, 10. for red stopper). Ruby decanter – 19 7/8" H. Green decanter – 19 3/4"H. Bohemian, possibly Moser, late 19th to early 20th century. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Both with some minor to moderate wear to gilding, particularly on top edge of ruby decanter and on both lids. Both decanters are free of chips and cracks but do have some chipping to bottoms of stoppers. Green lid also has about a half dozen chips and flakes to underside of knop, largest is a 1" shallow flake. Red lid is in good condition aside from minor chipping to bottom of stopper. [See more photos →]

Large Mid- Atlantic or Southern maple and poplar painted harvest table, having a scrubbed top with breadboard ends and tapered legs with red stain/wash base. 28 1/2" H x 104 1/2"L x 26" D. 21" skirt height, 3-3/4" overhang at sides and 9-1/4" overhang at ends. 3rd quarter 19th century. Provenance: Collection of Wilma and Jack Murray, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Overall general use wear and stains to the top. [See more photos →]

Andrew Wyeth (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania/Maine, 1917-2009) limited edition offset lithograph titled "Jupiter" depicting a nighttime tree lined shore scene with the planet Jupiter visible in the sky. Pencil signed "Andrew Wyeth" lower right and numbered 158/300 lower left. Housed in a giltwood frame with conservation glass. Sight – 35 1/4" H x 35" W. Framed – 48 3/4" H x 47 1/4" W. Provenance: Private Chattanooga, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Andrew Wyeth (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania/Maine, 1917-2009) limited edition collotype titled "Snow Hill" depicting figures dancing around a Maypole with Kuerner Farm and railroad tracks in the background. Pencil signed "Andrew Wyeth" lower right and numbered lower left "47/300". Housed in a giltwood frame with conservation glass. Sight – 27 1/2" H x 41" W. Framed – 41" H x 54 1/4" W. Provenance: Private Chattanooga, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Pennsylvania Federal desk and bookcase or secretary, possibly Lancaster County, cherry with pine secondary. Bookcase section with slender swan's neck pediment, turned rosettes, and carved urn finial, placed on a plinth over a carved reeded figured maple ornament. Horizontal inlaid banding at base of pediment and case. Case with two blind paneled doors, each having line inlay with curved corners. Inlaid kite shaped escutcheon. Interior with three graduated long shelves and two vertical dividers to lower shelf. Lower desk section has line inlaid fall front writing section with fitted interior in three sections, left and right sections of four graduated drawers, center sections with two drawers over four shaped pigeonhole compartments. Case with beveled lamb's tongue front corners, four graduated scratch beaded and dovetailed line inlaid drawers, older but replaced brasses. Band of similar dark and light band of inlay above shaped skirt over four French splayed feet. Receipt attributes secretary to Lancaster County, PA. 98" H x 41 3/4" W desk base x 18 3/4" D desk base. Circa 1800. CONDITION: Older refinish. Age cracks on slant front, sides and skirt. Drag wear on drawer runners. Back of desk section reinforced. Brasses older replacements. Original front lobed skirt but foot facings and blocks appear to be older replacements. [See more photos →]

Manner of Janvier Suchodolski (Polish, 1797-1875) oil on canvas military painting depicting a scene from the November Uprising (1830-31), also known as the Polish-Russian War 1830-31 or the Cadet Revolution. An Imperial Russian Army officer on horseback is depicted holding a spear against a charging line of Polish soldiers, while another Russian soldier lies dead beneath the horse. Stencil to back for Paris art supplier Ange Ottoz. Later molded giltwood frame. 20 1/2" x 31"sight, 26" x 37" framed. Provenance: Private Southern collection of Military Art. CONDITION: Good condition with some general craquelure overall. 3/4" diameter impact crackle to upper right quadrant above the head of a soldier. 2 areas of overpainting: 2"L. in sky and right corner 1/4"L. A few scattered miniscule paint flakes (1/16" or smaller). [See more photos →]

NOVA VIRGINIAE TABULA by Hondius, Amsterdam, copper-engraved map of Virginia based on the 1612 Virginia map by John Smith, engraved on laid paper. Framed with double sided glass showing English text en verso, "Description of Virginia". According to Philip D. Burden, "The Mapping of America," the notation 9.Q on the bottom of the page of English text identifies this as an edition printed between 1636 and 1641. Map shows the region surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, with depiction at upper left of an Indian dwelling when Captain John Smith was a prisoner there. At right is a large vignette of a native American Indian holding a bow and facing the Chesapeake Bay. The legend notes the king's house, ordinary houses, and the English settlement. The names of various Indian tribes in the area are noted (Powatan was the king of a confederation of Algonquin tribes). 15" x 19 1/2", 15 3/4" x 19 5/8" sight, 18 1/2" x 22 1/2". framed. CONDITION: Significant but even toning and fading, old tape repair to center (visible en verso) with 1/2" loss at lower center fold and a few other small separations at fold line; some light scattered foxing. Full crease across lower quarter, about 2" from bottom. [See more photos →]

Regina double-comb music box having mahogany case with columns and inlay, resting on bun feet, works stamped #55794. Inner lid with paper label having Greek female surrounded by cherub decoration, marked lower right "Copyright 1896 by the Regina Music Box Co." and retailer tag reading "C. J. Heppe & Son Philadelphia". Includes crank and one 15" wide disc titled "When You Were Sweet Sixteen". 11" H x 21" W x 18 1/2" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. Note: For more information on Maddox's musical background, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAMo1EEIcrk . CONDITION: Case overall good condition, with light general wear, some sctatches to top. Mechanism fully functional. [See more photos →]

Model 1873 Winchester rifle (3rd Model), .44 WCF (Winchester Center Fire) Cartridge. Serial number 570785B. Barrel marked, "WINCHESTER'S REPEATING ARMS NEW HAVEN CONN. U.S.A. KING'S IMPROVEMENT PATENTED MARCH 29. 1866. OCTOBER 16. 1860. 44 W.C.F.". Tang marked, "Model 1873". Loading block marked, "44 CAL". Walnut stocks, metal frame, round barrel. Standard sights, including high finish fire blue rear sight. Barrel length – 30". Overall length – 48 1/2". Serial number corresponds to year 1903. Note: Firearms made after 1898 require passing an FFL background check prior to transfer. Please be prepared with proper identification. CONDITION: Overall good condition with storage dings to oil finish stocks. Scratches and abraded spots on ejector area of receiver. Areas of original blue still present. Surface scratches, largest 1/2" x 1", to frame. Five piece cleaning rod stored in butt. Action is good. [See more photos →]

Navajo rug, Crystal Storm pattern rug, 115″ x 66″, woven in colors of red, gold, ivory, beige and brown, center geometric design with whirling logs at corners and border of water beetles. 9’5″ x 5’5″. Second quarter of the 20th century. Provenance: Private Oak Ridge, TN estate. CONDITION: Recently professionally cleaned. Minor fraying on one side, 2″ L. [See more photos →]

Confederate States Army hand drawn ink on paper artillery position map of the defensive line arranged by Brigadier General Philip St. George Cocke prior to The First Battle of Bull Run. Also known as the First Battle of Manassas, the battle was the first major engagement between Union and Confederate forces, fought in Prince William County, Virginia on July 21, 1861. The map details the positions of leading officers of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Shenandoah, (prior to their integration into Army of Northern Virginia on March 14, 1862), including Brigadier General Philip St. George Cocke, Major James B. Walton, Captain Robert M. Stribling, Captain John A. Coke (erroneously listed as "Cocke"), Captain Willis J. Dance, Captain John B. Brockenbrough, Captain Allen S. Cutts, Captain Thomas J. Kirkpatrick, First Lieutenant Alexander M. Hamilton (listed as a Captain), Lieutenant Robert F. Beckham (listed as a Captain), and Captain Coleman. The officers are identified on the map key by alphabetical letters A-N, each letter corresponding to a position with an illustrated diagram and list of artillery equipment, for example "C Genl Cocke Battery", top right of map. Each position is situated around Centreville in Fairfax County, Virginia, identified by a cluster of small buildings and trees delineating the town. Centreville is depicted at the center of the Leesburg Road, Old Road by Mill, Fairfax Turnpike, Braddocks Road, Manassas Road, and Warrenton Pike, each identified on the map. Pencil inscription reading "I send this […] you might like to have it Respect Mary A Coleman" the wife of Lewis Minor Coleman, lower left of map. 12 1/2" H x 15 3/4" W. Note: Philip St. George Cocke (1809-1861) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the first year of the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the defense of Virginia along the Potomac River soon after the state's secession from the Union. On April 21, 1861, Cocke was appointed as a brigadier general in the service of the Commonwealth of Virginia by Governor John Letcher. He was assigned command of all state forces along the Potomac River. Three days later, from his headquarters at Alexandria, Virginia, he reported to newly commissioned Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee (assigned on April 22 to the command of all Virginia forces) that he had only 300 men to defend against what he thought was 10,000 Union troops across the river in Washington, D.C. Cocke made his headquarters at Culpeper, Virginia, on April 27, in order to better oversee the entire line of the Potomac as well as the mustering of volunteer troops in a large part of the state. Alexandria was evacuated by Lt. Col. A. S. Taylor on May 5, despite Cocke's orders "not to abandon it without fighting, even against overwhelming numbers". Under Robert E. Lee's orders, Cocke organized a new defensive line at Manassas. Cocke may have been the first to formulate the Confederate defensive strategy of concentrating forces at Manassas and at Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley, and using the Manassas Gap Railroad to allow them to be mutually supporting. This strategy would be a decisive factor in the Confederate victory in the First Battle of Bull Run. When Virginia's state forces were consolidated with the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, Cocke was given the rank of colonel in the new CSA forces. Because of this effective demotion, Cocke was superseded in command at Manassas on May 21 by Brig. Gen. Milledge L. Bonham and took command of the 19th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Cocke was eventually assigned to the army of P. G. T. Beauregard in command of the 5th Brigade, consisting of the 8th, 18th, 19th, 28th, and 49th Virginia Infantry regiments. His brigade was initially assigned to Centreville, but in the face of advancing Union forces, withdrew behind Bull Run on July 17. On July 20 Cocke was stationed at Ball's Ford on Bull Run. In the subsequent First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, Cocke was assigned to advance against Centreville, a plan abandoned when the Federals began their flanking movement against the Confederate left. While Col. Nathan George Evans, reinforced by Brig. Gen. Barnard Bee and Col. Francis S. Bartow, opposed the enemy, Cocke's forces defended against attack in the vicinity of the Stone Bridge, with his headquarters at the Lewis house. At 2 p.m., about an hour before the arrival of Elzey, he led his brigade into action on the left with "alacrity and effect." He was promoted to brigadier general in the Confederate Army on October 21 and given command of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division of the Confederate Army of the Potomac. First Bull Run was Cocke's last battle. After eight months' service, during which he was promoted to brigadier general in the provisional Confederate army, he returned home, "shattered in body and mind". Exhausted from the strain, and despondent over perceived slights from General Beauregard stemming from the Battle of Manassas, Cocke shot himself in the head on December 26, 1861, at his mansion, "Belmead", in Powhatan County, Virginia. For additional reading, see Davis, William C., "Philip St. George Cocke", The Confederate General, Vol. 2, Davis, William C., and Julie Hoffman (eds.), National Historical Society, 1991, Davis, William C. "Battle At Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War". Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1995, Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., "Civil War High Commands", Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, and Evans, Clement, "Philip St. George Cocke". Confederate Military History, Volume III. Atlanta, GA: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899. CONDITION: Overall good condition with brown stains, largest 2", and tears, largest 1", to be expected from age and manner of use. Areas of toning along center fold line and 6 1/2" x 8" area, lower left quadrant of map. Ink writing in strong, clear condition. Pencil inscription faded but still legible. [See more photos →]

Four (4) books from the library of U.S. Chief Justice and Secretary of State John Marshall, including three signed by him (one also signed by his son). 1st-2nd items: Two John Marshall (1755-1835) signed books, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Vols. I and II ( Part II), by Edward Earl of Clarendon, 1705. Printed at the Theater, Oxford. Octavo, Vol. I – 706 pages, Vol. II – 753 pages, both with copper plate engraved frontispieces of Claredon, covers no longer present, gilt lettering to leather spines with five raised hubs. Each with John Marshall signatures in ink, center of title pages. 8 1/4" H x 5 3/8" W x 7/8" D to 1 1/4" D. 3rd-4th items: Letters Written by The Late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., Vols. I & III, circa 1775, 6th Edition, Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, printed for J. Dodsley, London. Octavo, Vol. I – 336 pages, covers no longer present, gilt lettering to leather spine. One (1) ink John Marshall signature and one (1) ink James K. Marshall signature to title page, with additional inscription reading "Leeds July 3rd 1832". Vol. III – 376 pages, hardbound with brown leather back cover, front cover is no longer present, gilt lettering to leather spine (no signatures). 8 5/8" H x 5 7/8" W x 1 1/4" D. Note: All of these books are listed in an inventory list complied by Charles Boyd Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, in response to a request that Mr. W. Melville Jones, Executive Director of the Marshall-Wythe-Blackstone Ceremonies issued to the descendants of John Marshall regarding a complete compilation of Marshall's papers, books, pictures, etc. in celebration of the beginning of the John Marshall Bicentennial Year, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Saturday, September 25, 1954. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). John Marshall was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall good condition. John Marshall signatures in good, slightly faint condition (especially Vol. II). Covers are no longer present. Areas of loss, largest 1 3/4" x 1 1/4", to leather on spines. Vol. I front end papers in fragmentary condition, end papers and back pages are missing. Areas of dampstaining to front and back end papers of Vol. II. Foxing spots, toning, areas of dampstaining to pages. 3rd-4th items: Overall good condition. John Marshall signatures in good condition, James Marshall signature in good condition (slightly affected by 1 3/4" x 1 7/8" area of dampstaining to title page). Covers are no longer present, except for back cover of Vol. III. Areas of loss, largest 1/4" x 1 1/4", to leather on spines. Pages 323-336 of Vol. I are separated from binding. 3 1/8" x 4 1/8" area of loss, top right of title page where possible John Marshall signature might have been. Foxing spots, toning, areas of dampstaining to pages. [See more photos →]

Helen LaFrance (Kentucky, b. 1919) oil on canvas painting summer farm scene depicting a small frame home with figure on the porch and outbuildings, pasture, trees and animals background, a garden with figure and quilts on clothes line foreground. Signed lower right. Housed in a contemporary gilt wood frame. Sight – 19 1/8″ H x 25 3/8″ W. Framed – 27″ H x 33″ W. Provenance: Private Kentucky Collection. Biography: 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. (source: “Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories” by Kathy Moses). Alternate spelling: Helen La France. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

David Gray (American, 20th/21st Century) oil on canvas painting titled "Apple" depicting a young girl in a white dress and veil and holding an apple. Signed with "G" monogram, top left corner. Scottsdale Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ gallery label with artist name, title, and additional information, en verso. Housed in a black wooden frame with gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight – 19 5/8" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed – 26" H x 22" W. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Two areas of loss, largest 1/4", right edge of frame. [See more photos →]

Oil on canvas portrait after Jean Perreal (France, b. c. 1460-d. 1530) depicting the half portrait of early Renaissance young lady with reddish-brown hair in formal dress and head wear, holding a gilt leather bound case. Unsigned. Sight – 30 7/8" H x 22 7/8" W. Partial gilt frame with velvet liner – 39 3/4" H x 31 3/4" W. Continental, 18th century or earlier. Provenance: Private Knoxville, Tennessee collection. Note: Jean Perreal was an early Renaissance artist and architect, sculptor, and limner of illuminated manuscripts. He was active mostly in France, Italy and London. CONDITION: Overall good condition with light craquelure and some thinning of paint in lower margin. [See more photos →]

Thornton Dial (Alabama, 1928-2016) folk art portrait watercolor on paper depicting a nude female with dark hair, bright red face and fingernails. Signed upper right corner "TD". Housed in a faux burl painted wood frame. Sight – 13 5/8" H x 9 5/8" W. Framed – 21 1/2" H x 17 3/8" W. Provenance: Private Nashville, TN collection. Biography: Thornton Dial Sr. was born into poverty in a rural town in West Alabama. Sometimes known as "Buck" Dial, he became a "jack-of-all-trades", doing mainly iron work and cement work to support himself and his family, while creating assemblages on the side from castoff materials. Fellow self taught artist, Lonnie Holley, brought Dial's work to the attention of art world in 1987 by introducing him to collector Bill Arnett. Arnett championed Dial's works and facilitated his involvement in museum shows, where his two and three-dimensional works began drawing comparisons to Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the fall of 2005, the Houston Fine Arts Museum hosted a show, "Thornton Dial in the 21st Century". His works have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and most recently the de Young Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Ten of Mr. Dial's works were acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2014. (source: The New York Times obituary, Jan. 26, 2016). CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

William Henry Pike (United Kingdom, 1846-1908), "Bandits," oil on canvas painting depicting uniformed soldiers leading two prisoners past a group of men at the left standing under a wooden structure; a leafless tree and birds contrast against a sunset sky and a church steeple is in left background. Signed "Pike" lower left and dated '89 with the word "Langham" (likely referring to Langham, England). P Shea Artists Colorman, London stencil en verso, along with early paper label reading "No. 5 Bandits Wm Pike C of Plym. (or Phym)- 66 Park Rd. Haverstock Hill.." . Matted and framed under glass in a giltwood frame with molded laurel leaves. 15 1/2" H x 11-1/2" W sight, 25" H x 21" W framed. Provenance: Private Southern collection of Military Art. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

One Ladies Art Deco platinum diamond ring, approximately 1.42 ct total diamond weight, containing one (1) bezel-set European cut diamond measuring 6.7-6.6 x 4.08mm, VS2/L and weighing approximately 1.10 ct. and two (2) round diamonds measuring 1.9mm, I1/IJ and weighing approx. .06 ct. t.w. and twenty-two (22) round diamonds measuring 1.5-1.3mm, I1/IJ and weighing approx. .26 ct.t.w. The diamonds are set in a platinum square step down mounting, 15mm x 18mm face. Ring size: 7. 5.2 grams. Provenance: Estate of Martha Lyman, Dayton, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some surface grime on mounting. [See more photos →]

Follower of Sir Peter (Pieter) Lely (1618-1680) oil on canvas portrait of woman, possibly the famous actress and mistress of King Charles II, Nell Gwynn (1650-1687), with swept back brown hair, wearing low white ruffle-collared blue dress, wrapped in pink shawl. Unsigned. Framed in older gilt gessoed frame with acanthus leaf decoration. Sight 13" H x 11" W, framed 16 1/2" H x 14 1/4" W. Inscription on stretcher, verso, reads "By Sir Peter Lely the original sketch … from the original stretcher … broken". Note found with painting reads: "Nell Gwynn. The original sketch by Sir Peter Lely of the famous flower girl of Drury Lane Theatre, from the collection of the late Sir George Cohen of Portman Square London. New stretcher & relined in the original hand carved frame." English, likely 18th century. Provenance: A private Southern collection; inherited from a family member who lived in New York City. CONDITION: Relined; new stretcher. Inpainting to hair, upper left faciing, and to shoulder, right facing. Frame with scattered losses to gilding. [See more photos →]

Handwritten copy of "Monody on Major Andre" by Miss Anna Seward, 1781. Octavo, self wrapper, stitched, 14 double-sided pages. Pamphlet contains the entire poem dedicated to the life and execution of John Andre, along with three other poems titled "Absence", "Song", "To a Candle Elegy", and "A Critical Moment". Also includes footnotes explaining certain allusions in the poem, including the phrase Victor Garland intended to reference the victory of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, at the Battle of Camden, August 16, 1780. 7 3/8" H x 4 3/4" W. Note: John Andre (1750-1780) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British. He was briefly engaged to Honora Sneyd, a close friend of the English Romantic poetess Anna Seward (1742-1809). CONDITION: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of light dampstaining, to be expected from age. Original stitching partially intact, 7/8" area missing to top section, middle section loose. [See more photos →]

1st item: Chinese carved pale celadon jade double belt buckle, pierced with knot design, chilong dragon hook. 2" H x 4 5/8" W. 2nd item: Chinese carved pale celadon jade double belt buckle, pierced design with bats and scrolling flowers, chilong dragon hook. 1 1/4" H x 4" W. Both late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private West Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Both excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Harry (Henry) Chase (American, 1853-1889) oil on canvas painting depicting sailing vessels near the shoreline with figures in the surf. Signed lower right "H. Chase". Closson Art Galleries/Cincinatti label en verso. Housed in a carved gilt frame. Sight – 7 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Framed – 11 3/4" H x 15 5/8" W. Last half 19th century. Provenance: Private Chattanooga, TN collection. CONDITION: Very light overall craquelure. Slight rubbing of canvas to stretcher. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee pieced and appliqued cotton quilt, New York Beauty variant, turkey red, green and yellow colors with a floral vine and compass border. Very fine stitching including feathered wreath. 84 1/4" H x 46 1/2" H. 3rd or 4th quarter of 19th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. A few areas of light staining, visible en verso. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Chattanooga, TN United Confederate Veterans items. 1st item: Blank N. B. Forrest Camp No. 3 Confederate Veterans, Chattanooga, TN certification document. Lithographed by August Gast Bank Note & Lithography Company, St. Louis and New York. The document is intended to certify that an individual entered the military service of the Confederate States of America and has been elected a member of the N. B. Forrest Camp No. 3. Features an equestrian scene of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his cavalry, a smaller portrait of Bedford in a horseshoe with a draped sword, with four images including the Confederate capitol building at Richmond, VA, all surrounded by a patriotic border depicting the portraits of Civil War Generals including Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, and others. 18 3/4" H x 15" W. 2nd item: Chattanooga, TN UCV reunion printed felt pennant, 1913. Features the Confederate battle flag with "50th Anniversary 1863-1913" above and below, and "Chattanooga" in yellow lettering. Tag with manufacturer's marks for the Reproduction Company, New York, attached en verso. 10 3/4" H x 25 1/2" W. 3rd item: Louisville, KY UCV reunion badge, June 14, 1905. Consists of a metal hanger with "Forrest Camp No. 4 Chattanooga, Tenn." with two silk ribbons, one red with a silk covered button with "U. C. V." in a laurel wreath and one off white ribbon. Manufacturer's marks for the Whitehead and Hoag Company, Newark, NJ, back of hanger and button. 5 3/8" H x 2 1/2" W. 4th item: N. B. Forrest Camp Confederate Veterans, Chattanooga, TN postcard advertising a meeting for October 4, 1904 to discuss the preparations for the autumn memorial for the members who died during the past year. Facsimile signature for Lawrence Thompson Dickinson, Adjutant, lower right. Pencil inscription of name of recipient of postcard, Colonel Tomlinson Fort, with postmark dated September 29, 1904, Chattanooga, TN, en verso. 3 3/8" H x 5 5/8" W. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with areas of dampstaining, largest 10 1/2" x 9 1/2", scuffs, to surface of document. Tears, largest 1", to edges of document. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Few pinprick holes, edges of pennant. 3rd item: Overall good condition with stains, fraying, etc. to be expected from age. 4th item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, bends, areas of dampstaining, to be expected from age and manner of use. [See more photos →]

Antique Bidjov rug, Northeast Caucasus, 61-1/2" x 48-1/2", wool on wool, dark blue ground, ivory primary border, secondary colors of blues, rust, salmon, gold and green. Late 19th/early 20th c. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from Ro's Oriental Rugs, Nashville, TN in 1994. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some corduroy and crease wear. Some corrosion to black wool. Ends secured. Sides rebound. Some abrash. 1-1/2" x 1/2" repair located 10 inches from one edge in blue ground. [See more photos →]

2 articles of Presidential correspondence between Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren and their mutual friend, Judge John Overton of Nashville, co-founder of Memphis and owner of Traveller's Rest Plantation. 1st item: Framed Andrew Jackson Free Frank – envelope addressed in the hand of Andrew Jackson to "The Hon'ble John Overton Near Nashville Tennessee", and dated Sept. 10th 1831 with additional red Washington postmark and Free stamp. (Jackson was President of the United States from 1829-1837. During his terms in office, he was able to send letters "free of frank" – without affixing stamps or postage). Float mounted on a buff mat and framed under glass along with a CDV of Jackson after the photograph by Matthew Brady taken in 1845. Envelope – 11" x 9". Framed – 17 1/2" x 12 1/2". 2nd item: Martin Van Buren ALS , short letter to Judge John Overton, dated April 23, 1830: "My dear Sir, If you can consistently with your arrangements and personal comport do me the favour to dine with me on Wednesday next at five o' clock I shall be __ gratified. Be so good as to let me know in the morning that I may be enabled to secure the company of a few of your friends. Very truly your friend, M. Van Buren". 8" x 5". Note: Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was the United States of America's eighth President from 1837-1841. He and John Overton (1766-1833) were both friends and advisors to President Andrew Jackson. Van Buren was U.S. Secretary of State when this note was penned. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and music historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Envelope partially glued to backing. Tear and 1" loss near black seal at lower edge, overall discoloration and light staining. CDV has "Jackson" written in pencil underneath. 2nd item: Toned, separations at fold lines, couple small spots of foxing. Crease, dampstaining and 3/4" loss at lower right corner, affecting the "J" in "Judge Overton" . [See more photos →]

Middle Tennessee vernacular walnut slab or huntboard, poplar secondary. Slight overhanging retangular top over two large dovetailed drawers with large wooden knobs, over tall tapering legs terminating in ball feet. 36 3/4" H x 44 1/4" W x 19 7/8" D. 2nd quarter of the 19th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Older surface. Minor abrasions and a few stains to top. Back edge of top with an old triangular splice with width less than 1/4". [See more photos →]

Five hundred and sixty-two (562) chromolithographic Allen and Ginter, Richmond, Virginia, trade cards. 1st-50th item: Fifty (50) "Great Generals" trade cards. Lithographed by George Harris and Sons, Philadelphia, 1888. The front of each card is titled with portraits of the generals before scenic vignettes. The back of each card provides a list of the generals included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Trade cards approximately 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W. 51st-99th items: Forty-eight (48) "Birds of the Tropics" trade cards and book, 49 items total. Lithographed by George Harris and Sons, Philadelphia, 1889. The front of each card is titled with scenic images of the birds in their natural habitats. The back of each card provides a list of the birds included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Includes "Birds of the Tropics" book, published by Allen and Ginter, Richmond, VA. Softcover with yellow cord stitching, contains reproductions of each trade card with decorative vignettes and advertisements, inside of front and back cover. Trade cards approximately 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W. Book – 6 1/8" H x 9 1/8" W x 1/8" D. 100th-148th items: Forty-nine (49) "World's Smokers" trade cards. The front of each card is titled with a portrait of the identified smoker. The back of each card provides a list of the smokers included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Trade cards approximately 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W. 149th-196th items: Forty-eight (48) "50 Fish from American Waters" trade cards. Lithographed by Lindner, Eddy, and Clauss, New York, 1889. The front of each card is titled with scenic images of the fish in their natural habitats. The back of each card provides a list of the fish included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Trade cards approximately 1 5/8" H x 2 7/8" W. 197th-241st items: Forty-four (44) "Game Birds" trade cards, plus book, 45 items total. Lithographed by George Harris and Sons, Philadelphia, 1889. The front of each card is titled with scenic images of the bird in their natural habitats. The back of each card provides a list of the fish included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Includes "Game Birds" book, published by Allen and Ginter, Richmond, VA. Softcover with off white cord stitching, contains reproductions of each trade card with decorative vignettes and advertisements, first page and inside of back cover. Trade cards approximately 1 5/8" H x 2 7/8" W. Book – 6 1/8" H x 8 5/8" W. 242nd-279th items: Thirty-eight (38) "General Government and State Capitol Buildings of the United States" trade cards. Lithographed by the Gast Lithograph and Engraving Company, New York, 1889. The front of each card is titled with scenic images of the building and its surroundings. The back of each card provides a list of the buildings included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Trade cards approximately 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W. 280th-316th items: Thirty-seven (37) "Parasol Drill" trade cards. Lithographed by Schumacher and Ettlinger, New York, 1888. The front of each card is titled with images of ladies reenacting "drills" with their parasols. The back of each card provides a list of the "drills" included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Trade cards approximately 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W. 317th-337th items: Twenty-one (21) "American Indian Chiefs" trade cards. Lithographed by Lindner, Eddy, and Clauss, New York, 1888. The front of each card is titled with images of Native American chiefs. The back of some cards (see condition report) provides a list of the chiefs included in the series with manufacturer's marks, below. Trade cards approximately 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W. 338th-562nd items: Thirty-five (35) "Racing Colors of the World", twenty-nine (29) "Naval Flags", twenty-one (21) large size "Game Birds", seventeen (17) "Wild Animals of the World", sixteen (16) "The World's Beauties" Second Series, fifteen (15) "City Flags", twelve (12) "American Editors" First Series, eleven (11) "Pet Cigarettes", ten (10) "Song Birds of the World", including nine (9) small size and one (1) large size, nine (9) "50 Quadrupeds", including six (6) large size and three (3) small size, nine (9) "Flags of All Nations", six (6) "The World's Racers", six (6) "Flags of the States and Territories", five (5) large size "Birds of America", three (3) large size "Birds of the Tropics", three (3) "The World's Champions" trade cards, three (3) "The World's Champions" Second Series, three (3) "Virginia Brights Cigarettes", two (2) large size "50 Fish from American Waters", two (2) "Pressed Cigarettes", two (2) "Fruits" trade cards, two (2) "The High Standard", one (1) "Pirates of the Spanish Main", one (1) "Types of All Nations", one (1) "Richmond Straight Cut", and one (1) "Our Little Beauties Cigarettes" trade card. Trade cards range in size from 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W to 5 3/4" H x 4 1/8" W. All trade cards housed in two three ring binders with plastic sleeves. CONDITION: 1st-50th item: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 1 1/2" x 5/8", to front and back of some cards. Areas of staining, largest 2 7/8" x 1 5/8", to front and back of some cards. 51st-99th items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 2 5/8" x 1 1/4", to front and back of some cards. Areas of staining, largest 2 7/8" x 1 5/8", to front and back of some cards. Some margins appear to be slightly trimmed. 7/8" x 5/8" area of loss, lower right corner of "India Peacock" card. Two 1" x 1/2" areas of loss, above and below stitching to front cover of book. 2" tear to back cover of book. Original stitching intact, spine of book. Set does not include "Sun Bittern" and "Yellow-breasted Sun Bird" cards. 100th-148th items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 1 7/8" x 1/2", to front and back of some cards. Areas of staining, largest 2 7/8" x 1 5/8", to front and back of some cards. 1/8" x 1/8" area of loss, lower left corner of "Spaniard" card. Does not include "Soudan" card. 149th-196th items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 3/4" x 1/4", to front and back of some cards. Areas of staining, largest 2 5/8" x 1 1/8", to front and back of some cards. Some margins appear to be trimmed. Does not include "Crab" and "Toadfish" cards. 197th-241st items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 2 1/8" x 1 1/4", to front and back of some cards and book. Areas of staining, largest 2 7/8" x 1 5/8", to front and back of some cards and book. Some margins appear to be slightly trimmed. Areas of loss, largest 6 1/8" x 3", to front and back covers. 2 1/4" of original stitching intact, spine of book. Does not include "Canada Grouse", Great Blue Heron", "Purple Gallinule", "Roseate Spoonbill", "Snipe", and "Woodcock" cards. 242nd-279th items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 1/2" x 1/8", to front and back of some cards and book. Areas of staining, largest 2 7/8" x 1 5/8", to front and back of some cards and book. Two cards "Georgia" and "Kansas" with majority of back missing. Some margins appear to be trimmed or missing. Does not include "War Department", "President's House", "New Hampshire", Virginia", "West Virginia", "Alabama", "Mississippi", "Illinois", "Arkansas", "Missouri", and "Nebraska" cards. 280th-316th items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 1 5/8" x 1 5/8, to front and back of some cards and book. Areas of staining, largest 2 7/8" x 1 5/8", to front and back of some cards and book. 317th-337th items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, areas of loss, largest 2 7/8" x 1 5/8", to front and back of some cards. Some margins appear to be trimmed. A list or partial list is visible on only six cards, including "True Eagle", "Cayatanita", "Man and Chief", "Noon Day", "Bull Head", and Agate Arrow Point". The remaining 15 cards are blank with remnants of tape en verso. 338th-562nd items: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil marks, creases, tears, areas of loss,to front and back of some cards to be expected from age. [See more photos →]

Group of eight (8) Battle of Chickamauga relics, including a tree stump with a cannon ball lodged in the center, 5 bullets lodged into pieces of wood, a cannonball, and a Hotchkiss shell. Stump – 16" H x 7 1/4" dia. All items weigh 31 total pounds. Note: The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18-20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia, the Chickamauga Campaign. It was the first major battle of the war fought in Georgia, the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater, and involved the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. The battle was fought between the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg, and was named for Chickamauga Creek, which meanders near the battle area in northwest Georgia (and ultimately flows into the Tennessee River about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northeast of downtown Chattanooga). Provenance: Items recovered from land in close proximity to the Battle of Chickamauga battlefield. Items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. Private Ringgold, Georgia collection. CONDITION: All items in relic condition. Areas of termite damage to stump (no longer active). [See more photos →]

American hand-sewn 15-star Kentucky Statehood Commemoration flag, comprised of applied linen stars in a five pointed star pattern on linen ground with two brass grommets. No maker's marks. Housed under glass in a gilt wood frame. Flag – 24 1/2" H x 36" W. Sight – 25 1/4" H x 36 3/4" W. Framed – 28 3/4" H x 40 1/2" W. Late 19th century. Provenance: Private Crossville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of dampstaining, largest 2" x 4", surface of flag. [See more photos →]

Porcelain game plate in the pattern designed by Theodore R. Davis for U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, depicting a grouse in landscape setting. Marked on back with United States eagle vignette, artist's signature, Haviland Limoges stamp, and additional blue stamp "Design patented August 10th 1880 No. 119332". 9" diameter. Note: Theodore Davis was commissioned by The White House to design a pattern for a china service featuring varied, artistic depictions of American flora and fauna. Comprised of 562 pieces for nine courses, with 130 distinct decorations, the service, made by Haviland, created a sensation. Shortly after it was delivered to the White House in 1880, Davis granted Haviland the right to duplicate many of the pieces from the Hayes service for sale to the public. Pieces produced for public sale, like this one, can be distinguished by the presence of the patent number in blue on the reverse. CONDITION: Excellent condition, no damage. [See more photos →]

Jean Jacques Pradier (Swiss, 1792-1850), also known as James Pradier, bronze sculpture, "Pandore" or "Pandora," brown patina with gilt highlights, modeled as the mythological female figure holding a jar. Signed on base in script "Pradier sc–,"and "E de Labroue F–" 16 in. H, mounted to black stone plinth, 2 1/2" H x 7" square. Total height 18 1/2" overall. 24 lbs. Note: According to Greek legend, Pandora was the first woman created by the Greek gods to bring havoc on the earth as revenge for Prometheus stealing fire. Her gifts to seduce men were said to be carried in the jar. Pradier exhibited a large (37") Pandore at the Paris Salon in 1850 and again the following year at London's 1851 Great Exhibition. Only two large ones are known; one is in the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva. This smaller size version was made for commercial production. Ref. Lapaire:" James Pradier et la sculpture Francaise de la generation romantique," Zurich, 2010, pp. 74-5 & 345-7, no. 263; C. Lapaire and J. Gaborit," Statues de Chair: Sculptures de James Pradier," ex. cat., MusÈe d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, 1986. CONDITION: Some wear to gilding and spots of oxidation on robes, arm and exposed leg, minute scattered chips to base (largest 1/4"). [See more photos →]

Civil War archive, cartes de visite (CDV) and diary, related to the Brown family of Gallatin, Tennessee. William and Jack Brown belonged to General John Hunt Morgan's Raiders in the Confederate Army. 1st item: Small diary of William H. Brown, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Company M, detailing troop movements and broken heart lamentations, circa 1865. 4 1/8" H x 2 7/8" W x 1/4" D. 2nd item: Typed document by Annie Brown, Clark Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Gallatin, Tennessee. The document transcribed as follows: "Regiment 2nd. Ky. General John H. Morgan. 2nd Basil Duke. 3rd J. B. Castleman. Company "M", Joe Desha Captain. Captain Cooper. Captured. On the capture of W. H. Brown and William S. Schell, Abe Setliff and Captain Kirkpatrick becoming known to General Morgan, the flag of truce was sent to General Payne, stating that General Morgan had as prisoners seven officers who would be immediately shot, provided that General Payne executed his prisoners. Also that all officers caught in 30 days would be executed. J. W. Brown was in charge of flag of truce. General Payne then had Brown and Schell as political prisoners, they were sent to Nashville where they remained several months, then to Camp Chase, Ohio, then to Ft. Delaware; they spent twenty two months in prison and were exchanged in the latter part of the year 1864. Both rejoined their commands and remained with them to the close of the war. Both had the honor of being escort of President Davis to Washington Ga., where Davis make a short speech to his escorts, disbanding them. They reached home on May 15th, 1865. At Lexington, Ky., he had his horse killed under him, and in the struggle to get from under his horse his knee was badly hurt, and from which he was a constant sufferer until his death". Pasted to back of frame housing photocopies of CDVs. 3rd item: CDV of John "Jack" W. Brown, 2nd Kentucky Calvary, dressed in Confederate uniform, posing in profile. Writing en verso reads: "J. H. Brown tried to join Morgan's regiment when in Gallatin, his brother W. H. Brown had joined, General Morgan put J. W. B. behind him on his horse, and he served all during the war. Father of Walter & Henry Brown, Gallatin, Tenn". 4th item: CDV of William H. Brown dressed in Confederate uniform, standing contraposto with left hand on hip. 5th item: CDV of W. H. Brown with his left hand on a chair, and jacket unbuttoned. This photo may be late in the war or at its end, backstamped for J. H. Van Stavurn Metropolitan Gallery, 53 College Street, Nashville, Tennessee. 6th item: Postwar photograph of W. H. Brown, backstamped for Rhine's Art Gallery, Gallatin, Tennessee. 7th item: Postwar photograph of John "Jack" W. Brown, backstamped for F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia. 8th item: Photograph of twin sisters, Eva and Annie Brown, daughters of W. H. Brown, backstamped for L. L. de Anquinos, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 9th item: Photograph of Minnie Brown. 10th item: Family photograph of Hardin Taylor, Mai Taylor, Margaret, and D. Hickman, backstamped for J. P. Jennings/ Art Gallery, Gallatin, Tennessee. 11th item: Three (3) reproductions of the CDVs of the Brown brothers. Matted and housed under glass in a wooden frame. 2nd item pasted to back of frame, all other items housed in a manila envelope attached to back of frame. Frame – 12 3/4" H x 20 7/8" W x 1" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: All items with general toning and expected wear. 1st item: Flaking to leather cover, wear from use, and severe pencil smudging to front page. 2nd item: Considerable foxing and losses at center fold. 7th item: Water damage 1 3/4" W at upper middle, has pencil marking four quadrants of the CDV. [See more photos →]

18K yellow gold link bracelet, clasp marked Cartier, containing 26 heart-shaped garnets, clasp marked "Cartier 18K", 6 5/8" long with safety clasp, 16.7 grams. Red Cartier bracelet box included. Provenance: Private collection, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Shirvan, East Caucasus, prayer rug, 60-1/2" x 41", wool on wool, black ground with red, yellow, green, cream, violet, brown and gold. Early 20th century. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from Joseph Shaia Oriental Rug Co., Williamsburg, VA and Franklin, TN in 1978. CONDITION: Even low pile. Approximately 6 small breaks on outside edge of one side. One corner with losses. Ends reinforced and sides rebound. [See more photos →]

Circa 1825 album including a sonnet penned by John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States. The album, containing several other handwritten poems, letters, and illustrations, belonged to Adams' sister in law, Ann Frances Harrod (1772-1845), wife of Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832). The possibly original sonnet, unsigned but in writing identical to samples of John Quincy Adams' handwriting, is titled "A Theory of Comets To the Comet Seen at Quincy 6. October 1825 / A Sonnet". It reads "Portentous Stranger from a world unknown!/Short visitant from realms of bounle[s]s grace,/Oh! Say shall man be never taught to trace/Thy path immense around the Solar throne?/Art Thou to Mortal vision only shown/To glare, the fear and wonder of our race?/To flash and flit acro[s]s the walking pace,/Then traverse the void infinite, alone?/Me thinks thou art the Spectre of a Star:/An orb deceas'd, and disenthrall'd of day./In light, refin'd from elemental War,/And bound to regions of eternal day.–/Cease, Soul presumptuous, and enquire [sic] no more:/But, Silent Him who made these countle[s]s Worlds, adore.". The album itself is octavo sized, hardbound with tooled brown leather cover with gilt pictorial covers and spine with gilt lettering to front cover, gilt edged paper. It also includes a Thomas Boylston Adams signature below a poem possibly written by Thomas and dated August 11, 1828 and copies of two letters on loose, lined notebook paper from John Adams to Thomas, one dated May 1796 and one dated 1802. The majority of the pages are filled with poetry, letters, and illustrations by friends and family members of Ann's, often signed with monograms, circa 1820's. 8 1/8" H x 5 1/4" W x 1 1/8" D. Biography: Ann Frances Harrod was born circa 1772/1774 in Haverhill, Norfolk, MA to Joseph Harrod and Ann [maiden name unknown]. Ann Harrod married Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832), the third and youngest son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, and had 8 children. She passed away in Boston, MA. (source: https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/ann-harrod_20281983). Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in his family from Charles Harrod Boyd, grandson of Charles Harrod (1787-1870). Charles Harrod was the brother of Ann (Anna) Frances Harrod Adams (wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, 1772-1832). Note: Charles H. Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd, who married Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, a direct descendant of John Marshall (1755-1835). John Marshall was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). CONDITION: Album in overall good condition with normal shelf wear, corners bumped. Pages in overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, toning, to be expected from age. Poem attributed to John Quincy Adams in highly visible condition, slightly affected by foxing spots and areas of dampstaining with two tears, largest 3/4", to edges of fold lines. Poem was pasted to book, visible on next page, 1 1/2" area of separation from spine, bottom of J. Q. Adams poem. John Adams letter copies on loose, lined notebook paper, likely written after the contents of the book. [See more photos →]

An Art Deco platinum iridium diamond bracelet containing a total diamond weight of approximately 2.34 ct. including one (1) 5.55 x 3.53 x 2.33mm marquis-cut, SI1/J weighing approximately .26 ct; four (4) 2.8-2.7mm European-cut, SI2/IJ with total weight of approximately .32 ct and sixty-four (64) 2.3-1.7mm single-cut, SI1/IJ with total weight of approximately 1.76 ct. Bracelet marked Iridium on clasp. 6 7/8″ L plus safety chain. 18.8 grams. Provenance: Estate of Martha Lyman, Dayton, TN. CONDITION: One round diamond missing in last link at clasp. [See more photos →]

2 pottery items: Melissa Concho Antonio (b. 1965) large Acoma pottery jar with finely painted black on white geometric or eyedazzler designs and a diagonal Kokopelli band to one side. Signed "MC Antonio" on the base. 19 1/4" H x 14" dia. 2nd item: Frederica Antonio (b. 1968) small olla form Acoma pottery jar with finely painted black on white geometric or eyedazzler designs and red base. Signed "F.V. Antonio/Acoma, N.M." to the base. 5 1/2" H. Both pieces 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Henry Ward Ranger (New York/Connecticut, 1858-1916) oil on board landscape with gray, clouded sky. Signed "To J.H.R. / H.W.R." lower left; estate stamp lower right. Title en verso on paper label for Sessions Hootsell American Paintings, Natchez, MS. Later giltwood frame with linen liner. Sight – 11 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W Framed – 19" H x 21" W. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee; the collection of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr., Nashville; Sessions Hootsell American Paintings, Natchez; estate of the artist. Biography: A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as leader of the Tonalist movement in America. He was born and raised in New York. While studying art in France, he became greatly interested in the Barbizon School of painters. A trip to The Hague, Holland, was even more influential when he met a large colony of Dutch painters called "The Hague School", whose emphasis was on Realism and Tonalism. In 1885, Ranger moved to New York City and took up easel painting, increasingly favoring oils over watercolors. Gradually his palette lightened with color and luminosity suggesting the influence of George Inness. In the summer of 1899, Ranger discovered Florence Griswold's boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and he eventually became the leader of the artists' colony of Old Lyme for three years. However, the prevalent style changed to Impressionism with the 1903 arrival of Childe Hassam. He became disenchanted with painting at Old Lyme with the arrival of Childe Hassam in 1903 and the subsequent influence of his Impressionist style. In protest of the plein-air, fast painting, and lightened palette and abstraction of these Impressionists, Ranger, in 1905, moved farther down the coast to Noank, Connecticut near the mouth of the Mystic River. Like many of his associates, he also maintained a studio in New York City, where he was very prominent and often lectured and wrote about art and took an active part in the art community. He was a member of the National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club. He left his estate to the National Academy of Design to establish the Ranger Fund, whose income was to purchase the works of living American artists beyond the age of forty-five. (source: Askart). CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Couple of small light scratches (under 1") lower right, a few scattered tiny inclusions. Examined under black light no alterations detected. [See more photos →]

Steiff "Williamsburg Restoration" sterling flatware, Queen Anne pattern, 72 total pieces, consisting of 12 teaspoons, 12 tablespoons, 12 dinner forks, 12 salad forks, 12 dinner knives and 12 individual butter knives. 74.98 weighable troy ounces. Not monogrammed. Provenance: Collection of Christine Fields and the late Emmett Fields, former president of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: All with general use wear and surface scratching. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Chinese hardwood games table, envelope form, consisting of a heavily carved swivel top depicting dragons amongst ruyi clouds. Each side with one functional drawer having foliate and cherry blossom carving above a dragon and foliate carved frieze. All over curved and heavily carved foliate and ruyi cloud legs with dragon mask carved knees. The carved top opens to reveal a lacquered gaming surface. 32 3/4" H X 23 3/4" W X 24" D (unopened top). 33 3/4" W x 34" D (with top fully extended). Late 19th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Some minor abrasions. Top with some age cracks to wood, primarily to joints. Very minor losses around hinges to one side. [See more photos →]

Civil War era Ames Manufacturing Company, Chicopee, Massachusetts, Model 1850 Foot Officerís sword with steel scabbard. Blade and scabbard stamped "Ames Mfg. Co Chicopee Mass". Steel blade etched with "US", eagle, other patriotic motifs, and scrolling foliate designs, brass half basket guard with open work with oak leaf scrolls and acanthus leaves, shagreen leather wrap with twisted brass wire. Painted steel scabbard with brass mountings and two rings. Blade length – 30 1/2". Overall length with scabbard – 37 1/2". CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of light pitting to blade. Few minute losses to shagreen leather on handle. Areas of tarnish to handle and brass mountings on scabbard. [See more photos →]

Gebelein sterling silver tea kettle on stand (George Gebelein, Boston, MA, working 1909-c. 1950) hinged bail handle with wooden insulator and c-scroll handles, hinged domed lid with artichoke finial and gadroon rim, round bellied body, stepped low round pedestal with gadroon rim. Two lugs on sides allow kettle to swing in frame. (7" H w/ handle down x 9-3/4" W w/ spout). Frame with center removable sterling burner, scroll-shaped supports and gadroon rim (6-1/4" h x 6-1/4" dia). Total weight: 54.505 oz troy. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

One platinum diamond heart pin/pendant containing twenty (20) round old European cut diamonds estimated by appraiser with a total weight of approximately 2.80 cts and one (1) round old European cut diamond drop measuring 4.82 x 4.89 x 3.17 mm and weighing approximately .46 ct. Total diamond weight: 3.26 cts. All diamonds range from H-J color and VS to SI clarity. An arched pin clasp hides behind top of mounting. A 15" L 14K white gold rope chain is strung on two narrow loops mounted at top sides of heart. Heart – 1 1/8" H x 1 1/16" W. Platinum tested, not marked. 11.2 grams t.w. Provenance: Private collection, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Cartier 18K Tank ladies' watch, 28 x 20 mm, manual winding movement, white face, Roman numerals, back marked Cartier, 18K Swiss, 18K double-fold clasp marked Cartier 15689 (worn) New York, on Cartier leather strap, 5 1/2" interior circumference. 28.4 grams. Circa 1980. Cartier red box included. Three additional leather watch straps included. One is marked Cartier and has Cartier buckle. Two without maker's mark or buckle. Provenance: From the collection of a private estate, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Watch not working at time of inspection. Minor surface wear. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee (McMinn County) miniature chest of drawers, walnut primary, pine secondary. Plain slightly overhanging top over one full overhanging dovetailed drawer above three full graduated dovetailed drawers. Turned and carved pilasters with inlaid hearts at the top and inlaid diamonds at the base, paneled sides, rounded skirt and turned incised feet. 14 3/4" H x 15" W x 9 3/4" D. 12 lbs. Circa 1830. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Older surface. Knobs on lower three drawers not original. Lower right diamond inlay damaged/missing. Crack to skirt that extends horizontally. [See more photos →]

American school oil on canvas depicting a large chained hound resting in an enclosure with a companion white terrier at it's side, after the 1839 painting "Dignity and Impudence" by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, 1802-1873). Unsigned. Housed in a carved wood frame with textured wood matte. Sight – 35" H x 27 3/8" W. Framed – 42 3/4" H x 35 3/8" W. 19th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall light cracklure, some looseness to canvas on right side, light rubbing to upper stretcher, one horizontal scratch upper quadrant, approx. 3" and buckling to lower canvas margin. [See more photos →]

Vincenzo D'Auria (Italy, 1872-1939) oil on canvas harbor scene painting depicting fishing vessels with a city in the background and rocky shoreline, foreground. Signed lower left "V. D'Auria". Housed in a carved gilt and ebonized wood frame. Sight – 23 1/4" H x 35" W. Framed – 29" H x 41 1/8" W. Provenance: Collection of Christine Fields and the late Emmett Fields, former president of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Minor abrasions to frame. Canvas overall very good condition. 13 1/2" line of craquelure, top right of sky. [See more photos →]

14K yellow and white gold diamond line bracelet containing 40 round brilliant diamonds with a total weight of approximately 3.20 cts. (approx. I-J, SI). Diamonds prong-set in white gold square links with outside borders of yellow gold figaro links. 7-1/8" L with invisible clasp with safety bar. 18.7 grams. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Some surface grime. [See more photos →]

Regina double-comb music box having an inlaid mahogany case and bun feet, works stamped 53758. Inner lid with Currier & Ives lithograph depicting a family greeting the father upon his arrival home. Includes crank and one 15" wide disc with the tune "I'll Be There Mary Dear". 12 1/2" H x 21" W x 15 1/2" D. Late 19th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition with general wear to exterior of box. Mechanism fully funtional. [See more photos →]

Diminutive Regency or George IV mahogany breakfront bookcase, pine and oak secondary, in two sections, top section with molded cornice, mortised sides, four glazed doors, interior with fitted shelves and lined with cream colored moire fabric, the lower section with center pull-out slide and four paneled cupboard doors, the left cabinet containing six graduated dovetailed drawers all with original brass pulls, the right cabinet containing four graduated dovetailed drawers all with original brass pulls, the center cabinet containing three linen slide drawers and four pair runners, cabinet supported by a plinth base. Top section is electrified. 82 1/2" H x 66 1/4" W at base (67-1/4" W at top) x 15-1/2" D at base (12" D at top). English, first half 19th century. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence. CONDITION: Knobs and lockplate missing to center cabinet. Electric wiring is older. Hairline center left cabinet door and other minor surface abrasions. Small loss to back left lower edge. One linen drawer possibly missing. [See more photos →]

Mikimoto 8 x 8.5 mm pearl necklace, 24 1/2" long, containing 66 cultured pearls, hand-knotted with 14K white gold clasp. Together with copy of Mikimoto Cultured Pearls Guarantee stating sixty-six (66) 8.5 x 8 mm Mikimoto cultured pearls were purchased from Lane Crawford Ltd., Hong Kong, on 11/7/78. The pearls were later strung by the owner without the Mikimoto logo tag. The pearls appear to be pinkish-white with high lustre and well-rounded but have not been graded by a gemologist. Provenance: Private collection, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Very good condition. Not graded by a gemologist but accompanied with Mikimoto guarantee from retail store. [See more photos →]

Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (French, 1874-1939) oil on board painting depicting a soldier delivering a message to or preparing to take dictation from an officer, who is seated at a table on a terrace having tea. Signed lower left. Housed in a later carved, painted and giltwood frame. Sight – 13 1/2" H x 16 1/2" W. Framed – 20 1/2" H x 23 1/2" W. Biography: Jean Jacques Berne-Bellacour studied with his father Etienne Prospect Berne-Bellecour, also a famous military painter, and at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He was a favorite pupil of the famous 19th century French military painter, Edouard Detaille, and received acclaim for his paintings depicting the events of the first World War. Provenance: Private Southern collection of Military Art. CONDITION: Cradled panel; overall very good condition with minor scattered inpainting, largest 1/4"L., to upper right corner and lower left side. [See more photos →]

Victorian leather gun case table, comprised of a gun motoring case on custom fitted later stand. Leather covered oak case with brass bound ends, the hinged top embossed "C.T. Hebbert 12 Hereford Gardens London" with hand painted lettering "C St P / RB" over the lettering and central brass medallion depicting a bird and branch; buckled straps appear original. Fitted, baise lined interior with lift out tray; label for Charles Lancaster, "Inventor of the improved copper primer gun", London, maker. Old notes about gunpowder written on label and on a scrap pasted to interior. Overall – 21" H x 34 1/2" W x 9 1/2" D. Case – 6" H x 34 1/2" W x 8 3/4" D. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Wear and stains to top, wear to baise on interior, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Life on the Mississippi, 1st Edition, by Mark Twain, 1883. Published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston. Octavo, 624 pages including illustrations and appendices, steel plate engraved frontispiece, hardbound in tooled brown cloth covers with gilt and black lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine. Includes "Clemens in flames" illustration on page 441, caption reading "The St. Louis Hotel" on page 443, and misprint "It it" on lines 7 and 8 on page 444. 9 1/8" H x 6 3/8" W x 2" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear to covers, corners slightly bumped. Areas of toning, largest 5 5/8" x 7", light minute foxing spots to interior of covers and end papers. Pages in overall good condition with toning. [See more photos →]

Kuba Konagkend, East Caucasian, with distinctive knotted fringe, 52" x 40-3/4" plus 2-1/2" L knot fringe at each end, dark blue primary field and cream primary border, all with geometric designs. Secondary colors of beige, rust, yellow, taupe, salmon and black. Late 19th/early 20th c. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from Ran Harris Oriental Rug Co., Nashville, TN in 1985. CONDITION: Overall good even pile. Some abrash. Few losses to knots in fringe. [See more photos →]

1803 Land indenture on vellum between John Marshall and his wife Mary Willis Ambler Marshall and Richard Adams and his wife Elizabeth Adams of the first part, John Brown, John Wickham, a law partner of Marshall's, and John Cringan of the second part, and Charles Copeland of the third part, Richmond, VA, dated May 1, 1803. The document details nine large tracts of land, the first through third belonging to the Marshalls and fourth through ninth belong to Richard Adams and his wife, in Richmond and the surrounding Henrico County and Chickahominy Swamp, for which Copeland has lent and paid the sum of six thousand pounds to Marshall and Adams who in return "…have executed three several bonds payable to the said Charles Copeland each of the said bonds is in the penalty of Four thousand pounds conditioned to be discharged by the payment of Two thousand pounds, at the several periods herein after mentioned…the fourteenth day of March [1805]…the thirteenth day of September [1806]…and…the twentieth day of July [1808]…Therefore this Indenture witne[s]seth that the said John Marshall and Mary Willis his wife for and in consideration of the aforesaid sum of six thousand pounds so as aforesaid lent by the said Charles Copeland to the said John Marshall and Richard Adams, as also for the further consideration of five shillings in hand paid by the said John Brown, John Wickham, and John Cringan, to the said John Marshall, before the sealing and delivery of this Indenture, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, they the said John Marshall and Mary Willis his wife, have granted, bargained, and sold, and by these present do grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said John Brown, John Wickham, and John Cringan…the following Estates, Lands, and tenements; and for which greater certainty are distinguished by the numberes one, two, and three…". The same language and terms are used to designate that the fourth through ninth tracts of lands belonged to the Richard Adams and his wife have also been sold to John Brown, John Wickham, and John Cringan. Signed and sealed by John Marshall, Richard Adams, Elizabeth Adams, John Brown, John Wickham, John Cringan, and Charles Copeland. Witnessed by John B. Nicholson, George D. Nicholson, James Willeroy, Thomas Nicholson. Entered into the record at Richmond by Wilson Allen, Clerk, June 1803. 25 3/8" H x 29" W. Biography: Charles Copeland, lawyer, was born in 1756; figured in the courts of Virginia as the rival of John Wickham and William Wirt. Nothing is known of his ancestry. He married (first) Rebecca, daughter of Robert Nicholson, a merchant of Williamsburg, (second) Henningham Bernard. He died November 24, 1836, and there is a monument to his memory in St. John's churchyard. Richmond, Virginia. From "Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography" Volume II, by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D., Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1915. Note: John Wickham (1763-1839) was an American Loyalist and attorney. He was one of the very few Loyalists to achieve any sort of national prominence in the United States after the American Revolution, and is best remembered for his role in the treason trial of former Vice President Aaron Burr in 1807. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Note: Descended in the family of Lewis Minor Coleman, Jr., son of CSA Lt. Col. Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). John Marshall was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). CONDITION: Overall good condition with foxing spots, toning, and areas of dampstaining to be expected from age. Marshall and other signatures in good condition. Areas of insect damage, largest 5/8", surface of document. [See more photos →]

Lloyd Branson (Tennessee, 1861-1925) oil on board painting depicting a young woman with upturned gaze and red hair, likely a study for the larger work by Branson titled “The Weeping Magdeline,” currently in the collection of McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture. Signed and dated lower right “Branson/1905”. Housed in a painted and gilt wood frame with velvet liner. Sight – 9 1/2″ H x 7 3/8″ W. Framed – 17″ H x 15″ 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. (source: James A. Hoobler, Tennessee State Museum). CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Areas of varnish drip visible top left under blacklight. [See more photos →]

Helen LaFrance (Kentucky, born 1919) oil on canvas painting titled “River Baptism” depicting a small Black congregation standing by a river shoreline watching a baptism, a church and two parked cars can be seen in the background. Signed lower left and titled en verso. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 19 1/2″ H x 29 1/2″ W. Framed – 21 1/4″ H x 31 1/4″ W. American, late 20th century. Biography: Self-taught African American artist Helen La France 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. (source: “Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories” by Kathy Moses). Alternate spelling: Helen La France. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Set 12 Wallace sterling silver water goblets, style number 14, not monogrammed. 6-3/4" H. 70.515 oz troy total. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: All goblets in very good condition. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Polly Rose Folwell (b. 1962) award winning Santa Clara pottery jar with polychrome decoration commemorating the events of September 11, 2001. Motifs include airplanes, The Statue of Liberty, an Apple, The NYC Skyline, a Native American Male with headdress and an outline of the United States, all against a geometric background. This jar was awarded the Best of Classification in Pottery award at the 2003 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market, and was exhibited at the Heard Museum in the Mothers & Daughters exhibition held January 10, 2009 through January 24, 2010. (Ref. http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/8aa/8aa356.htm, where this jar is pictured, for more information). Prize ribbons awarded for the jar are included with this lot. 15" H x 11 1/2" W. Note: Polly Rose is a daughter of noted potter Jody Folwell, a granddaughter of Rose Naranjo and sister of Susan Folwell. She has won numerous awards for her work at Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Market and Gallup Ceremonials. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Some scattered areas of spotting in terracotta areas, otherwise overall very good condition, no chips or cracks. [See more photos →]

Lalique crystal swan, clear and frosted etched glass, inscribed "Lalique France" left side near tail. Includes glass mirror with rippled water effect. 10" H x 7-1/4" W wingspan x 12-1/4" L. Mirror – 25" L x 16 1/2" W. 26 lbs. 20th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Greg Ridley round copper repousse plaque, depicting two lovers in Classical dress, embracing in front of a columned building. Signed lower right and dated '96. 20 1/2" diameter, matted and framed in reeded black frame under glass, 33 1/2" x 32" overall. Provenance: The estate of Ann Cook Calhoun, Nashville, Tennessee. Mrs. Calhoun was a longtime patron of Mr. Ridley. Biography: Greg Ridley was born in Smyrna, TN, and moved with his family to Nashville, TN in 1936. After his service in the US Navy during WWII, he earned a degree in art education from Tennessee State University, and went on to become the first African American to receive a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Louisville. Ridley also attended Fisk University (where he later worked), and where he studied under Aaron Douglas, the Harlem renaissance painter and muralist, who remained a close friend and mentor until his death in 1979. Ridley taught at various Southern universities as well as the City University of New York. One of his last and best known works was the creation of 80 copper panels for the Grand Reading Room of the Nashville Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Light surface scratching overall with a few scattered small spots of oxidation. [See more photos →]

Joseph Delaney (Tennessee/New York, 1904-1991) sketchbook with thirty-one (31) crayon on paper drawings and twelve (12) miniature crayon and ink on card stock drawings to inside of front cover. The majority of the drawings depict female nudes in a variety of poses, seven (7) of the miniature drawings depicting still life scenes, groups of people, and one (1) depicting an artist at an easel. Unsigned. Includes Beauford Delaney signature with partial address, verso of back cover. Sketchbooks – 18 1/4″ H x 12 1/4″ W x 1/2″ D. Drawings – 18″ H x 12″ W. Miniature drawings approximately 3 1/2″ H x 3 1/2″ W. Provenance: The Estate of Ougust Delaney, Knoxville, TN. Biography (courtesy of Frederick C. Moffatt): Joseph Delaney was born in Knoxville in 1904. He and his older brother, Beauford, discovered their interest in art by drawing on Sunday School cards. In 1930, Joseph left Tennessee for New York where Beauford was also working as an artist, and enrolled in the Art Students League under the tutelage of Thomas Hart Benton and Alexander Brooke. The subject matter he found there, including the city’s landmarks and its people, are the images for which he is best known. In 1986, Delaney returned to Knoxville to live and was artist-in-residence for the University of Tennessee Art Department until his death in 1991. Delaney’s works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Chicago Art Institute, The Knoxville Museum of Art, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum. Note: Delaney and Haley began a friendship sometime in the 1940’s. In Haley’s “Shadowland of Dreams” he writes: “Through him (his friend George Sims) I met other struggling artists like Joe Delaney, a veteran painter from Knoxville, Tennessee. Often Joe lacked food money, so he’d visit a neighborhood butcher who would give him big bones with morsels of meat and a grocer who would hand him some wilted vegetables. That’s all Joe needed to make down-home soup. Another Village neighbor was a handsome young singer who ran a struggling restaurant. Rumor had it that if a customer ordered steak, the singer would dash to a supermarket across the street to buy one. His name was Harry Belafonte. People like Delaney and Belafonte became role models for me. I learned that you had to make sacrifices and live creatively to keep working at your dream. That’s what living in the Shadowland is all about”. Additionally, Delaney was named artist-in-residence at The University of TN, an appointment facilitated by his friend Alex Haley. CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface scuffs. Two (2) tears, largest 1″, left and right of wire sketchbook spiral. [See more photos →]

Gorham sterling flatware, Buttercup pattern, 66 pieces, including 12 dinner knives (9 1/8" L), 12 forks (7 1/2" L), 6 Individual salad forks (6 3/8" L), 6 place size salad forks (6 3/4" L), 12 iced tea spoons, 13 teaspoons (5 3/4" L), 1 slotted serving spoon, 1 serving spoon, 1 cold meat fork, 1 sugar shell and 1 master butter spreader. All marked GORHAM. Not monogrammed. 68.3 weighable oz troy. CONDITION: All items in very good condition with minor surface wear. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Archive of five (5) items related to President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams. 1st item: John Quincy Adams cut signature as 6th President of the United States, dated 1826 in darker ink. Mounted to 1 5/8" H x 2 3/4" W piece of light blue paper. Cut Signature – 7 7/8" H x 1 7/8" W. 2nd item: John Quincy Adams undated free franked envelope addressed to "Mrs. E Bartlett, Care of Edwin Barlett Esqr New York" with red postmark stamp from Washington, D.C. Address in writing probably by a secretary or local postmaster. Intact black seal with the image of a rooster and "Watch", en verso. 3 1/2" H x 5 3/4" W. Note: Edwin Bartlett (1796-1867) was married to Caroline Harrod, Elizabeth Coombs Adams' (1808-1903) first cousin. Caroline's father, Joseph, was a brother-in-law of Thomas Boylston Adams, the youngest child of John and Abigail Adams. Barlett was a business man and was appointed U.S. Consul at Lima, Peru from January 1838 to February 1840. 3rd item: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1775-1852) undated free franked envelope addressed to "Mi[s]s G. P. Harrod Care of Charles Harrod Esqr New Orleans LA" with faded red postmark stamp. Address in writing probably by a secretary or local postmaster. Intact black seal with the image of a horse and the initials "CCA", en verso. 3 1/4" H x 5 3/4" W. Note: Charles Harrod (1787-1870) married his first wife Hannah Rolf Dayton (1793-1825) daughter of General Elias Dayton of New Jersey, on March 7, 1811. He was a business man, a president of the Atchafalaya Bank, and an Aide to General Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. G.P. likely refers to their daughter, Georgina Patterson Harrod. 4th item: Lock of brown hair secured by white thread and tied in a light blue grosgrain ribbon. Lock is folded in a piece of paper reading "Mrs J Q Adams hair" with interior notation reading "Mrs J Q Adams–cut when he was President–at White House". Lock approx. 1" H x 2" W. 5th item: Calling card with pencil notation reading "With love Mrs John Adams Washington D.C.". Writing does not appear to be in Louisa's hand, possibly written by a secretary. 2 1/4" H x 3 5/8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in his family from Charles Harrod Boyd, grandson of Charles Harrod (1787-1870). Charles Harrod was the brother of Ann (Anna) Frances Harrod Adams (wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, 1772-1832, the son of President John Adams). Note: Charles H. Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd, who married Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, a direct descendant of John Marshall (1755-1835). John Marshall was the Fourth Chief Justice of the United States and also served as Secretary of State under John Adams (1800-1801). CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Signature in generally strong, clear condition, last few letters of "Adams" slightly faded. 2nd item: Overall good condition with minute foxing spots. Adams signature in strong, clear condition. Seal intact. 3rd item: Overall good condition with areas of minute foxing and dampstaining. Louisa's signature slightly smudged by dampstaining, otherwise in strong, clear condition. 4th item: Overall good condition. 5th item: Overall good condition. Pencil writing slightly smudged/faded. 1 1/8" rust stain from paper clip visible en verso. [See more photos →]

Group 7 various 14K diamond dinner rings. 1st item: Contemporary unisex 14K white gold diamond fashion ring containing 30 invisibly set princess cut diamonds with total weight of approximately 1.20 cts and 20 round cut diamonds with total weight of approximately .40 ct., ring shank not round but misshapen to make smaller, 10.7 grams. 2nd item: 14K yellow gold florentine molded quatrefoil shaped ring with .18 ct round diamond in center. Ring size 5-1/2, 5.7 grams. 3rd item: 14K white and yellow gold diamond swirl cluster ring containing 8 round diamonds with a total weight of approximately 1.05 cts. Ring size 7-1/2, 6.6 grams. 4th item: 14K white gold diamond openwork round dome ring containing 9 round diamonds with a total weight of approximately 3/4 ct. Ring size 7, 4.1 grams. 5th item: 14K rose gold red stone and diamond navette shaped ring containing one marquise cut red stone (chipped at one end) and 12 round diamonds with a total weight of approximately 1 ct. Ring size 7-1/2, 3.8 grams. 6th item: 14K white gold Art Deco style diamond and blue stone openwork ring containing 3 round diamonds with a total weight of approximately .30 ct and 2 trilliant blue stones. Ring size 7, 3.6 grams. 7th item: 14K yellow gold cultured pearl and diamond ring containing 40 single cut round pave-set diamonds in a naturalistic crab claw type mounting. Ring size 7-1/2, 7.4 grams. 41.9 grams total/7 items. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Surface scratches to all items. All diamonds of good to average quality, approximately J-L, SI1-I1. [See more photos →]

19th century European school oil on canvas painting depicting two fighting bulls by a stream with trees and mountains in the background. Unsigned. Housed in a gesso and gilt wood frame. Sight – 27 6/8" H x 41 1/2" W. Framed – 30 7/8" H x 45" W. CONDITION: Overall cracquelure. Flaking to canvas upper left margin. [See more photos →]

Large polychrome pottery storage jar by JoFern Silas Puffer (Hopi/Tewa and Laguna Pueblos) with allover traditional geometic designs. Signed on the base "JoFern Puffer Hopi" on the base. 17"H. 19 lbs. Biography: Jofern Puffer is part of the Tewa/Laguna, Kachina Clan. She is the daughter of Roberta Silas, sister of Lauann Silas and Antoinette Silas. She has been active in pottery making since 1990. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, no chips or cracks. One area of rubbing to upper shoulder. [See more photos →]

Confederate reunion first national machine sewn flag with 7 stars, comprised of applied cotton on linen ground with three sewn grommets. No maker's marks. 26 3/4" H x 57" W. Late 19th century. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Stains, largest 6 3/4" x 1", surface of flag. Holes, tears, largest 2" x 1/2", surface of flag. Top grommet torn. [See more photos →]

Harry B. Lachman (American, 1886-1975) oil on panel impressionist scene of a half-shaded village doorway, with woman walking under an adjacent opening. Signed and dated "'16" lower right. Ebonized and gilt molded frame attributed to Newcomb Macklin with brass name and title plaque inscribed "Sunlight and Shadows". Additional label en verso with same title notes it was executed Moustiers Ste. Marie France 1916. Another partial exhibition label en verso titles the work "In the Basares Alpes". 17 1/4" x 14 1/8" sight, 24 3/8" x 21 1/8" frame. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

George III style mahogany sideboard, deal and oak secondary woods, the top with inlaid patera and serpentine front and sides, above a frieze containing a central drawer flanked by two drawers to the left and a double tin-lined bottle drawer to the right, above a scalloped apron and line inlaid tapering legs ending in block feet. 36" H x 66-1/4" W x 28-1/4" D. English, 19th century. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence, and published in Southern Accents magazine, May-June 1985. CONDITION: Drawer runners reinforced. Loss of veneer right front corner and scattered abrasions to feet. [See more photos →]

Two French carved armchairs. 1st item: Louis XV style giltwood fauteuil with Fortuny upholstery. Curved crest rail with center shell flanked by swag and floral decoration surrounding the upholstered back, arms and stuffed upholstered seat, carved cartouches on hand rests, raised on acanthus carved cabriole legs ending in scrolled toes. 40 3/4" H x 28 1/2" W x 23 1/2" D overall. French, late 19th century. 2nd item: Louis XVI style polychrome fauteuil with balloon-shaped back with ribbon carving surrounding upholstered back and arms, acanthus carving down fluted arm rail and band of running coin carving on seat rail. Cylindrical fluted tapering legs topped by carved floral block. White staining to surface. 38 1/2" H x 27 3/4" W x 24 1/2" D overall. French, late 19th century. Provenance: Private Tullahoma, TN collection. CONDITION: Both chairs in overall good condition with minor losses to carving and gilt or paint decoration. 2nd chair with some splits to back rail. [See more photos →]

Antique Persian Fereghan Sarouk area rug, 58" x 43", cotton and wool, center blue medallion, ivory primary field, russet secondary field, floral sprays and spandrels, secondary colors of blues, pinks, yellow, green and lavender. First quarter 20th century. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased at Heart of Country Antiques Show, Nashville, TN in 1985. CONDITION: Generally low pile and some corduroy effect. One end border reduced. One small area old insect damage, 1/2" x 1/4". Surface grime. Some abrash in blue. [See more photos →]

Antique Talish Caucasian area rug, 83" x 42-1/2", wool on wool, blue primary field with botteh pattern, russet primary border, secondary colors of cream, green, orange, blues and brown. Early 20th century. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from Ran Harris Oriental Rug Co., Nashville, TN in 1985. CONDITION: Some loss to one end border. Ends reinforced. Abrash in blue field. Scattered low pile, mostly in center row. Surface grime. [See more photos →]

Large figural Continental silver wedding or wager cup, styled as a Renaissance/Baroque maiden with standing collar and long flared repousse skirt forming a conical cup, with a smaller pivoting cup held on upstretched arms above her head. Hanau marks to one side of bottom of skirt with British foreign import marks to the other side for sponsor Berthold Muller, London, 1893. 11" H, 10.265 oz troy. CONDITION: Some polish residue at head/shoulder/collar area; a couple of minor dents and scratches. Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Winterthur reproduction Paul Revere Tankard, marked Reed and Barton Sterling, Limited Edition 1000. Flame finial and mask at terminus of handle. 8 5/8" H, 25.62 oz troy. Includes Winterthur pamplet, explaining that this is a recreation of one of the original set of six tankards commissioned by Mary Bartlett from Paul Revere in 1768 and donated to the Third Church in Brookfield, Mass. in memory of her husband. The originals were later acquired by Winterthur for the DuPont dining room. Late 20th century. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Oil on canvas painting, possibly an original illustration for an advertisement for Edison's home phonograph, depicting an elderly couple listening to a phonograph in their kitchen, the man seated and his wife singing while standing. The image was used on a chromolithographic advertising trade card for the Edison phonograph, copyright the National Phonograph Company, 1905. Housed in a decorative wooden frame with off white rabbet edge. Sight – 21 3/8" H x 35 3/8" W. Framed – 27 1/2" H x 41 1/4" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Around the World in Eighty Days, 1st Edition, by Jules Verne, 1873. Published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston. Octavo, 315 pages with illustrations, steel engraved frontispiece, hardcover in tooled brown cloth board with with gilt and black lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine. 7 7/8" H x 6 1/8" W x 1 5/8" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear to covers, corners bumped. Areas of loss, largest 1 1/4", to top and bottom of spine. 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" area of old scotch tape repair to frontispiece tissue paper guard. Pages in overall good condition with light toning, few scattered foxing spots. [See more photos →]

Paul (Louis Narcisse) Grolleron (French, 1848-1901) oil on panel painting of a wounded soldier walking along a desolate road, his arm bandaged, his sword hanging at his side, barely visible beneath his coat. Signed P. Grolleron lower left. Later giltwood molded frame. 13 3/4" H x 9" W sight, 16 3/4" H x 12 5/8" W framed. Provenance: Private Southern collection of Military Art. CONDITION: Overall craquelure, a few small (1/16" abrasions). Loose in frame. [See more photos →]

1st item: Chinese carved celadon and russet jade buckle, square form with carved dragon decoration to the top. 1 3/8" H x 1 1/4" W. 2nd item: Chinese carved celadon and russet jade buckle, shaped oval form with pierced twin bat decoration. 1 1/4" H x 2 1/4" W. 3rd item: Chinese carved celadon and russet jade buckle, oval form with carved lotus blossom over water decoration. 1 3/4" H x 2 1/4" W. All buckles late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private West Tennessee collection. CONDITION: All buckles excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Pal Fried (Hungarian-American, 1893-1976) oil on canvas, "Mona," portrait of an auburn haired dancer in pink frock tying her shoes. Signed lower right. Giltwood Louis XV style frame. Sight – 29" H x 23 1/4" W. Framed – 40 1/8" H x 34" W. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. Biography: Fried was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie under Professor Hugo Pohl and in Paris under Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. He was influenced by French Impressionists Renoir and Degas. After WW II, he emigrated to America where he taught at the Academy of Arts. In the 1950's and 60's, he lived in Hollywood, where he began developing his reputation as an important figure painter, often painting high society women and celebrities. Beautiful young women, nudes, and ballerinas were also frequent subject matter. CONDITION: Very good condition with 4 small scratches (largest 1" L) to background, upper left quadrant. Miniscule inclusion upper right quadrant, background. [See more photos →]

George III Neoclassical style inlaid bowfront chest, mahogany with oak secondary wood, the top and frieze with banded line inlay, over three graduated hand dovetailed drawers with band inlaid edges and brass oblong pulls with curved corners and conforming plates. Brass escutcheons. Curved skirt joined by French feet. 35" H x 36" W x 18" D. British, late 18th to early 19th century. Provenance: Collection of Christine Fields and the late Emmett Fields, former president of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Scattered veneer patches and repairs to front of chest, including a 2 3/4"L patch above bottom drawer; repairs or possible patches to frieze. Feet appear original, with some shrinkage separations to facings of front feet and scattered veneer repair. Some small areas of lost/replaced molding along drawer edges. Shrinkage to sides. Lacks key. Pulls likely replaced. [See more photos →]

Diary of the War for Separation: a Daily Chronicle of the Principal Events and History of the Present Revolution, to Which is Added Notes and Descriptions of All the Great Battles, Including Walker's Narrative of the Battle of Shiloh, by H. C. Clarke, 1862. Printed by the Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, Georgia. Octavo, 191 pages, softcover with blue covers and spine printed on blue necessity paper, advertisement for "Confederate States Almanac" by H. C. Clare, back cover. 8 1/2" H x 5 3/4" W x 1/2" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of loss, largest 3 3/4" x 2 3/4", areas of dampstaining, foxing spots, fold lines, to covers and title page. Areas of loss, largest 8 1/2", to spine. Pages with foxing spots, toning impressions. Original stitching intact. [See more photos →]

Persian Ingeles area rug, 90" x 49-1/2", wool on cotton, large center dark blue medallion with three smaller medallions, beige secondary field, figural, animal, floral and geometric designs. Secondary colors of russet, green, blues, yellow, salmon and black. Persia, late 19th-early 20th century. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from H. Kandarian Oriental Rugs and Carpets, Nashville, TN in 1940. CONDITION: Overall low pile, some knot wear. Ends reinforced. Sides resewn, some side areas weak. [See more photos →]

Twelve (12) military related items, 19th c., including commission, photographs, and buckle. 1st item: Spanish-American War military appointment commission document signed by both President William McKinley and Secretary of War Russell A. Alger in black ink, dated June 15, 1898, conferring the rank of First Lieutenant, Sixth Regiment Volunteer Infantry to Elisha Eldridge Wright. 19 3/4" H x 15 1/2" W. Note: The Sixth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Sixth Immunes," served its term of service in the continental U.S. and in Puerto Rico. (source: http://www.spanamwar.com/6thUSvolinf.htm). 2nd item: Post Civil War officer's belt buckle with embossed Great Seal of the United States. Faded inspector's mark and manufacturer's marks, stamped en verso. 2 1/8" H x 3 1/2" W. 3rd-12th items: Ten (10) Civil War era Cartes de visite (CDVs). 3rd item: CDV depicting Confederate General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (1833-1864), encircled by eight of the officers on his staff. Studio marks for Charles E. Rees and Company, Richmond, VA., en verso. 4th item: CDV depicting Anne E. "Annie" Spencer Semmes, wife of Admiral Raphael Semmes, or Electra Louisa Semmes Colston, his daughter, with ink inscription reading "Louisa Spencer", bottom of image. Studio marks for Leon Van Loo, Cincinnati, OH., en verso. 5th item: CDV depicting Nora Semmes, niece of Raphael Semmes, with ink inscription reading "Nora Semmes, Aug. 1865", below. Studio marks for O. H. Willard's Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, numbered 5904, with blue two cent Washington stamp, en verso. 6th item: CDV believed to depict Confederate General Richard Heron Anderson (1821-1879), with pencil inscription reading "Anderson" en verso. Studio marks for Wenderoth and Taylor, Philadelphia, PA., en verso. 7th item: CDV depicting a seated gentleman in his late middle age, possibly related to the Semmes family. Studio marks for Hoag and Quick's, Cincinnati, OH., en verso. 8th item: CDV depicting a young man in a Union uniform with epaulets. Studio marks for Leon Van Loo, Cincinnati, OH, en verso. 9th item: CDV depicting Adele Cutts Douglass, second wife of Stephen A. Douglas, politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, with printed text reading "Mrs. S. A. Douglass. Published by E. Antony 501 Broadway, N.Y.", below. 10th item: CDV depicting Mary Perry, with ink inscription reading "Charleston S.C. Mary Perry 1877" en verso. Studio marks for B.M. Clinedinst, Stauton, VA., en verso. 11th item: CDV depicting a baby, with pencil inscription reading "W. B. Greenbrier", en verso. Studio marks for Y Day, Memphis, TN., en verso. 12th item: CDV depicting a young man standing in a well furnished room, marks reading "4394" and "C Votman", lower left and right in image. Studio marks for Notman, Montreal, en verso. CDVs approximately 4 1/8" H x 2 1/2" W. Provenance: the estate of Luke Eldridge Wright, Memphis, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with surface stains, scuffs, tears, largest 6 1/4", to document (slightly affects Alger signature). Areas of flaking, loss, largest 1" x 1/8", left edge of document. Signatures in strong, clear condition. 2nd item: Overall good condition with oxidation to be expected from age. Bends to metal, top left of buckle. 3rd-12th items: Overall good condition with fading, foxing spots, areas of loss, largest 1/8" x /4", tears, largest 1" x 1/4", to surface and edegs of CDVs. 6th item: Bends, largest 2 5/8", to CDV. [See more photos →]

Three-piece Gothic Revival style diamond and enamel pin/pendant necklace having a 14K yellow gold rombo link chain necklace, 19 1/4" L, 12 8 grams; One 14K round pin/pendant containing 38 round and single cut diamonds with a total weight of approximately 2 cts. (SI-I, J-K), with blue and white enamel decoration, single green stone and three pendant drops, 2 1/8" H x 1 5/16" W, 20.3 grams; plus one 18K yellow gold bezel, florentine and bright gold, with hook in back, 1/2" x 1/4" oval opening, 2 grams. Total 14K: 33.1 grams. All items 20th century. CONDITION: Pin/pendant in very good condition with fleabite loss of enamel near top. Pendant not marked but gold tested. Chain and bezel are marked. [See more photos →]

Large collection of carved stone fruit, approximately 48 items, including bananas, grapes, nuts, citrus fruits, peaches, apples, crabapples, pears, plums, cherries, strawberries, figs, persimmons and a pomegranate. 8" L grape cluster to 1-1/2" L nut. CONDITION: Overall slight wear, some minor losses, notably to bananas and one fig. [See more photos →]

Helen LaFrance (Kentucky, b. 1919) oil on canvas painting of African-American family riding in a mule wagon on dirt road towards church at far left with a blue sky overhead. Signed lower left. Sight – 10-1/2″ x 13-1/2″. Framed – 17″ x 20″. American, late 20th century. Provenance: Private Kentucky Collection. Biography: 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. (source: “Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories” by Kathy Moses). Alternate spelling: Helen La France. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Chinese Late Qing Famille Rose porcelain garden seat, cylindrical and pierced form with enameled bat, floral, lotus blossom, jui had and lappet decoration. 18 1/4" H x 12 1/4" dia. (at the top). 38 lbs. Late 19th century. Provenance: Private Kentucky Collection. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Scattered wear and losses to enamel decoration, mostly to the top, consistent with use. [See more photos →]

Raymond Coins (American/North Carolina, 1904-1998) carved riverstone stele or plaque depicting the crucifixion. Inscribed signature "W. R. Coins" en verso. 20" H x 11" W. Provenance: Private Nashville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Antique Persian Kermanshah area rug, 76" x 47", wool and cotton, center medallion on a khaki green colored field with stylized foliates within serpent-like corners. Wine colored border of devil's head and spandrel imagery. Circa 1900. CONDITION: Areas of low pile. Some abrash and one area of crease wear measuring approx. 12" L. Both borders reinforced and one border shortened. [See more photos →]

Elkington Neoclassical style gilt and silver plated centerpiece or epergne with heavy cut crystal oval bowl, resting on the oval pedestal of a footed base with figural griffins at each end and molded anthemion ornamentation on the adjacent sides. Side of base stamped ELKINGTON & CO. on one side with psuedohallmarks on other side; underside stamped MESSRS W & G. BUSZARD OXFORD STREET LONDON. 12 3/4"H x 18 1/2" W x 10" D. Last qtr. 19th century. Note: Buszard's was a famous London purveyor of wedding cakes. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: A few miniscule chips to serrated edges of crystal bowl, some light wear /oxidation to base; overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Elaborate Irish sterling silver dish ring, round form with openwork sides depicting cherubs in a landscape with windmill, tower or column, and cartouche, all festooned with grapes. Hallmarks for Wakley and Wheeler, Dublin, 1913-1914. 3 1/8" H x 7" diameter, 9.24 oz troy. CONDITION: Excellent condition. No monograms. [See more photos →]

Queen Anne style walnut veneered pier mirror with arched crest, divided beveled mirror plate, cushion-molded frame with a pair of gilt-brass candlearms mounted at lower corners. 60-3/4" H x 20" W x 1-1/4" D. Candle arms project 6-5/8". English, early 20th century. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence, and published in Southern Accents magazine, May-June 1985. CONDITION: Some loss to mirror at juncture of two plates. Some loss of gilding to candlearms. Natural wood seperation to walnut veneer surround. [See more photos →]

George Ayers Cress (Alabama/Tennessee, 1921-2008) oil on board abstract painting of boats in harbor, rendered in bright colors. Signed and dated "George Cress 1957" lower right. Housed in a simple painted wood frame under glass. Sight – 15" H x 22" W Framed – 25" H x 31 3/8" W. Biography (from the Tennessee Historical Quarterly Vol. XLIV No. 2: Landscape and Genre Painting in Tennessee 1810-1985): "George Cress was born in Anniston, Alabama and studied at Emory University, American University, and the University of Georgia, where he studied under fellow Southern contemporary artist Lamar Dodd. He was a central figure in Chattanooga's arts community, served as President of the Tennessee Arts Council and sat on the board of the Hunter Museum of Art. From 1951-1984 he was painter in residence at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga; the Cress Gallery of Art at UTC is named in his honor". CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Mid-19th century American oil on canvas portrait depicting two young girls seated against a landscape backdrop with a tree. The older darkhaired girl is attired in a period dark velvet dress, the younger girl attired in a blue dress with lace trim and holding a bouquet of wildflowers. Signed and dated en verso "CR Palmer/Painter/Wilmington/Oct 1848. Hiram Holzer, New York gallery label en verso. Housed in a gilt and gesso wood frame. Sight – 33 1/4" H x 26" W. Framed – 43 3/8" H x 36 1/4" W. CONDITION: Canvas has been relined. Area of repair upper left quadrant. Rubbing to perimeter, left side and lower margin. Later added gilt paint to frame with some scattered losses. [See more photos →]

4 green blown and cut glass hock goblets, oral history of having been used during events related to the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to Nashville, Tennessee in 1825. Each with flared rim over a cut paneled bowl, octagonal cut stem and round foot with polished pontil. Each goblet varies slightly from the other. Two measure 4- 7/16" H, the other 2 measure 4- 5/16" H. Note: Two other goblets from this family are extant. One is currently in the collection of Traveller's Rest, the other resides at The Hermitage, along with a similar goblet donated by another Nashville family which has descended with the same oral history. For a picture of the goblet at The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, and an account of the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to Nashville, visit https://thehermitage.com/marquis-de-lafayette/# . Provenance: the estates of Llewellyna and James T. Granbery, Seven Springs Farm, Brentwood, Tennessee. CONDITION: One glass (4 7/16") has a 3/4" chip to rim. One glass (4 5/16") has a 1/2" area of abrasion and crackle to side of bowl. Two are in very good condition. All have some wear to bottom of foot. [See more photos →]

Gilt and enameled satin glass air-trap bride's bowl, ruffled edge, pink exterior, yellow-green interior, handpainted gilt scroll and white floral spray decoration. 5-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. Probably Thomas Webb and Sons, late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Some surface grime and and minor abrasions. Minor losses to gilt along rim. No evidence of chips to glass or repairs. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee (Claiborne County) diminutive Sheraton blanket chest, walnut primary, yellow pine secondary. Comprised of a single paneled top with molding, single paneled sides and six-paneled front with carved molding, over one long dovetailed drawer with wooden knobs, shaped skirt and turned inverted vasiform feet. 29 3/8" H x 40 3/4" W x 18 1/8" D. Circa 1830-1840. CONDITION: Right molding return to top missin, some stains ans wear to top, older refinish. [See more photos →]

Robert Atkinson Fox (Pennsylvania/Illinois/Canada, 1860-1935) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a group of cows in a field before a copse of trees, the spire of a church visible in the background against a mountain range and a cloudy sky. Signed "R.A.Fox." lower right. Christie's auction label with old retail sticker, attached en verso. Housed in a wormy chestnut frame. Sight – 13 3/4" H x 21 1/2" W. Framed – 16" H x 24" W. CONDITION: Overall good condition with craquelure. Minute hole, center left of canvas. Canvas slightly loose in frame. [See more photos →]

Helen LaFrance (Kentucky b. 1919) oil on artist’s board interior scene of African-American students in a classroom. Signed lower left. Sight – 12-1/4″ H x 15-5/8″ W. Framed – 16-3/4″ H x 20-1/2″ W. American, late 20th century. Provenance: Private Kentucky Collection. Biography: 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. (source: “Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories” by Kathy Moses). Alternate spelling: Helen La France. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Small abrasion to frame on right outside edge. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Chinese hardstone, jade and gilt bronze belt ornaments, including one with three shaped goldstones mounted onto a white jade base and inset into a gilt and foliate engraved bronze base (1 1/4" H x 3 1/8" L), one having three shaped hardstones mounted onto a white jade base and inset into a gilt and foliate engraved bronze base (1 1/2" H x 3 3/4" L) and one oval form having a dark red center and white jade mount (1 7/8" H x 2 5/8" L). All late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private West Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Minor discoloration to gilt bronze on first buckle. Triangular hardstones and white jade plaques on second buckle are intact but loose. [See more photos →]

Arthur Diehl (Massachusetts/New York/England, 1870-1929) oil on canvas painting depicting a Venetian canal with boats and gondolas in the background and gondolier in boat in the foreground. Signed lower left. Housed in giltwood frame with painted rabbet edge. Sight – 8 3/8" H x 11 3/8" W, Framed – 14" H x 17" W. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography: Best known for his sand dune and harbor scenes of Cape Cod, Arthur Diehl was born in England and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899. He came to America in the 1890s and became so associated with Cape Cod that Fox Movietone in 1921 made a short movie of him painting at Provincetown. He also had studies in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Boston, Worcester, and Truro, Massachusetts; and St. Augustine, Florida. (source: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art). CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Lucy Leuppe McKelvey (Navajo, 20th century) pottery jar titled "Whirling Rainbow Goddesses of the Windway Chant" with bright polychrome paint and mottled paint decoration to the body and painted lightening decoration to the inside of the neck. Signed on the base "Lucy Leuppe McKelvey/Asdzaan Kiisaani/Navajo/"Whirling Rainbow Goddesses of the Windway Chant". Photo of the potter holding this piece included. 11" H x 16" dia. 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Steven Lucas (b. 1955) Hopi polychrome pottery jar with bird element designs on the shoulder and sponge decoration on base. Inscribed "S. Lucas" and with images of a mudhead or "koyemsi" and an ear of corn for his great grandmother, Nampeyo, on base. 4" H x 9 1/8" diameter. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

James Lundburg (1953-2008) art glass trumpet vase, peach blossom with flared rim, signed and dated "James Lundberg D854 1989". 20" H. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Tadashi Nakayama (Japan, 1927-2014) woodblock print depicting a horse in shades of green, yellow, black, and white. Signed and dated "1968 T. Nakayama", lower left under image, and numbered "2/80", lower right under image. Red character seal, lower left en verso. Unframed. Image – 22 3/4" H x 16 1/4" W. Sheet – 28 3/4" H x 21 3/4" W. Mid 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Minute foxing spots, surface of sheet. [See more photos →]

Abstract oil on canvas painting rendered in a heavy impasto technique with an illegible signature lower right. Housed in a painted wood frame with sponge decoration, pencil inscription en verso indicates that the frame was made by the Knoxville artist Charles Kermit Ewing (Tennessee, 1910-1976). Sight – 23 1/2" H x 29 1/2" W. Framed – 36 1/4" W x 30 1/2" W. 20th century. Provenance: Private Morristown, TN Estate. CONDITION: Some surface grime to canvas, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Civil War 1853 Pattern Rifled Enfield Tower rifle or Pí53/2, .577 caliber. Lockplate marked with a Crown to the rear of the hammer and 1857 over TOWER forward of the hammer. Proof, commercial provisional proof and view marks top of barrel near hammer. Two iron barrel bands and iron ramrod. Brass trigger guard, nose cap, and buttplate. English walnut fullstock, with incised numbers on the butt. Barrel – 31 5/8" L. 47 1/2" total L. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Very light pitting to barrel. General use wear to stock, a couple of minor areas of patches (near hammer and edge of stock butt). Brass nose cap, trigger gaurd, and grease hole appear to have been aggressively cleaned. Action is good. Bore is dark. [See more photos →]

Carved Chinese white jade buckle, oval form with carved chrysanthemum and scrolling leaf design to the front, carved chilong dragon hook and carved rosette hook to the back. 2 3/4″ H x 3 1/2″ W. Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Small chip to back lower edge, one circular inclusion lower right, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Navajo Klagetoh rug with central stepped serrated diamond and lozenge shape with hooks to the corners, flanked by a row of twin arrow designs, all within a black/dark grey border. Woven in colors of black/dark grey, tan and red on a cream background. 70 1/2" L x 44" W. 2nd item: Navajo Ganado rug with central rectangle, stepped triangle and stepped diamond designs, flanked by additional geometric designs. Woven in colors of red, dark brown and cream. 71 1/4" H x 49 1/2" W. Both rugs 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Scattered stains and wear. Possible fading to black/grey areas. Losses to corners, weaving flaw noted to one end. 2nd item: Some bleeding of red, some staining. [See more photos →]

73 assorted sterling flatware pieces plus one boxed set. 1st group: 37 pieces assorted vintage American sterling silver flatware and serving pieces by Gorham, Whiting, E. Jaccard & Co., Alvin, Kirk, Durgin, Frank Whiting and more including 3 cold meat forks, 1 cheese scoop, 1 piccalilli spoon, 4 master butter knives, 1 casserole spoon, 4 cocktail forks, various spoons and 1 dinner knife with weighted handle, 4" to 9-1/1" L, 32.565 weighable oz troy. 2nd group: 36 assorted British and American sterling silver souvenir spoons, many with gilt bowls, from various locations including Washington, Cincinnati, Columbus, OH, Salem, MA, St. Louis, NYC and Sheffield thistle spoon, 3-7/8" to 5-3/4" L, 19.685 oz troy. 3rd group: Boxed set Mappin & Webb Sheffield Kings pattern sterling silver dessert set including 6 forks and 6 knives, sterling weighted handles and silverplated blades and tines, date mark 1900, maker's mark B&M in rectangle. Box – 1-1/2" x 8-3/4" x 13-5/8". 52.25 total weighable oz troy. CONDITION: Items in good condition with some surface wear. Some with monograms. [See more photos →]

Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume (District Of Columbia, 1816-1892), Pair of oil on canvas companion portraits depicting CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman and his wife Mary Ambler Marshall Coleman. Lewis Coleman is depicted wearing a black suit and black tie and Mary A. Marshall Coleman is depicted wearing a black dress with a lace collar and cameo brooch. Signed lower right corner "L.M.D. Guillaume". Housed in gilt wood frames with oval openings. Female portrait: Sight – 27" H x 22 1/4" W. Framed – 37 1/2" H x 32" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from the subjects, Lewis Minor Coleman and his wife, Mary Ambler Marshall Coleman (daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835); their son, Lewis M. Coleman Jr. was related to the family of U.S. War Secretary Major General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd. Annette was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and his wife Pamela August Gilman (1802-1880) and was the great-granddaughter of Gen. Dearborn on her mother's side). Biography: "Coleman, Lewis Minor, born in Hanover County, Virginia, February 3, 1827; graduated with high honors at the University of Virginia, in 1846, and became principal of the Hanover Academy; in 1859, upon the resignation of Dr. Harrison from the chair of ancient languages in the University of Virginia, Mr. Coleman, who had been a pupil of Dr. Harrison, was elected professor of Latin, and relinquished his position in the Hanover Academy to accept the same; he served in that capacity but for two years, for in 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the ranks of the Confederate army, in which he enlisted as captain of an artillery company which he recruited; he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel of artillery in 1862; at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he was severely wounded, and after three months died from his injury, March 21, 1863". (source: "The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography:, Volume III, by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D., 1915). Artist biography: Living in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War, Louis-Mathieu Guillaume was likely the best trained portraitist there at that time. His best known work is "Surrender of General Lee to General Grant, April 9, 1865," and it appears to have been based on photographs although he is said to have been present at the event. He also completed six equestrian portraits of Confederate leaders. He was born in Nantes, France and studied in Paris with Paul Delaroche and Pierre Lacour. In 1855, he came to the United States and spent several years in New York City and then in 1857 settled in Richmond, Virginia until 1871 when he moved to Washington DC. (Source: Askart). CONDITION: Female Portrait: extensive old repairs, including 4 tears with patches and inpainting. Significant bloom in varnish particularly to sitter's dress. Scattered brown accretions/splatter across canvas. Male portrait: Recently professionally cleaned with some areas of inpainting. Light vertical abrasions to paint surface running the entire visible length of the painting possibly due to past aggressive cleaning. Framed with later gilt paint. [See more photos →]

Walter Farndon (American, 1876-1964) oil on board street scene with figures, signed lower left; titled "Street Wait" on Vose Galleries Boston label, verso (#WF-13). Giltwood molded frame. 10" x 8" board, 15" x 13" framed. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Some warping to board. Two 1/4" flakes lower right corner edge; 1/2" separation at upper left corner; 1/8" flake upper left near edge. [See more photos →]

Hudson River Landscape, manner of Victor de Grailly (France/New York, 1804-1889). Oil on canvas landscape depicting figures on a bridge overlooking the river, with sailboats and a steamship passing below. 14" x 20" canvas. 17 1/2" x 23" framed. Housed in an antique giltwood molded frame. Mid to Late 19th century. CONDITION: Two 1/2" areas of abrasion with paint loss upper left corner and four smaller areas lower right quadrant; one small area lower left corner. 1/4" area of impact cracquelure upper right quadrant in sky. Overall cracquelure and grime. Frame has shrinkage and some discoloration. [See more photos →]

10 sterling silver water goblets including set of 8 Alvin M157 with flared rim, gilt interior, stepped base, 6-1/2" H, 39.38 total oz troy/8 goblets. Together with 1 Fisher 69 sterling water goblet with flared rim and plain base, 6-3/4" H, 4.185 oz troy, and 1 Frank W. Smith Silver Co. 3924 sterling water goblet with gilt interior and flat base, 6-1/4" H, 3.84 oz troy. 47.405 total oz troy/10 goblets. Provenance: Private Kentucky Collection. CONDITION: No monograms. All in good condition except 2 Alvin goblets with one fleabite each and 1 with scattered rim abrasions. [See more photos →]

Three Asian jewelry items. 1st item: Red coral branch pin with 14k yellow gold double ring pin clasp, 3 1/4" L. 12.5 grams. 2nd item: Red coral 8 x 8.8 mm round bead necklace (42 beads) with 18K and red coral marquise clasp, 16 3/4" L, 40.5 grams. 3rd item: Spinach jade 12 x 12.5 mm round bead necklace (67 beads) with 14K yellow gold lozenge clasp with safety chain. 37 1/4" long. 186 grams. Provenance: Private collection, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: All in good condition. Some white showing through coral on some beads. See photos. [See more photos →]

French Empire period sterling silver coffee pot, urn form having an ebonized handle with silver ferrules, figural swan final, eagle spout, frieze along the upper body with female mask and swan decoration and a round base. Paris .950 standard mark and maker's mark to the underside of the lid. Paris .950 standard mark additionally on the upper side near spout and additional maker's mark to the base. Engraved Boyd family coat of arms reading "Confido" along with the initials "JPB" below the spout. 10 1/2" H. 23.790 weighable troy ounces. 1st half 19th century. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from Lewis Minor Coleman, Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. was also related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, serving for thirty-five years. He oversaw landmark decisions such as Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden and the Dartmouth College case. His lifelong friendship with George Washington developed during their Revolutionary War service including the winter at Valley Forge and the battles at Brandywine and Monmouth. CONDITION: A few areas of pitting/minor denting to lower body, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of Chinese Qing Dynasty Famille Rose Vases, baluster form with flared neck and Foo Dog mask handles, each enameled with scenes of a figures celebrating with a parade on one side, and a temple scene on the other. Old H. Moog Atlanta label to underside. 17 1/8" H. 15 lbs. 19th century. CONDITION: Couple of shallow small fleabites to rim and loss of gilding to rim; otherwise excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States, 1st Edition, Thomas G. Gentry, 1882. Published by J. A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia. Quarto, 300 pages with 54 chromolithographic plates and title page, lithographic frontispiece, hardbound in tooled brown covers with gilt and black lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine, gilt edges paper. 12" H x 9 7/8" W x 2 1/8" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear to covers, corners bumped. Toning impressions from colored plates and frontispiece visible on tissue paper guards. Tissue paper guard for "Maryland Yellow-Throat" plate is not present. Color plates are collated. Pages in overall good condition with toning. 1/2" tear to second front end paper. [See more photos →]

Dan Bodelson (New Mexico/ California, b 1949) oil on board titled "Cooking Wood" depicting a burro with fire wood strapped atop its back and chicken in at its feet, in a courtyard setting. Signed lower left and titled en verso with additional artist signature or name. Housed in a giltwood frame with linen mat. Old label for Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale Arizona, back of frame. Sight – 8 3/4" H x 11 1/2" W. Framed – 18" H x 20 1/2" W. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Minor rubbing to gilt on frame corners, otherwise overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Roycroft Arts and Crafts Bronze vase, designed by Dard Hunter (1883-1966), hammered bronze with geometric silver inlay. Orb and cross mark to underside. 6 1/4" H. Circa 1915. Provenance: A Nashville, TN estate. CONDITION: Moderate scratching overall with some small areas of scattered corrosion on exterior. Interior shows green areas of patina. We have made no attempt to remove marker inscription to the base. [See more photos →]

Gorham Manufacturing Co. sterling silver flatware, Chantilly pattern, 72 pieces, including 14 dinner knives (8 7/8" L), 6 forks (7" L), 11 salad forks, 11 teaspoons, 11 flat butter spreaders, 10 demitasse spoons (4 1/8" L), 1 table serving spoon, 1 pierced serving spoon, 1 cold meat fork, 1 sugar shell spoon, 1 sugar tong, 1 pierced bon bon spoon, 1 iced beverage spoon, 1 round bowl soup spoon and 1 master butter knife. 56.145 weighable oz troy. Not monogrammed. Provenance: The estate of Martha Goldsmith, Clarksville, TN. CONDITION: All in good condition with minor surface wear. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Franz Windhager (Germany/Austria, 1879-1959) oil on chamfered wood panel painting of a man, woman and child dining at a table on a garden terrace beside a large tree. Signed and dated F WINDHAGER 1918 upper right. Later distressed carved giltwood frame with painted taupe wood mat. Illegible stamp en verso and numbered B6255. 9 3/8" x 7 1/2" sight, 17" x 14 1/2" framed. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Tennessee Centennial memorabilia items. 1st item: Silhouette depicting President William McKinley with the captions "Exposition Souvenir — Nashville Centennial Tennessee" and "taken from life June 12, 1897", above and below the image. Signed "Baj B." lower right. Housed under glass in a black painted frame with gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight – 5 7/8" H x 4 3/8" W. Framed – 8" H x 6 1/2" W. 2nd item: Souvenir medallion depicting the "Giant See-Saw" obverse, and the main buildings, including the Parthenon and the Memphis-Shelby pyramid, reverse. Includes a typed note from the Robert J. Centola Collections, Alexandria, VA, dated November 13, 1999, No. 287. Housed in a navy blue faux leather box with white satin lining stamped "Jose Muniz Ottero…Rue Buenos Ayres…" interior of lid. Coin – 3" dia. Box – 1 1/8" H x 5 1/4" W x 5 1/4" D. 3rd item: "Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Opened May, 1 and Closed October 30, 1897" edited by Herman Justi, published under the direction of Dr. W. L. Dudley and G. H. Baskette, of the Committee on Publication, Nashville, TN, 1898. Folio, hard bound in black cloth and half leather bindings with gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, 495 pages including Index and Appendix. Inscribed and dated by James W. Blackmore of Gallatin, Tennessee, October 26, 1898, front end paper. Possible library label reading "Number 578.A.9." pasted inside of front cover. 14" H x 11 1/4" W x 1 1/4" D. Note: James W. Blackmore (1843-1914) was a lawyer and a Tennessee State Senator, 1873-1887. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with scuffs. Not examined outside of frame. 2nd item: Medallion in overall good condition with surface scratches. Areas of loss, largest 1 1/2", to edges and surface of box. Areas of picking, discoloration to satin lining of box. 3rd item: Overall good condition with areas of loss to leather, largest 7 1/2", and surface scratches to cloth covers. Pages appear collated and in very good condition. [See more photos →]

Mort Kunstler (American, b. 1931) watercolor and gouache winterscape painting depicting World War I soldiers on horseback exchanging gunfire with soldiers aboard a Russian Civil locomotive train. Signed lower center margin "M. Kunstler". Presentation pencil inscription en verso reading "To Arthur & Jean Reiss with warmest personal best wishes – Mort Kunstler/10-15-77". Housed in a weathered wood frame. Sight – 20 3/8" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed – 28" H x 23 1/8" W. CONDITION: Couple of pinprick areas of spotting upper right, otherwise overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Sakti Burman (France/India, b. 1935) watercolor and pen on paper laid on board, untitled, images include baby elephant, woman reclining, lioness in standing tree, seated male and female figures. Signed lower right center. Framed in contemporary cream painted frame. Sight – 16 1/2" H x 23 1/8" W. Framed – 25" H x 34 3/4" W. Late 20th century. Provenance: South Carolina collector. CONDITION: Image in very good condition with tape residue on top and bottom outer edges of sheet. Frame with three losses to outside edges. [See more photos →]

Civil War era, likely Confederate, drum with rope and leather spacers over wooden body with three columns of brass rivets and calfskin heads. No manufacturer's label visible. Canvas strap included. 17" H x 16 1/2" dia. Canvas strap approximately 38" L. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with wear and surface scratches, largest 9" x 7", to be expected from age and manner of use. Cracks, losses to wood, largest 9", to base. 2 3/4" x 2 1/4" green mark to bottom drum head. [See more photos →]

1st-3rd items: Group of three (3) framed President John F. Kennedy White House Christmas Cards from the years 1961-1963. One card is a framed photo of the White House, the other two cards depict interior scenes of the White House. Printed inscription and signatures by the President and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Inscriptions read "With our appreciation and best wishes for a happy Christmas". One card retains a red White House label en verso. Ranging in size from: Overall, 15 1/2" H x 18 1/2" W to 21 3/4" H x 23" W. Provenance: From the estate of Captain Gordon Wells, member of the Secret Service's Uniformed Division, the White House Police, from 1943 through 1967. During his tenure, Wells received mementos from sitting Presidents and First ladies of 5 administrations, from Franklin Roosevelt through Lyndon B. Johnson. CONDITION: 1st-3rd items: Overall very good condition, not examined out of the frames. [See more photos →]

Chinese Famille Rose porcelain garden seat, barrel form with pierced medallions to the top and sides with an enameled figural landscape vignette to each side and all over enameled foliate decoration. 18 3/4" H x approx. 13" dia. 32 lbs. Late 19th/Early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall light general wear to enameled decoration, light wear consistent with use to top. [See more photos →]

Chinese two-part white jade brooch, the lower section modeled as a butterfly hovering over two flowers, with the carving on the upper section remniscient of a bee, 3 1/3″ x 2 1/8″ overall. Early 20th century. Provenance: Middle Tennessee collection, by descent from Allen and Janet Rundell. Mr. Rundell was a Vice President of the Della Rama Steamship Company in Shanghai before and after World War 2. They were interned by the Japanese during the war. This brooch and two other related lots in this auction were buried prior to the Japanese takeover and retrieved when Mr. Rundell returned. CONDITION: Clasp is broken on pin. Small loss to a foliate leaf on top corner edge of lower carving near the clasp, approximately 1/16 inch long. [See more photos →]

2 Coin silver mint julep cups or tumblers, round tapered form with molded lip and foot, incuse mark on base STANDARD P.L.K. / JOHN B. AKIN DANVILLE KY (Maker Peter L. Krider, working Philadelphia, 1850-1903; Retailer John B. Akin, working Danville, Kentucky circa 1855-1860). Engraved script monogram TNL. 3 1/2"H, 10.02 oz troy. Provenance: Descended in the Talbot-Lindsey family of Frankfort, Ky. Helen Talbot, the granddaughter of second Kentucky governor James Garrard, was born in Bourbon Co. in 1841; she married John B. Lindsey in 1860 and they lived in Frankfort, KY. CONDITION: Several small dents, up to 3/8", and scratches. [See more photos →]

Three vintage American gold coins. 1st item: One 1900 Liberty Head $5 gold coin, Philadelphia mint, 1,405,500 mintage, 0.900 Fineness, 8.36 grams, 21.6mm diameter, edge not visible, circulated. Mounted in gold-plated pendant mounting. 2nd item: One 1913 Indian Head gold coin, Philadelphia mint, 722,000 mintage, 0.900 Fineness, 4.18 grams, 18mm diameter, reeded edge, circulated. 3rd item: One 1908 Indian Head gold coin, Philadelphia mint, 564,821 mintage, 0.900 Fineness, 4.18 grams, 18mm diameter, reeded edge, circulated. 17 total grams. CONDITION: All coins circulated. [See more photos →]

One (1) Colony of New Hampshire Six Pence note, serial number 3803, dated November 3, 1775. Printed lettering on the note reads "The Po[s][s]e[s][s]or of this NOTE shall be intitled [sic] to receive out of the Trea[s]ury of this Colony, the Sum of [s]ix pence Lawful Money on the 20th of December 1782; and this Note [s]hall be received in all Payments at the Tre[s]sury at any Time after the Date hereof" surrounded by decorative foliate border. John Calfe/Nicholas Gilman signatures. 2 5/8" H x 5 7/8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Lewis M. Coleman Jr. II (1894-1914), son of Lewis M. Coleman Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: Overall good condition with tears, largest 3/4", areas of loss, 1/8" x 1", foxing spots, crease to center, to be expected from age and manner of use. Signatures in strong, visible condition. [See more photos →]

American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Vol. III & V, by Alexander Wilson, 1812. Published by Bradford and Inskeep, Philadelphia. Quarto, III – 120 pages, 9 engravings, V – 122 pages, 7 engravings, including index and copper plate engravings with hand coloring, hardbound, half-binding with red leather covers and spines with marbled paper covers. Paper label from previous owner reading "Mann S. Quarles", inside of front covers. 14 1/8" H x 11" W. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Covers worn, rubbing to leather, shelf wear, corners bumped. Tears, largest 7 3/4", pages 59-68 of Vol. III, heavy foxing spots, toning impressions from plates to majority of pages. Last few pages of Vol. III, half of pages to Vol. V separated from spine. Vol. III missing "Chimney Swallow" and "Carolina Pigeon, or Tutle Dive" engravings. [See more photos →]

3 Native American Pottery Pcs. 1st item: Polychrome Hopi pottery jar by Fannie L. Polacca, round form with narrow opening, decorated with leaf and geometric designs. Signed "Fannie L. Polacca Nampeyo" with symbol on underside. 7"H x 10 1/2" dia. 20th c. Note: The artist is the daughter of Tom Polacca, the Granddaughter of Fannie Nampeyo and has won numerous awards for her work. 2nd item: San Idelfonso redware pottery jar with serpent and plant images on glossy red ground, signed on base "Albert and Josephine San Ildefonso, Pue", 8" H x 8 3/4" W at center, 20th century. 3rd item: Navajo hand-painted etched pottery clap pot with bird feather and other designs, signed and dated on base "Garr Navajo 2001". 6" H x 5 3/4" W. 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Excellent condition. 2nd item: Excellent condition. 3rd item: Few minor abrasions to base. [See more photos →]

Civil War era archive, 8 items total. 1st item: ALS. Two page double-sided letter. From Lewis Minor Coleman, University of Virginia, to Mary Orell Coleman, his mother, dated February 24, 1861. Coleman begins the letter by writing about family matters, specifically concerning his daughters Claudia and Maude. He also responses to his mother's "anxiety about my political course" stating that he voted for John Bell and Edward Everett of the Constitutional Union Party. He writes "…I shall be in favor of Va's going with her Southern sisters & I have confidence enough in a good God to believe that he will help us in our new Confederacy, if we are forced into it, as that vulgar, low-lived, foolish Lincoln seems likely to do…Even war has frequently proved in history the bloody portal to a more enduring glory & happine[s]s. I trust in God–There are too many noble men & good women in this south of ours, too many pious saints for God to give us up merely on account of a change in the form of our Government". He mentions that he would like for her to come visit him and his family and requests that she give his kind regards to his friends and family members. He ends the letter by stating that he is her "Affectionate Son Lewis M. Coleman". 9 3/4" H x 7 3/4" W. 2nd item: ALS. One page double-sided letter. From Lewis Minor Coleman, Camp near Winchester, VA, Mary Ambler Marshall Coleman, to his wife, dated November 11, 1862. Coleman writes to his wife to give her instructions concerning regarding how she can go about obtaining a passport from "the Yankee General in command" to cross lines, stating "none but a brute would refuse you, if you state the circumstances–your father's sickness, your separation from your children & c…" he also writes that if she comes by Winchester she would have a chance to see him. Of his fellow soldiers, he writes "We have just received from Chantilly [VA] the sad intelligence of Willie's death from typhoid fever Lexington…". Coleman also mentions that a friend of his is missing, writing "…I fear he is either sick or was carried back to Culpepper by the tide of [Lieutenant-General James] Longstreet's army, probably misdirected by the soldiers who always think that everybody is going in the direction in which their own division is moving…". He ends the letter by stating that he is her "Devoted Husband Lewis M. Coleman". 12 1/8" H x 7 1/2" W. 3rd item: CSA bond issued to Louis Minor Coleman for the sum of eight hundred dollars "redeemable after the first day of January 1864 with interest from the 29 day of October 1862…" as part of an act approved by the CSA congress, August 19, 1861. Bond issued in Richmond, VA, and signed by Robert Tyler, Register of the Treasury, dated October 29, 1862, with initialed signatures indicating that it was entered and recorded into the record. Serial number 531. The reverse indicates that the amount was transferred to George Fleming of Hanover County, Virginia by Mary Ambler Coleman, dated January 4, 1864, after the death of Lewis Minor Coleman, her husband, at Fredericksburg, March 24, 1863. Executed in the presence of and signed by William Bagby, Louisa County, Virginia. Later pencil inscription and ink inscription reading "Sale of Sandora", lower right. 8" H x 12 1/2" W. 4th item: Confederate spelling book, belonging to Matilda Minor Coleman, daughter of Lewis M. Coleman. 156 pages bound in blue cloth with yellow hand stitching. The content of the pages include spelling and reading exercises with "Confederate Spelling Book" above each page. The book also contains some steel engraved images, including one titled "Capital at Richmond" with a short description on page 123. 8" H x 4 7/8" W x 3/4" D. 5th item: Daguerreotype, sixth-plate, depicting Mary Ambler Marshall Coleman, wife of Lewis M. Coleman. Housed in a gutta percha case with purple velvet interior with embossed marks for William Abbott Pratt's Virginia Skylight Daguerrean Gallery, 145 Main Street, Richmond, VA. 3 7/8" H x 3 3/8" W. 6th item: Cartes de visite (CDV) depicting the Confederate Tomb at Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA. Studio marks for Theodore Lilienthal (United States/Germany, 1829-1894), back of CDV. 5 1/8" H x 3 3/8" W. 7th item: Booklet titled "A Short History of Genl. G. E. Pickett" lithographed and printed by Knapp and Company, Park Place, NY, 1888. Originally included in packages of Duke's Cigarettes. Paper bound with chromolithographic images of Pickett, front cover, and a Confederate soldier firing a rifle into a a vignette of a landscape, back cover. Includes facsimile of Pickett's signature, inside of front cover. 2 7/8" H x 1 5/8" W. 8th item: Illustrated souvenir album of West Point Academy, reproduced from photographs by Louis Glaser's Process, published by the Wittemann Brothers, New York, NY, circa 1885. Thirteen lithographic images depicting scenes of West Point housed in a green cloth bound album with black lettering an tooled designed to covers. Images approximately 2 1/2" H x 3 7/8" W. Album – 3 1/2" H x 5 1/4" W x 1/4" D. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from Lewis Minor Coleman, Jr., son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. was related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, tears, etc. and to be expected from age. Signatures in good condition. 3rd item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, toning, to be expected from age. 4th item: Overall good condition with tears, foxing spots, wear, etc. to be expected from age and manner of use. Pages collated, with majority separated from the spine. 5th item: Overall good condition. Image faded but visible. Case separated at spine with loss, largest 3 1/4", to edges. 6th item: Overall good condition with fading, foxing spots, to be expected from age. 7th item: Overall good condition with dampstaining, to be expected from age. 8th item: Images no longer attached to binding. 1/4" x 1" loss to top corner of first image. Covers in overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Group of six 14K gemstone rings in various settings. 1st item: Emerald cut blue topaz framed by 26 prong-set round diamonds with a total weight of approximately 1.00 ct., ring size 7-1/4. 2nd item: Angel skin coral bead cluster ring, 6 beads mounted in yellow gold naturalistic setting, ring size 8. 3rd-6th items: Oval opal doublet in white gold filigree mounting, marquise amethyst, oval faceted pink quartz in white gold and oval faceted smoky topaz solitaire rings in various 14K mountings, ring sizes 8 and 9-1/4. 42.8 grams total weight/6 rings. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with scattered surface grime. Rose quartz stone with few fleabites on girdle. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) Louis Jones (1878-1958, American/Tennessee) drypoint etchings, depicting landscapes in the Smoky Mountains. Each pencil signed, titled and dated. Titles include: In the Great Smokies/1940, An Old Mountain Bridge/1940 and Little Cabin in the Smokies/1937. Etchings range in size from 4″ H x 4 7/8″ W to 4 3/8″ H x 47/8″ W. All housed in a contemporary 3-part frame, 8 1/4″ H x 6″ W, each frame. Note: Jones was an Impressionist painter from Woodstock, New York and established the Cliff Dwellers studio in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. CONDITION: All overall very good condition. Margins of etchings have been folded to fit in the frame but appear to be uncut. [See more photos →]

Framed Chinese Qing Dynasty silk embroidered double panel with blue sash border, seamed at center, image in various shades and stitches of gold depicting two opposing five-toed dragons chasing a pearl and bats, magic fungus, fans, conch shells, various flowers and clouds surround them. The blue border is stitched with various figures in garden scenes using muted colors. Framed in gilt concave frame with rounded edges. Sight – 18 1/4" H x 47 5/8" W. Framed – 20 1/4" H x 49 3/4" W. 18th or 19th century. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Embroidery with some fading/age-related discoloration. Generally good condiiton. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Richard Clarke (American/Tennessee, 1923-1997) abstract Tennessee landscape watercolors on one paper, one titled "Roan Mountain III", depicting the mountain during late summer, signed and dated "Clarke/'63" lower right. Titled lower left margin, numbered and dated "9-14-63, 1963/306". The other scene untitled but on the reverse of same sheet depicting a summer scene of Roan Mountain. Signed and dated lower right "Clarke/'67" and additionally dated in the lower margin "July 20, 1967". Unframed. 18 3/4" H x 23 3/4" W. Biography: Richard Clarke was one of the early members of the University of Tennessee's art faculty. He is often associated with the "Knoxville Seven", a group of progressive artists connected to the University of Tennessee which included Robert Birdwell, C. Kermit Ewing, Joanna Higgs, Walter H. Stevens and Carl Sublett. He often found inspiration for his watercolor abstractions in the natural world around him. CONDITION: Minor toning to paper, otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Walter Hollis Stevens (Tennessee, 1927-1980) polymer tempora on canvasboard painting titled "Ramsey Ridge," abstract scene in shades of blue, green, and black. Signed and dated "Stevens '61", lower left. Signed with artist's name and address "W. H. Stevens 838 Temple Ave. Knoxville, Tenn.", title, medium, and original price, en verso of canvasboard, additional signature, en verso of frame. Sight – 21 1/2" H x 29 1/2" W. Framed – 29 1/2" H x 37 1/2" W. Housed in a grey wooden frame with off white wooden rabbet edge. Provenance: The estate of John Donnelly, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Three minor areas of frame abrasion top edge and small drip stain lower center. [See more photos →]

Queen Anne child's desk, probably birch primary with maple legs, chestnut and white pine secondary. Comprised of a slant front top enclosing three pigeonholes with molded lower edge, above a flat writing surface. Single dovetailed drawer; tapering cylindrical legs terminating in pad feet. Slant front and drawer fitted with engraved batwing hardware. 33 1/2" H x 22 1/2" W x 15 1/4" D. Circa 1770. Provenance: Private Southern collection, purchased from A. Fairfax Antiques, Charleston, South Carolina, found in Northeastern (Edenton), North Carolina. CONDITION: Drawer bottom secured with later nails. Stains to top. Overall general wear, some heavy scratching and abrasions. [See more photos →]

Scarce triple comb back Windsor armchair, maple and pine, sack back with comb extension, shaped crest over bow pierced by nine taper spindles, arms ending in scalloped handholds supported by vase and ring supports. Scooped oval pine seat with incised outline on vase and ring turned tapered legs joined by three bulbous stretchers. Partial old paper label under seat. 40 1/4" H x 25 1/8" W x 16 1/8" D. Late 18th century. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased 1986 from Patricia Clegg Antiques, Los Gatos, California. Receipt accompanies lot. CONDITION: Wear to both handholds. Possible small loss to one ear. Split underneath seat. Repair to one stile pin under seat. [See more photos →]

11 Gold Jewelry Items. 1st item: 14K yellow gold lion pendant/brooch with Star of David, Chai symbol and small round diamond accent. Stamped 14K B, engraved UJA (United Jewish Appeal) 1985. 1-5/8" x 1-1/2", 14.6 grams. 2nd item: 14K large smoky topaz pendant/brooch, smoky topaz: 13.7 x 41.48 x 26.3mm, brooch: 1-1/4" x 2", 26.9 grams. 3rd item: Asian green jade round pendant with 14K characters and bale, 1-3/16" dia., 8.5 grams. 4th-7th items: 4 pair 14K earrings of various designs, leaf earrings for non-pierced ears, 5/8" to 1-3/4" L, 13.4 grams/4 pr. 8th item: 14K seed pearl starburst pin, 1" dia., 3.8 grams. 9th item: 14K clasp with spinach green jade and gold heart, 1 1/2", 3.5 grams. 10th item: 14K figaro link bracelet, 8-1/4" L, 2.9 grams. 11th item: 10K hinged 3-card charm with Star of David on front, 3/4" x 1/2", 4.7 grams. Total 14K excluding smoky topaz and jade pendants: 38.2 grams. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: All items in good condition with some surface wear due to age. [See more photos →]

Five pieces of American Colonial currency including: 1st item: 1774 Maryland 2/3 dollar, #6990, 2nd item: 1773 Pennsylvania 50 Shilling, #19494, 3rd item: 1771 Pennsylvania 10 shilling, 4th item: 1769 Pennsylvania One Pound Ten Shillings, #2653, and 5th item: 1776 Delaware 10 Shillings, #94228. Each housed within a protective plastic sleeve and framed together in a gilt and ebonized frame. Framed – 16 1/2" H x 11 1/4" W. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: All with appropriate circulation wear and wear to the edges. A couple with staining to one corner. One with folding to center and slight loss to both center edges. Not examined out of the frame. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Sergeant Alvin Cullum York autographed items. Includes a black and white photo of York with ink inscription reading "To Miss Barneballor Sgt Alvin York" top right. Includes a 500th Anniversary Johann Gutenberg press 1639-1939 first day cover, with ink inscription reading "Sgt. Alvin York", center left, postmarked April 1, 1940, Wolf River, TN with stamp and additional address, right. Also includes a cut signature with ink inscription reading "Sgt. Alvin York". Ink inscriptions about items and River Bend Gallery, Gallatin, TN label, en verso. Items matted and housed under glass in a black wooden frame with gilt rabbet edge. Sight – 18 1/2" H x 9 1/8" W. Framed – 19 1/2" H x 10 1/4" W. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. Biography: Alvin Cullum York (1887-1964) was one of the most decorated soldiers of the First World War. A recipient of the Medal of Honor and the French Legion of Honour, York is considered one of the greatest of Tennessee's native sons. After the United States became involved in the war in 1917, Alvin York received his induction orders from the U. S. Government. He was twenty-nine years old and had never been more than a few miles away from home. He visited the general store of Parson Pile in order to send his military draft registration. York had reservations about serving in the war based on his religious convictions, but upon later reflection he determined it was his duty to fight in a war against the evils of the world. After basic training, Private Alvin York served at Camp Gordon, Georgia, in Company G, 328th Infantry Regiment, 82nd U.S. Army Infantry Division. Cpl. York and his company were sent to the battle lines in Western Europe. During an attack on his battalion along the Decauville rail line north of Chatel-Chehery, in the Argonne Forest of France on October 8, 1918, Sergeant Bernard Early, four non-commissioned officers and thirteen privates, including York, were ordered to penetrate behind the German lines and take out the nest of machine guns. The group was largely successful in their endeavor, capturing many Germans who were preparing a counter-attack against Americans. However, machine gun fire broke out on a ridge. Many in the unit were killed or injured. The losses put Cpl. York in charge, and he and seven infantrymen worked their way into position to take out the German guns. York encountered several Germans and attacked their position, killing many and capturing others. He "got hold" of a German Major who said that he would make the others give up. (source: http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15138coll10). CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, surface of items and matte. Areas of mold, largest 1/4", lower quadrant of photograph. [See more photos →]

The American Flora, Vol. I-II, by Asa B. Strong, 1847 and 1848. Volume I: Published by J. C. Burdick, New York. Octavo, 142 pages including index and advertisement, lithographic additional title, frontispiece, and 50 plates, printed in colors and finished by hand, hardbound in tooled red cloth covers with with gilt lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine. Volume II: Published by Green and Spencer, New York. Octavo, 192 pages including index, lithographic additional title, frontispiece, and 46 plates, printed in colors and finished by hand, hardbound in tooled green cloth covers with with gilt lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine. Both volumes 10 1/4" H x 8" W x 1 1/4" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with fading, shelf wear, bumped corners, stains, etc., to covers. Heavy foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, toning to majority of pages including frontispiece (does not affect legibility). Toning impressions from colored plates visible on tissue paper guards. Color plates are collated. 10" x 1/2" tears to edges of pages 135-138, Volume II. Pencil inscriptions from previous owner to front end papers of both volumes. [See more photos →]

Navajo sterling silver and turquoise squash blossom necklace with twelve blossoms, naja with turquoise and floral and leaf design at top. Signed EY for artist Elsie Yassie and STERLING. Beads – 26 1/2" L plus Naja 2 1/2 " L. 5 oz troy. 20th century. Notre: Yazzie is listed in Hallmarks of the Southwest by Barton Wright, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1989, p. 148. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Inuit miniature round lidded baleen basket with carved walrus head figural finial. Dated on the underside of the finial "1960". 2 3/4" H. 2nd item: Inuit oval lidded baleen basket with alternating geometric designs. 2" H x 5" W x 3 1/8" D. 20th century. 3rd item: Inuit 2 color lidded basket wove with grass with red and green geometric decoration. 4 3/4" H x 4 1/4" dia. Circa 1950. 4th & 5th items: Miniature Inuit doll comprised of a carved and inked walrus body with seal fur clothing, together with a pair of miniature leather, fur and beaded boots. Figure – 6" L, boots 1" H. Both 1st half of 20th century. Provenance: The estate of Martha Goldsmith, Clarksville, TN. CONDITION: All items overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Persian Isfahan or Nain area rug, 65" x 41-1/2", wool on silk, round light blue center medallion, cream field, red primary border, secondary colors of blues, greens, taupe, salmon and peach. 2nd quarter 20th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Very good condition. Some loss to fringe and some surface grime. [See more photos →]

Three (3) items related to Dr. George Washington Fort, a Confederate States of America surgeon, 53rd Regiment, Georgia Infantry. 1st-2nd item: Two (2) Civil War era leather roll up sewing kits or "housewives" carried by Dr. Fort. The sewing kits, one with burgundy leather exterior and one with green, are lined with pink and white silk fabric, leather, and embroidered cotton on the interior compartments, including the monogram "G. W. F." to the burgundy kit. Compartments empty except for some brown thread in a compartment in the green sewing kit. Approximately 10 1/2" L x 3 1/2" W x 1" D. 3rd item: One (1) Carte de visite (CDV) depicting Dr. George Washington Fort, seated and in his uniform. Studio marks for Jordan and Company, late Bogardus, 229 Greenwich street, New York, NY, with ink inscriptions identifying Fort, en verso. Also includes a photocopy of Fort's CDV. 4 1/8" H x 2 1/2" W. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. Private Ringgold, Georgia collection. Biography: Dr. George Washington Fort was born in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 1828 to Dr. Tomlinson Fort (1787-1859) and Martha Low Fannin (1804-1883). He was a Confederate States of America surgeon, 53rd Regiment, Georgia Infantry during the Civil War. Fort's two brothers, Lieutenant John Fort and Colonel Tomlinson Fort, both served in the 1st Georgia Infantry regiment. He died on May 4, 1866 and is buried in Bibb County in Macon, Georgia. See related lots: XXXX CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall good condition with general wear, tears, etc. to be expected from age and manner of use. Pin cushion to burgundy kit separated from bottom. 3rd item: Face no longer visible due to sun fading. Overall fading, foxing spots, to be expected from age. [See more photos →]

English Regency mahogany flip-top card table, pine secondary wood, the rectangular top with canted corners and crossbanded edging, opening to a green baize-lined playing surface with full size storage compartment; conforming frieze with ebonized dot and line inlay, center panel with inlay, all raised on four turned standards, joined by an X-form stretcher with urn finial, supported on four downswept ebonized double line inlaid sabre legs, ending in brass animal paw feet with casters. 29 5/8" H x 36" W x 17 5/8" D, English, circa 1820. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence, and published in Southern Accents magazine, May-June 1985. CONDITION: 3/4" x 1 1/4" patch to lower right top surface. Surface scratches to top. Otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Early Regency mahogany writing table or desk, deal secondary wood. Rectangular top with leather inset above a frieze containing five dovetailed thumb-molded drawers surrounding a bracket kneehole, on square tapering legs. 30" H x 64-1/2" W x 30-3/4" D. English, early 19th century. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence, and published in Southern Accents magazine, May-June 1985. CONDITION: Brasses older but not original. Three locks missing. Center drawer locked. Scuffing to top edges and legs. [See more photos →]

Lucien Delarue (France, 1925-2011) oil on linen painting depicting a coastal village on the French Riviera with several boats in the harbor. Signed "Delarue" lower right. Housed in a giltwood frame. Sight – 21" H x 17 1/2" W. Framed – 26" H x 22 1/2" W. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. Originally on display at the James M. Haney Gallery in Amarillo, TX. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

A Compendium of Useful Information by Jesse Denson, 1813. Printed for the author, Nashville, Tennessee. 236 pages including a "To the Reader" introduction page by Denson and table of contents, hardbound one quarter leather binding to spine. The book covers wide variety of topics including Arts and Sciences, Aurora Borealis, Government, Mathematics, chapters discussing the different continents, Mythology, and Washington and others. 6" H x 3 3/8" W x 1 1/8" D. Biography: Born in Anson Co., North Carolina, Jesse "The Scribe" Denson moved to Stewart Co., Tennessee by 1804, with his brother Nathaniel and others from Anson Co., NC. He served as Sheriff of Stewart Co. TN- 1809/1810. He built a grist mill on Long Creek, 4 miles from Cumberland River. Served with General Jackson in the Creek Campaign and battles of the War of 1812 against the British. Served as Paymaster on the Creek expedition, also served as Secretary to Jackson and Chaplin. Enlistments: Oct 4, 1813 Paymaster in 1st Reg of Tenn. under Col. John Wayne; Jan 18, 1814 Quartermaster Sgt. under Maj. Thomas Williamson; April 16, 1814 Private in Col. John Miller's Reg. of Spies (Scouts). Petition before Congress for aid to Elder Denson found in National Archives, signed by: John Quincy Adams, Gen. Lafayette, Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, J. C. Calhoun, Wm. H. Crawford, James Madison. These people pledged money. Another petition for bounty land had two pages of signatures and recommended he be given bounty land, dated Feb. 1825. He went to Texas, petitioned Stephen F. Austin for land in the 2nd Colony and received a league of land on Spring Creek, granted May 4, 1831. He land was the farthest west, bounded by Samuel McCurley. In 1834 he sold this land to Elisha Roberts and returned to Rankin Co. MS. He married Ann M. A. Hutchins in Rankin Co. on 16th March 1836. He wrote two books, published in Nashville. The first was an allegory about his experiences in the Creek campaign,and the second "A Compendium of Useful Information", contains chapters on Art, Theology, Logic, Grammar, and many more topics. Both books are in the TN State Archives. The books show that Jesse Denson was an educated, highly intelligent man. A deed in Rankin Co., Mississippi between William Denson and Ezekiel Adams dated May 13, 1835, is witnessed by Jesse Denson and Eliza Denson. He passed away on July 29, 1841 (aged 96-97) in Pisgah, Rankin County, Mississippi, and is buried in Pisgah Cemetery. (source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16287898/jesse-denson). Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and music historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with wear to covers and foxing, areas of dampstaining, to pages to be expected from age. Leather cracked, areas of loss, largest 1/4" x 1/4", to spine. 5/8' x 1/2" areas of insect damage to back end paper. Ink inscriptions from previous owners to inside of front cover and front end paper. [See more photos →]

New England dome-shaped white pine lift top small trunk having comb grained red painted ground with black overlay and gold cartouche highlights. Square nail and board construction. The top with initials "W" and "H". Screw wire hook hinges and iron lock. 11" H x 26" W x 13" D. 1st half 19th century. CONDITION: Some wear to edges. Iron hinge pins loose. Iron hasp and lock plate old but possibly replaced. [See more photos →]

1820s Maryland needlework house sampler, silk on linen, signed Elizabeth Boyd with partial date 182_; wide floral and vine border enclosing a two story house with central pediment, framed by two weeping willow trees, behind an "eyeglass" garden gate and fence. Floral cartouche with central ribbon and rose spray, enclosing an 8-line poem with subject of bee and gardening. Baltimore church records show an Elizabeth Boyd, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Boyd, born 1 Oct. 1811, and another born 19 Aug., 1815 to Alexander and Mary Ireland Boyd. ( Research courtesy of Janet Hasson and Jennifer Core, Tennessee Sampler Survey). Sight – 21-1/2" H x 19-1/2" W. Framed – 24-1/2" H x 22-1/2" W. American, early 19th century. CONDITION: Losses to verse threads. Fraying to linen ground along center through poem down to house roof and below grass. Scattered stains, largest to right of garden gate. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Loretta Silas (Hopi, 20th century) polychrome pottery jars. Both jars with birds, bird feathers, and geometric designs. Both signed on the base "Loretta Silas/Hopi". Jars range in size from 10 1/2" H x 10 1/2" W to 12" H x 11 1/2" W. Total weight 14 lbs. Both pieces 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Both items overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

24-star flag plus Lincoln items, 3 items total. 1st item: Small American 24-star Missouri Statehood Centennial commemoration flag, comprised of applied hand-sewn wool stars on machine-sewn linen ground. No maker's marks. Turner Framing, Inc., Great Falls, Fall Church, VA label en verso. Flag mounted to card stock backing with three pieces of white archival tape scross top and housed under glass in carved gilt wood frame. Flag – 13" H x 17 1/2" W. Sight – 14 1/4" H x 18 5/8" W. Framed – 16 1/4" H x 20 3/4" W. Circa 1921. 2nd item: State of Illinois Republican ticket for the November 6, 1860 presidential election with Abraham Lincoln for President and Hannibal Hamlin for Vice-President. Also includes a list of "Electors of President and Vice-President", and the candidates for state elections including Richard Yates for Governor. Turner Art Gallery, Denver, CO label en verso. Matted and housed under glass in a wooden frame with gilt trim. Sight – 7 1/4" H x 3" W. Framed – 11 3/4" H x 6 7/8" W. 3rd item: National Lincoln Monument donation certificate, issued to William B. Akin in recognition that he "contributed Fifty Cents to the erection of a Monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, our martyred President". Signed by J. H. Beveridge, Treasurer, Springfield, IL, 1869. Includes a steel plate engraving of the monument designed by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, engraved by Western, Note, and Engraving Company, Chicago. Housed under glass in a carved wooden frame. Certificate – 9 1/4" H x 6 1/8" W. Sight – 9 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W. Framed – 11 3/4" H x 9 3/4" W. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Fraying, areas of dampstaining to stars. Areas of blue dye transfer to stripes closest to canton. 2nd item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of dampstaining to be expected from age. 1/8" tear, lower left of ticket. Not examined outside of frame. 3rd item: Overall good condition with foxing spots to be expected from age. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Pair of Neoclassical Robert Adam Style giltwood mirrors, each with floral and urn finials over a shield shaped mirror with husk-molded frame, acanthus, garland and husk molded drops. 47" H x 27 1/2"W. Likely Continental, 19th century. CONDITION: Mirrors and backings replaced. One mirror has repaired break to an urn finial with 1 small piece missing and repair to laurel swag; both have multiple small losses to husk frames and scattered minor losses and repairs to other areas of molding and gilding. [See more photos →]

24 piece Tiffany & Co. bone china luncheon/dessert set decorated in a Playing Cards pattern, consisting of 8 demitasse can cups (2 1/2" H) and 8 saucers (5" dia.), with 8 plates (8 1/8" dia.). Marked on base "Exclusively for Tiffany & Co. / Elizabethan Staffordshire Hand Decorated Fine Bone China England". 20th century. CONDITION: Excellent condition. Minor surface grime/areas of sticky residue. [See more photos →]

After Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1608-1669) eight (8) late 19th century heliogravure impressions attributed to Amand Durand (French, 1831-1905), on laid paper (some prints with watermarks). The prints reproduce Rembrandt etchings of religious scenes including Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins, Christ Carried to the Tomb, Christ Disputing with the Doctors, Christ Driving the Money Changers from The Temple, The Raising of Lazarus: Small Plate, Christ at Emmaus: The Larger Plate, The Descent from the Cross, and The Baptism of the Eunuch. All signed "Rembrandt" in the plate, all except Carried to the Tomb with original creation dates circa 1635-1642. Contemporary frames included. Prints approx. 4 7/8" H x 4 3/8" W to 7 1/8" H x 8 1/2" W. Frames range in size from 9" H x 10 3/8" W x 1 1/2" D to 13 1/2" H x 12" W x 2 5/8" D to 16 1/4" H x 16 1/4" W x 1 3/4" D. Alternate spelling Armand Duran. CONDITION: Overall good condition. All prints trimmed to plate lines. Christ Disputing and Baptism hinge mounted to mattes. [See more photos →]

Seven (7) Woodrow Wilson TLS, written as the 28th President of the United States of America, dated 1913-1917. 1st item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From President Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Washington, D.C., to Hon. Lewis M. Coleman, United States District Attorney, Chattanooga, TN, dated August 4, 1913. The letter reads "My dear Coleman: Thank you warmly for your letter of July thirteenth. I felt it due to Senator Lea to tell you what he had in mind, and am very much reassured by your letter. In haste Cordially and faithfully yours, Woodrow Wilson". 9" H x 7 1/8" W. Note: Luke Lea (1879-1945) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917. He was the publisher of The Tennessean. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) TLS. One page typed bifolium. From President Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated August 22 and 24, 1914. The letters discuss the illness of Wilson's first wife Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (1860-1914), reading "My dear Coleman: I want you to know how real a comfort it was to me to get your [letter/telegram] of sympathy. It is very delightful to feel the warm touch of a friend's hand at such a time, and your letter has served to give me strength and courage. Cordially and sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson". Includes one White House stationary envelope, with two black postmark stamps, one from Canton, Ohio, dated Oct 4, one illegible with 1915 below, and red two cent Washington stamp. 9" H x 7 1/8" W. 4th item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From President Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated November 26, 1915. The letter discusses Mrs. H. H. Maury of Anniston, AL, the sister of his Wilson's soon-to-be wife Edith Bolling Galt. Wilson writes "My dear Coleman: Thank you warmly for your letter of November twenty-first. I have not yet met Mrs. Maury but I think I can assure you that her sister, Mrs. Galt, is as charming as she is. I hope very much that both Mrs. Coleman and you may soon have an opportunity of testing that for yourselves. It was very kind of you to think of me. My mind often goes back to our delightful association in Virginia. I hope that you are enjoying your work and finding it in every way satisfactory. Always Faithfully yours, Woodrow Wilson". 9" H x 7 1/4" W. Note: Wilson married Galt on December 18, 1915, at her home in Washington, D.C. William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941), 46th United States Secretary of the Treasury and Wilson's son-in-law, was a witness. 5th item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From President Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated December 30, 1915. The one page folded letter, typed on White House stationary, with Hot Springs, Virginia address and marked Personal, was written during Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt's honeymoon and reads "My dear Coleman: Please accept my warmest thanks for your generous message. It is such things that keep a man in heart. Sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson". 9" H x 7 1/8" W. 6th item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From President Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Shadow Lawn, Virginia Beach , to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated October 3, 1916. The letter reads "My dear Coleman: I had already read your answer to Burton before you were kind enough to send it to me. It is a cracker-jack and hits the bull's-eye in every part. I thank you most heartily. In haste Cordially and faithfully yours, Woodrow Wilson". 9" H x 7 1/8" W. 7th item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From President Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated February 19, 1917. Written during the months leading to the entry of the United States in World War I, Wilson writes "My dear Coleman: Your letter of the seventeenth does you honor and it has warmed my heart to read it. I thank you warmly for it. You may be sure that I shall not forget your offer if any occasion should arose in which it seems possible that you could lend the hand we needed at the moment. Cordially and sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson". 9" H x 7 1/8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from Lewis M. Coleman (1861-1918, U.S. District Attorney, Chattanooga), son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, great granddaughter of Gen. Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Wilson signature strong, clear condition. Blue ink slightly smudged but legible. 2nd-3rd items: Overall good condition. Wilson signatures strong, clear condition. Traces of rust from paper clip, top center, with two minute areas of dampstaining, visible en verso of August 22 letter. Envelope with stains, tears, etc. to be expected from age and manner of use. Envelope might not be original to letter but was found with it. 4th item: Overall good condition. Wilson signature strong, clear condition. 1/2" x 1/2" brown stain, areas of dampstaining, largest 5/8" x 1 7/8", surface and en verso of letter (does not affect signature). Slight smudging to blue ink, transfer of ink to blank page. 5th item: Overall good condition with slight surface scuffs. Wilson signature strong, clear condition. Slight transfer of ink. 6th item: Overall good condition with minute foxing spots, brown stains, largest 1/4", surface and verso of letter. Wilson signature strong, clear condition. 7th item: Overall good condition with surface scuffs and slight waviness to letter. Wilson signature strong, clear condition. Green ink slightly smudged. [See more photos →]

Six Political Collectibles: 2 Trays and 4 Paperweights. 1st item: Taft 1908 Jugate lithograph tin plate titled "Grand Old Party 1856 – 1908 Standard Bearers". Center with vignettes of the 1908 presidential candidates Taft and Sherman, the rim with vignettes of the ten Republican presidential predecessors. 9 1/2" dia. 2nd item: William Jennings Bryan Presidential Campaign oval lithograph tray, depicting a portrait of the presidential candidate Bryan with a floral border and signature at the bottom. 16" H x 13" W. Circa 1896. 3rd item: 1904 Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Fairbanks presidential jugate glass colorless paperweight, flower form with painted enamel portrait, marked "Made by A. (Albert) Graeser, Pittsburgh, PA. 3 1/4" dia. 4th item: 1904 Theodore Roosevelt/Charles Fairbanks presidential jugate glass colorless paperweight, rectangular form with painted enamel portrait, marked "Made by A. (Albert) Graeser, Pittsburgh, PA. 2 1/2" H x 4" W. 5th item: William McKinely/Garrett Hobart presidential jugate colorless glass paperwight, rectangular from, with leather backing and illegible inscription. 2 5/8" H x 4" W. Circa 1896. 6th item: Theodore Roosevelt presidential portrait paperweight, circular form. 4 1/4" dia. Circa 1904. Provenance: Collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Nice color with minimal fading. Light cracquelure to front with very light scattered scratches noted to the center. Rubbing and minor paint loss to the back.2nd item: Overall light cracquelure to surface. Some rubbing to paint lower half, small loss to right shoulder. rubbing and losses to the edges and reverse. 3rd item: Rubbing to side, staining to enameled paint, one spot visible from top. 4th item: A couple of areas of pitting to top, light scratching. 5th item: Heavy scratching to top edge, upper left, very light scattered overall scratching. 6th item: [See more photos →]

Group of small silver objets de vertu. Includes 43 thimbles, 2 thimble cases, 11 salt cellars, 8 hinged patch/snuff boxes, 1 decanter lid with repousse decoration, 6 sultan hooks and nail files, and 1 needlecase, most marked sterling (2 large cellars with illegible marks, possibly Continental; a few other pieces unmarked). Combined weight all items marked sterling (excluding thimbles): 8.3 oz troy. CONDITION: Various monograms; scattered small dents. 2 salt cellars, 1 hook and 1 file with light corrosion/oxidation. 1 patch box significantly dented. [See more photos →]

Werner Wildner (Nashville, Tennessee, 1925-2004) graphite and watercolor surrealist drawing of an eagle with human body features, seated atop an egg. A “Punch” jester figure similar to those in other Wildner works projects from the eagle’s wings. Signed W. lower left quadrant. Matted and framed under glass in a silvered molded frame. 18 3/4″ H x 16 1/4″ W sight, 29″ H x 25″ W framed. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Light toning to paper, overall very good condition. Not examined out of frame. [See more photos →]

James Vance Miller (West Virginia/Virginia, 1912-2002) oil on board impressionist landscape painting of the Blue Ridge Mountains with valley below. Inscribed signature lower right "J. Vance Miller". Pencil signed by the artist en verso stretcher, pencil presentation inscription also en verso. Housed in a contemporary carved Lyzon Gallery gilt wood frame with painted wood liner. Sight – 8 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Framed – 14 1/8" H x 17 1/8" W. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography: James Vance Miller began painting in 1944 as a self taught artist, and it eventually became his full time work. He considered his paintings done in the Jefferson National Forest outside Blacksburg, Virginia, to be some of his finest work. He exhibited at various galleries and shows throughout the South including at the Fine Arts Museum of Western Virginia and the Worlds Fair in Knoxville, and was Artist in Residence for The Greenbrier Hotel in Lewisburg, W. Va. (source: Askart). CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Frank W. Long (Kentucky, 1906-1999) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a winding road in autumn hills with church at mid ground located in Pilot Knob, Madison County, Kentucky. Unsigned. Artist's name and 1934 written in marker on back of stretcher. Framed – 23 1/2" H x 29 1/2" W. Southern, 1934. Provenance: Private Kentucky Collection. Biography: Frank Long lived in Berea, KY between 1934 and 1962 while operating an art studio, lapidary and jewelry business. He participated in the New Deal mural project sponsored by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Art during the Depression and decorated 6 buildings with murals including the Berea Post Office. During his time in Berea, Long also created smaller scale paintings that were sold to the public and hung in homes throughout the area. He was drafted to serve in WWII and afterwards his interests shifted to jewelry making and preserving Native American artifacts. (Biography edited from Library Guides, Berea College, Hutchins Library). The painting is accompanied by a handwritten letter from the artist's wife along with a photograph of Mr. Long in his latter years. CONDITION: Overall good condition with three small paint chips lower left margin. [See more photos →]

Group of nine (9) United Confederate Veterans ribbons, badges, buttons. 1st item: Atlanta, GA, Atlanta Camp No. 159 UCV reunion badge, 1898. Consists of a metal hanger embossed "United Confederate Veterans Reunion" with a laurel wreath and two cross rifles and a printed silk ribbon featuring the Confederate battle flag with metal tassels attached to bottom. 8" H x 3" W. 2nd item: Nashville, TN Seventh Annual UCV Reunion printed satin ribbon. June 22-24, 1897. Features the Confederate battle flag. Also includes additional "DELEGATE U.C. V." printed silk ribbon, affixed with safety pin. 7 1/2" H x 2 3/8" W. 3rd item: UCV reunion celluloid button on red, white and blue silk cockade, circa 1896. Features the Confederate battle flag with "CUV" printed around it, surrounded by bronze metallic thread. Manufacturer's marks for the Whitehead and Hoag Company, Newark, NJ, back of button. 4 1/4" H x 2 3/8" W. 4th item: Partial New Orleans, LA UCV reunion badge, May 19, 1903. Consists of a printed silk ribbon and a hanging medallion featuring the embossed portrait of General John B. Gordon before two crossed flags with "61 UCV 65" above. Manufacturer's marks for Schwab Stamp and Stationery Company, reverse. 3" H x 1 5/8" W. 5th item: Nashville, TN UCV reunion lapel stud, June 1904. Features the embossed portrait of General John B. Gordon surrounded by a palm leaf, a trumpet, thirteen stars, and "UCV". Manufacturer's marks for the B. H. Stief Jewelry Company, Nashville, TN, en verso. 1 1/4" dia. 6th item: Tennessee Division N.B. Forrest, Camp No. 4 Chattanooga, New Orleans, LA UCV reunion badge, April 25-27, 1906. Consists of a celluloid button featuring the Confederate battle flag surrounded by "Official Reunion Badge United Confederate Veterans 1861 1865" with printed satin ribbon affixed below. Manufacturer's marks for M. C. Lilley and Company, Columbus, Ohio, back of button. 4 3/4" H x 1 3/4" W. 7th item: UCV reunion kepi or hat insignia metal pin. Features a laurel wreath surmounted by "UCV". 1 3/4" H x 2 7/8" W. 8th item: Atlanta, GA UCV reunion delegate celluloid button, July 20-23, 1898. Depicts the portrait of Jefferson Davis before two crossed Confederate flags. Manufacturer's marks for the Whitehead and Hoag Company, Newark, NJ, back of button. 1 7/8" dia. 9th item: UCV reunion celluloid button. Depicts the portraits of Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis, the "Daughter of the Confederacy", and Robert E. Lee, flanked by the Confederate Battle flag and the Second National Flag of the Confederate States of America, with "RE-UNION" printed above. Manufacturer's marks for the Philadelphia Badge Company, Philadelphia, PA on paper label, affixed en verso. 1 3/8" dia. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with stains, fraying, areas of loss, largest 2 1/4", to ribbon. Hanger missing central embellishment. 2nd item: Overall good condition with toning, stains, fraying, to be expected from age. 3rd item: Overall good condition with toning, stains, fraying, to be expected from age. 4th item: Ribbon frayed, top part of ribbon almost separated. Medallion in overall good condition. Does not include metal hanger. 5th item: Overall good condition with areas of tarnish to be expected from age. 6th item: Ribbon in fragmentary condition, backed by blue grosgrain ribbon. Button in overall good condition. 7th item: Overall good condition. 8th item: Overall good condition with light surface wear, areas of dampstaining to perimeter of button. 9th item: Overall good condition with light surface wear. [See more photos →]

Four (4) framed Cartes de Visite (CDVs) with signatures depicting 19th century Southern political figures; two frames containing two CDVs each. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) framed CDVs depicting Wade Hampton III and Matthew Calbraith Butler, politicians from South Carolina and Confederate generals. Signed by each on the mat below CDVs, dated "Jan'y 2nd 91", below Butler's signature. Hand written information about each with additional information housed in an envelope attached en verso. Housed under glass in a gilt gold and silver wooden frame. Sight – 5 1/2" H x 3 7/8" W. Framed – 11 1/4" H x 13 1/4" W. 3rd-4th items: Two framed (2) CDVs depicting Isham Green Harris and William Brimage Bate, Governors of Tennessee. Signed by each on the mat below CDVs. Hand written and photo copied information about each with additional information housed in an envelope attached en verso. Housed under glass in a gilt gold and silver wooden frame. Sight – 5 1/2" H x 3 7/8" W. Framed – 11 1/4" H x 13 1/4" W. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and music historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. Notes: Wade Hampton III (1818-1902) was a Confederate States of America military officer during the American Civil War and politician from South Carolina. During the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate cavalry, where he reached the rank of lieutenant general. (source: http://www.knowsouthernhistory.net/Biographies/Wade_Hampton/). Matthew Calbraith Butler (1836-1909) (grandson of William Butler [1759-1821], son of William Butler [1790-1850], and nephew of Andrew Pickens Butler), a Senator from South Carolina; born near Greenville, Greenville County, S.C., March 8, 1836; attended the local academy in Edgefield, S.C., and South Carolina College at Columbia; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Edgefield; elected to the State house of representatives in 1860; entered the Confederate Army as captain in June 1861 and served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of major general; again elected to the State house of representatives in 1866; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor of South Carolina in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1876; reelected in 1882 and again in 1888 and served from March 4, 1877, until March 3, 1895; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Fifty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; appointed major general of United States Volunteers during the Spanish-American War, and was one of the commissioners appointed to supervise the evacuation of Cuba by the Spanish forces in 1898; returned to Edgefield, S.C., and resumed the practice of law; died in Columbia, S.C., April 14, 1909; interment in Willow Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C. (source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001184). Isham Green Harris (1818-1897) a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born near Tullahoma, Franklin County, Tenn., February 10, 1818; attended the common schools and Winchester Academy; moved to Paris, Tenn., to become a store clerk; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Paris, Henry County, Tenn., in 1841; member, State senate 1847; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Thirty-second Congress); moved to Memphis in 1853 and resumed the practice of law; elected Governor of Tennessee in 1857, 1859, and 1861, and committed Tennessee to the Confederate cause; served in the Confederate Army for the last three years of the Civil War; after the Civil War, fled first to Mexico, then to England; returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law in Memphis; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1877; reelected in 1883, 1889, and 1895 and served from March 4, 1877, until his death; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Fifty-third Congress; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-sixth and Fifty-third Congresses), Committee on Epidemic Diseases (Forty-ninth through Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., July 8, 1897; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn. (Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000243). William Brimage Bate (October 7, 1826 – March 9, 1905) was an American soldier and politician. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887, and subsequently served as a United States Senator from 1887 until his death. During the Civil War, he fought for the Confederacy, eventually rising to the rank of major general and commanding a division in the Army of Tennessee. Bate saw action in multiple engagements throughout the war, and was seriously wounded on two occasions. (source: http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=62). CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered foxing. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Group of three 18K and 14K fashion rings. 1st ring: 18K yellow gold lion head wrap ring, marked 750, ring size 6-1/4. 2nd ring: 18K gold sapphire and diamond wide band with open floral design, marked 18K, ring size 8-1/4. 18 grams total/2 rings. 3rd ring: 14K gold sapphire and diamond leopard ring with ruby eyes, marked 14K 585, ring size 6-1/4, 4.2 grams. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Lion ring with small dent along back, otherwise all in good condition with minor surface wear. [See more photos →]

European tantalus or portable liqueur cabinet, mahogany with ebonized trim and bun feet, hinged front cover with brass nameplate. Top and sides open to reveal a tiered gilt metal removable rack holding 4 etched and cut glass decanters and 16 matching cordials. Decanters – 8 1/4" H. Cordials – 3" H. Case – 10 3/4" H x 12 5/8" W x 9 1/2" D. Late 19th century, possibly French. CONDITION: All decanters and cordials overall very good condition. Some general wear and a couple of surface abrasions to the case. [See more photos →]

A cranberry cut to clear oval glass center bowl resting on a scrolled and footed silver plate stand with enameled rosettes on the scrolling arms. Bowl – 4 1/8" H x 15 3/4" W x 9 3/8" D. 9 3/4" H x 18" W x 9 3/8" D with stand. Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Friedrich Emil Klein (German, 1841-1921) oil on canvas hunt/feast nature morte still life painting depicting a rabbit and duck strung by feet with basket of fruit to right. Signed lower right, "F. E. Klein". Housed in an ornate gilt wood and gesso carved Louis XIV style frame. Sight – 23" H x 38 1/2" W. Framed – 37" H x 52" W. Provenance: Private Tullahoma, TN collection. CONDITION: Canvas relined, rubbing to canvas at stretchers on three sides. Scattered abrasions to frame, losses to upper right corner. [See more photos →]

Early 19th century oil on canvas portrait of a young gentleman with dark hair and sideburns, possibly Jerome Bonaparte. The subject is depicted wearing a dark coat with white shirt and tie and stickpin. Unsigned. Housed in a 19th century giltwood and composition frame with arched opening at top and elaborately carved corners. 21" x 17" sight, 30" x 25" framed. Circa 1815. Note: Oral history contends the subject is a member of the Bonaparte family. Napoleon Bonaparte's brothers, Jerome and Joseph, both spent time in the United States, where they fathered children with American women. The marraige of Jerome Bonaparte (1784-1860) to Elizabeth Patterson, daughter of a wealthy Baltimore merchant, was annuled by Napoleon and he returned to Europe before the birth of their son. Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844) settled in Bordentown, New Jersey with his mistress, Annette Savage, after being deposed as King of Spain. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Original canvas is bubbling up from re-lining, causing wrinkles. Canvas needs restoration; considerable flourescence suggesting overpainting or infill to hair and coat areas largest 4"L.; 3/4" loss with inpainting at left edge and 1" loss at right lower edge; scattered scratches and craquelure. Several small cracks and losses to frame, including a 2" loss at one corner. [See more photos →]

Fisher sterling silver tea kettle on stand, numbered 2337 on base, hinged c-scroll handle, hinged lid with urn finial, full bellied body on low round pedestal. Frame with center removable sterling burner, shaped supports and stepped rim. Kettle 7-1/2" w/ handle down x 9-7/8" W with spout. Stand 7" H x 5-1/2" dia. Total weight: 43.5 oz troy. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Not monogrammed. [See more photos →]

1st item: Framed 1943 President Roosevelt Christmas Card, together with a White House Christmas reception pass for Secret Service Agent Gordon J. Wells and his wife, dated December 23, 1943. 15 1/4" H x 16" W. 2nd item: Carved folk art cane with naturalistic branch handle, given to President Roosevelt as a present from a citizen. Brass presentation band with engraving reading "March 4, 1933/FDR". Fancy script "R" additionally engraved to the lower part of the handle. Cane was subsequently given to the Secret Service Agent Gordon Wells during his tenure. 35 3/4" H x 6 1/2" W. Provenance: From the estate of Captain Gordon Wells, member of the Secret Service's Uniformed Division, the White House Police, from 1943 through 1967. During his tenure, Wells received mementos from sitting Presidents and First ladies of 5 administrations, from Franklin Roosevelt through Lyndon B. Johnson. CONDITION: 1st item: All pieces overall good condition, not examined out of the frame. 2nd item: General scattered wear commensurate with use. Original ferrule absent. [See more photos →]

Two (2) railroad related financial items related to U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835)and Charles Harrod (1787-1870). 1st item: Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac Railroad Company stock certificate for twenty shares issued to John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States, signed by John A. Lancaster, the first president of the company, and William Sheppard, the first treasurer, in Richmond, VA, dated April 22, 1835. Serial # 238. Includes microfilm negative of certificate. 8" H x 9 1/4" W. 2nd item: $50 Atchafalaya Rail-Road & Banking Co. currency dated May 1, 1838 from New Orleans, Louisiana. Depicts Plenty and Vulcan seated, with Mercury hovering behind, top right, the goddess Liberty with an eagle, top left, and a vignette of a steamboat, top center, engraved and printed by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. Serial # 89/ pp B. Signed by Charles Harrod, Cashier, and the President of the company. Note: Charles Harrod (1787-1870) married his first wife Hannah Rolf Dayton (1793-1825) daughter of General Elias Dayton of New Jersey, on March 7, 1811. He was a business man, a president of the Atchafalaya Bank, and an Aide to General Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Note: Descended in the family of Lewis Minor Coleman, Jr., son of CSA Lt. Col. Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). Charles Boyd Coleman was also a descendant of Charles Harrod Boyd, the grandson of Charles Harrod (1787-1870). Charles Harrod was the brother of Ann (Anna) Frances Harrod Adams (wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, 1772-1832). Note: Charles H. Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd, who married Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, a direct descendant of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with foxing spots and toning to be expected from age. Tears, largest 1 3/4", along fold lines. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Three minute holes, top left of bill. [See more photos →]

Carroll Cloar, pencil on paper study drawing of four children (two boys and two girls), each holding a stick or ball. Signed lower right “Carroll Cloar”. Pencil inscription en verso of sketch, “Alice B” (likely a reference to Memphis gallery owner Alice Bingham, who represented Cloar). Unframed. 11″ x 23″. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Toning and creasing, including a full length crease across one figure at far left and another 8″ crease at left side; handling dings, 1/2″ tear left edge, couple minor spots of foxing. [See more photos →]

Philadelphia coin silver covered sugar bowl, marks for Robert & William Wilson (active 1838-1850). 9 1/2" H x 7 3/4" dia. 36.735 troy ounces. CONDITION: Some denting to body. Denting and wear to lid rim, does not sit flush with base. [See more photos →]

Custom made New England Colonial style 14 light chandelier, hand wrought of red/brown painted tin, made by Gates Moore/ Norwalk, Connecticut. Similar to fixture listed on page 33 of the 2003 catalog (See photo) 29" H x 28 1/2" dia. Not tested for functionality. 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition, slight bending to the shaft lower third section. Not tested for functionality. [See more photos →]

Roy Pace (TN, d. 2011) carved wood figural group of a woman and man with backpack and walking stick, atop a kidney shaped, carved wood base. 13" H. Together with a small Charles Counts (Kentucky, 1934-2000) ceramic blue and cream glazed vase, signed on underside. 5" H. Note: Proceeds from the sale of this lot benefit St. Luke's Community House, Nashville, Tenn. CONDITION: Male figure with full break to arm, shrinkage crack to wood base. Vase excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Minnie and Greg Adkins (Kentucky, 20th century) painted wood folk art carving of an orange fox. Signed and dated "M Adkins & Greg Adkins underside of belly. Signed with copyright and dated "2015" underside of two paws. 12 3/4" H x 3 3/4" W x 42 1/4" D. 10 lbs. American, late 20th century. Provenance: North Carolina private folk/outsider art collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Charles Harrod Boyd "Chattanooga" photograph and watercolor, 2 items total. 1st item: Panoramic photograph mounted on card stock titled "Chattanooga in 1863 Occupied by the U. S. Army under Command of Major General Thomas". Inscription lower center margin, "Chattanooga 1863", top left "Lookout Mountain", and top right "Cameron Hill". Ink title verso, center, crayon inscriptions, center "Boyd" and "Major Charles H. Boyd Topl. Engenr–". Photograph – 11" H x 39" W. Card stock – 14 1/2" H x 42" W. Note: From November 23 to November 25, 1863, during the American Civil War (1861-65), Union forces routed Confederate troops in Tennessee at the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, known collectively as the Battles for Chattanooga. The victories forced the Confederates back into Georgia, ending the siege of the vital railroad junction of Chattanooga, and paving the way for Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta campaign and march to Savannah, Georgia, in 1864. (source: https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-chattanooga). 2nd item: Small oval watercolor and gouache on card stock painting depicting an encampment of Union tents in a field before a line a trees, the United States flag, left. Unsigned. 3 7/8" H x 6 5/8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Charles Harrod Boyd, who served on General George H. Thomas staff as Captain of the Topographical Engineers, Army of the Cumberland. (source: The "Civil War Record of Brown University", 1920). Charles Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children Annie Frances Harrod Boyd, Augusta Dearborn Boyd, Emily Dearborn Boyd, and Julia Wingate Boyd (wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN). CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, errant marks, largest 4", creases, waviness to paper, visible to surface and en verso. Card stock split down center with 6 1/4" x 1 5/8" separation of photograph from card stock, resulting in several tears, largest 4 1/2", center of photograph. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Foxing spots visible en verso. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee, Washington County, Sheraton one-drawer table, cherry primary, poplar secondary, with applied carved decoration to the front of the dovetailed drawer and turned Sheraton legs, old surface. 26" H x 21 3/4" W x 21" D. Mid-19th century. Provenance: From a Scotch-Irish family from Washington County, TN. CONDITION: Scattered wear and stains to finish. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Werner Wildner (Nashville, Tennessee, 1925-2004) drawings. 1st item: Graphite drawing with watercolor on paper depicting a balding, rotund man wearing a white ruff over a red shirt with a single gold button, a black bird perched on his head. Signed with monogram signature, lower left, with the initials "Bh.", lower right of man's shirt. Matted and housed under glass in a black wooden frame. Sight – 8 1/8" H x 7" W. Framed – 22" H x 17 7/8" W. 2nd item: Charcoal and gouache drawing on paper depicting a three quarter view of an androgynous harlequin or jester. Signed with monogram signature, lower left. Belle Meade Framers, Nashville, TN label, en verso. Double matted and housed under glass in a wooden frame. Sight – 8 1/4" H x 6 1/4" W. Framed – 15" H x 12" W. 3rd item: Charcoal and gouache drawing on paper depicting a gnome in a hat balanced on a ball, facing towards the background. Signed with monogram signature, lower left. Matted and housed under glass in a silver metal frame. Belle Meade Framers, Nashville, TN label, en verso. Sight – 7 3/4" H x 5 1/8" W. Framed – 11 3/8" H x 8 3/8" W. Provenance: The estate of John Donnelly, Nashville, TN. Biography: Wildner was born in Germany but moved to Detroit with his family as a child and then, as a teenager, to Nashville. He served in the Army in 1944 and went on to study art briefly at the Mienzinger Art School in Detroit. He returned to Nashville to practice commercial art, but by the mid-1950s had decided to pursue his own art career. Whimsical animals and fantastical, often grotesque creatures were a recurring theme of his work. Wildner met with critical and commercial success after a 1962 exhibit of his art at the Nashville site now known as Cheekwood. However, the death of his parents and collapse of his marriage in the 1970's led him to become reclusive in the last two decades of his life. (source: Askart). CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall very good condition. Not examined outside of frames. 3rd item: Overall good condition with minute foxing spots. Overall toning to paper. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

1st item: Native American Cherokee rivercane wastebasket, with alternating walnut, bloodroot and butternut weavers and a geometric design on the lower body. 10 3/4" H x 10" dia. 2nd item: Appalachian/Cherokee split oak wastebasket with alternating dyed weavers to the base. 12" H x 11" dia. Both first half 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall excellent condition. 2nd item: Some interior staining to base, breaks to one corner and area of the upper shoulder and some surface grime. [See more photos →]

Caucasian area rug, 72-1/2" x 34", wool on wool, geometric pattern, russett main field, ivory main border, secondary colors of green, yellow, blues, brown and black. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall even low pile. Corrosion to black wool. 5-1/2" diagonal wear to one corner. Some fraying to one edge. [See more photos →]

Joseph Alexis Bailly (France/Philadelphia, 1825-1883) metal alloy bust of President Abraham Lincoln. Foundry mark on the back "J. Bailly/Patent May 1865/Warner Miskey Merpill Phila". Mounted on the original ebonized metal base. 11 3/8" H. Note: The French-born Bailly emigrated to the United States in 1850 and settled in Philadelphia where he became an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy. He sculpted many historical figures and also designed the monumental clock in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber. His bust of Lincoln was mass produced as a memorial piece for the grieving public following President Lincoln's assassination in 1865. CONDITION: Rubbing and losses to face, general wear and losses to paint on base. [See more photos →]

Lawrence Thompson Dickinson (Maryland/Tennessee, b. 1843) oval oil on canvas portrait painting titled "Maj. Gen. P. R. Cleburne". Depicts the Confederate States of America Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne in uniform against a light blue background and surrounded by a light brown border. Titled, lower center of canvas. Signed "L. T. Dickinson Ch – Decoration Committee Chattanooga Tenn", en verso of canvas. Stamped "F. T. Foster at 160 Vine St. Ohio" top of stretcher, en verso. 41" H x 27 1/2" W. Late 19th century. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. Biography: L. T. Dickinson was born June 21, 1843 and enlisted August 25, 1862 in Charlottesville, VA as private in the 1st Maryland Cavalry, Company A. Dickson served for the duration of the war, including at Gettysburg where he acted as a courier for General Richard S. Ewell. After the war he served as the Commander of N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga, TN. Dickinson was the author and illustrator of a number of Civil War related books, including "Services of a Maryland Command" Confederate Veteran 2, 1894, and "Personal Recollections and Experiences in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865", 1897, in addition to illustrations for the "Confederate Veteran" magazine. He also designed the limestone gate and wrought iron battle flag gate for the Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, erected in 1901. (See: "Confederate Veteran: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics", Volume II, Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1894). Note: Colonel F. T. Foster was the Chairman of the Mexicans Veterans Arrangement, Mexican War. CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface grime, scratches, white paint marks, largest 5", to surface of canvas. Pinprick holes to canvas, concentrated on light brown border. Areas of damage, largest 1 1/4", with inpainting, top left of canvas, with approximately 4" x 5" area of brown paper adhered to verso of canvas. Overall buckling to canvas. Stretcher marks visible to majority of perimeter. [See more photos →]

Lawrence Thompson Dickinson (Maryland/Tennessee, b. 1843) oval oil on canvas painting titled "Admiral Semmes" after the engraving by Henry Bryan Hall, Jr., New York, published in Semmes' book "Memoirs of Services Afloat", 1869. Depicts the portrait of Confederate States of America Navy Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes in uniform against a light blue background and surrounded by a light brown/gold border. Titled, lower center of canvas. Unsigned. Stamped "F. T. Foster at 160 Vine St. Ohio" top of stretcher, en verso. 41" H x 27 1/2" W. Late 19th century. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection. Note: While this painting is unsigned, it was executed in the same style as the signed "Maj. Gen. P. R. Cleburne" example, Lot 500. Biography: L. T. Dickinson born June 21, 1843 and enlisted August 25, 1862 in Charlottesville, VA as private in the 1st Maryland Cavalry, Company A. Dickson served for the duration of the war, including at Gettysburg where he acted as a courier for General Richard S. Ewell. After the war he served as the Commander of N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga, TN. Dickinson was the author and illustrator of a number of Civil War related books, including "Services of a Maryland Command" Confederate Veteran 2, 1894, and "Personal Recollections and Experiences in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865", 1897, in addition to illustrations for the "Confederate Veteran" magazine. He also designed the limestone gate and wrought iron battle flag gate for the Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, erected in 1901. (See: "Confederate Veteran: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics", Volume II, Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1894). Note: Colonel F. T. Foster was the Chairman of the Mexicans Veterans Arrangement, Mexican War. CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface grime, scratches, stains, largest 5 1/2", to surface of canvas. Pinprick holes to canvas, concentrated on light brown border. 1/2" tear, top left edge of canvas. Overall buckling to canvas. Stretcher marks visible to majority of perimeter. [See more photos →]

American coin silver repousse tea pot, with acanthus leaf and grape cluster decorated handle, shaped body with repousse and chased floral decoration and central cartouches inscribed "JWC to" (Julia Wingate Boyd Coleman) on one side and "MAC" (Mary Ambler Marshall Coleman) to the other, all on a scrolling grapevine and grape cluster footed base. Unmarked but tests as silver. 9 1/4" H. 29.220 troy ounces. Circa 1860. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from Lewis Minor Coleman, Jr., son of CSA Lt. Col. Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall (1830-1914), daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. was also related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, who was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. American politican John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving for thirty-five years. He oversaw landmark decisions such as Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden and the Dartmouth College case. Marshall also was a friend and attorney to George Washington, and was one of the first President's early biographers. CONDITION: No silver marks present but tests as silver. Some looseness to handle near insulators, otherwise overall good condition. Finial is bent. [See more photos →]

Nellie Augusta Knopf (American, 1875-1962) impressionist oil on board landscape painting titled "Timberline II" depicting a mountain range. Unsigned; retains gallery label en verso with title and artist's information. Housed in a gilt carved frame with linen matte and giltwood liner. Sight – 7 3/8" H x 9 3/8" W. Framed – 15" H x 17" W. Provenance: The estate of Ann Cook Calhoun, Nashville, Tennessee. Biography: Born and raised in Chicago, Nellie Augusta Knopf became known for her mountain landscapes and seascapes. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and also studied with Charles H. Woodbury in Ogunquit, Maine. For 43 years she taught and was Director of Art at Illinois Women's College, later MacMurray College. CONDITION: Painting overall excellent condition. Some abrasions and losses to frame lower edge. [See more photos →]

6 Early American Lighting items. 1st item: Early American Tole double bouillotte candle lamp comprised of two reticulated and adjustable shades mounted onto a cental brass arm and weighted circular base, all in black with some gilt highlights. 20" H x 13 7/8" W x 7 1/4" D. 1st half 19th century. 2nd item: Early American Tole single candle lamp with reticualted shade, flared and squared base and attached match holder. 11 7/8" H. 1st half 19th century. 3rd item: Early American Tole candle lamp with circular weighted base and removable shade. 11 3/4" H. 1st half 19th century. 4th-6th items: Group of three (3) mirrored tin candle sconces, including one pair. Pair – 11" H x 8" dia. Larger sconce – 10" H x 9 1/2" dia. All 19th century. Provenance: Collection of Wilma and Jack Murray, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition, possible paint re-touch. 2nd item: Some general wear and scratching to paint, overall good condition. 3rd item: Dent to base, general wear and losses to paint. 4th-6th items: Largest sconce with some missing glass around candle, breaks to glass on left side. The pair of sconces with a couple areas of missing glass. Normal wear and oxidation to all. [See more photos →]

Navajo Chinle Rug, wool and cotton, in colors of tan, brown, red with alternating wide stripes and tree pattern. 32 1/2"W x 60" L. First half 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Peter Flitman, grandfather of the consignor, who worked as a surveyor for the Army Corps of Engineering on a Navajo Reservation around 1918 ñ 1920. CONDITION: Rug has minor wear, some staining and small loss to ends and one corner. [See more photos →]

1st item: George III Hepplewhite mahogany Pembroke table with shaped skirt and square tapered legs fitted with castors. 28" H x 30 3/8" W (w/ leaves) x 24" D. Early 19th century. 2nd item: George II style mahogany "spider table" with eight turned legs ending in pad feet and joined by turned stretchers; figured mahogany top with serpentine shaped drop leaves, supported when open by two fly legs. Oak secondary wood. 28"H x 30"W x 12"D (30" with leaves extended). Late 19th to early 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Christine Fields and the late Emmett Fields, former president of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Top with overall general wear and some stains. Chip to one edge. 2nd item: Slight leaf warpage; several deep scratches and a ring stain to top; one foot missing. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Charles Harrod Boyd Civil War photographs. 1st item: Photograph mounted on card stock depicting a group of Union officers, likely General George H. Thomas and his staff, standing on Umbrella Rock in Chattanooga, Tennessee overlooking the surrounding landscape. Partial title and signature reading "Topo. Eng…Captain Army of Cumberland", in ink, top right and bottom left corners, en verso. Photograph – 15 5/8" H x 21 1/4" W. Card stock – 17 14" H x 23" W. 2nd item: Civil War photograph mounted on card stock titled "The two Left-hand home of Genl E. H Thomas Headquarters 1863-64-" in pencil, top left corner, and "Genl. quarter view in the right side of hall of home with Columns,-1864-C.H.B." in pencil, lower right corner, en verso. Depicts the headquarters of General George Henry Thomas with a row of cannons, foreground. Signed "Boyd" in crayon, top left corner, en verso. Card stock with printed border with patriotic motifs and "Head Quarters of the Army of the Cumberland" above, and "View of Topl. Engr. Army of the Cumbl. Chattanooga Tenn. 1863-4" below. Photograph – 8" H x 12 3/4" W. Card stock – 11 1/4" H x 16 1/4" W. 3rd-4th items: Two (2) photographs mounted on card stock titled "On Way to Atlanta", one dated "1864", with designations "No 2" and "No 4", in pencil, en verso. Both photographs depict forested landscapes, "No 2" with the backs of two Union soldiers, lower right. Both signed "Boyd" with title and number, in pencil, signed "Boyd", in crayon, en verso. Photographs range in size from 11 3/8" H x 14 3/4" W to 11 3/4" H x 15" W. Card stock – 14 1/8" H x 17 1/4" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Charles Harrod Boyd, who served on General George H. Thomas staff as Captain of the Topographical Engineers, Army of the Cumberland. (source: "Civil War Record of Brown University", 1920). Charles Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children Annie Frances Harrod Boyd, Augusta Dearborn Boyd, Emily Dearborn Boyd, and Julia Wingate Boyd (wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN). CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with foxing spots to surface of photograph. Thomas and his staff in highly visible condition. 1 3/4" x 2" area of loss, top left corner of photograph. Card stock in fragmentary condition, majority of title missing. Two areas of white archival tape repair to tears to photograph, largest 8" x 1 1/8", en verso of card stock. 2nd item: Overall good condition with toning. Minute foxing spots, surface of photograph and card stock. Areas of dampstaining, largest 4", surface of photograph and card stock. Cracks, largest 8 1/4", to verso of card stock (areas visible on surface of photograph). Tears, largest 1/2", to edges of card stock. 3rd-4th items: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, largest 5 1/2" x 1 1/2", to surface of photographs and card stock. Tears, including 1 1/2" x 3/4" area of loss resulting in 1/2" tear, lower left corner of "No. 2" photograph. Corners bumped, to card stock, small area of loss, top left corner of "No 2" card stock. [See more photos →]

Art Nouveau period sterling silver footed bowl, round with multifloral repousse decoration to rim, scroll-engraved center monogram "L", and a plain circular foot ring. Stamped on underside 1884 STERLING with hallmark for Dominick & Haff and mark for retailer B.H. Stief of Nashville (in business circa 1860-1960s). 12" diameter x 4 -1/4" H. 22.69 oz troy. Circa 1900. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

"Tennessee" Map, drawn by Samuel Lewis, engraved by Alexander Lawson, published by John Conrad and Company, Philadelphia, 1804. From "A New And Elegant General Atlas: Comprising All the New Discoveries, to the Present Time: Containing Sixty-Five Maps" by Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis. Copper plate engraving of early Tennessee depicting early towns and roads, including Knoxville and Clarksville, county lines and Native American lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and remarks about the land including the inscription "Low Broken Ground" vertical across the area of Western Tennessee. Title and scale of miles, top center, legend, lower right. "Longitude W. from Philada." centered above map, "Long. W. from London" centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and double line border. Image – 8" H x 9 3/4" W. Sheet – 9" H x 10 5/8" W. CONDITION: Foxing around edges of sheet. 3/8" black ink spot, lower right edge of sheet. 5 1/2" area of water damage, lower left corner of sheet. Four perforations, across top edge of sheet. Foxing spots, ink spot, and water damage visible en verso. [See more photos →]

ALS. One page handwritten bifolium. From Henry Clay (1777-1852) to U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835), written from Ashland, dated June 3, circa 1830, as an introduction to John Henderson, future Mississippi Senator and political ally of Clay's. Letter also contains annotations written in Marshall's hand. The letter reads "Dear Sir, Mr. Henderson, an eminent attorney & cou[nsellor] at law, residing in the States of Mi[s]si[s]sippi, who will present to you this letter, being desirous of your acquaintance. I take much pleasure in introducing him to you as a gentleman of high and respectable consideration in his open State, and worthy of it wherever he may go. With great respect I am your Obt Servt H. Clay". Includes mathematical notations below letter, free franked address panel addressed to "The Honble J. Marshall…Mr Henderson. Richmond, VA" with later handwritten notes by Marshall concerning James Markham, Mary Ann Neal Barker, Nancy Goode, and Elizabeth Combs, presumably related to a case he was working on. 7 3/8" H x 8" W. Biography: John Henderson (1797-1857), a Whig Senator from Mississippi; born in Cumberland County, N.J., February 28, 1797; a flatboat man on the Mississippi River; studied law; emigrated to Mississippi ; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodville, Wilkinson County, Miss.; brigadier general of State militia; member, State senate 1835-1836; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1845; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-sixth Congress), Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); resumed the practice of law in New Orleans, La.; in 1851 was tried in the United States district court in New Orleans for violation of the neutrality laws of 1818 for complicity in expeditions against Cuba, was acquitted, and retired from public life; died in Pass Christian, Miss., September 15, 1857; interment in Live Oak Cemetery. (source: https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=imccriv&id=I6236). Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Note: Descended in the family of Lewis Minor Coleman, Jr., son of CSA Lt. Col. Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). CONDITION: Overall good condition with foxing spots and tears to be expected from age. 1 1/4" x 1" section with full date missing to top right corner of letter. Henry Clay writing and signature and Marshall writing in clear, strong condition. [See more photos →]

Grouping of seventeen (17) American currency items, including Bank of Nashville checks. 1st item: One (1) page of uncut remainder "James Monroe Post Notes" printed for the Bank of J.H. Piatt and Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. Includes one (1) $1 note, one (1) $2 note, one (1) $3 note, and one (1) $5 note. 2nd-4th items: Two (2) page of uncut remainder bank notes for the Canal Bank of New Orleans. Includes four (4) $5 bank notes and four (4) $20 bank notes. Also includes one (1) cut $20 remainder bank note. 5th item: One (1) page of uncut remainder notes from the Canal and Banking Company of New Orleans, Louisiana. Includes four (4) $5 bank notes. 6th item: One (1) page of uncut remainder notes from the Bank of New England at Goodspeed's Landing of East Haddam, Connecticut. Includes one (1) $3 bank note, one (1) $5 bank note, one (1) $10 bank note, and one (1) $20 bank note. Note: Remainder Notes were those that were left in the bank upon it's closing. They "remained" in the bank vaults and never circulated. Most only become available to collectors when the vaults or banks were cleaned out and the remainders were then discovered. 7th item: $3 Mississippi and Tennessee Rail Road Company note dated 1862 from Grenada, Mississippi. Serial # 8084/ pp A. President/Treasurer signatures. Stamps reading "Two" and "three" surface and verso of bill. Printed on the back of Farmers' & Merchants' Bank of Memphis notes from Tennessee. 8th item: $1 bank note dated 1855 from the Farmer's Bank of Wickford, Rhode Island. Serial # obscured by black stamp reading "Broken Bank Suffolk Bank" surface and verso of bill. President/Cashier signatures. 9th-11th items: Three (3) checks from the Bank of Tennessee of Nashville, Tennessee, including one (1) check for $264 dated April 16, 1857, Serial # 21; one (1) check for $10 dated December 11, 1858, Serial # 50; one (1) check for $225 dated November 9, 1859, Serial # 77. All signed by Samuel Henderson. 12th item: Fifty Cents note dated 1862 from the Greensboro Mutual Life Insurance and Trust Company of Greensboro, North Carolina. Serial # 3071/ pp H. Treasurer signature. 13th item: 10 cents note dated 1862 from the State of North Carolina. Serial # 1704/ pp P. Treasurer signed. 14th item: $3 bank note dated 1862 from the Bullion Bank of Washington, District of Columbia. Serial # 3679/ pp A. President/Cashier signatures. 15th item: August 19, 1861 Confederate States of America (CSA) bond $100 at 8 percent interest. Serial # 1169. Robert Tyler, CSA Register of the Treasury, signature. All coupons intact with serial numbers and "For Register of the Treasury" signatures. 16th item: December 2, 1862 Confederate States of America (CSA) $10 bill from Richmond, Virginia. Third Series. Serial # 35212/ pp E. "For Register" and "for Treasurer" signatures. 17th item: One (1) page of uncut $5 State of Louisiana "Baby Bonds", issued for certificate No. 752, Series 187. Includes one (1) bond with Serial # 128542/ pp C; one (1) bond with Serial # 128543/ pp C; one (1) bond with 128544/ pp C; one (1) bond with 128545/ pp C. Treasurer signature with Governor facsimile signature. All coupons intact with serial numbers and Treasurer signatures. Items range in size from 2" H x 2 3/4" W to 16 5/8" H x 14" W. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall good condition with tears, dampstaining, fading, etc. to be expected from age and manner of use. All items in circulated condition unless specified in description. [See more photos →]

Nazi Germany Walther P. 38 AC 44 Semi-Automatic pistol, 9mm Caliber, serial #2485 b. Left side of slide marked "P. 38" and "ac 44" with serial number. Brown Bakelite grips, round barrel, metal frame, standard sights. Three Waffenamt "359" stamps, left and right side of frame and slide with Reichsadler eagle, right side of slide. Front sight marked "4". Matching serial numbers, left side of slide and frame and under barrel. Barrel length – 5". Overall length – 8 1/2". Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection. Note: Firearms made after 1898 require passing an FFL background check prior to transfer. Please be prepared with proper identification. CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface dings and loss to blue. 1/4" gouge to left side of barrel. Action is good. Bore and rifling with absence of oxidation, appear to be bright. [See more photos →]

Bernice Sims (Alabama/Louisiana, 1926-2014) acrylic on canvas outsider art painting titled "Tent Revival", depicting African American figures at an nighttime tent revival, including a central figure at the pulpit encircled by the audience, all standing under a bright orange tent under a starry nighttime sky. Signed lower right "Sims". Housed in a carved wood frame. Sight – 19 5/8" H x 15 5/8" W. Framed – 24 1/2" H x 20 1/2" W. Provenance: North Carolina private folk/outsider art collection. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two folk art stone carvings. 1st item: Raymond Coins (American/North Carolina, 1904-1998) stone carvings, one relief carving depicting a winged "baby doll" figure (11 1/2" H x 7" W) with inscribed signature verso. 2nd item: Charles Simmons (North Carolina, b. 1939) figural stone carving depicting a male holding an object in his raised right hand (8 3/4" H x 5 1/2" W), signed en verso "Charles Simmons" and dated "1996". Provenance: Private Nashville, TN collection. CONDITION: Both pieces overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Group of seven assembled sterling silver table items. 1st item: Dunkirk Silversmiths sterling silver sauceboat with wooden handle, marked on the base. 3 1/4" H x 7 1/2" W. 2nd item: Richard Dimes, #661, shaped sterling silver handled dish, marked on the base. 1 1/4" H x 7" W. 3rd & 4th items: Pair of Wallace sterling silver serving bowls, #H102, with gadrooned borders to the rim. 2" H x 10 1/4" dia. 5th item: Wallace sterling silver charger, #4275-9, marked on the base. 13 1/2" dia. 6th & 7th items: Pair of Gorham modernist weighted sterling candlesticks, #A7968. 7 1/4" H. All pieces 20th century. 47.030 total weighable troy ounces. CONDITION: All items with overall good condition. Some moderate surface scratches to 5th item. [See more photos →]

1st item: Charles James Fox (United Kingdom, b. circa 1860- d. 1932), Miniature oval watercolor portrait of a young boy in grey uniform style coat with brass buttons, signed C.J. Fox lower left. Framed under glass in gilt metal frame with loop handle. 3 3/4" x 3" overall. Early 20th century. 2nd item: Miniature rectangular watercolor portrait of a beautiful young woman with Art Nouveau hairstyle and white dress, unsigned. Framed under glass in gilt metal Art Nouveau style frame. 2 3/4" x 2" overall. Circa 1905. 3rd item: American School, Miniature portrait of a dark haired, blue eyed woman in black dress with lace collar and gold necklace, housed in a hinged tooled leather case with gold mat. Sight – 2 1/2" H x 2" W. Framed – 3 1/2" H x 3" W. Mid 19th century. 4th item: Miniature watercolor portrait of a gentleman with dark curly hair in blue coat against a white background. Unsigned. Housed in a leather frame with silk mat and velvet rabbet edge having an oval opening. Sight – 2 1/2" H x 2" W. Framed – 3 1/2" H x 3" W. Probably English or Continental, late 18th or early 19th century. Provenance: Living Estate of Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Some wear, mostly en verso, to gilt frame. 2nd item: Some slight warpage and a 1/3" dark mark to upper front edge. 3rd item: Wear to case; painting slipping in frame. 4th item: A couple of scratches to image, largest 1/2" across chest; some fibers trapped under glass. None of these items have been examined out of the frame. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Historical Staffordshire items. 1st item: Historical Staffordshire Erie Canal pearlware jug with blue transfer print landscape scenes. One side shows the "View of the Aqueduct Bridge at Rochester" and the reverse shows the "View of the Aqueduct Bridge at Little Falls", with bands of flowers on rim, base, and under spout. "Views of the Erie Canal" printed underglaze on underside. Also on underside is a 20th century sticker, "Creutzburg & Martin Collection," two stickers with numbers, and "17" stamp. 6 3/4" H x 8 1/4" W x 6 1/4" D. Early 19th century. 2nd item: Historical Staffordshire Passaic Falls, New Jersey pearlware sauce tureen with blue transfer print landscape scene depicting the Great Falls of the Passaic River, with bands of seashells on rim and footed base. 4" H x 8" W x 4 3/4" D. Early 19th century. Private East Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with few minor nicks. 1 1/2" hair interior of rim (not visible from outside of jug). 2nd item: Overall good condition. Few minor areas of loss to transfer, rubbing, largest 1 1/4", to rim and footed base. Does not include lid. [See more photos →]

British School, 18th century, miniature oval watercolor portrait of a British Captain officer in red and green uniform with epaulet and powdered hair, in a gold pendant frame. Unsigned. 1 1/2" x 1 1/8". Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Miniscule edge chip to the glass covering the painting. Appears to have lost a small bit of gold frame trim at the bottom. [See more photos →]

Companion pair carved limestone fruit and floral garden baskets of different but similar arrangements in basketweave base, likely Continental. Fruits include grapes, bananas, peaches, apples and pomegranates. 12 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W x 12 1/2" D. Purchased by consignor's grandmother in Washington, DC area in 1930s. 1st quarter 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition with some wear from weather. One basket with fruit cluster section detached, 2" x 4" x 2 1/2". [See more photos →]

Gaspare J. Ruffolo (American/Illinois, 1908-1997) oil on board impressionist Western landscape painting titled "Aspen Lake" depicting a mountainous lake setting. Signed lower right "Gaspere Ruffolo". Housed in a painted wood frame. Sight – 27 1/2" H x 38 3/4" W. Framed – 34" H x 43 1/8" W. Circa 1959. Note: Painting from a direct descendant of the artist. Biography: Gaspare J. Ruffolo was active/lived in Illinois and was known for portrait and marine painting. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, some minor touch-ups to paint. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) United Confederate Veterans reunion ribbons, badges, and buttons. 1st item: Richmond, VA UCV Army of Northern Virginia Louisiana Division reunion printed grosgrain and satin ribbon, May 29, 1890. Features a quotation about the Army of Northern Virginia from "Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac" by William Swinton, first published 1866. 8 1/4" H x 2 3/8" W. 2nd item: Winchester, VA UCV reunion printed grosgrain ribbon, September 10, 1891. "Confederate Veterans and their Families" printed below decorative scrolling vignettes and applied pink and white grosgrain ribbons, top of ribbon. Safety pin affixed to back. 8" H x 2 1/4" W. 3rd item: Richmond, VA Sixth Annual UCV reunion printed satin delegate ribbon, June 30, July 1-2, 1896. Features the Confederate battle flag with "Delegate" and "Official Peyton Wise" in script, printed below. 7 3/4" H x 2 1/2" W. 4th item: Louisville, KY UCV reunion delegate badge, June 1905. Consists of a metal hanger with celluloid label reading "delegate" with printed satin ribbon featuring the Confederate battle flag and celluloid drop depicting the three-quarter portrait of Major General John C. Breckenridge, against a battle scene, surrounded by a laurel wreath and two Confederate flags, a red banner reading "Reunion U.C.V. Louisville June, 1905" above. Manufacturer's marks for the Whitehead and Hoag Company, Newark, NJ, back of hanger and celluloid drop. 4 1/4" H x 2" W. 5th item: UCV reunion celluloid button, circa 1905. Features the Confederate battle flag with "UCV 1861-1865" printed around perimeter. Manufacturer's marks for the Whitehead and Hoag Company, Newark, NJ, to surface and verso of button. 1 3/4" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with surface grime, stains, fraying, to be expected from age. Title of book is erroneously listed as "History of the Army of the Potomac". 2nd item: Overall good condition with surface grime, stains, fraying, to be expected from age. 1/4" x 2 1/8" W area of loss, top section of ribbon below pin. 3rd item: Overall good condition with surface grime, stains, to be expected from age. Two 1/2" tears, 1" x 2 1/2" area of loss to brown paper backing. 4th item: Overall good condition with general wear to ribbon to be expected from age. 5th item: Overall good condition. Red delegate ribbon is not included. [See more photos →]

1st item: Signed windsor comb-back armchair, comprised of mixed woods, topped by a serpentine curved rail ending in scrolls, 9 back spindles intersected by a center rail terminating as arms with flattened curved handholds. Arms supported by vase-turned baluster and short spindles over a shield shaped seat. Ring and vase turned legs with central turned stretcher. Underside of seat incised "A Ch Weaver" together with the painted name "G. Huntington". 42 1/2" H x 24 1/2" W x 17" D. Late 18th/Early 19th century. 2nd item: Windsor hoop back armchair, traces of old green/black paint to underside of seat and crest. 9 back spindles intersected by a center rail terminating as arms with flattened curved handholds. Arms supported by vase-turned baluster and short spindles over a shield shaped seat, bamboo turned stretchers. 34" H x 20" W x 23" D. Probably Pennsylvania, early 19th century. 3rd item: Windsor hoop back armchair, 7 back spindles intersected by a center rail terminating as arms with flattened curved handholds. Arms supported by vase-turned baluster and short spindles over a shield shaped seat. Ring and vase turned legs with central turned stretcher. 36" H x 19 1/4" W x 15 3/8" D. Probably Pennsylvania, early 19th century. Provenance: Estate of Glen and Marjorie Stewart, proprietors of The Keeping Room, Augusta, Georgia. CONDITION: 1st item: Front armrests replaced; pins reinforcing stretchers on rear legs; overall general wear and scratching, especially to the seat. 2nd item: Repair to crest rail, repair to each arm, 2" gouge to one rear leg. 3rd item: Overall general wear, shrinkage cracks to seat. Shrinkage around arm pegs, with cracks to left arm. Wear and losses to legs. [See more photos →]

Boch Freres, Belgium, porcelain jardiniere, oval bombe form with turquoise and blue flambe crackle glaze and gilt metal upper and lower mounts and openwork scroll handles. Comes with an associated later milk glass liner. 5 1/2" H x 14 1/2" W x 8" D. First half 20th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Wear/oxidation to gilding, especially at upper edge, some along the base. Staining to underside of base. [See more photos →]

Continental School, 18th century, oil on canvas portrait painting of a gentleman, possibly a botanist. Subject is depicted seated in a chair, facing left, in period blue dress coat and powdered wig, holding a pink gillyflower or stock branch. Blue sky and clouds in background. Unsigned. Older gilt and gesso cove molded frame with ribbon and lambs tongue molding. En verso old paper ink handwritten label, partially torn, reading "Matthiola Stock named after Peter Andrew Matthiola 1500-1577 Italian physician & celebrated Botanist". Sight – 29" H x 24" W. Framed – 37" H x 32" W. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence, and published in Southern Accents magazine, May-June 1985 issue. CONDITION: Relined. Moderate alligator cracquelure overall with yellowed varnish. Bulge in lower quadrant center. Several scratches to lower quadrant, largest 4 1/2" L. 1/2" loss left at frame edge. Area of loss with inpainting 3/4" L. Areas of scattered inpainting in sky. Frame with scattered losses to gesso, largest approx. 4" long. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Woodrow Wilson TLS, including three (3) as a Professor at Princeton University and one (1) as Governor of New Jersey, dated 1900-1912. 1st item: TLS. One page typed letter. From Professor Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, New Jersey, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated October 31, 1900. Wilson writes "My dear Louis, You may be sure I would accept the invitation of your Bar Association, were it possible for me to do so. I have a very distinct vision of the "good time" I should have, and of the pleasure of meeting and other friends, old and new. But it isn't possible. I have just made arrangements with out Trustees here to get a fifteen months' vacation, from June 1901 to September, 1902, and I hope to be during that time in England and on the Continent. I am deeply obliged to you for your part of the invitation. I forego the pleasure with unaffected reluctance; and I feel the invitation of the Association as a very substantial honour. It has at least given me the pleasure of a letter from you, and a chance to remind you that I am, With warm regard, Your sincere friend, Woodrow Wilson". 10 3/8" H x 7 7/8" W. 2nd item: TLS. One page typed letter. From Professor Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, New Jersey, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated November 15, 1900. Wilson is writing to respond to a letter that Coleman wrote regarding the latter writing an article on John Marshall. Wilson regrettably refuses, writing "I have an intense admiration for John Marshall, I have a real affection for you…But I simply cannot. I had to refuse the most earnest solicitations to write a paper on Marshall for The Atlantic, for the same reason that I must decline this…I am writing a serial for Harper's Magazine to run through all of next year…Write as fast as I may, I cannot more than keep ahead of the printer. I dare not stop to do anything else, least of all to prepare an address on John Marshall, which I should wish to study and perfect to the utmost…I am more than sorry, but no other conclusion is possible. In haste, Cordially and faithfully yours, Woodrow Wilson". 10 3/8" H x 7 7/8" W. Note: Wilson's series of articles for Harper's Magazine was revised and published as "A History of the American People" in 1902. 3rd item: TLS. One page typed letter. From Professor Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, New Jersey, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated December 10, 1900. Wilson writes "My dear Coleman, I have taken pleasure in looking over the enclosed with a good deal of care; and I think it contains some excellent material. As you yourself say, it is as it stands too much in the form of extracts to suit ordinary magazine publication. If you cared to work these extracts into a connected narrative and to collect adequate and somewhat unusual illustrations for the article, it would answer excellently well to go with others of somewhat the same nature recently published in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Or if you would work it over without illustrations, but with as full biographical details as could be brought within brief compass, I should think that the Suwanee Review would welcome such a contribution. It does not fall within the scope of any others I can think of; and I have got to know the individual plans of a good many editors in recent years. I sincerely hope that you will find a place for it and that I may see copy of it when completed, and printed. With warm regards, In the always inevitable haste, Faithfully Yours, Woodrow Wilson". 10 3/8" H x 7 7/8" W. 4th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From Governor Woodrow Wilson, State of New Jersey, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated December 23, 1912. Wilson writes "My dear Lewis:– You may be sure that if it is possible I will look in on Charlie when I go to New York. It would be very delightful if I could. I am delightful to hear that the little chap is doing so well. In haste, with affectionate regard, Faithfully yours, Woodrow Wilson". Letters do not include envelopes. 9 3/4" H x 8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from Lewis M. Coleman (1861-1918, U.S. District Attorney, Chattanooga), son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, great granddaughter of Gen. Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Wilson signature in strong, clear condition. 1 1/4" x 4 1/4" area of dampstaining, foxing spots, top left of letter. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Wilson signature in strong, clear condition. Areas of brown stains, largest 1" x 3/4", few foxing spots, surface of letter (does not affect signature). 3rd item: Overall good condition. Wilson signature strong, clear condition. Envelope with stains, tears, etc. to be expected from age and manner of use. Envelope might not be original to letter but was found with it. 4th item: Overall good condition. Wilson signature strong, clear condition. 1/2" x 1/2" brown stain, areas of dampstaining, largest 5/8" x 1 7/8", surface and en verso of letter (does not affect signature). Slight smudging to blue ink, transfer of ink to blank page. 5th item: Overall good condition. Eleanor's signature in strong, clear condition. Few minute foxing spots, surface of letter. Letters do not include envelopes. [See more photos →]

Blue and white Staffordshire footed tureen with lid and ladle. Tureen of scalloped oval form with two side handles and four short feet; the sides decorated with pastoral scenes of cattle grazing in fields while a young boy watches on. Copper luster highlights at edges. Together with a matching soup ladle, also decorated with cattle, which appears original. All unmarked. Tureen – 9 1/2" H x 12 1/2" W x 8" D. Circa 1850. Provenance: the estate of Marshall Lovell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some scattered wear to copper luster edging. No chips or cracks to turren. 1 1/4: hair line to underside of ladle bowl near handle, fleabites to rim of ladle bowl. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) 19th century American treenware items including two (2) turned compotes, one (1) folk art carved compote with pierced base and one (1) carved bowl. Treenware ranging in size from 3" H x 11" dia. to 8" H x 9 1/2" dia. Lot also includes approximately thirty (30) pieces of assorted cloth fruit and vegetables, nine (9) pieces of wax fruit, and five (5) cloth sewing related items. Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Wilma and Jack Murray, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: All with overall general use wear. Two compotes with age cracks to sides, age crack to burlwood bowl. [See more photos →]

Josef Planer (Austrian, 1883-1962) oil on canvas painting of still life with large floral arrangement beside copper bowl of fruit spilling out onto table. Signed lower left. Likely original molded partial gilt frame. Sight – 20 1/2" H x 31" W. Framed – 28 5/8" H x 39 1/8" W. Provenance: Consignor inherited from grandparents who lived in New Orleans in 1930 and '40s. CONDITION: General surface grime and some evidence of stretcher creases. Paper board covers back of canvas. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Civil War and post Civil War/Indian War items. 1st item: Civil War or Indian War era Model 1860 Staff and Field Officer's sword with metal scabbard. Blade unmarked. Scabbard stamped "15" top left of drag. Steel blade, cast brass folding clamshell guard with eagles and foliate designs, shagreen leather wrap with twisted brass wire. Scabbard with brass mountings and three rings. Includes leather and brass strap, stamped "K1 47", left strap near top, stamped "AP" left strap on loop, and stamped "D C I" right strap on loop. Blade length – 30". Overall length with scabbard – 37". Strap – 26" L x 6 1/2" W. 2nd item: Indian War federal eagle cast brass sword belt plate or buckle with leather belt and brass mountings. Unmarked. Belt plate – 2 1/8" H x 3" W. Belt – 26" H x 34 1/2" W. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Blade with pitting, areas of rust. Areas of loss, largest 1/2" to shagreen leather wrap. Scabbard with areas of pitting, rust. Areas of tarnish to brass guard and mountings. 2nd item: Overall good condition with areas of tarnish to brass to be expected from age. Flaking to leather belt. [See more photos →]

Thomas Polacca Nampeyo (Hopi, 1935-2003) pottery jar with deeply carved geometric, figural, bear, ram and buffalo designs with polychrome paint on a natural ground. Signed and dated "April 1978" with corn stalk symbol on the base. 8 1/4" H. 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Jemez redware pottery jar by David Chinana with polished red and black geometric designs. Signed on the base. 6 3/4" H x 10" W. 2nd item: Jemez redware pottery jar by David Chinana with polished red and black geometric designs to the body including a snake encircling the neck and ruffled design to the rim. Signed on the base. 8"H x 9"W. Both jars 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Both jars overall very good condition, a couple of very minor areas of wear to body of snake jar. [See more photos →]

Pair of Gothic Continental inlaid pedestals, mahogany or fruitwood, comprised of round tops having shaped aprons with ebonized circular drops and inset green marble, baluster shaped standards with inverted satinwood floral and string inlay to the tops and pineapple inlay to the bases, resting on tripodal legs. 31 3/4" H x 12 3/4" dia. 19th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: One table top with repaired break to one side, baluster of one table with repaired cracks to standard. Both with overall general wear. [See more photos →]

After Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1608-1669) seven (7) late 19th century heliogravure impressions attributed to Amand Durand (French, 1831-1905), on laid paper (some prints with watermarks). The prints reproduce Rembrandt etchings of landscape and allegorical scenes including Clump of Trees with a Vista, The Omval Windmill, Six's Bridge, Cottage Beside a Canal, The Goldweigher's Field, The Phoenix or the Statue Overthrown, and The Ship of Fortune. Four prints signed "Rembrandt" in the plate with original creation dates circa 1631-1652. Contemporary museum quality frames included. Prints approx. 4 5/8" H x 7 3/8" W to 4 7/8" H x 12 3/4" W. Frames range in size from 9 3/4" H x 13 1/2" W x 3/4" D to 11 7/8" H x 15 3/8" W x 1 3/4" D. Alternate spelling Armand Duran. CONDITION: Overall good condition. All except Clump of Trees trimmed to plate lines. Six's Bridge, Cottage, and Ship of Fortune hinge mounted to mattes. Evidence of prior hinge mounting to Clump of Trees. [See more photos →]

Rare pair of American 18th century silver sugar tongs, elaborate Rococo shell and scroll design handle with shell form grips, the bridge monogrammed EK, interior bridge marked RH in rectangle (probably Richard Humphreys, b. 1749-d. 1832, working Wilmington, Delaware c. 1771-1796 and Philadelphia, PA). 5 3/8" L, 1.2 oz troy. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

The House at Pooh Corner, 1st Edition, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, 1928. Published by Methuen and Company, Ltd. London. Octavo, 178 pages with illustrations, hardbound in tooled pink cloth covers with gilt lettering and pictorial design to front cover and spine, original dust jacket, gilt top edged paper. Includes advertisement for the Christopher Robin Calendar, 1929, and 'When We Were Very Young' notepaper. 7 3/4" H x 5 1/4" W x 3/4" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Scuffs, shelf wear, line of toning to top of dust jacket. Four pieces of auxiliary archival tape, largest 1/2" x 2 1/8", to interior of dust jacket. 7 1/2" x 1 1/2" lines of toning to front and back end papers. Majority of pages in overall good condition with light toning, foxing spots, first and last few pages including map. [See more photos →]

Four Native American jewelry items. 1st item: Navajo sterling silver cuff bracelet with 8 turquoise stones, signed on interior TKE, IHMSS, possibly T.K. Emerson, Navajo. (IHMSS = Indian Hand Made Sterling Silver), 5 3/8" L interior x 1" H plus 1 1/4" W opening. 1.63 oz troy. 2nd item: Zuni silver metal, turquoise and coral stone cuff bracelet signed Effie C. Zuni for artist Effie Calavaza, 5 3/4" interior x 1" H plus 1 3/8" opening. 3rd item: Navajo sterling and turquoise bolo leather tie, signed Thomas Singer (1940-2014), 44 1/2" total length. 3.34 oz troy, total weight. 4th item: Navajo oval turquoise and silver metal ring, signed P.J. Begay, 1 1/4" H face, ring size 8. CONDITION: All in good condition. Items not marked sterling has not been tested. [See more photos →]

1st item: Norman Red Star "Wi-Cahpe-Luza" (b. 1955) Lakota Sioux sgraffito blackware pottery jar having a feather design to the rim, buffalo frieze to the shoulder and four vignettes depicting various Native American figures to the body. Signed and numbered on the base. 9 1/2" H x 10" dia. 2nd item: Sue Tapia (b. 1945) San Juan Peublo, New Mexico blackware pottery jar with carved and fluted designs to the body with an alternating shiny and matte finish. Signed on the base. 7 1/2" H x 13" W. 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition, some scratching to the base, some minor wear to body on two vignettes. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

George III carved giltwood and eglomise pier mirror, molded cornice with eleven gilt spheres, above a horizontal reverse painted panel with flower-filled urn and foliate decoation, above a rectangular mirror plate flanked by reeded columns having rosette topped carved capitals at the top and rosettes at the base. 42" H x 22-7/8" W x 3" D. English, early 19th century. Provenance: Formerly of Maple Grove Estate, Knoxville, TN when a private residence, and published in Southern Accents magazine, May-June 1985. CONDITION: Overall good condition with losses to white on eglomise tablet background and gilt gesso on columns and petals. Some silvering to the mirror. [See more photos →]

Twelve (12) Joseph Delaney (Tennessee/New York, 1904-1991) drawings. 1st item: Crayon on brown paper drawing depicting a New York street scene. Unsigned. Housed under plastic in a carved wooden frame. Sight – 15 3/4″ H x 11 3/4″ W. Framed – 17″ H x 13″ W. 2nd item: Pencil on green paper drawing titled “Field Ensemble Field Bag Field Hat” depicting a woman in a suit and hat and a cross body bag holding the leash of a small dog in a New York street scene. Unsigned. 13 1/2″ H x 9 1/2″ W. 3rd item: Pencil on paper drawing depicting the stern of a ferry with several passengers. Unsigned. 11 1/8″ H x 15 1/8″ W. 4th item: Pencil on paper drawing depicting the portrait of a woman in a hat. Unsigned. 19 1/8″ H x 12 5/8″ W. 5th item: Pencil on paper drawing depicting the portrait of a man. Unsigned. 18″ H x 12″ W. 6th item: Pencil on paper drawing depicting a group of nudes. Unsigned. 17″ H x 14″ W. 7th-12th items: Six (6) crayon on three ring binder paper drawings depicting female nudes in various poses and one still life depicting a television set. Unsigned. Hammermill Bond watermarks, visible to surface of five (5) drawings. 8 5/8″ H x 11 1/8″ W. Provenance: The Estate of Ougust Delaney, Knoxville, TN. Biography (courtesy of Frederick C. Moffatt): Joseph Delaney was born in Knoxville in 1904. He and his older brother, Beauford, discovered their interest in art by drawing on Sunday School cards. In 1930, Joseph left Tennessee for New York where Beauford was also working as an artist, and enrolled in the Art Students League under the tutelage of Thomas Hart Benton and Alexander Brooke. The subject matter he found there, including the city’s landmarks and its people, are the images for which he is best known. In 1986, Delaney returned to Knoxville to live and was artist-in-residence for the University of Tennessee Art Department until his death in 1991. Delaney’s works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Chicago Art Institute, The Knoxville Museum of Art, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum. Note: Delaney and Haley began a friendship sometime in the 1940’s. In Haley’s “Shadowland of Dreams” he writes: “Through him (his friend George Sims) I met other struggling artists like Joe Delaney, a veteran painter from Knoxville, Tennessee. Often Joe lacked food money, so he’d visit a neighborhood butcher who would give him big bones with morsels of meat and a grocer who would hand him some wilted vegetables. That’s all Joe needed to make down-home soup. Another Village neighbor was a handsome young singer who ran a struggling restaurant. Rumor had it that if a customer ordered steak, the singer would dash to a supermarket across the street to buy one. His name was Harry Belafonte. People like Delaney and Belafonte became role models for me. I learned that you had to make sacrifices and live creatively to keep working at your dream. That’s what living in the Shadowland is all about”. Additionally, Delaney was named artist-in-residence at The University of TN, an appointment facilitated by his friend Alex Haley. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with 1 1/4″ tear, areas of loss, largest 1/4″ x 1 1/2″, edges of sheet. 1/2 x 2 1/4″ area of dampstaining, lower right corner. 2nd item: Overall good condition with areas of dampstaining, largest 1″ x 3/4″, scuffs, and creases, surface of sheet. 3rd item: Overall good condition with surface scuffs. 4th item: Overall good condition with 1 7/8″ x 5 3/4″, to top right of sheet (does not affect drawing). Tears, largest 2 3/4″, scuffs, to edges of sheet. 5th item: Overall good condition with scuffs, creases, top left corner. 4 1/4″ x 3″ area of loss, lower right corner. 6th item: Overall good condition with 1/4″ tear, lower left corner, areas of toning/acid burn, top right corner, creases, and surface scuffs. Drawing does not fill entire sheet. 7th-12th items: Overall good condition with surface scuffs, tears to three ring holes. Areas of toning/acid burn, largest 6 1/2″ x 3/4″, foxing spots, surface of drawing depicting a group of nudes. Television set drawing does not fill entire sheet. [See more photos →]

Pair of German Heubach bisque porcelain baseball figures, one depicting a batter and the other depicting a pitcher both in action poses and standing on a naturalistic ground. Heubach stamp to the underside of the hollow bases of each. 14 1/4" H. Late 19th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Pitcher figurine overall good condition with light grime and age cracks to back waist. Batter figurine with broken thumb to one hand with old repair. Bat possibly a replacement. [See more photos →]

Grouping of 6 early brass candlesticks including three (3) with large round bases, one (1) with an octagonal base, one (1) with a square footed base and one (1) with a tall dome base and engraved decoration to the stem and base. Three (3) have economy holes in the sockets. Ranging in size from 5 3/4" H to 11 1/4" H. All likely Continental and date from the 17th to early 18th centuries. Provenance: Collection of Wilma and Jack Murray, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Large domed candlestick with denting and uneven base. Remaining candlesticks overall good condition with general wear and oxidation. [See more photos →]

Archive of nineteen (19) documents related to William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941), 46th United States Secretary of the Treasury and United States Senator from California. 1st-16th item: Sixteen (16) TLS from William Gibbs McAdoo, dated 1911-1918. Many of the letters pertain to Woodrow Wilson's 1912 and 1916 presidential campaigns. Four letters on Secretary of the Treasury stationary, one letter on Director of General Railroads stationary. 1st item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated November 4, 1911. Marked Personal, McAdoo writes "My dear Coleman:- I have your kind telegram, to which I replied that I doubted if I could make a speech at Chattanooga, but I shall let you know within a few days whether or not it can be accomplished. I am anxious to stop there for a few hours, anyway, to talk to you and other friends about Governor Wilson, and see if it will not be possible to harmonize the unhappy political condition in the State upon a Presidential candidate, at any rate. It was a pleasure to hear from you again, and I hope for the greater pleasure of seeing you soon. Believe me, with warm regards, Very sincerely yours, WG McAdoo". Note: In July 1911 Wilson brought William Gibbs McAdoo and Edward Mandell House in to manage the campaign. 2nd item: TLS. Two page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated November 13, 1911. The letter mostly discusses then Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson's chances at obtaining the Democratic nomination for the Presidential election of 1912, stating "I am sure that Governor Wilson stands the best chance of any other man of the Democratic nomination, and I am more sure that he is the one Democrat who can be elected if nominated". 3rd item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated November 18, 1911. McAdoo begins the letter by expressing his hope that he will be able to visit Chattanooga in the early part of December but requests that Coleman not make any announcements yet. Elaborating more on Wilson's efforts to obtain the Democratic nomination for President, he writes "I think as time passes, the true proportions of Wilson and [Governor Judson] Harmon will be more clearly defined, with the advantage enormously in favor of Wilson. When I speak in Chattanooga I shall try to make the situation clear and put at rest a number of false and malicious statements about Governor Wilson circulated by his enemies, of course with no other purpose than to injure him. The mendacity to which they resort in representing Governor Wilson as favoring the recall of judges, is one of the most audacious of their falsehoods. The Governor admirably expressed his views about judicial recall long before President Taft issued his veto of the Arizona statehood bill". He suggests to Coleman two upcoming magazines in which articles about Wilson will appear, stating "Everything is going along splendidly, and I think the Governor is growing in strength every day". McAddo includes a handwritten note written along the left margin of the paper, reading "Shall send you some most encouraging figures in a few days about the New Jersey vote. Gov. Wilson actually carried the state by about 10000 in the assembly vote". Note: Judson Harmon, then Governor of Ohio, was one of the leading contenders hoping to receive the Democratic nomination for the Presidential election of 1912. 4th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated November 18, 1911. The letter, written on a train, mentions his impending visit to Knoxville and Chattanooga, stating "I shall spend Saturday in Chattanooga, and would suggest that you arrange for a conference with such party leaders in the Southern Division of East Tennessee as you think will help the cause [Wilson obtaining the Democratic nomination]. I notice that Harmon is trying to organize in the State and certainly a vigorous effort should be made in Governor Wilson's behalf". 5th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated December 3, 1911. The letter discusses McAdoo's future travel plans to Tennessee with a brief note about Wilson's campaign reading "The sentiment for Governor Wilson throughout the country continues to grow, and I feel more than ever confident of his nomination. You have, of course, seen the official announcements of the result of the vote in New Jersey. The total vote on the Assembly ticket throughout the State showed that the Democrats carried it by a majority of more than 2,000. Last year, when Governor Wilson was elected, the Democratic majority on the total Assembly vote was about 14,000. I hope that the [Woodrow Wilson] Club is growing in numbers and influence, and that all factions of Tennessee may happily unite upon Governor Wilson. Very sincerely yours, WG McAdoo". McAdoo includes a handwritten note at the end of the letter about a friend of Coleman's that he saw in Washington. 6th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated December 12, 1911. The letter discusses McAdoo's future travel plans to Tennessee with a brief note about Wilson's campaign reading "Keep up the fight for the Governor. Interest in him is growing every day, and I do not believe it is going to be possible for his enemies to defeat his nomination. Always, with kindest regards, Very Sincerely yours, WG McAdoo". 7th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated December 22, 1911. The letter discusses McAdoo's future travel plans to Tennessee with a brief note about Wilson's campaign reading "The prospects grow brighter all the time for Governor Wilson. Don't let any pessimistic attac[k] disturb you. I wish I could have a long talk with you about the situation, and am looking forward with great pleasure to seeing you soon. Remember me to [William Little] Frierson and all my other friends in Chattanooga, and believe me, with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, Sincerely your friend, WG McAdoo". 9 3/4" H x 8" W. Note: William Little Frierson (1868-1953) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. During his career he served as the 16th United States Solicitor General (1920-1921), United States Assistant Attorney General (1917-1920), and mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee (1905-1907). 8th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated January 20, 1912. The letter discusses McAdoo's travel plans to Tennessee, reading "I expect to arrive at Chattanooga some time Saturday afternoon, as I must stop in Knoxville on the 2nd, where I have been asked to speak at the Woodrow Wilson Club…". 9th item: ALS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated March 26, 1912. He begins the letter by mentioning a meeting that occurred between Governor Wilson and Coleman in Nashville, writing "I am pleased that you had such a successful visit". He also asks Coleman to keep him informed of the delegations in Tennessee. 10th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated April 4, 1912. McAdoo writes "Mr dear Coleman:- I have your letter of the 29th ultimo, an am very sorry to hear of the mix-up in Tennessee. It would appear, from what you tell me that there will be contesting delegations from Tennessee. My own idea is that, if the so-called "Regular" are fighting Governor Wilson, as I understand they are, Governor Wilson's friends ought to support the independent organization, which, as I understand it, is supporting him. In the final line-up, I think this course ought to be adopted. However, you are on the ground and your view would go very far with me. The victory in Wisconsin the other day, where we had our first chance for a clean, straightforward fight with the opposition, is highly encouraging, and I hope it will help you in Tennessee. Very Sincerely yours, WG McAdoo". 11th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Counselor at Law, New York, NY, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated May 6, 1912. The letter, marked Personal, reads "My dear Coleman:- I hope that you won't be discouraged by the result of the primaries in Massachusetts, Georgia and Florida. Col. Gray, of the Atlanta Journal, tells me that fully $100,000. was spent by the opposition to defeat Governor Wilson in Massachusetts only 30,000 people voted in the primary, where-as the total Democratic vote in the state is more than 100,000. I am sure Governor Wilson is the second choice of both the Florida and Georgia delegations and also of the Massachusetts delegation…The convention is going to settle this question. I am certain that when the deliberative body looks at the whole situation squarely in the face and comes to a conclusion, that conclusion will be Governor Wilson. Always, with warm regards, Sincerely yours WG McAdoo". 12th item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated April 26, 1913. In the letter, McAdoo writes to thank Mrs. Coleman's invitation for him and his daughter to attend the Confederate Reunion from May 26-29th but regretfully declines, stating that he must stay in Washington. 13th item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated November 8, 1913. In the letter, McAdoo writes to express his regret at not being able to attend the Lock and Dam Celebration in Chattanooga on the 13th of the same month. 14th item: ALS. One page typed bifolium. from McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated April 26, 1913. McAdoo begins the one page typed letter by mentioning that it was a "great pleasure" to see Coleman in Atlanta. 15th item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated June 3, 1916. McAdoo begins the letter by referring to the 1916 Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, MO, stating that while it was unfortunate that Coleman would not be able to attend he has "no doubt that the country will endorse the President by a great vote". Note: The 1916 Democratic National Convention was held at the St. Louis Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri from June 14 to June 16, 1916. It resulted in the nomination of President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall for reelection. 16th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From McAdoo, Director of General Railroads, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated January 11, 1918. McAdoo writes the letter to thank Coleman for his congratulations regarding his new job appointment. Note: McAdoo was the first Director General of Railroads, appointed to the position by President Wilson on December 28, 1917. Letters range in size from 8 1/2" H x 6 1/4" W to 10 1/2" H x 8 1/8" W. 17th item: Invitation from President Wilson and Mrs. Ellen Axson Wilson announcing the marriage of their daughter Eleanor Randolph Wilson to William Gibbs McAdoo, to occur on Thursday, May 7, 1914, Washington, D.C. The one page, folded stationary is embossed with the Seal of the President of the United States, top. 6 3/4" H x 5 7/8" W. Note: Eleanor Randolph Wilson (1889-1967) married William Gibbs McAdoo, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, at the White House on May 7, 1914. They had two daughters: Ellen Wilson McAdoo (1915-1946) and Mary Faith McAdoo (1920-1988). She divorced McAdoo in July 1935. 18th item: ALS from Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, daughter of Woodrow Wilson and wife of William Gibbs McAdoo, Washington, D.C., to Julia Wingate Boyd, wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated July 25, 1914. Two double-sided page handwritten letter on 1709 Massachusetts Avenue stationary. Eleanor writes to Julia to thank her and Mr. Coleman for a berry spoon that the couple sent to the McAdoos. 19th item: Holiday greeting card issued by William Gibbs McAdoo, The Secretery of the Treasury, and Mrs. Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to "send Christmas greetings and best wishes for the New Year", from Washington, D.C., dated December 1916. Printed on card with "1916-1917" in cartouche flanked by holly plants, top. 3 1/2" H x 5 1/2" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from Lewis M. Coleman (1861-1918, U.S. District Attorney, Chattanooga), son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, great granddaughter of Gen. Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: 1st-16th item: Overall good condition with minute foxing spots, stains, scuffs, fold lines, etc to be expected from age. Signatures in strong, clear condition. 7th item: Black ink correction to the word "attack" in the second paragraph. 11th item: Stains, largest 1 1/4" x 1 3/4", surface and verso of letter. 17th item: Overall good condition with minute foxing spots, scuffs, surface and verso of invitation. 18th item: Overall good condition. Eleanor's signature in strong, clear condition. Few minute foxing spots, surface of letter. 19th item: Overall good condition with few minute foxing spots, surface and verso of card. [See more photos →]

Archive of fourteen (14) President Woodrow Wilson era items. 1st item: President Woodrow Wilson and Attorney General James Clark McReynolds (1862-1946) signed appointment, dating July 10, 1913, naming Lewis M. Coleman of Tennessee "Attorney of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Tennessee…for the term of four years…". 16" H x 19 1/2" W. 2nd item: TLS. One page bifolium letter. From James Clark McReynolds, United States Attorney General, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Esq., 14 East Lawn, University of Virginia, dated June 14, 1913. Typed on The Attorney General, Washington stationary. The letter is a response to one that Coleman wrote to McReynolds on the 12th asking to see him. McReynolds states that Coleman is free to "come in at almost any time, and I can probably arrange to see you without much delay. Very truly yours, J. C. McReynolds". 8 1/2" H x 6 1/4" W. 3rd item: TLS. One page bifolium letter. From James Clark McReynolds, United States Attorney General, Washington, D.C., to Lewis M. Coleman, Esq., Chattanooga, TN, dated August 30, 1914. Typed on The Attorney General, Washington stationary. Marked as "Personal", the letter contains McReynolds's appreciation for Coleman's "cordial letter commending my selection for the Supreme Court". He continues the letter with reminiscences, writing "Well do I remember when you first came to Nashville, fresh from the University, and it has given me much satisfaction to watch the success which has attended you at the Bar". Likely in reference to Coleman's ancestor, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Lewis M. Coleman, McReynolds writes "I have never forgotten they story which you told of dear Colonel M. and the interlinear translation of the Greek author! It made an indelible impression. With best wishes, Sincerely, yours, J. C. McReynolds". 8 1/2" H x 6 1/4" W. 4th item: TLS. One and one-half page bifolium letter. From James Clark McReynolds, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., to Hon. Lewis M. Coleman, United States District Attorney, Chattanooga, TN, dated October 17, 1914. Typed and handwritten on Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. stationary. The typed portion of the letter refers to a book belonging to Chief Justice John Marshall, from who Coleman is descended, that he sent to McReynolds, writing "it came in due time and I assure you is greatly appreciated. I shall be delighted always to give the book an important place, and hope to find in it an inspiration for renewed efforts to do something worthy of the great Court over which he presided for such a long time". After his signature "J. C. McReynolds", he includes a handwritten addition expressing his sympathy over the recent death of Coleman's son, Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., who drowned in the Tennessee River on August 28, 1914. Additional signature reading "Sincerely McR" below. 7 3/8" H x 6 3/8" W. 5th-6th items: ALS. Five page, handwritten letter. From Charles W. Rankin, Suzhou (Soochow), China, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated October 27, 1912. The letter mostly refers to Rankin's recent travels, including his time in China just after the main events of the Xinhai Revolution (October 10, 1911-February 12, 1912), also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911, writing "…We have a considerable number of soldiers in this vicinity, and the few times I have seen them drill, I have noticed that they are accurate and precise. And they seem to be constantly at it. I have thought it possible that China might be quietly forming an army that would enable her to assert herself a little later…It has, to my mind, seemed so evident that they [are] maneuvering to get a strong hold on China in the time of her weakness, that would enable them to take away her independence and place her under a protectorate later. Of all the governments, China has been led to have a greater regard for the United States. This [regard] was greatly strengthened by the magnanimous handling of the Boxer Indemnity [Scholarship] fund…if Our Government would promptly recognize the New Republic, I have no hesitancy in saying that the Chinese would simply be capacious, in their affection for our Country. And the Chinese Republic is here to stay…One day China will have an army–one that in numbers and discipline, can handle any other known military organization…". He also writes of the impending 1912 Presidential election, stating "The time is near when our President will be elected–The Election will all be over when you shall receive this,–and it will be President Wilson…I was delighted at Mr. [William Jennings] Bryan's action, and thought it thoroughly characteristic, and believe that in him and President Wilson we have two men who mean much to future good government in the United States". As personal note, Rankin request for Coleman to "Take my place in cleaning up Chattanooga. You can do what I couldn't. With–may I say–love, and best wishes, I am–Sincerely–Chas. W. Rankin" with additional typed note reading "Care of University of Soochow, Soochow, China". Also includes TLS from Joseph Patrick Tumulty (1879-1954), Private Secretary of President Wilson, to Coleman, dated March 21, 1913. The one page bifolium letter, typed on White House stationary, is directly in regards to Mr. Rankin's letter to Coleman, reading "Mr dear Mr. Coleman: The President was much interested in the letter from Mr. Rankin, which accompanied yours of the 19th, and has asked me to thank you for letting him see it.. I return it to you herewith. Sincerely yours, J. P. Tumulty, Secretary to the President". Rankin letter – 10" H x 8" W. Tumulty letter – 9 3/8" H x 5 3/4" W. Note: Charles W. Rankin was an attorney in Chattanooga, TN. 7th item: TLS. One page typed letter. From John K. Shields, United States Senator from Tennessee, Washington, D.C., to Gen. Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated June 1, 1917. The letter is on United States Senate, Committee on Interoceanic Canals stationary with the member of the committee listed with Shields as the chairman, top right. The letter refers to the expiration of Coleman's term as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee writing that "I will in a few days make a recommendation to the President for the appointment of your successor, and I believe it would be best to have the appointment made before congress adjourns so that he may be confirmed during the present session". He ends the letter by stating that "With kind regard, I am Very truly yours, Jhn K. Shields". 10 5/8" H x 8 1/8" W. 8th item: Printed letter from Woodrow Wilson, dated November 1912, issued in response to a letter of congratulations sent by Coleman upon Wilson's election as President with facsimile signature. The one page, folded letter was printed on Princeton, New Jersey stationary. 7 3/8" H x 6" W. 9th item: Invitation from President Wilson and Mrs. Ellen Axson Wilson announcing the marriage of their daughter Jessie Woodrow Wilson to Francis Bowes Sayre Sr., to occur on Tuesday, November 25, 1913, Washington, D.C. The one page, folded stationary is embossed with the Seal of the President of the United States, top. 6 3/4" H x 5 7/8" W. Note: This was the eleventh wedding that was held at the White House. Sayre was Assistant Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1939, when he was appointed High Commissioner to the Philippines. 10th item: ALS. Two page handwritten letter. From Jessie Woodrow Sayre, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson and wife of Francis Bowes Sayre Sr., Washington, D.C., to Julia Wingate Boyd, wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated January 27, 1914. The letter was handwritten on The White House stationary. Jessie writes to give a belated thank you for the "beautiful dish which you and Mr. Coleman sent me at the time of my marriage…I must have seemed rather ungrateful…and I can not tell you how much I appreciate your thought of me…Very Sincerely yours Jessie Woodrow Sayre". 5 7/8" H x 4 1/2" W. 11th item: Black-bordered card issued in response to the death of Mrs. Ellen Axson Wilson, reading "The President and the members of his family acknowledge with grateful appreciation your kind expression of sympathy". Card embossed with the Seal of the President of the United States, top. 3 3/8" H x 5 1/8" W. 12th item: Card issued in response to the death of Mrs. Ellen Axson Wilson, reading "The President is very grateful for the generous message of confidence and approbation which you sent him, and he wishes to express his genuine appreciation of your support". Message on The White House, Washington stationary. 3 5/8" H x 6" W. 13th item: Printed bifolium invitation to the second inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917. Steel plate engraving depicting the Great Seal of the United States with Columbia and four flags, above, with the names of the Chairman and the Committee on Arrangements, below. Includes engravings of Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall with facsimile signatures inside the folded invitation. Invitation – 10" H x 6 1/2" W. Engravings – 10" H x 6 3/8" W. 14th item: Invitation from the Democratic National Committee to attend the formal notification to President Woodrow Wilson of his renomination, to be held at Shadow Lawn, West End, Long Branch, New Jersey on September 2, 1916 at 4 p.m. Printed on folded paper 8 3/8" H x 6 3/8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN, by descent from Lewis M. Coleman (1861-1918, U.S. District Attorney, Chattanooga), son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863) and Mary Ambler Marshall, daughter of James K. Marshall and granddaughter of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). Lewis M. Coleman Jr. also was related to the family of Henry Dearborn by his marriage to Julia Wingate Boyd, daughter of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, great granddaughter of Gen. Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Both signatures in strong, clear condition. Foxing spots, surface of document. 2nd item: Overall good condition with few minute foxing spots. Areas of dampstaining, largest 1 1/2", visible on folded page. 3rd item: Overall good condition with few minute foxing spots, 1 1/4" finger print, and tears, largest 5/8", and areas of dampstaining, largest 1 1/4", surface and verso of letter. Signature in strong, clear condition. 4th item: Overall very good condition. Signatures in strong, clear condition. 5th-6th items: Rust stain from paper clip, top center of first page of Rankin letter. Areas of dampstaining, 1/2" x 5 1/4", minute foxing spots, top right of first three pages of Rankin letter. Rankin signature in strong, clear condition. Tumulty signature slightly smudged but overall clear condition. 7th item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, largest 1 1/4", and creases to top corners of letter. Signature in strong, clear condition. 8th item: Overall good condition with few minute foxing spots, scuffs, to surface and verso of letter. 9th item: Overall very good condition with some transfer of ink and minute foxing spot. 10th item: Overall very good condition. Signature in strong, clear condition. 11th item: Overall very good condition with few minute foxing spots. 12th item: Overall very good condition with few minute foxing spots. 13th item: Invitation in good condition with minute foxing spots. Engravings in very good condition. 14th item: Overall good condition with some transfer of ink and minute foxing spots. 1/4" brown stain, visible en verso. 4 1/4" crease, lower left corner. [See more photos →]

Kentucky and Tennessee Map, Civil War letter, and receipt, 3 items total. 1st item: "Map of the States of Kentucky and Tennessee," engraved by J. H. Young, published by Samuel A. Mitchell, Philadelphia, 1845. From the "Tourist Pocket Map" series by Samuel A. Mitchell. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and railroads. Inset maps of "Vicinity of Nashville", "Vicinity of Louisville", and "Vicinity of Frankfort & Lexington", top left. Title and scale of miles, top right, Principal Stage Routes tables, top right, tables of Steam Boat routes and distances, lower right and center left. "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and decorative acanthus leaf border with patriotic vignettes. 16mo when folded, housed in original tooled green leather covers, stamped with gilt title lettering, front cover. "Population of Kentucky and Tennessee By Counties, In 1840" table with two (2) pencil inscriptions reading "G. M. Lafayette Porter, inside of front cover. Map – 18 1/4" H x 21 3/4" W. Folded – 5 1/2" H x 3 3/8" W x 5/8" D. 2nd item: ALS. Two-page, double-sided handwritten bifolium. From Private E. C. Goheen, 3rd Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Company G, to Bettie Goheen, his mother, dated July 23, 1861. He writes "We are here safe & sound in as good health as we was when we started and are very well satisfied We come from Birmingham to Sanville by Swn rode [sic] stayed there until two o'clock [on] Monday morning…The Boys that was here is all well Norman has been sick but has got well [almost]…What we hav[e] to eat here we hav[e] flour Bacon…beef Sugars and coffee…Vinegars beans and sever[a]l other thing[s] we have a plenty to wash & yes we have plenty of soap to wash with…We herd [sic] some good news this morning their [sic] was a battle at Manas [sic] [The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, fought on July 21, 1861]…in witch [sic] the south come off Victorious the south only lost 3000 while the enemy lost 7000…When you write to us you may direct your leter [sic] to Graysville Ky [care] of Cap F C Edwards…". 8" H x 5 1/8" W. Note: 3rd Infantry Regiment was organized during July 1861, at Camp Boone, Tennessee. Many of the men had previous service in the Kentucky State Guard. The unit took an active part in the Battle of Shiloh and reported 174 casualties. Later it was assigned to Rust's and Buford's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It lost 26 men at Baton Rouge then participated in various conflicts around Vicksburg and Jackson . During the spring of 1864 the regiment was mounted and continued the fight by confronting the Federals in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. It was included in the surrender on May 4, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Gustavus A.C. Holt, Albert P. Thompson, and Lloyd Tilghman; Lieutenant Colonels Benjamin Anderson, T.T. Barnett, and Alfred Johnston; and Majors James H. Bowman, William P. Johnston, and Al. McGoodwin. (source: http://www.kykinfolk.com/adair/confederate.htm). 3rd item: Receipt indicating that G C. Guille by G Bluida has received from L. Barker "two hundred and fifty dollar to be credited on his note for $6000 due July 1, [18]69 for purchase of Blythe Cet March 23, [18]68" with orange two cent George Washington stamp, lower left. Pencil notations, en verso. 4 1/4" H x 7 5/8" W. Provenance: Collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and music historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with tears, largest 4 1/2", toning, light surface stains, largest 1" x 1/4", surface of map. 5/8" x 5/8" area of Madison county separated from map is included. Covers in overall good condition with wear, corners bumped. 2nd item: Overall good condition with tears, largest 2 1/4", foxing spots, surface of letter. 3rd item: Overall good condition with toning impression, tears, largest 1/4", to receipt. [See more photos →]

North Carolina stoneware pottery jar by Jesse Jordan (Randolph County, ca. 1827-1896) salt glaze with a flattened tapered rim and two incised lines below, stamped "J. Jordan" on the upper shoulder. 9 3/4" H. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

7 Minstrel Ephemera and Musical Memorabilia items: 1st item: J.W. Johnson's Old Reliable Virginia Minstrels broadside, 29-3/4" x 11-1/2" framed. 2nd item: Banjo-Octette 1892 Hamilton Minstrels advertising poster with photo of band and listing names of eight band members, 20-5/8" x 24-3/4" oak frame. 3rd item: Metal figurine of African-American trumpet player issued by Academy of Music, NY, Jan 12th, 1894, for the 100th performance in "Old Kentucky", incised on top "Leader of the Pickanniny Band Master Brister", on front, "100th Performance in Old Kentucky" and inscribed on base "Academy of Music NY Jan 12 1894", 6" H x 3-1/2" dia. 4th-5th items: Two framed black and white photographs of Black American minstrel groups including New Orleans Strutters (16-1/4" x 20-1/2") and an unidentified jug band (10-3/4" x 12-1/2" F). 6th and 7th items: One minstrel tambourine with hand-written song lyrics on front and back of drum (2" H x 9-3/4" dia.), late 19th century, and one WWI tambourine with hand-drawn sketch of four musician soldiers and additional (faded) information. Paper label on back identifies tambourine as having been at Camp Mills, NJ, Jan. 1, 1919. 1-1/4" H x 8" dia. 7 items total. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. For more information on Maddox's musical background, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAMo1EEIcrk . CONDITION: Framed items with some yellowing to paper or staining to matte. Few areas of damage to molding of frame of 2nd item. Both tambourines with signs of use. [See more photos →]

Mary T. Smith (Mississippi, 1905-1995) folk art house paint on found wood portrait depicting a woman waving her hand. Carved initials/symbols en verso. 19" H x 24" W. 20th century. Provenance: North Carolina private folk/outsider art collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Large Chinese framed silk embroidery panel, pink and silver and blue threads on a buff colored background, depicting various flowers and peaches with central chrysanthemum design and gilt metallic braid at edges. Framed in an ebonized Chinese style frame with rounded corners. 35 1/2" square sight; 37 1/2" square framed. Partial label en verso, "Jacob H. ____ Grand Rapids", possibly Jacob H. Daverman, a mail order architectural supply company in business around 1900. 2nd item: Framed Asian cloth or scarf with gilt thread embroidery on black fabric ground (possibly wool), with center medallion surrounded by brocade border. Ebonized frame with gilt design at rabbet edge, having an old Stix Baer and Fuller St. Louis framing label en verso. Fabric about 32" square, frame 35 1/2" square. Both items early 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Light, even toning to fabric, overall very good condition. Frame has some wear to the edges. 2nd item: Possible old repair to one corner of scarf, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Chinese floor size blue and white porcelain vase with figural scenic landscape decoration to the ovoid body, flared and shaped rim, figural dragon handles and tall Hawthorne border to the base. Wood display stand included. 23 1/2" H. Late 19th/Early 20th century. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

23 silver napkin rings, late 19th to early 20th century. 13 are marked sterling, 1 is marked 500, 2 are unmarked but believed to be silverplated, and the rest are unmarked but believed to be coin silver or unmarked sterling. Various makers including Gorham and Tiffany (1). 1 ring is in the Medallion pattern (unmarked; possibly silverplated). Most items monogrammed, monograms include: Kate, Pressley, OMJ, Fred, Ada, Willie 1855, Lillian Anne, JHA, Lorane 1916, James and Mattie. Combined weight, items marked sterling: 9.77 oz troy. Combined weight unmarked items: 7.82. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition with a few scattered small dents and scratches. Most items monogrammed (see description). [See more photos →]

14 pcs. 1st and 2nd items: Pair of footed sterling pedestal dishes with weighted bases, stamped on underside SHREVE & CO STERLING SAN FRANCISCO, 5" H. 3rd-14th items: A dozen silver ramekin or custard bowls with flared rims and deep centers, all stamped SHREVE & CO. STERLING SAN FRANCISCO. 2" H x 4 1/3" dia. Weight of bowls: 29.15 oz troy. Provenance: The estate of Martha Goldsmith, Clarksville, TN. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Nellie Augusta Knopf (American, 1875-1962) impressionist oil on board seascape painting titled "Point Lobos" depicting a shoreline view from the Point Lobos State Natural Reserve located in California. Signed lower right corner. Gallery label en verso with title and artist's information. Housed in a gilt carved frame with linen matte and giltwood liner. Provenance: The estate of Ann Cook Calhoun, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Painting and frame overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally used golf ball, stamped in red, "Gen'l Ike, Liquid Center, and High Compression". Additionally stamped "-B-36-". Housed in a custom shadow box frame. 5 5/8" square. Provenance: From the estate of Captain Gordon Wells, member of the Secret Service's Uniformed Division, the White House Police, from 1943 through 1967. During his tenure, Wells received mementos from sitting Presidents and First ladies of 5 administrations, from Franklin Roosevelt through Lyndon B. Johnson. CONDITION: Ball with light evidence of use. Not examined out of the frame. [See more photos →]

The Father of the Blues An Autobiography by William C. Handy, 1944. Published by the Macmillan Company, New York. Octavo, 317 pages including index and illustrations, lithographed frontispiece, hardbound in tooled blue cloth covers with black lettering on front cover and spine. Inscription by the author reads "to J. S. Broon, Esq. with sincere affection W. C. Handy 11-8-44" on title page. Includes several magazine and newspaper clippings, an essay titled "Beale Street 'Where the Blues Began'" by Harry E. Goodwin, photographs, postcards, etc. related to Handy and his family collected by the previous owner. 8 5/8" H x 6" W x 1 3/4" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with fading, shelf wear, bumped corners, etc., to covers. Three newspaper clippings and two photographs pasted to inside of front cover with ink inscriptions by previous owner and back of frontispiece. Heavy foxing spots to first and last few pages including frontispiece. Majority of pages in overall good condition with few pencil inscriptions from previous owner. [See more photos →]

1st item: Polychrome painted chalkware fruit basket on rectangular black base, 9" x 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" overall, early 20th c. 2nd item: Polychrome painted chalkware fruit compote on raised square base, 10-1/2" x 5-1/2" overall, late 19th c. 3rd item: Polychrome painted chalkware fruit basket on raised cream colored stand, 8-1/2" x 9-1/2" overall, late 19th c. 4th item: Polychrome painted chalkware lidded hollow fruit bowl, in two parts, light brown footed bowl, 8" x 9-1/2", late 19th century. CONDITION: All with some surface grime and scattered paint losses. Papier mache lid with flakes and abrasions to rim. [See more photos →]

Arne Jacobsen Cylinda-line stainless steel beverage set by Stelton. Includes 2 coffee pots (8" H), 2 sets cream pitcher & covered sugar, Ice bucket ( 8 1/4" x 7" x 8" with handles) and ice tongs (6 3/4" L), cylinder vase or shaker (missing lid), 3-piece salt (2 1/2" H), pepper (2" H) and sugar set with scoop on small fitted round tray and large round serving tray with handles (13 1/4" x 14 1/4" with handles). One original paper label found inside one item and reads "cylinda-line/ LAUFFER stainless/ stelton denmark/ design/ arne jacobsen/ no. 0671. Total weight 12 lbs. Denmark, established 1967. CONDITION: Surface grime and scuffs due to age and use. [See more photos →]

Five (5) Civil War era edged weapons including relic/excavated examples. 1st item: Model 1840 "wrist breaker" cavalry sword with iron scabbard. Steel blade, brass guard and wooden handle. Scabbard with two rings. Blade length – 35". Overall length with scabbard – 43 1/2". 2nd item: Socket bayonet with curved blade. Includes printed tag reading "Given by Kate H. Fort to General A. P. Stewart chapter U. D. C. in 1911. Found on battlefield of Chickamauga, Georgia". Overall length – 26 3/4". 3rd item: 4 Side Star socket bayonet with straight blade. Includes printed tag reading "4 Side Star Bayonet Found in Tunnel Hill Campsite" (Chattanooga). Overall length – 22". 4th item: Handmade sword with curved blade and oval handle. Includes printed tag reading "Sword Found Among the Breast Works on Top of Rocky Face Mountain ca 1960" (Battle of Rocky Face Ridge, Whitfield County, GA). Overall length – 39". 5th item: Handmade sword with partially serrated bayonet blade and guard and hilt. Overall length – 30 1/4". Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection; among items purchased in the 1960's from the old location of the A. P. Stewart Chapter of the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), formerly the Nathan Bedford Forrest UCV (United Confederate Veterans) home, St. Elmo, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Relic condition with pitting to blade, traces of old glue repair to top of blade and handle. Rust to scabbard. 2nd-5th items: Relic condition with pitting, areas of rust. [See more photos →]

Bobby Reed Falwell (American/Kentucky, 20th c.) hand carved walnut box with two pivoting segments forming the lid. Carved signature lower edge "Falwell". Accompanied by original sales tag. 4"H x 7"W x 6 1/2"D. Circa 1970s. Note: Bobby Falwell is an award winning KY woodworker and designer who studied under Wendell Castle. His mid-century modern wood sculptural furniture and boxes have been featured in numerous public collections and in the New York Times. CONDITION: Great condition [See more photos →]

14K yellow and white gold and blue enamel Blue Lodge Masonic gents ring containing three brilliant round diamonds with total weight of approximately .70 ct, (VS-I1, J-K). Mounting stamped "Gothic 14K" and "Kinsley & Sons Inc". Ring size: 8-3/4, 10.8 grams. Knoxville, TN private collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Minor wear to mounting. [See more photos →]

Group of World War I military items, 6 items total. 1st item: United States 30th Infantry Division, Medical Corps enlisted khaki doughboy jacket with die struck bronze collar disks, including one (1) Medical Corps with caduceus, left, and one (1) "TENN", right, with nine (9) US eagle buttons. 30th Infantry Division "Old Hickory" patch, Private patch, and patch with two service chevrons, to left sleeve. No visible manufacturer's marks. 28 3/8" H x 38" W. 2nd item: British camouflage helmet with leather liner and chinstrap. Paint inscription reading "Alex 6th RTC" underside of helmet. No visible manufacturer's marks. 4 1/2" H x 12 1/4" W x 11" D. 3rd-6th items: Two (2) pairs of hard brown leather leggings, 4 items total. No visible manufacturer's marks. Leggings range in size from 8 3/4" H x 5 1/4" W x 5" D to 12 1/4" H x 4 1/4" W x 5 1/4" D. Provenance: Private Ringgold, Georgia collection. CONDITION: 1st items: Overall good condition with stains, tears, to be expected from age. "Old Hickory" patch with tears, missing majority of red background. 2nd item: Overall good condition with wear to be expected from age and manner of use. Camouflage paint with losses, areas of faded but highly visible condition. 3rd-6th items: Overall good condition with wear, surface grime to be expected from age and manner of use. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Carl Sublett (Tennessee, 1919-2008) abstract watercolors, one in Fall colors, signed and dated "66" lower right and the other in Fall colors signed and dated "68" lower right. Both housed in wood frames with taupe linen liners. 1st work: Sight – 17" H x 16 1/2" W. Framed – 25" H x 24 1/2" W. 2nd work: Sight – 17" H x 23" W. Framed – 24 3/4" H x 30 12" W. Biography: Carl Sublett studied Art History at the American Academy in Florence, Italy after World War II, and became Professor of Fine Art at the University of Tennessee. Sublett was a member of the National Academy of Design. His works are in the collections of the National Academy of Design, The Tennessee State Museum, and Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville. CONDITION: Both artworks very good condition. Minor abrasions to frames. [See more photos →]

Cast Iron "Independence Hall Tower" Centennial mechanical bank, made to commemorate the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, with lever to one side that rings bell. Marked on the base Enterprise Mfg. Co. Phila./ Pat Sept. 21, 75. Retains some of the original red polychrome paint, originally painted red and blue. 9 1/2" H. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Some slight separations to seams to lower half of building, one corner with filler. Losses to the original polychrome paint. [See more photos →]

Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden During the Years 1805-1806, 1807, 1808, Vol. I-II, 2nd Edition, by Robert Ker Porter, 1813. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London. Quarto, 296 pages including index, 41 copper plate engraved plates (3 folding, 28 hand-coloured, 12 sepia-tinted aquatints) and 1 etching of Gustav Vasa, both volumes hardbound together in embossed floral brown cloth with brown leather half binding, black and gilt letter on spine with seven raised hubs, original dust jacket. 12" H x 10" W x 2" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with shelf wear, bumped corners, scuffs, cracks to leather spine etc., to covers. Pages with foxing spots, toning impressions, areas of dampstaining, including plates. Plates are collated. Dust jacket in overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Wrought Iron gun wall rack, comprised of two separate hanging rods with ribbed looped sections for holding rifles, terminating in hooks with face masks. Also includes later padlock and key (lock marked Barmen Export Co.). 26 1/2" L. Likely German, 19th century or earlier. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Some oxidation, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Louis Hottot (France, 1829-1905) cold painted metal sculpture depicting a young woman attired in Elizabethan dress and head covering, reading a French illuminated book. Signed on the back left "L. Hottot". 17" H x 14 1/4" W x 14" D. 33 lbs. Late 19th/Early 20th century. CONDITION: Significant losses to paint on the face, overall general wear. [See more photos →]

Victorian sterling silver standish comprised of an oval footed tray with decorative pierced border, miniature taper candlestick with bead and acanthus decoration (screws into tray) and two cut crystal inkwells with sterling hinged lids, all stamped for Henry Wilkinson, London, 1875. Tray – 8 3/4" x 6". 11.56 oz troy weighable silver. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Red Grooms (American/Tennessee, b. 1937) color screenprint with die-cut collage titled "Mr. Chuck Berry". Signed lower left and numbered lower right "130/150". Housed under glass in wood frame. Sheet – 32" H x 25 1/2" W. Framed – 39 1/2" H x 33 1/2" W. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

American Queen Anne mahogany tilt-top table, likely New England, square top with serpentine sides and rounded "porringer corners", pedestal with ring turnings and cup shaped base set on cylinder with three mortised legs, each ending in snake and pad feet. 29" H (horizontal) 52 1/2" H (vertical) x 32 1/2" x 32 1/4" top x 26" W feet. American, mid-18th century. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Both items descended in the family of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on the side of her mother, Pamela Augusta Gilman (1802-1880). Annette was married to Charles Harrod Boyd and had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd (wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Jr.). Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. was the son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835), fourth Chief Justice of the United States, a friend, attorney and biographer of George Washington. CONDITION: Older surface with iron straps underside reinforcing a split in the top. Abrasions to Queen Anne feet. [See more photos →]

14 pcs. 1st-10th items: Ten Kentucky coin silver dessert spoons, 7 1/2" L, with plain fiddle handles monogrammed "Talbot" and marked on backs R.E. SMITH in rectangle (Richard Ewing Smith, b. 1800-d. 1849, working Louisville c. 1827-1848). 11th item: Silver gravy ladle in a bead and anthemion pattern with no monogram; incuse mark SALISBURY & CO. (retailer, in business in New York City, 1838-1850). 12th-13th items: Two coin silver teaspoons in the Fiddle Swell pattern, monogrammed SL and marked on back CLAYTON in rectangle (likely Richard Clayton, b. 1811-1878, working Cincinnati, Ohio 1834-1859). 14th items: Coin silver mug, flared rim with tapered sides, S scroll handle, monogrammed Helen Talbot. Stamped on base HAZEN & COLLINS in rectangle (Nathan Lord Hazen and Peleg Collins, working Cincinnati, Ohio, 1843-1847). 3" H. Combined weight 19.12 oz troy. Provenance: Descended in the Talbot-Lindsey family of Frankfort, Ky. Helen Talbot, the granddaughter of second Kentucky governor James Garrard, was born in Bourbon Co. in 1841; she married John B. Lindsey in 1860 and they lived in Frankfort, KY. CONDITION: All pieces in very good condition. [See more photos →]

Middle Tennessee Sheraton one drawer stand or work table, found in Bedford County, cherry primary, poplar secondary. Comprised of an overhanging top with one hidden dovetailed drawer having molded sides, over tall fluted legs terminating to ball feet. No evidence of drawer ever having a pull. 30" H x 25 3/4" W x 21 3/8" D. Circa 1830. Provenance: Private Tullahoma, TN collection. CONDITION: Refinished with some evidence of sun bleaching to top. Light staining and wear to top. [See more photos →]

1st-2nd items: Pair Chinese Export ceramic "en grisaille" or Encre de Chine hand-painted crackle glaze baluster vase lamps, with scenes of hunter, servant and female in landscape, and scattered large floral sprays. Square wooden bases. 20 1/4" H including socket. 20th century. 3rd item: Chinese or Italian crackle glaze earthenware ginger jar lamp with fruit cluster handles and scalloped top, all on shaped wooden base. Base marked SE 6 1/2. 20 1/4" H including socket. Total weight 21 lbs. 20th century. Provenance: The estate of John Donnelly, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall very good condition with some rub marks on brass top. 3rd item: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

American Sheraton sewing table, rectangular top with canted corners over a veneered frieze with locking dovetailed drawer having round brass knobs and a locking slide-out tray with sewing bag attachment, all raised on four reeded feet ending in elongated round tapered feet. Finished on all sides. 30" H x 20" W x 15 1/4" D. Second quarter of the 19th century. Provenance: Estate of Glen and Marjorie Stewart, proprietors of The Keeping Room, Augusta, Georgia. CONDITION: Bag is a replacement and is not attached; several areas of replaced veneer at corners and at each edge of bag slide; the strip of wood between the slide and drawer is replaced. Scattered stains and abrasions and small veneer losses. [See more photos →]

Attr. Edmund Friedrich Theodor Rabe (1815-1902), watercolor on cardstock miniature portrait of a middle aged gentleman with facial hair and spectacles, possibly an American ship captain. A marine landscape is in the background, featuring a ship flying the American flag. Signed and dated at left: "Th. Rabe 28 Dec. 1872". Pencil inscription en verso: "Th. Rabe. Berlin auf dien Karlsbad 15 Jen. 23 __ Dec. 1872". Housed in a hinged leather and brass oval case with silk and velvet lining. 6" x 4 5/8" sight, 8" x 6 5/8" case. Late 19th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Some scattered spots of light foxing. Portrait has come loose from frame. [See more photos →]

Middle Tennessee Sheraton two drawer stand, walnut primary, poplar secondary. Overhanging plain top over two finely dovetailed drawers having green sandwich glass pulls, resting on tall turned Sheraton legs and ball feet. 27 3/4" H x 19 1/2" W x 17 3/4" D. Early 19th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Older refinish, some age cracks to wood on sides. Older 7/8" replaced front strip of top. [See more photos →]

1st item: Mid-Atlantic painted pine one-door cupboard, molded overhanging top with one paneled door and one interior shelf, with brown paint. 23 3/8" H x 20 1/4" W x 8" D. 19th century. 2nd item: East Tennessee mixed woods child's ladderback chair, tall turned finials, 2 back splats, arm posts with scored incising, and split oak seat. 35" H x 16" W x 12 1/4" D. Third quarter of the 19th century. 3rd item: East Tennessee mixed woods child's ladderback chair, turned finials, 3 back splats, green/blue paint and rivercane seat. 36 1/2" H x 16 1/4" W x 12 1/2" D. Third quarter of the 19th century. Provenance: Collection of Wilma & Jack Murray, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Scattered wear and losses to paint, mostly to top and right front side. 2nd item: Overall general wear, breaks and losses to seat. 3rd item: Seat not original with a couple of breaks. Overall general wear and losses to paint. [See more photos →]

A DICTIONARY OF CHINESE CERAMICS by Wang Qing Zheng, published 2003 by Sun Tree Publishing. 368 pp. Contains more than 2,500 entries and over 1,000 color plates and line drawings and addresses artistic, stylistic, technical, and historical aspects of Chinese ceramics. Note: Proceeds from the sale of this lot benefit St. Luke's Community House, Nashville, Tenn. CONDITION: Very good condition with light wear. [See more photos →]

1st & 2nd items: Pair of blue and white Delft tin glazed lidded jars, marked on the bases "B.P" for De Vergulde Blompot. Both with shaped bodies, scenic landscape decoration, relief floral decoration and conforming lids. Both approx. 8 3/4" H. Late 17th/Early 18th century. 3rd item: Blue and white Delft tin glazed jar, marked on the base, shaped body with Asian style landscape and bird decoration. 7 1/2" H. Late 17th/Early 18th century. 4th item: Blue and white Delft tin glazed jar with landscape vignette to the center surrounded by scrolling foliate decoration. Unmarked. 6 3/4" H. Late 17th/Early 18th century. 5th item: Asian blue and white porcelain round covered jar with figural landscape decoration to the top and body. Unmarked. 5" H. 19th century. Provenance: Collection of Wilma and Jack Murray, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: 1st & 2nd items: Finials to both lids broken. Scattered chips to rims of lids, bodies and bases. 3rd item: Missing lid, scattered chipping to rim and base. Old repair to rim. 4th item: Missing lid. Scattered chipping to rim, body and base. 5th item: Minor fleabites to perimeter of top and hairline to center of top. Base overall good condition. Slight sticky residue to top of lid. [See more photos →]

Large pink cased satin art glass jar in an allover diamond pattern, with domed lid and pomegranate finial, possibly Mt. Washington. 12 1/4" H. Early 20th century. Provenance: the estate of Marshall Lovell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Very good condition; one tiny bubble at shoulder. [See more photos →]

The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Shaw, with Appendix on Canine Medicine and Surgery by W. Gordon Stables, circa 1881, no indication of edition. Published by Cassel, Petter, Galpin and Company, London, Paris, and New York. Quarto, 664 pages including appendix, 28 chromolithographic plates with additional illustrations, hardbound in tooled blue cloth covers with gilt and black lettering and pictorial design to covers and spine, gilt edged paper. 11 3/8" H x 9 1/2" W x 2 3/4" D. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear. Rebacked with modern materials, 10 3/4" X 7 3/4" section of original blue cloth from back cover included. Chromolithographic plates are collated, areas of losses/flaking to some of the plates. Majority of pages in overall good condition with light toning, foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, first and last few pages. Back end paper with pencil inscriptions from previous owner. [See more photos →]

Vivid oak leaf pattern Southern summer weight quilt, four small red medallions on an ivory background, surrounded by red and teal colored oak leaves, with red border, all hand stitched and pieced. 73" x 65". Mid to late 19th century. Provenance: a Nashville, TN estate, descended in the family. CONDITION: Colors remain in very good condition with some subtle variations due to light fading, especially on green/teal leaves. Scattered light brown stains, most noticeably in an 8 x 10" area at one corner. 2" area of stitched repair to one red leaf near that same area. 3" area of scattered small losses to one red leaf at another corner. [See more photos →]

Six (6) Native American baskets. 1st-4th items: Four (4) Southwest Native American coiled baskets, willow or yucca with devil's claw designs. Akimel O'odham (Pima) basket with linear key design. 4 1/8" H x 6 1/2" dia. Tohono O'odham (Papago) ovoid double handed basket with step pattern design. Includes note with Papago attribution. 3 3/4" 7 1/2" W x 5" D. Akimel O'odham (Pima) tray with four direction pattern design. Sticker with Pima attribution, attached to base. 4 7/8" H x 14 3/8" dia. Small basket/tray with radiating triangles and geometric designs. 2 1/4" H x 9 1/4" dia. 5th item: Chemehuevi olla basket with step pattern and other geometric and figural designs. Includes note with Chemehuevi attribution. 5 1/2" H x 7" W. 6th item: Small Chehalis cedar and cattail basket with decorative bands. 2 3/4" H x 3 5/8" dia. CONDITION: All items in overall good condition. 1st-4th items: Areas of loss, largest 8 1/2", circumference of rim of tray. Areas of loss, largest 4 1/2", areas of dirt encrustation, small basket/tray. 5th item: 1 1/2" area of breakage, loss to rim. 6th item: Overall good condition. 3" area of loss to rim. [See more photos →]

Civil War era Moore's "Teat-Fire" Pocket Revolver, .32 caliber, serial # 2461, (visible underside of barrel). Barrel marked "Moore's Pat. Fire Arms Co. Brooklyn N. Y.". Cylinder marked "D. Williamson 's Patent January 5. 1864". Bronze frame engraved with scrolling foliate designs, round barrel, walnut bird's head stocks, checkered button trigger and hammer, standard sights. Includes 12 "Teat-Fire" cartridges in plastic case. Barrel length – 3". Overall length – 7". CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface scratches to stocks and light pitting to barrel. Areas of tarnish to frame. Bore is dark. Action is good. [See more photos →]

English Regency sewing box, sarcophagus form, burl elmwood veneer with diamond and line inlay along top edge and center, fitted velvet interior with removable tray, lower drawer with brass fruit basket handle, side brass patera and ring handles and brass lion paw feet. 7-1/2 x 12 x 10 inches. Circa 1815. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Few scattered losses to diamond inlay along top edges, see back left and front right. Splits, veneer lifting and losses front right corner, side and edge and rubbing to front left top and right side. Left rear foot and drawer pull are loose. [See more photos →]

Continental oil on board painting depicting Shylock, a Venetian Jewish moneylender and principal antagonist from William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". He is depicted at a table, his arms and hands attempting to shield the contents of a chest of gold and jewelry from view, before a stained glass window and a painting of a battle scene. Signed "C. Fessini or Fessand" lower right. Housed in a Spanish style gilt and gesso frame. Sight – 21" H x 17" W. Framed – 29 3/4" H x 25 3/4" W. Likely 18th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Good, stable condition. Flouresence to face and around skull cap when examined under blacklight, also some varnish run. – 1/2" vertical scratch top center. Series of scratches, 3" x 3" area, lower right corner. Abrasions and losses to the frame, primarily lower left edge molding, approx. 7 1/2". Cracks to corners of frame. [See more photos →]

North Carolina stoneware pottery preserving jar by Wright Davis (Randolf County, 1838-1928) with flaring rim, straight sides and salt glaze, stamped "W. Davis" upper shoulder. 10" H. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Some scattered firing imperfections, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Three items David Yurman sterling silver and 14K yellow gold cable jewelry including one Cable "X" collar; one pair Cable Classics cigar band earrings (20mm x 15mm) and one pair shrimp style earrings (20mm x 12mm). Both pairs of earrings with a clip back only. Collar and cigar band earrings with maker's marks. Provenance: Memphis, TN collection. Group comes with Certificate of Authenticity from Memphis, TN jeweler. CONDITION: Back of one side of collar with bend and crimp. Earring posts removed from earrings. [See more photos →]

1st item: German WWI era Pickelhaube helmet, hard black leather helmet with leather interior, pressed metal plate to the front and vented spike to the top. Red and white German Empire disks on the right side, the black and white Prussian state disk on the left absent. Illegible inscription to the inner brim. 8 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W x 9 1/8" L. Circa 1900. 2nd item: Kentucky related World War I era booklet, titled in gilt "A Soldier's Diary," containing approximately 75 autographs. Front inscribed "To Bernard from Margaret, March 24, 1918." Partially printed page shows the owner enlisted Dec. 7, 1917 with the 21st Tr. Battery, Regt. F.A.C.O.T.S., Camp Taylor, KY and was discharged Nov. 16, 1918. Many of the signatures are from Kentucky soldiers. Several also include quotes giving a glimpse into army life, such as "Do you go home. Hell Yes!" and "How about the beds". There are no diary entries. 5 2/3" x 3 1/3". 3rd item: Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary 60 year reign commemorative bohemian glass tumbler, with portrait of the emperor surrounded by a garland with the dates 1848-1908 below. 4 1/2" H. Early 20th century. Provenance: The collection of internationally known ragtime pianist and historian Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Chin strap and left ear disk absent. Oxidation and wear to metal components. Overall wear and cracks to black leather. 2nd item: Overall good condition with slight shelf wear, stains to covers. Slight toning, few minute foxing spots to pages. Signatures in good condition. 3rd item: Wear to gilt rim, otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

James March Phillips (California, 1913-1981) watercolor on paper California landscape depicting a lone tree along a rocky coastline. Signed "James March Phillips" lower left. 11" H x 11" W sight, 20" H x 20" W double matted and framed under glass. Ebonized and silver gilt frame with artist biography taped en verso. Provenance: Private Brentwood, TN collection. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

13-piece Lewis Straus and Sons, Limoges, France (1890-1920) hand-painted enameled and gilt porcelain game set including double-handled oval platter decorated with pair pheasants in woodland setting and celadon green and gilt border, unsigned (3 x 18 x 12-1/4 inches), and 12 shaped rim plates decorated with various game birds and celadon green and gilt borders, 9-1/2 inches diameter. (1 plate broken is included). All with Lewis Straus and Sons, Limoges, France maker's marks on base. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Minor wear to gilt. 2 plates with 1/4" rim chips, 1 with 3/8" rim loss, 1 with 5/8" x 1/4" rim chip. I plate broken in half with damage to rim and repair. [See more photos →]