Fall 2019 Discovery Auction Highlights

Gustave Baumann (New Mexico/California, 1881-1971), "From Hillside Gardens" color woodcut with aluminum leaf print on cream laid paper, depicting a brightly colored bouquet of flowers against a silver background. Pencil titled lower left, numbered "I 10 /125" lower right of image and pencil signed with artist's hand-in-heart artist's inkstamp lower right. Housed in the original Crescent Quality Boards matte and silvered frame. Joseph Sartor Galleries (Dallas,TX) label en verso together with a Gustave Bauman artist's label. Created circa 1941. Image: 12 1/2" H x 12 3/8" W. Paper: 16 1/4" H x 14 3/8" W. Framed: 21 5/8" H x 207/8" W. Biography (from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco): Born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1881, Baumann's family moved to Chicago in 1891. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and later at Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich where he studied under Maximilian Dasio (1865-1954), a painter who experimented with linocuts, and Hans Neumann (1873-1957), a woodcut artist, and learned both techniques. In addition to Chicago, Baumann traveled extensively throughout the United States, living in Brown County, Indiana from 1910-1917 where he created "In the Hills o' Brown", a portfolio of twelve four-color woodcuts. He eventually settled in Sante Fe, New Mexico where he lived for over 50 years. He travelled to California several times and created a series of eleven woodblock prints of California scenes. He was very active in the Santa Fe area community and was the WPA co-ordinator in Santa Fe during the 1930s. His works were exhibited at Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 where he won a gold medal and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1926. A printmaker and painter, Gustave Baumann is known for his colorful woodblock prints, particularly his landscapes depicting scenes in New Mexico, the California coast and life in Southwestern pueblos. CONDITION: Hinged mounted to matte. A few scattered areas of spotting. Minor abrasions to frame. [See more photos →]

Chinese Qing Dynasty porcelain plaque, possibly by Yu Huanwen (1852-1892) depicting a woman on a horse next to her servant and approaching another woman outside an estate wall. Chinese inscription upper left with one red seal. Mounted in late 20th century metal table with glass inset lower shelf. Plaque – 15 5/8" L x 10 5/16" W x 1/2" D. Table – 23 3/8" H x 10 3/4" W x 15 7/8" D. Chinese, late 19th century. Provenance: The Estate of Judith E. Crosland, Knoxville, TN. Mrs. Crosland's father worked for the United States Diplomatic Corp. and the family lived in China for three years during her childhood. Condition: Plaque is adhered to table inset on left side edge. Some wear to areas of image. CONDITION: Plaque is adhered to table inset on left side edge. Some wear to areas of image. [See more photos →]

Gustave Baumann (New Mexico/California, 1881-1971), "The Bishop's Apricot," color woodblock print on cream laid paper depicting a lone apricot tree against a bright blue sky and verdant green field, created 1924. Titled in pencil lower left, numbered 87/125 lower right of image, pencil signed with the artist's hand-in-heart inkstamp lower right. Unframed. 9 3/8" H x 11 1/4" W. Biography (from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco): Born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1881, Baumann's family moved to Chicago in 1891. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and later at Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich where he studied under Maximilian Dasio (1865-1954), a painter who experimented with linocuts, and Hans Neumann (1873-1957), a woodcut artist, and learned both techniques. In addition to Chicago, Baumann traveled extensively throughout the United States, living in Brown County, Indiana from 1910-1917 where he created "In the Hills o' Brown", a portfolio of twelve four-color woodcuts. He eventually settled in Sante Fe, New Mexico where he lived for over 50 years. He travelled to California several times and created a series of eleven woodblock prints of California scenes. He was very active in the Santa Fe area community and was the WPA co-ordinator in Santa Fe during the 1930s. His works were exhibited at Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 where he won a gold medal and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1926. A printmaker and painter, Gustave Baumann is known for his colorful woodblock prints, particularly his landscapes depicting scenes in New Mexico, the California coast and life in Southwestern pueblos. CONDITION: Glued to backing board with losses/tears to sheet margins, overall toning to paper. [See more photos →]

19th century Japanese export teak and burlwood low cabinet, comprised of three central drawers flanked by doors enclosing additional storage drawers. Brass hardware and mounts and sides with wrought iron handles. 15 1/2" H x 65" W x 18" D. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with general expected wear. [See more photos →]

Two (2) 19th century Asian Inlaid Jewelry or Keepsake Chests. 1st item: Japanese rosewood and other mixed woods jewelry or keepsake box with painted lacquer decoration to the front door panels and inlaid decoration to all inner and outer doors and drawers. Brass hinges and pulls. 7" H x 8" W x 4" D. 19th century. 2nd item: Korean lacquered and inlaid mother-of-pearl keepsake or jewelry chest, comprised of two 1/2 drawers over one long drawer. Animal and foliate landscape decoration through out with brass hardware. 19th century. 7 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W x 11 3/8" D. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall general wear and losses to finish. Front door latch absent, doors do not close. 2nd item: Overall general wear and scattered losses to lacquer and inlay. [See more photos →]

Pair of Louis XIV Style round stands with inset variegated rouge marble tops, gilt frieze with applied intricately cast gilt mounts, one hidden drawer and four cabriole legs terminating in sabots with an upswept X-stretcher having a gilt finial. 30 1/4" H x 15" dia. 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Both tables overall very good condition with light general wear. [See more photos →]

Joanna Higgs (Ross) (American/Tennessee, b. 1934) oil on canvas expressionist landscape titled "Winter Trees" depicting a copse of tall, bare trees sheltering a white house. Title, signed, and dated en verso with label for Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings 1965, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Housed in a wooden frame. Mid 20th century. Sight – 75 1/4" H x 60 1/4" W. Framed – 76 1/8" H x 61 5/8" W. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Biography: Joanna Higgs-Ross was born in Nashville and is associated with the "Knoxville Seven", a group of progressive artists connected to the University of Tennessee which included Richard Clarke, Robert Birdwell, C. Kermit Ewing, Walter H. Stevens and Carl Sublett. She majored in art at UT Knoxville, and received a B.F.A. in 1956 and received her M.F.A. from University of Illinois in Urbana in 1961. She taught art at Lambuth College in Jackson, TN, 1961-1982. Paintings in public collections include Tennessee State Museum, Knoxville Museum of Art, and Memphis Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include the Tennessee Arts Commission and Knoxville Museum of Art. (Source: the Tennessee Arts Commission). Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Bacigalupo style Russian Street or Barrel Organ, marquetry inlaid rectangular case on bracket feet with brass mounts, the front screen painted with musical instruments and floral garlands flanked by two dancers. Manufacturers name inlaid in Cyrillic across front: Ivan Viktorovich Nechada, Balkovskaya Street 191, Odessa with metal medallions at each end. Interior has tune sheet listing 8 melodies and 25 notes, hand crank to exterior. 19" H x 20 3/4" W x 11 1/2" D (case, 17 3/4" including crank). Circa 1920. CONDITION: Veneer warping and small losses to rear exterior and rear right side, some scattered shrinkage, cracks and abrasions. Functionality not guaranteed or tested. [See more photos →]

90 pieces Reed & Barton Francis 1st pattern sterling silver flatware, including 8 New French blade knives (9 3/4" L), 8 Modern Hollow Knives, (9 1/4" L), 8 dinner forks (7 3/4" L), 8 lunch forks, 8 salad forks, 8 round bowl soup spoons, 8 iced tea spoons, 8 cocktail forks, 7 individual butter spreaders, 8 teaspoons, 2 pc. salad serving set, 1 cream ladle, 1 small sugar shell, 1 large sugar shell, 4 serving spoons, 1 jelly server, and 1 pierced bowl bon-bon or nut spoon. Set also includes 1 unmarked associated likely sterling hollow silver cheese slicer and server andÊ likely sterling associated hollow handle bar knife. 117.35 total weighable troy ounces. 92 total pieces. CONDITION: All pieces overall good condition with light use wear, no monograms. [See more photos →]

Ephemera Collection of forty-eight (48) paper items, containing 44 signatures of Monarchs, Athletes, World Leaders, Civil Rights Activists, Politicians, and other notable figures, including Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, Victor Emmanuel III, Jesse Owens, Albert Speer, Karl Donitz, Coretta Scott King, Jesse Jackson, and more. 1st item: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1819-1901) signed document concerning the general court marshal of Levi Lawrence, Private in the 6th Company of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was charged with "striking his superior officer and [was] sentenced to Penal Servitude for a term of five years.", dated October 13, 1868. Two read wax seals en verso. 2nd item: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (1925-2013) signed black and white photograph. 3rd item: Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946, signed document with Italian text, dated July 1927. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve. 4th item: American track and field athlete James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (1913-1980) cut signature. 5th item: Nazi Germany Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer (1905-1981) TLS, dated July 6, 1976. 6th item: Nazi Germany Admiral Karl Donitz (Doenitz) (1891-1980) TLS, dated May 1945, with later date November 13, 1979 in ink. 7th item: Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (1918-2015) signed printed speech titled "A Plea for Honesty and Tolerance." 8th item: German film director and actress Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (1902-2003) signed black and white photograph. 9th item: German boxer Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (1905-2005) signed black and white photograph. 10th item: German politician Paul Lobe (1875-1967) TLS, dated March 18, 1925. 11th item: Nazi Germany black and white photograph signed "F. Thuge." 12th-14th items: Three (3) American author, activist, civil rights leader Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) TLS, one (1) dated June 24, 1983, one (1) dated February 2, 1984, and one (1) dated June 25, 1987, pertaining to the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. day and the publication of King's papers. 15th item: American civil rights activist Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (b. 1941) TLS, dated April 12, 1991. 16th-17th items: Two (2) African-American civil rights activist Roger Wilkins (1932-2017) signed items, including one (1) TLS, dated September 17, 1987 and one (1) ALS, dated August 15, 1996. 18th item: U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (b. 1932) ALS, dated July 28, 1978. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve. 19th item: American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Edward Salk (1914-1995) signed black and white photograph. 20th item: Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F. Kennedy, Countess of the Holy Roman Church (1890-1995) signed black and white photograph. 21st item: First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) signed black and white photograph, dated January 21, 1947. 22nd item: U.S. Senator from South Carolina Strom Thurmond (1902-2003) cut signature. 23rd-24th items: U.S. Senator from North Carolina Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (1921- 2008) signed paper with a calling card written by his wife, Dorothy "Dot" Helms (d. 2015) on U.S. Senate stationary, dated October 4, 2002. 25th item: U.S. Representative for Michigan John James Conyers Jr. (b. 1929) TLS, dated November 1, 1983. 26th item: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas (b. 1948) black and white photograph. 27th item: Fifteenth White House Press Secretary James Scott Brady (1940-2014) signed color photograph. 28th item: 45th Governor of Texas Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (1933-2006) signed black and white photograph. 29th item: U.S. Senator from Arizona Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998) TLS, dated August 5, 1964. 30th item: Tennessee Supreme Court Justice William Dwight Beard (1835-1910) ALS, dated October 22, 1903. 31st item: Indiana Supreme Court Justice Curtis Grover Shake (1887-1978) signed check, dated July 13, 1970. 32nd item: U.S. Representative from Tennessee John Ridley Mitchell (1877-1962) TLS, dated November 14, 1935. 33rd item: U.S. Senator from Tennessee and actor Fred Dalton Thompson (1942-2015) TLS, dated May 26, 1995. 34th-35th items: U.S. Senator from Tennessee James Ralph Sasser (b. 1936) TLS, dated August 17, 1994 and one (1) invitation to a holiday party. 36th item: U.S. Representative from New York Major Robert Odell Owens (1936-2013) TLS, dated October 4, 1983. 37th item: First Secretary of Labor William Bauchop Wilson (1862-1934) signed World War I era certificate issued to Katherine G. Quigley. 38th item: Israeli military leader Dayan (1915-1981) TLS, dated January 14, 1970. 39th item: President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) signed black and white photograph. Housed and matted under glass in a black wooden frame. 40th item: American photographer Joseph John Rosenthal (1911-2006) signed Iwo Jima first day of issue cover, postmarked July 11, 1945. 41st item: Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (b. 1923) signed certificate of authenticity, numbered 565/2000, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Yeager's October 14, 1947 flight that broke the sound barrier, certificate dated October 14, 1987. 42nd item: First Flight US Airmail first day of issue cover, addressed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed by Leslie L. Travis, Postmaster of Joplin, Jasper County, MO (acting, 1933-34), postmarked October 26, 1936. 43rd item: The Dionne Family ALS, dated June 11, 1944. 44th item: Richard E. Davis (1926-2015) founder of KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce ALS. 45th item: Nazi Germany stationary. 46th item: King George III era broadside, printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, concerning an act for preventing the counterfeiting of copper coin of the realm, dated 1771. 47th item: Albumen photograph inscribed "Very Sincerely Yours Albert Lee Thurman/May 31, 1913." Housed in a manila envelope. 48th item: Color print on black paper with early schematic drawings of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) a starship in the Star Trek media franchise. Facsimile Gene Roddenberry signature top left. Matted and housed under glass in a black metal frame. 15 1/4" H x 19 1/4" D. Most items housed in one (1) three ring binder. Provenance: the collection of Ross Webb, Brentwood, TN. CONDITION: Signatures in overall good condition, legible condition. 48th item: Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Byron Burford or Byron Leslie Burford, Jr. (American, b. Mississippi, 1920-2011) oil on canvas painting titled "Explorer's Dinner," depicting restaurant patrons seated at candlelit tables with a pianist playing in the left foreground, all set against an abstract background. Signed "Byron Burford '57" lower right. Label en verso for the Mid-South First Prize Winners exhibition at the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery. Sight – 40" H x 60" W. Framed – 41 3/8" H x 61 3/8" W. Mid 20th century. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Biography: Byron Burford Jr. was born and raised in Mississippi. He attended and later joined the faculty of the University of Iowa, at the invitation of his mentor, department chairman Grant Wood. Burford was head of Painting there for 38 years until his retirement in 1985. A figurative artist influenced by the Midwest Regionalist movement, he worked in a variety of mediums and received multiple awards and grants including American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Awards; the Tamarind Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts Grant; a Yaddo Fellowship; an American Federation of Arts Grant; the National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant 1972; a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship; a Ford Foundation Award; and the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship. His works are held by the Smithsonian, the Walker Art Museum (Minneapolis), the Nelson Gallery (Kansas City), the Guggenheim Foundation (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Des Moines Art Center, the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha), the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Eastman House (Rochester, NY), the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln) and the University of Iowa Art Gallery. (Source: AskArt and the New York Times). Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Slight buckling in top right corner of canvas, and few minor errant drips in bottom right quadrant. Minor abrasions along edges of canvas. [See more photos →]

French Tailleur Fils & Cie vitrine or display case, comprised of a mahogany case with intricately cast gilt bronze mounts and a marble top. The interior fitted with two glass shelves over one door, all resting on tall curved legs, electrified. Tailleur Fils & Cie paper label fixed to marble top. 66 5/8" H x 30" W x 16" D. 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with very light wear. [See more photos →]

Al Allen (American/Arkansas, 1925-2008), "Winter Waiting," mixed media abstract painting (acrylic on canvas and wood with metal construction). Comprised of one panel with black, white, purple, and pink geometric shapes, separated by one vertical panel of rusted metal from three vertical panels of solid blue paint, wood, and solid black paint. Signed and dated "Al Allen 72" top left. Additionally signed and titled en verso with label for Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings 1973, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Housed in a plain narrow wooden frame. Sight – 46 1/4" H x 46 1/2" W. Framed – 47 7/8" H x 48" W. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Biography: Al Allen aka Alvin Lee (Al) Allen Jr. was raised in Memphis; after graduation from Central High School in 1944, he served in the Navy during World War II, using his artistic skills in the top-secret Terrain Model Workshop. In 1946, Allen enrolled in Louisiana State University (LSU). Among his teachers were O. Louis Guglielmi and Ralston Crawford. Completing his undergraduate studies in 1950, Allen returned to Memphis to teach at Treadwell High School. Meanwhile, he pursued an MA degree at LSU. The next year, he joined the faculty of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. In 1968, Allen was invited to chair and develop the art department at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. In 1985, he was given the title of Professor and University Artist-in-Residence. Allen's works are in a number of collections belonging to museums, colleges and universities, and private individuals, including the Arkansas Arts Center, the High Museum (Atlanta), and the Joslin Art Museum (Omaha). UALR has several works in its permanent collection. Both former U.S. senators Dale Bumpers and David Pryor displayed AllenÕs works in their Washington DC offices, and during Bill Clinton's presidency, two of AllenÕs works were hung in the White House. (Source: Encyclopedia of Arkansas). Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Thirty-one (31) 20th Century Signatures of American and German military leaders, primarily World War II. 1st item: General George Smith Patton Jr. (1885-1945) signed envelope, postmarked January 8, 1944. 2nd item: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) signed first day of issue cover, postmarked September 28, 1945. 3rd item: General of the Armies John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (1860-1948) cut signature. 4th item: General of the Army and General of the Air Force Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1886-1950) TLS, dated August 19, 1941. 5th item: General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) signed first day of issue cover, postmarked November 24, 1970. 6th item: Nazi Germany Party Leader Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (1900-1945) signed card. Housed under glass in a black wooden frame with a black and white photograph. 8 3/4" H x 10 3/4" W. 7th item: Nazi Germany Party Leader Hermann Wilhelm Goring (Goering) (1893-1946) signed postcard. 8th item: Nazi Germany Admiral Karl Donitz (Doenitz) (1891-1980) signed photograph. Double matted and housed under glass in a black wooden frame. 11 3/4" H x 9 7/8" W. 9th item: Nazi Germany General Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (1891-1944) cut signature. Housed under glass in a black wooden frame with a color photocopy. 10 3/4" H x 8 3/4" W. 10th item: Nazi Germany General Baron Hasso Eccard von Manteuffel (1897-1978) signed first day of issue cover, dated May 21, 1955. 11th item: Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Sr. (1885-1966) signed card. 12th item: Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (1888-1957) signed first day of issue cover, postmarked October 27, 1945. 13th item: General James Harold Doolittle (1896-1993) signed copy of Time magazine, Volume XL, Number 21, dated November 21, 1942. 14th item: General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe (1898-1975) signed card. 15th item: General Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) TLS, dated December 8, 1980. 16th item: General William Joseph Westmoreland (1914-2005) signed black and white photograph. 17th item: General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934-2012) signed color photograph. 18th item: General James Alward Van Fleet (1892-1992) signed color photograph. 19th item: General Maxwell Davenport Taylor (1901-1987) signed card. 20th item: General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (1895-1993) signed black and white photograph. 21st item: Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (b. 1923) signed color lithographic metal signed reading "North American P-51D Mustang/357th Fighter Group/8th Air Force" with the Glamorous Glen III depicted on a runway. 10 1/4" H x 14 1/8" W. 22nd item: Brigadier General Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (1915-2007) signed black and white photograph. 23rd item: Brigadier General David Lee "Tex" Hill (1915-2007) signed card. 24th item: Brigadier General Samuel Dickerson Rockenbach (1869-1952) ALS, dated October 28, 1942. 25th item: Brigadier General Robert Lee Scott Jr. (1908-2006) signed black and white photograph. 26th-27th items: Two (2) Colonel Robert Knight Morgan (1918-2004) signed black and white photograph, includes one (1) Morgan Productions Certificate of Authenticity dated July 24, 2002. 28th item: Lieutenant Colonel John Franklin Bolt (1921-2004) signed black and white photograph. 29th item: Staff Sergeant James Harley Wallwork DFM (1919-2013) signed black and white photograph, dated May 3, 2002. 30th item: Nazi Germany Ground-Attack Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916-1982) signed black and white postcard. 31st item: Nazi Germany Fighter Pilot Erich Alfred Hartmann (1922-1993) signed black and white photograph. Provenance: the collection of Ross Webb, Brentwood, TN. CONDITION: Signatures in overall good condition, legible condition. [See more photos →]

13 Uncirculated rolls United States Coins, including Franklin Half Dollars, Washington Quarters, Kennedy Half Dollars. 1st item: 1 roll of Franklin Half Dollars, minted 1962. Approximately 7.23 total troy ounces. 2nd-8th items: 7 rolls of Washington Quarters, minted 1963. Approximately 50.64 total troy ounces. 9th-12th items: 4 rolls of Kennedy Half Dollars, minted 1964. Approximately 28.94 total troy ounces. 13th item: 1 rolls of Kennedy Half Dollars, minted 1965. Approximately 2.96 total troy ounces. Total weight for coins pre 1964 – 86.81 oz troy. Provenance: The Estate of Mrs. Frank Wood, Evansville, Indiana and Dickson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Uncirculated condition. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Francis E. Jamieson (United Kingdom, 1895-1950) oil on canvas landscape paintings, including Perthshire, Loch Fyre in Scotland. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) oil on canvas landscape paintings, one (1) titled "Loch Frye" depicting a lake with a small cottage to the left bank before a rocky mountain range illuminated by sun streaming through a cloudy blue sky. Signed "F. E. Jamieson" lower left; one (1) titled "Dunkeld Perthshire" depicting a river with a cottage surrounded by tall trees on the far bank, a mountain range below the late afternoon sky in the background. Signed "F. E. Jamieson" lower left. Both housed in identical gilt and red molded frames with titled en verso. Sight – 15 3/8" H x 23 5/8" W. Framed – 19 3/8" H x 27 3/8" W. 3rd-4th items: Two (2) oil on canvas landscape paintings, one (1) depicting a late afternoon river scene with a cottage on one side of the bank and a shepherd with a flock of sheep on the other with a mountain range in the background. Signed "F. E. Jamieson" lower right; one (1) depicting a lake sheltered by a windswept mountain range below a cloudy blue sky. Signed "F. E. Jamieson" lower left. Both paintings housed in identical wooden frames. Sight – 15 3/4" H x 23 7/8" W. Framed – 17 1/4" W. CONDITION: 1st-2nd items: Overall good condition with areas of craquelure. Both slightly loose in frames. 3rd-4th items: Overall good condition with craquelure, stretcher marks visible to perimeter. [See more photos →]

Venetian style etched glass mirror, having etched scrolling foliate designs to the perimeter, surrounded by molded and applied gold twisted trim, rosettes, and leaves. 40 1/2" H x 33 1/2" W x 2 3/4" D. 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some gold elements loose, 1" break to one rosette. [See more photos →]

Zenza Bronica SQ Series camera with the original carrying case and box, fitted with a stock Nikkor-P 50mm F 2.8 lens. Additional accessories include a Rainbow flash head, assorted lens filters, lens hood and a Weston Lightmeter (not functional). Original cardboard camera box – 7" H x 9 3/4" W x 7" D. Mid 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Mrs. Frank Wood, Evansville, Indiana and Dickson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Camera functionality not tested or guaranteed; appears to be in overall good condition with expected use wear. [See more photos →]

Stickley mahogany inlaid Federal style serpentine sideboard, comprised of two central drawers flanked by two doors with bellflower inlay to the tall tapered legs, brass gallery to top. Top drawer fitted with silver flatware storage. Stickley brand to upper left top drawer. 46 1/4" H x 66" W x 23" D. 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with light wear to top. Brass gallery rail slightly loose. [See more photos →]

Large archive of approximately two hundred and twenty-seven (227) letters, land and military documents, pertaining to Edward Dickson Hicks II of Nashville, Tennessee (1831-1894) and his family, ranging in date from circa 1836-1918. Hicks and his family owned Devon Farm in Nashville, TN. Also includes land grants related to John Davis (1770-1853), early surveyor of Nashville, TN. 1st item: Land agreement between John Davis of Davidson County, TN, and and Daniel G. Totty and Samuel M. Baird of Hickman County, TN, dated September 16, 1852, with registrar notation below. 11 7/8" H x 7 1/2" W. 2nd item: Land sale document between Edward D. Hicks of Davidson County, TN, and David W. Daniels and James S. Daniels of Perry County, TN, dated October 21, 1854. 12 1/2" H x 7 3/4" W. 3rd-4th items: Two (2) additional land documents between John Davis and George W. Campbell of Davidson County, TN, dated February 1, 1857 and December 4, 1858. 12 5/8" H x 8" W. 5th item: Building contract between Edwards D. Hicks and James Haynie, Nashville, TN, March 11, 1858, with house plan and payment record to front page. 12" H x 7 5/8" W. 6th item: ALS. From James D. Porter, President of the Board of Trustees for the University of Nashville, Paris, TN, to Edward D. Hicks, October 23, 1890. Later pencil list presumably of the trustees en verso. Includes envelope addressed in Porter's hand, postmarked Paris Oct 23 1890, with a red Washington two cent stamp. Letter – 8 1/8" H x 10" W. Envelope – 3 1/4" H x 5 1/4" W. Note: James Davis Porter (1828-1912) was an American attorney, politician, educator, and officer of the Confederate Army. Porter spent the latter part of his life promoting and raising funds for his alma mater, the University of Nashville (from which he had been granted an honorary LL.D. in 1877), and its affiliated Peabody College. He was appointed a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund in 1883, and became president of the Board of Trustees for the University of Nashville in 1890. 7th item: Presidential United States Army appointment naming Edward Dickson Hicks Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery, dated June 1, 1918, recorded by the Adjutant General's Office, March 8, 1919. Signatures for the Adjutant General/Assistant Secretary of War, lower left and right. 10 5/8" H x 8 1/8" W. 8th-9th items: Two (2) railroad stock certificates, including Greeneville & Knoxville Railway Company and The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. 10th item: Sarah Coleman black card stock remembrance card with gilt lettering. 6 5/8" H x 4 3/8" W. 11th-227th items: Approximately two hundred and sixteen (216) letters (many with envelopes), military records, checks, promissory notes, post cards, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University related documents, invitations, and more, dating from circa 1836-1918. Most are addressed to Mr. Edward D. Hicks, Nashville, Tennessee, others are addressed to Mrs. E. D. Hicks, Bellevue, Davidson County, Tennessee and East Brook Spa, Via Estill Spa, Tennessee, Miss Fannie Hicks, Providence, Rhode Island, and Mrs. Mary Hicks, Nashville, Tennessee. Many of the letters pertain to University of Nashville or the American Devon Cattle Club. Provenance: the collection of Ross Webb, Brentwood, TN. CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with toning, dampstaining, foxing spots, tears, etc. to be expected from age. Some envelopes are unopened. 6th item: Porter signature in overall good, legible condition. [See more photos →]

Stickley Arts & Crafts oak cedar chest with inlaid top. Stickley brand stamp and label upper interior left side. 25" H x 42" W x 21" D. 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Joanna Higgs Ross (Nashville, TN, born 1934) polymer tempera on board abstract landscape painting titled "The Green and White Orchard" depicting a copse of dark green trees on a white and tan ground against a light grey sky. Title, artist name "Joanna Higgs", and medium, en verso. Housed in a wooden frame with white painted rabbet edge. Sight – 15 1/2" H 17 1/2" W. Framed – 21" H x 23 3/4" W. American, mid 20th century. Biography: Joanna Higgs-Ross was born in Nashville and is associated with the "Knoxville Seven", a group of progressive artists connected to the University of Tennessee which included Richard Clarke, Robert Birdwell, C. Kermit Ewing, Walter H. Stevens and Carl Sublett. She majored in art at UT Knoxville, and received a B.F.A. in 1956 and received her M.F.A. from University of Illinois in Urbana in 1961. She taught art at Lambuth College in Jackson, TN, 1961-1982. Paintings in public collections include Tennessee State Museum, Knoxville Museum of Art, and Memphis Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include the Tennessee Arts Commission and Knoxville Museum of Art. (Source: the Tennessee Arts Commission). Provenance: Estate of Olen Bryant, Cottonwood/Clarksville, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Trouvailles black lacquer Chinoiserie side table with gilt painted warrior scene decoration, one pull out drawer to one end above curved French legs and bronze mounted feet. Trouvailles paper label to underside and to interior of drawer. 28 1/2" H x 27 1/2" D x 18 3/4" W. 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, expected minor general use wear. [See more photos →]

Signed 19th century French bronze mounted hardwood music etagere or cabinet in the Asian style, by Gabriel Viardot. Comprised of three open shelves above five vertical lower compartments for storing music. Top and upper sides with carved frieze and central bronze figural dragon and inset bronze relief plaques, carved side panels, and base with carved skirt with inlaid central plaque, all resting on curved and carved French style legs. Signed on the left back leg. 54 1/2" H x 22 1/4" W x 16" D. 19th century. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected general wear. [See more photos →]

Large American brilliant cut glass compote or bowl and pedestal comprised of three parts, possibly Meriden, hobstar, cross hatch, and vesica designs, bowl with shaped sawtooth border above a round faceted knop and faceted flared or skirted base 14 1/8" H x 10 3/4" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: A couple of fleabites noted to the inner rim, overall light wear, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) Middle TN stoneware pottery items, including one (1) vase form with browm/tan/brown transitional glaze, one (1) storage jar form with tan and dark brown glaze, and one (1) storage jar with tapered neck and incised line decoration with buff/tan glaze. Ranging in size from 10" to 10 5/8" H. Late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: All pieces overall good condition with light general wear, no chips or cracks. [See more photos →]

Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) signed Selma Marion Memphis Railroad Company $1000 First Mortgage Eight Per Cent Bond, No. 746, endorsed by the State of Alabama, dated September 1, 1869. Lithographed by Henry Seibert & Brothers, New York. Vignette of a train in a landscape setting, top center, surrounded by a decorative green border. Thirty-three (33) coupons for $40 each remain. Secretary/President Nathan Bedford Forrest signatures. Governor of Alabama Robert B. Lindsay endorsement signature with President Nathan Bedford Forrest signature and additional writing, en verso. Float mounted and matted in a carved gilt wood frame with double sided glass. Bond – 20" H x 17" W. Framed – 30" H x 27 1/8" W. Note: Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate Calvary leader who attained the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army, and after the war was involved in various business enterprises, including this railroad. Forrest, an inveterate opponent of Reconstruction, used such ventures to rebuild his fortune after the Civil War. He was not as successful in railroad promoting as in war and, under his direction, the company went bankrupt. (adapted from https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/glc01593 and Wikipedia). CONDITION: Overall good condition with toning, tears, largest 3/8", to edges of bond. [See more photos →]

Walter Forner (Germany/France, b. 1930) oil on canvas painting depicting a winter street scene of a European city, likely Paris, at dusk with pedestrians and horse and carriages traversing the streets, with building facades in the background. Signed lower right. Typed artist's biography en verso. Housed in a gilt carved and pierced corner frame with off white linen and gilt wood liner. Sight – 23 3/4" H x 19 5/8" W. Framed – 30" H x 26" W. Mid/late 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

John Robert Willer (American, 20th Century) and Don E. Chapman (American b. 1949) oil on canvas painting titled "70% Chance," depicting a young boy holding a white cat while sitting on the roof of a yellow car, with an oversized gear and its semi-translucent mirror image superimposed against the landscape and clouded sky background. Signed "Chapman & Willer Ltd." lower right on gear. Label en verso for Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings 1973, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Housed in a wooden frame. Sight – 89 1/2" H x 71 1/2" W. Framed – 90" H x 72" W. Third quarter 20th century. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Biography (from artist's website): John Willer was born in Rochester, New York in 1946. He earned his B.F.A. in painting from the Memphis College of Art. He has won several awards and his work can be found in collections all over the world, including the collection of Alice Walton. He is one of the founding members of the White Street Studio Walk that occurs during the annual Eureka Springs May Fine Arts Festival. His work has been represented by many galleries. He paints with the Plein Air Painters of Eureka Springs on a regular basis. Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Painting in frame but has not been strung for hanging due to size. [See more photos →]

Pair of Chinese Export Famille Rose porcelain bottle vases with flaring rims and reserves depicting figures engaged in various activities within gilt fretwork borders with additional precious object and insect decoration. 14"H. Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Wear and losses to polychrome decoration, otherwise overall good condition, no chips or cracks. [See more photos →]

Middle Tennessee 5-gallon stoneware pottery jug with light green/tan glaze, incised line around the neck and applied strap handle. Impressed mark along the base reading "James LaFever/Maker". Additionally incised "5" below spout denoting capacity. 20" H x 10" dia. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition. 3 to 4 vertical spiders/tight hairlines, largest 3" extending from base. Remnants of green paint to surface. [See more photos →]

Lucien Delarue (France, 1925-2011) watercolor and gouache on paper painting depicting a Parisian street scene with store front facades to the left and and outdoor cafe with colorful umbrella cover table to the right, additional building in the background. Signed "Delarue" lower right. Housed under glass in a contemporary rococo style carved gilt frame. Sight 19 14" H x 25 1/4" W. Framed – 30 1/4" H x 36 1/4" W. Late 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with slight waviness to paper. [See more photos →]

Louis XV style console table consisting of an elaborate gilt carved wood rococo base with intricately carved cabriole legs and floral swags and pierced carved center shells, shaped variegated rouge marble top. 28 1/4" H x 27 1/4" D x 39 3/4" W. French, 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Tall American brilliant cut glass vase, gourd form with wide flaring sawtooth rim and star, cross hatching, caned and ribbed designs. 14 1/8" H x 7 3/4" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Protective felt pads added to base. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) 14k items, including two (2) circle pins and one (1) Omega Watch. 1st item: 14k yellow gold triple circle pin of polished and Florentine finish, with applied mark of 14k and maker's mark on one loop. 1 5/16" dia. x 1/2" H, 7.7 grams. 2nd item: 14k yellow gold triple polished circle pin, marked 14K with maker's mark on pin bar. 1 1/4" dia. x 5/8" H, 7.4 grams. 3rd item: 14k yellow gold lady's Omega satin finish dress watch, Case #799207, Swiss movement #28408650. 6 3/16" L. 24.5 grams including works. 15.1 grams/2 pins. Provenance: The Living Estate of Elizabeth Johnston Davidson Frierson, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Both circle pins in very good condition. No visible dents. Watch strap in very good condition. Works not running at time of inspection. [See more photos →]

Merlin C. Dailey (American, 1931-2015) oil on canvas expressionist painting titled "Interior with New Objects" with multicolored shapes and lines suggesting a table with objects on a table before a chair, a mirror on a wall with green striped wallpaper, the items on the table reflected in the mirror, and a door way in the background. Museum accession numbers and Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings 1964, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee exhibition label with artist's name, title, and location en verso. Housed in a wooden frame with white paint to exterior. Sight – 59 1/4" H x 59 1/4" W. Framed – 60 3/4" H x 60 3/4" W. Artist biography (source: The Rochester Democrat And Chronicle): Merlin Dailey graduated from Kansas City Art Institute in 1958. He went on to receive an M.F.A. from the University of Indiana in 1960 with a degree in printmaking and Asian art history. He was associate professor of art at Memphis State University from 1960-68 where he taught drawing, printmaking and Asian art history. After becoming involved with the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, Merlin and his wife Mary Ann moved their family to upstate New York to become members of the Rochester Folk Art Guild, a community of artisans and students of the Gurdjieff Work. He accepted a position of professor of fine art at Keuka College (1968-70) and then at Eisenhower College (1970-72). In 1970, Merlin and Mary Ann's longtime interest in Japanese art and philosophy culminated in the opening of the East West Gallery in Victor, NY which would run for 33 years and become the oldest Asian art gallery in the U.S. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of craquelure. [See more photos →]

A mechanical scale model of the wood-burning DeWitt Clinton steam engine locomotive, tender and three passenger coaches, comprised primarily of painted wood and various metals. The DeWitt Clinton was the first American Passenger Train. It traveled in New York state on the Mohawk and Hudson River Railroad, a line that stretched between Albany and Schenectady, New York. Includes track and original wooden storage case with lid. Train approx. 5 1/2" H x 35" L. Storage box – 8 1/2" H x 37 1/2" L. Note: This model was created by Charles J. Fox and was submitted for consideration in a 1932/3 DeWitt Clinton Model contest sponsored by Popular Mechanics Magazine. The model is mounted on wooden tracks and base and retains the original wooden storage case. Several newspaper clippings, 2 supply lists and letter correspondence between Mr. Fox and the Homecraft & Shop Notes Editor of Popular Mechanics Magazine, E. R. Haan, included with this lot. CONDITION: Damage sustained to locomotive and cars, primarily wire/metal detail on all pieces. All broken parts retained. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) William Nowland Van Powell (Tennessee, 1904-1977) Roman themed watercolor paintings on paper including one (1) depicting the Vatican courtyard, signed top left, one (1) depicting the Arch of Constantine, signed lower left, and one (1) depicting Trajan's Column, unsigned. Two housed under glass in molded giltwood frames (Sight – 17 7/8" H x 12 3/4" W. Framed – 27 1/2" H x 21 1/8" W) and the Arch of Constantine painting is housed under glass in a whitewashed wood frame with green silk matte (Sight – 18 1/2" H x 12 3/4" W. Framed – 30 3/4" H x 24 5/8" W). Provenance: Paintings were given by the artist to a friend who lived in Memphis and has descended in her family. Biography: Memphis, TN architect and artist, Nowland Van Powell (1904-1977) retired from architecture in the 1970s and began to paint full time. He is known for his paintings of ships and naval battles and also for painting Christmas cards for Vice President Spiro Agnew and family in 1971. Van Powell was the author of The American Navies of the Revolutionary War, a collection of his paintings, with descriptive notes by the artist was published in 1974 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. CONDITION: Slight toning and scattered foxing to smaller watercolors with scattered lossed to gilt frames. Larger Arch of Constantine watercolor overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of Italian Neoclassical style carved giltwood wall sconces or candelabra, each having flame finial above two arms centered by an eagle with outstretched wings. 31 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. Early to mid 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with light general wear. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) American brilliant cut glass scent bottles, including one (1) large example with a faceted stopper and two smaller examples, one (1) with cut glass stopper, and one (1) with a faceted stopper. All unsigned. Ranging in size from 5 3/4" H to 7 3/4" H. All pieces Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Small fleabite to base of largest bottle. Shortest bottle with fleabites to inner rim and end of stopper. All pieces with protective felt pads to bases. [See more photos →]

Fred Wiesener (Texas, b. 1942) oil on masonite board abstract painting titled "Glazed Light" featuring geometric forms and patterns in shades of red, pink and orange, suggestive of light refracted through a stained glass window. Signed and dated "Fred Wiesener 62" lower center. Additional signature and exhibition label verso, Mid-South First Prize Winners, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Housed in a wooden frame. Sight – 47 1/8" H x 48" W. Framed- 49 1/4" H x 49 1/4" W. Mid 20th century. Biography (Courtesy: Kentucky Artisan Center): A native of Houston, TX, Fred Wiesener studied at the Memphis Academy of Fine Arts and the Atlanta School of Arts. He has a BA in Arts from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and an MFA in ceramics from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. His exhibitions include Festival of the Masters in Lake Buena Vista, FL, Mid-South Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, and Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, NC. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of paint loss to top left and left margin. [See more photos →]

Four hundred and ten (410) Tobacco trade cards and booklet, including Le Roy Cigars, Red Man Chewing Tobacco, American Sweet Caporal Cigarettes, Lone Jack Cigarette Co., Currier and Ives, Chinese, Oscar Wilde card, Black Americana, and more. Includes: forty-eight (48) Le Roy Cigars cards depicting monarchs and leaders of foreign counrties, including one (1) Victoria Queen of England, one (1) Nicholas II Emperor of Russia, one (1) Leo XIII Pope of Rome, and more; twenty-four (24) Lorillard's Tiger Fine Cut cards depicting dancers and actresses, including one (1) Emily Sanford, one (1) Catharine Florence, one (1) Pauline Hall, one (1) Mabel Love, one (1) Cissy Fitzgerald, one (1) Barbara Huntley, one (1) Adelaide Cushman, one (1) Julia Mackay, and one (1) Georgia Cayvan; sixteen (16) Goodwin & Co. Old Judge Cigarettes cards, including eight (8) flowers, six (6) Games and Sports, and two (2) Dogs of the World; fifteen (15) Red Man Chewing Tobacco Indian Chiefs of American History cards, including one (1) No. 6 Noon Day, one (1) No. 7 John Yellow Flower, one (1) No. 9 Keokuk's Son, one (1) No. 10 Grey Eagle, one (1) No. 11 Red Cloud, one (1) No. 12 Always Riding, one (1) No. 14 Spotted Tail, one (1) No. 15 Rushing Bear, one (1) No. 19 Big Razor, one (1) No. 20 Arkikita, one (1) No. 22 John Grass, one (1) No. 22 Many Horns, one (1) No. 33 Big Elk, one (1) No. 36 Chief Joseph, and one (1) No. 37 Sitting Bull; fifteen (15) American Sweet Caporal Cigarettes cards depicting politicians and military figures, including one (1) Horace Porter, one (1) Joseph H. Choate, one (1) Richard Croker, one (1) William J. Bryan, one (1) Charles H. Allen, one (1) Adlai E. Stevenson, one (1) Chauncey M. Depew, one (1) Captain J. B. Coghlan, one (1) Leonard Wood, G. C. Remey, one (1) A. J. Beveridge, one (1) David B. Hill, one (1) E. H. Conger, one (1) Richmond P. Hobson, and one (1) Thomas C. Platt; fifteen (15) Chinese trades cards depicting courtly scenes, figures on horseback, and young beauties; eleven (11) Lone Jack Cigarette Co. Greatest Inventors and Inventions of the Present Age cards, including two (2) James Watt, one (1) Sir Humphry Davy, one (1) Capt. James B. Eads, one (1) John Ericson, one (1) Roger Bacon, one (1) Eli Whitney, one (1) Sir Robert Peel, one (1) George M. Pullman, one (1) Sir Richard Arkwright, and one (1) George Stephenson; eight (8) Currier and Ives Seal of North Carolina Plug Cut cards depicting two boys and a white horse. Reverses of the cards all carry "Best of" lists, including one (1) Athletics: High Jump, Long Jump, Pole Vaulting and Standing Long Jump, one (1) Heavy Weight Performances: Putting 16 lb. Shot, Throwing the Hammer, and Throwing 56 lb. Weight, one (1) Athletics: Running, Walking, one (1) The Turf: Fastest 1 mile heats in Harness, one (1) Fastest Steamship and Best Time of Sailing Vessels, one (1) Bicycle Record, one (1) Best Drawn Characters in Fiction, and one (1) The Best Novels; six (6) Capadura Cigar The Four Champions cards; two (2) Recruit Cigarette Celebrated Generals of the late Civil War cards, including one (1) General Fitzhugh Lee and one (1) General George B. McClellan; one (1) Straiton & Storm's Cigars Aesthetic Movement Oscar Wilde card; one (1) World Havana Centennial Souvenir 1789-1889 depicting Presidents George Washington and Benjamin Harrison; one (1) American Tobacco Co Black Americana "My Coal Black Lady" card; one (1) Catlin Tobacco Company, The Artistic Fund of Facts booklet; and more. Items range in size from 2 5/8" H x 1 5/8" W to 8 1/4" H x 6 1/8" W. All items housed in one (1) three ring binder. American, late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition with light fading and toning, errant pencil/ink marks, creases, areas of loss, staining, etc. to be expected from age and manner of use. Includes duplicates of some cards. Some cards have been cut down or skinned. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) faceted stone items of jewelry. 1st item: Pair 18k yellow gold earrings by Donna del Sol, reverse faceted smoky quartz in shrimp design, 18k mountings with clip back and hinged post, marked 18kt Italy Donna de Sol, 7/8" H x 3/4" W, 18.2 grams. 2nd item: 76-inch long strand faceted crystal, semi-precious stone and two carved jade beads plus 14k yellow gold spacers, strung on thread, 331.2 grams. 3rd item: 26-inch long graduated faceted smoky quartz necklace, center bead measuring 30.7 mm round, end beads measuring 10.3 mm. Gold-plated screw clasp. 193.8 grams. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: 1st item: Very good condition. Minor surface grime. 2nd item: Some 14k spacers damaged. Thread worn. Otherwise beads in very good condition. 3rd item: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Olen L. Bryant (American/Tennessee, 1927-2017) wooden sculpture comprised of two interlocking pieces, each with a carved human face, mounted on a wooden base. Unsigned. 37 1/2" H x 8 1/2" W x 14" D. Late 20th century. A letter of authenticity and provenance from the artist's niece, who served as his studio assistant and personal representative for his estate, will accompany this lot. Provenance: Estate of Olen Bryant, Cottonwood/Clarksville, TN. Biography: Born in Cookville, TN, Bryant was a 1950 graduate of Murray State University and a 1954 graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield, Michigan with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts. He additionally studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Institute in the Visual Arts in American Culture at the University of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum in 1967. Bryant was a professor at Austin Peay State University from 1964 to 1991. Bryant's artwork is widely collected around the United States and is a part of several museum collections, including the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, the Tennessee State Museum of Art and the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville and his works have been displayed at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and at the Governor's Mansion during the Phil Bredesen administration. He was a founding member of the Nashville Artist Guild and the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (source: Nashville Fine Arts Magazine & The Leaf Chronicle). CONDITION: Overall good condition with natural age cracks, largest 15", extending from 8" x 6" area of loss. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Max Papart (France, 1911-1994) etchings. 1st item: Carborundum cubist etching on paper depicting a red sun and a black human-like figure surrounded by a variety of colors and geometric shapes. Signed and numbered in pencil "Max Papart", lower right under image, "44/50", lower left under image. Nahan Galleries, New Orleans label with instructions regarding care of acrylic (glass), en verso. Housed under acrylic in a contemporary black and silver metal frame with white linen matte. Image – 27 1/4" H x 37" W. Sight – 29 1/2" H x 39 1/8" W. Framed – 41 1/8" H x 50 7/8" W. Late 20th century. 2nd item: Carborundum cubist etching on paper from the artist's "L'Homme au Chapeau" series depicting a man in a hat. Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil "Max Papart 73", lower right under image, "14/75", lower left under image. Housed under glass in a gilt wood frame with white linen matte. Plate – 23 1/4" H x 16 5/8" W. Sight – 24 1/8" H x 17 1/2" W. Framed – 32 3/4" H x 25 1/2" W. Late 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Toning, surface of sheet and matte. Rippling, surface of sheet. Triangular framing nail visible top left of sheet (does not appear to penetrate paper, does not affect image). 2nd item: Overall very good condition. Toning, surface of sheet. 1/4" piece of lint, top center of sheet under glass. Brown vertical stains, largest 2", surface of matte. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Southern Folk Art Paintings. 1st item: Attributed to Kentucky, watercolor on paper landscape painting of a man crossing a river on a ferry with his wagon and two horses. Scene is likely the Valley View ferry in the Fayette/Madison County, Kentucky area. Signed "Duncan" lower right. 18" x 10 1/3", unframed. Circa 1915. Ex-Tommy Sapp, Campbellsville, KY, acquired from a private Madison County, KY estate 1985. The Duncans were a prominent pioneer family in Madison County with several branches still present in the early 20th century. 2nd item: Southern folk art painting of a black man standing beside a bare tree between two cabins, set on a small hill. Signed "B. Shepherd" and dated "Sep. 15, '64" lower right. Narrow wood frame. 17 1/2" x 23" sight, 19" x 24 3/4" framed. CONDITION: 1st item: Toning throughout, minor foxing upper edge. 2nd item: Some yellowing to clouds, painting does not fit well in frame, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Michaux Map and Book related to State of Franklinia, 2 items total. 1st item: Map of the United States, Canada, & C, engraved by Smith and Jones, printed for Richard Phillips, London, 1805. From “Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains” by Francois Andre Michaux. Copper plate engraving depicting the United States, Canada, and more, including “Morgania” (aka “New Madrid”), a colony established by Pennsylvanian George Morgan acting on behalf of the Spanish, who sought to consolidate their hold on the Mississippi. The map shows territories and states, including the State of Franklinia between North Carolina and Tennessee, borders including that between Maine and New Brunswick, towns, cities, roads, rivers, bodies of water, forts, and other areas of interest including the locations of Native Americans. Scale of miles, lower right. “Longitude West from London” lower left under image. Map surrounded by scale notations and line border. Encapsulated in plastic, matted, and housed under glass in a gilt wood frame. Sight – 16″ H x 13 1/8″ W. Framed – 27 3/8″ H x 23 5/8″ W. 2nd item: Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, in the States of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the Year 1802 by Francois Andre Michaux, 1805. Printed for Richard Phillips, London. Octavo, 96 pages, rebound in one quarter brown leather with brown cloth sides, gilt lettering to spine. 8 5/8″ H x 5 3/8″ W x 1/2″ D. Both items early 19th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. 1 3/4″ x 3/4″ area of restoration to right center edge of map. Approximately 6 1/4″ tear to lower right quadrant of map. David Lloyd Swift Paper Conservator label and additional information, en verso, suggesting it was cleaned, deacidified, and encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve in October 1998. 2nd item: Covers with wear, rubbing, 2 1/2″ area of separation to spine from binding, corners bumped. Pages toning, foxing spots, acid burn, etc to be expected from age. Does not include fold out map. Front end paper with approximately 2 7/8″ tear, pencil inscription. [See more photos →]

French Gilt Bronze Inkwell and Russian Enameled Case, 2 items total. 1st item: Russian silver enameled cigarette case with gilt wash interior, having scrolled foliate and geometric decoration. Marked "RP" will illegible assay mark to interior side. Engraved inscription to the interior and dated 1902. 3" H x 3 3/4" W. 2nd item: French gilt bronze inkwell, square from with foliate and shell decoration, handles and scrolled feet. Underside marked "4428". 1 3/4" H x 7 5/8" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Missing central inkwell, overall light wear. 2nd item: Clasp missing, otherwise overall good condition. [See more photos →]

French Louis XVI style gilt carved armchairs or fauteuils, having square upholstered padded backs and shaped seats covered in salmon, blue, and cream velvet upholstery, all over tapering fluted legs. 40" H x 21 1/2" D x 25 1/2" W. 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, expected minor general use wear. [See more photos →]

Art Deco Lamp attr. Faries Manufacturing Company and After Maude Sherwood Jewett Bronze Sculpture, 2 items total. 1st item: Art Deco Desk Lamp attr. Faries Manufacturing Company (founded Decatur, Illinois, 1894, possibly model 2337) with half-cylinder style brass shade mounted with three chrome half-rings, supported by a U shaped chrome frame with stag and ball finial, atop a diamond shaped copper tone metal base. Impressed mark A 7 underside of base. 10 3/4" H x 12" W x 5 1/2" D. Circa 1940. 2nd item: After Maude Sherwood Jewett (American, 1873-1953) bronze sculpture of a seated nude woman, playing a pan flute. Unsigned. Mounted atop a green marble base. 5 1/2" H x 5 1/2" W x 4 1/4" D (including base). First half 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Lamp has been rewired, but wiring and functionality are not guaranteed. Some minor oxidation and surface wear, overall good condition. 2nd item: Base has an unfilled hole; it may be reset or may not be original to the sculpture. [See more photos →]

Two (2) American brilliant cut glass vases, both with flared rims having sawtooth borders, ribbed necks, and various other designs including pinwheels. Both pieces unsigned. 8 1/4" H and 11" H. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Both overall very good condition. Felt pads added to base for protection. [See more photos →]

Clement C. Moore, A VISIT FROM SANTA CLAUS, illustrated by David Scattergood, undated, third quarter 19th century. (The book is also known as THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS). Scarce promotional booklet, presented by the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company, New York, Boston. Paperback octavo, 8 pages with illustrations, pictorial wrappers. 9 1/8" H x 6" W. Mid 19th century. Provenance: the collection of Ross Webb, Brentwood, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, toning, etc. to be expected from age. 1/2" x 1 3/4" area of loss, top right of pages. [See more photos →]

Marjorie Borden Oberne (Canadian/Georgia, 1911-1992) oil on canvas painting titled "Georgia Clay," comprised of geometric forms in shades of red, orange, yellow, blue green, white, black, and brown. Signed and dated "'57 M. Borden Oberne" lower right. Signed and titled en verso on top stretcher. Housed in a carved wooden frame with off white rabbet edge. Sight – 28 1/8" H x 36 1/8" W. Framed – 33 1/2" H x 41 1/2" W. Mid 20th century. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. CONDITION: Overall good condition with approximately three areas of exfoliation, largest 1", 1/4" gouge top right of canvas. [See more photos →]

Pair of Louis XV style gilt bronze candelabra, electrified, each having four arms with Rococo style foliate decoration and a central candle-holder, tiered cut crystal prisms to boboches, supported by a baluster shaped shaft. Round bases with raised floral decorations. Unmarked, probably French. 20 1/2" H x 11 1/4" W. Early/mid 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall good condition. One central candle-holder and one lower candle holder slightly loose. Heat damage to one plastic candle element. Not tested for functionality. [See more photos →]

American brilliant cut glass punch bowl with a pedestal base, punch bowl having a scalloped sawtooth rim with hobstar, crosshatching, and other various designs togther with a pedestal base with matching cut designs and sawtooth foot. 11 1/4" H (bowl on pedestal) x 12 3/8" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: A couple of fleabites noted to the inner rim and inside foot of base. Overall light general wear. [See more photos →]

Lalique Esna pattern crystal vase having a scalloped rim with a stylized clear and frosted glass body with molded feather decoration. Etched "Lalique France" signature to the base. 8 5/8" H x 9 1/4" dia. 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Six (6) Civil War related items, including Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson signed tinted lithograph, reunion flag. 1st item: Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson (1829-1903) signed tinted lithograph on paper titled "The Charge of the First Maryland Regiment at the Death of Ashby", lithographed by A. Hoen & Company, Baltimore, after the painting by William Ludwell (Ludlow) Sheppard (Virginia, 1833-1912), circa 1887. Depicts a battlefield scene showing the beginning of the charge of the First Maryland Regiment against the Pennsylvania Bucktail Rifles near Harrisonburg on June 6, 1862. Title and vignette of flag, lower center under image, text and facsimile handwritten text, lower left and right under image. Text reading "Issued to raise funds for a monument in Baltimore to the Maryland Line." below text blocks. Ink inscription from Johnson reading "To Nathan Bedford Forrest/Camp Confederate Veterans/With the regards of Bradley T. Johnson/July 1, 1887" lower right. Hinge mounted to foam core. Sheet – 22" H x 26 3/4" W. Foam core – 32" H x 40 1/4" W. Late 19th century. 2nd-5th items: Four (4) Civil War CDVs or carte de visites including one (1) depicting General Polk, one (1) titled Stonewall Jackson depicting him as a younger man, one (1) titled T.J. Jackson "Stonewall" depicting Jackson as an older man, and one (1) depicting General Robert E. Lee depicted seated with George Washington Custis Lee (his son) and Walter H. Taylor standing on either side, from the original Brady photographic negative. 4" H x 2 1/2" W. Third quarter 19th century. 6th item: Large Southern Cross reunion flag or banner, comprised of machine sewn pieced and appliqued red, white and blue linen with two metal grommets. 68" H x 105 1/4" L. 1st half 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: Toning/acid burn, foxing, tears, largest 7", to be expected from age. 2nd-5th items: Gen. Polk clipped at upper corners, both Jackson examples with toning and spotting, Lee CDV with toning and some stains, losses top upper right corner. 6th item: Stains, pencil inscription, tears, etc. to be expected from age and manner of use. [See more photos →]

Grouping of four (4) assorted medals or medallions including one (1) 1925 Paul Revere Sesquicentennial bronze medal, one (1) French medallion by E. Blin, rectangular form reading Meminit Patria to one side and Quovis Cum Vulnere Victrix to the other, one (1) John Paul Jones Capture of Serapis commemorative naval silver medal marked "Argent" (silver) to the side, and one (1) silver Furens Gallia Ð Aux Armes Medal, 1907, designed by Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878-1951), with mint mark and "Argent" (silver) stamped on the side. Together with a wood storage box with bronze handles and lock. Medals range in size from 1 5/8" H to 2 3/4" H x 1 5/8" W. All 20th century. CONDITION: All medals with general wear, rectangular medallion with more extensive wear. [See more photos →]

Olen L. Bryant (American/Tennessee, 1927-2017) clay sculpture of a partially formed figure seated atop a tall square block, believed to be a maquette for "The Sentinel," a large scale (10 ft tall) Olen Bryant sculpture erected 1985 on the campus of Austin Peay State University. Signed on base edge, "O. BRYANT 71". 19" H. Provenance: Private Nashville collection. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) William Nowland Van Powell (Tennessee, 1904-1977) watercolor on papers. 1st item: Eastern European watercolor scene on paper titled "The Hero's Gate, or The Great Gate of Kiev, from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". Painting depicts figures in front of the Russian gate together with encampments, vendors, and animals. Signed and dated 1954 lower right. Titled in pencil lower left. Housed under glass in a silver and gilt wood frame with marbleized matte. Sight – 11 1/4" H x 15 3/4" W. Framed – 19 5/8" H x 23 7/8" W. 2nd item: European watercolor painting on paper depicting the exterior of an English pub in Bristol with two gentlemen conversing outside. Pencil signed lower right. Housed under glasss in a painted wood frame and silk matte. Sight – 9 1/4" H x 12 5/8" W. Framed – 15 1/4" H x 18 1/4" W. Provenance: Paintings were given by the artist to a friend who lived in Memphis and has descended in her family. Biography: Memphis, TN architect and artist, Nowland Van Powell (1904-1977) retired from architecture in the 1970s and began to paint full time. He is known for his paintings of ships and naval battles and also for painting Christmas cards for Vice President Spiro Agnew and family in 1971. Van Powell was the author of The American Navies of the Revolutionary War, a collection of his paintings, with descriptive notes by the artist was published in 1974 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. CONDITION: 1st item: Minor abrasions to frame. Painting overall good condition. 2nd item: Overall good condition, slight abrasions to frame. [See more photos →]

Steve "Jum" Yee (Chinese/California, b. 1934) oil on canvas abstract painting titled "Formation Down" depicting three circles against a gradient background in shades of brown and dark blue. Unsigned. Label en verso with artist's name and title from the Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings, 1968, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Housed in a white painted wooden frame. Sight – 48" H x 60" W. Framed – 50" H x 62" W. Mid 20th century. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Note: Yee was born in China but active in Memphis in the 1960s. A solo exhibition of his work was held at the Brooks Museum in August, 1968. Since the 1970s, he has worked as an art director, teacher and painter in California. Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Eloise Hester (American, 20th Century) oil on masonite board Expressionist harbor scene titled "Sail Boats" portraying several sailboats in turbulent waters, with coastline and bright red and yellow mountains or structures in the background. Signed lower left. Additionally signed and titled en verso with museum accession numbers and label for the Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings 1960, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee . Housed in a grey painted wooden frame. Sight – 25 1/4" H x 37 7/8" W. Framed – 26 5/8" H x 39 1/4" W. Circa 1960. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Note: Eloise Hester is named among artists who were experimenting with abstraction, expressionism, and other elements of artists in the 1960s in the book "Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980" by Patti Carr Black. Note: the first annual Mid-South Exhibition was held at the Brooks in 1956, a tradition that continued for the next 17 years and included purchase prizes to help bring regional art into the collection. Jurors included artists such as Wil Barnet and Jack Levine as well as museum directors from institutions such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Walker Art Center. CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of paint loss, largest 3/8" x 4 1/4" across top of board. [See more photos →]

Six (6) American Astronaut Signed Books, including John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin. 1st item: Author Signed JOHN GLENN: A MEMOIR by John Glenn with Nick Taylor, 1999. Published by Bantam Books, New York. Octavo, 422 pages including index and illustrations, hardbound in half navy blue cloth with blind stamped navy blue paper covers, gilt silver lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket. Half title page signed "John Glenn". 9 3/4" H x 6 3/4" W x 1 1/2" D. 2nd item: Author Signed MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION, First Edition, by Buzz Aldrin with Ken Abraham, 2009. Published by Harmony Books, New York. Octavo, 326 pages including index and illustrations, stated first edition, hardbound with half black cloth with black paper sides, blue gilt lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket. Half title page signed "Buzz Aldrin" with JSA authentication sticker, includes JSA Basic Cert card, Number E 38466. 9 3/4" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 1/4" D. 3rd item: Author Signed LEAP OF FAITH, First Edition, by Gordon Cooper with Bruce Henderson, 2000. Published by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York. Octavo, 279 pages including index and illustrations, stated first edition, hardbound with half navy blue paper with blind stamped white paper sides, gilt silver lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket. Title page signed "Gordon Cooper". 9 5/8" H x 6 5/8" W x 1 1/4" D. 4th item: Author Signed THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON, First Edition, by Eugene Cernan and Don Davis, 1999. Published St. Martin's Press, New York. Octavo, 356 pages including index and illustrations, stated first edition, hardbound in black cloth with gilt silver lettering, includes original pictorial dust jacket. Title page inscribed, signed, and dated "Shoot For the Moon–Even if You Miss You'll Land Among the Stars…Gene Cernan 2000", facsimile signature to forward page. 9 3/4" H x 6 5/8" W x 1 3/8" D. 5th item: Author Signed MOON SHOT: THE INSIDE STORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST RACE TO THE MOON, First Edition, by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton with Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict, 1994. Published by Turner Publishing, Inc., Atlanta. Octavo, 383 pages including index and illustrations, stated first edition, hardbound in blind stamped blue paper covers with gilt silver lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket. Titled page signed "Alan Shepard". 9 3/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 1/2" D. 6th item: Author Signed SCHIRRA'S SPACE by Walter M. Schirra, Jr. with Richard N. Billings, 1988. Published by Quinlan Press, Boston. Octavo, 227 pages with illustrations, hardbound in blue paper with gilt lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket. Title page signed "Wally Schirra". 9 1/2" H x 6 3/8" W x 1 1/8" D. CONDITION: All books in overall very good condition. Signatures in excellent condition. Most covers and dust jackets with normal shelf wear. Pages in overall very good condition with light toning. 1st item: Last few pages still glued together at the edges. 2nd item: Fibers to top of front end paper appear to have been previously glued to inside of front cover. 5th item: Glue visible inside of front cover. 7th item: Overall very good condition. Schirra signature in excellent condition. Covers and dust jacket with normal shelf wear. Pages in overall very good condition with light toning. [See more photos →]

Fifteen (15) Presidential, United States and International Political, Nobel Prize Winners signed books, including George H. W. Bush, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, Dan Quayle, Yitzhak Rabin, and more. 1st item: Signed George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile, Limited Signed Edition, compiled by David Valdez, 1997. Published by Texas A&M University Press, College Station. Front matter signed "George Bush" and "David Valdez." Includes pictorial slipcase. 11 3/4" H x 11 5/8" W x 1" D. 2nd item: Signed A Time To Heal The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford, First Edition, 1979. Published by Harper & Row, Publishers and The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., New York. Front end paper signed "Gerald R. Ford." Includes original dust jacket, price clipped. 9 5/8" H x 6 5/8" W x 1 5/8" D. 3rd item: Signed Why Not the Best? by Jimmy Carter, 1975. Published by Broadman Press, Nashville. Front end paper signed "J Carter." Includes original dust jacket. 8 3/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 3/8" D. 4th item: Signed Turning Point, First Edition, by Jimmy Carter, 1992. Published by Times Books, New York. Title page signed "J Carter." Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 1/2" W. 1 1/8" D. 5th item: Signed Jimmy Carter The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture Delivered in Oslo in the 10th of December 2002, 2003. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York. Title page signed "J Cart." Includes original dust jacket. 6 7/8" H x 5 1/4" W x 1/2" D. 6th item: Signed Beyond the White House by Jimmy Carter, 2007. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York. Title page signed "J Carter." Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 3/4" W x 1 1/4" D. 7th item: Signed Worth The Fighting For: A Memoir, First Trade Edition, by John McCain with Mark Salter, 2002. Published by Random House, New York. Half title page signed "John McCain." Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 5/8" W x 1 1/2" D. 8th item: Signed Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, First Edition, by Dan Quayle, 1994. Published by Harper Collins, New York. Title page signed "Dan Quayle." Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 1/2" D. 9th item: Signed Rabin of Israel, First U.S. Edition, by Robert Slater, 1993. Published by St. Martin's Press, New York. Half title page signed "Y. Rabin." Includes original dust jacket. 8 5/8" H x 5 7/8" W x 1 5/8" D. 10th item: Signed Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-1981, First Printing, by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1983. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. Front matter paper signed and numbered 85/500. 9 5/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 5/8" D. 11th item: Signed The Supreme Court, New Edition, by William H. Rehnquist, 2001. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Title page signed "Wm. H. Rehnquist." Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 5/8" W x 1 3/8" D. 12th item: Signed More Than Words: The Speeches of Mario Cuomo, First Edition, 1993. Published by St. Martin's Press, New York. Half title page signed "Mario Cuomo." Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 1/4" D. 13th item: Signed Battling For Peace: A Memoir by Shimon Peres, edited by David Landau, 1995. Published by Random House, New York. Title page signed "Shimon Peres." Includes James Pence Authentication (JSA) certification, no. D 20087, with sticker to title page. Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 3/8" D. 14th item: Signed A Profile of Bill Bradley in the U.S. Senate, First Edition, by William Jaspersohn, 1992. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, New York, London. Title page signed and inscribed "Best Wishes Bill Bradley." Includes original dust jacket. 10 3/8" H x 8 1/4" W x 7/8" D. 15th item: Signed Bill Bradley Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir, Third Printing, 1996. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Title page signed "Bill Bradley." Includes original dust jacket. 9 5/8" H x 6 5/8" W x 1 1/2" D. CONDITION: Books in overall good condition with normal shelf wear, light toning, some with tears. Signatures in overall very good, legible condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Asian Textiles. 1st item: Southeast Asian Thangka, depicting a warrior on horseback, with flames in the background, surrounded by deities. Image painted on silk with hand sewn silk border, embroidered paisley designs and batik binding. 27 3/4″ x 19 1/2″ image, 45 1/2″ x 29″ overall. Possibly Indian, 19th century. 2nd item: Southeast Asian Thangka depicting a diety with multiple arms and faces eminating from a fountain, surrounded by other deity figures, in a landscape setting. Image painted on silk and surrounded by an embroidered silk border with batik binding. 29″ x 21″ image, 48″ x 30″ overall. Possibly Indian, 19th century. 3rd item: Qing embroidered silk textile, possibly a table cover, quatrefoil form with central peony medallion surrounded by bats and other auspicious symbols on a green and blue fret background, rose colored brocade border and pink silk backing. 32 1/2″ square. Chinese, 19th century. Provenance: Private Nashville collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Fading throughout; several scattered spots of wear to image. 2nd item: fading throughout, several spots of scratching/wear to image, a couple of tiny holes to image; pulls, wear and small stains to border, couple of spots of later yellow/green paint to subject’s top left hand and upper center area, some tiny holes. 3rd item: Staining, visible 3″ area on front with larger stains visible on back, 3″ area possible repair near center medallion (see back), other scattered stitch repairs and reinforcements, light wear and fading throughout; small breaks to some metallic threads. [See more photos →]

Approximately eight hundred and eleven (811) United States and International coins, one (1) 1995 $2 US bill, and three (3) vintage fountain pens, 815 items total. Includes five (5) 1964 Kennedy Half Dollars. Approximately 2.53 total troy ounces; two (2) Seated Liberty Quarters, including one (1) 1853 with arrows and one (1) 1875; three (3) Standing Liberty Quarters, illegible dates. Approximately .54 total troy ounces; thirteen (13) Mercury Dimes, including three (3) 1918, one (1) 1928, one (1) 1929, one (1) 1935, one (1) 1937, two (2) 1941, two (2) 1942, and two (2) 1944. Approximately .87 total troy ounces; five (5) Half Dimes, one (1) 1853 with arrows, one (1) 1854 with arrows, one (1) 1836, one (1) 1839 with "A. Dough" stamp to obverse, and one (1) illegible with arrows; six (6) Three Cent Nickels, including one (1) 1865, one (1) 1866, one (1) 1867, one (1) 1868, one (1) 1870, and one (1) 1874; two (2) Kennedy Half Dollars, including one (1) 1969 and one (1) 1971. Approximately .30 total troy ounces; four (4) Barber Dimes, including one (1) 1902, one (1) 1906, and two (2) 1913. Approximately .29 total troy ounces; three (3) Seated Liberty dimes, including one (1) 1857 and two (2) 1876; one (1) 1857 Silver Three Cent; one (1) Barber Quarter, illegible date; one (1) 1753 German States Prussia 1/12 Thaler coin; seventy-three (73) Roosevelt Dimes, assorted years dated between 1950-2006. One (1) 1962 D coin with possible "Hot Lips" error; ten (10) Liberty Head Nickels, one (1) 1898, one (1) 1901, one (1) 1903, three (3) 1906, one (1) 1908, one (1) 1910, one (1) 1911, and one (1) 1912; three (3) Buffalo Nickels, including one (1) 1935 and two (2) illegible. 1867 Shield Five Cents; seven (7) 2000 P Sacagawea Dollars; seventy-eight (78) Washington Quarters, including one (1) 1934, one (1) 1936, four (4) 1942, two (2) 1945, one (1) 1947, one (1) 1952, one (1) 1953, two (2) 1965, two (2) 1966, four (4) 1967, two (2) 1972, one (1) 1973, four (4) 1974, eight (8) 1976 Bicentennial, two (2) 1977, one (1) 1978, two (2) 1979, one (1) 1981, two (2) 1982, five (5) 1985, two (2) 1986, one (1) 1987, two (2) 1988, one (1) 1991, one (1) 1992, two (2) 1993, one (1) 1994, five (5) 1995, five (5) 1996, four (4) 1997, and seven (7) 1998. 1934-1953 quarters: approximately 1.99 total troy ounces; one hundred and ninety-eight (198) Jefferson Nickels, assorted years dated between 1937-2001; two (2) 1979 D Susan B. Anthony Dollars; thirteen (13) Indian Head Pennies, assorted years dated between 1859-1905; six (6) Two Cent Pieces, including two (2) Civil War era 1865, two (2) 1866, one (1) 1867, and one (1) illegible; 1847 Liberty Head Large Cent; 1893 Columbian Exposition Commemorative Half Dollar; approximately two hundred and eight (208) Lincoln Pennies, assorted years dated between 1909-2003, including eleven (11) 1943 steel cents and one (1) flattened; 1972 New Zealand Elizabeth II seven coin proof set in case. 3 3/8" H x 5 5/8" W x 5/8" D; forty-three (43) international coins from France, England, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, India, Cuba, Mexico, Canada, and more; four (4) undetermined coins; one hundred and twelve (112) assorted novelty tokens and souvenir coins; 1995 US $2 Federal Reserve note, depicting the portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Serial # F52266569A/ pp F. Withrow/Rubin signatures. Two (2) W.A. Sheaffer fountain pens, including one (1) with nib marked 14K. One (1) Eversharp Skyline fountain pen with 14K yellow filled gold cap. Provenance: The Estate of Mrs. Frank Wood, Evansville, Indiana and Dickson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Few coins in proof/uncirculated condition, majority of coins in circulated condition. Eversharp pen is broken. [See more photos →]

Tyrus "Ty" Raymond Cobb (1886-1961) cut signature, dated March 28, 1947, together with a black and white photograph depicting Cobb making a catch in his Detroit Tigers baseball uniform. Housed under glass in a black wooden frame with gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight – 13 5/8" H x 10 5/8" W. Framed – 14 3/4" H x 11 7/8" W. Mid 20th century. Provenance: the collection of Ross Webb, Brentwood, TN. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

One (1) Pair of New Chanel Ladies Black Leather Boots and five (5) Fashion Belts, 6 items total. 1st item: Pair of Leather Chanel pointed toe boots with interlocking CC at top of boot, side zip. Includes original box, dust bags for boots and extra heel taps. Made in Italy, size 39.5 (US size 8.5). 2nd item: Stephen Dweck sterling belt buckle and loop with brown lizard belt, 41" L. 3rd item: Sterling belt buckle, loop and tip, stamped "JM USA Sterling Silver, 1990" with black lizard belt. Belt is stamped "Al Beres", size 36. 49" L. 4th item: Alligator belt stamped "One Piece Alligator, Made in the USA". 39" L. 5th item: Ralph Lauren beige lizard belt, stamped "Genuine Lizard, 2444". 35 1/2" L. 6th item: Calvin Klein snakeskin narrow belt. 38 1/2" L. Provenance: The Estate of Judith E. Crosland, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: Boots are in excellent condition. Belts are in good used condition. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) assorted 14k yellow gold oval necklace shorteners, all with figure-8 safety clasps, 20 mm to 30 mm W. 11.1 grams/total weight. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN estate. CONDITION: Overall good condition. [See more photos →]

36 pieces assorted vintage sterling silver flatware, mostly serving pieces. Makers include Wallace, Gorham, Towle, Durgin and others. Pieces in various patterns include pastry server, lettuce fork, serving fork, seafood fork, pierced bon bon, ladles, jelly server, sugar spoons, demitasse spoons, salt spoons, teaspoons, place spoon. Together with a 2-piece carving set with weighted handles and 6 corn holders with weighted handles. 2 3/8" to 10" L. Combined weighable sterling: 20.37 oz troy). All American, late 19th to mid 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition for age, some pieces with monograms. [See more photos →]

William Nowland Van Powell (Tennessee, 1904-1977) oil on canvas painting titled "Farington England Town Pump" depicting an old stone water pump in a street median before a row of store front facades. Signed and dated "Nowland Van Powell 52" lower left. Titled, signed, and dated en verso of canvas. Handwritten notation reading "There was no handle on the old pump–no water any/longer–but it had been the very enter of this/18th century town once–Old timers at the/"local"–said it to be good water–if one wanted water," en verso of stretcher. Housed in an off white wooden frame with a gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight – 9 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W. Framed – 13 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Mid 20th century. Provenance: Paintings were given by the artist to a friend who lived in Memphis and has descended in her family. Biography: Memphis, TN architect and artist, Nowland Van Powell (1904-1977) retired from architecture in the 1970s and began to paint full time. He is known for his paintings of ships and naval battles and also for painting Christmas cards for Vice President Spiro Agnew and family in 1971. Van Powell was the author of The American Navies of the Revolutionary War, a collection of his paintings, with descriptive notes by the artist was published in 1974 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

John Hall Thorpe (Australian/British, 1874-1947) color woodcut on paper laid on board depicting a colorful flower arrangement in a blue vase against a flat black background. Signed "Hall Thorpe" lower right. Housed in a black wooden frame with dark gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight – 29 3/4" H x 24 3/4" W. Framed – 35 1/2" H x 28 1/2" W. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Olen L. Bryant (American/Tennessee, 1927-2017) brown ceramic hollow sculpture depicting a standing angel. Signed and dated "O. Bryant '69" with additional mark to interior. 20 1/2" H x 13" W x 5" D. Late 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Olen Bryant, Cottonwood/Clarksville, TN. A letter of authenticity and provenance from the artist's niece, who served as his studio assistant and personal representative for his estate, will accompany this lot. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Five (5) American Astronaut/Pilot signed books, including Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Jim Irvin, Charles E. Yeager, Douglas Corrigan. 1st item: Signed Alan Shepard American's First Spaceman by Jewel Spangler Smaus and Charles B. Spangler, 1962. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York. Octavo, 159 pages with frontispiece and illustrations, hardbound in faux black leather with silver gilt lettering to spine. Half title page signed and dated "With regards–Alana B. Shepard 6/11/62." Includes original dust jacket. 8 5/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 3/4" D. 2nd item: Signed John H. Glenn Astronaut by Lt. Col. Philip N. Pierce, USMC and Karl Schuon, 1962. Published Franklin Watts, Inc., New York. Octavo, 208 pages including illustrations and index, hardbound in green cloth with black lettering to covers and spine, includes original dust jacket, price clipped. Front end paper signed "John Glenn." Includes TLS from Steven Keyser, El Cajon CA, to Senator John H. Glenn, Jr., Washington, DC, dated May 6, 1985, requesting Gleen to sign the book. 8 5/8" H x 5 7/8" W x 1" D. 3rd item: Signed To Rule The Night The Discovery Voyage of Astronaut Jim Irvin, First Edition, by James B. Irwin with William A. Emerson, Jr., 1973. Published by A. J. Holman Company, Philadelphia, New York. Octavo, 251 pages with illustrations, hardbound in black cloth with gilt silver lettering to spine, includes original dust jacket. Half page titled "Jim Irvin." 8 5/8" H x 5 7/8" W x 1 1/4" D. 4th item: Signed Across The High Frontier The Story of a Test Pilot–Major Charles E. Yeager, USAF by William R. Lundgren, 1955. Published by William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York. Octavo, 288 pages, hardbound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine. Front end paper signed "Charles E. Yeager B/Gen USAF Ret." 8 3/4" H x 6" W x 1 1/4" D. 5th item: Signed That's My Story, First Edition, by Douglas Corrigan, 1938. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York. Octavo, 221 pages including frontispiece and illustrations, hardbound in blue cloth with red gilt blind stamp to front cover, red gilt lettering to spine. Front end paper signed and dated "Douglas Corrigan 5-19-39 Detroit." Includes original dust jacket. 8 3/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 1 1/4" D. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Dust jacket with toning, tears, areas of loss, largest 3/4", cracking. Areas of mold to covers, corners slightly bumped. Pages with toning. Signature in good, legible condition. Later ink inscription to front end paper. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Dust jacket with toning, tears, areas of loss, largest 1/4", areas of old scotch tape repair, largest 2". Covers with shelf wear, corners slightly bumped. Pages with toning. Signature in good, legible condition. 3rd item: Overall good condition. Dust jacket with toning, tears, areas of loss, largest 1 3/8". Covers with shelf wear, corners slightly bumped. Pages with toning, pencil inscription to front end paper. Signature in good, legible condition. 4th item: Overall good condition. Covers with shelf wear, gilt silver ink over black lettering to spine, spine slightly bent forward, corners bumped. Pages with toning. Signature in good, legible condition. 5th item: Overall good condition. Dust jacket with toning, areas of loss, largest 1/2", cracking. Covers with shelf wear, corners slightly bumped. Pages with toning. Signature in good, legible condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Margaret Thatcher signed books. 1st item: Author Signed The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher, 1993. Published by Harper Collins, London. Octavo, 914 pages including index, hardbound in navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, includes dust jacket wrapped in Mylar with paper backing. Signed in blue ink to title page. Includes PSA/DNA Letter of Authentication, number AB07315, dated Tuesday, July 26, 2016. 9 5/8" H x 6 3/4" W x 2 3/8" D. 2nd item: Author Signed The Path To Power, First U.S. Edition, by Margaret Thatcher, 1995. Published by Harper Collins, New York. Octavo, 656 pages including index, hardbound in one quarter maroon cloth with blind stamped front cover, gilt lettering to spine, includes dust jacket wrapped in Mylar with paper backing. Signed in blue ink to title page. Includes PSA/DNA Letter of Authentication, number AB07314, dated Tuesday, July 26, 2016. 9 5/8" H x 6 3/4" W x 2 3/8" D. 3rd item: Author Signed Statecraft: Strategies For a Changing World by Margaret Thatcher, 2002. Published by Harper Collins, London. Octavo, 486 pages including index, hardbound in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, includes dust jacket with "Signed By Author Foyles" sticker. 9 5/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 7/8" D. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. Lighting toning to dust jacket. Signature in excellent condition. Gilt lettering to spine is upside down. 2nd item: Overall very good condition with minor shelf wear to dust jacket and covers. Signature in excellent condition. Small pencil inscription to inside of back cover. 3rd item: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear to dust jacket and covers. Signature in excellent condition. Small pencil inscription to inside of back cover. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Kerr Eby (Connecticut/Ontario/Canada/Japan, 1889-1946) etchings on paper. 1st item: Proof etching titled "Polperro Cornwall England" depicting the bay, harbor, surrounding village, and countryside. Signed "Kerr Eby Imp." lower right under image. Plate – 13" H x 8 3/4" W. Sight – 13 1/2" H x 9 1/8" W. 2nd item: Proof etching titled "Porthleven-Cornwall England" depicting the beach, cliffs, and village. Signed and dated with location "Eby Porthleven 1925" lower right in the plate. Signed "Kerr Eby Imp." lower right under image with additional pencil inscription lower left under image. Plate – 9" H x 14 1/8" W. Sight – 9 1/2" H x 14 1/2" W. 3rd item: Etching titled "The Whale's Back" depicting a winter landscape. Signed lower right under image. Plate – 6 5/8" H x 12" W. Sight – 7 1/8" H x 12 3/8" W. All items with Frederick Keppell & Co., Inc., Rare Engravings and Etchings, New York gallery labels with title, name of artist, and additional notes and numbers to original brown paper backing adhered to new frames. Matted and housed under glass in a gilt wood frames. Frames range in size from 13 3/4" H x 18 7/8" W to 16 5/8" H x 21 5/8" W. Early 20th century. Provenance: a Middle Tennessee estate. CONDITION: Overall good condition with minute foxing spots/mat burn. Not examined outside of frames. 1st item: Signature obscured by mat. 3rd item: Print is not aligned in frame. [See more photos →]

Three (3) walking sticks or canes including sword cane and 1st Tennessee Infantry cane, possibly a presentation cane. 1st item: Philippine-American war related Ebony cane with silver handle engraved "1st. Lieutenant Cave Johnson Manila Philipine Islands / 1st Tennessee Volunteer Infantry". 37 3/4" L. Circa 1905. 2nd item: Burlwood walking stick with gold tip marked SOLID 14k and horn tip. Monogrammed AH or AK. 35" L. Late 19th/early 20th century. 3rd item: Sword or dagger cane with concealed short blade, having a brass eagle head handle and mid-rings. 34 1/2" L. Mid 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: End of handle missing. 2nd item: Few small dents and abrasions, couple small gouges to horn tip. 3rd item: Wear and oxidation to head, light wear. [See more photos →]

Three Strand Pearl Necklace and Enhancer, 2 items total. 1st item: Three-strand 6 mm to 6 1/2 mm cultured pearl choker necklace, 16 1/2" long, with 14k yellow gold twisted tube clasp, 5/8" L. 2nd item: 14k yellow gold diamond and grey South Sea pearl enhancer/pendant. Pearl approx. 10 x 14 and diamond weighs approx. .02 ct. 1 1/2" L total. 4.4 grams. Provenance: The Living Estate of Elizabeth Johnston Davidson Frierson, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Pearls with good luster. Slightly off-round. Some surface grime. 2nd item: Very good condition with minor surface grime. [See more photos →]

American brilliant cut glass bowl signed Hawkes, having a sawtooth and scalloped rim with cut floral and star designs, etched Hawkes stamp to interior bowl center. 5" H x 10" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition, protective felt pads added to the base. [See more photos →]

J.W. Thomas signed and dated miniature watercolor on paper portrait of a young boy with dark hair and dark blue coat, in profile, inscribed verso: "William Thomas / painted and presented by his brother J.W. Thomas / August 1824." Possibly American. Housed in half of a gutta percha union case with stamped brass mat. Sight 2 1/2" x 2", framed 3 5/8" x 3 1/4". Provenance: The Estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Mat is loose in frame and taped to edges of paper. [See more photos →]

Fritz Heckert Mormopal art glass bowl with a mottled dark amethyst and iridescent design and Art Nouveau silver overlay. "S" monogram to overlay on front of bowl and polished pontil mark to base. 4" H x 5 3/4" dia. 1st Qtr. 20th century. CONDITION: Some scratching to base. Some bending to a couple of silver overlay ends. [See more photos →]

Archive of thirty-six (36) plus items related to The Golden Troupe of New Harmony, Indiana, including photographs. Includes two (2) lithographic posters related to Bella Golden and Maertin Golden, founders of the early 20th century theatrical group; one (1) 14KT cane topper belonging to Grace Golden stamped "K & H 14KT" with "Grace" inscribed to the shaft; eighteen (18) studio and candid albumen prints, CDVs, cabinet cards, and other photographs dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries of mostly unidentified subjects and houses, and one of a marble statue identified as "Chastity"; two (2) lithographic posters, including one (1) for Vice President John Nance Garner III and one (1) for Ernest Thompson Seton, Founder of the Woodcraft Indians and founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America; seven (7) lithographic prints of old master paintings with text; one (1) watercolor on paper painting titled "The Elmo" depicting a white house; one (1) color lithograph depicting Queen Louise of France; one (1) color copy of a photographic image of a house; one (1) National Auxiliary United Spanish War Veterans document dated April 19, 1934; one (1) piece of off white crochet trim; one (1) tinted lithograph titled "Beauties of Sprint" depicting a young woman surrounded by cherry blossoms. Also includes broken fragments of wooden frames with glass and card stock and wood backing. Majority of items housed in a green box. Box – 5 3/4" H x 12 3/8" W x 18 1/2" D. Provenance: The Estate of Mrs. Frank Wood, Evansville, Indiana and Dickson, Tennessee. (For more information about The Golden Troupe, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Qd32XfC8NEo). CONDITION: Overall good condition with tears, foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, toning/acid burn, loss, etc., to be expected from age. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) East Tennessee split oak baskets including three (3) buttocks baskets, one (1) small rectangular basket with fixed handle and one (1) square form low basket. Ranging in size from 7 1/4" H x 9" W to 14 3/4" H x 14 1/4" L x 14" W. All 1st half 20th century. CONDITION: All with general use wear, slight losses and light grime. Largest basket with errant paint residue, square basket with residue to inside base, medium sized buttocks basket with paint residue to the handle. [See more photos →]

Pair of Sheffield Wine Coolers and Bride's Basket, 3 items total. 1st & 2nd items: Pair of Sheffield silver over copper wine coolers with removable inserts, each with gadroon edges, twisted lion mask side handles, laurel wreath cartouche to both sides and stepped round base. Unmarked. 9" H x 9" W x 7 1/4" D. English, early 19th century. 3rd item: Old Sheffield bride's basket attributed to Matthew Boulton, floral and acanthus leaf swing handle, rectangular form with oval base, and gadrooned rim. Double sunburst hallmarks to underside of rim. 6" H x 12 1/2" W x 9 1/2" D. Early 19th century. Provenance: The Estate of Judith E. Crosland, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: 1st & 2nd items: Light wear showing pink to some areas, especially at edges. No monograms or monogram removals. Overall very good condition. 3rd item: Overall good condition with light general wear. [See more photos →]

Continental petite gilt bronze console table with marble top over a pierced frieze, resting on curved legs with lower center beveled glass shelf. 31" H x 21" W. x 12" D. French or Italian, late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Light wear to marble, losses to two corners, slight wear and losses to gilt frame. [See more photos →]

Group of three (3) Pigeon Forge Pottery ceramic black bears, two (2) marked (largest bear and small bear resting on its back) "Pigeon Forge Pottery Tenn. D. Ferguson". 2 3/4" H x 3 1/2" W x 2 1/2" D to 4 1/2" H x 7" x 3 3/4" W. Tennessee, late 20th century. Provenance: The Estates of Olen L. Bryant and late Vanderbilt University art professor Thomas Brumbaugh, Clarksville/Cottontown, Tennessee. CONDITION: Minor surface grime and firing crack to base of foot of small standing bear. [See more photos →]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) etching on laid paper titled "Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante" (View of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans [the Thunderer]), from Vedute di Roma. Fleur de lis watermark to lower right of paper. Harcourts Gallery San Francisco, CA label en verso. Housed in a gilt wood frame. Plate – 15 5/8" H x 23 1/8" W. Sheet – 20 3/8" H x 28 3/4" W. Sight – 16 1/4" H x 23 3/4" W. Framed – 25" H x 31 3/4" W. CONDITION: Some abrasions to frame. A couple areas of scattered toning, slight waviness to paper. [See more photos →]

Iridesse by Tiffany & Company, 8mm cultured pearl necklace with sterling silver lobster claw clasp and Tiffany & Co. round sterling hang tag. 18 inches long. Included with black Tiffany necklace box. CONDITION: Pearls are pinkish in color and vary in tone. [See more photos →]

Seth Thomas banjo clock with eglomise tablet depicting a US Naval ship battle, likely the War of 1812, the waist with eagle and shield and gilt scroll motif, round painted metal dial signed "Seth Thomas," eagle finial. Plinth shaped base with applied ball moldings. Overall – 36" L. Circa 1900. CONDITION: Minor light wear to dial, some scuffs to molding on plinth base, works not tested or guaranteed. Key and pendulum present, pendulum detached. [See more photos →]

Eight (8) Chinese porcelain items, including two (2) large Chinese Export Famille Rose porcelain shallow bowls, each with central floral sprays and diaper and cartouche borders (10 1/2" & 11 1/8" dia); one (1) Kangxi or Kangxi style blue and white Chinese porcelain bottle vase with scenes of court officials, one gesturing to a tree; double concentric circle marks to base (12 1/8" H – note condition); one (1) doucai porcelain bowl, the sides decorated with cartouches enclosing figures in outdoor settings and various flowers (3 1/2" H x 7 7/8" dia.); one (1) Chinese Export porcelain cann or cider mug with figural dragon handle, the body decorated with figures in an interior, enjoying music, surrounded by floral borders and vignettes on a diapered background (5 1/2" H x 6 3/4" W); one (1) Famille Rose saucer with foliate decoration (5 1/2" dia.); and two (2) small wine cups with floral decoration (1 5/8" H x 2 1/8" dia). CONDITION: Both large shallow bowls with chips and fleabites to rim, one with hairline. Blue and white vase with repaired break to rim. Bowl with wear to enameled decoration, possible hairline to base. Cider mug with 7 old staple repair cracks to body, repairs to handle. Saucer with fleabites to rim. One wine cup with old repair to rim and fleabites to base, other cup with hairlines to rim and fleabites to base. [See more photos →]

Chinese Ding Style Vase and Longquan Celadon Censer, 2 items total. 1st item: Chinese Song Ding style bottle vase having a wide flaring rim, carved lotus petal decoration to the neck and foot and incised floral decoration to the body. 10 3/8" H. 2nd item: Chinese Longquan style celadon tripod footed censor. 5 1/2" H x 6 3/4" dia. Both items 20th century. Provenance: A private Alabama collection. CONDITION: Both items overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Group of five (5) Asian scroll paintings with silk brocade borders. 1st item: Vertical mountain landscape with red seal at center and olive border, 45" x 12" image, 66" x 15" overall. 2nd item: Horizontal landscape with islands and 2 fishermen, foreground, 26" x 52 1/2" image, 29 5/8" x 71" overall. 3rd-5th items: Vertical mountain landscape with blue border; and two (2) calligraphy scrolls having pale green and ivory colored borders, 38" x 19" image, 64" x 22 1/2" overall and 38" x 20" image, 59" x 23" overall (ivory border). All Chinese or Japanese, 20th century. Provenance: Nashville, Tennessee estate. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall creasing and a few scattered pale minor stains/smudges. 2nd item: 1 1/2" smudge lower left corner of image. Light toning, minor creasing. 3rd item: 1" scratch lower right border, minor creases. 4th item: Several creases. 3" pale streak upper right quadrant of image near center. 5th item: Light creasing throughout, some small yellowish stains to border. Note: Some scrolls with previous owner pen inscriptions en verso denoting room locations. [See more photos →]

James Neil Boyle (American/California, 1931-2006) oil on canvas illustration art painting depicting people boarding a steamboat ferry with painted name "Fred C. Dobbs" on a sign near the pilot house. Signed Boyle AICA BSWCA lower right. Giltwood molded frame with carved anthemion corner ornaments and linen liner. 29 1/2" H x 23 1/2" W sight, 37" H x 31" W framed. (Note: Fred C. Dobbs was the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in the movie "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"). Biography: James Neil Boyle received his formal art education from the Banff School of Fine Art and at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Art Center College of Design. He had a twenty-year career in commercial illustration including for the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, the Rand Corporation, Walt Disney Productions, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Post Office. He was president of the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles and a recipient of their lifetime achievement award. Over thirty of his paintings are in the U.S. Air Force Historical Art Collection in the Smithsonian Institute and the Pentagon. (source: Askart) CONDITION: 3" scratch upper right quadrant extending from frame edge, some staining to linen liner near frame edge. [See more photos →]

Spanish 20th century model signal cannon with a cast iron barrel and elevating screw mounted on a wooden carriage with two large wood and brass wheels. Top of barrel marked "Black Powder Only" and "Spain." Includes two cleaning brushes. Cannon 11 3/4" H x 15" W x 27 1/2" L. Brushes approximately 19" L. CONDITION: Overall good condition with rust to iron. Not tested for fuctionality. [See more photos →]

Antonio Gravina (Italy, 1934-2011) impressionistic oil on board cityscape painting titled "Paris" depicting a Parisian street scene in the rain with a flower stall, crowds of people, and street cars in the foreground before building and a grey sky in the background. Signed "A. Gravina" lower left. Signed, dated, and titled "A. Gravina 76' Paris" en verso. Housed in a giltwood frame with egg and dart molded outer edge and ribbon molded rabbet edge with off white linen liner. Sight – 11 1/2" H x 19 1/2" W. Framed – 18" H x 25 3/4" W. Third quarter 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Mississippi Valley one drawer stand, possibly Louisiana, walnut and cherry primary with poplar secondary. Comprised of an overhanging top over one nailed and exposed dovetailed drawer, rounded legs and feet with chamfered corners, and drawer supports. Retains the original surface. 28 1/4" x 24 3/4" x 22". Mid 19th century. Note: The chamfering on the legs of this table is similar to a table featured in the book "Early Furniture of Louisiana" published by the Louisiana State Musem, on page 71. CONDITION: Old original finish with stains and wear. One drawer pull missing, losses to drawer supports. Shrinkage to top and drawer bottom. [See more photos →]

Dimunitive Southern Sheraton mahogany or walnut washstand, poplar secondary, having a scrolled backsplash above a lower tier with one dovetailed drawer, all resting on turned legs. 36" H x 16 3/8" W x 16" D. Circa 1820. CONDITION: Older refinish. Loss to back right upper corner, some scattered stains to wood, some age cracks, general overall wear. [See more photos →]

Seventeen (17) 19th century English Majolica items, including one (1) Wedgwood match striker in mottled colors, marks on base, 3 1/4" H x 4 1/2" dia.; one (1) Wedgwood round plate with basketweave and crisscross border and mottled center, impressed marks to base, 9 1/9" dia.; one (1) Majolica tree bark pitcher with coconut tree decoration, marked "16" on base, 6 5/8" H; pair of round plates with daisy flower vine border and mottled colors center, unmarked, 1" H x 10 7/8" dia.; one (1) Majolica oval platter with swan handles and wide basket weave border, hand-painted "10" on base, 1 3/4" x 13" x 10"; three (3) majolica pineapple pattern pottery items including one (1) syrup pitcher with hinged pewter lid, 6 1/4" H, one (1) tea kettle, 7" H, and one (1) double-handled covered sugar, 4 3/8" H; set of five (5) asparagus plates with well, scalloped edge, basketweave border and asparagus cluster center, 4 of 5 marked with number to base, 9 3/8" dia.; one (1) Oak leaf platter with three applied acorns, unmarked, 2 1/4" x 13" x 9 1/2"; one (1) platter with impressed leaf and scroll design, mottled colors, unmarked, 14 3/8" x 10 1/2"; and one (1) small Begonia leaf dish, unmarked. Many pieces with old retailer labels to base. 18 items total, all English, mid-late 19th century. Provenance: The Estate of Judith E. Crosland, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: All in overall very good condition. No repairs noted. Some surface wear to glazes. Old 1 1/2" loss to foot on round Wedgwood plate. Few chips to interior rim of sugar bowl. Wear to rim begonia leaf dish. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Charley Harper (Ohio/West Virginia, 1922-2007) signed items, including a book and a lithograph print. 1st item: Author Signed and Inscribed Charles Harper's Bird and Words, First Edition, published by The Frame House Gallery, Inc., Louisville, 1974. Oblong 16mo, 151 pages including index and 61 reproduction images of Harper's silk screen prints from his "Ten Western Birds", "America's Vanishing Birds", "Ten Southern Birds", American Bird Architects", "American Bird Census" and "Ten Collector Prints" series, hardbound in grey cloth with black pictorial front cover and white lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial end papers, includes dust jacket. Author inscription in ink reads "To Debbie–/A Neat Chick I/Chatted with in the/Magic Kingdom of/Upper Tennessee/Charley Harper/4/11/81/" with pencil signature below. 6 3/4" H x 8 3/4" W x 1 1/4" D. 2nd item: Open edition lithograph titled "Eagological Event" published by The Frame House Gallery, 1976. Signed "C. Harper" in the image, lower right, signed "C. Harper" in pencil, lower right under the image, publication information and date, lower left under image. Housed in a folder with printed text reading "You are invited…" top right of cover, printed text reading "the enclosed print was designed by Charles Harper who will be in attendance to sign it for you." lower left of interior. Includes envelope and a printed advertisement of his "Hexit" print, obverse, an artist biography, reverse. Lithograph – 11 1/8" H x 8 5/8" W. Folder – 11 3/8" H x 8 7/8" W. Envelope – 12 1/8" H x 9 1/4" W. Late 20th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Tears, largest 7/8", toning, shelf wear to dust jacket. Fading, areas of dampstaining to covers. Pages in overall very good condition with light toning. Images are collated. 2nd item: Print and folder in overall good condition with foxing spots, largest 1/2", and light toning. Crease across top of folder. Toning, 3 1/4" piece of old masking tape to envelope. Foxing spots, tears, 1" x 1 1/2" area missing from top left corner of advertisement. [See more photos →]

James Matthews (British, 19th century) watercolor and gouache on paper painting titled "English Countryside" depicting a farm house in a pastoral autumn setting, a mother and her daughter feeding chickens in a country road before the house. Signed lower left. Paper label reading "For Olive" en verso. Housed under glass in a gilt wood frame with a gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight – 8" H x 13 7/8" W. Framed – 14" H x 19 3/4" W. Note: This painting was included on a receipt from Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine, dated November 3, 2000, available to the winning bidder. CONDITION: Overall good condition. Not examined outside of frame. Areas of loss to gilt on frame, areas of mold/moisture damage, 1" hairline, to rabbet edge. [See more photos →]

Three (3) 17th century newspapers, including The London Athenian Mercury, Sept. 23, 1693 with mention of the Salem Witch Trials. Page 2, column 2 carries an ad for "A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches, with the Observation of a Person who was there first taken into Examination, to which is added Cases of Conscience concerning Witch Crafts and Evil Spirits personating men. Written at the requests of the Ministers of New England. By Increase Mather, President of Harvard College." Also included is the Oct. 28, 1693 issue of the Athenian Mercury, containing mostly Scriptures for the Proof of Eternal Torment, and the London Gazette, Monday, April 2 to Thursday, April 5, 1666, carrying mainly news of ships arrived to and from ports in Europe; mention at very end of the number of deaths due to the Bubonic Plague for the week. Athenian Mercury newspapers approximately 12 1/4" x 8". The London Gazette – 10 1/2" x 6 3/4". Each page 1 and 2 (front and back) only. Provenance: the collection of Ross Webb, Brentwood, TN. CONDITION: All with toning, scattered foxing, minor edge losses, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Spanish American War Era 45 Star American Flag, constructed of linen with appliqued stars. 42" H x 76" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. CONDITION: Some fading to top of blue star field, scattered small holes and losses. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Mid 20th Century Confederate Reunion Flags. 1st item: Confederate Defiance machine sewn flag, comprised of printed linen on linen ground, canvas hoist with two metal grommets. Fabric maker's label and "3 x 5" stamped in blue ink, top of hoist. 33 1/4" H x 55" W. 2nd item: Confederate machine sewn flag, comprised of printed cotton on cotton ground, cotton hoist with two brass grommets. 36" H x 57" W. 3rd item: Confederate machine sewn flag, comprised of printed cotton on cotton ground, cotton hoist with two metal grommets. Ink inscriptions, lower left of flag. Old yarn tied to grommets. 35" H x 59 3/4" 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: Overall good condition. 1st item: 1" area of repair, top right of flag. Few minor age stains, loose threads, to surface of flag. 2nd item: 4" x 2 1/2" hole, center right, stains to surface of flag. 3rd item: Few minor age stains, loose threads, to surface of flag. Ink inscriptions, lower left of flag. [See more photos →]

Group of four (4) North Carolina stoneware pottery items including including one (1) large salt glaze jug with flared rim, incised "3" to the upper shoulder denoting capacity and pulled handles (13 1/2" H), one (1) alkaline glazed jug with tall spout and pulled handle (10 1/4" H), one (1) alkaline glazed preserving jar (10" H), and one (1) alkaline glazed cream pitcher (5" H). All pieces Late 19th century. Provenance: Brad Swanson Collection, Abingdon, VA. CONDITION: Jug with old chip to rim. All pieces overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Oak machinist's tool chest, rectangular coffin top form lifts to reveal a shallow compartment above four shallow drawers with brass ring pulls. Old Lufkin Tool Company label to underside of lid. 16" H x 27 1/4" W x 16 3/4" D. CONDITION: Formerly used to store tools. Scattered minor wear, abrasions, stains and losses to case. Some old paint residue. [See more photos →]

After Demetre H. Chiparus (1886-1947) bronze sculpture of a recumbent dog, "Chien Policier", mounted to a rectangular polished black stone base. Unsigned. 10 3/4" H x 21" W x 8 1/2" D. Mid 20th century. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) schoolgirl needlework samplers, American or English, all framed under glass. 1st item: Folky "Adam and Eve" sampler in cross stitch, wool on linen, with a flower/berry border and various pictorial motifs surrounding Adam, Eve, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, signed Ellen Williams, age 8 and dated 1850. Float mounted on a beige background in a wood frame. Sight – 16 1/2" H x 9" W. Framed – 20" H x 11 1/2" W. 2nd item: Alphabetical and numerical sampler in cross and eyelet stitch, silk on linen, with pictorial motifs and family initials at bottom row; signed by Mary Upton and dated January 29th 1800, age 7. Housed in a wooden frame with gilt rabbet edge. Sight – 10" H x 9" W. Framed – 12 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. 3rd item: Alphabetical and numerical sampler with geometric bands at top in cross stitch and zig zag stitch, silk on linen, signed by Mary Feild – possible misspelling of Mary Field – and dated 1825. Housed in a wooden frame with silver gilt rabbet edge. Sight – 17" H x 11" W. Framed – 19" H x 13" W. Provenance: Private collection, acquired many years ago in Georgia. CONDITION: 1st item: Later framing; small dark stains and minor losses to outermost edges, likely from where sampler was originally nailed or tacked into a frame; light spots indicate some possible thread loss to leaves/berries of border; staining or thread bleed to signature area; light toning and fading. Some tears to mat. 2nd item: Even toning and fading. Not removed from frame. 3rd item: Even toning and fading. Sampler is not glued down. [See more photos →]

Leon Rene Pescheret (1892-1971) aquatint and etching on paper titled "Baskin Creek — Tenn." depicting a rustic cabin beside a gently flowing stream and trees, fore and middle ground, with Mount Le Conte, Sevier County, Tennessee in the background. Titled in pencil lower left under image, signed in pencil lower right under image. Typed biography en verso. Double matted and housed under glass in a green and gilt painted frame. Plate – 14" H x 10 3/4" W. Sight – 14 1/8" H x 11 1/8" W. Framed – 23 1/4" H x 20" W. Mid 20th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition with toning/acid burn visible to mat. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Large American brilliant cut glass compote with a shaped and notched rim, notched faceted pedestal and crosscut diamond and star base. Star and cross hatch designs to the bowl. 12" H x 10" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: the living estate of Annette Petri, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor fleabite to one sawtooth. Protective felt pads added to base. [See more photos →]

Five (5) Chinese Export Porcelain Items, including Rose Medallion, Famille Rose, and two (2) Japanese porcelain items, 7 items total. 1st item: Chinese Export Rose Medallion plate with polychrome enamel decoration of cartouches with court and landscape scenes, birds, butterflies, and flowers, with gilt highlights throughout. 8" dia. 19th century. 2nd item: Chinese Export porcelain plate with polychrome enamel decoration including bird perched upon a flowering branch to the center and with flowers and precious objects to the rim. 9" dia. 18th century. 3rd item: Chinese Famille Rose leaf shaped dish with iron red and gilt accents. 7 7/8" H x 5 7/8" W. 19th century. 4th-5th items: Pair of 18th century Chinese Export green and white porcelain dessert plates, with bird, floral, fruit, bat and insect decoration. 7 5/8" dia. 6th item: Japanese Satsuma porcelain figure of a karako or young boy depicted standing and smiling in traditional clothing and standing on a pedestal. 2 letter character signature on the base. 13 1/2" H. Meiji period. 7th item: Japanese celadon porcelain plate with relief and polychrome decoration depicting ducks in a pond with cattails and flowers, shaped rim. Impressed signature to the base. 9 5/8" dia. 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of Mary Ann Bresee, GA. CONDITION: 1st item: Minor wear to enamel decoration and gilt, no chips or cracks. 2nd item: Two rim repairs, evident to the underside of the plate under blacklight examination. 3rd item: Underside with old paint, possible old restoration. 4th-5th items: Both plates with old rim restorations, one with additional repaired break. 6th-7th items: Boy figure with overall general wear and losses to paint decoration. Plate overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Naturalistic sterling silver leaf form serving dish, hammered surface with handle created from open space between "vines," marks for Reed & Barton, Sterling, X281 with date stamp for 1941. 12 3/4" x 9 1/4". 14.54 oz troy. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, Vol. I & II, Sixth Edition, by George Catlin, 1848. Published by Henry Bohn, London. Octavo, 530 total pages with appendices and 314 line-cut reduction illustrations including three (3) maps and two (2) frontispieces, hardbound in half black pebbled leather with green pebbled leather sides, gilt line border and gilt lettering to sides. 10 1/8" H x 6 7/8" W x 1 1/2" D. Mid 19th century. CONDITION: Covers in overall good condition with wear, scuffs, areas of loss/rubbing, 2 5/8" x 1 1/2" area of leather separation to bottom of Vol. II spine. Pages, including illustrations and maps, with foxing spots, toning, dampstaining, tears, pencil inscriptions, etc. to be expected from age. [See more photos →]

Tall Chinese Ming style martaban or storage jar, ovoid form with mottled brown glaze, loop handles at shoulder, the body with molded stylized Chih-lung dragons and clouds. 32" H. 20th century. Provenance: Nashville collection, acquired in New York City circa 1970. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with a few glaze pops, minor small chips to foot rim/underside, scattered small abrasions. [See more photos →]

Continental School oil on canvas painting depicting young beggar holding string instrument and small dog with young girl sitting in snow against church doors. Signed "Desport" lower left. Sight – 32 1/4" H x 21 3/8" W, Framed – 37 3/4" H x 26 7/8" W. Mid-19th century. Provenance: the estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Canvas relined and cleaned. Heavy craquelure and several cracks partially repaired by relining. 3" loss to molding top right, repainted. [See more photos →]

Riceszinn Germany Art Nouveau Tankard & Arthur Krupp Berndorf, Vienna Dish, 2 items total. 1st item: Riceszinn Germany Art Nouveau silver over pewter tall tankard with Bacchus figural handle and finial, female bust spout, elongated body with dragonflies, leaves and flower sprays on four ball feet. Maker's mark on base. 15" H x 6-1/2" dia. Germany, circa 1880. 2nd item: Arthur Krupp Berndorf, Vienna, silver-plated flower form footed serving dish, maker's mark on outside edge, 1-3/4" x 7-3/4" dia. Austria, circa 1920. Provenance: Estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Hinge at handle is broken. 1-1/4" L dent on base. Minor loss to silver color. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Mason Imari Style Charger and Staffordshire Robin Hood Vase, 2 items total. 1st item: English Mason's Ironstone transfer printed Imari style charger, impressed mark en verso. 17" H x 21" W. 19th century. 2nd item: English Staffordshire figural Robin Hood flat back spill vase depicting Robin Hood with Little John and a dog. 14 1/2" H x 9 3/4" W x 4" D. 19th century. Provenance: The Estate of Judith E. Crosland, Knoxville, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall general wear and crazing to glaze. 2nd item: Overall general wear and crazing to glaze. [See more photos →]

Tessie Sayer (United Kingdom, 19th Century) oil on canvas seascape painting titled "Off Ramsgate" depicting a nighttime scene of a shoreline with a lighthouse. Signed and dated "1893" lower left. Housed in a gilt molded frame. Sight – 13 3/4" H x 17 3/4" W. Framed – 21 1/2" H x 25 1/2" W. British, Late 19th century. CONDITION: Overall good condition with craquelure. Some losses to frame molding. [See more photos →]

Two (2) James Patrick Roddy, III (Tennessee, 1929-2009) watercolor and gouache landscape paintings. 1st item: Watercolor and gouache on paper depicting rolling field with trees and a mountain range in the background below a grey sky. Signed "Pat Roddy" lower left. Matted and housed under glass in a gilt wood frame. Sight – 14" H x 20 7/8" W. Framed – 23" H x 30" W. 2nd item: Watercolor and gouache on board depicting a solitary farm house in a large field, a mountain range in the background below and hazy grey sky. Unsigned. Image – 14 3/8" H x 19 3/8" W. Board – 15 1/8" H x 20 1/8" W. Mid/late 20th century. CONDITION: Both items in overall very good condition. 1st item: Slight waviness to paper. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Southern Wooden Items, Dough Bowls, and Tool Box. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) burl wood dough bowls, one circular form and one rectangular form with handles. Rectangular form bowl with hole for hanging. 3 3/8" H x 15 1/8" dia. and 4" H x 26 5/8" L x 17 3/4" D. Both late 19th/early 20th century. 3rd item: Homemade wooden carrying or tool box, with central divider and leather carrying strap. Nailed construction. 7 1/8" H x 13 1/2" L x 8" D. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: The Estate of John Moran, Hyders Gap, VA. CONDITION: 1st & 2nd items: Both bowls with overall general wear, rectangular bowl with losses to rim. 3rd item: Overall general wear with some scattered losses. [See more photos →]

A. Hencke chromolithograph, "The Battle of Malate Philippines Night of July 31st 1898"; period painted wooden frame. Sight – 19 1/2" H x 27 1/2" W. Framed – 21 5/8" H x 29 5/8" W. CONDITION: Overall light toning, wear and losses to frame, overall good condition. [See more photos →]