Two (2) red Coca-Cola button advertising signs, enamel on metal. 1st item: Large button sign depicts yellowed Coca-Cola script logo over Coca-Cola glass bottle graphic. 36" dia. 2nd item: Smaller button reads, in white, "Drink Coca-Cola" and "REG. U.S. PAT. OFF." below. 24" dia. Mid 20th century. Provenance: Private Southeast Tennessee collection. CONDITION: 1st item: […]
Lot 665: Persian Kurdish or Hamadan Wool Runner
Antique Persian Kurdish or Hamadan runner, wool on wool, 12' 3" x 3' 6", allover floral field, colors of salmon, russet, blue, green, gold, cream, brown, black, and blue. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Wear to pile consistent with age, but mostly even, with slightly more in center. Selvedge potentially rewoven. Minor areas of potential insect […]
Lot 666: Large Collection Music and Sewing Trade Cards/Calendars
Approximately one thousand two hundred and seventy-five (1,275) advertising trade cards and calendars, relating to sewing and sewing machines; pianos, organs, music houses, insurance, newspapers, jewelers, and miscellaneous subjects. 1st-447th items: Approximately four hundred and forty-seven (447) thread trade cards, including one hundred and sixty-nine (169) Clark's Spool Cotton cards, including two (2) Black Americana, […]
Lot 664: 2 Persian Sarouk Rugs
Two (2) Persian Farahan Sarouk rugs, with wool on cotton foundations. 1st item: Area rug with red field and yellow center medallion, surrounded by foliate design with secondary colors of reds, golds, blues and dark navy. 2nd item: Area rug with allover floral pattern. consisting of reds, pinks, golds, and scattered blue. Both rugs 5' […]
Lot 662: 3 Schoolgirl Samplers, inc. Groton, Mass.
Three (3) Schoolgirl Needlework Samplers, American and English. 1st item: Huldah Woods' sampler, Groton, Massachusetts, 1795. Silk on linen, with cross-stitched blue sawtooth border and inner eyelet-stitched light blue border surrounding rows of alphabet, numbers, trees, and dogs or horses with a verse, "Virtue's the Chiefest / Beauty of the Mind." Dated and signed "1795" […]
Lot 663: Persian Farahan Sarouk Rug
Persian Farahan Sarouk rug, wool on cotton foundation. Dark navy blue center medallion on a red field surrounded by floral or foliate design. Secondary colors of ivory, red, and dark blue. 6' 5" x 4' 4". 1st quarter 20th century. CONDITION: Even wear to pile. Minor, scattered loss of weaving around long edges, as well […]
Lot 660: Kentucky House Sampler, Sally Judd
Schoolgirl needlework sampler, attributed to Kentucky; stitched by Sally Judd circa 1845. Silk on linen, the upper half with 2 upper case alphabets (one in script) and 1 lower case alphabet, name with 4 other small characters to the side (faded and illegible), over a lower half with flowers and flowering baskets, and a Federal […]
Lot 661: 1835 Kentucky Sampler, Louisa Cooper Hogland
Kentucky needlework cross-stitched sampler, brown and teal silk thread on linen, by Louisa Cooper of Pulaski County, KY, dated 1835. Upper and lowercase alphabets divided by a row of numbers, over signature "Louisa Cooper Sept. 8 1835 Aged 11" flanked by tree designs on each side, all within and between multiple geometric bands. Antique, possibly […]
Lot 658: East TN Crib Quilt & Middle TN Coverlet
East TN Crib Quilt and Middle TN Coverlet. 1st item: Middle Tennessee overshot coverlet in red and cream, with a ringed geometric pattern, variation of Lover’s Knot or Snowball pattern, woven in two pieces. 81 1/2″ x 64 1/2″. Late 19th/Early 20th century. 2nd item: East Tennessee applique and pieced crib quilt, diamond-in-ring pattern in […]
Lot 659: West Tennessee Sampler, 1837, Mary Jane Russell
Scarce West Tennessee needlework sampler, silk on linen, by Mary Jane Russell of Brownsville TN, Haywood County, 1837, with unusually comprehensive biographical information. Multicolored border comprised of eyelet stitch on one side and cross stitched zig zag pattern on top, and cross-stitched green and white chainlink pattern on right side, enclosing 2 rows of upper […]