Pair of early 20th century Harvard Football and Baseball hand painted porcelain football mugs, designed by the illustrator F. Earl Christy, each with a shaped footed body and handle; one depicting a Harvard football player and the other depicting a baseball player with the Harvard insignia on the reverse side. Bases stamped "Design Pat. 37297 […]
Lot 420: 2 Autographed Baseballs, inc. 1961 White Sox
Two (2) autographed baseballs. 1st item: 1961 White Sox team signed baseball, twenty-three total signatures including three (3) Hall of Fame signatures of Early Wynn, Luis Aparicio and Nellie Fox. 2nd item: 1972 Hall of Fame signed baseball, Official National League baseball, signed by the Charles F. Feehney, dated 1972 and signed by seventeen (17) […]
Lot 416: Western Union Telegraph Call Box w/ Sign and Assorted Papers & Books, inc. "Teletype"
Western Union telegraph call box with sign, telegraph manuals, books, 14 items total. 1st item: Western Union telegraph call box, manufactured by the T.A. Edison Company, blue and white porcelain enameled metal with internal clockwork mechanism and black knob. "W.U. Tel. Co./Call Box 6-B" embossed with two Inspector's stamps and "145" in pencil, back of […]
Lot 417: Stereoview Card Collection, approx. 389
Collection of approximately three hundred and eighty-nine (389) stereoview cards. Includes one hundred (100) chromolithographic stereoviews depicting the Louisiana Purchase Exposition or the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, by Truman W. Ingersoll. Housed in a faux leather and cardboard hinged lid box with "St. Louis Fair" gilt lettering. Box – 3 3/4" H x […]
Lot 418: Vintage Automobile Picnic Set
Vintage Automotive running board touring picnic trunk, partially outfitted with plates, cups, mason jars, thermos, shot glasses, bottle opener, toothpicks and vintage paper cutlery, all in a black trunk with metal pull out boxes and pull out tray. 10" H x 26 1/2" W x 9 3/4" D. Circa 1910-1950. Provenance: Collection of Christine Fields […]
Lot 414: Storyville, New Orleans Brothel Blue Book, 1907
New Orleans, Louisiana brothel blue book for 1907, advertising street addresses of the bordellos located in the Storyville district. 52 page booklet with blue wrappers. Includes full page advertisements for the more famous brothels and madams, including interior photographs of Josie Arlington's establishment at 225 North Basin Street and Thomas "Tom" Anderson's Annex at the […]
Lot 415: Genl. Tom Thumb print, clipping and CDV
Framed collection of "General Tom Thumb" items, also known as Charles Sherwood Stratton. 1st-2nd item: "General Tom Thumb" broadside with an engraved illustration of Thumb and a group of people advertising his appearances at the Boston Museum, including his performance in ìHop Oí My Thumb Or,— the Seven League Boots!î, printed by Hooton's Press, Boston, […]
Lot 413: Oil on Board Painting of Black Minstrels
Oil on canvasboard scene of four black minstrels walking down a snowy country road. Signed lower right "Shrugg E." Previous owner name and address written across back board and frame. Lightly whitewashed gilt carved frame. 19" x 26" sight, 27 1/2" x 33 1/2" framed. Provenance: Living Estate of Johnny Maddox, Gallatin, TN. CONDITION: 1/4 […]
Lot 412: 3 Black Americana Advertising Items & 1 CDV
Four (4) Black Americana related items. 1st item: Framed Carte de Visite or CDV of an African American nursemaid or nanny and her charge, Ellen Louise Allgood. Female baby named en verso along with the age of 10 1/2 months. Additionally dated en verso "Wed. June 18, 1879". Housed in a tramp art style frame […]
Lot 410: 5 Old Virginia Cheroots Cake Walk Prints
Five (5) Black Americana advertising chromolithograph prints titled "The Cake Walk No. 1-5", originally published as advertising signs for the Old Virginia Cheroots Company, 1899. Each print depicts two well-dressed African American couples engaged in a cake walk or dancing contest. Matted and housed under glass in burled wood frames with gilt rabbet edge. Image […]