1st item: Chinese royal blue porcelain vase with gilt decoration, base with blue double concentric circle mark. 8" H x 3 1/2" W. 2nd item: Chinese porcelain vase, bottle form with flaring rim and mirror black glaze vase. Fitted with conforming hardwood stand. 14 1/2" H. 3rd item: A Chinese Sang-de-Boeuf or ox-blood red brush […]

Souvenir table bell from the San Francisco Mid Winter Exhibition of 1894, with 3 eglomise vignettes depicting various buildings, and a gilt metal filigree frame affixed to a round marble disc. 3"H. CONDITION: Bell functional. Some wear to gilding and eglomise paint. One vignette is sideways in its frame and we have not attempted to […]

1st item: Green and white Peking glass bowl with carved chrysanthemum and scrolling vine decoration. 3" H x 6 1/2" dia. 2nd item: Yellow and white Peking glass vase with carved floral decoration. 6 1/4" H. 3rd-5th items: 3 yellow Peking glass reverse painted snuff bottles including a pair with landscape decoration to each side […]

Goodloe, Albert Theodore. SOME REBEL RELICS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR. Member of John L. McEwen Bivouac No. 4, Franklin Tenn. Nashville: Printed for the author. Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 1893. 315pp. First Edition. 7 1/2″ H x 5 3/8″ W x 1″ D. CONDITION: Publisher’s decorated boards, soiled and faded. […]

1st item: Duke, Basil W. HISTORY OF MORGAN'S CAVALRY. Cincinnati: Miami Printing and Publishing Company, 1867. Viii, 578pp. Small map affixed to rear free endpaper. 8 3/8" H x 5 5/8" W x 1 3/4" D. 2nd item: Drake, James Vaulx. LIFE OF GENERAL ROBERT HATTON, Including His Most Important Public Speeches, Together, With Much […]

Two 19th century photographs including a post-mortem image. 1st item: Ambrotype of a dead young man, decorative gilt mat and velvet lined union case with phoenix design to exterior. 3 1/2" x 3". 2nd item: Ambrotype of six people, possibly a family, with the face of one woman inked or rubbed out. 4 1/2" x […]

Crawford, J. Marshall. MOSBY AND HIS MEN: A RECORD OF THE ADVENTURES OF THAT RENOWNED PARTISAN RANGER, JOHN S. MOSBY, [COLONEL C.S.A.]. Including the Exploits of Smith, Chapman, Richards, Montjoy, Turner, Russell, Glasscock and the Men Under Them. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co. 1867. 375pp. [1] 8pp. Advertisements. Decorated with plates. 7 1/2" H […]

1st item: "President McKinley's Visit to the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition", drawn by William A. Rogers, published 1897. From "Harper's Weekly", page 604. Wood cut engraving with later hand coloring depicting a montage of scenes from the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, including "The Daylight Fireworks", "The Illumination of the Rialto at Night", and […]

Two 19th century albums containing photographic images related to Nashville photographer Carl C. Giers. 1st item: Brass-bound album containing about 96 CDVS, mostly portraits, but a few printed religious scenes. C.C. Giers and his wife Pauline are pictured about three quarters of the way through, and the only two images with pencil identifications are 1 […]

Assorted TN Prints and Ephemera, 30 items total. 1st item: "Fourth Annual Report of the Public Schools of the City of Nashville, Tennessee" imprint, published by Smith, Camp, and Company, Printers, Patriot Office, 22 pages with a table of attendance, 1858. Paper and string bound book reporting the activities of the Nashville Public Schools of […]