Double Sided GAR (G. A. R.) painted hall meeting sign reading "Grand Army Hall, Post 11, April 9, 1866, Meetings 1st 3rd Mondays, Comrades Welcome" on one side, verso reads "Dane County G.A.R. Memorial Hall". Black painted ground with yellow/gold lettering. 25 1/2" H x 39 3/4" W. 2nd half 19th century. Provenance: Loudon County, […]
Lot 551: Robert E. Lee Memorial Engraved Portrait, 1870
1870 hand colored engraving of Robert E. Lee, over an inscription reading SOLD BY AUTHORITY OF THE LEE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT AT THE TOMB OF GENL. R.E. LEE AT THE WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA. Engraved by A. B. Walter, after a photo from life. Lower margins with facsimile […]
Lot 545: 12 Confederate CDVS incl. Walter Bowie
CDVS of ten Civil War Confederate Generals plus CSA Captain Walter Bowie of Virginia and Tennessee. Images include Kirby Smith, John Hunt Morgan, Thomas J. Jackson (a.k.a. Stonewall Jackson ), Sidney A. Johnston, Joseph Wheeler, Wade Hampton, Felix K. Zollicoffer (note misspelling on card), Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee (clipped), G.P.T. Beauregard, and Confederate […]
Lot 546: 3 Early Civil War Era Images
1st item: 1/6th plate ambrotype depicting a gentleman attired in Confederate uniform, housed in a tooled leather case with decorative gold colored border and 1 hook for clasp on 1 side. Sight 2 5/8" H x 2 1/8" W. Case – 3 5/8" H X 3 1/4" W x 3/8" D. 2nd item: 1/6th plate […]
Lot 547: Civil War Bloodletting Kit
Civil War or earlier medical related bloodletting kit for doctor or surgeon. Consists of 2 scarificators marked Perkins London, 4 cupping glasses, 1 cupping glass with syringe, and 1 spirit lamp, all in a fitted velvet lined mahogany case with inlaid brass cartouche to top and brass shield shaped escutcheon. Box – 4" H x […]
Lot 548: Nashville Battlefields and TN Map
Two Tennessee related maps. 1st item: A NEW MAP OF TENNESSEE WITH ITS ROADS AND DISTANCES FROM PLACE TO PLACE ALONG THE STAGE AND STEAM BOAT ROUTES by H.P. Tanner, dated 1841, showing counties, canals, railroads and leading roads, along with a table of steamboat routes. Environs of Nashville and Knoxville in upper corners. Image […]
Lot 542: Three (3) Swords, 1 French and 2 American, 19th/ea
1st item: French cavalry officer's sword, with horn handle wrapped in brass wire. Ricasso bears stamps CFC. Bronze handle with laurel wreath and drape decoration. Blade etched "Manufacture nationale d'armes de Chatellerault 1912", "Epee a ciselures". Includes scabbard, 33 1/2" blade, 39 1/4" total length. Dated 1912. 2nd item: US cavalry sword, German made for […]
Lot 543: U.S. Model 1884 Springfield Cadet Rifle
U.S. Model 1884 Springfield Cadet Rifle, 45 caliber, serial number 43980, with long range rear sight and iron sight. Barrel is stamped VP with a symbol of an eagle head. Right side is stamped U.S. SPRINGFIELD with an image of an eagle. Breech is stamped U.S. MODEL 1884. Butt plate stamped US with 214 incised […]
Lot 544: Confederate Autograph Album plus Rosenthal Western
Autographs of approx. 47 Confederate soldiers, including some from Mosby's Raiders, collected by Miss Marietta Miller of Virginia in a Leather bound album. The album has tooled gilt leather covers and is titled NATURE AND HER HARMONIES; published with blank pages for autographs, interspersed with 5 chromo-lithographed pages of prints, collectible in their own right, […]
Lot 538: 5 Native American Sterling Items
1st-2nd items: 2 women's Morty Johnson belt buckles with overall freeform flower, feather and bead decoration: 2" H x 2-3/4" W for 1-1/2" wide belt and 2-1/8" H x 2-7/8" W for 1-3/4" belt. Both marked "Sterling". 3.24 total oz troy. 3rd item: Leonard and Marion Nez sterling silver metal and turquoise belt buckle for […]