Important Naval Photographic Archive CDV Album of Lieutenant Dabney Scales of the CSS Shenandoah including images of uniformed and non-uniformed Confederate Naval officers from the CSS Shenandoah, CSS Florida, and the CSS Alabama, a 1/4 plate ambrotype of Dabney Scales in uniform, and extracts from the log of the CSS Shenandoah from August 2-5, 1865 […]
Lot 171: Two Mercator / Hondius Maps
2 (Gerard) Mercator atlas maps, 1619 French Edition, handcolored copperplate engravings on paper. 1st item: America "L'Amerique" by Joducus Hondius, Western Hemisphere – North and South America. Shows California, "Novo Granada", "Francia" and more in North America. Depicts various seafaring vessels, sea monsters, fish, toucan and other birds, along with a vignette in lower left […]
Lot 172: 2 South Carolina Civil War Maps
1st item: Map of the Defences of Charleston city and Harbor showing also the works erected by the U.S. Forces in 1863 and 1864. To accompany the Report of Major Q.A. Gillmore U.S. Vols. Plate II, with Corps of Engineer's insignia. Published late 1860s. Image 20-1/4" x 26-1/2"; Sheet 23-3/8" x 29-5/8"W. 2nd item: Fort […]
Lot 169: Middle TN Cherry Sugar Chest
Middle Tennessee sugar chest, cherry primary and poplar secondary wood. Dovetailed locking top case and hinged top with pegged bread board ends, interior with undivided well. Upper dovetailed case rests on a stand with a single dovetailed drawer and wooden pulls. Case supported by tall, elaborate ring turned legs, terminating in ball and spike feet. […]
Lot 170: 1799 Tennessee Map
A MAP OF THE TENNASSEE GOVERNMENT FROM THE LATEST SURVEYS, 1799, Engraved for Payne's Geography. This early map of Tennessee depicts Knoxville, Nashville, and "Clerksville" (Clarksville); Memphis, which had not been founded yet, is in an area noted as "Light soil, long grass, little timber". Native American sites and villages such as Creeks Crossing Place […]
Lot 167: East TN Walnut Tall Chest, Gaut Family History
East Tennessee walnut tall chest, possibly Knox County. Elaborate ogee cornice, bank of three over two drawers over four graduated drawers, ogee base molding, raised on tall bracket feet with carved returns. All drawers are dovetailed with lip molded edges and appear to retain the original brasses. Poplar secondary wood. 62 1/4" H x 39 […]
Lot 168: East TN , Knox Co., Corner Cupboard
Knox Co., Tennessee cherry corner cupboard. Single case construction, ogee cornice with reeded carved top edge and finely carved reeded molding on upper frieze, straight back returns with blind double paneled doors, double ogee medial waist molding, lower paneled doors, ogee base molding, shaped skirt, resting on bracket feet. Interior four shelves with scratch beaded […]
Lot 165: East TN Hepplewhite One-Drawer Table & Basket
Knox County, Tennessee Cherry one drawer Hepplewhite table and a Knox County buttocks basket. 1st item – Knox County cherry one drawer table with tapered legs. Drawer with scratch beaded front, wedged dovetails, medial support. 28 3/8" H x 25" W x 18 1/2" D. Circa 1820. 2nd item – Large Knox Co. buttocks basket […]
Lot 166: East TN Federal Inlaid Chest of Drawers
East Tennessee Hepplewhite walnut chest of drawers with extensive inlay. Barber pole inlaid frieze over four graduated drawers with tear drop inlaid escutcheons, surmounted by vine, leaf, and tulip inlay; the corners inlaid with alternating light and dark quarter fans; the base with barber pole inlay transitioning to a shaped skirt with alternating inlaid semicircular […]
Lot 163: Kentucky Cherry Blockfront Chest of Drawers
Kentucky Federal cherry chest of drawers with block-fronted case and conforming top, four graduated block front cockbeaded and dovetailed drawers, the base edge with three bands of inlay, raised on reeded turned legs. Figured cherry veneer stiles, post and panel sides. Old, possibly original brasses and locks. Cherry primary, poplar secondary. Chalk script on back, […]