East Tennessee cherry corner cupboard with light wood inlay, yellow pine secondary. One piece cupboard features an ogee cornice having applied dentil molding with decorative vine and leaf inlay above and around the sixteen (16) pane doors. Inlay across medial panel intersecting as an oval at the center. Lower paneled doors with additional quarter corner […]

Southern Chippendale Chest of Drawers or Bureau, cherry and poplar with molded rectangular top, two deep drawers flanking a prospect or cupboard door over three graduated drawers with molded edges. Nailed and dovetailed construction, full dustboards. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts documentation label in top left drawer (September 11, 1982; #11590). 38-1/2"H (including feet) […]

Southern miniature chest of drawers, walnut with poplar secondary wood, rectangular top over three dovetailed drawers in descending size, each with round wood knobs, framed with quarter-round turned molding at the exterior edges. The stacked molding repeats on the paneled sides and corners of the piece; feet are extensions of the stiles, joined by an […]

Grouping of three (3) 19th century documents relating to Colonel James Roddye (Roddy) (1742 – 1822) of Hamblen County, Tennessee. 1st item: Land survey of 210 acres that belonged to James Roddye, dated 1796. 2nd item: Deed giving William H. Deaderick permission to erect a mill that will involve part of James Roddy's property near […]

Hard cover book: "The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture and its Makers Through 1850" by Nathan Harsh and Derita Coleman Williams. Copyright 1988. Provenance: estate of Margaret Wemyss Connor, Nashville, Tennessee. Condition: Wear and some fading to dust cover.

Archive of East Tennessee related documents including the New Salem Church log book and letters from the 1834-1849 time frame including the Presidential election of James Polk. 1st item – November 1844 letter from James Anderson Jr. to C.P. Ninney, postmaster of Russelville, TN covering the returns for James Polk in Sullivan and Washington Co, […]

East TN Joseph Rhea's 1650 Bible. 1650 leather bound volume of two books by Samuel Clarke: "The Marow of Ecclesiastical Historie, Conteined in the Lives of the Fathers and other Learned Men and Famous Divines, which have flourished in the Church since Christ's time to the present age. Faithfully collected out of several autors, and […]

James K. Polk (1795-1849, eleventh President of the United States ) autographed single sheet letter, personally signed, addressed to Colonel Samuel Laughlin in the City Hotel. The December 9, 1839 letter is marked "Private" and asks Laughlin to come to Polk's office at his house that night and bring with him several other men including […]

Miniature portrait, possibly an early depiction of James K. Polk, attributed to Charles Burton. Charcoal on paper, bust-length profile of a man with receding hairline in formal attire, seated in a “fancy” painted chair. Antique, but possibly not original giltwood molded frame and paper mat. 4-1/4″ x 3-1/8″ sight, 8 x 7″ framed. Circa 1820. […]

Photographic print on paper of "The Capitol Nashville" by George Barnard, from an image taken during the Civil War in the early 1860s and originally published in his photographically illustrated book, "Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign: George Barnard: New York, 1866". Depicts the Capital Building (designed by William Strickland) near completion with military tents at […]