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Lot 498: 2 Charlie Joiner Signed Canvasback Duck Decoys, Drake & Preening Hen

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Two (2) Charlie Joiner (1921-2015) signed contemporary carved and painted wood duck decoys including one drake canvasback duck and one preening hen canvasback duck. Both signed on the base "Charlie Joiner, Chestertown, MD". The male is numbered 128 and the sleeping male is numbered 129. 8" H x 16" L and 7" H x 14" […]

Lot 496: Pair of Ralph Ray, Jr. W/C Sporting Paintings, Ducks & Geese

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Two (2) Ralph Ray, Jr. (North Carolina, 1920-1952) watercolor on paper paintings depicting waterfowl and a hunter. 1st item: Painting of two ducks moving through a body of water while viewed from above. 2nd item: Painting of three Canada Geese in flight above an outcropping of reeds. Below them, a hunter stands in a small […]

Lot 495: American Ornithology Plates Folio in 2 Vols, A. Wilson and C. Bonaparte

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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Plates Engraved and Colored from Original Drawings Taken from Nature. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1871. Atlas folio 14 1/2" x 17 1/2". Three quarter leather and marbled paper boards, gilt page edges; bookplate of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney on front endpaper Bonaparte volume. […]

Lot 493: D.F. Brocchi Star Atlas, 1936, Harvard

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STAR ATLAS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE STAR OBSERVERS by D.F. Brocchi, Self Published, 1936. 20 charts plus index page and cover page bound with 3 punched holes secured by brass fold-over pins with a paper spine reinforcement. 15" H x 12" W. Includes a laid-in textile print of "Moonscape: Looking South From Gassendi […]

Lot 491: Colton's Atlas of the World, 1856, in Two Volumes; plus Africa / Mahdist War Map

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1st and 2nd Items: COLTON''S ATLAS OF THE WORLD, George Woolworth Colton, New York: J.H. Colton and Co., 1856. Two large folio volumes, bound in publisher''s brown cloth, with gilt and blind stamped covers and spine, full-page hand-colored plates, each with accompanying informational text. Volume I, "North and South America", containing 57 plates; with plates […]

Lot 492: 5 TVA Map Books incl. Tennessee & New York c. 1935-1950

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Five (5) Tennessee Valley Authority USGS quadrangle topographic map books, circa 1935-1950. 1st-4th items: Various Southern cities and counties including areas in and around Knoxville, Nashville, and Chattanooga, TN, as well as Asheville, Cherokee, Highlands, and Cashiers, North Carolina, and Paducah, Kentucky. Also includes maps of areas in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana. […]

Lot 489: Seven (7) Native American Carved Stone/Flint Arrowheads

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Seven (7) Pre-Columbian Native American carved stone and flint artifacts including arrowheads and knives. 1st item: Pine tree point dart/knife form found in Humphrey County, TN, report dates to the Early Archaic period. 5900 B.C. 2nd item: Stemmed effigy point spearhead form, report dates to the Middle Woodland period. 100 B.C. 3rd item: Thebes point […]

Lot 490: Cherokee Land Lottery Book, 1838

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THE CHEROKEE LAND LOTTERY, CONTAINING A NUMERICAL LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE FORTUNATE DRAWERS IN SAID LOTTERY WITH AN ENGRAVED MAP OF EACH DISTRICT, by James F. Smith. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. First edition. 8vo., 410pp (of 414), plus publisher''s advertisements; full leather covers, red spine label and gilt title; 9" H […]

Lot 488: 2 Native American Cherokee Baskets & 1 East TN Basket

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Two (2) Cherokee split oak baskets including one wastebasket form with walnut-dyed weavers and one basket with fixed handle and square base with faded dyed weavers. Lot also includes one East Tennessee or possibly Cherokee split oak circular basket, ribbed form with fixed handle and footed base. Ranging in size from 11 3/4" H to […]