1st item: Tintype of a dark haired gentleman resembling CSA president Jefferson Davis, in black coat and tie, in sixth plate size union case with gilt mat. 2nd item: Tintype of a soldier with mustache in uniform with cloak, seated in near full length view. Sixth plate size union case with gilt mat. 3rd item: […]

1st item: Ambrotype of man in Confederate reunion garb, seated next to a teenage civilian, with landscape backdrop. Sixth plate size, in union case. Includes a small Home for Confederate Women button. 2nd item: Daguerreotype of unidentified Confederate soldier, seated with hands in lap. Sixth plate size, in union case. PROVENANCE: Private Southern Collection. CONDITION: […]

Cased Civil War quarter-plate ambrotype depicting a seated soldier, possibly Confederate, attired in partial military uniform with a letter or folded paper in his shirt pocket and with his left arm on a draped table. Housed in a carved gutta percha Washington Monument, Richmond case having an interior red velvet liner and foliate engraved gilt […]

Two (2) Civil War period photographs. 1st item: A Confederate ninth plate ambrotype identified as that of John H. Meadows, Private, 37th Tennessee Infantry, Company C. Note: Meadows, a native of Gallatin, Tennessee, was approximately 20 years old at the time of this image. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Nashville. 2nd item: […]

Civil War Ambrotype portrait of a soldier, identified on small accompanying piece of paper as "John Dandridge Richardson, Captain, Confederate States Medical Corps, Killed while on duty in field hospital, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 / My Mother's Youngest Brother". Illegible pencil inscription to interior of case. Sixth plate size, 3 1/4" x 2 3/4", in […]

Group of 3 Civil War Related CDVs, incl. TN William Milburn, & Union officer ambrotype, 4 items.1st-3rd items: Three (3) Civil War era carte de visite (CDV) including: one (1) depicting William Elbert Milburn (1844-1925), Chaplain 8th Tennessee Cavalry, United States Army, taken at Smiley's Photograph Gallery, in Knoxville, TN; one (1) depicting a young, […]

Six (6) framed Civil War carte-de-visite (CDV), including Union 1st Lieutenant Andrew Campbell of the 13th TN Volunteer Cavalry, known for his role in the death of Confederate General John H. Morgan. In order from left to right by row, including: one (1) identified en verso as Corporal Hundley Sevier Maloney, 4th Regiment TN Infantry, […]

Civil War-era quarter-plate ambrotype, possibly Confederate William Franklin Hart (1846-1879), depicted standing with a long rifle in his right hand and attired in a long-sleeved shirt with red-tinted necktie, plaid pants, and belt with a gilt buckle that holds a revolver and knife. Pencil inscription on the interior of the partial leather case reads "Presented […]

Rare surviving group of eighteen (18) pieces of ship's china, descended in the family of USS Kearsarge commander Admiral John Ancrum Winslow to his grandson, Brig. Genl. E.E. Winslow. We have not been able to confirm that this dinnerware was used on board the Kearsarge, but the material from which it was made indicates it […]