A custom 1796 Infantry officer’s dress sword, sold at Read & Co., Dublin, Ireland. Custom made “hybrid” sword, with regulation British Pattern 1796 hilt and pommel, but with an earlier style double-edged, symmetrical blade, etched with “For My Country et King” motto and a personal family crest of three diagonal bands; Gilt brass hilt, not […]
Lot 519: 1817 Full Stock Black Powder Rifle w/ John Bull Barrel
Black Powder rifle with 1817 John Bull made barrel, 50 cal. Marked on a silver lozenge inlaid into top barrel flat “John Bull, Tennessee, for Reuben Pickett 1817”; 39 3/4 in. octagonal barrel with dovetailed brass blade front sight, V-notch rear sight. Restocked mid-19th Century, and fitted with percussion lock with mark of Joseph Golcher, w/ double […]
Lot 520: Ketland Flintlock Full Stock Long Rifle
Full stock flintlock muzzle-loading rifle, lockplate marked “W. Ketland & Co”, top of barrel marked “D. Wright” (presumably owner); 45 1/4 in. round barrel, 62 cal.; full hardwood stock with darkened “tiger stripe” finish; hardwood ramrod; brass sideplate, trigger guard, butt plate with engraved dentil design; brass fore-end cap, ramrod handle, thimble and 3 guides. Rounded […]
Lot 517: 2 Geological Maps: Landforms of the US c. 1939 & Shawneetown IL c. 1928
1st Item: Erwin Raisz (1893-1968) MAP OF THE LANDFORMS OF THE UNITED STATES, with additional text; “to accompany Atwood’s ‘Physiographic Provinces of North America’ / Prepared at the Institute of Geographical Exploration / Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.” 1939. Signed in pen upper right corner “E.E. Rehn” (a petroleum geologist). Housed in a newer metal frame […]
Lot 518: Percussion Long Rifle from Williamson Co., TN; Kirkman & Ellis, Nashville
Percussion long rifle owned by Obediah Wade Hill (1824-1893) of Williamson County, TN. Heavy, octagonal 44 1/4 in. barrel, 30 cal. Lockplate is marked “Kirkman & Ellis Nashville Tenn” with game bird design behind hammer; set trigger. Brass ramrod guides, buttplate, and trigger guard. Stock features several inlaid German silver pieces, including fish, fowl, fox, deer and skunk, as well as […]
Lot 516: 1879 Map of Nashville Tennessee, Wilbur Foster
MAP OF THE CITY OF NASHVILLE AND VICINITY by Wilbur F. Foster, City Engineer, published by Tavel, Eastman and Howell, Nashville, TN, 1879. Created for the Nashville Board of Health 1879 report. Map of Nashville detailing street names, toll gates, colleges, railways including the Louisville & Nashville & Great Southern, St. Louis & So. Eastern, […]
Lot 515: Rare Geological Map of Tennessee, c. 1856
James Merrill Safford (American/Tennessee, 1822-1907) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, lithograph on wove paper. Published in Safford’s A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE (Nashville: G.C. Torbett & Co., State Printers, 1856) and printed by James F. Wagner of Nashville. Map includes a table of geological formations, an inset of copper mines, […]
Lot 513: 6 French Handpainted W/C Nautical Map Anchorage Charts
Group of six (6) French watercolor and ink anchorage charts, with place names and illustrated masted ships, forts, towns, fleur de lis and nautical rose motifs. Includes Port Vendre, France (32), c. 1750, sight: 20 1/8 in. x 15 in.; Port-de-Bouc and Martigues, France (35), c. 1750, sight: 15 1/4 in. x 20 in.; Antibes, France (43), c. 1750, sight: 20 […]
Lot 514: H. Timberlake 18th C. East TN Map, Cherokee Country
Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called “Over the Hills”; taken by Henry Timberlake when he was in that Country in March 1762; likewise the Names of the Principal of Head men of each town, and what Number of Fighting Men they send […]
Lot 512: Currier & Ives Print, Winter in The Country, The Old Grist Mill
Large Currier and Ives two-color lithograph with later hand coloring, titled “Winter in the Country – The Old Grist Mill” after the painting by George Henry Durrie (Connecticut, 1820-1863), lithographed and published by Currier and Ives, New York, 1864. Signed and dated “G. H. Barrie 1862″ in the plate, lower right. Title and publication information, […]
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