Confederate copy of a Model 1840 heavy dragoon saber with a "Dog River" unstopped fuller blade. Stamped "158" and "XX" on guard. Blade length 36". Overall length 41 1/2". Found on the property of Devon Farm, possibly associated with the Battle of Nashville period. Provenance: the estate of Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly […]
Lot 283: CSA Ambrotype, Signed Vaulx Photo, Broadside
Three Civil War era items including 2 photographs and a broadside. 1st item: Cabinet card portrait of Confederate Major Joseph Vaulx, Jr. of Nashville, TN, autographed below image in ink, image published by NY society photographer Benjamin "Jack" Falk, 949 Broadway, N.Y. Major Vaulx served under Major General, B. F. Cheatham in several campaigns including […]
Lot 281: Giers TN CSA Veterans Photo, Inc. African American
Circa 1904 Giers photograph of Confederate Veterans of Company B, Nashville, Tennessee. Among the more than 100 former CSA soldiers pictured are Captain Mark S. Cockrill, Lt. William Aimison, Lt. M.M. Barnes, Lt. Howlette, Quartermaster Spencer Eakin, Chaplain M.B. Pilcher, Surgeon R. J. Neil, and one African-American, Monroe Gooch, who served as a Confederate cook […]
Lot 275: Ed Hicks II Civil War Ephemera
Group of Civil War Ephemera related to Edward Dickson Hicks II (1831-1894), including two documents signed by General Felix Zollicoffer (b. Maury County, TN 1812, d. Kentucky 1862) and Lt. Col Frank McNairy (b. Nashville, 1825, d. Fort Donelson, 1863). 1st item: Leave of absence document for Edward Dickson Hicks, Adjutant Major, First Battalion TN […]
Lot 253: Giers Family photo and letter archive
Extensive photographic and document archive of the family of William Hunter, C.C. Giers, and Otto Giers. William Hunter's daughter Sarah ("Sallie") married Nashville photographer Otto Giers, son of the Civil War photographer Otto Giers, and gave birth to one child, Hunter William Giers. With a photographer for a father, Hunter Giers was one of the […]
Lot 239: W.G. Harding Horse Catalog and Belle Meade Archive
An archive of material related to Gen. William Giles Harding and Belle Meade Plantation. Featured is a rare Nashville imprint – LIST OF BLOODSTOCK THE PROPERTY OF W.G. HARDING OF BELLE MADE NEAR NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, published by Paul, Tavel and Hanner, Nashville, 1869, listing race horses owned by the noted Southern breeding farm and their […]
Lot 142: Alabama Alkaline Glazed Pottery Jar
Alabama stoneware pottery jar having green alkaline glaze, applied strap handles to the upper neck and incised 3 just below the straight rim. 16″ H. Late 19th century. Note: Oral history states that this jar descended through the family of Archibald Hezekiah Glasscock, who enlisted as a Private in Company H, 24th Alabama Infantry Regiment, […]
Lot 138: 19th C. NC Stoneware Jar, signed G. Wolf
Rare 19th century North Carolina salt-glazed stoneware pottery jar stamped "G. Wolf" on one lug handle with an additional "G. Wolf" stamp below the handle. 11 1/4? H. Attributed to Gaston B. Wolf who was born in 1837 in Orange County, North Carolina. His father, William, in North Carolina; uncle, Peter, in Washington County, Virginia; […]
Featured Estates for July 30 auction: The Estate of Sarah Hunter Hicks Green of Devon Farm & The Yeatmans of Hamilton Place
ESTATE OF SARAH HUNTER HICKS GREEN OF DEVON FARM – 225 YEARS OF NASHVILLE HISTORY “If you looked up Southern Belle in the dictionary, you’d find a picture of Sarah Hunter Hicks Green.” That’s how friends described this remarkable lady, a fixture on the social circuit in Nashville and Naples, former Swan Ball chair, and […]
July 30, 2016 Auction Preview
Our upcoming July 30, 2016 auction will include all bidding types (live, phone, absentee and online) and will feature several prominent and historic estates including the estate of Sarah Hunter Hicks Green of Nashville, TN, historic Hamilton Place of Maury Co., TN, and a large Lenoir City, TN estate. More photos and information coming soon! […]
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