Musical Desk Hits $63,720 High Note at Case’s July 18 Auction KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— A Southern Federal desk, with unusual stringed instrument inset under its top, was the number one hit at the Summer Case Antiques Auction, to the tune of $63,720 (all prices include the buyer’s premium). It was one of the highest prices ever […]
Lot 695: Oil on Board Portrait of Dr. Menees, MD
19th century oil on board oval portrait of Dr. Thomas Menees, MD (TN, 1823-1905) depicting Dr. Menees seated with partially opened book. Brass plate attached to the frame reads: "Thomas O. Menees, MD, Dean of The Medical Department, Vanderbilt, 1875 – 1895". Housed in an oval gilt wood frame. Sight – 29" H x 24" […]
Lot 522: Large USS Connecticut Archive, Great White Fleet
USS Connecticut Spanish American War / Great White Fleet commemorative items relating to John Addison Baxter Smith (1843-1918), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and his son, John Baxter Smith, U.S. Navy Paymaster. Addison Baxter SmithÃs early career included serving blockade duty on the USS Housatonic during the blockade of Charleston in the Civil War. He survived […]
Lot 518: Ganum & McBee Knox Co., TN related archive, 19th c
Large Knox County, Tennessee archive relating to Nancy Sawyers McBee and Ganum McBee. Nancy Sawyers married Confederate First Lieutenant Ganum Cox McBee (died 1902) of the Tennessee Infantry on October, 10, 1865. Ganum was wounded in the battle of Newtown, VA (November 1864) with a head injury. Archive includes a large photographic print of Ganum […]
Lot 517: Univ. of Nashville Med School Archive
University of Nashville Medical School faculty photographic archive. Includes CDVs labeled as Prof. J.B. (John Berrien) Lindsley, Dr. V.S. Lindsley, Prof. T.R. Jennings, John W. Hanner, Jr., Prof. Joseph Jones, Rev. S.D. Baldwin D.D. (T.S. Saltsman, Nashville, photographer label verso), Dr. T.B. Buchanan (includes what appears to be his autograph, verso), and Prof. C.K. Winston, […]
Lot 512: Donelson Family Photographic Archive
An archive of 10 early photographs related to members of the Donelson family of Middle Tennessee, including some of the children of Andrew Jackson Donelson and Emily Tennessee Donelson, and of Stockley and Phyla Ann Donelson. Includes: a 1/4 plate ambrotype of Rachel Jackson Donelson (daughter of Andrew Jackson Donelson and Emily Tennessee Donelson, born […]
Lot 502: Greene Co. TN Civil War Documents incl. Wounded Li
East Tennessee grouping of documents relating to Greene County during the Civil War. 1st grouping – includes a 1866 listing of Union soldiers applying for a certificate of disability in East Tennessee. Included in the description is the type of wound or malady, where they were discharged, and occasionally the battle where the injury occurred. […]
Lot 493: 2 Nashville Civil War Letters + MS Newspaper
2 Nashville-related Civil War Documents, 1 signed by future U.S. president Andrew Johnson (Secretarial signed), the other written at Fort Confiscation, and 1 Mississippi Civil War era newspaper. 1st item- Letter, handwritten and signed by Andrew Johnson as military governor, to Lieut. Osgood, Provost Marshall on staff of General Mitchell, dated January 9 1863. The […]
Lot 53: Coin Silver Dipper, Jeff Davis inscription
Southern coin silver water dipper, round silver bowl with molded rim and turned walnut handle, the bowl with inscription or script monogram "Jeff Davis". Inscription appears period. 11-1/2"L. Provenance: private Arkansas collection. Note: Water dippers are a relatively uncommon form in American coin silver, and seem to surface mainly in the South (particularly the Deep […]
July 18, 2015 Pre-Auction Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sarah Campbell Drury CASE ANTIQUES (865) 558-3033 sarah@caseantiques.com www.caseantiques.com African American Art, Headley Jewelry Shine at Case’s July 18 Auction KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— Works by two of the 20th century’s most important African American artists, Beauford Delaney and William Edmonson, headline the Summer Case Antiques Auction, set for July 18 in Knoxville, […]
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