Knoxville (865) 558-3033 • Nashville (615) 610-8018 • info@caseauctions.com

Case Auctions

Fine Art, Antiques, Auctions and Appraisals

Search Results for: nashville

You are here: Home >> Search for "nashville"

Lot 641: Signed Art & Mystery TN Furniture Book and Rare Grand Ole Opry Pamphlet, 2 items

by

Autographed Tennessee Furniture Book plus rare pamphlet, BIRTH OF THE GRAND OLD OPRY. 1st item: Author Signed, THE ART AND MYSTERY OF TENNESSEE FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS THROUGH 1850, by Nathan Harsh and Derita Coleman Williams, published by the Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, 1988. Octavo, 344 pages with photographic illustrations, hardbound in brown cloth with […]

Lot 639: JFK Inaugural Invitation, Calendar and Rare Political Button

by

Invitation to the January 20, 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and rare 1961 Nashville Tennessean Special Train to the Inauguration Button. Invitation is embossed and stamped with a gilt seal. Comes with the original envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Speights, postmarked 30 December 1960 from Washington, D.C. A calendar of inaugural […]

Lot 633: William Birch engraving, Preparation for War to Defend Commerce

by

William Russell Birch (Pennsylvania/United Kingdom,1755-1834) hand-colored, copperplate engraving on wove paper, titled "Preparation for War to Defend Commerce." Depicts the building of the Frigate Philadelphia in dry-dock in Joshus Humphrey's shipyard in Pennsylvania, just before the war between the United States and Tripoli (also known as the First Barbary War). Signature, title, and publication information […]

Lot 626: 3 Maps, incl. Mississippi, Hawaii, France

by

Three (3) 19th Century maps. 1st item: Mississippi map titled DIAGRAM OF THE SURVEYING DISTRICT SOUTH OF TENNESSEE, 29th Congress, 1st session. S. Doc., No. 16, surveyed by C.A. Bradford, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., ca. 1845. Lithographed survey map depicting Choctaw and Chickasaw cessions after The Indian Removal Act of 1830. […]

Lot 623: 1795 Map of Tennessee, Daniel Smith

by

A MAP OF THE TENNASSEE[sic] GOVERNMENT FORMERLY PART OF NORTH CAROLINA TAKEN CHIEFLY FROM SURVEYS BY GENL. D. SMITH & OTHERS, drawn by Daniel Smith, engraved by Joseph T. Scott, for "General Atlas For Carey's Edition Of Guthrie's Geography Improved" published by Matthew Carey, Philadelphia, 1795. Copper plate engraving of Tennessee depicting early towns, including […]

Lot 624: 2 Southern Maps: Kentucky, 1800 and Southern U.S. 1797

by

1st item: THE STATE OF KENTUCKY WITH THE ADJOINING TERRITORIES FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES 1800, engraved by John Scoles for "New Encyclopaedia" by John Payne, published by John Low, New York, 1800. Copper plate engraved map of Kentucky and the surrounding areas including the "Northwestern Territory" of Illinois and Virginia and the "Southwestern Territory" including […]

Lot 625: Payne/Low, Map of Tennessee Government, 1799

by

A MAP OF THE TENNASSEE[sic] GOVERNMENT FROM THE LATEST SURVEYS, 1799, engraved for John Payne's NEW AND COMPLETE UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY, published by John Low, New York, 1799. This early copperplate engraved map of Tennessee depicts Knoxville, Nashville, and "Clerksville" (Clarksville); Memphis, which had not been founded yet, is in an area noted as "Light soil, […]

Lot 622: 18" Terrestrial Floor Globe in Mahogany Stand

by

Rand McNally & Company 18" Terrestrial floor globe with calibrated full brass meridian and horizon with applied paper calendar and zodiac. The horizon is raised on four supports turning on a pinion and is raised on a Classical Revival style mahogany base with lithographed horizon band, having a tapering square pedestal ending in four curved […]

Lot 620: 5 Pcs. Southwestern Native American Pottery, incl. Cochiti Pueblo

by

Five (5) pieces of Southwestern Native American Pottery. 1st item: Louis Naranjo (Cochiti, 1932-1997) and Virginia Naranjo (Cochiti, b. 1932) hand-painted polychrome pottery figure attired in a ceremonial garb and headdress holding a child, playing a drum in their lap. Signed "Louis & Virginia Naranjo, Cochita, N.M." on underside. 6 1/4" H x 3 3/4" […]