Daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman in engine-turned, oval gold plated frame, with smaller oval daguerreotype portrait of a woman in window en verso. Larger image: 2 1/4" x 2". Smaller image: 1"x 3/4". American, circa 1850. Provenance: Found in a Nashville, Tennessee estate. 2nd item: Daguerreotype ninth plate portrait of a young girl in ringlets […]
Lot 1076: 2 TN Maps, incl. Finley & Bradford
Two (2) Tennessee Maps. 1st item: TENNESSEE map, engraved by Young and Delleker, from A NEW GENERAL ATLAS, COMPRISING A COMPLETE SET OF MAPS drawn and published by Anthony Finley, Philadelphia, 1831. Copperplate engraving with hand-coloring map featuring Tennessee divided by county, depicting cities, towns, rivers, mountain ranges, and train tracks. Title, top center, scale […]
Lot 1075: 2 TN & KY Maps, incl. S. Lewis, 1804
Two (2) Early Tennessee and Kentucky maps, including Samuel Lewis, 1804, and Thomas G. Bradford, 1835. 1st item: TENNESSEE Map, drawn by Samuel Lewis, engraved by Alexander Lawson, published by John Conrad and Company, Philadelphia, 1804. From A NEW AND ELEGANT GENERAL ATLAS: COMPRISING ALL THE NEW DISCOVERIES, TO THE PRESENT TIME: CONTAINING SIXTY-FIVE MAPS, […]
Lot 1069: Churchill, THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 6 Vols., 1989
THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Winston Churchill, Collector's Edition, Vol. I-VI, published by the Easton Press, Norwalk, 1989. Hardcover octavoes, 4,987 total gilt edged pages, titles include: Vol. I: THE GATHERING STORM, Vol. II: THEIR FINEST HOUR, Vol. III: THE GRAND ALLIANCE, Vol. IV: THE HINGE OF FATE, Vol. V: CLOSING THE RING, and Vol. […]
Lot 1067: 10 Southern Decorative Arts Books, incl. ART AND MYSTERY OF TN
Ten (10) Southern Decorative Arts related publications, including ART AND MYSTERY OF TENNESSEE FURNITURE. 1st item: 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. Hardcover octavo, includes original dust cover. 11 1/4" H x 8 3/4" […]
Lot 1068: Paul De Lamerie Silver Book and Chippendale "Director"
Two (2) classic books on silver and furniture. 1st item: PAUL DE LAMERIE: CITIZEN AND GOLDSMITH OF LONDON by Philip A.S. Phillips, Fellow of the Huguenot Society of London. London: The Holland Press, 1968. Large folio book with biographical information, black and white photographic plates and descriptions of 164 silver masterpieces by one of England's […]
Lot 1065: Frank Baum, 4 Wizard of Oz Books
Four (4) Wizard of Oz related books. 1st item: THE NEW WIZARD OF OZ, Fifth Edition, by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by W. W. Denslow, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, copyrighted 1903, printed circa 1920s-30s. Octavo, 208 pages with 8 color plates, 7 black and white plates, and additional black and white illustrations, hardbound […]
Lot 1062: 4 Folk Art Female Dolls, incl. 2 Helen Bullard
Four (4) folk art female dolls, including two (2) Helen Bullard. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) Helen Bullard Kreckniak (1902-1996, Ozone, Tennessee, working 1949-1982) carved brunette female dolls, including one (1) adult "Holly Doll," wearing a red and black striped dress, with "Holly" embroidered to her half slip, "Holly Dolls, Ozone, TN" label sewn to the […]
Lot 1061: Large Signed Southern Oak Buttocks Basket, Cannon County, TN
Large Cannon County Tennessee split white oak buttocks basket, signed on the base "Mrs. W H Blair" and "W H Blair". Additionally pencil inscribed on the handle "30.00". 20 3/4" H x 21" W x 26" W. Note: W.H. Blair was a basket maker working in Woodbury/Cannon County during the mid 20th century. His awards […]
Lot 1059: 1824 House Sampler, Caroline Hayward
Schoolgirl Pictorial needlework sampler by Caroline Hayward, dated 1824, probably England or Massachusetts, strawberry border enclosing a verse, "Teach me to feel a brother's woe/ to bide the pain and see/ that mercy I to others show / that mercy show to me," over pictorial images including trees, flowers, birds, and house with little black […]
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