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Four (4) items total, 3 unframed maps and 1 book excerpt. 1st item: Joseph Scott: THE SOUTHWEST TERRITORY, Scott's Gazetteer, Phila. 1795, showing the Mero district, Nashville, Knoxville, Clarksville and other Tennessee locations such as Ross's Iron Works and the South Boundary Military Reservation; Kentucky to the North and Georgia to the South. The area […]

Two (2) early East Tennessee hand drawn plats, including one signed by Archibald Roane (1759/60-1819), Tennessee's second governor. 1st item: Land survey with hand colored lines showing boundaries between land owned by Henry Wilkes or Wilker, a "Mr. McCall," and Elizabeth Armstrong, surveyed by John McClellan and dated October 3, 1808. Countersigned by Archibald Roane, […]

A series of drafts related to the 1834 revision of the TN State Constitution (adopted 1835) with hand written notes, presumably used during the Constitutional Convention. Includes: 1) Printed copy of the 1796 Constitution, unmarked except for occasional check marks, bound with string, 16 pages. Probably printed 1834. 2) Two page printed document on the […]

Two (2) Kentucky documents signed by Governors Isaac Shelby and John Breathitt. 1st item: Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) signed land grant, dated 1794, granting James Akins 640 acres on Goose Creek in "the district set aside for officers". Matted together with an illustration (possibly from Harper's Weekly) of Shelby's home, "Traveller's Rest," and portrait of Shelby, […]

Three (3) historic figure prints. 1st item: Stipple engraving of Andrew Jackson by J.H. Bufford for Pendleton's Lithography, after an 1830 painting by Ralph E.W. Earl, titled GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON AT THE HERMITAGE. Depicts Jackson wearing spectacles and standing beside a tree with his hat and walking stick in hand. In the background is a […]

Major General Andrew Jackson, stipple engraving after the painting by Thomas Sully (1783-1892) by James Barton Longacre (1794-1869), published by William H. Morgan, Philadelphia. Depicts the future president circa 1820, leaning against his horse. Housed in a period bird's eye maple frame with gilt rabbet edge under a burgundy mat. Sight – 16 1/2" H […]

American School, oil on canvas portrait of President George Washington, after the Athaneum portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Unsigned. Housed in a Victorian giltwood frame with floral carved corner ornaments and oval opening. Sight (oval opening) – 29" x 24". Canvas – 30" x 25". Frame overall – 40" x 35". Late 19th to early 20th […]

Buffalo Pottery Roosevelt Bears ceramic pitcher or jug, with four sides having brown and polychrome transfer vignettes of bears engaged in various scenes from the book THE ROOSEVELT BEARS, THEIR TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES. Brown transfer mark on base: BUFFALO / POTTERY / 1907 / COPYRIGHT EDWARD STERN & C / UNDERGLAZE / WARRANTED. Buffalo, New […]

Two (2) ceramic transferware pitchers. 1st item: Clews Historical Staffordshire blue and white cream pitcher, AMERICA AND INDEPENDENCE, with transferware decoration of Doveridge Hall, flanked by figures emblematic of America and Independence, with banners printed across the rim above for states including Tennessee, Virginia, Delaware, Ohio, Vermont, Kentucky, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, the Carolinas, […]

Pair of pearlware urns and covers in the Chinese style, possibly Worcester Dr. Wall period or Swansea , each decorated in the blue and white Willow pattern with vignettes containing pagoda and landscape designs and having applied gilt decoration around the shoulders; domed tops with recumbent foo dog finials. Each vase signed with underglaze blue […]