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A collection of 9 sterling silver souvenir spoons circa 1905 including Western U.S. and Tennessee. 1st item: Chattanooga Tenn., handle cast as an African American boy eating watermelon, marked Watson Sterling. 2nd item: Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition Forestry Building, Portland Oregon 1905 with image of the building, handle cast as a fish with shield […]

"The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture and Its Makers through 1850" by Derita Coleman Williams and Nathan Harsh, copyright 1988, Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee. Signed by author Nathan Harsh with personal inscription. 11-1/2" H x 9" W. Provenance: A Nashville, Tennessee estate. Condition: Overall very good condition with original dust jacket still intact […]

Two large Horst S. Schreck (Texas, 1885-1967) oil on board paintings. Item 1: "The Butcher", depicting a muscular laborer wielding ax against carcass, another man working in background. Signed and dated '64, lower left. Silver and gold paneled frame with linen liner. Framer's label and exhibition label en verso. Sight: 39-1/2" H x 31" W, […]

A collection of eleven (11) African and African American cloth dolls including one Early African American folk art doll, thin black cotton muslin body with cotton hat, boots and clothing outlined in red stitching, with stitched face and red crocheted string in one hand and tin foil earrings. Probably Southern, late 19th to early 20th […]

United States Military WWI Calvary recruitment archive by Horst Shreck (Texas, 1885 – 1967) 1st item: Original watercolor and graphite rendering for US Army Cavalry recruiting office of soldiers and horses beside a stream. Signed lower left. Paper size: 8-3/4" H x 7-1/4" Accompanied by a colored photocopy of sketch. W. 2nd item: Colored photo […]

German music box with inlaid mahogany case having an inset lithographed mountain village scene on the interior, decorative brass design in comb area. Label for Max Rettig Musikwerks, Berlin. Includes hand crank and twenty-seven 9-1/8 in. discs. Case measures 7-1/2" H x 11-1/2" W x 11"D, with a 3-1/2 in. comb. Early 20th century. Private […]

Three pieces of 19th century silver plate. 1st item: Old Sheffield Plate butter cooler dish, round with bellied body and two handles and four paw feet, engraved crest of a phoenix and sun and having a tinned interior and removable silver on copper liner, no lid; the main dish marked on base with a double […]

Includes five colored animal engravings of quadrupeds Weibl Hippotamus v. Gordon, Der Tiger, Der Urson, and Der Pasan. Each has Buff n.d.Vier printed in lower left margin. Hinge mounted in ivory mats with gold highlights. 5-3/4" x 3-1/4" sight, 9-3/4" x 7" matted. Circa 1790. Together with a colored engraving of Hylobates Syndactyla (The Siamang) […]

Seven shell engravings from Les Delices Des Yeux et de L'esprit, ou Collection Generale des Differentes Especes de Coquillages Que La Mer Renferme, George Knorr, Nuremberg, 1764-73, drawn by J. C. Keller and C. Kleemann, plates engraved by G. Trautner, H. J. Tyroff, and V. Bischoff. Hand-colored copper engravings on laid paper, unframed, 10-1/4" x […]

Horst S. Schreck (Texas, 1885 – 1967) pastel, watercolors & drawings, 11 items total. 1st item: One pastel on watermarked paper of wooded landscape in Spring, unsigned, 12-1/4" H x 9-1/4" W. 2nd item: One watercolor and graphite on paper cutwork collage of Southwestern church and funeral scene, unsigned, 10-3/4" H x 16" W. 3rd […]