Winter Americana Auction

 February 7, 2009 at 11am

http://www.artfact.com/auction-catalog/winter-americana-auction-944wo7k9ol

  Dedham Holiday Inn, Dedham, MA

               Preview: Fri., 5-7 pm; Sat., 9-11am

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Lot 10. Important C. H. Gifford, "78 ( 12" x 20"), fresh out of a house - untouched condition $65.520.00

Lot.20. Presentation sword presented to Major General N.P. Banks, Metropolitan Fair, NY, 1864 $53,820.00

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     Lot 8. Extremely rare American Slave Documents            Lot 13. Experimenta...de Vacuo Spatio, Guericke, Ottonis, Amsterdam, 1672

                                                                                         Civil War items from the Nathaniel Prentice Banks Estate
Speaker of the House of Representatives (1851-1857), Governor of Mass. (1858-1860), Major General in the Civil War

Presidential Commission appointing N.P. Banks Major General, May 16, 1861, signed by Abraham Lincoln 

                                                        Presentation sword presented to Major General N.P. Banks, Metropolitan Fair, NY, 1864
                                          Wooden goblet with silver trim “Presentation to N. P. Banks from Charles Thacker”
                                          Map of the Military, Department of the Gulf prepared by the Order of Major General N.P. Banks, 1864

One of a small and rare collection of original bills of sale for slaves from 1841- 1862, ranging from hundreds to over two thousand per slave 

Map of Virginia

                                                                      Presented to Maurice Tobin of Mass.,         Photo of Harry Truman's cabinet with autographs 

Sec. of  Labor under Truman, signed Harry Truman

                                                                Letter signed Albert Einstein                                 

                          SOME EXAMPLES OF EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE IN ORIGINAL FINISH

                    Hutch table in orig. old red

SOME OIL PAINTINGS

    Lot 25. Portrait of a young girl holding her cat 27” x 22”  Lot 30.19th c. Portrait boy w/whip

                                 Canvas “by Hollis & Wheeler, 59 Union St., Boston, Mass.”,

                                   Their location between 1843 & 1849

MARINE              

                  "Liberty"                               in original paint

Lot 10. Important C. H. Gifford, "78 ( 12" x 20"), fresh out of a house - untouched condition

                                         Portrait of the Ship Lizzie M. Merrill  by Carl Olsen                       

DECOYS

    Premier Mason Decoy       Joseph Lincoln Decoy

  Two old golden eye drake decoys

ACCESSORIES

Eli Terry, Plymouth, CtMiniature Hingham bucket  2 1/2"x 21 of 3 firebuckets,

                                                                                                                                                                      Quincy, MA, N.White maker

MORE EXAMPLES FURNITURE & TALL CLOCKS

                    19th c. MA  inlaid card table; Early clock in old red;  Turn of the c. grandfather clock; Hepplewhite side chairs; Sheraton 2 drawer stand

MORE FORMAL FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES

 Consignments always being accepted