c1910 Original Illustration from "With Grant At Vicksburg" By Listed Artist J<br>Watson Davis. This is an original illustration from the above book, Davis only<br>did four illustrations in this book which was published in 1910 and this is one.<br>White and grey watercolor and Gouache on 7" x 11" board. 11.75" x 15" framed. No<br>issues.<br><br>Last two pics are pictures I found of the cover of the book this illustration<br>was for and a copy of this illustration as seen in the book.<br>B2

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1970's Merikay Mackenna Guilt Free Animal Trophy Lion Head Taxidermy 18" Listed<br>San Francisco Artist. The last picture shows what her 2005 version of the lion<br>head looked like. As you can see there was great care put into the older<br>version, her older pieces rarely come to the open market.<br><br>MacKenna has published several books, won numerous awards and her work is<br>represented in many public and private collections throughout America. She has<br>shown her work in several gallery exhibitions.

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Photo measures 20" x 16", frame is 21" x 25". Don K Langson famous Texas Western<br>photographer from that era.

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1930's Art Deco Lustre Enamel Finish Cast Iron Woman Fireplace Brush Holder. All heavy cast iron in good condition, the Woman is iron with no cracks, one small flake on her hair.

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Christian Dior Diorissimo Frosted Perfume Bottle. Good early bottle from the first half of the 20th century. 3" tall x 2.75" wide. No cracks or chips. A little dirty,I don't want to mess up the label trying to clean it. Tw97

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2 Civil War Era Ouachita County Arkansas Land Grant Documents 1863, 1870 stamp. Largest is 9.25" x 14.25". Authentic in modern frames B2

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1930's Lenox Collection 8 pcs. Selling whole lot in mint condition with no<br>damage or wear. Largest piece 9"

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1930's Cambridge Crown Tuscan Rose Point Lamp. 13" tall, my camera is washing<br>out the color. It's the gorgeous pink that crown Tuscan is. No cracks, chips,<br>nicks, or restorations. Lamp works. It was an advertising piece that said<br>Cambridge rose point on both sides in gold. That was removed, if you look very<br>close you can see traces of it. The rest of the gold is clean with minimal wear<br>shown in pics. Very few of these exist, the previous piece paid $500 for this in<br>1983.

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c1920 San Antonio Texas Quack Medicine Radio Magnetic Nerve Vitalizer with<br>Paperwork Describing Cures. Interesting and rare. Includes prospectus of<br>purposed corporation to distribute this device. So I actually believe this was<br>the salesmans' sample that they used to try to sell the device. In this paper it<br>states their price was $40-$50 in 1919, so they likely never sold any as I can<br>find no evidence of another existing. It cured crippled people, crossed eyed<br>people, all that good stuff. Untested by me. The corners to the box lid are<br>split.<br>If you're the gullible type please don't buy this expecting it you cure all your<br>ailments. Buy it as a rare piece of Texans, novelty item, quack medicine.<br>Something of that sort, or all of the above and then some.<br>Tw59

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1953 Falstaff Beer Token 50th Golden Anniversary 1"

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1950's Latama Knife U.S. Royal Golf Balls Advertisement Promotional. Maybe a little older measures 2 7/8" closed with bail. It's been used, some surface wear, small nick on tip of blade.

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Id'd Civil War Photos Memoir, Documents, New Hampshire Autographed Biography<br>from Daughter Very Extensive<br><br>lot) Family archive of Albert Henry Clay Jewett (New Hampshire, Washington,<br>D.C.,1841-1898), discharged as First Lieutenant, Fourth Regiment of Volunteers,<br>State of New Hampshire, Army of the Potomac, later employed at the U.S.<br>Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.: (1) half plate<br>tintype of Jewett standing, uniform includes officer epaulettes; (1) quarter<br>plate tintype of Jewett from waist up, his uniform includes kepi and officer<br>epaulettes; (1) albumen head shot of Jewett, the collar of his uniform is<br>visible; (1) certificate appointing Jewett a Second Lieutenant effective<br>November 5, 1862 signed by Nathaniel S. Berry, Governor of New Hampshire with<br>the state seal; (1) certificate appointing Jewett a First Lieutenant effective<br>August 14, 1863 signed by Joseph A Gilmore, Governor of New Hampshire with the<br>state seal: (2) books, "A Boy Goes to War" by Albert Henry Clay Jewett,<br>copyright Grace J. Austin, 1944 (Grace, his daughter) one signed at the at the<br>interior by Grace, the book being a autobiographical sketch of Jewett's war<br>experience, the front piece and dust cover a photo picture of Jewett and his<br>sword; (1) 1892 letter from the State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's<br>office reciting the Revolutionary War record of Jewett's grandfather' (1)<br>tintype, 1/16 plate size likeness of a woman believed to be Jewett's wife or<br>lady friend, marked in ink "Picture rec'd in service about 1862 or 1863 from<br>T(J?)erry; documents related to his Bureau of Pensions employment; together with<br>large group of family letters relating to Jewett, for shipping largest item: 17"<br>x 14", total: 5.35lbs<br><br>There's many letters and photos from Frank M Austin to the daughter Grace who<br>published the book of memoirs AHC Jewett wrote. Really so much stuff, not all<br>civil war, but all connected to the family.

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USS Boxer Far Eastern Cruise Book Navy/Marines. All pages intact, good spine.<br>Some shelf wear. Belonged to Boyce Ross U.S. Marine. I'll be listing two cruise<br>books and a scrapbook with photos separately. Only writing I noticed was notes<br>from his unit. Very interesting book approximately 180 pages printed in Japan.<br>10" x 11"<br>Tw87

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Shelley Rock Garden Chintz Cup and Saucer Pair. No cracks, chips, restorations, scratches, or stains. No crazing except for bottom of one cup. These are larger than Demitasse, but smaller than some modern tea cups. Saucers are 4 13/16", cups are 2.25" tall x 3" wide at rim. They have a light green interior.

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1937 Coronation George VI and Queen Elizabeth Wood Sewing Needle Case Trinket<br>Box<br>left facing conjoined busts of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth wearing robes<br>of state. 2.25" tall x 1 7/8" wide, rare. Old stable crack from natural wood<br>shrinkage.

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Lid Noritake Art Deco Powder Jar Woman Flapper Blue Lustre Butterflies. Selling<br>only the lid with no wear, no chips, cracks, or restorations. The base it goes<br>in will measureapproximately 3.25" front to back and 3.75" side to side.<br>Guarantee noritake.

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23.5" Antique Shiva Devi Parvati Bronze Statute 29 pounds 9" wide x 7" deep<br>18th/19th century. Extremely good casting. Solid bronze guaranteed. Small area<br>by foot possibly extremely old repair with lead.

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c1940 Makkum Tichelaar Delft Bowls one with Silver Handle with no cracks, chips, crazing, or stains. The handle is solid silver, it's Hallmarked on both sides. Oval bowl is 8.5" wide, other bowl with handle is 6.5" wide.

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1920's Halsam Wood Safety Blocks Zeppelin Toy In Box. Rare and desirable box with Zeppelin. Wear to box shown in pics, still attractive. Blocks in very good condition.

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American Optical Cruxite Optometrist Tools Early 20th century. Selling both boxes as shown. Don't know how they work or what they're for. V boxes are wood and exhibit wear. B7

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c1855 Minton Hand Painted Plates in Devon Shape 9 3/8" pair. Both with minor<br>wear to Gilding. The unmarked one has fine crazing and a 1cm hairline that<br>doesn't show on the front. No cracks, chips, or restorations. The marked one has<br>no crazing.

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c1890 Nippon Moriage Trinket Box 2.25" wide x 1.5" tall. No cracks,chips, or restorations. A few small when areas to dark orange ground, mainly on lower rim of lid, may actually be glaze skip.

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c1910 Alfred Williams Sheffield Knife Stag Handle Original Sheath 11.5", 6.75" blade. As found clean estate condition. I believe this handle style is uncommon. Very sharp, minor pitting and surface rust. Nice 100+ year old knife tw157

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13.75" c1928 Fostoria Grape Blue Brocade Etched Cameo Glass Iridescent Oval Centerpiece. Produced from 1927-1929. Very interesting and scarce pattern. Acid etched with a slight iridescent ground. 13.75" x 11.25" x 3" tall near mint with no chips, cracks, scratches, cloudiness, or other issues. Way nicer than the pics suggest.

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Vintage Steel Engraving on a bronze Sheet Coleccion Familia Aranda 1857 Pass in the Sierra Madre near Monterey military regiment. 9" x 12" circa first half of 20th century. These are interesting but don't photograph well. No major issues, slight variations in patina mainly on top left, I'm listing two more separately. Tw87

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Vintage Steel Engraving on a bronze Sheet Coleccion Familia Aranda 1857 Children Blacksmith Scottie Dog. 9" x 12" circa first half of 20th century. These are interesting but don't photograph well. No major issues, I'm listing two more separately. Tw87

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Rosenthal Art Pottery Matte White Glaze Abstract studio line. Very unusual piece, pottery not porcelain but not that low fired Italian stuff just marketed by Rosenthal. Finely potted, great design. I'd be grateful for any info on it. 6.75" tall x 3 3/8" wide at rim. No cracks, chips, or restorations.

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Early African Benin Kingdom Bronze Double Warrior Figure Nigeria Bini. Guaranteed good early piece likely a few hundred years old with incredible patina 10 1/8" tall without base, it's hollow like maybe it was originally a drinking vessel. It does have a hole on one side between the two arms and a very old soldered restoration to one of the arms. It stands well without the stand. It came with these photos and paper where it was formerly cataloged as part of a collection.

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c.1910 Tiffany Sterling Perpetual calendar and Memo paper Holder. Rare if not<br>one of a kind. All hand chased quality workmanship. Guaranteed late 19th to<br>early 20th century. Small monogram in front. Holds paper 3" x 5" or smaller.<br>Calendar pages measure 2 5/8", calendar window measures 2 1/8" tall x 2.5" wide.<br>Entire piece measures 5 1/8" x 3" x 1.25". Clean antique with no notable issues.<br><br>One one end is a hallmark which I didn't attempt to identify, Tiffany only put<br>their name on the best. Pieces from this era made for Tiffany are actually much<br>less common than pieces made by Tiffany themselves.<br>TW131

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c1890 French Gilt Bronze Mounted French Enamel Portrait Plaque Jewelry Box. 3.75" wide x 1.75" tall 1.5" plaque. Faint signature on plaque. Original key, hinge is slightly bent but it still closes and locks.

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Hand Painted 1990 Bird of the Year Plate 21/30 Oriole Schumann Vogel see jahres Pirol 7.5" no damage or wear. One of 30 produced.

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c1960 Peruvian Native Gourd art Bank. Incredible piece of art. 7" wide x 4.5" tall.

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124mm Rare Mitra Helenae Found 1/8/82 Honduras Caribbean. Came with paper shown<br>from the estate. Small chip on very tip shown in pics, otherwise perfect.

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C.1920 Vintage Mexico Pottery Figures Basket Seller Fish Vendor. Larger is 6.5" tall with damaged hand stamped made in Mexico, smaller is 5.25" with no damage, and better detail. Maybe not quite as old, it's been packed 30 years.

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c1920 Red Wing Stoneware Stoneware Advertising Mixing Bowl "It Pays to Mix With<br>Us C.A. MARICLE De Soto Iowa 7.5" wide x 4.5" tall. No cracks, chips, or<br>restorations.

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Halcyon Days Trinket Box Koi from 1993 Motorola Board of Directors Meeting<br>Beijing China 2.75" wide x 2 1/8" deep x 1.25" tall in like new condition with<br>no damage or noticeable wear. It's unmarked, but I had another one of these in<br>the Halcyon days box. This is an extremely rare item made for this event. From<br>the estate of a very high Motorola executive in Asia.

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Punch bowl is 8.5" tall x 9" wide, cups are 4" tall. No cracks, wear to Gilding<br>on rim, no large chips a few very tiny flakes on the rim of the Punch Bowl.

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Shelley Creamer and Sugar Collection (12 pcs) all with with no cracks, chips,<br>restorations, crazing, gold wear, scratches, or stains. Smallest 1 5/8" tall,<br>tallest 2 7/8"

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c1920 13.25" Cast Iron horse Drawn Fire Pumper Truck with Fireman.<br>Very attractive with appropriate paint wear. No breaks or repairs. I'm selling a<br>very large collection of antique mostly iron toys that was assembled 50 years<br>ago. They're all antique, I can't spend much time on each item so I may not know<br>manufacturer of every piece, but they're all American and late 19th to early<br>20th century. No reproductions, and nothing rigged up.

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It's unmarked, 7.5" c.1890 Wavecrest Dresser Box Hand Painted Flowers 4" tall.<br>No cracks, chips, or scratches on glass. There's some green accent paint some of<br>which is missing. This is a really big box, tight hinge, no significant issues.<br>Liner on base missing.<br>B7

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Texas Denison District ww2 Era U.S. Engineer Department Badge. Measures 1.5" x 2" Extremely uncommon Item

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1961 Bob Click "The Flying Dutchman" Mid Century Lithograph 7/10 Frame is 14.75" x 17.75", sight is 8.5" x 10.25".  No issues to print, clean matting with very minor blemishes,a few nicks on frame.

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1800's Middle Eastern Brass Dallah with stick handle. Well over 100 years old. Dents in handle, nice patina all over, tinned interior. 8.5" tall 11" wide with handle.

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L Straus & Sons Limoges Plate 8 3/8" Hand Painted heavy gold No cracks, chips, or restorations. Minimal wear to Gilding. 8. 3/8" wide.

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L Straus & Sons Limoges Plate 8.5" Hand Painted heavy gold No cracks, chips, or restorations. Minimal wear to Gilding. 8.5" wide.

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c1940 Carved Wood Enamel Large Coat Button Set (6) 1 3/8" wide guaranteed<br>vintage circa 1900's-1940's. There are a few cracks in the enamel only really<br>visible from the back. Part of a huge cache of buttons dating from 19th century<br>to mid 20th.

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1890-1950 Unique Button Collection (47) these are all glass metal or mother of pearl except for the three on the right. I cherry picked these from a ton of buttons. They measure from .25" to 1.25" Part of a huge cache of buttons dating from 19th century to mid 20th.

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10.5" handle to spout x 8" tall. Small flake on one side with dent in pewter. Looks as though someone did an excellent job restoring the lid ages ago. Fantastic patina, hold water. Interesting copper base and brass by handle. Tw31

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Antique Porcelain Plaque Mounted Letter Box Secretaire c.1860. 9 3/8" wide x 6<br>3/8" tall x 4.75" deep. Incredible piece, plaque is entirely hand painted, the<br>mounting is hand chased. Small piece is brass trim on around lock missing. Minor<br>damage to verneer, only significant place shown on top corner.

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c1950 Pink Plastic Lucite Buttons Iridescent 11/16" (6) No issues. Part of a<br>huge cache of buttons dating from 19th century to mid 20th.

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c1950 Large set off a Hand Made Plastic Buttons Bows 1 3/8" x 7/8" wide. No<br>issues. Part of a huge cache of buttons dating from 19th century to mid 20th.

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1964 Santa Rosa Roundup and Livestock Exposition Ribbons in Shadowbox Frame<br>measures 20.5" x 22". No issues.

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Antique Turkey Pewter Ice Cream Mold c.1900 chocolate or ice cream mold. 4.5" x 2.5". No issues, strong hinge. B8

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Meissen Full Green Vine Rimmed Fruit Bowl 4 7/8" wide x 1 5/16" tall (multiple available) Selling one with multiple available, you can change quantity in listing. All perfect with No scratches, cracks, chips, crazing, stains, restorations, or other wear.

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Shelley Nut Dish Collection (7) all with with no cracks, chips, restorations,<br>crazing, gold wear, scratches, or stains. They measure from 4.5" to 5.5"

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2 Antique Blue Willow Gravy Boats Pearlware Staffordshire Transferware c.1840 6.5" long x 4" tall, and 5.75" long x 3 3/8" tall. Small one has tight hairline shown in pic, large one has two small glaze flakes on top rim. No other cracks, chips, or repairs. Extremely crisp transfer decoration. . Guaranteed circa early to mid 1800's. B8

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1910 Silverplate Inri Jesus On Cross Plaque Elmire Boucher 1870-1910 8.25" x 4" interesting item. Not sure what it's from, but it's 108 years old. S.M.G. Co. No wear to plating or dents.

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Napoleon Bronze Statue c.1900 receipt from 1979 antique shop 9 3/8" tall base is 3 3/8" square. Guaranteed antique over 100 years old. No issues. 2.5 pounds b29

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Antique French Pill/trinket Box Enamel on Copper lid c.1920 1.5" wide. General expected overall wear, still functional and pretty. 100 years old.

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Antique French pewter Sustenteur Medical Apothecary Jars for Sterilization both<br>6" tall x 5" wide. Both guaranteed 19th century.<br>I have found that this style of jar, called Sustenteur, was popular in France in<br>the late 18th century, and were created as a piece of medical equipment to help<br>heal stomach problems. They work as pressure cookers and they were used to<br>prepare either meat or vegetable broths, which were cooked in a hermetically<br>sealed pot for hours in a water bath, thus providing a germ-free broth for<br>people with delicate stomachs. There are three holes at the base of the pot.<br>When oxygen would escape form the boiling water, it made bubbles, and the holes<br>allowed the bubbles to escape, so the pot would not tip over. The handle at the<br>top of the pewter cap allowed the pot to be easily removed from the water bath<br>and carried. Given that they are air-tight, these sustenteurs were also used as<br>tobacco jars, tea caddies, or coffee containers.<br>Tw31

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Antique De Grave, Short, & Fanner Portable Gold/Apothecary Scales c.1850. Scales have no issues, box is missing one side and could use some glue. De Grave, Short and Fanner of 59 St. Martin's-le-Grand Previously De Grave, Short and Co 1845 presumably William Fanner joined and the firm became De Grave, Short and Fanner[1] By 1851 William Fanner, scale maker, was living at 59 St Martins with his family[2] 1851 De Grave, Short and Fanner exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1857 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Samuel Robinson Shortand William Fanner, lately carrying on business as Scale Makers, under the style or firm of De Grave, Short, and Fanner, at No. 59, Saint Martin's-Le-Grand, in the city of London, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent; and all debts due to or from the said late copartnership will be respectively received and paid by the said Samuel Robinson Short, by whom alone the said business will in future be carried on...'[3] 1863 Mention in bankruptcy proceedings of 'Samuel Robinson Short, of the firm of Degraves, Short, and Farmer, of St. Martin's-le-Grand, in the said city of London, Scale Manufacturers'[4] 1871 William Fanner died. From 1871 onwards the company was De Grave, Short and Co. Tw62

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c.1950 Heisey Lariat Glass Basket 10". No cracks, chips, scratches, or<br>cloudiness. 10"tall x 6.25" wide.<br>Tw60

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Antique Royal Doulton Indian Tree Meat Platter with Drain Well Hand Painted<br>Polychrome Transferware 19.25" x 15.5" c.1890's. No cracks, chips, restorations,<br>crazing, very clean.

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1940's Blue Ridge China Hand Painted Porcelain Southern Potteries 12" Snack Tray Rose Pattern. No cracks, chips, crazing, or restorations. Scarce piece in scarce pattern.

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American Fostoria Ruby Bowl 10.25" x 4.5" c.1982-1986 MINT. No damage or wear whatsoever. Has an interesting Opalescent rim. tw84

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1930's Aquamarine McKee Rock Crystal Sherbet Dishes (6).  Very uncommon.  2 have small chips on rim, one has small chip on base.  These are shown in last three pics.  No other cracks, chips , or restorations.  These are scarce enough they're worth restoring or just loving. 3" tall x just under 4" wide at rim.

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Vintage Moroccan African Tribal Berber Pillow cover c.1960 new Never Used 24" x<br>18"<br><br>Great piece Never used, it's been in a blanket chest for 50-60 years.

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Vintage Pair Moroccan African Tribal Berber Pillow c.1960 new Never Used 23" x<br>19" selling both for one price. Unused with no issues.<br>Great piece Never used, it's been in a blanket chest for 50-60 years.

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Pair of Mid Century Modern Vintage Moroccan African Berber Pillows c.1960 new<br>Never Used 23.5" x 18" selling two for one price. Both in unused condition with<br>no issues.<br><br>Great piece Never used, it's been in a blanket chest for 50-60 years.

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Guaranteed well over 100 years old Antique Bull Can Opener Dairy Farm 19th century Original. Fantastic solid piece with a no brainer patina that can't be faked. 6" long. Nobody would dare to question the masculinity of the owner of this. B8

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Guaranteed antique hand carved santos doll most likely Mexican or Italian.<br>Measures 15.25" tall x 7" wide. Missing one arm, feet were chipped off long ago,<br>and some wood missing behind the intact arm.<br>tw84

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Herend Fortuna Candleabra Rust Butterflies Chinoiserie Pattern Gilding Peach<br>Border 19151 vboh 9" tall x 6" wide<br><br>Near mint barely if used at all condition. No cracks, chips, gold wear, or<br>utensil marks. All hand made and hand decorated.

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Denby Baroque Cobalt Blue Art Nouveau Covered Casserole 2 qt England Discontinued 2000 10.5" handle to handle x 7" tall. Unused condition with no cracks,chips, scratches, stains, or crazing.

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18th/19th century 9ct gold /sterling inlaid Tortoise Shell Etui, Vesta, and<br>other Objects of Virtue. Selling the lot shown, fake "normal" sized femal hand<br>shown for scale. All intact with some sort of damage or loss. Most considerable<br>being lots of chips inside rims of top and bottom of gold inlaid fox box.<br>Selling the lot shown. These were all purchased in New York at Parke-Bernet<br>Galleries before they were bought out by Sotheby's in 1964.

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18th/19th century 9ct gold /sterling inlaid Tortoise Shell Traveling perfume<br>bottle holder. 2.5" x 2.5" x 1.25" overall, great and way above average, the<br>type of thing the elite of the period would have owned. Illegible hallmarks to<br>bottles lids, I believe gilt sterling, inside frame also hallmarked. Inlaid with<br>solid 9ct yellow and rose gold and sterling silver all hand engraved, hand done.<br>No damage to bottles, all stoppers present. One stable fracture to back left of<br>top section above hinge, another chip to front side diagonal of other. Both<br>really inconsequential as this is a rare, one of a kind museum quality item.<br>These were all purchased in New York at Parke-Bernet Galleries before they were<br>bought out by Sotheby's in 1964.

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A.F.D. Austin Texas Fire Department Chief Original Photograph 6 7/8" x 5 1/8"<br>Carriage with Horse Late 19th century. Whole thing is 7" x 9".. Guaranteed<br>original circa 1870's to 1890's. It was from a local Austin estate with all<br>local items in the estate. I believe it's Austin.

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C.1880 Carlsbad Austria 8.5" Hand Painted plate on cream ground no cracks, chips, restorations, minor Gilding wear on rim

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Rare Cambridge Rose Point Blown Divided Bowl 9 5/8" wide x 2.75" deep c.1940 No issues at all, no cracks, chips, scratches, cloudiness. Hard to find piece.

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Blue and White Stoneware Cameron, Texas Advertising Rolling Pin c.1905 7 7/8" wide x 3 1/8" deep. No cracks, chips, or restorations. Two small glaze pops shown in pic, no big deal. No handles, but they can be taken off a wood pin.

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Meissen Full Green Vine Scalloped 8 7/8" luncheon Plate (multiple available).<br>Selling one with multiple available, All appear unused with no wear or damage<br>whatsoever.

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1960 Kentucky Derby Sterling clip. Buying the clip shown, tie clip or whatever kind of clip you want it to be. Or just the rare Kentucky Derby memorabilia item it is. 12.5 grams, sterling functional with no issues.

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Limoges Basket Hand Painted Flowers and Heavy Gold c.1910 6 5/8" wide x 3.5" tall. No cracks, chips, or restorations. Some wear to Gilding on handle.

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Meissen Rose Pink Gold Rimmed Large Oval Tureen 14.75" x 11" tall. No cracks, chips, scratches, crazing, stains, flaws, or gold wear.

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Vintage 1950's Hermes 2oz Perfume Bottle. Labels as shown. 4.5" tall x 2" wide. Estate fresh with partial contents that smells this, but I wouldn't know if it's hermes. It's very old and cloudy with sediment. No chips on base, some shallow chips on stopper, the only large one shown in pic. Seals perfectly, will be secured for shipping.

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Meissen Rose Pink Gold Rimmed Soup Bowl 9 3/8" Mint (multiple available) selling one with multiple available, all with no cracks, chips, scratches, crazing, stains, flaws, or gold wear.

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No damage or other issues.<br><br>Artist: Salvador Dali (after), Spanish (1904 - 1989)<br>Title: Soft Telephone<br>Year: 1968<br>Medium: Etching, signed in the plate<br>Image Size: 7 x 4.75 inches<br>Size: 9" x 7" inside matting<br>Frame Size: 16.75 x 14.75 inches

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Royal Worcester Hush Figural Candle Snuffer 1976 3 5/8" no cracks, chips, crazing, or restorations.

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James Kent Flow Blue Wall Charger c.1900 Middle Eastern Scene 10.5" no cracks chips, restorations, or stains. Expected crazing from 120 year old earthenware. Factory holes for hanging.

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Imperial Cape Cod Large Oval ruffled Console Bowl 11.75" x 8" x 3.75" deep. No<br>cracks, chips, or scratches, perfect clarity. Difficult to find piece.

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Vintage Moroccan African Tribal Berber Pillow c.1960 new Never Used 19" x 13" Great piece Never used, it's been in a blanket chest for 50-60 years.

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1940's Eskimo Doll Carved Wood Fur Coat glass Beads hair pants leather moccasins 9" all hand made. Hand carved. I believe the whole body is wood. Very good quality old doll. I'll include the stand

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Amado Pena Signed and Numbered 1975 "la Boda" print The wedding 19/90 Black and<br>White 11.5" x 17.5" paper. No tears or significant issues. High quality print<br>from 1975 hand numbered by pena.<br>Tw80

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This book is a very important piece of black Americana. It was given as a gift<br>by Camille Cosby, Bill Cosby's wife. It is hand signed By her, Bill Cosby, the<br>author David Driskell, and the Biography co author Rene Hank's. There can't be<br>but a few of these out there with all four signatures. Guaranteed 100% without a<br>doubt authentic and estate fresh. Measures 13.25" x 10 3/8". Great condition<br>with no dog ears or otherwise damaged pages. Small tear in back top corner of<br>dust jacket which could easily be replaced with a non signed versions.

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Frame is 8.75" x 6", sight is 2" x 6" original frame. Stevengraph is in great<br>condition, original frame shows some wear.<br><br><br>The Fascinating World of Stevengraphs.<br><br>By Bill Poese.<br><br>THE FASCINATING silk pictures that we know today as Stevengraphs actually had<br>their origin in a depression in England's far flung textile industry, and<br>Richard Cobden, a 19th century English economist and statesman, may claim some<br>of the credit.<br><br>In 1860, the so-called Cobden Treaty, a free-trade treaty negotiated by Cobden<br>and removing England's protective tariff on silks, brocades and ribbons, among<br>other things, took effect. Its impact upon Coventry, where English ribbon<br>weaving had been concentrated for 150 years, was devastating. Forty five per<br>cent of Coventry's population earned their livelihood from ribbon weaving. Looms<br>were destroyed, and during a two-year period 9,000 persons emigrated to foreign<br>countries in search of employment.<br><br>But there was one man who was resourceful enough to overcome the blow<br>sufficiently to provide for his own family, the weavers in his employ, and, in a<br>small way, to bolster the economy of Coventry. This man was Thomas Stevens, born<br>in 1828 in the outlying district of Foleshill.<br><br>As a boy, Thomas Stevens had learned the ribbon weaver's trade at the firm of<br>Pears and Franklin in Upper Well Street, Coventry, and in 1854 he set up his own<br>business in Queen Street. He had learned all the aspects of his trade well and<br>the jacquard loom was of particular interest to him.<br><br>This loom was a French invention of about 1790 of Joseph Jacquard that had been<br>introduced into England in 1820, and its excellence was recognized quickly, so<br>that by 1838 as many as 2,200 jacquard looms were thumping in Coventry. The<br>principle of the jacquard loom is based upon the fact that mechanically-operated<br>devices controlled loops and pulleys to weave patterns in textiles.<br><br>Thomas Stevens improved, adapted, and refined the loom by a series of inventions<br>so that he could produce silk pieces that have exquisite detail with what seems<br>to be a three-dimensional effect. He produced pictures, musical notes, lettering<br>and portraits of amazing beauty. The first step in producing Stevengraph works<br>was an artist's drawing on squared paper. These designs were originals, copies<br>of portraits, copies of prints, and often of texts in the manner of illuminated<br>manuscripts. The Victorian love of covering the entire surface of the piece is<br>often in evidence in these pieces. The squared paper pictures look like designs<br>for cross-stitch embroidery work.<br><br>Large cards were made that carried out the artist's picture and a separate card<br>was made and per- forated for each color in every single woven line of the<br>picture. The cards were put into an endless chain arrangement and placed in the<br>Jacquard loom to regulate the operation of the warp threads. Every time the<br>shuttle carrying the weft was placed across the loom, a different card calling<br>for a variation in the warp threads and consequently in the pattern was brought<br>into use. Many pieces used ten to 12 colors. After the entire pattern was<br>completed, a space was provided and the pattern began to repeat itself. In this<br>way, the weaver produced spools of beautifully woven picture ribbons that were<br>later cut apart at the separating areas. Because of the work involved in placing<br>the cards in the loom, many picture ribbons were woven before a change was made<br>and a different set of cards was used. One 13-inch-long bookmarker that Stevens<br>produced required 5,500 perforated cards.<br><br>Thomas Stevens was not the only Coventry weaver who was able to survive the<br>depression by weaving pictorial ribbons nor was he the first to produce pictures<br>on the Jacquard loom. As early as 1801 in Lyons, black-and-white portraits had<br>amazed people. In 1855, James Hart wove silk pictures depicting Queen Victoria<br>and Napoleon 111, and in 1858 John Caldicott wove a ribbon with a portrait of<br>Edward Ellice, who was the Member of Parliament from Coventry. But the best<br>known of the jacquard picture weavers was Thomas Stevens. It is he who stands<br>out above the others and it is he who invented the term "Stevengraph."<br><br>By 1862, Stevens had produced nine bookmarkers of different designs. During 1862<br>he registered four new patterns: "Unchanging Love," "I wish you a Merry<br>Christmas," "Thanksgiving," and "Thy Bridal Day." During this same year he pro-<br>duced a few larger pieces that were desirable for framing, but he evidently<br>changed his mind about the pictures because he produced no more of them during<br>the next 16 years, confining himself, instead, to producing his popular<br>bookmarkers.<br><br>Just who made the first Stevengraph-type bookmarker is a matter of considerable<br>dispute and the contenders for the honor are John Caldicott, John Ratliff, and<br>perhaps Thomas Stevens. Among Stevens's contemporaries who did the same sort of<br>jacquard picture weaving were, in addition to those just named, the brothers<br>John and Joseph Cash, and Dalton and Barton.<br><br>In 1863, the royal marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and in 1864,<br>the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth gave the weavers ample subject matter to<br>satisfy the demands of a souvenir-hungry nation. Strangely enough, at this time<br>Stevens's competition dropped out of the race and left him a clear field for a<br>period of time to produce his bookmarkers and allied items.<br><br>By the late 1880s he had produced more than 900 items and among them are<br>sachets, birthday verses, Christmas and New Year greetings, calendars, fans,<br>valentines, ladies' neckties and sashes, emblematic sashes for fraternal orders,<br>pictures suitable for framing, and of course, the always popular bookmarkers,<br>many with tassel-tipped ends. They vary in size from 1 1/4 by 4 inches to 7 1/2<br>by 13 inches for the mounted pictures and his various items sold for as low as 5<br>cents, to as much as $14 for a sash. Stevengraphs were given as premiums to<br>people who subscribed to The Ladies Floral Cabinet in 1877.<br><br>Competition developed in the 1870s by Bolland and Welch and Lenton, who copied<br>his bookmarkers, and in the 1880s by W. H. Grant, who imitated his mounted<br>pictures.<br><br>Stevens became the father or seven children. In 1878 he moved to London to<br>supervise his expanding business. By this time he had sales agencies in New York<br>City, Cincinnati, Leipzig, Glasgow, Dublin, and Londonderry, in addition to<br>London. To stimulate sales at the expositions that were popular during the<br>period of his greatest activity he sent weavers with his version of the jacquard<br>loom to many of them. There, people could watch a piece being woven, buy it and<br>take it home as a souvenir of the fair. Among the places he or his sons did this<br>were the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876; York Exposition, 1879;<br>Edinburgh, 1886; Manchester, 1887; Cincinnati 1888; London, 1890; Chicago, 1893;<br>St. Louis, 1904; and Paris, Antwerp, Liverpool, Bristol, Boston, Brussels, and<br>Paris.<br><br>After winning more than 30 medals and diplomas, Thomas Stevens died on October<br>24, 1888, in London and was buried in the family plot in Coventry. Two of his<br>sons, Thomas and Inger, who, before his death managed the Coventry plant, con-<br>tinued the business.<br><br>Thomas Stevens had established pleasant working conditions in an industry that<br>was noted for poor conditions. His plant had adequate lighting, ventilation, a<br>pleasant dining area, and it was sanitary.<br><br>The heavy German ings of Coventry in 1940 leveled his buildings and his<br>business, but he lives on in the appreciation of hundreds of antique collectors<br>who specialize in Stevengraphs, including 175 active members of the Stevengraph<br>Collectors' Association with its headquarters at Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., and<br>members in England, Canada, Scotland, Austrialia, South Africa, and New Zealand<br>as well as the United States.<br><br>The highest price paid at auction for a Stevengraph was $1,560 in April, 1972,<br>in London. The article was a mint example of L' Immaculee Conception and is<br>extremely rare. Many examples of Stevens's work, however, are offered for modest<br>prices that are within the price range of many collectors. Individuals are<br>concerned with authenticating items in their collections as being made by<br>Stevens and also with dating them. Both of these matters present difficulties. A<br>pattern could be set up on the cards in 1865, and many times years later the<br>same cards could be used again to produce identical items. There was no limited<br>edition with the mold or etching plate being destroyed. Certain items can be<br>dated by the events they portray and the dates they bear as the one for the<br>Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Some can be dated by the number of<br>awards that are noted on the paper backing on some pieces. Many, of course, are<br>signed in the weaving. A diamond-shaped registry mark like that on pottery dates<br>many since this device was used from 1842 to 1883.<br><br>Thomas Stevens was a businessman who produced a salable luxury or souvenir<br>product. If the subject matter was attractive and the sentiment appealed, people<br>would buy them for themselves or as a little gift for a friend. As a result, he<br>and his successors' designs reflect Victorian tastes that were, in many cases,<br>universal tastes at the time. Among the portraits are those of Queen Victoria,<br>Shakespeare, King Edward VII, John L. Sullivan, Robert Burns, "Buffalo Bill"<br>Cody, Prince Otto von Bismark, and President and Mrs. Cleveland.<br><br>Under the general heading of views we find many English castles such as<br>Balmoral, Kenilworth, Warwick, and Windsor. Other views include the Crystal<br>Palace, Houses of Parliament, Tower of London and the Tower Bridge, and the<br>Centennial Exposition of Ohio Valley and Central States, Cincinnati, 1888.<br>Historical pictures include Columbus Leaving Spain, Landing of Columbus,<br>Declaration of Independence, and the Death of Nelson. Classical and legendary<br>subject matter can be found in those weavings that depict Peeping Tom, Leda, The<br>Lady Godiva Procession, and Bath of Psyche. Certain items display the<br>sentimentality of Victorians as God Speed the Plough, Good Old Days, Called to<br>the Rescue, Grace Darling, and For Life or Death. Many battleships and trains<br>are pictured and so are many sporting events. Among the latter are depictions of<br>Spanish bull, horse racing, fox , cricket, bicycle racing, tennis, and baseball.<br><br>Thomas Stevens was a highly skilled master of a delicate craft that resulted in<br>articles that will be held in high esteem as long as their silken fibers hold<br>together.<br>Tw61

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