An outstanding auction of important historical documents procured from private estates accompanied by early American furniture, Civil War memorabilia and swords, early American atlases and maps, slavery documentation, books, and early important portraits. Also including folk art, quilts, baskets, mid-century furniture and décor, paintings, framed prints, primitives, and country store items.

Featuring:
Several items of furniture, coin silver and documents descended through the Varnum family of Massachusetts with provenance

Letters and documents with signatures by important historical figures including: Founding fathers: Pierce Butler, William Hooper, John Quincy Adams; Southern leaders: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Zebulon Vance, Francis Locke, Alexander Hezekiah, Jesse Pearson, Montfort Stokes, Thomas Polk, and Waitsville Avery; Prominent Northern figures Horace Greeley and Benjamin Butler

75 pieces of B.B. Craig pottery from the Albert Keiser collection

- Civil war ambrotypes, CDVs, belt buckle, calvary and officer swords and daggers, E Whitney revolver presented by General Solomon Meredith of Battle of Gettysburg
- Early North American maps and atlases including 1856 Colton and 1863 Mitchell hand colored maps
- Portraits of John Charles Fremont and his wife
- Mid 19th century southern hunt board, Mahogany Chippendale corner chair, early 19th chinoiserie sewing table
- Pottery: SLH, TR Thomas Ritchey, B.B. Craig, E.C. Brown, Strasburg Virginia potters Hickerson and Bell, Cole, Craven, Billy Ray Hussey, other notable Catawba Valley pieces
- Vintage baskets and duck decoy collection

Books: The Clansman (1st Ed), Andersonville Prison Books (2 Vols.), North American Indians by George Catlin (Vol. 1), Personal Recollections of General Nelson A. Miles (1st Ed. 1896), A Coon Alphabet by Kemble (1st Ed. 1898)

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