Americana
Catalog Information: 398 lots | 357 with images
Lot 1: RARE COMMEMORATIVE COPPER-PLATE PRINTED HANDKERCHIEF
Germantown Print Works, Germantown, Pennsylvania 1824 Square format with scroll border enclosing "Friends Meeting House Corner of Arch nr 4th St. in 1824" above scene (after Benjamin West-1820) commemorating William Penn's historic 1681Treaty with th [...more]
Lot 2: PAINTED WOOD AND TIN DOLL HOUSE
Philadelphia, second half 19th century In the form of a two-story brick with a mansard roof. H: 33 in. W: 19 1/2 in. PROVENANCE:A note accompanying lot inscribed in ink, "Doll House of Civil War period & soldiers of Daniel Wister, 2nd. Last Wiste [...more]
Lot 3: MINIATURE GROUP OF INDEPENDENCE HALL FURNISHINGS
Late 19th/early 20th century Including miniature of John Folwell's 1779 "Rising Sun" armchair, four miniatures of Thomas Affleck's 1790-1793 Congress Hall upholstered armchairs, three miniature desks, including two of Thomas Affleck's Congress Hall F [...more]
Lot 4: AMERICAN SCHOOL 19TH CENTURY
View of the Philadelphia Water Works Initialed "C H," pencil on paper, framed. 11 1/2 x 14 in. Some foxing.
Lot 5: AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (after David Martin, Scottish 1737-1797) Unsigned, oil on canvas, 21 in. x 17 in. framed. Lined. Note: David Martin's 1767 portrait of Franklin now hangs in the Green Room in the White House, Washington, D.C.
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