Neal Auction 2012

174 W 929A. [Slave Documents] , a manuscript bill of sale from Washington County, TN, dated 1833, for the purchase of “a Negro Man named William”, sold by Adam Broyles to Henderson Clark, for four hundred and twenty five dollars, together with a partially printed document slave bill of sale, from Charleston, SC, dated August, 1846, for “Peggy” and “Mary” and “their future issue”, sold by Charles Barr to Orin Taylor, both documents kept in custom folio titled “Original Slave Document” $100/200 W 930. American School, 19th c ., “Portrait of Jefferson Davis”, oil enhanced lithograph on canvas, stamped en verso “WARRANTED OIL COLORS” with patent, 17 in. x 14 in., original gilt frame. $400/600 931. John McCrady (American/Mississippi, 1911-1968) , “Steamboat Round the Bend”, 1945, lithograph, pencil-signed and titled, published by Associated American Artists, plate 9 1/4 in. x 14 1/2 in., matted and framed. $800/1200 Provenance: Purchased from the artist by a Staten Island, New York scholar and collector; descended in the family; acquired by a collector, 2004. 932. A Five- Piece American Coin Silver Presentation Tea Service , Mitchell & Tyler, Richmond, Virginia, wc. 1845-66, marked “MITCHELL & TYLER” in a rectangle on the bottom of the waste bowl and the kettle-on- stand, consisting of teapot, creamer, covered sugar, waste bowl and kettle-on- stand, repoussé chased pear- shaped forms, raised on openwork scroll feet, all over design of scrolling grapevines, the kettle-on-stand with floral and scroll decoration, all pieces with matching finials and feet, engraved “Presented to / Frederick Boyden / By his Friends./ Richmond, Va./ July 1851” on one side and engraved script initials “FB” on the other, kettle-on-stand height 14 3/4 in., combined weight 124.55 troy ozs. $7000/9000 Reference: See Silversmiths of Virginia , George Barton Cutten, pp. 148-149. Note: Frederick Boyden (1805-1857) was landlord of the Exchange Hotel in Richmond from 1841 to 1851. Located at the corner of Franklin and Fourteenth streets, the hotel was a showplace in its day and included a ballroom, reading room, baths, a post office and shops. W 932A. Two Louisiana/Mississippi Carte-de-Visite and Photograph Albums , mid-19th c., two leather bound albums with brass clasps, comprising an album of carte-de-visites and tintypes of Bishop William Elder of Natchez and members of the Crump, Greene, Beard, Reinhard and Gruno families of New Orleans and members of Turnbull, Bucchett, Hawkie and Patridge families of Mississippi by photographers William Washburn, Berrick & Dirr, Herrick, S. Anderson, and Needles & Bishop; and an album of carte-de-visites collected by Standford Shaille in Paris in 1867, including professors, group photograph of Corps Medical with list identifying sitters en verso, and provocative images of Madame de Lafayette, Madame de Pompadour and various artwork, and includes novelty photograph of “Bottomley Dances his first Polka with Miss Longshanks”; accompanied by partial carte-de-visite album without the cover, including Professors Richardson, Frank Hawthorn and others by New Orleans photographers Leeson, William Washburn and S. Anderson, and includes Confederate General Sterling “Old Pap” Price by Louis Prang & Co. of Boston. $700/1000 933. An American Carved Powder Horn , 1811, engraved “Adam Fisher, Albany, New York” and dated, decorated with a hunter and dog, geese, a bear, a deer, and a fish, length 19 in. $500/700 931 933 932