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Rare Books, Period Furniture and Antiques
7:00 AM PT - Mar 22nd, 2008

offered by
Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery

2109 India Road--Seminole Square
Charlottesville, VA 22901
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573 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
1548 Lot 1548

An Asian Silk Table Runner,
of red silk damask, embroidered with flowers, butterflies a...

100
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125
3 Bids
1549 Lot 1549

Early Native American Bowl
with crosshatched design, 2 1/4" high, 8 3/4" dia.

300
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400
5 Bids
1550 Lot 1550

Three Metal Items to Include:
an early French brass coffee press, missing a spigot handle...

75
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125
1 Bid
1551 Lot 1551

Two Ethnic Pots,
one an Andean Betoya piece having green black and white bir...

100
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150
1 Bid
1552 Lot 1552

Chinese Three Piece Embroidery

100
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150
15 Bids
1553 Lot 1553

Four Pieces of Chinese Embroidery,
three square, two of which have birds, the other with a leo...

75
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125
12 Bids
1554 Lot 1554

An Early Slate Inkstand,
having a pewter inkwell and sander, both with figural busts...

75
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125
8 Bids
1555 Lot 1555

A Pair of Brass Candle Sconces,
19th C, each holding one candle and with a shaped escutcheo...

100
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150
6 Bids
1556 Lot 1556

Two Slipcased Traveling Glasses,
the smaller round one in a tooled leather case, the taller ...

75
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125
3 Bids
1557 Lot 1557

A Mahogany & Brass Spyglass,
three section, and only marked 516. 18 3/4" long (open),...

75
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125
6 Bids
1558 Lot 1558

An Early Brass & Wood Spyglass,
unmarked, the brass section sliding into the lower wood sec...

75
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125
2 Bids
1559 Lot 1559

Early French Brass Binoculars,
by Lemaire of Paris and marked on the crosspiece U.S. Signa...

100
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150
3 Bids
1560 Lot 1560

"The First Year of the War"
by Edward A. Pollard, Corrected and Improved Edition, Richm...

50
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100
9 Bids
1561 Lot 1561

Three Items of Ephemera:
"The Soldier's Friend" by the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Phi...

150
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200
3 Bids
1562 Lot 1562

A Virginia Civil War Volume,
"Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Pas...

200
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300
4 Bids
1563 Lot 1563

A Virginia Civil War Volume,
"Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Pas...

200
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400
6 Bids
1564 Lot 1564

"Infantry Tactics; or, Rules for the
Exercise and Manoeuvres of the United States Infantry....."...

100
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200
9 Bids
1565 Lot 1565

An Early Cavalry Officer's Hat,
felt with chin thong and gold braid. Stained, inner hat ban...

75
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125
13 Bids
1566 Lot 1566

Lot of Sterling Candlesticks,
three and one half pair, all with weighted bases, most 2 3/...

75
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125
3 Bids
1567 Lot 1567

Three 19th C English Military Prints, pub. 1813
by J. Murray: "England-Plate 14", "England-Plate 34", "Engl...

100
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150
3 Bids
1568 Lot 1568

An Early U.S. Army Saber,
with no visible markings, having a scrolled hilt, a wire wr...

200
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400
5 Bids
1569 Lot 1569

A Lot of Asian Lacquer Ware:
a pair of zori with lacquered soles and sides and with velv...

50
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100
1 Bid
1570 Lot 1570

Two Nicolai Van Aelst Engravings,
both of Christian saints, St. Andreas and St. Joan, signed ...

500
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700
3 Bids