BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers’ Asian and international fine arts auction Sunday, May 22, will feature a massive antique Japanese Satsuma earthenware vase aglow with gilt detailing. The 24 1/4-inch-tall vase, bearing a large gilt Satsuma mon and mark within a large signed cartouche, is estimated to sell for $5,000-$7,000.
AMESBURY, Mass. – John McInnis Auctioneers will conduct a three-session auction over the Memorial Day weekend featuring an immense array of items from prominent estates in the Boston area, including the Hoes family, direct descendants of President James Monroe.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Centurion Auctions will feature two historically significant lots in a Civil War Era Militaria & Firearm Auction on Saturday, May 28. The first is a recently discovered 1865 Jefferson Davis pursuit and capture map. The second is the saddle used by Gen. Benjamin D. Pritchard, whose 4th Michigan Cavalry captured the Confederate president near Irwinville, Ga., on May 10, 1865.
Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Malcolm Mason, auctioneer and appraiser at Centurion Auctions, writes that the Jefferson Davis pursuit and capture map (above) was found among a private rare Civil War book collection.
The linen map is partially printed and partially hand drawn, showing the position and movements of the troops pursuing Davis. This capture map was to accompany Gen. James H. Wilson’s Jan. 17, 1867 report to Congress, although the report notes the map as “Not Found.”
“This Jefferson Davis capture map is of great historical importance and a truly exciting find, having been missing the last 150 years. It is expected to generate substantial interest within the Civil War, rare book, map and document collecting communities,” writes Mason.
The map with related documents has a $15,000-$20,000 estimate.
The second lot of particular interest to Civil War collectors is a saddle and archive (below) of Gen. Benjamin D. Pritchard of the 4th Michigan Cavalry. In addition to the general’s saddle, the archive includes personal papers, ephemera, a copy of The Life and Times of B.D. Pritchard by James J. Green, period and reunion photos of Pritchard, 1899 and 1915 group reunion photos, and a framed CDV of Andrew Bee, captor of Davis.
The Gen. Pritchard saddle and archive lot has a $10,000-$20,000 estimate.
For details contact Centurion Auctions at 386-868-2889.
BERLIN (AP) – Nearly 60 sculptures that belonged to Berlin’s museums before World War II have been found at Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.