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Catalogue Information: 602 lots with images
Lot 1845: 1700s Liverpool Bowl - Portrait G. Washington
One could hardly imagine a finer confluence of early American greatness than the combination of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, whose strikingly bold portraits grace opposite sides of this late 18th Century Liverpool bowl. Washingt [...more]
Lot 1846: 1783 Washington Altar/Liberty Pict. Textile
Herbert Ridgeway Collins' classic reference work Threads of History begins its journey through the annals of American political cloth in the year 1775. Thus, the offered Washington textile, produced 225 years ago, is one of the book's ve [...more]
Lot 1847: 1789 George Washington "GW" Inaugural Button
The fledgling nation had just elected its first president, and memories of the English monarchy were quickly consigned to the past. In a style that would become recognized as uniquely American, commemorative buttons were struck to announce and p [...more]
Lot 1848: Andrew Jackson 1829 Portrait Textile
Here, Andrew Jackson is joined by his six predecessors: John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and George Washington. The blue-and-white textile (15-1/2" x 23-3/4" visible dimensions) originated from a [...more]
Lot 1849: W.H. Harrison Columbian Star Serving Bowl
This delightful, octagonal bowl exemplifies the promotion of Whig presidential hopeful William Henry Harrison as a down-home agrarian. In the central image, Harrison tills the land beside his log cabin in the utopian setting of a sylvan landscap [...more]
