Michael Hall Antiques

Red Cross Metal Sign,”Join Serve” WWII Era.

24” diameter

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William Alexander Donelson attended the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, Kentucky with his brother Martin after the civil war. Their father Andrew Jackson Donelson was born in Nashville in 1799, after the death of his father he was adopted by his Aunt Rachel Jackson and president Andrew Jackson. SOLD

8’ 1” x 10’ 10”. 

A beautiful early 20th century Heriz rug with desirable mellow vegetable dyed colors. The spandrels have a tan/ camel hair color rather than the more common white.

Good condition, professionally cleaned. Wear and even loss of pile as would be expected ( and desired) for a rug this age. Ends have lost about 1”, have been professionally secured. 

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Late 19th century. Three gallon Spire & Duff Stoneware jar with two handles. These utilitarian stoneware pieces belived to have been made in Western Pennsylvania for the Nashville market a rare to find in good condition. Benjamin W. Spire and William J. Spire advertised in the Nashville city directory in 1880 as sellers of crockery and queensware on the corner of Public Square in downtown Nashville. 

 Height 12 1/2".

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NASHVILLE CAT ANDIRONS 

ca. 1940’s

Maker: Tennessee Chrome Plating Company, Nashville. 

Mark: “TENN CHROME PLATE C. NASHVILLE ”

Height: 16”

Depth: 15 1/2”

Width: 6 3/4”

 A desirable pair of figural cast iron cat andirons with green marble eyes. Excellent original condition. Quality casting, note how dogs attach to the back of the cats with sliding dovetails.

The Tennessee Chrome Plating Company was located at 206 Louise Ave in Nashville and advertised these andirons in the 1940’s and 50’s.

Tennessee Chrome Plating Co. ad in the 1950’s: “Copy Cats. The Black Cat is a sign of good fortune, indeed, if this set of cat andirons graces your hearth. Beautifully cast in iron, each has translucent green eyes through which the firelight shines! 17” high x 17” deep. $15.95 ppd.”

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Length 15’

Width 3’ 3”.

Hand knotted, indigo field populated with overall patterns in shades of salmon, taupe and blue. Main border has a cream field.

Good overall condition some areas of repair/low pile.

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Dated 1899.

10 carat. 

Weight: 17 grams. 

Extraordinary hand engraved solid gold medal presented by Theodore Cooley to “ Elizabeth”.  Theodore Cooley was a successful Nashville businessman and supporter of the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition held at the current location of Parthenon Park on West End in Nashville in 1897. Mr. Cooley also published the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Fine Art Catalogue in 1897.

Peabody Normal College Merged with Vanderbilt University in 1979.

Condition: Excellent, housed in it’s original box. 

Width 1 5/8”  Height: 2”

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From a South Carolina Estate, Palmetto form.

1st quarter of the 20th century. Arts and Crafts Period. H 20” D 21”.

Good overall condition some twisting to dogs as made. SOLD

Hand painted game board. 29” x 18 1/2”.

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NASHVILLE OWL ANDIRONS

ca. 1940’s

Maker: Tennessee Chrome Plating Company, Nashville.

Mark: “TENN CHROME PLATE C. NASHVILLE ”

Height: 14”

Depth: 15”

Width: 8 1/2”

A desirable pair of figural cast iron owl andirons with yellow glass eyes. Excellent condition. Quality casting, note how dogs attach to the back of the cats with sliding dovetails.

The Tennessee Chrome Plating Company was located at 206 Louise Ave in Nashville and advertised these andirons in the 1940’s and 50’s.

Tennessee Chrome Plating Co. ad in the 1950’s: “Copy Cats. The Black Cat is a sign of good fortune, indeed, if this set of cat andirons graces your hearth. Beautifully cast in iron, each has translucent green eyes through which the firelight shines! 17” high x 17” deep. $15.95 ppd.” SOLD

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ca. 1870’s. Ebony/Rosewood shaft. Gold is unmarked.

Nashville. Length 37 1/2” Inscribed: “ Paul F. Eve Presented by.. (there are 8 engraved monograms).”

Provenance purchase from the estate of Duncan Eve, who lived on Clarendon Street in Nashville.

Dr. Paul Fitzsimmons Eve was a leading southern medical figure. He was president of the American Medical Association from 1857-1858, co-editor of the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, and author of nearly 600 articles during his medical career. Eve performed several important operations including one for vesical calculus. Also, he is thought to have been the first American Surgeon to perform a hysterectomy. Paul Fitzsimmons Eve was born near Augusta, Georgia, in 1806. He attended Franklin College (the University of Georgia), receiving a BA degree in 1826. Eve then went to Philadelphia to study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Receiving an M.D. degree in 1828, Eve returned to Georgia to practice medicine in Augusta. After one year, Eve decided to travel to Europe, practicing medicine in both London and Paris clinics and serving as a field doctor in the Polish Army during the Russian march on Poland. Deciding to return to America, Eve resumed his medical practice in Augusta. In 1832 he helped found the Medical College of Georgia where he was a Professor of Surgery until 1850. He went on to become the Professor of Surgery at both the University of Louisville and the University of Nashville. During the Civil War he was the Surgeon General of Tennessee. After the War, Eve taught surgery at Missouri Medical College in St. Louis, the University of Nashville, and Nashville Medical College. He also performed surgery at Gate City Hospital in Atlanta. Eve died in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1877. SOLD

Engraved in script on a Schenkl Shell fragment from the battlefield:  “Battle of  Gettysburg, July 1,2,3rd 1863.  Display base is  Applewood with  carved  checkering and engraving created by Gettysburg gunsmith Edward Woodward around 1880. Height: 5 1/4” wood base 4” x 3”.

This desktop relic display was likely designed to be used as a match strike and holder.

Woodward was the earliest and most famous relic seller from the Battle of Gettysburg, he created other applewood bases that were made from wood from the National Cemetery.

Provenance: Presented to Secretary of the Treasury William Windom.( Minnesota 1827-1891) Windom’s engraved portrait appeared on the $2.00 denomination of United States Silver Certificates from 1891 to 1896. The revenue cutter USS windom was named after him, as well as a World War II Liberty Ship. Windom was elected U.S. Representative for Minnesota in 1859 and sought the Republican nomination for President in 1880. Descended in the family of J. Gilman D’Arcy Paul (1887-1972). He was the only child of D’Archy Paul (1854-1890, Born Petersburg, Va.) and Charlotte Abbott Gilman Paul. Charlotte Paul was the daughter of John Stratton Gilman, (1830-1889) Partner in the Abbott Iron Works in Canton. The Gilman family estate was called Woodlands, located on Gorsuch Ave. The Abbott Iron Company supplied iron plating for ships during the Civil War including the ironclad U.S.S. Monitor.

The Schenkl was Patented October 16th, 1861 and is easily recognizable by the raised ribs at the rear of the projectile designed to give the shell a rotation motion when fired from the cannon. The shell had a grooved, truncated cone at the rear, which was fitted with a papier-mâché sabot which was forced forward by firing, expanding as it slid up the cone, engaging the rifling and sealing the bore. The grooves in the cone lock the cone in place to the shell, transmitting the rotation of the rifling to the shell. The sabot disintegrates upon exiting the barrel. Widely used by Union Forces during the Civil War and sometimes captured by Confederate forces and re-fitted with a wood sabot. SOLD.

If you have a similar item made by Edward Woodward feel free to contact us at: Michael@MichaelHallantiques.com or call us at 615-390-1836.

Folk art carving of a flying duck.

Length: 13 1/4”. Height: 10” Signed in pencil on back; C.Stringfield.

Clarence Stringfield was born in Erin, Tennessee in 1903, a cabinetmaker by trade he later moved to Nashville to work as a frame maker for Myron King at his gallery Lyzon. His carvings can be found in many private and public collections including the Smithsonian. SOLD.

2nd half of 19th century,  a copy of a well known bust at the Vatican.  Life size hand carved out of white marble.    Height: 17 1/4"

Provenance: Estate of William Thomas DePriest.

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Provenance: Captain James Donelson and Stanley Horn.

19th century. 

Impressed on back: “Wood & Sons, Semi China”

Diameter: 9 1/8”

An interesting Historical Staffordshire plate of Kentucky interest. Shell border. 

Condition: good, no cracks or chips. Some wear and rubbing to surface. 

$350

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ca. 1830. Wonderful Patina. Length: 35 1/4".

Coin silver eyelet for a leather strap. From a local Nashville Collection.

$ 495

19th Century.

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1928 $ 2 Red Seal.   1928 was the first year the United States paper money was printed in its current size. 

$5 Blue Seal 1934 Silver Certificate bank note. 

$1 Morgan Silver Dollar 1921. 90% silver content .7735 silver weight. Mounted in an 1870’s American walnut frame.  

ca. 1920's or 30's.   Exceptional original condition with excellent color palette and pile.  Professionally cleaned and ready for your home.

Size: 8' 9" x 11' 10"

20th century.                                                                                                 A most ingenious cane with screw top handle reveling a sundial and compass!

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Mid 20th century. Flag is 3' x 5'.

Sewn construction with printed stars. Brass grommets.

Archival framing with U.V. filtering plexi.

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Johnson’s New Military Map of the United States
Showing the Forts, Military Posts & c.
With Enlarged Plans of Southern Harbors.
War Department, Johnson and Ward
1861.
Period walnut frame with old wavy glass.
24 1/2” x 30 1/2”

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ca.1929

C.S. Hammond and Co. 

Made in, New York City, and printed in Great Britain.

Height: 18”   Diameter: 17”

A high quality desk/table globe in exceptional condition with desirable patina. 

Early color printed paper gores over plaster. Time dial at North Pole and South Poles. Oceans finished in olive green with bold International Date Line in red, Ecliptic, ocean currents, nautical distances and analemma. Fully mounted in an English style black walnut 4 legged table stand, with a printed paper horizon and a solid brass meridian ring. This level of furniture was rare after 1920, and a premium offering from Hammond.

The finish on the globe is original, with a small inpainted repair, done around the interior of Antarctica. Paper horizon is a professionally restored facsimile.

The finish on the globe is original, with a small inpainted repair, done around the interior of Antarctica. Walnut base has a great patina. 

Dating the globes of this era, often falls to examining St. Petersburg which was renamed Petrograd between 1914 and 1924. In 1920 British East Africa becomes Kenya and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania become independent.

$ 850

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Late 19th century.

6' 2" x 4' 1"

Very good condition, a very small minor repair. Exceptional colors and design. Ends and haven secured and binding on the sides is in excellent condition.

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Late 19th/early 20th century. 

Maker: Attributed to Taunton Iron Works, Taunton, Massachusetts. 

Height: 19 1/2”

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ca. mid 20th Century.

A well detailed and patinated Armillary sundial supported by a base in the form of Atlas.  Copper patinated finish throughout. 

This Armillary is in excellent condition with desirable patination. Often the arrows are damaged on these this Armillary is ready to be used as an interior architectural piece or used outside in your garden. 

Height: 29 1/2”

Sphere diameter: 17 1/2”

ca. 1940’s

Maker: Tennessee Chrome Plating Company, Nashville. 

Mark: “TENN CHROME PLATE CO. NASHVILLE ”

Height: 16”

Depth: 15 1/2”

Width: 6 3/4”

A desirable pair of figural cast iron cat andirons with green marble eyes. Excellent original condition. Quality casting, note how dogs attach to the back of the cats with sliding dovetails.

“From New and actual Surveys compiled and published by
G.D. Beers. 27 South Sixth St. Philadelphia.
1878.
Engraved by Worley & Bracher 27 South Sixth St. Philadelphia.
Printed by J.H. Toudy & Co. 119,121& 123 Nth 4th St. Philadelphia.”

46” x 38 1/2”

This color map from the D.G. Beers Co. of Philadelphia shows roads, railroads, streams, schools, stores, residences with owner’s names, post offices and different-colored civil districts. Includes insert of City of Franklin. The chief value ofthis map comes from the detailed, late 19th century depiction of businesses, town dwellers, and the landowner’s names and acreages in largely rural Williamson. County.

Provenance: Vernon Sharpe

2nd half of the 19th century.

Found on an old Thoroughbred horse farm east of Louisville, Kentucky.

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Ca. 1900-1915.

9’ 6” x 12’ 2”

Rare color combination with dark blue field,  light blue corner brackets and pale red border. 

Heriz refers to the district of Persia 40 miles east of Tabriz, it is a group of about 30 villages and towns, the largestis Heriz. 

Condition: Good, no repairs, partial loss of one guard stripe overall low pile.

Pint. 8 3/8 inches tall. 

“Distilled & Bottled at Registered Distillery No. 106th Dist.

Poindexter, Harrison co. KY”.

Made Spring 1914

Bottled Fall 1926

It is not often one comes across an unopened bottle of Kentucky Bourbon made 101 years ago! This bourbon was aged for 12 years before being bottle. The original cork is undisturbed, there is some loss to the contents due to evaporation. ( The Angels Share ), which is typical of bottles of this age.

Back of bottle reads:

“Caution Notice, This bottle has been filled and stamped under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1897, entitled “An act to allow the bottling of distilled spirits in bond.” Any person

who shall reuse this bottle for the purpose of containing distilled spirits without removing and destroying the stamp affixed to this bottle, will be liable for each such offense to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and to imprisonment for not more than two years.”

“Bottle in bond by Jas. E. Pepper & co. Lexington, Ky. Dist. No. 5, 7th Dist. Ky. Permit Ky P. 14.”

Beautiful antique, Persian rug from the North Western region of Persia. Exceptional condition. (Early 20th C.)

Dimensions: 3' 4" x 4' 4"

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Rare Cloth Map of Davidson County Tennessee.
ca. 1898.
Created by E.M. Gardner
Published by Marshall and Bruce Co. Nashville Tennessee.
A large size and rare map of Davidson Co. Tennessee printed on cotton in four sections and sewn together. The map shows railroads, Turnpikes, Roads District Lines, Post Offices, White Schools and Negro Schools.
Overall condition is good there are expected tears and staining. Out of the four maps know to exist this is either the best or second best in condition.

Size: 53 7/8” wide   59” High

Sojourn in Florida, oil on canvas 35 1/2” x 44 1/4”.

Frame:43” x 52”. Signed l.r. Exhibited at the Parthenon May 8-29, 1960. Memorial exhibition and catalogue compiled by Gus Baker. Number 38 in Exhibition catalogue.

Catalogue entry for painting: “ Once the idea of a series of painting was given up it was as though this gave the painter a new sense of freedom. Handly had been deeply disturbed by what he called “ the inherent evil in Tennessee Williams’ “ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.”. This is the end result of hedonism but without the despair of an Hegesius; rather, and simply , boredom. The satire extends to giving the woman two left hands. Of this painting Handly said, “ I’m so proudest of the gin bottle, because it really looks like gin.”

Avery Handly was born in Nashville and graduated from Wallace University School and Vanderbilt University. . He studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas Art Institute and with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa.

Handly settled in Winchester, Tennessee after serving overseas in the Navy. He painted semi-abstract, cubist, and abstract works. He did landscapes, still lifes, social comment, and modern pictures based on religious and theological themes. Late in life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. Throughout his work, he continued to reconcile abstraction and representationalism. He painted portraits of Harry Tatum, Mrs. Harvey Templeton Jr., Miss Avery Templeton, and Bishop Ferrani from a photograph, as well as, perhaps, five self-portraits and portraits of family members. He believed that all paintings have to start with a basis of magnificence. By certain deft twists and tricks, you turn magnificence into meanness or vice-versa.

During the late 1940s and 1950s Handly had one-man shows at the University of the South, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club in Nashville. His most important one-man show as held at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York in early 1950. He died in Winchester on October 22, 1958. A memorial exhibition was held at the Nashville Arts Festival in 1960. had one-man shows at the Ward Eggleston Gallery in New York City, the University of the South at Sewanee, the Hunter Gallery in Chattanooga, and the Centennial Club and Vanderbilt University