Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates is pleased to announce its 32nd Semiannual Americana and Fine Antiques Auction to be held Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17. The two-day event includes fresh-to-the-market consignments from estates and private collections in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Florida, as well as material deaccessioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to benefit the collections acquisitions funds. Offering a diverse range of rare and desirable material, the large sale promises to be a noteworthy event.
Session I, beginning at 4 p.m. EST, will feature an excellent collection of high-grade 17th- to early 20th-century American and foreign coins and currency, most from an estate collection assembled in the first half of the 20th century, including a 1907 Saint Gaudens high-relief double-eagle $20 gold coin with Roman numerals and many other gold coins, antiquarian books and manuscripts (including a first printing of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," published in The American Review, February 1845), antique firearms, Civil War material, and other militaria (including a Fayetteville Armory 1863 percussion rifle in outstanding original condition, a rare Winchester, Va., attributed long rifle, and a John Brown pike).
Session II, beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST, will include a fine selection of rare Virginia and other Southern material such as 18th- and 19th-century American formal and country furniture, folk pottery, Shenandoah Valley and other folk art, 15 John L. Heatwole (Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, 1948-2006) carvings, early ceramics including a fine collection of dark blue American Historical Staffordshire, early lighting including fine cut overlays and iron/tin primitives, early silver and pewter. Highlights in the Saturday session will include an important Anna Pottery stoneware presentation vase made by master potter Cornwall Elihu Kirkpatrick (1814-90) for his daughter Amy R. Kirkpatrick (1862-1935), acquired directly from the Kirkpatrick family; a rare Thompson family, Morgantown Pottery, Morgantown, W. Va., cobalt-decorated two-gallon stoneware jar, bearing unique decoration and unrecorded marks; a fine Kentucky inlaid walnut child's chest of drawers; “Sampson,” an important Maltby Sykes (American, 1911-92) oil-on-masonite painting; and a Samuel T. Taylor (American, c. 1806-46) oil-on-canvas folk portrait of 3-year-old Harriet E. Perkins of Louisa Co., Va., dated 1845. A group of three Johnston family (Fairfax Co., Va., c. 1765) oil-on-canvas portraits attributed to John Hesselius (American, 1728-78), depicting George Johnston (1722-67, House of Burgesses, 1750-65), his wife, Sarah McCartney Johnston (b. 1729), and their son, George Johnston Jr. (d. 1777, Washington’s aide-de-camp during the Revolutionary War), will also be sold.
“We are very excited to bring such an outstanding group of fresh material to the market for this auction, most of which will sell unreserved. Our Virginia and other Southern offerings are especially strong and provide numerous unique buying opportunities for collectors of all levels,” said company president Jeffrey S. Evans.
For further information, call 540-434-3939 or visit www.jeffreysevans.com.