Early 1800s More Furniture and Collectibles

Antique print America titled 'Gezigten der West-Kust van Amerika'. Coastal views of various islands of the American coast. Originates from 'Reizen Rondom de Waereld door James Co...

Antique county map of Nottinghamshire first published c.1800. Villages, towns, and cities illustrated include Worksop, Neware, Tuxford, and Maplebe...

Antique county map of Durham first published c.1800. Villages, towns, and cities illustrated include Gateshead, South Shields, and Darlington. C...

Antique county map of Bedfordshire first published c.1800. Villages, towns, and cities illustrated include Bedford, Todington, and Potton. Charl...

Antique county map of Leicestershire first published c.1800. Villages, towns, and cities illustrated include Lutterworth, Ashby, Hinkley, and Marke...

Antique county map of Huntingdonshire first published c.1800. Cities illustrated include Kimbolton, Chesterton, Folkesworth, and Great Stewkeley. Charles Smith was a cartographer ...

Antique map Australia titled 'Kaart van een gedeelte van de Kust van Nieuw Zuid Wales van Kwelling Kaap tot de Endeavour-Straat door Luit. J. Cook'. A chart of the northeast coast...

Antique print titled 'Gezigt van Waterhoozen aan de Kust van Nieuw-Zeeland'. Antique print depicting three whirlwinds and a ship off the coast of New Zealand. Originates from 'Re...

Antique print titled 'Plan d'un Jardin Chinois à Quanton, Fête des Morts à Macao'. Two images on one sheet depicting a Chinese garden and Festival of the Death in Macao. Originat...

A collection of coral, sold by the piece. Prices from two hundred - two thousand. The large pieces are about 2 feet tall.

A very smart large paper edition of Daniel Defoe's important travelogue novel, a nice copy illustrated throughout by Thomas Stothard. The second Stockdale edition, a smart large pape...

A pair of Cary’s 15-inch table globes, each set into an ebony stand with four turned legs and stretchers, the terrestrial stating “Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe exhibiting the tracks ...

American Cherry basin stand with carved arched friezes, single drawer with the original brass knob, and terminating on tapered squared inlaid double cuffed...

Dutch silver tobacco box, 1803. Tubular with flat and hinged cover. Engraved bower-framed olden-days scenes depicting horn-blowers on horseback and side-saddled damsels setting out f...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning, extra large circa 1800 hand painted European clothes trunk or marriage coffer chest with Acanthus leaf painting. I have recently purchased a very large collection of these original, antique painted wardrobes...

Georgian mahogany low boy with cabriole legs and slipper feet. Consisting of two short and one long drawer, with original pierced batwing brass handle...

A naïve coconut shell “bugbear” powder flask carved as a fish with an open mouth surrounded by scales above a man hunting with a rifle and dogs, the underside plain, circa 1805. “Bugbear” coconut...

We are delighted to offer for sale this circa 1800 Georgian Fruitwood ornately hand carved fire place screen with period tapestry A very fine, ornately carved and decorative scre...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely antique Atlas page map of Cheshire printed in 1645 Amsterdam Staffordiensis Comitatvs Vulgo I have thre...

A white vitreous paste cameo of Emma, Lady Hamilton, attributed to William Tassie after Filipo Rega, of oval form depicting Emma facing right with her hair in a Grecian style, Englis...

We are delighted to this lovely antique Atlas page map of Northamptonshire printed in 1645 Amsterdam Staffordiensis Comitatvs Vulgo I have three of th...

A George III satinwood four division Canterbury, of rectangular form with concave dividers and a handle, the frieze with a single drawer and painted with flowers, on the original bra...

EXTRAORDINARILY EARLY (1806) PRINTED LINEN KERCHIEF GLORIFYING GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRINT WORKS, GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA Printed in blue ink on coarse, white linen, this patriotic kerchief shows a standing portrait of George Washington, above which is a swag valance and the words “The Effect of Principle, Behold the Man”. The portrait is based on a mezzotint after Gilbert Stuart’s very famous painting of Washington in his later years, most often referred to as the Landsdowne portrait. Stuart painted three versions of it in oil on canvas, one of which was completed in 1796 for a wealthy merchant by the name of William Constable, who commissioned the work for Alexander Hamilton. The kerchief is interesting because it is both American-made and documented. This is exceptionally unusual for any printed textile of the 19th century or prior and the earlier the time period the more unlikely an object is to be identified. This kerchief and a companion piece entitled “The Love of Truth Mark the Boy” (also glorifying Washington, through the fabled story of the cherry tree), were made circa 1806 by Germantown Print Works in Germantown, Pennsylvania. To the left of Washington's image is a portion of his infamous farewell address to his troops at the end of the Revolutionary War. To the right is a short excerpt from his eulogy. Below these are three images. In the center is a square-rigged tall ship with “Commercial Union” above it, flanked by the American eagle on the left and the British lion on the right. It is reasonable to assume that the textile may have been produced in demonstration of the maker's desire, and/or that of others, to advance trade with England. Commercial printers were very influential in early America, as they possessed the means by which to disseminate information. This kerchief and its companion piece are documented in Threads of History, Americana Recorded on Cloth, 1775 - the Present, by Herbert Ridgeway Collins (1979, Smithsonian Press), p. 63, items 38 & 39.* The two pieces pictured are in the collection of Cornell University, but the Collins text also cites an uncut pair to be present in the collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH. The name "Germantown Print Works" is printed on the Western Reserve examples. Another example of the textile in question is documented in "Running for President, The Candidates and Their Images, 1789-1896" by Schlesinger, Israel, and Frendt, (1994, Simon & Schuster), p. 15. I have seen three different color variations of this textile, including sepia, mulberry red, and blue. This particular example has a hand-sewn binding along the top, lower, and left edges. Mounting: The textile was mounted and framed within our own conservation department, which is led by expert staff. We take great care in the mounting and preservation of flags and have framed thousands of examples. The gilded molding has a rippled profile and dates to the period between 1825 and 1850.The background is 100% cotton twill, black in color. The glazing is U.V. protective plexiglass. Feel free to contact us for more details. Condition: There is an all-over golden oxidation of the white fabric and there is very minor staining. There are tiny tack holes in each corner and there are minor nicks around the perimeter. * Collins relates that Germantown Printworks was operated by the Hewsons. In doing so he cites one of Worthington Chauncey Ford's books on George Washington, but it isn't clear which one (there are many) and no page numbers are given. John Hewson was an Englishman who came to America and opened his printing business on the advice of Benjamin Franklin. He was one of the first “calico printers” and is the earliest documented to have advertised printed kerchiefs. His ads for bandanas appear as early as June 20th, 1774. He is suspected of having produced the very first American kerchief that pictured an American president, which is documented in Collins as item 1 on page 48. Linda Eaton, curator at Winterthur, in 2012, is currently doing in depth research on the three printers of fabrics that were operating in Germantown in early America. She discovered that the owner and/or operator of Germantown Print Works, while not currently known, was not John Hewson. This information is not yet published. She also noted that Winterthur possessed examples of the two George Washington textiles...