January 21 2017 Winter Fine Art and Antiques Auction

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Case Antiques, Inc. Winter 2017 - January 21 1/21/2017-1/28/2017 LOT # Dollar Bill, Serial Letter B, January 8th, 1862; The State of Georgia Five Dollar Bill, Serial Letter A, No. 113649, January 15th, 1862; The Planters Savings Bank Ten Cents Bill, March 12th, 1862; The County of Lee Twenty-Five Cents Bill, No. 1951, June 25th, 1862; Bank of Chattanooga Three Dollar Bill, August, 1862; Virginia Treasury Ten Dollar Note, Serial Letter A, No. 5970, October 15th, 1862, 8 bills total. Bills approximately 3 1/4" H x 7 3/8" W. Mid 19th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. Condition: All bills in circulated condition. Most bills with minor wear to edges and corners, some minor spotting. Some of the bills are in partial, fragmentary form, see description for further details. 500.00 - 600.00 232

32 Confederate States of America (CSA) Ten Dollar Confederate States of America (CSA) Ten Dollar Bills, Series 1-7, 9-10, and unspecified, 32 bills total. Issued in Richmond, VA, February 17th 1864, lithographed by Evans & Cogswell, engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC, printed by Evans and Cogswell, Charleston, SC. Reads "Two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America, the Confederate States of America will pay Ten Dollars to bearer", vignette of a battle scene, top center, portrait of Robert M.T. Hunter, Confederate States Secretary of State and Confederate Senator, lower right. 1st Series: Serial Letter C, No. 91694; Serial Letter E, No. 43395; Serial Letter F, No. 41350; Serial Letter H, No. 98802, 4 bills total. 2nd Series: Serial Letter F, No. 1526; Serial Letter F, No. 90303, 2 bills total. 3rd Series: Serial Letter B, No. 54282; Serial Letter D, No. 11882; Serial Letter D, No. 80409; Serial Letter E, No. 16380; Serial Letter H, No. 53500, 5 bills total. 4th Series: Serial Letter E, No. 6121; Serial Letter H, No. 61909; Serial Letter H, No. 100333; Serial Letter H, 100384; Serial Letter G, No. 65720, 5 bills total. 5th Series: Serial Letter C, No. 55315; Serial Letter G, No. 16056, 2 bills total. 6th Series: Serial Letter F, No. 72125; Serial Letter F, No. 50335; Serial Letter H, No. 53590, 3 bills total. Series 7: Serial Letter A, No. 81844; Serial Letter D, No. 18583, 2 bills total. Series 9: Serial Letter B, No. 42523; Serial Letter B, No. 42524, 2 bills total. 10th Series: Serial Letter C, No. 14449; Serial Letter C, No. 14450; Serial Letter E, No. 20773; Serial Letter H, No. 38634; Serial Letter

LOT # G, No. 15616, 5 bills total. Unspecified Series: Serial Letter H, No. 119353; Serial Letter G, No. 20898, 2 bills total. Bills approximately 3" H x 6 7/8" W. Mid 19th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. Condition: All bills in circulated condition. Minor wear to edges and corners, some minor spotting. 500.00 - 600.00 233

3 Sheets Confederate Bonds 3 Sheets of Confederate Bonds. 1st Sheet: $1000, Second series with Rose signature, dated March 1, 1864, no. 10241 or 10891, fully signed, red CSA Treasury Department seal stamped upper right corner, vignette of figure on horseback. Only one coupon is missing. 2nd sheet: $1000, dated Aug. 5, 1862, no. 933, fully signed, vignette of CSA Treasurer Memminger. 33 coupons remain. 3rd sheet: $100, dated March 2, 1863, no. 3571, fully signed, vignette of Alexander Stephens. 7 coupons remain. Condition: 1st item: Number is very light and faded, some light creasing, "From the Collection of Walter K. Hoover" written in pen in margin. 2nd item: Overall toning, creasing, small tears at fold edges. 3rd item: Some light staining and one penciled number to margins, some staining around treasury register's signature, corner folds. 300.00 - 350.00

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TN Civil War Broadside, Pamphlet, Letter Three (3) Civil War era documents, including a Tennessee 1865 Franchise Act broadside, Civil War Surgeon letter from Nashville, and an 1858 slavery related pamphlet. 1st item: Broadside copy of "An Act to Limit the Elective Franchise", William Heiskell, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Samuel Ramsey Rodgers, Speaker of the Tennessee Senate, passed June 5th, 1865. The act barred ex-Confederates from voting for 15 years, with ex-Confederates defined under Section II as "all persons who are or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate States of America, or who have left judicial stations under the United States or the States of Tennessee, to aid in any way in the existing or recent rebellion against the authority of the United States, or who have been military or naval officers of the so-called Confederate States above the rank of Captain in the army of Lieutenant in the navy, or who have left seats in the United States Congress, or seats in the

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