Stevens Auction Co. has estate sales Oct. 17, Oct. 31 October promises to be a busy month for Stevens Auction Co. The firm will host a multi-estate sale at its gallery facility in Aberdeen, Misss., then will host an on-site auction in Port Gibson, Miss.
News-Antique.com - Oct 02,2009 - (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – October promises to be a busy month for Stevens Auction Company. The firm has scheduled two important estate sales this month. One will be held at the firm’s spacious gallery facility at 609 North Meridian Street in Aberdeen on Saturday, Oct. 17. Then, two weeks later, on Saturday, Oct. 31 (Halloween), Stevens will conduct an on-site estate auction in Port Gibson, Miss.
“The October 17 auction will include a nice selection of antique and furniture pieces from the collections of three prominent Southern estates,” said Dwight Stevens of Stevens Auction Company. “Featured will be items from the estates of two ladies from Alabama – Katherine Nelson Young of Athens and Lucy Russell McCaleb of Winfield. Both were dedicated collectors of fine antique items.”
Mrs. Young inherited her mother’s antique collection and continued to add to it throughout her life. Mrs. McCaleb was a schoolteacher of 42 years and a lifelong resident of Winfield until her death at age 102. Bidders will be able to preview their collections on Friday, Oct. 16, from 10 am to 6 pm. Doors will open on the day of sale Saturday, Oct. 17, at 8 am. Aberdeen is located 23 miles from Columbus.
The Oct. 31 estate sale will be an on-site event, to be held at the home of the late Miss Isabel Person, who lived nearly all of her 93 years on Church Street in Port Gibson, in a home built around 1880 in the late Victorian style. It had been purchased by her father, J.W. Person II, and over the years became a repository for the family’s many antiques. The home and its contents are both offered for sale.
Miss Person’s vast estate collections included wonderful period furniture, books, chests, clothes, silver, china, artifacts, papers and other timeless items, many of which have been lovingly stored in the 2,000-square-foot attic. But the entire house was adorned with fine antique objects from around the world, and most of these will be sold. Port Gibson is 27 miles south of Vicksburg, on Highway 61.
Furniture pieces from Miss Person’s home that will cross the block Oct. 31 include a walnut Victorian marble-top parlor table attributed to Thomas Brooks (circa 1860); a mahogany Empire marble-top pier table attributed to J.& J.W. Meeks, 44 inches wide by 22 inches deep; a period Empire mahogany sewing work table with thread drawer; and a primitive cherry 2-piece step-back cupboard.
Other furniture pieces include a mahogany Empire china cabinet with claw feet, 71 inches tall; a flamed mahogany Federal sofa with red upholstery, 90 inches long, with long, great carved apron and feet (circa 1830); a rare Empire hall seat with wide scroll feet, shoe doors and lift seat (circa 1840); and a mahogany Empire banquet table with acanthus carved base and five leaves, 10 feet long (circa 1880).
Fine art from Miss Person’s home includes an oil on canvas painting of a Confederate officer leading cavalry across a moonlit stream, 27 inches by 35 inches,
