Affiliated Auctions

10/17/2026

Affiliated Auctions is honored to present the collection of Tallahassee photographer Lynn Ivory (1940–2025)

Collection Overview & Historical Significance

This collection brings together an extraordinary body of Native American portrait photography and cultural pieces created or preserved by Master Photographer Lynn Ivory. Nationally recognized for her work across the American West and her contributions to the Smithsonian Institution’s Handbook of North American Indians, Ivory dedicated a major era of her career to documenting Indigenous communities and material culture. The photographs and Native pieces presented in this lot represent a deeply respectful, collaborative effort to capture living cultural traditions, regional heritage, and historical iconography with profound dignity and authenticity.

Utilizing subtle lighting, warm tonalities, and classical framing, her work confers a timeless presence upon both individual sitters and detailed material pieces like shell carvings, beadwork, and sacred objects. Ivory rendered her prints using museum-grade archival media designed to elevate photography to enduring fine art.

In addition to her traditional studio and field expertise, Ivory was an early innovator and beta-tester for Adobe Photoshop. Bridging classical photographic mastery with the dawn of digital art, she applied early digital restoration and color management techniques to fine-art copy work and artifact preservation long before digital photography became standard practice. This allowed her to record the intricate textures and historic details of Native American artwork with unparalleled precision, solidifying her reputation as a forward-thinking master of both lens and digital media.

For collectors of Native American art, ethnographic photography, and historic visual documentation, this collection stands as a premier offering. Backed by Ivory’s PPA Master Photographer credentials and her work alongside major institutional archives like the Smithsonian, these photographs and Native pieces carry exceptional historical pedigree, aesthetic depth, and lasting archival value.

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10/13/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is an 1891 $5 Silver Certificate produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Issued during the late nineteenth century, this note serves as a fascinating artifact from the Gilded Age when paper currency represented physical metal held in Treasury vaults.

Unlike the 1886 issue that depicted silver coins on the reverse, the redesigned Series of 1891 introduced an open greenback back intended to deter counterfeiters. The obverse features an engraved portrait of Ulysses S. Grant alongside intricate geometric lathe work, red Treasury overprints, and period typography.

The certificate reflects the currency battles of the 1890s, when silver notes functioned in trade alongside the gold standard. Examples retaining paper quality, original embossing, and print contrast offer collectors direct access to nineteenth century security printing.
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10/12/2026

10/12/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is a 34-inch presentation walking stick directly associated with one of the early 20th century's most influential female educators and humanitarians, Mary E. Sweeney (1879–1968). Inscribed specifically to Sweeney, the cane stands as a personal artifact from a remarkable career that fundamentally shaped American domestic science and international child welfare.

A trailblazer in higher education, Mary E. Sweeney helped pioneer the field of Home Economics, bridging scientific research with practical application to improve public health and nutrition. Her extraordinary leadership extended far beyond the university classroom. During World War I, she helped organize the federal government's national food rationing programs, and during World War II, her dedication to soldier welfare earned her an Army commendation for bravery. Internationally, Sweeney served as a consultant to the governments of China and India, advising foreign officials on early childhood development and family welfare strategies.

The presentation cane thoughtfully reflects her life’s work, crowned with an intricately carved k**b representing an infant—a poignant visual tribute to her decades of advocacy for children and maternal care. Accented with a carved decorative band above the ferrule and custom lettering, this piece offers collectors a tangible connection to a pioneering woman who served her nation across two World Wars.

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10/08/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is an 1876 United States silver Trade Dollar, struck at the main mint in Philadelphia. Designed by Chief Engraver William Barber, the obverse depicts Liberty seated upon bales of export merchandise while extending an olive branch, with the reverse proudly displaying the heraldic eagle alongside its precise bullion specification: "420 GRAINS, 900 FINE."

Authorized by the Coinage Act of 1873, the Trade Dollar stands as a fascinating, short-lived experiment in American monetary history. It was created not for domestic commerce, but specifically to challenge the dominance of the Mexican Peso and Spanish Real in the lucrative Far East trade networks. To convince merchants across China and East Asia to accept American currency, the U.S. Mint deliberately made the Trade Dollar heavier than standard domestic silver dollars, creating a heavy-weight coin tailored for purchasing tea, silk, and porcelain.

While the vast majority of these coins were produced at the San Francisco and Carson City mints to be close to Pacific shipping routes and Western silver strikes, Philadelphia struck a considerably lower mintage of just 455,000 pieces in 1876. Struck on the East Coast, these coins had to navigate complex overland and overseas trade routes to reach foreign ports. Surviving specimens from the Philadelphia mint remain compelling historical relics of Gilded Age global finance and 19th-century American commercial expansion.

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10/03/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is an original eighteenth century hand-colored copperplate engraved map detailing the early French colonial frontier of the American South. Published in Paris in 1764 by Royal Hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin for Le Petit Atlas Maritime, Cours du Fleuve Saint Louis offers a rare record of the Lower Mississippi River Delta and the Gulf Coast during a period of massive geopolitical transformation.

Created amidst the redefinition of North American empires following the Seven Years' War, Bellin's chart captures the coastline from Lake Salvador to Mobile Bay. The map serves as a rich document of French Louisiana, detailing the fledgling settlement of New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain, and nautical soundings along vital trade waterways. Beyond European outposts, Bellin meticulously recorded the territorial homelands of regional Native American nations, including the Colapissas, Houmas, Bayagoulas, and Tensas, providing invaluable insight into the indigenous landscape of the eighteenth-century Gulf Coast.

Single-sheet maps like this carry an intriguing secondary history tied to the nineteenth and early twentieth-century art trade. During that era, art dealers and print sellers frequently purchased complete, intact volumes—such as Bellin’s multi-volume Le Petit Atlas Maritime—specifically to disassemble them. Individual charts were extracted, matted, and sold separately as framed display pieces and decorative artwork for private libraries and studies, a widespread practice that preserved individual historic copperplate engravings while dispersing complete works across individual collections.

Measuring approximately 8.5 by 14 inches, this original copperplate engraving features fine hand-applied color wash and crisp impression lines. You can inspect high-resolution photographs, review detailed condition reports, and place your advance bids through the link in the post below or at our gallery in Tallahassee, Florida before the live online auction begins.

10/02/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is a nineteenth-century Central African ceremonial sword, a striking artifact representing the power, blacksmithing mastery, and social hierarchy of the Congo Basin.

Among the Ngombe and Ekonda peoples, uniquely shaped prestige blades like this served as visual declarations of authority. Forged by elite ironmasters, the sweeping crescent curve, notched geometry, and dramatic swirling projections were far more than artistic embellishments. They functioned as immediate indicators of a chief or elder’s supreme wealth and status. Historically rooted in solemn leadership rites and ancestral ceremonies, these swords were held by village leaders during public dances to demonstrate their control over life, law, and lineage. Over time, as formal tribal governance evolved, the blades transitioned into cherished symbols of peaceful prestige and family heritage, brought out only for major community assemblies, diplomatic exchanges, and rites of passage.

This piece features an original carved wooden hilt bound in traditional wire wrapping, preserving a tangible piece of 19th-century African ethnographic history. You can inspect high-resolution photographs of the ironwork, review full provenance and condition details, and place your advance bids through the link below before the live online auction begins.

09/28/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is a complete, bound annual volume of Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization for the entire year of 1865 (Volume 9).

As the premier pictorial newspaper of the 19th century, this full-year run provides an extraordinary visual record of a pivotal year in American history. The volume features extensive firsthand reporting, detailed maps, and original wood engravings covering the final campaigns of the Civil War, the fall of Richmond, and General Lee's surrender at Appomattox. It also documents the assassination and national funeral of President Abraham Lincoln, the trial and ex*****on of the Lincoln conspirators, and the early stages of Reconstruction under President Andrew Johnson.

You can examine high-resolution photographs of the binding and interior pages, review the complete condition report, and place advance bids through the link below before the live auction begins.

09/27/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is a mid-19th-century lithographic facsimile edition of Captain John Smith’s landmark 1616 map, New England: The Most Remarkable Parts Thus Named by the High and Mighty Prince Charles.

Published by William F. Veazie of Boston circa 1865, this piece reproduces the foundational cartographic work that first coined and defined the region as "New England". The composition features the famous upper-left portrait bust of Captain John Smith engraved by Simon de Passe, along with decorative coats of arms, sailing vessels, sea monsters, and early English place names designated by Prince Charles (later King Charles I), including Plymouth, Cape Ann, and the Charles River.

Also available at this auction is a copy of Veazie's reprint of Smith's original book accompanying this map, A Description of New England. These are from separate collections, but it's a rare opportunity for a collector to unite the two editions.

The map and the book open for advance bidding now. You can view high-resolution imagery, review condition details, and place your bids through the link below before the live online auction begins.

09/26/2026

Featured in our upcoming live online auction is a 19th-century hand-colored lithographic edition of Matthäus Seutter’s c. 1730 map, Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula.

Derived from the classic Visscher cartographic model, Seutter's map is distinguished by its prominent panoramic inset view of New York ("Neu Jorck") along the lower right, set beneath elaborate allegorical figures. Measuring 26.75 by 23.35 inches, this piece features hand-applied watercoloring over lithographic line work, capturing the early colonial geography of the American Northeast alongside the iconic early skyline of Manhattan.

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