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Jan. 11th 2026 Online Only Derrick Joshua Beard Deceased Estate African American Artifact Collection

Auction closed on 1/11/2026. Final prices include buyers premium

• Lot #1: Thomas Day Sofa with Green Upholstery -Rolled Arms - Mahogany Veneer- Thomas Day Milton NC African American Cabinet Maker - Sofa is 33" Tall 92" Long 23 1/2" Deep - Few Small Areas of Veneer Loss...

  

  # Bids: 40

  Final Price: $4,307.00

• Lot #2: Handmade Country Primitive Ladder Back Chair - Made by African American - Oak Splint Seat - Hand Carved - Chair is 32" Tall 13" to Seat

  

  # Bids: 10

  Final Price: $383.50

• Lot #3: Original Oil on Canvas Painting of "Thomas Day House Built 1818" by N.H. Keel - Dated 2005 -Signed and Dated in Lower Right - Framed in Light Wood Frame - Canvas Measures 16" by 20"

  

  # Bids: 20

  Final Price: $708.00

• Lot #4: The Captive Anti Slavery Publication - Printed on Cotton - Published by "Boston Chemical Printing Company For The Boston Anti - Slavery Society" - Depicts The Auction, A Song, and Threatening...

  

  # Bids: 16

  Final Price: $501.50

• Lot #5: Thomas Day Parlor Chair - Tufted Back - Carved Frame - Chair is 42" Tall 25 1/2" Wide

  

  # Bids: 57

  Final Price: $1,032.50

• Lot #6: The Story of Jubilee Singers with Their Songs By J.B.T. Marsh Revised Edition Seventy - Fifth Thousand - Hardcover Book with Accompanying Photo of Musicians Printed on Foam Board

  

  # Bids: 13

  Final Price: $560.50

• Lot #7: Last Will and Testament of Vincent Millo of Mobile Alabama - Hand Written - Bequeaths Land to Free Woman of Color - Museum Framed and Matted - Writing Continues on Reverse of Paper

  

  # Bids: 7

  Final Price: $120.00

• Lot #8: Little Eva Published By Phil J. Cozans - 107 Nassau St. NY - Aunt Mary's Picture Book - An Illustrated Story About Little Eva - Flower of the South -Daughter of Alabama Planter - Story Includes...

  

  # Bids: 13

  Final Price: $200.60

• Lot #9: When Malindy Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar - African American Poet - with Photographs by The Hampton Institute Camera Club - 1903 Edition - Dodd Mead and Co. New York - Hardcover Book with Gold...

  

  # Bids: 8

  Final Price: $106.20

• Lot #10: Thomas Day Rural Wardrobe -Applied Half Columns Flanking Poplar Paneled Door - Southern Yellow Pine Solid Ends - 2 Hand Dovetailed Drawers - Urn and Ball Feet - Ivory Inlaid Keyhole - Missing Lock...

  

  # Bids: 27

  Final Price: $2,301.00

• Lot #11: 1844 Manumission Document - "Louisa Conway being anxious to purchase herself, has the privilege to do so, provided she pays me the sum of four hundred and fifty within a year from this date, May...

  

  # Bids: 24

  Final Price: $975.00

• Lot #12: Thomas Day Side Chair - Original Finish - Upholstered Seat - Chair is 32" Tall 17" To Seat - Thomas Day Milton NC African American Cabinet Maker

  

  # Bids: 18

  Final Price: $354.00

• Lot #13: Henry Boyd - Boyd Bedstead 4 Poster Bed - Fully Disassemble - Posts are all Marked H. Boyd Cinci. Ohio - Patented Design with Wooden Screw In Rails - Henry Boyd African American Inventor and...

  

  # Bids: 16

  Final Price: $590.00

• Lot #14: The First Colored Senator and Representatives Currier & Ives Print - 1872 - In the 41st and 42nd Congress of The United States - Framed in Black and Gold Gilt Frame - Frame Measures 14 1/2" By 18...

  

  # Bids: 21

  Final Price: $678.50

• Lot #15: Thomas Day Cottage Bed - Elaborately Designed Headboard and Foot Board - Paneled Headboard with Scrolling - Sleigh Bed Posts - Spool Turnings - "Seems to be a concoction from Day''''s own pecular...

  

  # Bids: 41

  Final Price: $2,419.00

• Lot #16: National Association for The Advancement of Colored People - Fundraising Poster -"For The Good of America" - "3436 People Lynched, 1889 to 1922" - Museum Framed - Poster / Flyer Measures - 14 1/2"...

  

  # Bids: 30

  Final Price: $1,091.50

• Lot #17: Thomas Day Side Chair - Original Finish - Upholstered Seat - Chair is 32" Tall 17" To Seat - Thomas Day Milton NC African American Cabinet Maker

  

  # Bids: 28

  Final Price: $400.00

• Lot #18: Brief Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army in North Carolina, In the Spring of 1862, after the Battle of Newbern By Vincent Colyer - Superintendent of the...

  

  # Bids: 9

  Final Price: $224.20

• Lot #19: Parsons & Pool's Famous Ideal - Uncle Tom's Cabin Company Woodcut Print - Broadside Advertisement For Uncle Tom''''s Cabin - Printed on Linen / Silk - Late 19th Century - Museum Framed -...

  

  # Bids: 18

  Final Price: $275.00

• Lot #20: South Carolina Handmade Mammy Bench Rocker - Original Finish - Bench is 31" Tall 52" Long

  

  # Bids: 27

  Final Price: $1,150.50

• Lot #21: Report of the Select Committee on the Petitions to Prevent Slave Hunting in the State of New York Transmitted to the Legislature, February 11, 1860 - Albany Printed by C. Van Bethuysen 1860 - 11...

  

  # Bids: 9

  Final Price: $165.20

• Lot #22: Christy's Negro Songster Containing the Most Popular Melodies as Sung By Christy, Wood, White, Buckley, and Other Negro Minstrels - New York - Richard Marsh - 138 William Street - 1857 -...

  

  # Bids: 9

  Final Price: $129.80

• Lot #23: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists and How It May Be Extinguished By Dr. H.C. Carey - Second Edition - Philadelphia Parry & McMillan - 1856 - Hardcover Book - Second Edition -...

  

  # Bids: 9

  Final Price: $188.80

• Lot #24: Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among The Lowly By Harriet Beecher Stowe - Vol. I - 1852 - First Year of Publication - One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand - Boston John P. Jewett & Company Cleveland,...

  

  # Bids: 8

  Final Price: $188.80

• Lot #25: Thomas Day Bedstead Bench - Beautiful Mahogany Veneer - Scrolled Feet with Castors- Beautifully Upholstered - Bench is 14" Tall 61" By 23 1/2"

  

  # Bids: 30

  Final Price: $1,829.00