OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION THURSDAY, MAY 5TH, 2016

Dover Elks Lodge
282 Durham Road (Rte 108),
Dover, New Hampshire

Preview 2:00 PM • Auction 5:00 PM

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE HENRY DURRIE (American, 1820-1863)

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Please join us for our 20th Anniversary evening antiques and fine art auction. It will feature a significant collection of Civil War related material, as well as a selection of American period formal & country furniture, fine art, silver, glass, ceramics, Asian and other related decorative accessories.

SADIE IRVINE, NEWCOMB COLLEGE VASE

AN IMPORTANT CIVIL WAR CARVED AND PAINT DECORATED CONFEDERATE CEDAR CANTEEN. Carved by Captain Vincent Mountfort of Company K, in the Twenty-Fourth Regiment of Maine Infantry, he served in the Department of the Gulf during the seige of Port Hudson, Louisiana. This canteen commemorates the end of the battle of Port Hudson, on July 9th, 1863, ending the longest seige of the Civil War and in American history. Subsequently Vincent Mountfort was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company K and would join the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry Regiment. He died on February 6th, 1864 at Sycamore Church. Later G.A.R. Post No. 22 in Brunswick, Maine would be named after him.

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