Rare 1979 Donovan Leisure NYC Cia Law Firm 50th Anniversary Brass Paperweight

Wonderful desk relic from a Bostonian Tailor.

Rare item from the L.D. Caulk Co. of Milford Delaware. New old stock, New in box. A true Relic from yesteryears building technics. A beautiful desktop sculptural object. Temp rises w...

Wonderful desk relic from a captain of industry.

A very rare and vintage New York City relic. No chips, No handling damage. However this example does have some manufacturing defects that are all Photo'd.

Heavy and very large, 7 pound scale weight, hourglass form.

Wonderful and extremely rare 19th century office relic with a cheeky message; Hands off! Private papers." Reminiscent of the odd fellows Victorian Era designs, unknown maker or desig...

Carl Auböck Pipe Paperweight, Brass, Signed. Small scale meticulously detailed brass pipe paperweight by Viennese designer Carl Auböck.

NASCAR: The Thunder of America.Thunder Of America: 50th Anniversary of NASCAR hardcover 1988.Published by Harper, 1988.200 pages of NASCAR history, info, stats and photos.Hardcover w...

Paperweight made of lost wax casting brass depicting a horse's head, English manufacture of the 1930s. Good condition. Measures: cm 10 x 10 H 5. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London...

50th Anniversary gold-plated brass Slinky toy in wood box, circa 1995. This item is in very good vintage condition and appears to never have been played with. This Slinky was release...

A rectangular marble paperweight with octogonal inlaid micromosaic plate. The plaque depicting a spaniel in a landscape, the trunk os a tree in this left. Depictions of dogs in micro...

Count Gleichen’s Russian shell paperweight, the tooth shaped fragment of a Russian armament shell set above another of rectangular form both raised on a silver mount on an ebonized rectangular plinth, applied with a plaque reading ‘Two fragments of a Russian shell fired at Mr Fred Burne assist.t paymaster and Mr Henry Crave St John midshipman of H.M.S. Cumberland in Aug.t 1854 from Tsee Fort Bonarsund whilst conveying refreshments to the English camp – for their messmate – H.S.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe Midshipman landed with the Naval Brigade in 1854’. With a framed caricature of Count Gleichen inscribed Vanity Fair, London, July 5, 1884. Vice Admiral H.S.H Count Gleichen – the Queen’s Nephew.Russian and English, 1854. The print has the following biography on the reverse and on the mount ‘His Serene Highness Prince Victor …. of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, is better known in England as Count Gleichen and as the Queen’s nephew. Born fifty years ago, he was sent to school at Dresden; but at the age of fourteen he conceived ideas not to be bounded within the confines of the small life of a German principality. So he ran away from school to go to sea, and his aunt the Queen of England, being informed of the fact, proposed to her sister to let her adventurous nephew become naturalised as an Englishman and enter the English Navy. This was accordingly done, and Prince Victor, as he was then called, was appointed to the Powerful on the Mediterranean Station, in 1848. He served in the Crimean War and in the operations in China he proved a popular officer and a good sailor-man, and was three times wounded in battle. In 1861 he married the daughter of Admiral Sir George Seymour, sister of the fifth Marquis of Hertford on which occasion it was that he put down his title of Prince and took up for future use that of Count. He became, in due course a Vice-Admiral, and in the meantime he also became a sculptor. It is in the latter art that he now mainly busies himself, and he has created many pleasing busts of his royal relatives and some works of greater pretensions than family portraits. An Alfred the Great, a Beaconsfield, and a Prince Imperial...