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Style: Primitive
Primitive Antique Farmhouse Pine Butter Churn Milk Bucket Wood Barrel Cannister
Located in Dayton, OH
A large primitive pine butter churn. Features a removable lid and braided wicker accents. A neat addition to any farmhouse setting. Dimensions: 31" x 22" x 18"
Category

Early 20th Century Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Wicker, Pine

Antique Canadian Country Primitive Wooden Colonial Spinning Wheel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Canadian Country Primitive Wooden Colonial Spinning Wheel. Item features 22" diameter spinning wheel, working foot pedal, signed "made in Canada" to underside, great patina s...
Category

Early 20th Century Canadian Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Wood

Vintage Texas Cowboy Hand Wrought Cattle Branding Iron
Located in Stamford, CT
Here it is, that unique gift you have been looking for for the cowboy or cowgirl in your life. A genuine vintage Texan wrought iron cattle branding iron. ...
Category

Early 20th Century American Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Wrought Iron

3 American Antique Black Powder Muzzleloader Horns Loading Hunting Militia 6.5"
Located in Dayton, OH
Lot of three small antique horns for black powder, with carrying strings. Largest - 6.5” x 2.5” x 1.75” / Smallest - 4.75” x 1.75” x 1.5” (Width x Depth x Height)
Category

19th Century Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Horn

Antique Civil War Era Leg Brace or Splint with Metal, Brass & Wood Construction
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique Civil War era primitive leg brace or splint is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in the United States in circa 1860. The brac...
Category

Mid-19th Century American Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Brass, Cut Steel

Archery Hunting Arrow Set Four Arrows Leather Quiver Case Collectible
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Arrow set and quiver leather case historical collectible piece Includes four arrows Measures: arrow 16 long x 23.5 x 2.25 diameter Original vintage condition and presentation See our...
Category

Early 20th Century American Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Metal

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Charles and Ray Eames Molded Plywood Leg Splint for Evans in Original Wrapper
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These leg splints were designed by Charles and Ray Eames and produced for the United States Navy by the Evans Products Company, molded plywood division. They're still in their origin...
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1940s American Vintage Primitive Historical Memorabilia

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Plywood

Antique Victorian Micromosaic Gilded Brooch, Italy Early 20th Century
Located in Berghuelen, DE
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Early 20th Century Italian Primitive Historical Memorabilia

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Metal

Betel Motor Car Art Deco Brass Box, Collectible Toy, Children's Paint Set, 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Patent 75086 - This is a large tobacco box with many purposes, (Child's Paint Set). Car in multicolored golden tin in classic brass. Almost new with all the original parts. Wonderful...
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Early 20th Century American Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Metal, Brass

Civil War-Era Side Drum, Made by George Kilbourn, 1859
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an original Civil War-era side drum with a pair of wooden drumsticks. This is a rope tension drum with a wooden body, ropes, and leather tabs. An iron tack pattern surro...
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1850s American Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Iron

Eight Wood Dice Set with Case
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Eight wood dice set with case.
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20th Century Unknown Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Brass

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H 2.5 in W 2.5 in D 2.5 in
Vintage Leather Cigar Case W. B Corter
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Tan leather cigar case. A fine leather cigar case inscribed in ink 'W.B. Corter. June 06'. A great usable item, will take maximum cigar diameter of...
Category

1930s Vintage Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Leather

Vintage Bavarian Traditional Costume Jewelry Charivari with Hunting Pendants
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vintage Bavarian Traditional Costume Jewelry Charivari with Hunting Pendants A Bavarian Charivari from the middle of the 20th century. A beautiful pie...
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Mid-20th Century German Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Metal, Silver

Betel Motor Brass Model Car, Art Deco Box, Collectible Paint Set, 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Lovely Art Deco model car fully made in brass. This charming model car box with many purposes was made in the US during the 1930s. Patent 75086 - This elegant and rare brass model c...
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Early 20th Century American Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Metal, Brass

Set of 6 Lalique Creation Collectible Nina Ricci Perfume Bottles
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage lot of 6 collectible Nina Ricci " Lair du Temps" perfume bottles by Lalique, Perfumes bottles are unique to collecting. They offer not only intan...
Category

Late 20th Century French Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Glass

Backgammon set in leather case with needlework board & vintage counters - Green.
Located in London, GB
The saddle leather case opening to reveal a needlework board, vintage counters and dice in a veg tan throwing cup. Made in UK by Nick Plant These beautiful unique boards are made in small English workshops using traditional materials. Dimensions: 10cm (h) x 55cm (w) x 37cm (l) / 3.9" (h) x 21.5" (w) x 14.5" (l) Two colours...
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2010s British Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Leather

Antique Spanish Colonial Silver Santo Crown
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce 19th century Spanish Colonial style silver saint's crown, to be mounted on the head of a church altar figure, having a cross finial, pierced arches with foliate motif and fi...
Category

19th Century Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Silver

Cold War Era Hand Cranked Air Raid Siren
Located in London, GB
A cold war era Secomak hand cranked air raid siren. Type 447, designed and manufactured by Secomak during WWII and the Cold War. Secomak (Service El...
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Mid-20th Century English Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Metal

Cold War Era Hand Cranked Air Raid Siren
Cold War Era Hand Cranked Air Raid Siren
H 32.5 in W 14 in D 18.5 in
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Antique Farnham Spinning Wheel, Signed, 19thC
Located in Big Flats, NY
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Category

19th Century American Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Wood

19th Century American Early Washing Machine with Mangle
Located in Forney, TX
Impress all your neighbors with this magnificent piece of yard art! Or add an original rustic industrial element to your modern farm house! A rare, hard to find, rustic antique (believed to be American) hand powered early clothes washing machine...
Category

19th Century Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Iron

Antique Cast Iron 10 Arm Hanging Seed Corn Cob Ear Drying Rack
Located in Dayton, OH
Rustic ten arm cast iron corn cob drying rack; includes decorative dried corn cobs. Measure: 19".  
Category

Late 19th Century Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Iron

Late 19th Century Masonic or Fraternal Ballot Voting Box
Located in San Mateo, CA
Fraternal organization marble ballot box. The open end on this box would have contained black and white marbles. The members would reach in and cast their vote by depositing the appr...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Wood

Primitive Neolithic Stone Age Nordic Viking Greenstone Polished Axe head
Located in Sherborne, Dorset
Axe head with trapezoid outline, convex cutting edge, polished on both faces, dating from 4000 – 3500 BC. A non-shaft-hole axe had no hole for the handle and ...
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15th Century and Earlier Swedish Antique Primitive Historical Memorabilia

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"The Ligonier, " Oil on Canvas by R. Palmer
By R. Palmer
Located in Miami, FL
Canvas 52" long x 38" high. Frame 60" long x 46" high. Steamer Ligonier by Americana primitive painter R. Palmer. Painted between 1903 and 1907, in original frame. The oil tanker, ...
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Early 20th Century American Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Canvas, Gesso, Paint, Plaster

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