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French Bentwood Cradle by Thonet
By Thonet
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
rocking action which can be blocked by a round handle at the back when required. The upper part can de
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Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Bentwood

Antique French Bentwood Cradle by Thonet
French Bentwood Cradle by Thonet
H 81.25 in W 58 in D 28.75 in
4 sets Children Toy Blocks, De Stijl, Amsterdam School, Berlage, 1920's
By Ko Verzuu, Gerrit Rietveld, Theo van Doesburg, De Stijl
Located in EINDHOVEN, NL
every box 2 small boxes 7cm Comes with set small building blocks Very nice in combination with the
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1920s Dutch Art Deco Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Wood

Set of Five Children's Lithographed Alphabet Nesting Blocks, American Circa 1915
Located in Incline Village, NV
Lovely set of colorful early 1900's lithographed five block set of alphabet nesting blocks; used as
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1910s American Folk Art Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Paper

Dehua white china ceramic Immortals statuettes late 19th early 20th height 16 cm
By Block China 1
Located in ARGENTEUIL, FR
painters and calligraphers, but he also has a special mission to help those who wish to have children. It
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Ceramic

Dream Blocks
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
(June 3- September 9, 2013) Literature: Aileen C. Higgins, Dream Blocks, New York, 1908, illustrated in
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Early 1900s Other Art Style Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Antique Lungers Hausen German Set of 10 Child's Toy Nesting Blocks or Boxes
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This child's toy set of nesting blocks or boxes was m fade by Lungers Hausen of Germany in
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Early 20th Century German Art Deco Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Pine, Paper

THE FARMER AND CHILDREN (A NEW ENGLAND FAMILY, or THE FATHER).
By Marguerite Thompson Zorach
Located in Portland, ME
Zorach, Marguerite. THE FARMER AND CHILDREN (also titled A NEW ENGLAND FAMILY, or THE FATHER
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1910s Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Linocut

Set of (7) Child's Lithographed Alphabet Nesting Blocks, American, Circa 1910
Located in Incline Village, NV
This is a larger set of colorful early 1900's lithographed blocks (seven blocks versus 5 blocks
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1910s American Folk Art Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Paper

Ko Verzuu for Ado Dutch Doll House Furniture, 1922-1945, Model 568 and 614
By Ko Verzuu, ADO
Located in Delft, NL
toys were made in this workshop, such as: cars, building blocks, trains and dolls. The crib measures
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Early 20th Century Dutch Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Wood

Orientalist Gilt Carved Frame
Located in New York, NY
Orientalist gilt carved frame. Antique Islamic/Arabesque carved gilt mirror with corner blocking
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Late 19th Century English Islamic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Orientalist Gilt Carved Frame
Orientalist Gilt Carved Frame
H 34 in W 29.25 in D 3.5 in
Antique Mauchline Treenware Horseshoe Picture Frame
Located in Seguin, TX
travelers, opening size 2" x 3", scuffing to finish, the back is missing a block for holding picture.
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Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Wood

SEA TREASURES
By Frances H. Gearhart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
H. GEARHART and Sisters (THE GEARHARTS) SEA TREASURES c.1928 Color block print. Titled and
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Woodcut

FRUIT FOR SALE
By Frances H. Gearhart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
. Unsigned. This is an original block print from “Let’s Play”, an intended but unpublished children’s book
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1920s American Modern Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Woodcut, Linocut

City of York Poster
Located in Los Angeles, CA
England for their youth. This summer camp was dedicated to teaching young children the meaning of service
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18th Century German Post-Modern Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Metal

City of York Poster
City of York Poster
H 27.5 in W 19 in D 0.25 in
A 19th Century Georgian Manner Statuary & Sienna Marble Fireplace Surround.
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Elder, painted in 1560. Entitled ‘children’s games’ however, this is conjecture. The central tablet
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1890s English George III Antique Childrens Blocks

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Siena Marble, Statuary Marble

Antique Print of Hop Pickers at Work after A. Hunt, 'c.1880'
Located in Langweer, NL
. Foreground, young children of the hop-pickers. Right background, oast-houses and the mansion of the
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Late 19th Century Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Paper

Antique Print of Hop Pickers at Work after A. Hunt, 'c.1880'
Antique Print of Hop Pickers at Work after A. Hunt, 'c.1880'
No Reserve
H 18.31 in W 25.01 in D 0.02 in
Yoruba Maternity Group
Located in London, GB
collection Ex Berkeley Gallery, London  Purchased from G Block, 1960’s   Ex London Art Market  Ex Private
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Late 19th Century Nigerian Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Wood

Yoruba Maternity Group
Yoruba Maternity Group
H 22.75 in W 9 in D 11 in
Visit our Toy Department original vintage chromolithograph poster
Located in Spokane, WA
young children surrounded by a ball, blocks, and dolls, and with two young girls reading a book. No
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1920s Art Nouveau Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Lithograph

19th Century, Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture of Two Putti Cupid & Erato
Located in London, GB
single block of Carrara marble, the winged putti cavorting together, one playing a trumpet and the other
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Early 20th Century Italian Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Carrara Marble

Procession Four girls with flowers - English Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
) was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received
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1890s Academic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Christ, from La Passion
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
, 1871-1958. (Block engraved by Georges Aubert) It is signed in the block as issue. The image size is
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Woodcut

Portrait Painting Oil on Canvas by Joseph Badger
Located in Rome, IT
Street), a block from the church where the Badger children were baptized. Smibert also ran a shop that
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18th Century Academic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Oil

Clown Assis, from Cirque de l'Etoile Filante
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
artist Georges Rouault 1871-1958 (Block engraved by Georges Aubert) It is signed in the block as issue
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Woodcut

Nymphs with Butterflies - Impressionist Nude in Landscape Oil by Abel Faivre
By Jules-Abel Faivre
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
, and at the Salon de Paris from 1982, with Woman Musing in 1898, The Virgin with Children in 1899
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1890s Impressionist Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb, after Peter Paul Rubens
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, trimmed and tipped to support Initialed in the block bottom center: CI (CJ) see photo Inscribed in the
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1630s Old Masters Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Woodcut

Two Sisters
By Flemish School, 17th Century
Located in New York, NY
remained part of children’s costumes. She wears double strands of coral around her wrists, as does her
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17th Century Old Masters Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Oil

Two Sisters
H 46.66 in W 37.21 in
Large Aesthetic Movement Silver Plated Serving Tray with Warriors and Serpents
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
riding on top of serpent sea creatures. These scenes are framed within an archway with block posts on
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Late 19th Century American Aesthetic Movement Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Metal

19th Century genre oil painting of a woman in a garden with two girls
By William Stephen Coleman
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
in 1829. He was one of 12 children born to a physician named William Thomas Coleman and his wife
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19th Century Victorian Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Charming Bust of a Child’s Head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, Dated, 1910
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
slightly tilted forwards as she looks out from under a lock of hair, set on a square block signed on the
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1910s English Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Bronze

Carved Sandstone Jain Family Group, 6th-7th Century, Uttar Pradesh, India
Located in Austin, TX
Medieval period, 6th-7th century, Uttar Pradesh, India. Carved from a single block of buff sandstone, the
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15th Century and Earlier Indian Medieval Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Sandstone

American Child's Sampler, Circa 1845 by "Julia Ellen Painter Aged 9 Years Old"
By Julia Ellen Painter
Located in Incline Village, NV
on linen. "Julia" has stitched the proverbial alphabet in script, block letters, and in lower case
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1840s American Victorian Antique Childrens Blocks

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Linen, Thread

Portrait Painting Oil on Canvas by Joseph Badger
Located in Rome, IT
Street), a block from the church where the Badger children were baptized. Smibert also ran a shop that
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18th Century Academic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Oil

18th century portrait of a young girl in a bonnet and patterned shawl
By Tilly Kettle
Located in Bath, Somerset
colour combinations produced by hand-painting and wood-blocking. The shawl and the connection to India
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1780s English School Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Bronze of Vercingetorix with His Son by Emile Laporte 19th C
Located in London, GB
nor children. Of the whole population—about forty thousand—a bare eight hundred who rushed out of the
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1890s French Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Bronze

Japanese Complete ‘Noh Play’ Production, Houshou School 22 Books and Box, 1853
Located in South Burlington, VT
). This antique Japanese book of Noh plays published in 1853. All pages are wood block printed and of a
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Wood, Paper

Apparition des Premiers Habitants by Lucien Pissarro
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
return to France in spring 1884, his activities rapidly expanded to making children’s books, studying the
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Late 19th Century Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Le Temps, Apollon et les Saisons (Time, Apollo and the Seasons)"
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Claude's work we can observe how he consistently used the same 'building blocks'--the lone tree, the tower
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Etching

Wotton-under-Edge by LUCIEN PISSARRO - Watercolour, work on paper, art
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
return to France in spring 1884, his activities rapidly expanded to making children’s books, studying the
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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Ink, Crayon, Watercolor

19th Century Lancashire river landscape oil painting of Doeford Bridge
By Henry H. Parker
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
blocks formed into 2 segmented arches with a central triangular cutwater. It was made a grade II listed
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19th Century Victorian Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Deer Shooting in the Northern Woods, " Hand-colored Lithograph
By Currier & Ives
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah
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1860s Other Art Style Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Lithograph

"Visit to Camp" Rare Card Game by McLaughlin Brother of New York, Ca 1871
Located in York County, PA
technologies in children’s books. The publishing firm opened in 1820 and was active until 1920, when it was
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1870s American Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Paper

Italian 19th Century Greco-Roman Style Marble Bas-Relief Frieze, Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
, Roman Gods, children, a plebeian worker and a herm. The frieze has now been framed within a modern rouge
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19th Century Italian Greco Roman Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Marble, Carrara Marble

Girl Reading a Book
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in Sheffield, MA
return in 1884, he became interested in the making of children's books, studying the technique of wood
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Oil

Allegorical Oil Painting In Pastel Colors By Charles Mills
By Charles E. Mills
Located in Hallowell, ME
Street in Dedham and moved his studio to a block in Dedham Square. Mr. Mills was a portrait painter
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Early 20th Century Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

From the suite La Passion
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. (Block engraved by Georges Aubert) It is signed and dated in the block as
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Woodcut

NYC Federal Full Tester Bed Attributable to Lannuier w Four Floral-Carved Posts
By Charles-Honoré Lannuier
Located in Miami, FL
drinking from either side of a fountain. Bed is on casters that are concealed within the square block feet
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Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Bronze

Unusual Poul Henningsen PH-4/4 Stamped P.H-4 'D.R.P' Deutsche Reichs Patent .
By Poul Henningsen
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
transparent Interlaced whitewashing with frosted glass blocks, and precise interlacing of transparent and
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1920s Danish Art Deco Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Iron

"Building the Allegheny Railroad, Pennsylvania" Alfred Wall, Scalp Level School
Located in New York, NY
than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest
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1850s Hudson River School Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Missouri, MO
understood best—African American women. The work below, entitled, “Man”, is "carved from a block of wood
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Late 19th Century American Modern Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Linocut, Woodcut

Japanese Life-Size, Edo Period, Red and Black Lacquered Palanquin or Norimono
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Kong, Mr. Block, in 1860 acquired a true norimono for the Royal Ethnographic Museum in Copenhagen, now
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Textile, Silk, Rattan, Rope, Wood

Very Fine French 19th Century White Marble Bust of a Young Beauty by René Rozet
By René Rozet 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charlotte, the first of her four children. The French people eventually came to dislike her, accusing
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Carrara Marble, Siena Marble

French 19th Century Patinated Bronze Group "The Abduction of the Sabine Women"
By Pierre Loison 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
children." Responsibility of the men for meeting the needs of the children thus conceived was not included
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19th Century French Mannerist Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Bronze

'The Flower Vase' original hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier
By Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents
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1840s Romantic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

"The Celebrated Clipper Ship Dreadnought, " Original Lithograph by Currier & Ives
By Currier & Ives
Located in Milwaukee, WI
of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble
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1870s Other Art Style Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Lithograph

"The New Steamship Cephalonia, of the Cunard Line, " Lithograph by Currier & Ives
By Currier & Ives
Located in Milwaukee, WI
eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children
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1870s Other Art Style Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Lithograph

"Shooting on the Prairie, " Original Hand-colored Lithograph by Currier & Ives
By Currier & Ives
Located in Milwaukee, WI
27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant
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1870s Other Art Style Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Lithograph

'May Morning' from 'American Country Life' lithograph, N. Currier and F. Palmer
By Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

'Naval Heroes of the United States' hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier
By Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant
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1850s Victorian Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

'Partridge Shooting' original hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier
By Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

'In Memory of William W. Peabody' original hand-colored lithograph by N. Currier
By Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Childrens Blocks

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

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Find a variety of antique childrens blocks available on 1stDibs. The range of distinct antique childrens blocks — often made from wood, metal and bronze — can elevate any home. There are all kinds of antique childrens blocks available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. There are many kinds of antique childrens blocks to choose from, but at 1stDibs, Victorian, Art Deco and Baroque antique childrens blocks are of considerable interest. Many antique childrens blocks are appealing in their simplicity, but Agnes Weinrich, René Rozet and Thonet produced popular antique childrens blocks that are worth a look.

How Much are Antique Childrens Blocks?

Prices for antique childrens blocks start at $249 and top out at $275,000 with the average selling for $2,500.