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Large 24 Piece Antique Mechanical Drafting Set & Original Fitted Metal Case
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This large and substantial antique mechanical drafting set most likely originates from Germany and
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Early 20th Century German Edwardian Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Metal

Fitted Drafting Set in a Stingray Case, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Includes 3 boxwood rulers and Calipers and misc. Tools.
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Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Brass

Antique French Ecritoire Desk in Burled Elm, circa 1830
Located in Dallas, TX
write up documents, drafts, or letters. The true beauty of this desk lies in the top face, or lid
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Early 19th Century French Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Metal, Brass

Set of Four Qing Dynasty Elmwood Open Fretwork Panels with Delicate Carvings
Located in Yonkers, NY
A set of four Chinese Qing Dynasty period large carved elm wood interior door panels from the late
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Wood, Elm

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV Painting after Ilya Repin
By Ilya Repin
Located in New York, NY
of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto. Late 19th Century. Monumental oil on canvas, set within an
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Late 19th Century Russian Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV Painting after Ilya Repin
Located in New York, NY
of Saporog, Are Drafting a Manifesto. Late 19th Century. Monumental oil on canvas, set within an
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Late 19th Century Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait Woman Princess Diziani Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
drafting; in particular, we are inclined to attribute its execution to Gaspare Diziani (1689-1767), a
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Oil

Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Hand Carved 6 Panels Wooden Screen/Room Divide
Located in Pomona, CA
A set of six Chinese Qing Dynasty period large carved wood interior door panels from the late 19th
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Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Wood

Chinese Spotted Deer Painting Fragment, c. 1751
Located in Chicago, IL
drafts and other intrusions in a scholar's workspace. Like every aspect of a scholar's studio, such
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Mid-18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Paper, Pearwood

Émile GALLE (1846-1904) "Paysage Vosgien" Glass Lamp circa 1900
By Emile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
opened a crystal factory that was set on fire on 29 May 1894 in his company in Nancy. His research led in
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Bronze

Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Large Cameo Glass Vase "Gladioli" circa 1900
By Emile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
opened a crystal factory that was set on fire on 29 May 1894 in his company in Nancy. His research led in
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Art Glass

Chinese Table Screen with Soapstone Panel, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
drafts and other intrusions in a scholar's workspace. Like every aspect of a scholar's studio, such
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Soapstone

Chinese Reverse Glass Table Screen with Floral Still Life, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
. Also known as spirit screens, smaller table screens such as this were often used to block drafts and
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Glass, Wood

Italian Neoclassical Architectural Etched Engravings Six Panels Folding Screen
By Giovanni Ottaviani
Located in Firenze, IT
grayscales - is applied to paper and set in frame flanked by a sage green fabric. At the bottom each panel is
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18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Textile, Cotton, Paper

Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Impressive Cameo Glass Vase "Bignones" circa 1900
By Emile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
opened a crystal factory that was set on fire on 29 May 1894 in his company in Nancy. His research led in
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1910s French Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Art Glass

Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Rare Cameo Glass Vase 'Basilique Saint-Nicolas-de-Port'
By Emile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
glassworks were designed in Meisenthal until 1894, when Gallé opened a crystal factory that was set on fire
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1910s French Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Art Glass

17 Century Still Life Paolo Castelli Natura Morta Fruit Oil on Canvas Red Green
By Giovanni Paolo Castelli detto Spadino
Located in Sanremo, IT
). This magnificent canvas, hitherto unpublished to my knowledge, depicts a display of fruit set out in
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1680s Italian School Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Oil, Canvas

E.Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase « Anemones» circa 1900
By Emile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
factory that was set on fire on 29 May 1894 in his company in Nancy. His research led in 1898 to the
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Art Glass

Children's Cutlery Silver Josef Hoffmann Wiener Werkstatte circa 1923 Jugendstil
By Wiener Werkstätte, Josef Hoffmann
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Silver children’s cutlery set designed by Josef Hoffmann and Eduard J. Wimmer-Wisgrill manufactured
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1920s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Silver

19th Century Oil on Canvas French Revolution Painting Signed and Dated 1849
Located in Dallas, TX
Set in the original carved giltwood frame, this antique oil on canvas was painted in France, circa
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

Ecce Homo Plate X
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
in 1917, he was drafted by the German army and served in France from then until the close of the war
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1920s Bauhaus Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Woodcut

Ecce Homo VII
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
in 1917, he was drafted by the German army and served in France from then until the close of the war
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1920s Expressionist Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Woodcut

Racamadour (French Church Series #10)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
architecture. Arms evolved his unique drafting style, with its highly realistic, precise detail and exquisitely
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1920s American Realist Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Etching

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
Located in Como, IT
widespread iconographies in Italian painting from the Renaissance onwards, that of the Holy Family, is set in
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Early 17th Century Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Laurence Dunn, SS Pinhel Lisboa (c.1927) Merchantman Tramp Steamer watercolour
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval
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1920s Modern Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Laurence Dunn, SS Denmark Maru (c.1927) Merchantman Tramp Steamer painting
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During
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1920s Modern Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Laurence Dunn, SS Zrinski (c.1925) Merchantman Tramp Steamer
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft
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1920s Modern Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Laurence Dunn, Drawing of Coastal Tramp Eastleigh, Kent (c.1925) T A Soliffe
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
designed the well-known corn-coloured hull, and later Thorneycroft, where he helped with shaping draft
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1920s Modern Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Laurence Dunn, SS Kentish Coast (c.1925) Merchantman Tramp Steamer
By Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
shaping draft plans for a new royal yacht. During the second world was he worked for naval intelligence
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1920s Modern Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Dutch Bamboccianti Jacob van Huchtenburg Rome Market 1674 Oil canvas
By Jacob Van Huchtenberg
Located in Florence, IT
simplified, of a villa, probably from the 16th century, drafted by Raphael, Villa Madama, situated on the
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1670s Other Art Style Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Six Imporatant George III 1760 Thomas Chippendale Chinese Pagoda Dining Chairs
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in GB
are of identical decoration to the set of two armchairs and ten single chairs, circa 1765, formerly at
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1760s English George III Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Hardwood

17th Century Portrait of a Woman Painting Oil on Canvas by Monsù Bernardo
Located in Milan, IT
. Arriving in the capital on March 31, 1656, Keil came into burning contact with the Bamboccianti School set
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17th Century Italian Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas

Les Cavaliers dans la Parc
By Jean Dufy
Located in Missouri, MO
theatre sets. To earn money, he was a clerk for an overseas import business and even served as secretary
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1920s Impressionist Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fishing Camp on the Labrador Coast
By William Bradford
Located in New York, NY
New Bedford, by 1849 Bradford had set up in New Bedford as a “merchant tailor” offering outfits for
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19th Century American Realist Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Oil

18th Century Italian Oil on Canvas Painting with Battle by Antonio Calza
By Antonio Calza
Located in IT
casual figurative freedom. Its material drafting is quick and immediate, often with subsequent finishing
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Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas

Bust of the Roman emperor Nero, part of the Julio-Claudia dinasty
Located in Rome, IT
The plaster bust under discussion here belongs to a set of ten busts of Roman emperors, eight in
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Late 18th Century Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Plaster

Concours
By Jean Dufy
Located in Boothbay Harbor, ME
brother, Raoul, encouraged him. Jean not only did fine-art painting but painted theatre sets. To earn
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Oil, Board

Concours
Concours
H 13 in W 16 in
Skating
By John Drew
Located in Minneapolis, MN
such as this resonated with the Jazz-Age set and pierrot's appeared in the decorative arts such as
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1920s Art Deco Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Oil

Skating
Skating
H 47 in W 33 in D 3 in
Art Nouveau Bentwood Seating Set by Brief Czechoslovakia, CZ, circa 1910
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Unusual bentwood seating set artfully processed by the Czechoslovakian bentwood manufactory of
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Bentwood, Fabric

Thonet Bentwood Seating Set with Two Armchairs and Bench, Austria, circa 1910
By Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH, Gustav Siegel
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Beautiful Thonet seating set attributed to the Austrian designer Gustav Siegel. Artfully made in
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Fabric, Bentwood

Danhauser Vienna Biedermeier Parlor Set Four Chairs Two Armchairs Settee 1815
By Josef Danhauser
Located in Vienna, AT
) - correlating with the set presented here: Witt-Dörring made a draft on the set offered here in order to prove
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Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Wood

Antique Wooden Drafting Stools
Located in Oakville, CT
Set of 4 Drafting stools Overall Dimensions: 21" x 21" Seat Height Adjusts from 30" - 33" Also
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Early 20th Century American Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Iron

Antique Wooden Drafting Stools
Antique Wooden Drafting Stools
H 30 in W 21 in D 21 in
Vintage Drawing Instrument Set, English, Drafting Compass Compendium, circa 1930
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage drawing instrument set. An English, bone and cast metal drafting compass
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Early 20th Century English Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Metal

Committee Drafting the Declaration of Independence, Antique Color Engraving 1865
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
draft of the historic document to Robert Livingstone and Roger Sherman. Set in a simple room with books
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1860s American Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Paper

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Three-Volume Set, circa 1831
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a three-volume set of Napoleon Bonaparte's memoirs written by his private secretary, Louis
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1830s Antique Drafting Sets

Set of 12 18th Century Francois Nicolas Martinet Engravings of Parrots
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of Francois Nicolas Martinet engravings of parrots, Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux, 1770-1786
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1770s Georgian Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Paper

Set of Four 19th Century Curvy Elegant French Louis XVI Style Wingback Bergères
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Set of 4 French Louis XVI style circa 1870 wingback bergères having refined carved walnut frames
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Upholstery, Walnut

Fantastic Oak and Marble Bar Counter and Shelving Set-Hotel in France, 1920
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
as a charming draft beer tap (not functional), as well as cupboards and drawers for practical storage
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Early 20th Century French Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Marble, Chrome

19th Century English Writing Desk with Lift Panel
Located in Hixson, TN
lifts up to reveal an adjustable drafting slope. There are three leather inserted panels, each section
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19th Century British Regency Antique Drafting Sets

18th Century French Louis XV Marquetry Mechanical Table, "Secrétaire à Culbute"
Located in Berlin, DE
graduated set of drawers which can be swung a full 180 degrees in to position if needed. To prevent air
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Bronze

Sigmund Engelhardt Austrian Art Deco Diamond and Platinum Double Clip Brooch Cir
Located in London, GB
An Art deco double clip brooch, set with eight-cut, Swiss-cut, round brilliant-cut and Edwardian
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1920s Austrian Art Deco Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Diamond, Platinum

1876 Signing of the Declaration of Independence Engraving by Ormsby
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
committee responsible for the draft- John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Jefferson, and
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1870s American Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Paper

Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 4 Vols., 1830
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
, 1830. Second edition, four volume set. Rebound in quarter calf and marbled paper boards, with a
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1830s American Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Paper

Memento Mori Skull on Bible
Located in Chicago, IL
skull sits atop a bible and adjacent to a rosary. What sets this memento mori apart is its rather
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Porcelain, Glaze

Memento Mori Skull on Bible
Memento Mori Skull on Bible
H 3.13 in W 3.5 in D 3 in
13 Stars In a Betsy Ross Pattern on a Small Scale American Flag, 1900-1930
Located in York County, PA
was no official star pattern for the 13 star flag set forth in the flag act of June 14th, 1777, the
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Early 20th Century American Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Cotton

13 Stars in the Circular Wreath Pattern Often Attributed to Betsy Ross
Located in York County, PA
are official today. Because there was no official star pattern for the 13 star flag set forth in the
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Late 19th Century American Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Wool

"E-E-E-YAH-YIP, Go Over With U.S. Marines" Vintage WWI Poster by C.B. Falls
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
necessary for the country to mobilize for the fight—to recruit (and sometimes draft) troops, to train them
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1910s American Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Paper

Rare 1826 Kerchief of The Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Located in York County, PA
Independence”, but what it actually portrays is the presentation of the original draft of the document to the
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1820s American Antique Drafting Sets

“Cottage by the Sea” Oil Painting by Georges Maroniez
By Georges Maroniez
Located in Shippensburg, PA
through fields of grasses to her cottage beside the sea. The moon hangs low in the sky while the sun sets
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Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Canvas, Paint

L'Oree du Bois
By Jean Dufy
Located in Sheffield, MA
painted theatre sets.  To earn money, he was a clerk for an overseas import business and even served as
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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Drafting Sets

Materials

Oil

L'Oree du Bois
L'Oree du Bois
H 43 in W 37 in D 3 in
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Antique Drafting Sets For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are several options of antique drafting sets available for sale. Each of these unique antique drafting sets was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, canvas and fabric. There are all kinds of antique drafting sets available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Antique drafting sets are generally popular furniture pieces, but Baroque, Art Nouveau and Georgian styles are often sought at 1stDibs. Thomas Chippendale produced beautiful antique drafting sets that are worth considering.

How Much are Antique Drafting Sets?

Antique drafting sets can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $8,866, while the lowest priced sells for $864 and the highest can go for as much as $217,964.
Questions About Antique Drafting Sets
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    To identify an antique tea set, look for hallmarks on the bottoms of the pieces. Handwritten markings indicate a set produced prior to the 19th century. You can also research the pattern to get a rough idea of when the maker manufactured it. Shop a range of expertly vetted antique tea sets on 1stDibs.