Antique Sorter

A wonderfully authentic industrial wooden tray from Belgium, dating to the 1920s, shaped by the practical needs of early‑20th‑century workshops and factories. Its sturdy construction...

An interesting French apple sorting device from the 1800’s. The exterior of the column is wrapped in padding to prevent bruising and the holes are used for sorting different sized ap...

French steel postal sorting desk in two parts. The desk in two parts with upper having 25 open compartments with a grid back.

The Brendan Bass Estate Collection pays homage to the beauty of vintage and antique pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they ...

circa 1880 19thC Welsh Pine Post Office Sorting Counter/ Table with original cast iron foot brackets in place.

This 19th century pine sorting table has an old surface and a tin liner that is original.

Le Faucon Sort is an etching realized by N. De Launnay in 1771.

The lower image captures rows of women meticulously sorting coffee beans by hand inside a long, open-air processing shed.

Antique / Industrial 36 cubby hole post office sorting desk...Great size,, Amazing patina,, retains original wire mesh back,,perfect piece for bathroom or kitchen, Hand delivery avai...

Sorting Tobacco in Lengths and Colors, Sumatra — Kleingrothe Photogravure c.1900 This original early 20th-century photogravure captures tobacco workers inside a large sorting facili...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare 1794 George III Gillows Lancaster twin pedestal double sided postmasters desk in paneled mahogany I have ne...

Nicoletto da Modena, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1490 - 1569) - Le Sort de la Langue Mechante, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 12 x 8.25 in. (30.48 x 20....

A large folio hand colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895) titled "Camping Out Some of the Right Sort" published by Currier and Ives, N...

Art Deco Table lamp with a sort of pumpkin hand engraved with fabric shade 1920s Brass polished and stove enameled The fabric shade is replaced The pumkin is original condition

A wonderful primitive hand painted EGGS sign. c.1950 The sort once fixed to farm gates or roadside stalls, naively painted to advertise eggs at one shilling per dozen.

19th Century Arts and Crafts Brutalist Riveted Copper Fender A superb design statement piece, the sort of thing we associate with Liberty Hand Forged in copper with rivets and styl...

The top is a flamed palisander wood and the front is another sort of palisander. It has long legs and 3 drawers.

An elegant set of 4 dining chairs. There is a lovely sort of greyness to the wood Limed oak. I particularly like the cabriole legs at the back and the simple os de mouton shape to...

This antique oak slant-front bureau desk opens to reveal a clean and organized interior workspace featuring a built-in wooden mail sorter gallery with five open cubbies and a central...

Totally massive but with a simplicity about it. The sort of piece that you build a room around.

Three shelves inside the cabinet and the bottom doors unusually open forwards. Finished in the sort after honey color French polish to a high standard.

Bargueño Writting Desk,cabinet in walnut tipical from Portugal. This sort of early chest of drawers were use for papers and documents, it was used as a transportable writting desk.

Contrastingly soft paint with deep rich marble, just the sort of juxtaposition that we love. It’s basically a sculpture that happens to be a table.

The amount of emotion expressed in the woman's face and hand placement is profound. Creating this sort of expression in two dimensions is an achievement and a wonder, always, in port...

The extra deep fully sprung seats on these armchairs make for a great sitting experience and is one reason why they are so sort after. The design of the armchairs lends them to both...

The extra deep fully sprung seats on these armchairs make for a great sitting experience and is one reason why they are so sort after. The design of the armchairs lends them to both...

This was designed as a sort of larder, keeping food safe from animals and out of the sun.

Studios such as Bradley & Hubbard, Handel, and Jefferson Glass Co. popularized richly colored slag glass fixtures during the early 20th century, often pairing ornate metalwork with h...

The low, broad form has a quiet architectural quality, while the mellowed finish gives it the sort of patina collectors and designers look for in authentic Tiffany bronze.

The extra deep fully sprung seats on these armchairs make for a great sitting experience and is one reason why they are so sort after. The design of the armchairs lends them to both...

The interior organization includes four open mail-sorting cubbies, two miniature flank drawers with turned button knobs, and unique side-facing open storage shelves built right into ...

All in all a very unusual shape for a Swedish Biedermeier sofa and very sort after with this stunning mid oak colour finish.

The extra deep fully sprung seats on these armchairs make for a great sitting experience and is one reason why they are so sort after. The front legs will be repolished to match pri...

The timber tops show wear and colour differences from long service, the sort of honest patina that gives early workshop furniture its appeal.

Four are long-bodied running hounds of the greyhound or whippet sort — one bright yellow, one brown and orange, one pale blue with brown markings, one red-orange.

The table is carved and finished all round. Pieces of this sort were known as Conventuelle, or console tables. 

The best Regency designers have been described by modern design historians as Modernists in their outlook and this piece is a perfect example of that sort of thinking. Creating a pie...

Transporting 19th century Chinese gouache painting on paper, executed in a traditional style with figures sorting tea leaves in a modest courtyard background.

The reverse side was engineered for high efficiency, packed with an array of specialized small drawers, cubbies, open shelves, and hidden cash compartments to sort inventory, wrappin...

Transporting 19th century Chinese gouache painting on paper, executed in a traditional style with figures sorting tea leaves in a modest courtyard background.

To the back is a raised "paymaster" style gallery hutch designed for sorting letters, postcards, and bills. It includes multiple vertical slots, horizontal slots, and two small centr...

Tables like this served general-purpose duty in American country stores and farmhouses, doubling as work surfaces, sorting tables, and display counters for goods. SIZE 48"W x 32"D x...

This cabinet represents a highly specialized piece of early commercial furniture, intended for use in retail glove shops, haberdasheries, or dry goods stores where inventory needed t...

It is unusual to find marble tops on tables of this sort.  Although it has not been possible to attribute this piece to a particular maker, it does have pronounced similarities with...

For designers, the combination of aged painted surfaces, original-style gilding and dramatically veined marble provides the sort of texture and historical depth that can keep a newly...

This functional, hand-crafted interior configuration reveals a central organizer with four equal-sized vertical cubbies perfect for sorting mail, flanked on either side by deep, buil...

If the vaguely modernist-brutalist form weren’t enough it has also been decorated with a sort of floral-tattoo art motif in places. Holy smokes- this is a really interesting chair!

Even the original Eastlake frame joins the performance, its marble-painted surround and gilt filet completing the illusion that this scene has occupied the same paneled wall for gene...

A playful yet meaningful jewel, beautifully made and full of storytelling charm exactly the sort of piece the Victorians adored. Additional information: Material: 18ct Gold, Seed Pe...

Both are drawn at full size, the canes, leaves and calyxes given the same attention as the fruit, since the plates were meant to let a grower tell one sort from another. The plate i...

This original Swedish Gustavian early 1900s chairs in probable original paint has highly carved detailing on the frame, arm and legs, unusual delicately fluted feet and wide seat Th...

Lightly aged with a timeworn finish, the rectangular box assembles with an elevated base, removable lid and a single tray insert with eight shallow compartments - ideal today for sor...

The piece stands on flattened bun feet.  Pieces of this sort were only available to the wealthiest people of the period.

Recessed into the back plane of this writing leaf is a circular cutout designed to hold a glass inkwell, positioned right next to a deeply scooped, elongated pen and pencil tray, res...

The front of the piece consists of a series of six drawers above two cupboard doors and both drawer and door fronts are adorned with intriguing "spider's web" type carving, which is ...

Large enough to carry a lapel or a coat at 6cm across, and the sort of signature Deco jewel that anchors a collection.

The practical size of the 'pigeon holes' make it perfect for all sorts of storage from books and magazines through to clothes.

The practical size of the 'pigeon holes' make it perfect for all sorts of storage from books and magazines through to clothes.

The particularly slim and elegant proportions of the arms, the carved floral accent on the top of the head rail and the tapering leaf carved arm supports and collars on the legs are ...

With its elemental form and exotic banded stone, this is the sort of object that suggests a well-traveled interior assembled over a lifetime rather than a room decorated from a singl...