Antique Steam

Original vintage travel poster for Scotland published by the London Midland & Scottish Railway LMS featuring a striking Art Deco design by the British artist Norman Howard (1899-...

., founded in 1856, and best known for their sawmill machinery, gearing, and steam locomotives. This wooden gear mould was originally tagged "Bevel Gear No. 74-65T."

Gracefully proportioned bentwood rocking chair executed in the Thonet style, featuring continuous steam-bent curves forming the rockers, arms, and structural supports.

Oval-form wooden rocking bassinet crib constructed with steam-bent slats radiating from a central oval base, framed within a sturdy rocking stand.

The piece is defined by its sculptural central pedestal composed of a radiating sheaf of steam-bent beechwood ribs that flare outward from a stepped circular base to support the thic...

The design is defined by its dramatic, sculptural base, showcasing Thonet's mastery of the steam-bending technique. Fluid, ribbon-like bentwood legs sweep gracefully outward from a t...

Masterfully crafted from steam-bent solid beechwood, this iconic stand features a dramatic architectural silhouette composed of two interlacing large circular bands that form an eleg...

Thonet revolutionized furniture in the 19th century through steam-bent wood, allowing for lighter, more organic forms.

Made of celluloid featuring the USS Maine Battleship / steam boat on the cover. The photo album appears to be a keepsake box, or faux book with gilded pages, but opens to a photo al...

A beautiful and highly collectible Austrian Vienna Secession bentwood side table, music sheet stand, or vinyl record holder (Model No. 11611), designed before 1911 and executed by th...

Turn of the 19th century bentwood armchair was manufactured by the renowned Fischel company, a premier Central European competitor to Gebrüder Thonet. Constructed from steam-bent bee...

A bentwood magazine rack by Thonet, Vienna, circa 1900–1910. Steam-bent beechwood in an ebonized finish with characteristic arched uprights and circular loop details at the base — a ...

This highly investment-grade piece features a central cluster column made of four steam-bent beechwood strands that dramatically flare outward like a blooming flower to support the c...

In 1895 the company bought the legendary Soho Foundry in Smethwick, a former steam engine factory owned by James Watt & Co. In 1897 the move was complete and the steam engine busines...

Originally made in the late 19th or early 20th century as a functional pressure boiler canister or steaming tank, this rustic vessel has been converted into a custom industrial / cou...

This set of seven bentwood café chairs carries the kind of story that makes vintage worth chasing — brought home by their original owners from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, and stil...

Constructed from solid steam-bent beechwood, this architectural high chair features a sweeping curved backrest, flared structural legs with an integrated circular stabilizing stretch...

The units are made from Canadian pitch pine, all retain their original paint and original stencilled numbers. We have steam cleaned and washed the shelves so that they are clean and ...

The units are made from Canadian pitch pine, all retain their original paint and original stencilled numbers. We have steam cleaned and washed the shelves so that they are clean and ...

Artfully crafted out of bentwood (=beech wood formed under hot steam and pressure), these chairs have been trimmed to the well known dark mahogany look.

Crafted using the traditional steam-bending method from solid beechwood, these chairs exhibit an outstanding lightness of form combined with timeless architectural lines.

The units are made from Canadian pitch pine, all retain their original paint and original stencilled numbers. We have steam cleaned and washed the shelves so that they are clean and ...

A charming bentwood magazine rack by Thonet, Vienna, circa 1900–1910. Steam-bent beechwood in original dark walnut stain with characteristic arched uprights and whimsical circular lo...

Each brass and glass gauge houses an aluminum faced dial marked for the General Electric Co. Perfect for a steam punk setting. The reverse of each has slightly raised nipple for ...

The combination of British royal history, early steam navigation and dramatic maritime imagery makes this an especially decorative historical print.

Hand-carved from a single, substantial block of wood, this Japanese usu mortar dates from the early twentieth century and was traditionally used in the preparation of mochi by poundi...

Crafted with the companies signature steam-bent beechwood frame, the settee features its striking, all-original embossed plywood seat and backrest.

This unusual variant explicitly advertises three separate major lines: Ruhstaller Lager, Gilt Edge, and Steam Beer. "Steam beer" refers to a highly popular style of California-born l...

The combination of functional design, advanced steam-bending techniques and exuberant organic line places the piece firmly within the emerging Viennese Art Nouveau aesthetic of the p...

Produced principally during the final quarter of the 19th century, these imaginative designs celebrated the technological and engineering achievements of the Industrial Age, with mod...

This piece depicts a view the River Seine near to Rouen in northern France during autumn. There is a steam boat on the river and two figures standing beneath a browning tree on the r...

At the center of the scene, the two ironclads exchange heavy cannon fire amid dense clouds of smoke and steam. Shells strike the water around the ships, sending great columns of spra...

Because salamanders and lizard-like creatures were believed to walk through fire unharmed, they became emblems of resilience and survival, qualities deeply admired in the rapidly ind...

2 Early 19th Century Blue and White Chargers The Blue and White Willow Pattern charger is of St Albans Abbey, Beverley, and the other from the City of Glasgow Steam Packet Company ...

Rowing boats struggle against powerful seas as a harpooned whale erupts dramatically from the water, while a steam vessel looms in the background. Executed after a design by Édouard...

A tall American woven oak splint basket, meticulously handcrafted from steam-bent white oak with an intricate over-under weave, flared form, and substantial bentwood rim.

Perfectly bridging late Art Nouveau/Vienna Secessionist sensibilities with early Art Deco geometry, It features a steam-bent white oak frame with sweeping, continuous armrests that ...

Art Nouveau - Decoration - Home Decor Measures : Base : 72x72cm H:206cm Ø 56cm This large steam-bent beechwood coat rack embodies all the charm and technical mastery of furniture ...

His marine paintings combine carefully rendered vessels with dramatic, often Turneresque atmospheric effects involving smoke, steam, clouds, fog, and shifting light. These scenes of ...

Enlist To-Day - featuring a lively group of British infantrymen in khaki uniforms leaning eagerly out of the windows of a departing maroon steam train, with several soldiers waving t...

The image depicts a blast furnace complex at the Otis Steel Company in Cleveland, Ohio—an intricate environment of conveyors, rail tracks, smokestacks, gantries, and rising steam—tra...

Exceptionally rare and highly original chairs by Fischel. The process of steam bending beech to create elegant chairs was discovered and developed by Thonet, but when its patents exp...

Painted at Antwerp, the view places a substantial steam vessel at its centre, surrounded by the smaller sailing craft and working boats that animated the city's waterways.

Rendered with loose, impressionistic brushwork and a muted, earthy palette, Arie Zwart (1903-1981) depicts a wide, windswept river with a rocky outcrop. A distant steam vessel punctu...

Set of four Thonet bentwood cafe chairs exemplify the revolutionary steam-bending process pioneered by Michael Thonet in the 1850s.

Brooch is approx 5.5. cm. measured horizontally by the steam and approx 3.8/ 4.0 cm. the flower at widest.

The high domed cover is fluted above the relief band and surmounted by a flat button finial ringed in blue, and is pierced with a single steam hole. A long swan-neck spout with a not...

Set against a richly textured, almost nocturnal background of deep blues and greens, the composition centers on a commanding figure dressed in a vivid red robe, holding a steaming cu...

The petite rocker features the iconic steam-bent beechwood frame, showcasing graceful, continuous curves that form the arms, legs, and rockers with elegant fluidity.

Traditionally handcrafted from native Scandinavian woods—ash in this example—these boxes were constructed using thin steam-bent wooden panels secured with small wooden pegs, a techni...

Fig. 1 depicts a volcanic landscape beside a lake, with flames, smoke and steam rising dramatically from fissures and rocks along the shore.

Fig. 2 depicts the famous Great Geyser of Iceland erupting dramatically into the air, surrounded by clouds of steam. In the distance are the volcanic mountains of Iceland, including ...

The chairs feature Halabala’s iconic steam-bent beechwood frames with flowing armrests and a continuous, cantilevered silhouette.

With billowing plumes of steam, expressive brushwork, and a dark colour palette, Belgian artist Jan de Clerck (1881-1962) creates a brooding, atmospheric scene.

Yet another endeavor of Smith’s was yachting, where he contributed to the design of an efficient hull for steam yachts, the first of their kind.

Thonet's essential breakthrough was his success in having light, strong wood bent into curved, graceful shapes by forming the wood in hot steam. This enabled him to design entirely n...

The chair features Halabala’s iconic steam-bent beechwood frames with flowing armrests and a continuous, cantilevered silhouette.

Marc Isambard Brunel [ Isambard Kingdom’s father] built the first steam driven saw mill, and invented a circular saw that could be used to cut veneers thinly and evenly for the first...

This dramatic winter landscape by Austrian painter Josef Carl Berthold Püttner depicts a steam locomotive travelling at speed through a vast snow-covered landscape.

These beautiful Art Nouveau chairs from the early 20th century period were made out of fine bentwood (beechwood that has been formed under hot steam and high pressure) and stained to...