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1940's Tall Ebonised French Museum Display Cabinet
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1940’s tall ebonised french museum display cabinet 1940’s tall ebonised french display cabinet
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1940s French Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Wood

Charles Hollis Jones Lucite / Glass Display Cabinet
By Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A two door Lucite display cabinet with lighted top and bottom panels having four glass shelves
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Glass, Lucite

Midcentury Edward Wormley Dunbar Walnut Showcase Curio Display Cabinet Bookcase
By Dunbar Furniture, Edward Wormley
Located in Dayton, OH
. Features a rectangular walnut case raised over large silver tapered metal legs The case features three
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Glass, Walnut

MUSEUM QUALITY MADE IN FRANCE JALLU MASSiVE STRAW MARQUETRY BOOKCASE
By Jallu Ebenistes
Located in GB
, Museum quality, extra large open display bookcase with Straw Marquetry which was custom made to order
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20th Century French Art Deco Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Brass

GM Ellwood for JS Henry. A Fine Exhibition Quality Arts & Crafts Display Cabinet
By George Montague Ellwood
Located in London, GB
below with two larger triangular display cases with shelves. The base section has a shaped apron pierced
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20th Century English Arts and Crafts Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Mahogany

Art Deco Sideboard / Cabinet by Jacques Émile Ruhlmann
By Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Located in Miami, FL
is now displayed in revered institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn
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20th Century French Art Deco Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Oak

Hildo Krop Important Cabinet in Oak, Designed for His Own Home, De Stijl, 1930
By Hildo Krop
Located in The Hague, NL
primary colors of the legs display a striking similarity to the abstraction proposed by the artists of De
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1930s Dutch De Stijl Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Oak, Mirror, Wood

Art Deco Entry Cabinet, Vanity or Dressing Table by Osvaldo Borsani , Burl Walnut
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Vigonza, Padua
where the Italian aristocracy and industrial elite would build their houses, a project that displayed
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Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Walnut

Pierre Balmain Vintage Bookcase in Wood and Glass
By Pierre Balmain
Located in Milano, IT
double doors. The larger display case has a central shelf, whereas the smaller one is divided into three
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1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Glass, Wood

Mid-Century Modern School Desk by James W. Leonard For Knoll Associates
By Esavian, Knoll, James Leonard
Located in Brooklyn, NY
and displayed in museums such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Aluminum

Bookcase / Entry Table by Paul McCobb for Winchendon Planner Group, USA, c. 1960
By Paul McCobb
Located in Deland, FL
Industrial to MCM to Contemporary to Modern this display case will make a BOLD statement in any space it
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Maple

Art Deco Neoclassical Cabinet in Cuban Mahogany by Pierre Lardin, France, 1940
By Pierre Lardin
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
. Neoclassical design features architectural elements with Directoire style accents. The sideboard has display
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1940s French Neoclassical Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Brass, Bronze, Gold Leaf

Pair of Acid-Etched Brass with Ebony Lacquer Dressers by Bernhard Rohne
By Mastercraft, Bernhard Rohne
Located in San Diego, CA
by Bernhard Rohne for Mastercraft, circa 1970s. Covering each case are abstract designs in Rohne's
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Brass

Pair of Acid-Etched Brass with Ebony Lacquer Dressers by Bernhard Rohne
By Mastercraft, Bernhard Rohne
Located in San Diego, CA
Bernhard Rohne for Mastercraft, circa 1970s. Covering each case are abstract designs in Rohne's signature
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Brass

Franco Albini LB7 Bookcase in Teak Wood by Poggi Pavia 1950s Italy
By Franco Albini, Poggi
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
paintings and display cases are hung, are supported by a grid of steel cables; in the Vanzetti stand (1942
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Metal

Important Vladimir Kagan Rosewood Brass Dresser, Desk Unit, 1950s
By Vladimir Kagan
Located in Culver City, CA
highly sought after by collectors and are displayed in museums around the world. This set is currently
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Brass

Liquor trolley by Cesare Lacca - brass and rosewood
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Antwerp, BE
. Incidentally, Lacca’s lighting designs, at least one of which was on display at the 1950 Brooklyn Museum
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Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Brass

Osvaldo Borsani Mid-Century Modern Italian Bar Cabinet
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Forney, TX
case with drop-front secretary desk style slant-front bar work surface, over double-door cabinet
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Wood, Rosewood

Rare Italian Geometric Dry Totem Bar by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti, c. 1990's
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Deland, FL
the allure and elegance of this fascinating piece. Topped with a turntable that can display alcohol
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1990s Italian Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Steel

Italy 1950s Cesare Lacca Attributed Dry Bar Cart, Laquered Walnut & Burl Walnut
By Cesare Lacca, Brugnoli Mobili Cantú
Located in Vigonza, Padua
which was on display at the 1950 Brooklyn Museum exhibition— are difficult to source and often sell well
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Burl, Walnut

Museum Quality Model of American Steam Yacht Harvard
Located in Norwell, MA
mounted with two heavy brass columns into a free standing mahogany display case with raised panel table.
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1990s American Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Wood

Angus Ross Cabinet Tallboy Drawers
Located in London, GB
commissioned by The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum to build a museum quality cabinet to display their costume
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1990s British Post-Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Maple, Oak

Angus Ross Cabinet Tallboy Drawers
Angus Ross Cabinet Tallboy Drawers
H 74.81 in W 27.56 in D 28.75 in
Mid-Century Art Decò Venetian Baroque Commode by Gaetano e Osvaldo Borsani
By Gaetano Borsani, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Vigonza, Padua
that displayed the same rationalistic rigor displayed in Casa Minima, but softened by the use of
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1930s Italian Baroque Revival Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Walnut

Museum Quality Model Of The Mexican Tall Ship "Cuauhtemoc"
Located in Norwell, MA
rigging and a full suit of sails. Fitted to a custom display case with table. Circa 1990.
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1980s Polish Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Wood

Gilbert Rohde Dresser 4041 Kroehler New York World's Fair 1940 Two-Tone 44" long
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
, 1940's foremost furniture designer, expressly to demonstrate modern living displayed in the 'America at
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1950s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Birdseye Maple

Cabinet of Curiosities Display Sculptural Artwork, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, ES
, elegantly presented within a wood and glass display case reminiscent of a Classic sculpture museum. Olot
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1950s Spanish Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Plaster, Wood

Vintage Movado Museum 14k Yellow Gold Steel Quartz Ladies Watch 70.25.837
By Movado
Located in New York, NY
14-karat gold Case with stainless steel buckle. This watch has blemishes on the hands. No original
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Late 20th Century Swiss Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Yellow Gold, Steel

Late 20th Century Silver Mezuzah Case by Shuki Freiman
By Shuki Freiman
Located in New York, NY
prominent art collectors and is displayed in museums and galleries around the world. Every item in
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Late 20th Century Israeli Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Silver

Wood Cased Ship Model of the Bent F. Packard of Seattle
Located in Norwell, MA
and shows all standing and running cords. Crisp workmanship. Museum quality. Glass display case.
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1960s American Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Wood

Modern Surrealist Mixed Media Fly & Tree Maze Sculpture with Lucite Case
By Bob Fowler
Located in Houston, TX
wood base with a clear lucite case. The initials "BF" for Bob Fowler are embossed in the side corner of
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1960s Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Mixed Media

VeArt 1960s Italian Pair of Copper Silver Speckles Black Murano Glass Urn Lamps
By VeArt, Venini
Located in New York, NY
: speckles of copper in the glass and in this case silver speckles as well, in a pattern to create lines that
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Silver, Copper

Untitled (Floral Still Life)
By Zama Vanessa Helder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gallery in New York, and exhibited and, in many cases, won awards at significant museums and exhibitions
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1940s American Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Paper, Watercolor

Sea Shells – Blue & Gold
By Zama Vanessa Helder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
New York, and exhibited and, in many cases, won awards at significant museums and exhibitions
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1940s Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Paper, Watercolor

Cartier High Jewelry Exhibition Coffee Table Book, 1997
Located in New York, NY
of the exhibition, 'Cartier 1900 - 1939', held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from
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Late 20th Century Italian Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Paper

Set of 4 snuff bottles, glass, mid-century, tobacco, Bavarian forest, Germany
Located in Wien, AT
every elaborate display case. Bottles like these are on display in different European glass museums. If
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Mid-20th Century German Folk Art Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Blown Glass

Susan Tibbles Life Sized Art Assemblage “Master Lock” Framed Sculpture Distresse
By Susan Tibbles
Located in Topeka, KS
sculpture in purposefully distressed display case or shadow box. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that
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1980s American Bohemian Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Metal

Large American Pop Art Abstract Aquatint Etching James Rosenquist Just Desert
By James Rosenquist
Located in Surfside, FL
, ultimately becoming the lead painter for Artkraft‐Strauss and painting displays and windows across Fifth
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1970s Pop Art Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Etching, Aquatint

Carl Aubock II Fondue Set Mid-Century Nutwood Steel Austria, 1960
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
similar modell is on display at the Vienna Furniture Museum from Autumn 2022 to Spring 2023. The
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1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Steel

Life-Size Vintage Clown Statue, English, Plaster, Day of the Dead
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
gloved hands and waistcoat buckle Size compatible with our large show case for museum display (18.5409
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Mid-20th Century English Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Plaster

Still life in the studio, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
window, Pierre has assembled a few simple objects that he depicts in a subtle display of light. The color
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1990s French School Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Oil

"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
displayed by the European modernists, particularly Matisse, van Gogh, and Gauguin, Davis dedicated the next
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1930s American Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Paper, Gouache, Pencil

Matsu (Pine)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
first commissioned artwork to be displayed on the Museum’s Bloor Street Plaza. Recent major exhibitions
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1960s Abstract Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Woodcut

Franco Albini PL19 or Tre Pezzi Armchair in Red Fabric by Poggi 1970s
By Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Poggi
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
) the tapered flagpoles, on which the paintings and display cases are hung, are supported by a grid of
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Steel

Body Grid Sculpture by Tanya Ragir, Signed & Dated 1990, Edition 1/9
By Tanya Ragir
Located in Los Angeles, CA
with meticulous attention to detail, this sculpture is housed in an elegant display case, adorned with
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1990s American Post-Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Resin

Mobe Pearl Sculpture
Located in Kansas City, MO
Marcie Stone Mobe Pearl Sculpture Beadwork Year: 1995 Size: 12 x 8 x 1 inches Comes with display
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1990s Contemporary Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Stone

Lake Tahoe II
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
DeForest, Relf Case, Richard Brodney and Bart Perry, (1952); San Francisco Art Association, 72nd Annual
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Watercolor

Lake Tahoe II
Lake Tahoe II
H 13.25 in W 15.75 in D 0.01 in
Landscape III
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
noted California artist as been in display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at the San
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Pastel

Landscape III
Landscape III
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.01 in
Landscape II
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
noted California artist as been in display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at the San
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Pastel

Landscape II
Landscape II
H 16.75 in W 22 in D 0.01 in
Earth-Toned Abstract Figurative Woman with Drinking Glasses 137/140
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in Houston, TX
monuments. His works have been on display in over 40 museums (exhibitions and permanent collections) and
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20th Century Contemporary Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Lithograph

Rare & Top Workmanship Midcentury Bronze Discus Fish Sculpture W Stunning Patina
Located in Lisse, NL
great, no matter where you decide to have him on display. As so often is the case, this near-antique
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Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Bronze

Firing. Setting & Detonation of Explosive Charges Underground Welsh Coalminers
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
supplied ready to hang and display. The painting is signed lower right. Valerie Ganz was a highly
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Late 20th Century Realist Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Oil

Franco Albini PL19 or Tre Pezzi Armchair in White Wool by Poggi Pavia, 1950s
By Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Poggi
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
drawings (1941) the tapered flagpoles, on which the paintings and display cases are hung, are supported by
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1950s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Steel

Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Museum's Bloor Street window case. The artist generously donated a third work, Emerald Summer (2006). The
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1970s Abstract Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Woodcut

Lake Tahoe III
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
California artist as been in display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at the San Francisco Art
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Watercolor

Lake Tahoe III
Lake Tahoe III
H 19 in W 23.75 in D 0.01 in
Landscape V
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
California artist as been in display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at the San Francisco Art
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Watercolor

Landscape V
Landscape V
H 14 in W 17 in D 0.01 in
Lake Tahoe
By Bart Perry
Located in San Francisco, CA
California artist as been in display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at the San Francisco Art
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Watercolor

Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe
H 17 in W 22.5 in D 0.01 in
Market Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
the author of one book, La Case de Damballah, published in 1939 (Imprimerie de L'Etat) and republished
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Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Oil

Market Scene
Market Scene
H 24 in W 36 in D 0.75 in
Will Frates, “Princeton Beach”, Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting, c. 1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
, boat hulls, and a section of water. Artist’s loose yet assured brushwork on wonderful display
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Canvas, Plaster, Wood, Paint, Paper

Two Fine Prints from the David Suite by Edna Hibel, 1978
By Edna Hibel
Located in Larchmont, NY
technique. She organized the Edna Hibel Museum of Art, in Jupiter, Florida, to display and promote her work
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1970s Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

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Rice Paper, Lithograph

Bbpr Burnished Brass Chandelier
By Studio BBPR
Located in Medesano, IT
glass display cases with burnished brass frames encouraged shoppers to peruse products in the round
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Museum Display Cases

Materials

Brass

Bbpr Burnished Brass Chandelier
Bbpr Burnished Brass Chandelier
H 21.66 in W 17.72 in D 17.72 in
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Vintage Museum Display Cases For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of vintage museum display cases is available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, metal and glass, all vintage museum display cases available were constructed with great care. Vintage museum display cases have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. There are many kinds of vintage museum display cases to choose from, but at 1stDibs, mid-century modern, industrial and Art Deco vintage museum display cases are of considerable interest. There have been many well-made vintage museum display cases over the years, but those made by Franco Albini, Poggi and Afra & Tobia Scarpa are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Vintage Museum Display Cases?

Prices for vintage museum display cases start at $240 and top out at $259,331 with the average selling for $4,881.