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Desk Accessories For Sale
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1960s Austrian Cow Horn Brush by Carl Auböck
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An elegant brush hand carved from cow Horn with naturally occurring variations in color and pattern.
Category
1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Horn
Vintage Signed Chrome, Brass, Black Resin Hinged Monumental Sculptural Box
Located in North Miami, FL
This stunning and sculptural monumental beautifully made Italian hinged heavy box is signed and stamped Linea Ble Roma. It is from the 20th century and is comprised of chrome, brass ...
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Chrome
A French Handcrafted Letter Kit with Stamp, Letter Opener, and Paper Weight
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A French Hand Crafted Letter Kit with Stamp, Letter opener, and paper weight with Original Box
France, Circa 1900
Signed: H. Moreau
Letter Ppener: 9.75" Stamp: 3.25″ Paper...
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20th Century French Desk Accessories
American Brass Miniature Carriage Clock with Beveled Glass, New York. C. 1850
By James Mix
Located in Hollywood, SC
American brass miniature carriage clock with beveled glass, carrying handle , and signed enamel over copper face with dial. Clock consists of time, strike,...
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1850s American American Classical Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Enamel, Copper, Brass
French Chinoiserie Porcelain Figural Inkstand, Jacob Petit, circa 1840
Located in New York, NY
With removable globe cover revealing a removable ink-pot. The Chinese Buddha holding a quill holder in his left hand.
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1840s French Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Synyer & Beddoes Photograph Frame
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver photograph frame, an addition to our diverse ornamental collection.
This fine antique sterling silver photograph frame has a rounded, subtly waisted shaped form with an oval internal window.
The plain body of this Edwardian frame is encompassed with a paralleling embossed border accented with scrolling leaf and floral motif ornamentation to the upper portion.
The rim of the internal window is embellished with a further plain embossed border.
This frame retains the original oak wood back and hinged strut, securing with a swivel catch.
This fine Edwardian piece is inset with a removable glass panel.
This impressive photograph frame was crafted by the Birmingham silversmiths Harry Synyer & Charles Joseph Beddoes of Synyer & Beddoes.
Condition
This antique Edwardian frame...
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Early 19th Century English Edwardian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Italian Photo Frame Enamel Blue and Silver , Laura G Heart Blue
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Laura G Heart Blue is a small gilt photo frame fully handcrafted , a perfect gift for every occasion. Each one of us wants to express love in a gift...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Arts and Crafts Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
19th Century Silver Gilt Presentation Casket Awarded to Alderman Abel Heywood
Located in London, GB
An Elkington & Company Silver Gilt Presentation Casket
Hall Marked for Birmingham, 1891 and the maker; the casket, in the Victorian Gothic manner, with cluster columns at the angles...
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1890s English Gothic Revival Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Vermeil
1960s Italian Design Crystal Key Fontana Arte Style Paperweight
By Fontana Arte
Located in Brescia, IT
Rare crystal key paperweight
Perfect condiction.
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Ostrich Leather Handle Letter Opener with Brass Knife After Karl Springer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ostrich handle letter opener with brass knife after Karl Springer. Beautifully designed, simple, elegant and functional for any desk, open letters or protect yourself!
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Bronze Boucher Signed Vintage Architectural Sculpture Carrara Marble Base French
By Boucheron
Located in North Miami, FL
The intersecting sculptural lines of this French signed vintage bronze sculpture by Boucher is polished and has a rose gold color of the bronze. It sits on a white and gray veined Carrara marble block base that is attached. The measurements for the sculpture alone are as follows: 9" H x 5" D x 4.5" W. It is from the 1960s. The intersecting lines of this sculpture give it parallel forms. It is a dynamic sculpture...
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1960s French Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Silver Gilt Inkstand by William Bateman II
Located in New Orleans, LA
The unbridled boldness of William IV-period silver design is on full display in this grand silver gilt inkstand by William Bateman II. Hailing from one of the most legendary silversm...
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19th Century English William IV Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
Art Nouveau Double Inkwell Brass & Solid Crystal circa 1890
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is the perfect desk accessory for any decor but especially decorative in the Art Nouveau taste. The solid brass and crystal base supports 2 matching crystal inkwells which are s...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
George Jensen Sterling Silver Letter Opener in Cactus Pattern
Located in Buchanan, MI
George Jensen sterling silver letter opener in cactus pattern.
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20th Century Swedish Desk Accessories
Materials
Stainless Steel, Sterling Silver
English Porcelain Cherub Inkwell, Moore, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
Impressed "Moore" on the bottom of the base.
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1870s British Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Faux Tortoiseshell and Ormolu Tabletop Vitrine, circa 1860
Located in London, GB
A 19th century French faux tortoiseshell tabletop vitrine with gilt bronze mounts, superb quality. With original key and original bevelled glass.
U...
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Mid-19th Century French Grand Tour Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Ormolu
Gilt Bronze Clock with Arab Prince and Princess made for the Orientalist market
Located in New York, NY
An Impressive and very large French Gilt Dore Bronze Clock with Arab Prince and Princess made for the Oriental Market. With the European market entranced w...
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19th Century French Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Vintage French Lucite Embedded Brass Clock Parts Ball Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
What a great piece for a man's desk or cocktail table is this vintage French Lucite and brass embedded round ball sculpture. Many brass parts of gears and clock parts...
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1960s French Machine Age Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
19th Century English Brass and Milk Glass Dog Inkwell
Located in Southampton, NY
19th century English brass and milk glass dog inkwell.
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Bronze Jean Arp Style Abstract Cast Sculpture Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This fabulous vintage French bronze vintage sculpture that looks like rose gold has a very Jean Arp style. It is cast bronze and was once professionally polished but now has a slight...
Category
1960s French Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Rare Bronze Paperweight Celebrating 500th Anniversary of Leipzig Univ, 1909
By Max Lange
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Depicting two male nudes lifting a garland framing Medieval images of the two patron saints of Leipzig University -- St. Laurentius and John the Baptist -- this rare and beautiful br...
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Early 1900s German Beaux Arts Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Larry Mohr Abstract Elongated Angled Bronze Sculpture
By Larry Mohr
Located in North Miami, FL
Connected angles, connected points make up this elongated bronze abstract Larry Mohr tabletop sculpture that is signed. It is an abstract sculpture that may have reference to birds i...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Blue and White Dutch Delft Tile with Artist, Mid 17th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
The Netherlands
Hoorn
Circa 1630 – 1660
A very rare and fine blue and white tile with the decoration of a painter in his workshop, painting a still life painting.
Very nice details ...
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Mid-17th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Midcentury Amber Glass Paper Weight By Borske Sklo, 1960s
Located in Zohor, SK
Unique vintage desk paperweight. Produced by Borske Sklo in 1960s. Original amber color of the glass which is rare to see and find. The glass has the bubbles inside which were hand p...
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1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
Fornasetti Hand Painted Ceramic Paperweight Stone Knick-Knacks
Located in Brooklyn, NY
If there is such thing as a museum quality Knick-knack, the Fornasetti stone shaped paperweight is it.
We are pleased to offer a set of eight, two from the Zodiac series, two from th...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Venini Tyra Lundgren Murano Fully Signed Pink Italian Art Glass Bird Figurine
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, and rare antique Murano hand blown Sommerso pink Italian art glass bird figurine / sculpture. Documented to designer Tyra Lundgren for ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
Brilliant Cobalt Blue Glass Paper Weight with Bubbles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A brilliant cobalt Blue hand Blown glass paperweight. The color and size are very nice... the weight is heavy and substantial - great for ...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Carl Auböck Nickel-Plated Brass Leather Letter Opener, Paper Knife, 1950s
Located in Vienna, AT
A beautiful and solid nickel-plated brass letter opener or paper knife with black leather handle from the 1950s, designed an executed by Carl Auböck, Vienna / Austria. Marked item in...
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Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Midcentury Geometric Chrome and Brass Italian Picture Frame after Rega, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing mid-century brass and chrome picture frame. This marvellous item was produced in Italy during the 1970s under the strong influen...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Italian Craftsmanship Hand Painted Porcelain Tray Teal and Gold Color
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Italian craftsmanship Pocket tray decorated with 4 different horses gold and teal border.
Entirely made in Florence by our master craftsmen.
Artecornici design produces hand colore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Josef Hoffmann Accessory for Bieffeplast
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Elegant and strikingly minimal Bauhaus designs by Josef Hoffmann.
Measure: 4.24” square and 4” high. Showing little if any use.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Maison Lancel Golf Silver Paperweight, France, 1960s
Located in Paris, FR
Mid-Century Modern desk accessory golf silver paperweight by Maison Lancel, France, 1960s.
In an excellent condition.
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Atomic Age Sputnik Table Lamp
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Modern table lamp in the style of Sputnik.
This tall and shiny table lamp has a chrome ball base with newly powder coated teal/blue metal blue stems with small white bulb...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Antique, New and Vintage Desk Accessories
Whether you’ve carved out a space for a nifty home office or you prefer the morning commute, why not dress up your desk with antique and vintage desk accessories? To best tiptoe the line between desk efficiency and desk enjoyment, we suggest adding a touch of the past to your modern-day space.
Desks are a funny thing. Their basic premise has remained the same for quite literally centuries: a flat surface, oftentimes a drawer, and potentially a shelf or two. However, the contents that lay upon the desk? Well, the evolution has been drastic to say the least.
Thank the Victorians for the initial popularity of the paperweight. The Industrial Revolution offered the novel concept of leisure-time to Europeans, giving them more time to take part in the then crucial activity of letter writing. Decorative glass paperweight designs were all the rage, and during the mid-19th-century some of the most popular makers included the French companies of Baccarat, St. Louis and Clichy.
As paper was exceedingly expensive in the early to mid-19th-century, every effort was made to utilize a full sheet of it. Paper knives, which gave way to the modern letter opener, were helpful for cutting paper down to an appropriate size.
Books — those bound volumes of paper, you may recall — used to be common occurrences on desks of yore and where there were books there needed to be bookends. As a luxury item, bookend designs have run the gamut from incorporating ultra-luxurious materials (think marble and Murano glass) to being whimsical desk accompaniments (animal figurines were highly popular choices).
Though the inkwell’s extinction was ushered in by the advent of the ballpoint pen (itself quasi-obsolete at this point), there is still significant charm to be had from placing one of these bauble-like objets in a central spot on one’s desk. You may be surprised to discover the mood-boosting powers an antique — and purposefully empty — inkwell can provide.
The clamor for desk clocks arose as the Industrial Revolution transitioned labor from outdoors to indoors, and allowed for the mass-production of clock parts in factories. Naturally, elaborate designs soon followed and clocks could be found made by artisans and luxury houses like Cartier.
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