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Desk Accessories For Sale
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“Revolve” No.S4 'made to order' – Contemporary Decorative Sculpture from Denmark
Located in Holte, DK
“Revolve” – No. S4. This is made in a limited edition of only 5 pieces + 1 AP. The five sculptures are made in five different colors, making them all truly one of a kind. The piece in the photo has been sold, but you can request your favorite color under customization. This would be made to order and numbered as No. 02/05. The piece is made from plaster, fish glue, and pigments. It's waxed and weighs 1kg (2.2lb). About Revolve: The starting point of this project is rooted in Flensted Mouritzen's interest in old stucco materials and moulding techniques. It has grown into a fascination with the two-dimensional line of the running mould technique being transformed through a specifically created turning machine...
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2010s Danish Modern Desk Accessories

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Cast Stone

1960s New Old Stock Tin Toys, Decorative 'Toy 5'
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1960s New old stock tin toys – decorative (Toy 5) 1960s New old stock tin toys – decorative (Toy 5). New old stock tin toy complete and unused in its original dead stock unused bo...
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1960s Unknown Vintage Desk Accessories

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Tin

21st Century Concrete Cement Tray Centrepiece Handmade in Italy Pink Color
Located in Rome, Lazio
Renzo in a family of multipurpose trays with a very smooth surface and soft curved edges, now available in a different color composition. Each piece is a unique, no two are the same....
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2010s Italian Modern Desk Accessories

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Concrete

Antique Victorian Cut Glass and Sterling Silver Desk Inkwell
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian cut glass and English sterling silver mounted desk inkwell, part of our antique silver and gl...
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1890s British Victorian Antique Desk Accessories

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Sterling Silver

Pair of Travertine Horse Bookends Letter Holder by Fratelli Mannelli Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of horse-shaped bookends and letter holders in travertine marble by the Italian designers Fratelli Mannelli, 1970s.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Travertine

“Revolve” No.S2 'made to order' – Contemporary Plaster Sculpture from Denmark
Located in Holte, DK
“Revolve” – No. S2. This is made in a limited edition of only 5 pieces + 1 AP. The five sculptures are made in five different colors, making them ...
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2010s Danish Modern Desk Accessories

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Cast Stone

Small Memphis Style Postmodern Mirror
Located in San Diego, CA
Very cool Memphis style small wall mirror signed Hill Brin, circa 1990s. There is a lot of intricate pottery detail and image overlap on the frame of the handmade mirror.
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Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Desk Accessories

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Pottery

Antique Norwegian Silver Gilt & Enamel Wax Seal Container and Stamp, circa 1910
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Norwegian silver gilt and enamel wax seal container and stamp; an addition to our diverse enamel work collection. This exceptional antique Norwegian silver gilt wax seal container / stamp has a cylindrical tapering form. The surface of this exceptional antique silver wax seal...
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1910s Norwegian Vintage Desk Accessories

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Silver, Enamel

Vintage German Bakelite Table Phone
Located in Vienna, AT
Bakelite table phone from the early 1960s.  
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1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Steel

Malachite Jewelry Dish or Desk Vessel
Located in New York, NY
A green malachite jewelry dish or desk vessel, circa 20th century. Piece can work as a small jewelry/trinket dish, a standalone decorative object, or paperweight/desk accessory for small items, etc. Convenient for a table, office, desk, shelf, vanity, nightstand, etc. Dimensions: .75" Height x 2.25" x 4.75" Other items in images also available, search 1stDibs ref. #s: European white alabaster column pillar, ID#: LU1314218503602 (SOLD.) Blue art glass knot, ID#: LU1314218486102 (SOLD.) Green Murano art glass paperweight, ID#: LU1314218504872 (SOLD) Malachite dish (larger of the two), ID#: LU1314218497672 (SOLD.) Black and brass desk pen set...
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20th Century Organic Modern Desk Accessories

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Malachite

Mid-Century Modern Italian Animal Sculpture in Green Resin of a Deer, 1960s
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Deer sculpture in green resin from Italy, 1960s. Really good condition very beautiful decorative piece.
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Resin

Gourmet Round Wood Trivet, by Gunnar Cyren from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Beautiful walnut and oak trivets with delicate carvings. Trivets were originally designed in the 1970s by the highly acclaimed Swedish designer, Gunnar Cyren as part of the Gourmet Wood range, and are now being manufactured again by Warm Nordic. Their harmonious design and consummate quality make these wooden trivets perfect for both everyday meals and more festive occasions. The carvings lend the trivets a touch of character and have a life of their own in the form of swaying trees, sprouting hearts and abstract animals, depending on which way you look at them. Gunnar Cyren's Trivets also look attractive on the kitchen worktop...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Wood

Puiforcat 20th Century Desk Accessories Letter Holder Silver and Wood
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Puiforcat Elegant letter holder in silver and wood by Puiforcat 20th century desk accessories, circa 1970 Original good conditions Signed under the base Measures: Heig...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

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Silver

Polish Brass and Lucite Desk Accessories set by Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Glamorous 1960’s polish brass and clear lucite desk accessories by renowned designer Charles Hollis Jones. CHJ first designs were accessories, that ...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Chrome, Brass

Sunrise Glass Jellyfish Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Sunrise glass jellyfish sculpture. Blown glass sculpture of jellyfish, in Sunrise, made in the USA. Other color variations available.
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2010s American Other Desk Accessories

Materials

Blown Glass

Eight French Decorative Glass Desk Paperweights
Located in London, GB
These beautiful paperweights were created in France in the 20th century. Glass paperweights began to be widely collected in the mid-19th century, after they were showcased at the Int...
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20th Century French Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Glass

Yonel Lebovici Ressort Letter Holder Distrimex, France, 1969
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Rare limited edition letter holder designed by Yonel Lebovici and manufactured by Distrimex, France 1969. This nickel plated spiral shaped letter holder was made in a limited product...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Chrome

Porcelain Bowl Hand Painted with Rabbit Figure Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbuhel, AT
Completely handmade porcelain bowl with a hands-free naturalistic painted Easter rabbit in black and white colors. The rabbit is sitting in the middle of the bowl for decorating nuts...
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2010s German Country Desk Accessories

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Porcelain

Ericsson Cobra Phone in Cream-Colored Plastic with Turntable at the Bottom
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Ericsson Cobra phone in cream-colored plastic with turntable at the bottom. Swedish design icon, 1960s. Measures: 21 x 11 cm. In very good condition.
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1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Plastic

English 19th Century Clothes Brush with Petit Point on Silk with Brass Edges
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English clothes brush from the 19th century, with petit point décor on silk and brass borders. Born in England during the 19th century, this sweet rectangular clothes brush featur...
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19th Century English Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Sheffield 1891 Sterling Silver Tabletop Double Glass Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver tabletop double inkwell with aquatic and wavy pattern. Two glass inkwells with sterling silver tops. Maker JJ, made in Sheffield, England in 1891. A great gift and ad...
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1890s English Antique Desk Accessories

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Silver, Sterling Silver

Set of Five File Folders in Wicker and Brass, Italy, 1960s
Located in Rome, IT
Five big file folders in wicker and brass details made in Italy in the 1960s.
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Metal, Brass

Jugendstil Broom and Shovel, circa 1908
Located in Wien, AT
Jugendstil broom and shovel, circa 1908 Polished and stove enamelled.
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Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Desk Accessories

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Brass

Enamel Sterling Silver and Silver Plate Vintage Bowl
Located in North Miami, FL
This gorgeous artist vintage bowl from the 1960s is enamel black with rose toned center with swirls of sterling silver and the bottom is silver plate. It ...
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Sterling Silver, Silver Plate, Enamel

Two Bookends by Carl Auböck Brass Design Vienna, Austria
Located in Vienna, AT
A pair of large solid brass bookends created and manufactured by the Austrian architect and designer Carl Auböck. These outstanding objects made of solid polished and decorated brass...
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1980s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Brass

Modern One-Piece Ericofon Telephone, Cream
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cream, modern one piece Ericofon telephone created by the Ericsson Company of Sweden and manufactured by North Electric in Galion, Ohio features a rotary di...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Plastic

1950s Store Display Gibbs Shaving Razors, France
Located in Antwerp, BE
Vintage store display - counter display for Gibbs shaving razors. A 1950s shop mill - shop display with little boxes filled with shaving razors. This a...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Metal

Early Panorama Children’s Book Hiawatha Illustrated by Willy Pogany London 1914
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Antique panorama children’s book illustrated by Willy Pogany and retold by Edith L Elias. A total of 14 panels, one side with illustrations, and the other with text. Published by George G. Harrap & Company. This book is part of a children’s series by Willy Pogány of folding panoramas illustrations and text, inspired by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 epic, The Song of Hiawatha. Lines from Longfellow run underneath Pogány’s illustrations, which follow the Ojibwe child Hiawatha from his early kinship with the wild animals, through his struggles with Nahma, King of Fishes, and his own estranged father, Mudjekeewis, up to his courtship of Laughing Water (Minnehaha). The prose text by Edith Elias, printed on the verso of the panorama, carries Hiawatha’s story farther, through the death of Minnehaha and the coming of “the Pale-Face Chief.” Pogány’s dynamic frames, with their striking use of negative space, show the influence not only of Golden Age illustrators like Walter Crane, but also the new generation of cartoonists like Winsor McCay...
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1910s English American Classical Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Paper

Travertine Marble Letter Pen Holder Fratelli Mannelli Rapolano, Italy, 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Pen and letter holder, cylindrical shape, in travertine marble by Fratelli Mannelli. Rapolano, Italy, circa 1970. It still has its original label on the bottom (as shown in the p...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Travertine, Marble

Royal Worcester Art Nouveau Blush Porcelain Desk Stand Dated 1894
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish and rare Royal Worcester Art Nouveau porcelain desk stand decorated in blush colors and moulded in low relief with trailing floral designs dated 1894. The stand is of recta...
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1890s English Art Nouveau Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Porcelain

Danish Alabaster and Silver Spoon Vase by Christian F. Heise 1904-1932
Located in Delft, NL
Danish Alabaster and silver spoon vase by Christian F. Heise 1904-1932 Danish alabaster spoon vase for tea spoons, but also useful for other objects as for example pencils or past...
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Early 20th Century Danish Desk Accessories

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Alabaster, Silver

Rare Minton Ink Stand with Ink Pot and Sander
Located in Lincoln, GB
Minton Double Inkwell Measures: H 10cm, W 25cm, D 18cm A beautiful inkwell, in excellent condition and stunning color.
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19th Century British Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Porcelain

Midcentury Figural Cast Iron Canon and Leather Book Table or Desk Lamp
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very unique and functional table lamp is unsigned, but presumed to have been homemade in Canada in approximately 1965 in the period midcentury style. The lamp features a figural cast iron canon...
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

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Metal

Italian Yellow Leather and Suede Picture Frame
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful Italian light-yellow leather picture frame with suede backing, circa early 21st century. Frame was made in Italy for Barneys New York as marked on back, please see image ...
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2010s Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Leather, Suede

Art Deco Glass and Brass Desk Inkwell with Pen Rest
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Art Deco glass and brass desk inkwell with pen rest A very stylish piece made in heavy crystal with a brass mounted ink well and feet, these may have origi...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Desk Accessories

Materials

Glass

Swiss Hotel Blue and Gold Porcelain Jewelry Dish
Located in New York, NY
A small round European blue and gold porcelain jewelry dish from Swiss luxury hotel brand "Hotel du Rhone", "HR", "Geneve"; With luxury brand l...
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Early 20th Century Swiss Desk Accessories

Materials

Porcelain

Carl Auböck Model #4630 Large Brass Bookends
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Aubo¨ck model #4630 large brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in polished brass. Price is for the pair....
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

English Leeds Fireclay Company Advertising Lion Paperweight, circa 1904
By Leeds Fireclay Company
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual antique art pottery advertising paperweight mounted with a seated lion made in Leeds at The Leeds Fireclay Company (Burmantofts) dat...
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Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Pottery

Art Deco Floral Crystal and Brass Magnifier
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Brass magnifier with red-and-white crystal accent piece on the handle. The center section is frosted crystal with raised floral design. On either side ...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Desk Accessories

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Crystal, Brass

Christian Thomsen Royal Copenhagen 1903 Art Nouveau Porcelain Cocks Inkwell #524
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Designed by Christian Thomsen of Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, this fine antique porcelain inkstand features two white cocks feeding. Created in 1...
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Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Desk Accessories

Materials

Porcelain

Art Deco Figural Ceramic Turkey Bookends in Taupe and Charcoal Grey Luster Glaze
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of Art Deco ceramic bookends are signed, but the maker could not be identified, but presumed to have been made in France in approximately 1935 in the period Art Deco style....
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Desk Accessories

Materials

Ceramic

Pair of Mid-Century Modern Tessellated Stone Boxes by Maitland Smith
Located in New York, NY
This elegant pair of modernist boxes were realized by the celebrated 20th century design firm Maitland Smith in the Philippines, circa 1980. They feature two cylindrical bodies- one ...
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1980s American Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Stone

Ghidini 1961 Axonometry Desk Trays Set in Polished Brass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Trays in brass. Dimensions for trays: 35.4 x 23 x 2H cm; 23.5 x 7.5 x 2H cm; 12.5 x 7.5 x 2 H cm.  
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Walter Bosse Midcentury Horse Brass Figurine, Herta Baller, Austria, 1950s
Located in Vienna, AT
A lovely horse foal sculpture made of brass from the 1950s. Designed by Walter Bosse, executed by Hertha Baller. In good condition with charming patina. We offer more Walter Bosse br...
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Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

1960s Vase, Tapio Wirkkala for Venini Attributed, Lattimo Murano Glass
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Mid-Century Modern Murano vase, Tapio Wirkkala for Venini attributed, lattimo Murano glass decorated About: Designed in 1968 by Tapio Wirkkala, these b...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Murano Glass

Ghidini 1961 Omini Tape Mate in Polished Brass by Stefano Giovannoni
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Scotch holder in brass Omini is a family of products that plays on the inclusion and the relationship between the human figure with a series of monolithic objects from geometric and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Neoclassical-Style Continental Silver '.800' Footed Double Inkstand by Dragstead
Located in New York, NY
Neoclassical - style, Continental Silver (.800), footed, double inkstand, Denmark, year-hallmarked for 1901, A. N. Dragsted - maker. Each of the wells is decorated with bows and garl...
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Early 1900s Danish Neoclassical Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Sterling Silver

Catherine Noll Arched Silver Plate and Gradient Color Lucite Sculpture Vintage
By Catherine Noll
Located in North Miami, FL
This special tall lucite and silver plate elegant and organic arched sculpture was designed by Catherine Noll whose famous grandfather was Alexandre Noll. He was a well know sculptor who made fabulous sculptures out of carving simple wood. This sculpture which resembles a form of a horn was done in 1970. The arched form is lucite and the square base is silver plate. The lucite has gradients of gray tones as light hits it. It is organic modern with elegant lines. Catherine Noll was mainly a Parisian jewelry designer who started her illustrious design career back then. The materials she worked with in jewelry consisted of wood, ivory, Perspex and crystal. Catherine was in art school at the famous Beaux Arts when her noted and famous sculptor grandfather; Alexander Noll...
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1970s French Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Silver Plate, Brass

English Concentric Paperweight Possible Bacchus, circa 1850
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning English concentric glass paperweight with five rows of cog style canes surrounding a central larger cane. The canes are of vari...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Glass

Antique Pair of Sterling Silver Game Skewers / Letter Openers
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine pair of antique George IV English sterling silver game skewers/letter openers; an addition to our diverse flatware collection These fine antique George IV English sterling silver game skewers/letter opener has a plain tapered form. The anterior and posterior surfaces of the skewer are embellished with chased decorated shell designs below the plain circular ring loop finger piece. The original use of this item was purely as a game/meat skewer. Due to its form, this piece may certainly be used as an effective letter opener. Condition These antique letter openers...
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1820s Great Britain (UK) George IV Antique Desk Accessories

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Silver, Sterling Silver

Modernist Lucite Resin Cube Sculpture with Gears Pierre Giraudon, France, 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Lucite resin cube with gears inside attributed to Pierre Giraudon, circa 1970.  
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

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Resin, Lucite

Exceptional, Elegant and Heavy Brass Letter Opener by Carl Auböck, Vienna, 1950s
Located in Munich, DE
Unique Mid-Century Modern letter opener. Designed and manufactured by Carl Auböck in Vienna, Austria, 1950s. Executed in solid brass and leather. Measurements: L 8.07 in. x W 0.90...
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1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

1970s Modernist Polished Brass Tape Dispenser
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Modernist tape dispenser circa (1970s USA) in polished brass. The circular disks that hold the roll of tape in place adjust to accommodate dif...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Brass

Antique Capodimonte-Type Hand Painted Bas Relief Hinged Box
Located in Charleston, SC
Rare antique Capodimonte type hand decorated hinged box with gorgeous original gilt interior and bas relief decoration on all sides including the b...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Desk Accessories

Materials

Porcelain

Ice Bucket, 3 Ashtrays White Plastic, Steel, Cini & Nils OPI Studio Italy, 1970s
Located in Arosio, IT
MarCo Melocchi and Franco Bettonica of O.P.I. Design, designed these items in 1974 and 1975. These are original items, bought as they came out on the design scene. One is the famous...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Steel

Danish Bakelite Table Phone from the 1940s
Located in Vienna, AT
Bakelite leather covered table phone, made in Denmark in the late 1940s. Used marks.  
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1940s Danish Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Steel

Anglo Indian Pietra Dura Inlaid Marble Butterfly Paperweight
Located in Stamford, CT
White marble paperweight with beautiful colored burnt orange and greenish gray marble inlay with mother of pearl highlights in the form of a butterfly. Mid-20th century Anglo-Indian,...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Desk Accessories

Materials

Marble

President Richard Nixon's Football
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Nixon football. This rose bowl football was presented to Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1954. Nixon gave the ball to his nephew. His nephew and ...
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1950s American Vintage Desk Accessories

Materials

Other

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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