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Desk Accessories For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1980s
Murano Sommerso Glass Horse Head Bust Signed Italian
Located in North Miami, FL
This Italian Murano Sommerso glass horse head is signed Bortaro. It is lovely and in then colors of black, gray and clear. The mane of hair in hand b...
Category
1980s Unknown Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Blown Glass
Italian Cream Architectural Marble Obelisk
Located in Chicago, IL
Italian cream pale marble obelisk composed of pieces of marble laminated together to compose the obelisk. Hollow on the interior and felted bottom.
Part of three architectural marb...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble
Murano Clear Italian Art Glass Elephant Sculpture
Located in Cathedral City, CA
1970s Murano glass elephant sculpture.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
French Leather Desk Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Classic leather desk set with chrome letter opener and scissors. Burgundy leather holding case. Marked made in France and Nogent. Good vintage condit...
Category
1970s French Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Scottish Art Glass Paperweight Decorative Object
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful Scottish organic modern style clear/transparent and moss green art glass paperweight or decorative object, circa 1970s, Scotland. A great piece for a desk, office, librar...
Category
1970s Scottish Organic Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
1980s Plated Brass Bridge Bolts Bookends Paperweights Quirky Vintage Mid-Century
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Brass electroplated Bridge Bolts as bookends or office decor. Each about 5 lbs. and 3.5 wide by 4 inches high. Appropriated objects similar conceptually to the works of the Carl Aubo...
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Table Fan PAL, 220V, 30W Central Europe in the 1980s
Located in Praha, CZ
In good original and functional condition. Silent run.
Category
1980s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Set of Mid-Century Modern Guzzini Crystal Lucite Italian Vases, 1970s
By Guzzini
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful set of four crystal plexiglass flower vases. This fantastic set was designed by Guzzini in Italy during the 1970s.
This set is made of four different flower vases with t...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite, Plexiglass
Vintage Gucci Note Pad Holder and Desk Accessory
By Gucci
Located in North Miami, FL
This wonderful vintage Italian signed Gucci note pad holder has wood backing with flip topnote holder and the iconic logo fabric Gucci symbols as the f...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Chrome
Travertine Letter & Pen Holder Desk Accessory Fratelli Mannelli Style Italy 1970
Located in Rome, IT
Letter and pen holder in travertine marble, the perfect desk accessory, in the style of Fratelli Mannelli.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Travertine
Modern Black Art Glass Paperweight or Decorative Object, circa 1970s
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful Modern/Postmodern black and neutral flesh-tone art glass decorative object or paperweight with an organic modern design, circa 1970s. This handmade art glass coloring and...
Category
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Blown Glass, Art Glass
Louis Vuitton 1980 Shop Window Display Airplane Model
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A French 1980 handmade wooden model airplane from a Louis Vuitton shop window display.
Beautiful brass stand.
This item is very unu...
Category
1980s Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Vintage Glass Transparent Ashtray, Italy, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Glass transparent ashtray is an elegant glass decorative object, realized during the 1970s.
Very elegant glass transparent ashtray perfect for your home.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Lucite Table Lamp, Mid-Century Modern
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Modern lucite table lamp. This tall modern lucite lamp has four striking columns which make a bold statement. The base is square and the center polished chrome stalk is a...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Chrome
Lucite Embedded Resin Coral, Shell, Sand, Plant, Aluminum Bowl Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This fun, nautical and very Palm Beach lucite embedded bowl has a center of polished aluminum. The interior are assorted colored shells, resin coral, colored orange sand, and dried plants. Vintage from the 70's. Makes a great desk accessory or soap tray...
Category
1970s American Organic Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Shell, Resin, Lucite
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...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Tommaso Barbi Midcentury White Ceramic and Brass Italian Picture Frame, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Incredible mid-century frame in white ceramic and brass. This wonderful object was designed by Tommaso Barbi, as you can see his signature on the back, in Italy in the 70s.
This piece is unique for the fine artisanal work on the white ceramic in combination with the brass interior decoration.
A picture frame in perfect condition that will complete a midcentury-style living room or bedroom.
Italian designer Tommaso Barbi is best known for his whimsical furniture...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Vintage Abstract Brass and Black Granite Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
This tall fabulous vintage polished brass abstract sculpture has been put on a new black granite base. It is vintage from the 70s and has 2 interconnected abstract bodies. The brass ...
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Granite, Brass
Leather Basket by Lancel Paris, Signed and Made in Italy
By Lancel Paris
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This basket, or trash can, is signed Lancel Paris underneath, and has been made in Italy in the 1970's.
The leather as a beautiful old patina.
It is in good condition.
Category
1970s French Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather
Egyptian Revival Black Resin Sphinx Step Sculpture Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing and fabulous vintage sphinx black resin sculpture is most likely to be one of a kind. It is signed RA on the bottom. We do not know who this is but the female body is co...
Category
1970s Unknown Egyptian Revival Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Resin
French Sculptural Stainless Steel Clock by Michel Fleury, circa 1970s
Located in Chicago, IL
A French 24 hr brushed stainless steel clock signed M Fleury.
Very architectural and modernist forms.
Excellent condition to the structure, with no scratches or dents.
Clock mov...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Stainless Steel
Surrealist Bronze Female Sculpture on Marble Base
Located in New York, NY
A substantial surrealist bronze female sculpture on marble base, circa 20th century. An interesting sculpture piece, perhaps for a library, office, f...
Category
1970s Unknown Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Plastic Trash can by Makio Hasuike for Gedy
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This item is a fantastic icon from the chic 1970s plastic fashion.
It has been done in Italy, by Makio Hasuike for Gedy.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
White Porcelain Ashtray Made in Germany
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage pure white china ashtray.
With a fresh, contemporary modern look with embossed arabesques design.
Hotelporzellan, Hogermann.
Made in Germany, cir...
Category
1970s German Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Brass Desk or Table Lamp by Stiffel, circa 1970s
By Stiffel
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial Art Deco style brass desk or table lamp, circa 1970s. Lamp has a beautiful, graduated design, a detail reminiscent during the Art Deco period of the 1930s...
Category
1970s American Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Italian Ceramic Flower Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant ceramic box made in Italy, circa 1970s. Black and white color theme with white flowers. Great condition. Perfect stash box or tabletop object. Marked Made in Italy on underside.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Large Art Glass Sculpture by Robert L. Hamon
Located in South Charleston, WV
5.5" diameter. USA, 1980s large sphere glass tabletop or mantel or shelf sculpture by studio artist Robert L. Hamon. Hamon glass produced paperweights and on occasion would produce v...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
Black and White Marble Pyramid Obelisk Style Decorative Object
Located in New York, NY
A black, charcoal and white marble pyramid 'Obelisk style', circa 1970s, 20th century. Dimensions: 2.63" square base x 7.88" height.
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Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble
Modern Desk Set of Pewter for Letters and Visit Cards by Jean Goardere
By Jean Goardere
Located in Weiningen, CH
Modern desk set of pewter for letters and visit cards by Jean Goardere
Measures: 26 x 20 cm 5 cm
20 x 14 cm 3 cm
11 x 6 cm 3 cm.
Category
1970s French Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Pewter
Collection Gilt Leather Bound Library Book Set / Eighteen
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Collection of gilt leather bound library book set of eighteen. Army Life In A Black Regiment By Thomas Went Wentworth Higginson "Collector's Library ...
Category
1980s Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Paper, Leather
Desk / Table Lamp Metal Flex Shade and Chrome Mount, Base with a Wooden Detail
Located in Verviers, BE
1970s table lamp with chrome fittings on a metal base with wooden detail. The lamp has a shade made of metal giving it a matte black finish, white surface inside,
Ideal for a side t...
Category
1970s Scandinavian Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Modernist, Sterling Silver Rocker Blotter, Amethyst Crystal, Peter Casswell
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1972 by Peter Casswell, this handsome, Modernist design Sterling Silver Rocker Blotter, is plain in style, and features an u...
Category
1970s English Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Amethyst, Sterling Silver
Stanley Szwarc Stainless Steel Rectangular Large Box Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This fabulous long and unusual rectangular box is polished satin stainless steel. The dimensions of the work on top have flower like bursts in Industrial and floral forms. It is not ...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Stainless Steel
Tommaso Barbi Midcentury White Ceramic and Brass Italian Picture Frame, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Incredible mid-century frame in white ceramic and brass. This wonderful object was designed by Tommaso Barbi, as you can see his signature on the back, in Italy in the 70s.
This p...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Yascal Signed Vintage French Bronze Twisted Square Cube Sculptures Pair
Located in North Miami, FL
These amazing and fabulous pair of signed French bronze square cube sculptures are meticulously intertwined works of bronze braided and twisted rope giving a spaghetti like design. T...
Category
1980s French Organic Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Porcelain Brush Rest with Vivid Fish Images
Located in New York, NY
A heavy mid-century Chinese porcelain brush rest, beautifully hand painted with colorful fish images and character marks on the lower left corn...
Category
1970s Chinese Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Swedish Sommerso Black Charcoal Gray Clear Abstract Freeform Glass Paperweight
Located in North Miami, FL
This unusual freeform abstract glass sommerso paperweight changes forms, shapes and dynamics with each turn and placement. Colors of gradients of black, charcoal gray to gray are imm...
Category
1970s European Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Blown Glass
1980s Hermes Koran Box for Thomson-CSF
Located in Hong Kong, HK
1980s Hermes Box by Ravinet d’Enfert for Thomson CSF which purpose was originally to contain a Koran.
On the top of the lid a Shaheen Falcon is represented over the engravings of ...
Category
1980s French Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Sotheby's, New York Important Paperweights, Sale No. 5349
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's - New York: Important Paperweights - Sale No. 5349 - Saturday, June 15, 1985. Sotheby's Auction House, NY, June 1985. 1st Ed softcover. 393 lots photographed in color and b...
Category
1980s American Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Paper
Purple Ceramic Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Purple ceramic box made in Italy. Classic design and perfect scale. Great stash box. Good vintage condition.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
1980s Vintage Hand Carved Wooden Nut Cracker Bird Box
Located in Plainview, NY
A vintage wooden nut cracker bird box made of walnut from 1980s.
Dimensions: 10.5" D x 5.75" W x 14" H.
Category
1980s American Adirondack Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Italian Hardstone 'Rhodonite' Box, circa 1970s
Located in Litchfield, CT
This fabulous Italian hardstone box is a sleek, colorful example of seventies decorative objets, Italy, circa 1970s. The Rhodonite used in this one was c...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Mats Jonasson Frosted Crystal Glass Seal Toucan Paperweight Sculpture, 1980s
Located in Rome, IT
A lead crystal glass paperweight, produced circa 1980s by Mats Jonasson of Sweden, designed as a seal, with frosted detail in the shape of a toucan. Marki...
Category
1980s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Rock Crystal Sphere Coming from Central America and Carved in the 70s
Located in Milan, IT
Rare rock crystal sphere, light brown rutile. Rutile is a mineral from which it is extracted the titanium, in the form of Fine needles similar to hair. Diameter cm 9 - inches 3.54.
...
Category
1970s Central American Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Vintage Block Eternity Calendar in Wood, 1970s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A rather clever block eternity calendar in oak and pine wood. Anonymously made in Denmark during the 1970s I a style reminiscent of Kay Bojesen. The months are in English.
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Rock Crystal Sphere Coming from Central America and Carved in the 70s
Located in Milan, IT
Rare rock crystal sphere, light brown rutile. Rutile is a mineral from which it is extracted the titanium, in the form of Fine needles similar to hair. Diameter cm 9.5 - inches 3.74....
Category
1970s Central American Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Gucci Desk Calendar
By Gucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handsome red leather Gucci desk calendar and writing pad. Original paper inside. Brass and chrome Gucci badge on front and Gucci logo stamped underneath. Excellent vintage condition.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Mid-Century Modern Baseball Paperweight by Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
This refined Mid-Century Modern baseball paperweight- executed in translucent crystal- represents the simple elegance of Tiffany & Co. at its finest. Since its founding in 1837, Tiff...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Italian Red Burgundy Suede and Snakeskin Picture Frame, circa 1970s
Located in New York, NY
A '70s Modern Italian red burgundy suede and snakeskin picture frame, circa 1970s, Italy. Frame can sit in two positions; vertical (as shown) or horizontal. Picture/image area: 4.5" ...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Animal Skin, Suede
Rare Christofle Silvered Napoleon Empereur Letter Opener 1970s France
By Christofle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare Christofle silvered Napoleon Empereur letter opener, 1970s, France.
Unique and precious details.
Category
1970s French Neoclassical Revival Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Glass Triangular Ashtray, Italy, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Glass triangular ashtray is a wonderful glass decorative object, realized during the 1970s.
Very elegant glass ashtray triangular shape. Brown gl...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Danish Designer Bjorn Wiinblad White & Gold Jewelry Dish Rosenthal Studio-Line
Located in New York, NY
A small beautiful white and gold jewelry dish by Danish Designer Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal Studio-Line porcelain, Germany, 20th century. With...
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Black Minimalist Desk Lamp by Designer Robert Sonneman, '80s
Located in New York, NY
A designer black desk, task, or nightstand table lamp/light, Minimalist design period, 1988. Lamp is by designer Robert Sonneman for Robert Kovacs maker. With designer and makers' ma...
Category
1980s American Minimalist Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Coiled Rattle Snake, circa 1980s USA
Located in New York, NY
A ceramic coiled rattle snake with the look and feel of a real snake. Piece was designed in the late 1980s, USA. Makers mark on bottom. Piece is circa late-20th century, South Dakota...
Category
1980s American Rustic Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Paperweight in Murano Glass with Inner Bubbles and Gold Dust, Sculpture, Italy
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful sphere in Murano glass. Game of air rising from a golden dust.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
Black Box with Mallard Duck Mosaic
Located in New York, NY
A black resin rectangular box with mosaic inlaid mallard duck bird on pond with cattail plant flower; all inlaying was done by hand with natural materials...
Category
1970s American Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Toni Zuccheri Murano Glass Paper Holder for VeArt, Italy, 1970s
By Toni Zuccheri, VeArt
Located in Milan, IT
Toni Zuccheri paper holder for VeArt, Italy, 1970s.
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Murano Glass
Large, Heavy Flavio Poli Sommerso Murano Ashtray 1950s Faceted Red Blue Glass
Located in Stockholm, SE
Cool and beautiful multifaceted Murano Glass ashtray by Flavio Poli.
He was born in 1900 in Chioggia, Italy, Poli and received his formal training at the Istituto d'Arte di Venezia...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
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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