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Desk Accessories For Sale
Period: Late 20th Century
Period: 1930s
Vintage Black Forest Bear Pen Rest, German, Bronze, Marble, Decor, Desk Stand
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage Black Forest bear pen rest. A German, bronze and marble decorative desk Stand, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970.
Highly distinctive desk Stand with charm...
Category
Late 20th Century German Black Forest Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Dansk Modernist Bear Animal Figure Paperweight Silver Plated by Gunnar Cyren
By Gunnar Cyren
Located in North Hollywood, CA
DANSK Modernist Bear Animal Figure Paperweight Silver Plated by Gunnar Cyren.
Vintage Dansk Modernist Bear Animal Figure Paperweight Silver Plated designed by Gunnar Cyren for Dansk designed in circa 1970s.
Wonderful modernist silver plated bear...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Scandinavian Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver Plate
Hand Painted Glass Bottle with Geometrical Shapes and Flowers in Red and Gold
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand painted Glass Bottle with Geometrical Shapes and Flowers in Red and Gold.
Category
Late 20th Century European Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Presse papier coquillage nautile en inclusion époxy
Located in PONT-AUDEMER, FR
Coquillage Nautile en inclusion epoxy.
Dans le style des créations de Pierre Giraudon.
Bel état d'usage. Quelques marques minimes et particulier sur le dessous.
Category
1970s French Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Shell, Epoxy Resin
Paris Crocodile Skin 7 Piece Desk Set French Art Deco Complete
By Hermès
Located in Oakland, CA
French Art Deco 7-piece crocodile skin desk set in the style of the Paris company Hermes, very fine 7- piece desk set in rich deep brown crocodile skin. May have been designed by Paul Dupré-Lafon who worked for Hermes and is best known for these highly stylized fancy desk...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Typewriter/Consul, Type 2224, 1980s
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of Metal, Steel, Plastic,
Re-polished
With aged patina
Original condition.
Category
1980s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Steel
Rectangular Decorative Box with Lid and Circular Motifs
Located in Marbella, ES
Rectangular decorative box with lid and circular motifs.
Category
Late 20th Century European Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
1980s F-1 Fighter Jet Lighter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool vintage table lighter in the shape of a F1 Mirage fighter jet. Made in Japan, 1980s. This piece has great balance and details. Cool tobacco accessory ...
Category
1980s Japanese Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Signed Bronze Commemorative Plaque with Image of Dog and "Sunny" Written on It
Located in Marbella, ES
Signed bronze commemorative plaque with Image of Dog and "Sunny" Written on it.
Category
Late 20th Century English Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture of a Figure with Oar Signed Arruli
Located in Marbella, ES
Bronze Sculpture of a Figure with Oar Signed Arruli.
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Typewriter, Manufacturer Remington: Zbrojovka Brno, circa 1935
Located in Praha, CZ
Oznaceni: Remington Z16
Vyrobeno v Ceskoslovensku. Výroba zacala v roce 1934
Vyrobeno z kovu, oceli, chromu
Leštené
Dobrý puvodní stav, funkcní
Mezerník se nevrací.
Category
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Vintage Brass Inkwell, Single Inkstand, England 1930, H305
Located in Vancouver, BC
Vintage Brass Inkwell, Single Inkstand, England 1930, H305
England 1930
Single Inkwell With Brass Fitting And Cover
Sitting In A Brass Base
H3...
Category
1930s English Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Gorgeous Large Murano Italian Art Glass Fish Aquarium Paperweight, Italy, 1970s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful Murano hand blown aquarium Italian art glass paper weight. Showing some multicolored fishes, floating on controlled bubbles. Colors are a blue, orange and clear. A beautifu...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Murano Glass
Train Locomotive Lighter, 1980s Japan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool vintage table lighter in the shape of a train engine. Made in Japan, 1980s. This piece has great balance and details. 'Japan' sticker on the...
Category
1980s Japanese Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
1970s Colonial Bronze Vessel
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Colonial Bronze Vessel.
Category
Late 20th Century Asian Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Olivetti Synthesis Portalettere Design Sottsass - Design - Olivetti
Located in Milano, MI
OLIVETTI SYNTHESIS portalettere Design Sottsass - design - olivetti
OLIVETTI SYNTHESIS
SISTEMA 45 - Portalettere
Design Ettore SOTTSASS ( 1917 ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Pair of Crystal Stylized Penguin Sculptures by Val St. Lambert
Located in San Diego, CA
A pair of petite faceted clear crystal penguin sculptures by Val St. Lambert exclusively for the Danbury Mint, circa 1980s. The pair are in excellent cond...
Category
Late 20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Just Andersen Denmark, Art Deco Ribbed Pewter Fluted Cache Pot #2352
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
A petite Just Andersen pewter cache pot with fluted rim
Perfect as a desk accessory or purely ornamental
Stamped and numbered 2352 on base
Height 2.5 inch, Diameter 2.75 inch
In ver...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Pewter
Italy Late 20th Century Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Tracce Tracks
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
1938 René Lalique Paperweight Taureau Sacre Glass Sepia Patina for Royal Dutch
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Paperweight" Taureau Sacre" made in frosted glass with sepia patina by René Lalique in 1938 for the Royal Dutch Mail.
Acid-stamped signature and entitling on bottle.
Edition limi...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Portable Typewriter Corona Junior, U.S.A. circa 1395
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A.
Made of metal, steel, chrome,
Polished.
Good original condition, functional.
producer LC Smith & Bros. Typewriter Company.
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
White 4909 Bookends by Giotto Stoppino for Kartell, 1970s, Set of 2
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of bookends, Fermalibro 4909, white from kartell, perfect condition.
There are 2 pairs available.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Portable Typewriter Continental 340, Germany 1937
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Germany. Production in the years 1931-1940
Made of metal, steel, chrome,
Polished
Good original condition, functional.
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Gucci Leather and Velvet Desk Set, 1980s Italy
By Gucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Gucci desk set made of Black leather and emerald green velvet. Five pieces include: 2 Stunning leather and brass bookends, a pen holder, steel ruler in black and a large de...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Vintage Studio Glass Rabbit Figure Paper Weight, Russia, circa 1980s
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage glass rabbit figure paper weight - unidentified maker with original labels attached to the base - Russia - circa 1980s.
Excellent vint...
Category
Late 20th Century Russian Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
1970s Tarnished Brass Post-Modern Desktop Tape Dispenser Disco Nightclub Era
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Good working order, warm tarnish brass, a natural time-worn patina. Loaded up with a roll of clear tape.
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Frank Stella Abstract Artist Metropolitan Museum of Art Book, 1970, New York
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
A hard-cover book with dust-jacket on abstract American artist Frank Stella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, New York, NY. This book presents a decade of Sella's work from 1959 - 1...
Category
1970s American Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Paper
Four Bronzes: a Piggy Bank, Calendar, Matchbox Holder and a Place Card Holder
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Danish design. Four bronzes consisting of a piggy bank, calendar, matchbox holder and a place card holder.
Art Deco - In style of Just Andersen.
Approximate 1930s.
In good conditi...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Hermes Note Paper, 1980s France
By Hermès
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original and unopened Hermes note paper with gold gilded edge paper. Hermes logo on the top of the stack of sheets. Hermes logo on box. Great piece for the...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Paper
Disko Metal Just Andersen, Denmark 1930s Art Deco Stylised Bird Pipe Rest
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Just Andersen of Denmark, disko metal stylised bird pipe rest
Disko metal, invented by Just Andersen by combing lead and antimony
circa 1930s
Stamped on base
Measures: Height 2.5...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Chrome Aeroplane from the 30s, Decorative Desk Object
Located in Köln, NW
Decorative Art Deco chrome airplane on plastic base. Desk decoration. Probably Germany or France of the thirties. The plastic plate is also from the time. Good general condition with...
Category
1930s Unknown Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Vintage Michael Elkan Studio Burlwood Valet
Located in Vallejo, CA
A beautiful vintage carved wood valet by Michael Elkan Studio. Walnut toned wood components nest neatly into a lighter toned burlwood base. Features circular letter and pen holders on each side. In the center is a small storage compartment for stamps and a larger hinged storage...
Category
1980s Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
1979 Italy Post-Modern Graziano Pompili Abstract Bronze Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense and interesting abstract bronze sculpture, it is one of a kind artwork, made in 1979 circa by the Italian Artist Graziano Pompili
The title "Paesaggio con ombra" is tra...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Giant Bayer Pill Pop Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental vintage Bayer pill in cream plaster/ceramic. 7" diameter. Likely used as a store display. Whimsical desktop object or paperweight. Black felted bottom. Great piece of art ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Plaster, Paint
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Beppe Bonetti Piccolo Racconto
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Piccolo racconto" translate "Little tale""
Beppe Bonetti was born in 1951 in Brescia, Italy, where he lives an...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Italy 1980 Black Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Swiss Modern Desk Organizers, Pencil Holders by Pentex, 1970s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A red and a black pencil-holder in cast acrylic. 1970s Modern architectural styling. Designed and manufactured by Pentex in Switzerland. Each with 6 cylindrical compartments for uten...
Category
1970s Swiss Space Age Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Acrylic
Lucite Copper Penny Paperweight Decorative Object, 1980s
Located in New York, NY
An '80s modern or Postmodern period Lucite and copper U.S. penny paperweight, 1980, USA. All pennies are of the year 1980. A great desk accessory or ...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Copper
Cast Metal Sculpture of a Greyhound Dog
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Beautiful cast metal bronze greyhound dog sculpture.
An elegant, detailed cast sculpture depicting a greyhound dog..
Sculptures depicting a greyhound dog.
Made with the fusion sys...
Category
1990s American Art Deco Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Pair of Art Deco Book-Ends with Deers Signed TEDD, Spelter and Marble
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A lovely pair of bookends. The base is made of marble, with deer statues on top. These are made of spelter, patinated in a bronze color. The figurines are marked 'TEDD'.
The set is ...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Decorative Blue Marianne Brandt Avantgarde Bauhaus Letter Scale, 1930s, Germany
Located in Vienna, AT
An iconic light-blue sheet metal postal letter scale from the1930s in blue, designed by Marianne Brandt, executed by Ruppel Werke, Ruppelwerk in Gotha, G...
Category
1930s German Bauhaus Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Sheet Metal, Metal, Iron
Micro Mosaic Pen Holder
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Micro mosaic Moorish pen holder: simply beautiful ! Elegant sitting on Your desk.
It must not remain near heat sources because the mosaic could be dama...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Aesthetic Movement Desk Accessories
Materials
Enamel
Art Glass Jellyfish Sculpture Decorative Object
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial transparent/clear and shades of blue art glass jellyfish sculpture decorative object, circa late-20th century to early ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Gucci Vintage Golf Ball Money Clip, 1970
By Gucci
Located in Munich, DE
Money Grab or envelope holder in gold and silver plated, signed Gucci Italy on the bottom.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver Plate, Steel
Stunning English Solid Sterling Silver 1936 Art Deco Style Cigarette Dispenser
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this lovely 1936 solid sterling silver art deco cigarette dispenser
A very good looking and well made piece, full...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Formia Italian Vintage Wine Red Gold Murano Glass Christmas Tree Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Murano glass trees of organic sleek modern design, a vintage creation by the Venetian company Formia, signed pieces, individually mouth blown and hand...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Organic Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold
Brazilian Mid-Century Resin Encased Travertine Desk Organizer, 1970s
Located in Miami, FL
Discarded travertine pieces encased in a hardened resin shell desk organizer with patinated brass holders, Brazil 1970s.
Category
Late 20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Travertine, Brass
Decorative Glass Desk Accessory Bowl Plus Flowers Container, 1970s
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Decorative glass desk accessory bowl plus flowers container 1970s.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Vintage Turquoise Ashtray, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage turquoise ashtray is an original decorative object realized in the 1970s.
A vintage hand made ceramic ashtray turquoise colored.
Mint ...
Category
1970s European Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Italy 1980 Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Tavole Panels
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Paperweight Style of Edgar Brandt
By Edgar Brandt
Located in London, GB
Modernist French paperweight with a pivoting dice in the manner of Edgar Brandt.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Iron
Italian Surrealist Paperweights with Eyes in Acrylic
Located in London, GB
Surrealist paperweight sculptures have eyes screen printed on sharp cut acrylic shapes. The eyes reflect on the different angles and depending on your position they are visible or va...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Acrylic
Malachite Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful and substantial green Malachite decorative or jewelry box, circa late-20th century. This green Malachite box is hexagonal in shape with a white onyx marble star with gold gilt metal detail on top lid. Piece is hand-crafted. Box makes a great decorative or storage jewelry box to hold small items or jewelry such as necklaces (as demonstrated holding), rings, earring, cufflinks, etc., on a vanity, nightstand, dresser, desk, credenza, walk-in-closet, etc. Dimensions: 3.38" Depth x 4" Width.
Purple box shown also available, search 1stDibs ref. #: LU1314228491742
Green malachite box with cameo, search ref. #: LU1314228492012
Small gold and malachite turtle...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Malachite, Onyx
1970s Stunning Pair of Big Italian Marble Dices, Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1970s. Stunning pair of big Italian dices in white marble, in very good conditions. Made in Italy.
Dimension:
2,75 x 2,75 x 2,75 inches
7 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm H.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Beppe Bonetti with Base
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Piccolo racconto" translate "Little tale""
Beppe Bonetti was born in 1951 in Brescia, Italy, where he lives and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Gucci Maple Wood Tidy Tray, Italy, 1970s
By Gucci
Located in Naples, IT
Gucci maple wood desk accessory or tidy tray, original, 1970s.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
English Wedgwood Jasperware Scallop Seashell Teal Blue & White Box, circa 1980s
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful English Wedgwood Jasperware small oval box with scallop seashell design, circa late-20th century, 1980s, England. This piece is a...
Category
1980s English Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Stoneware
5 Foot Tall Pop Art Wood Pencil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Massive vintage display pencil. Made of one solid piece of wood and a machine engraved metal ring wrapped around the end by the eraser. Size: 60" long. Marked ARTIST GRADE - GRAPHITE...
Category
1970s American Vintage Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
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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