Desk Accessories

A stylish 1930s Art Deco English silverplated four slice toast rack. Hallmarks on reverse. This fine quality silver toast rack is well made and heavy with a lovely Art Deco style geo...

Vintage Single Inkwell, Antler Base, European 1930, B2813 European 1930 Silver Plated Inkwell With Lid Pen Holder To The Front B2813 Measures: 4"W x 3"D x 3.5"H.

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver, glass and enamel Art Deco dressing table set; an addition to our silver mounted glass collection Glass, Sterling Silver and Enamel Dressing Table Set - Art Deco - Antique George V An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver, glass and enamel Art Deco dressing table set; an addition to our silver mounted glass collection This exceptional, fine and impressive antique Art Deco dressing table...

A charming and fun solid silver letter opener, the handle terminal decorated with a handsome running fox. The underside is fully marked for London 1935 together with the maker's m...

A wonderfully stylish Art Deco cigarette case by Emile Puiforcat, Paris. I have taken a couple of photographs with my business cards in, showing it is just perfect as a re-purposed w...

In 1938 Mrs. Georgia Oates — a former southern belle and a recent divorcee — plighted her troth with Mr. Philip Green Gossler, then on his third marriage. If he was, as they used to say, “a caution,” he was also a man of substance. A utilities magnet, he was “one of fifty-nine men who rule America,” according to his 1945 obituary in The New York Times. This 1930s Tiffany desk set belonged to him, and his initials “P.G.G.” are engraved on all of its parts, except for the notepad holder that didn't have a blank field large enough for it. Born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, Gossler attended the local university before studying electrical engineering at Columbia. Making a name for himself at Edison General Electric, he went on to Royal Electric in Montreal. Returning to New York, he rose through the ranks of Columbia Gas & Electric to become chairman, and, along the way, he orchestrated the mergers and acquisitions that made it one of the largest utility cartels in the world, with thirty-four companies in eight states. Appointed a director of the Guaranty Trust Company, he was admitted to the Metropolitan, University, and Piping Rock clubs, as well as the Royal Sailing Club in Nassau, where he wintered on his Hog Island estate. Gossler may have kept this desk set at his office, his East 65th Street townhouse, or his Nassau house. In any case, it was made from sterling-silver-mounted Portor marble. Portor is mined in Italy where it's known as Portoro. It was the French, however, who most favored its striking coloration of black, yellow, and white. That's why they often used it to top off their tables from the 17th century on. We believe our 1930s desk set was made for Tiffany Paris, not Tiffany New York, because it bears the Tiffany hallmark but not the so-called maker’s mark, which is found on all Tiffany New York silver. In addition, its au courant design is more in keeping with the work of the Paris Art Deco masters than the more traditional New York designers of that day. Among the Paris designers who had worked for Tiffany there were André Groult and Armand Rateau, who had designed their Avenue de l’Opera showroom. This isn’t to say that Gossler’s desk set was necessarily purchased there, since the Paris-made goods were also shipped to New York, where, it was hoped, they might catch the eyes of the discerning few who could still afford to buy luxury goods in the Depression. When Gossler died in 1945 the desk set was presumably passed on to his widow, and then, when she breathed her last, to her beautiful daughter Marion, who expired in 2018 at the age 99. That Marion had bothered to keep it says more about her love of the beautiful than her fondness for her stepfather, whom she didn’t much like. This, in spite of his having footed the bill for her extravagant 1938 coming out at his townhouse, and the St. Regis rooftop supper dance that followed. She too, as it turned out, was “a caution,” painting her fingernails black to match her dark moods, earning her the sobriquet "Black Marion." Back then, her name was Marion Oates, which changed on her marriage to Thomas Leiter, a Marshall Field & Company heir, and then once again following a divorce and a remarriage to Robert H. Charles, Assistant Secretary of the US Air force. Those marriages gave her the wherewithal to become Washington, D.C.’s most celebrated hostess, Oatsie Charles (a sobriquet bestowed by her by fellow debutante Brenda Frazier). There, she regularly hung out a ham for the likes of Jackie and John Kennedy, Ian Fleming, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and Deeda Blair...

Art Deco, sterling silver and blue guilloche enamel magnifying glass, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1933, Charles S. Green and Co. - makers. Measures 6 inches long x 2 inc...

Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1936 by Asprey & Co. Ltd., this stylish, sterling silver letter opener, is modelled to look like a sword. The letter opener measures: 10" (25.5cm) in leng...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver ink pot; part of our antique silver and glassware collection. This exceptional antique George V English sterling silver inkwell has a bell shaped form to a circular pedestal foot and plain square base. The body of this Mappin & Webb ink pot is embellished with embossed and chased decorated swags segmented with a rectangular leaf decorated border. The ornamentation to the body incorporates a large engraved inverted scalloped bordered vacant cartouche to the anterior and posterior surfaces. The lower portion of the ink well is encompassed with a water leaf style border. The upper rim is encircled with an applied bead decorated border. This antique sterling silver inkwell...

Very elegant silver plate and Macassar wood tray. Art Deco modernist square shape with streamlined decorative handles. The tray is on a circular small pedestal plinth. Legal silversm...

Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1933 by Grant & Son, this smart, George V, sterling silver ink well, is in the capstan style with a smooth round b...

Beautiful 20th century silver plate letter holder. Refined finely chiseled decorations. Perfect for embellishing a desk with class.