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Technique: Painted
French Blue Gold and White Porcelain Desk Letter Mail Holder from Paris
French Blue Gold and White Porcelain Desk Letter Mail Holder from Paris

French Blue Gold and White Porcelain Desk Letter Mail Holder from Paris

Located in New York, NY

A French white porcelain desk letter or mail holder with small flowers and leaves in the Rococo design style, circa mid-20th century, Paris, France. Piece with scalloped edge is hand...

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Mid-20th Century French Rococo Painted Letter Openers

Materials

Porcelain

Orientalist  Cold Painted Vienna Bronze Letter Opener, ca. 1900
Orientalist  Cold Painted Vienna Bronze Letter Opener, ca. 1900

Orientalist Cold Painted Vienna Bronze Letter Opener, ca. 1900

By Bergmann Foundry

Located in Petaluma, CA

This letter opener, most likely done by the Bergmann Foundry is extremely rare. We have sold countless inkwells, bookends, lamps and other accessories for the desk, but the letter o...

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Early 20th Century Austrian Other Painted Letter Openers

Materials

Bronze

Letter Opener Sterling Silver Blue Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Letter Opener Sterling Silver Blue Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni

Letter Opener Sterling Silver Blue Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni

By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni

Located in Firenze, FI

Shaped letter opener with rectangular base in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Base cm. 7.5 x 15.5 long letter opener cm. 21. Weight ...

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Early 2000s Italian Islamic Painted Letter Openers

Materials

Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel

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Unicorn Mythical Creature Vienna Bronze Letter Opener, Antique Austria 1960s
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Located in Nuernberg, DE

Classic early 1960s Austrian letter opener. It has a nice patina. I did not clean it, so the next owner can decide what he wants to do with it. This highly collectible vintage piec...

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Desk Card Holder, France, 1940s
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H 9.65 in W 8.08 in D 6.11 in

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Located in Palermo, IT

Desk card holder, France, 1940s Golden Spelter, one of the small studs on the front is missing. Lacks in the gilding, as evidenced by the descriptive photographs.

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Edwardian Sterling Silver and Blue Guilloche Enamel-Mounted Magnifying Glass
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By George Hope

Located in New York, NY

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"The Coffee Maker" Viennese Vienna Cold Painted Oriental Bronze Franz Bergmann
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By Franz Bergmann

Located in Berlin, DE

"The coffee maker" Viennese Vienna cold painted oriental bronze by Franz Bergmann. Extremely fine and detailed masterpiece. Both parts hallmarked.    

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Early 1900s Antique Painted Letter Openers

Materials

Bronze

Yonel Lebovici Ressort Letter Holder Distrimex, France, 1969
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Yonel Lebovici Ressort Letter Holder Distrimex, France, 1969

By Yonel Lebovici

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 Painted Letter Openers

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Macassar, Chrome and Lucite Desk Accessory Letter Holder, circa 1940
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Macassar, Chrome and Lucite Desk Accessory Letter Holder, circa 1940

By Studio Art Deco

Located in Atlanta, GA

Exceptional French Art Deco Desk Accessory in Macassar, Chrome, and Lucite, circa 1940 A rare and refined embodiment of Art Deco modernism, this exquisite desk accessory was crafted ...

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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Painted Letter Openers

Materials

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Edgar Brandt Bronze Paper Knife/Letter Opener
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$587

H 7.88 in W 1.3 in D 0.4 in

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By Edgar Brandt

Located in NANTES, FR

Art Nouveau letter opener, circa 1905, in bronze. Decorated with ginkgo biloba leaves, stamped E. Brandt. In perfect condition. Length: 20 cm Width: 3.3 cm Thickness: 1 cm Weight...

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H 4.73 in W 1.58 in D 7.09 in

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By Atelier BAM

Located in Sao Paulo, SP

Bring a warm modern touch to your stationary with this geometric Desktop accessory. Named “Triângulo”, it showcases how small leftover materials can be turned into a new object: mass...

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Carl Aubock Horn Letter Opener, Paper Knife, Vienna, Austria, 1960s
Carl Aubock Horn Letter Opener, Paper Knife, Vienna, Austria, 1960s

Carl Aubock Horn Letter Opener, Paper Knife, Vienna, Austria, 1960s

By Werkstätte Carl Auböck

Located in Vienna, AT

A decorative and rare minimalist Mid-Century letter opener from the 1960s, designed and handcrafted by the Werkstätte Carl Auböck workshop in Vienna. Handmade from a single piece of ...

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Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Painted Letter Openers

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Horn

Art Deco wooden letter holder, 1940's, France
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H 4.93 in W 9.45 in D 4.34 in

Art Deco wooden letter holder, 1940's, France

Located in BELFORT, FR

French Art Deco wooden letter holder.

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