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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 1940s
Vintage Hand Carved Folk Art Walking Cane with Red Bird
Located in Seguin, TX
Vintage circa 1940s hand carved Folk Art cane by Fritz Rummler (1888-1983) Fredericksburg Texas. Branch of a tree carved into a bird with his feet...
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American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood

American Folk Art Cowboy and Horse Whirligig
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Tall one of a kind cowboy and horse spinning whirligig American Folk Art piece. Most likely from a larger folk art environment. Sheet steel constructi...
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American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Iron, Sheet Metal

Tramp Art Jewelry Box with Pincushion Top
Located in NYC, NY
A handcrafted dresser or jewelry box with hinged pincushion lid and applied, chip-carved decoration. The interior with framed mirror on underside of lid and papered in a purple and w...
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American Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood, Mirror

"God Bless America" Patriotic Piece of Folk Art
Located in Seattle, WA
Wonderful patriotic piece of Folk Art. Red, white and blue wall shelf featuring hand-carved eagle and painted stars and stripes.
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American Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood

Folk Art Ship from World War-II
Located in Dallas, TX
Folk Art Pacific Princess Ship made by sailors from World War-II Made with matches and other wood and paint.
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Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood

Make do Stool
Located in Seattle, WA
Muslin covered barrel trimmed in tape measure. Great little Folk Art piece that was used as giant pincushion and stool for home seamstress.
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American Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood, Fabric

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Walking cane with greyhound top carved in whalebone
Located in Woking, GB
Whalebone walking cane with greyhound top. Glass eyes, carved greyhound head. All original. L91, d 7, w 2.5cm. Circa 1870. English
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English Antique 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Bone

Folk Art Gate in form of a Face
Located in Darnestown, MD
One of a kind iron gate in the shape of an elongated face. It would be functional as a gate but would also be terrific hung indoors as a piece of outsider art. The movable earrings...
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American 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Iron

Early 20th Century Folk Art English Whirligig/Weathervane Figure
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Folk Art English Whirligig/Weathervane Figure A quirky and charming example of an early 20th Century English folk art whirligig / Weathervane Figure. Stood on a r...
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British Folk Art Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Wood

19th Century Tramp Art Carved Box
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Tramp Art box with hinged top. Applied chip carvings including hearts and rosettes throughout, with blue and red painted exterior, and interior chip carved double frame ...
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North American Antique 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Wood, Paint

19th Century Tramp Art Carved Box
19th Century Tramp Art Carved Box
H 5.25 in W 13.5 in D 9.5 in
Walking cane with carved hare
Located in Woking, GB
Walking cane with carved hare Well carved hare with vivid red glass eyes. Plaited silver collar. Snakewood shaft and original ferrule. Excellent condition...
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English Antique 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Ivory

Walking cane with carved hare
Walking cane with carved hare
H 37.01 in W 0.99 in D 3.55 in
Antique Jewelry Box Art Deco Period
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful antique Art Deco period jewelry box, styled by Jacques Kreisler, circa early-20th Century, New York, New York. Box is an aubergine ...
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Art Deco 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Metal

Antique Jewelry Box Art Deco Period
Antique Jewelry Box Art Deco Period
H 1.25 in W 4.5 in D 2.38 in
DuBarry Ivorine Celluloid Jewelry Box with a Turtle Shaped Top
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Celluloid made its appearance in the mid-19th century. One of its most popular forms was to imitate ivory including the grain lines. This jewelry box is marked "PY-RA-LIN" DuBarry. T...
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American Victorian Antique 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Plastic

Large Tramp Art Hinge Lid Box
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
A handcrafted Tramp Art box or small chest. A detailed design on four tapered feet. The interior is lined with white quilted fabric and the lid is fitted with a large finial. The bot...
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Folk Art Antique 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood

Large Tramp Art Hinge Lid Box
Large Tramp Art Hinge Lid Box
H 16 in W 16.5 in D 13 in
Nautical Folk Art Hand Carved Wooden Whimsy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
American whimsy with traditional 'ball in cage' decoration, all carved and whittled from one continuous piece of wood, circa early 20th century. The bottom tip suggests that this pie...
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American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood

Nautical Folk Art Hand Carved Wooden Whimsy
Nautical Folk Art Hand Carved Wooden Whimsy
H 1.25 in W 11.25 in D 1.25 in
Peter Hunt Cape Cod Folk Art Painted Watermelon Tray, Signed
Located in Ferndale, MI
Large hand-painted watermelon metal tray by Massachusetts folk artist, Peter Hunt. Hand-signed on front anno domini 1960 par pierre le chasseur d'orleans. Hand signed on verso Welc...
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American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Metal

Vintage Deco-Tel Rotary Phone Telephone American Flag Patriotic 1970s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Deco-Tel Rotary Phone Telephone American Flag Patriotic 1970s. Circa 1970s. Measurements: 12" H x 5.5" W x 5.5" D.
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American Classical Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Plastic

c1900 Folk Art Tramp Art Box
Located in Downham Market, GB
An antique tramp art box. A beautiful & early piece of tramp art, intricately layered in the traditional manner with notch carved wooden strips & finished with a pressed brass lion r...
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British Rustic Antique 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Pine

c1900 Folk Art Tramp Art Box
c1900 Folk Art Tramp Art Box
H 6.3 in W 10.63 in D 6.7 in
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Fort Devens and Surrounding Countryside Illuminating Diorama Scale Model
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Vintage illuminating diorama of countryside small town, Fort Devens, Massachusetts and surrounding countryside. Appears to be a model of the early or original constructed fort. Fort Devens was a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Plywood

Outsider Art of House on Corrugated Metal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Primitive painting of farmhouse scene on corrugated tin.
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Outsider Art Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Seated male Portrait
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Signed oil painting of bare armed young American man seated with his head resting on his hand. Framed in painted wooden frame with gold leaf liner. Signature is not clear. Image siz...
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Seated male Portrait
Seated male Portrait
H 31 in Dm NaN in
Sophie and Moxie's "Modern Beauty Shop" Steel Sign, circa 1940
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Double-sided, solid hand-cut steel trade sign for a "modern" beauty shop run by two gals, "Sophie & Moxie". Painted surface is rust-spotted and weathered t...
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American Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

Amazing Set of 1940s "Constructivist Couture" Folk Art Drawings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An amazing collection of 6 original figural drawings on paper circa 1940 - - 3 female and 3 male characters 'modeling' fantasy couture in kaleidoscopic colors. Executed in a Constructivist style with a hint of 1940s WPA poster...
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American Vintage 1940s Outsider and Self Taught Art

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Paper, Pencil

Unique vintage wood building model or architectural folly
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A rather unique wood hand made model of a building or possibly just an architectural folly to occupy someone's time. In any event it is a great looking piece of folk art. Some of the...
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