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Unique Historical Horse Bit from the 16th-17th Century
Located in Nový Bor, CZ
Unique historical horse bit probably from the 16th or 17th century. It is very well preserved for its age, the condition corresponds to its age, there is no major mechanical or rust ...
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16th Century Renaissance Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Original Program for Nantucket Stage Production Dracula, Signed by Edward Gorey
Located in Nantucket, MA
Original program for the Nantucket Stage Company Production of "Dracula", signed by Edward Gorey, 1973. The Nantucket Stage Company (which became the Stra...
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1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Olympic Portraits by Annie Leibovitz, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Olympic Portraits by Annie Leibovitz. Boston, New York: Bullfinch, Little Brown, (1996). Stated 1st Ed hardcover. Her book's vivid portraits include a double-page group portrait of t...
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1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
1920s Classical Music Autographs
Located in Jersey, GB
A wonderful autograph book containing 31 signatures from classical musicians, singers, conductors and composers
Compiled in the 1920s.
Names include:
Pianist V. de Pachmann
Sopra...
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20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Jean Prouve by Raymond Guidot & Catherine Prouve 2 Volumes (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A new and expanded slipcased edition of the 2007 monograph, with a particular focus on Prouvé's furniture designs
This exquisitely produced and comprehensive slipcase publication, edited by Paris' Galerie Patrick Seguin, is a new and enlarged edition of the original two-volume Jean Prouvé monograph that was published in 2007 to fill a hole in the previously existing scholarship, most of which had focused on Prouvé's architecture. Featuring a redesigned cover and graphics, it adds presentations of each house exhibited by Galerie Patrick Seguin (with archival images, plans and contemporary photos); an expanded selection of private international collections with photography of Prouvé furniture...
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20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
1980s Green Bang & Olufsen Beocom 2000 Phone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Designed in 1986 Lone and Gideon Lindinger-Lowy, the Bang & Olufsen Beocom 2000 telephone is Danish design at its finest, and the epitome of 1980s high-tec...
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Cx-52 Model Swiss Cipher Machine
Located in New Orleans, LA
A triumph of ingenuity and craftsmanship, this Swiss cipher machine is a fabulous example of mechanical precision. Cipher machines are used to encrypt a...
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20th Century Swiss Other Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
18th Century Silver Russian Icon
Located in Pomona, CA
18th-century silver Russian icon.
Category
18th Century Russian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Dunhill Steel and Black Crocodile Leather Unique Sports Lighter
By Dunhill
Located in Mexico City, MX
A special steel and crocodile leather Unique Sport lighter by Dunhill. The lighter is numbered 23638 on bottom.
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1950s British Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Collection of Leather Bound Art Deco Photo Albums of European Travel
Located in Atlanta, GA
Collection of Leather Bound Art Deco Photo Albums of European Travel, the actual albums are probably French, circa 1920's. They document fabulous trips throughout Europe in the 1920'...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Ships Wheel by John Hastie of Greenock
Located in Norwell, MA
Very nice antique solid brass ships wheel that has been highly polished and lacquered. The hub has deeply engraved makers name "John Hastie & Co...
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1930s North American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Okitenugui Kabuto Samurai Helmet Shaped as a Head Towel Saika, Early Edo Period
Located in Milano, IT
Okitenugui kabuto
Samurai helmet shaped as a head towel
Saika, early Edo period, 17th century
The Haruta armorers who moved to Kii province in the early 17th century, took the name from the village where they worked, Saika, near Wakayama, possibly on request of the local daimyo, Asano Yukinaga, a great armour amateur. Specialised in the construction of plate helmets, they produced mainly two typologies of kabuto: one with six plates covered with a chrysanthemum-shaped plate on top and one shaped as a “head towel”, called okitenugui. The latter type of kabuto employs very heavy plates crafted in a curved manner and was improved in order to make it resistant to firearms.
This okitenugui kabuto features some distinctive decorations of the Haruta school, including the application of cut-out iron elements, including eyebrows, washers and lozenge-shaped decorations on the sides. The ring on the top, however, is a rare feature and could be used to hold a small war flag.
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17th Century Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Fabergé: Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies by Hermione Waterfield
Located in valatie, NY
Fabergé: Imperial Eggs and Other Fantasies by Hermione Waterfield. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. 1st Ed, 1st Printing hardcover with dust jacket. The Fabergé egg is one of a limited number of jeweled eggs created by Peter Carl Fabergé and his company from 1885 to 1917. The most famous of the eggs are the ones made for the Russian Tsars...
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1970s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sotheby's British Art Pottery, Martin Brothers, the Harriman Judd Collection
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's British Art Pottery, Martin Brothers, The Harriman Judd Collection, New York, January 22, 2001. Softcover auction catalog. 497 Lots on 196 Pages – All Described and illustrated in color. the Harriman Judd Collection of British Art Pottery, the finest, most comprehensive collection of this type ever to come up for auction. Taken from the California home of the late Allen Harriman and Edward Judd the sale includes 800 lots of British Art Pottery, Studio Pottery and Majolica with estimates ranging from $200-$80,000. Harriman and Judd began collecting in the 1970’s and the collection they amassed largely over a ten-year period provides an in-depth survey of 130 years of British Art Pottery from all of the major factories working in this period. With objects ranging in size from 3 inches to 6ft. tall, potteries and artist potters highlighted include: Doulton Lambeth, the Martin Brothers, William Moorcroft, George Tinworth, Hannah Barlow, Mark Marshall...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Guhl & Harbeck Style Chain Stitch Hand Crank Sewing Machine
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Guhl & Harbeck style chainstitch hand crank sewing machine. The C shaped cast iron machine is painted black and its rectangular bas...
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20th Century German Machine Age Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
19th century American Southern Portrait by Benoni Irwin
By Benoni Irwin
Located in Savannah, GA
Oil on canvas portrait entitled:Mr. Bowles of Kentucky, painted by Benoni Irwin (1840-1896) an American portraitist born in new market, Ontario, Canada. He moved to New York as a you...
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Late 19th Century American American Classical Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects
Located in New York City, NY
As seen in Architectural Digest, Forbes, ELLE Decoration, and Design Milk
An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles
Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There is no disputing, however, that the style produces some of the world’s most breathtaking buildings. This landmark volume documents the movement as never before, by profiling the architects behind the style.
Featuring more than 250 historic and contemporary architects (organised alphabetically) along with specially selected examples of their work, this book includes international icons alongside those who are less well known or who have for too long been neglected, providing a unique record of this influential global architecture movement. The book includes 350 stunning images of more than 200 iconic Brutalist buildings, alongside fresh and surprising masterworks from 1936 to the present day, creating the ultimate companion to the Brutalist masters.
Featured architects include: John Andrews; João Batista Vilanova Artigas; Lina Bo Bardi; Bogdan Bogdanovic; Marcel Breuer; Douglas Cardinal; André-Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac; Bertrand Goldberg; Erno Goldfinger; Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak; Agustín Hernández Navarro; John M. Johansen; Louis I. Kahn; Denys Lasdun; Le Corbusier; João da Gama Filgueiras Lima; Alberto Linner Díaz; Owen Luder; Paulo Mendes da Rocha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Regarding Cocktails by Sasha Petraske
Located in New York City, NY
Regarding cocktails is the only book from the late Sasha Petraske, the legendary bartender who changed cocktail culture with his speakeasy-style bar Milk & Honey.
Forewords by Dale ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ships Binnacle from US Navy
Located in Norwell, MA
Small boat binnacle with wood base, brass compass ring and hood. Compass is engraved "US Navy Bureau of ships, 4 Inch Boat Compass Mark1 1942 The Lionel C...
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1940s North American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Howard & Co. Sterling Silver Realist Miniature Golf/ Golfers Collectible
Located in New York, NY
Howard & Co., sterling silver, late 19th or early 20th century, highly detailed and realistic miniature of 2 golfers on a stand. It measures 2 1/4'' in height by 3 1/8'' in width by ...
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Early 20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Maharam Bear by PIN-UP
Located in New York, NY
Maharam Bear by PIN-UP
008 Nightfall
Initially created for PIN–UP’s Fall/Winter 2016/2017 issue, the Bear is handmade by a small-scale Canadian produc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1950s Dutch Industrial Scientific Convex Lens Brass Stand Cast Iron Tripod Base
Located in Haarlem, NL
Scientific school or laboratory convex shaped lens on a brass stand with cast iron tripod base.
The heavy convex glass lens is 7 1/2 cm (2.95") th...
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1950s Dutch Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
Brass Binnacle "NEGUS N.Y."
Located in Norwell, MA
Rare yacht binnacle from Negus of New York. The mushroom top is fitted with two removable oil burners and has an oval glass viewing port. The binnacle pedestal holds a gimballed bras...
Category
1890s North American Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
A for Ara, Contemporary, Floor Standing Speakers, Walnut, Gold Leaf, 2010s
By A for Ara
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair solid wood horn floor standing high fidelity speakers Model FS-1 by A for Ara. Available immediately
A fine walnut dot inlaid horn on an ebony base wi...
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2010s Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Sally Ride Nasa Signed Photo - 1st US Woman in Space
Located in Jersey, GB
Sally Ride NASA signed photo
Official signed colour 8 x 10 inch NASA photo of Sally Ride (1951-2012) - the first US woman in space and third overall.
Ride is pictured in her NASA u...
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20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley
Located in Bradenton, FL
Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 2000 by Parragon of Bath, England. Printed and bound in Indonesia. Illustrated, 256 pages.
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21st Century and Contemporary Pre-Raphaelite Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Signed, Limited Edition Monograph Book
By Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Charlotte Cotton
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jump into the megawatt world of Mert and Marcus, the creative tour de force who have styled and shot some of the most powerful brands and personalities of our time, from miu miu to A...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Albrecht Dürer "The Small Horse, " 19th Century Copper Plate Engraving
Located in Barcelona, ES
"The Small Horse" copper plate engraving by Albrecht Dürer, circa 1505.
This is a 19th century engraving, printed in black on laid paper, framed by a beautiful gilt and ebonized carv...
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Late 19th Century French Renaissance Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paper
Original vintage scale from the 20th Century 'Designed by Berkel in Belgium'
By Berkel 2
Located in Udenhout, NL
Original personal scale from 1946 designed by Berkel in Belgium.
(Made in Brussels.)
Very nice Industrial decorative object.
Category
1940s Belgian Industrial Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Enamel
The Order of Things by Fashion Photgrapher Schoerner
By Schoerner
Located in NYC, NY
A unique book first edition print set on a circular format retains its original case.
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Late 20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic, Paper
Ship Wheel from a Wheeler Yacht
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass ships wheel with the name wheeler cast into one of the spokes. Wheeler was a famous maker of yachts, up to seventy five feet, cabin cruisers, etc.
Hemingway wrote his ...
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1930s North American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Art Museum
Located in New York City, NY
Visit the world’s most comprehensive and compelling museum in a single book – the ultimate gallery in your own home
Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this classic ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Brass Ships Wheel with Wood Handles
Located in Norwell, MA
Antique ships wheel with six spokes. Unusual and nicely shaped wheel with six handles, two brass and four wood. The back of the wheel has a 1906 patent dated. Probably from a small l...
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Early 1900s North American Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Guitar: the Shape of Sound
Located in New York City, NY
As seen in Harper’s Bazaar UK, Guitar World, and Design Week
The 100 most iconic guitars from around the globe, from early modern beginnings to cutting-edge electric models
The guitar is the iconic instrument at the heart of all popular music. From Delta blues on acoustics to electric rock & roll, and all that came in its wake, the guitar has proven the most versatile and emotive conduit for musical expression and experimentation.
Across more than 300 years, master guitar-makers have striven continually for new sculptural and aural peaks, yet the guitar's immediacy and intimacy endures, however loud the volume controls on the amplifiers are turned.
With 100 of the finest and most innovative models of guitar from the 17th century to the present day alongside the players who changed the face of popular music, Guitar includes fascinating stories behind iconic models from an eclectic mix of brands, including Alden, D'Angelico, Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Ibanez, Kay, Martin, Millimetric Instruments, Mosrite, Greg Smallman, and Stauffer.
The book also includes a wealth of fascinating and lesser known information about enigmatic performers including the Beatles, Woody Guthrie, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Pat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Designs for Gilt Bronze Objects from the French Restoration 1814-1830, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Designs for Gilt Bronze Objects from the French Restoration 1814-1830: Clocks, Candelabras, Chandeliers, Sconces and Inkwells, by Charles Plante. Publis...
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21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Brass Yacht Binnacle From the 19th Century
Located in Norwell, MA
Very fine antique boat compass fitted to a polished brass case. The binnacle is fitted to a carved wood base with rope border. Fitted with an atta...
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1890s North American Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Gaston Suisse (1896-1988), Splendeur du Laque Art Dèco
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Year of publication 2013, Number of pages 269, Format 25 x 28 cm. Photos 250 including colors. Binding Hardcover under illustrated dust jacket
French language.
Very young, Gaston Su...
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2010s French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Woven Handcraft Traditional Douli Rice Hat Asia
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Vintage Traditional Handwoven Rice Hat Asia
Douli Hat Conical Shade Rain Guard
Vintage patina present
Handcrafted
17 diameter x 4.5 tall Inside head 6.5 diameter
Preowned unrest...
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Early 20th Century Asian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wicker, Rattan
Proof: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet, Collection of Mark Schwartz
Located in valatie, NY
Proof: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz by Peter Galassi. Cleveland Museum of Art. A glimpse inside the darkroom--and i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Modernism Foretold: the Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt, 1/500
Located in valatie, NY
Modernism Foretold: The Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt, 1/500
by Asen Kirin, Katherine Leigh Marsengill, Georgia Museum of Art. Georgia Museum of Art, 2020. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "This exhibition catalogue features an extraordinary assembly of objects dating from the 3rd to the 8th century CE that belong to Emanuel and Anna Nadler of New York City and Palm Beach. The Nadler family has long been one of the most important collectors of Coptic art...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Brass Boat Compass in Varnished Wood Box
Located in Norwell, MA
Classic early twentieth century boat compass by Dirigo of Seattle Washington. The gimballed compass has been meticulously polished and lacquered. This classic marine instrument is fi...
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1930s North American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Carl Elmberg, Tobacco Jar in Cast Iron, Näfveqvarns Bruk, Swedish Grace, 1920s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Decorative tobacco jar in cast iron with decor of animals and figures. Designed by Carl Elmberg for Näfveqvarns bruk, Swedish Grace, 1920s.
Carl Elmberg (1889–1955) sculptor and ...
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1920s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wrought Iron
Antique Crucifix Cross Cast Iron Garden Architectural Chapel Church Cemetery #2
Located in Tyler, TX
TALL Antique French Cast Iron Cross Crucifix~~Chapel Church Garden Architectural Yard Cemetery Prayer Room Wall Hanging~~c. 1890s
Fab...
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Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Sarah Sze: Paintings
Located in New York City, NY
The first and only monograph to give a comprehensive examination of acclaimed American artist Sarah Sze's painting practice
Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signatu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Brass Boat Compass in Varnished Wood Box
Located in Norwell, MA
Classic early twentieth century boat compass. The gimballed compass has been meticulously polished and lacquered. This classic marine instrument is fitted to its original hardwood bo...
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1950s North American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Engine Order Telegraph with German Commands
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass ships telegraph with German commands. With engraved maker’s plate on top marked: "Lubecker, Maschinenbau - Gesell shaft, or LMG, Ship...
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1930s European Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
African Campaign Military Metal Chest Luggage J Willis Fleming Esq Deputy Lieut
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this very nice and collectable antique field used Jones Brothers & Co of Wolverhampton LTD Steel boots case with an original engraved plaque for J ...
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1880s English Campaign Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Vintage Triangular Hanukkah Menorah
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful vintage Hannukah Menorah. This vintage piece is a replica of a menorah from the 14th century southern Europe. Made in Israel, this piece is ...
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1970s Israeli Baroque Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park
Located in valatie, NY
Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park. Published by Smithsonian Books, Harry Abrams, 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket. With more than four hundred ...
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1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Jugendstil WMF Marked and Silvered Holy Water Font Depicting Mary & Child Jesus
Located in Lisse, NL
Antique silvered wall font with original and excellent condition glass vessel.
This rare Jugendstil wall font by German makers WMF is in excellent condition and it even comes with t...
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Early 20th Century German Jugendstil Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Elizabeth Taylor's Diamond Platinum Pendant Necklace, Christie's 2011 Auction
Located in Vaughan, ON
Very rare chance to own the diamond necklace from the one and only legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Christie's, New York, Dec 3rd 2011, The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor, Sale 2629, Lot 1461
This symbolic Number 1 diamond and platinum necklace is previously owned by Elizabeth Taylor, proudly acquired by Redstone Antiques...
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Mid-20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Platinum
Walter Bosse Cat Figurine with Thermometer, Herta Baller, Austria, 1950s
Located in Vienna, AT
A charming Austrian desk thermometer, consisting of a lovely cat figurine and a lantern-shaped thermometer. A humorous design by Walter Bosse, executed by Hertha Baller Austria in th...
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Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Art Deco Ashtray Stand, Chrome and Bakelite, Demeyere Belgium, 1930s
By Demeyere
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco ashtray stand, smoke stand, smoke standing ashtray, floor ashtray, cocktail smoker stand. An ashtray on a stand made from chromed metal and bakelite.
Made in the 1930s by the Belgian Company Demeyere. Is also stamped in the ashtray. The chrome and bakelite are still in very beautiful condition.
This ashtray stand is also still complete with all his accessoires:
the stand with on top the holder for a pack of matches, a bakelite conical container with a bakelite ashtray in which has a valve with handle to open, so the cigarette ends fall in the container and all the beautiful finishing knobs.
This original Art Deco smoke stand...
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
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Chrome
1970s British Classic Blue & Chrome AC.GMT.Co. Industrial Wall Clock Black Dial
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Rescued from Industrial scrap yards and brought back to life in our UK workshop, our expert process allows us to create a high quality clock of luxury standards.
At A.C GMT Co. we ...
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1970s English Industrial Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Material Transfers
By Phaidon
Located in New York City, NY
A provocative examination of the connections between contemporary expression in architecture and traditional materials and forms
Architect, architectural historian, and preservati...
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2010s Chinese Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Boat Binnacle Compass from the 19th Century
Located in Norwell, MA
Rare yacht binnacle with a highly polished gimballed compass fitted to a varnished box. The box has a polished brass side burner and hinges, hooks, and screws. First class nautical r...
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1890s North American Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Ship's Engine Order Telegraph by Charles Cory and Son of New York
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass ship's engine order telegraph with faceplates from Charles Cory and Son Patentees, New York. Smaller size than most, meticulously polished and lacquered.
Overall Dime...
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1920s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
French Military Steel and Brass Armor, Late 18th-Early 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
French military steel and brass breast plate body armor, having a genuine muscat ball dent, France, late 18th-early 19th century.
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Early 19th Century French Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Steel
Antique and Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities for Sale
Antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities can bring whimsy and wonder to any interior.
Decorating with old scientific instruments, historical memorabilia and vintage musical instruments, as well as other authentic collectibles and curiosities that can be found on 1stDibs, presents an opportunity to create a unique, natural history museum-like atmosphere in your home that can provoke conversation as often as it pays tribute to how far we’ve come in understanding our world.
And bringing collectibles and curiosities into your space is actually on trend — Wunderkammern, or curiosity cabinets, were all the rage in Europe during the 1500s and continued to have adherents there and in the U.S. in the following centuries. Today, however, they’re experiencing a real surge in popularity and influencing how many interior designers are furnishing and decorating homes — combining contemporary with antique, scientific with tribal, earthly with extraterrestrial, Les Lalanne tables with Flemish tapestries.
The original Wunderkammern were entire rooms filled with objects demonstrating their owners’ worldly knowledge: A proper one included artificiala or preciosa (objets d’art); naturalia (such as skeletons, shells, minerals); exotica (taxidermy or dried plants); and scientifica (scientific instruments), frequently alongside religious relics and ancient artifacts.
Pay tribute to a history of rich and diverse musical traditions that have taken shape all over the world by decorating your home with a collection of antique and vintage musical instruments — with a little help from strong hanging wire or some wall hooks, vintage brass instruments such as a gong, French horn or trumpet can help elevate a home office or complement the efforts you’ve made to ensure a welcoming vibe in your home’s entryway. Bells or antique wind instruments can add provocative metallic contrasts to dark woods as tabletop decorative objects.
Create an intriguing focal point with Georgian scientific instruments, such as stick barometers with mahogany cases or lacquered brass telescopes. These items stem from an era named for the monarchies of the four King Georges, who ruled England in succession starting in 1714 (plus King William’s reign, which lasted until 1837). Just as there was beautiful jewelry produced during the period that today is coveted by collectors, there is much to be found in the collectibles and curiosities realm too.
Wanderlust, nostalgia and a shared love of good design are contributing factors to certain trends in decorating — just as vintage trunks and luggage have reappeared as furniture or home accents in a bedroom or foyer, decorating with globes, maps or nautical objects is similarly rooted in the allure of travel and a penchant for the stylish finishing touch that collectibles bring to our homes.
Find a wide range of antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities on 1stDibs.
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