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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Period: 1980s
Period: 1940s
Mid Century Leather Cowboy Saddle by Simco
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Real cowboy basic well made and used leather saddle. Stamped Simco. In excellent vintage condition with normal wear and tear, no damage and the le...
Category
1940s American Adirondack Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum
Plaster Cast for Coin by Aurelio Mistruzzi, 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Plaster cast for coin is an artwork realized by Aurelio Mistruzzi, 1940s.
Slightly damaged plaster.
Written in Latin not completely visible.
4 x 4 cm.
Aurelio Mistruzzi (Villaorba, 7 February 1880 – Rome, 25 December 1960) was an Italian sculptor and medalist. Born in Villaorba di Basiliano in 1880, he attended the Udine School of Art at the courses of the sculptor De Paoli...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Quad Esl 63 Speakers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Introducing the Quad ESL 63 Speakers: Timeless Elegance, Unrivaled Sound
Key Features:
Electrostatic Purity: Immerse yourself in sound like never before. The ESL 63 employs advance...
Category
1980s English Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Think Big Giant Matches and Matchbox
By Think Big
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic set of oversized matches and matchbox, made by Think Big NYC in 1984. Set contains all 8 original matches. Box slides open as a normal matchbox...
Category
1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Felt, Wood, Paint
Polished Antelope Horns on Brass Base
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Polished antelope horns mounted on brass base.
Category
1980s Kenyan Hollywood Regency Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Horn
Goldstone and Silver Cartier Lighter
By Cartier
Located in New York, NY
Goldstone and silver Cartier lighter. A most handsomely chic objet by Cartier from the Forties. Carved goldstone with smooth varied patterning i...
Category
1940s French Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stone, Silver
Art Deco Prints Giuliano Ercoli 1st Edition 1989
Located in London, GB
First English edition. Translated from the Italian by Linda Fairburn. Table of contents, endnotes, biographical sketches of significant artists. 232 color plates. Color frontispiece and illustrations in text. Focuses on the French pochoir...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Oversized Wooden Chess Set, 1980s USSR
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large oversized folding wooden chess set made in the USSR in the 1980s. Box unfolds into chess board. Good condition with nice surface patination on board...
Category
1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Perfume & Scent Bottle Collecting with Prices - Jean Sloan - 1989
Located in London, GB
Published by Wallace-Homestead Company, updated and revised edition, 1989. Hardback with English text.
This comprehensive volume, complemented by a handy price guide, is the ultimat...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Keith Haring Eight Ball 1989 'Hardcover Book'
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Eight Ball by Keith Haring:
Superbly rendered 1989 Keith Haring monograph featuring standout collage-based imagery by the legendary New York artist. Beautiful bright colors throughou...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
VALENTINO - André Leon Talley - 1st edition, Milan, 1982
Located in London, GB
Published by Franco Maria Ricci Editore, 1st edition, Milan, 1982. Hardback with Italian and English text.
This very scarce catalogue is numbered 415 among only 600 copies published in 1982. This beautiful publication is made possible by the concerted effort of Franco Maria Ricci’s directive guidance and Valentino archives’ general offering of rare couture sketches...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Lost Weekend
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card number 6 for the 1944 Film Noir The Lost Weekend.
This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry.
This piece woul...
Category
1940s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Map of Nantucket Town by Ruth Haviland Sutton, 1946
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage Map of Nantucket Town by Ruth Haviland Sutton, 1946, a classic vintage tourist map of Nantucket Island showing historic landmarks and geogr...
Category
1940s American Other Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southhall Freeman, Three Vols., First Edition, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942. First edition. Three volume set. Rebound in ¼ black leather and cloth, with raised bands, gilt tooling and titles to the spine, and an archival slipcase.
Presented is a first edition, three volume set of Lee’s Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman...
Category
1940s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
American modern headboard and case by Randall with zebra animalier fabric, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
American modern headboard and case by Randall with zebra animalier fabric, 1980s
Headboard and case covered with zebra fabric. The case rests on four black plastic wheels and has two...
Category
1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Large signed brass nautical magnetic compass KELVIN HUGHES DIVISION 1940
Located in Milan, IT
Large brass and glass nautical magnetic compass, signed KELVIN HUGHES DIVISION S. Smith & Son (England) Ltd Manufactured in Great Britain circa 1940, mounted on custom-made wood an...
Category
1940s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1941 Trophy Baseball Radio, Working Condition
By Trophy Radio Company
Located in Milano, IT
This fantastic novelty item is reminiscent of a time when radio was king and radio broadcasts were the most popular way for fans to follow Major League Baseball across the country. E...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
El Negro - Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
El Negro" by Robert Motherwell is a meticulously crafted artist's book showcasing nineteen lithographs, notable for their vibrant colors and the inclusion of Chine collé in three of ...
Category
1980s North American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Taxidermy Waterbuck, Skull Mount
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Big Game Taxidermy, Waterbuck.
This prepared big game trophy skull mount is of a Water Buck, it may not be antique but it is very impressive. The taxidermy ...
Category
1940s Ugandan Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bone
Dior - Françoise Giroud - 1st U. S. edition, New York, 1987
Located in London, GB
Published by Rizzoli, 1st U. S. edition, New York, 1987. Hardback with English text, translated from the original French text.
Monsieur Dior’s ‘New Look...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Decorative Art 1880 -1980, Dan Klein & Margaret Bishop - 1st edition, 1986
Located in London, GB
Published by Phaidon · Christie’s, 1st edition, Oxford, 1986. Hardback with English text.
This is a comprehensive volume on the Decorative Arts of the twentieth century, containing...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage 1980 McCoy Twin Fin Surfboard by Greg Pautsch
By Greg Pautsch
Located in Haleiwa, HI
1980 McCoy twin fin surfboard shaped by Greg Pautsch. Featuring a beautiful airbrush fade design with glass on twin fins. Restored to original condition by a surfboard restoration expert with over 40 years of experience.
Geoff McCoy is a legendary surfboard designer and shaper from Byron Bay, Australia. McCoy started shaping in the early 1960s and over the years became known for his cutting edge short board designs such as the Lazor Zap. Geoff has built surfboards for many of the worlds best surfers including Mark Richards...
Category
1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam
Alphonse Mucha - the Complete Graphic Works
Located in Bradenton, FL
Alphonse Mucha - the Complete Graphic Works. Softcover book. First edition, published in 1980 by Harmony Books of New York. Printed and bound in Hong Kong. Illustrated, 192 pages.
Category
1980s Hong Kong Art Nouveau Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Jackson Pollock: Drawing into Painting - Bernice Rose - 1st edition, 1980
Located in London, GB
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1980. Softcover with French text.
This book was originally an exhibition catalogue published alongside a Po...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Art Déco – Panneaux et Plafonds – Stephen Calloway 1st edition 1988
Located in London, GB
1st edition 1988 language French language oversized soft back as issued.
Art deco interior and panel designs from the 1920s chosen by Stephen Calloway, curator of the Victoria and A...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Jewelry - Sylvie Raulet - New York, 1989
Located in London, GB
A Rizzoli publication, New York, 1989. Hardback with English text translated from the original French edition.
This splendid volume is an Aladdin’s cave full of visual stimuli and sensual delights in the realm of exquisite, opulent but also rigorously geometrical Art Deco jewellery...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mid Century Heavily Tooled Western Leather Saddle
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Well tooled and embossed leather western riding saddle. Possibly a junior size. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear.
Category
1940s American Country Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum
Vintage Cricket Bat, The Nonpareil
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Juniors Willow Cricket Bat.
A good quality willow cricket bat 'The Nonpareil'. The two shoulders stamped 'W.J. Breeden', blade syamped to the front and rear 'The Nonpareil, Extra Spe...
Category
1940s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Willow
Robert Simpson Golf Bookends
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Robert Simpson Bookends, No. 3 Iron & Wood.
A pair of bookends hand crafted from high quality traditional materials with original 1940's club heads. The...
Category
1940s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Kiki and Montparnasse 1900-1930, French Book by Billy Kluver, 1989
By Modern History
Located in Atlanta, GA
Kiki et Montparnasse 1900-1930 (Kiki and Montparnasse 1900-1930), a French book by Billy Kluver and Julie Martin.
Kiki Montparnasse or the ennobled bohemian. The surprising story tel...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sonia Delaunay - Arthur A. Cohen - New York, 1988
Located in London, GB
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1988. Hardback with English text.
A lavishly illustrated volume with black-and-white and coloured reproduced photographs, t...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Alfred Dunhill Briquet Rollagas Cigarette Lighter with Original Box and Papers
Located in High Wycombe, GB
Alfred Dunhill Briquet Rollagas Cigarette Lighter
Vintage boxed Dunhill lighter with booklet stamped at purchase 1988
Stamped Dunhill and Swiss Made on base.
Category
1980s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Hardcover Book
Located in Bradenton, FL
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, the Hermitage, Leningrad, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Hardcover book with dustjacket. ...
Category
1980s Japanese Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Old Brass British Military Issue Brass Handbell A Great Piece, Second World War
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Old Brass British Military Issue Brass Handbell
A Great Piece, Second World War, dated 1942, marked A.S.1942, and with the broad arrow insignia denotin...
Category
1940s British Colonial Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Wurlitzer Juke Box Model 700 Original and Restored Art Deco Circa 1940
By Wurlitzer
Located in Oakland, CA
Wurlitzer 700 was a design masterpiece by Paul Fuller, its smooth art deco lines have stood the test of time, and it is a beautiful creation. This model plays 78-style records and th...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Brass and aluminum aviation compass complete with azimuth circle 1940 U.S.A
Located in Milan, IT
Brass and aluminum aeronautical compass complete with azimuth circle, supplied to U.s: Army Air Force aircraft during the world War II. Good condition and functioning. Compass diame...
Category
1940s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum
Journey into Fear
Located in London, GB
Original American photographic production still.
For the 1942 Film Noir Journey into Fear. The film starred Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Opium Parfum Made in France Collectible Bottle 1980's
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Opium Parfum made in France Collectible Bottle 1980's
This is vintage, hard to find, discontinued, collectible per...
Category
1980s French Chinoiserie Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Paris Couture Années Trente (exhibition catalogue) - French designers 1930'S
Located in London, GB
Musée de la Mode et Du Costume, Palais Galliera. Paris. 1st edition 1987. softcover text French
Rare Catalogue showcasing the major French fashion designers of the 1930's. a great r...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Baby Jesus in Wax, Music Box and Movement, Italy, 1940s
Located in Palermo, IT
Baby Jesus in wax, music box and movement, Italy, 1940s
He gently moves his head and opens and closes his eyes. Intact and functioning. Small signs of wear, as per descriptive photog...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Architecture of William McCall, Jr., Designer in the Classical Tradition
Located in valatie, NY
The Architecture of Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., FAIA: A Complete Designer in the Classical Tradition. Stated 1st Ed and 1st printing hardcover with dust jacket. By William Robert Mitchell, Jr., and photographed by Van Jones Martin. Frank McCall Jr., FAIA was a noted architect who like his colleagues, Edward Vason Jones, James Means, Philip Shutze, et al. practiced in the classical tradition. Born April 14, 1916, in Gainesville, Florida, McCall later lived briefly in Albany, Georgia, and moved to Moultrie...
Category
1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
London After Midnight by Marie Coolidge Rask, Photoplay Edition, 1928
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a photoplay first edition of London After Midnight by Marie Coolidge Rask. This printing was published by Grosset & Dunlap, in New York, in 1928. The book has been beautifully rebound in striking ¼ green leather and cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt stamps and tiles to the spine, and a matching green archival slipcase. The book is illustrated with eight stills from the original silent film.
One of the most collectible Grosset & Dunlap photoplay editions, this book was a novelization of the 1927 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mystery horror film of the same title, co-produced and directed by Tod Browning. The movie starred Lon Chaney in a dual role of Scotland Yard Inspector and vampire; this was his only movie role as a vampire. Due to the success of the film, Marie Coolidge Rask penned the novelization of the movie. Rask worked from Tod Browning’s screenplay as well as the original source material, Browning’s short story "The Hypnotist.” The book was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1928 and included eight stills from the silent film.
The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire, along with hundreds of other rare early films, making it one of the most sought-after “lost” silent films. Copies of the film have never surfaced. This 1928 book is therefore important and collectible, as it is one of the few remaining records of the film’s content and storyline.
Alexander Grosset and George T...
Category
1980s American Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
1947 Hand Painted Premier British Royal Airforce Drum with Royal Coat of Arms
Located in Morristown, NJ
1947 England, a hand painted Premier Percussion British Royal Air Force drum. The drum has been painted with a black main body, a richly colored royal coat of arms and the motto of t...
Category
1940s English Campaign Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Animal Skin, Paint, Rope, Leather
Mir Space Station USSR CCCP Original Scale Model; Soviet Scene
Located in Mortsel, BE
Presenting an extraordinary piece of aerospace history - the original Mir prototype scale model from Russia. This remarkable artifact has been in our possession for the past 30 years, cherished as a prized collectible. Acquired from the individual who first imported it from Russia, it stands as a testament to the ingenuity and engineering prowess of space exploration.
This scale model is truly one-of-a-kind, bearing witness to the pioneering spirit that led to the construction of the iconic Mir space...
Category
1980s Russian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Vintage Remington Rand Typewriter, 1947
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a vintage Remington Rand typewriter from 1947. The typewriter is the portable De Luxe Model 5, issued in a sleek carrying case. Still functional, this classic design features a black crinkle finish, and a QWERTY keyboard. Included in the set of metal rimmed black keys are fun features like a shift key, shift lock key, self-starter key, marginal release, and a back space key.
A touch regulator is also included in this De Luxe model. The touch regulator is an adjustment mechanism that permits the keyboard tension to be set at any one of five positions, as indicated by the number in the center of the touch regulator slot. This enables the operator to easily set the key action to suit light, medium, or heavy touch, ensuring maximum typing comfort and speed.
The first commercially successful typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden and manufactured by gunmakers E. Remington and Sons in 1868. In 1886, E. Remington and Sons sold the entirety of their typewriter interests to Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict manufactured their typewriters under the Remington Standard Typewriter Company name beginning in 1892. The company became the Remington Typewriter Company in 1902, before merging with the Rand Kardex Company in 1927 to become Remington Rand. Remington Rand continued to sell typewriters until around 1955, when it was acquired by the Sperry Corporation.
Among the early famous typewriter users was Mark Twain. Twain said in a letter to Remington, “Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not even divulge the fact that I own a machine. … I don’t like to write letters, and so I don’t want people to know I own this curiosity-breeding little joker,” talking about his 1875 Remington model. Twain was the first author ever to have a manuscript typed. Other famous users include Agatha Christie, Rudyard Kipling, who made good use of the Remington Noiseless...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
The Dream Come True - Great Houses of Los Angeles
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Dream Come True - Great Houses of Los Angeles, text by Brendan Gill, photographs by Derry Moore. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Stated first U.S. edition. Published in 1980 by L...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ceramic Piggy Bank by Eva Jancke Björk, Bo Fajans, 1940s
Located in Grythyttan, SE
A charming piggy bank designed by Eva Jancke Björk for Bo Fajans. While the piggy banks from Bo Fajans may share similar shapes, each one boasts a distinct hand-painted face and atti...
Category
1940s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Jewellery 1920-1949 - Melissa Gabardi - 1st edition, 1989
Located in London, GB
Published by the Antique Collector’s Club, 1st edition, 1989. Hardback, 1989.
A truly sumptuous tome brimmed with Art Deco fine jewellery pieces, a true feast for the eyes of the co...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Paul Strand: Photograph 1915-1945 - Nancy Newhall - 1st edition, 1945
Located in London, GB
Published by the Museum of Modern Art, 1st edition, New York, 1945. Hardback, English text.
This exhibition catalogue is the first critical monograph issued by MoMA on a photographer. It was published in conjunction with a planned series of one-man focal retrospectives to bring some of the prominent American and European photographers to the fore, and photography has since then entered the category of fine art as far as MoMA is concerned.
A catalyst and legend among his peers and the photography world at large, Strand’s revelatory photography captures a subtle change of mood, a slipt-second thought; his ‘nature morta’ of a kitchen bowl...
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1940s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Signed Cricket Bat, Kent, Middlesex, Hampshire & Leicestershire
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Autographed Cricket Bat, Chris Tavaré Benefit Year' 88.
A Gray-Nicolls 'For Autographing Purposes Only' cricket bat with signatures from Kent, Middlesex, Hampshire & Leicestershire for Kent's Chris Tavaré Benefit Match, 1988. The willow cricket bat with a total of 49 original pen signatures on the front and back of the bat. The bat with decal 'Kent County Cricket Club, Chris Tavaré Benefit Year' 88, Gray-Nicolls'. Signatures are hard to decipher but some of the names we believe to be on the bat are Kent:- Tavaré, Cowdrey, Taylor, Marsh, Penn. Middlesex:- Butcher, Daniel, Slack, Brown, Fraser. Hampshire:- Smith, Parks, Cowley, Andrew. Leicestershire:- Gower, Willey, Whitticase.
Christopher James...
Category
1980s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Willow
Paris Ephemeral Decorations, French Book by André Granet, Original 1948 Edition
By General Decoration
Located in Atlanta, GA
Décors éphémères: Les Expositions Jeux d'Eau et de Lumière, (Ephemeral decorations: water and light games exhibitions,) French book by André Granet, Original edition 1948, Preface by...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
From Marseille to New York 1940-1945, French/English Book, by Bernard Noel, 1985
By Modern History
Located in Atlanta, GA
Marseille - New York. 1940-1945, une liaison surrealiste (Marseille - New York. 1940-1945, a surrealistic link), French/English book by Bernard Noel, 1985.
Through archival photograp...
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1980s French Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
A History of Textile Art by Agnes Geijer
Located in valatie, NY
A History of Textile Art by Agnes Geijer. Hardcover with plastic covered dust jacket. Published by Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1982. From the Preface: This volume is a revised translation of...
Category
1980s English Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Miniature Rooms Book, The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983
By Modern History
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago," by Kathleen Aguilar and Michael Anderson.
Generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago have been fascinated by the Thorne Miniature...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Carrara Ivory 1949 Emerson Model 581 Plaskon AM Vacuum Tube Radio Golden Age
By Emerson Electric
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Ivory 1949 Emerson Model 581 Plaskon AM Tube Radio Golden Age Beauty
This radio was initially crafted using plaskon plastic, an enduring precursor to contemporary polycarbonate and styrene-based plastics. Manufactured by Emerson in the late 1940s, this exquisite AM tabletop tube clock...
Category
1940s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Issey Miyake & Miyake Design Studio 1970 -1985: Works, Words, Years
Located in London, GB
Published by Ōbunsha Co. Ltd. 旺文社, 1st edition, Tokyo, 1985. Soft cover with dustwrapper, Japanese text.
A true collector’s piece, one of the rarest and most stunning Issey Miyake b...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Leather Fishing Fly and Cast Wallet
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Leather Fly Wallet.
A good pigskin leather fishing fly and cast wallet with embossed tram line decoration. The brown leather is in original condition, the strap and buckle is...
Category
1940s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Normandie, The Epic of the Giant of the Seas, French Book by Bruno Foucart, 1985
By Modern History
Located in Atlanta, GA
Normandie, L'Epopé du Géant des Mers, (The Normandie, the Epic of the Giant of Seas), French book by Bruno Foucart, 1985.
The Normandie, that French quality liner, also named Floatin...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
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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Antique Iron Screws
Antique Yard
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Wood Staircase
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Vintage Cat Collectibles
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