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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: Late 20th Century
1960s Metal, Wood and Steel Airplane Model
Located in Marbella, ES
1960s Metal, Wood and Steel Airplane Model
Category
Mid-20th Century European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Steel
Set of Cast Iron and Glass Rings c.1940 (FREE SHIPPING)
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A set of three cast iron rings with smaller rings on top. Convex glass on both sides in each piece.
CREATOR Unknown.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1940-1960.
MATERIALS AN...
Category
Mid-20th Century Industrial Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
French Signed Lalique Crystal Tokyo Table Lighter with Frosted Floral Medallions
By René Lalique
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
When it comes to defining elegance and affluence as a lifestyle, Lalique crystal comes to mind for most people. From its earliest days to present times, the Lalique Company has consi...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Crystal, Brass
T. E. LAWRENCE - Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - 1935 - FIRST TRADE EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: LAWRENCE, T. E.
TITLE: Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
PUBLISHER: London: Jonathan Cape, 1935.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST TRADE EDITION. 1 vol., 4to., 10" x 8", Illustrated throughout with a photogravure portrait frontispiece of Lawrence from the plaster bust, 47 plates, 4 folding maps, and several in-text line drawings; the majority by Eric Kennington...
Category
1930s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
English 1930s Philips Challenge Terrestrial Globe With Turned Walnut Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English Philips Challenge globe from the second quarter of the 20th century mounted on a walnut base. Journey through time with this English Philips Challenge globe from the secon...
Category
Early 20th Century English Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut, Paper
Zenith 12S2 67 Shutter Dial 12 Tube Console with Bluetooth Restored Rare
By Zenith
Located in Oakland, CA
Zenith 12S2 67 Sutter Dial 12 Tube Console with Bluetooth Restored. This console radio, introduced as part of Zenith’s 1938 line in June 1937, is a much-coveted set that is rare and hard to find today. This is a 1938 Zenith...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Pigskin Fly Fishing Wallet for Flies and Cast.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Leather Fly Wallet.
A good pigskin leather fishing fly and cast wallet with embossed tram line decoration. The brown leather is in good original condition. The wallet has two inside ...
Category
1910s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
John MORLEY. The Life Of William Ewart Gladstone - 3 vols. - IN A FINE BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MORLEY, John.
TITLE: The Life Of William Ewart Gladstone.
PUBLISHER: NY: Macmillan Company, 1903.
DESCRIPTION: 3 vols., 9" x 6-1/4", frontis portrait plate, illustrated, ...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
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
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
Beautiful Framed Silver Sacred Heart Ex Voto Monogramed, Antique European, 1910s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Framed and donated in the 1970s this vintage ex voto is a real beautiful collectible. I do not know what it is made of, thin and light filigree silver or si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
New Parade, 1939
Located in Roma, IT
New Parade is an original film from the 1940s.
It includes original packaging.
8mm or 16mm.
Good conditions
Category
1930s European Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Sport Parade, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Sports parade film is an original film from the 1950s.
It includes original packaging.
8mm or 16mm.
Good conditions
Category
1950s European Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
John Bucci Restaurant and Nightclub Model
Located in Savannah, GA
Giovanni 'John' Bucci
(Italian-American, 1935-2019)
A conceptual futuristic restaurant and nightclub model.
fiberglass, acrylic and various media
40 inches wide by 23 inches deep ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Futurist Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Acrylic, Fiberglass
Adventures in Travel, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Adventures in travel is an original movie in 8 mm/16 mm realized in 1960s.
Castle films, for all home movie projectors.
Good conditions!
Category
1960s European Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Sport Parade, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Sports parade film is an original film from the 1950s.
It includes original packaging.
8mm or 16mm.
Good conditions
Category
1950s European Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Jungle Animals, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jungle animals is an original film from the 1960s.
It includes original packaging.
7 minutes of film transferred to CD.
Good conditions
Category
1960s European Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
20th Century Czech Wooden Racing Kayak
Located in High Point, NC
A keepsake from a rowing club in Hradec Králové, Czechia, this remarkable boat was crafted in Czenia during the 20th century. Its sleek and streamlined design showcases a graceful, e...
Category
20th Century Czech Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Vintage 10K Gold Mother of Pearl Cufflinks & Shirt Tux Button Studs
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage 10k gold mother of pearl (mop) cufflinks and button studs featuring octagonal form with central pearls.
Dimensions:
Cufflinks - 0.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Antique Schoenhut "Humpty Dumpty Collection" Lion Circus Toy c.1903-1935
By Schoenhut
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Jointed wooden lion manufactured in the 1900s by the Schoenhut Piano Company as part of the "Humpty Dumpty Circus" collection. Made from ca...
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paint
1940s Classics Club Books, Set of 10
Located in Bradenton, FL
A collection of ten Classics Club books from the 1940s. Published between 1942-1948, printed in the United States of America. Hardcovers.
Category
1940s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley, Photoplay Grosset & Dunlap Edition, 1931
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931]. 8vo. Rebound in red 1/.4 leather and black cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt stamps, and gilt titles to spine. New matching archival slipcase.
Presented is a photoplay edition of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of horror, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. This printing was published by Grosset & Dunlap, in New York, in 1931. One of the most collectible Grosset & Dunlap photoplay editions, this book was published to accompany the 1931 Universal Pictures James Whale horror film starring Boris Karlof, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boless, and Dwight Frye. It is illustrated throughout with scenes from that production. The book has been beautifully rebound in striking ¼ red leather and black cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt stamps and tiles to the spine, and a matching black archival slipcase.
Mary Shelley was just nineteen when she wrote her classic novel. The circumstances of its composition are by now well known. In 1816, Mary was in Switzerland with Percy Shelley, Byron, and Byron’s physician John Polidori when the evening’s discussion turned to one of Shelley’s favorite topics, the supernatural. Byron proposed that all members of the party write a romance or tale on the subject. The resulting efforts were Polidori’s The Vampyre, Byron’s unfinished narrative about a vampire, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
The first edition of Frankenstein was published anonymously in London, 1818, and is exceedingly rare. An 1831 edition was published in London, for which Shelley wrote an introduction describing the circumstances surrounding the creation of the work. The first American edition was published in 1833.
Frankenstein has been named “the most famous English horror novel… a defining model of the Gothic mode of fiction, and… the first genuine science fiction novel, the first significant rendering of the relations between mankind and science through an image of mankind’s dual nature appropriate to an age of science” (Clute and Nicholls, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 1099).
Alexander Grosset and George T...
Category
1930s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
(KYD) - DICKENS - John Browdie (from Nicholas Nickleby) - ORIGINAL SKETCH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens).
TITLE: John Browdie (from Nicholas Nickleby)
PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920]
DESCRIPTION: ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR SKETCH...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
WWI brass Carl Zeiss Jena "Fussartillerie" artillery compass
Located in London, GB
A WWI brass Carl Zeiss Jena "Fussartillerie" artillery compass.
3¾ inch dial marked with N W S points, the Carl Zeiss Jena logo, and B.R. 565 FUSSARTILLERIE.
Compass ring marked ...
Category
Early 20th Century German Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Large Folk Art Wooden Merry-Go-Round Model
Located in Antwerp, BE
Awesome large Folk Art wooden merry-go-round model.
This large scale model of a Carousel or Roundabout has been handmade.
Great example of Carnival Art - Folk Art with miniature handmade wooden sculptures of horses, jeep cars and sleigh. All very detailed.
The roof of the entertainment ride is made of patent leather and the bottom roof in draped fabric.
This antique toy - Antique fun fair scale model
has a handle to turn the carousel around.
At this point the handle is stuck due age. As we don't want to damage the aged patina, we didn't make it loose. The new owner can decide if he wants to undo it by removing the old rust in between. If we would do that in front, there is no way back. The carousel can be turned around by hand without using the handle.
This Table Model of a Carousel is a Collectable Object - Collectable Antique Toy...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Vintage Georg Jensen Smoker’s Set 639 by Harald Nielsen
Located in Hellerup, DK
Sterling silver Georg Jensen Art Deco smokers set, including a cigarette box and matchstick stand, design #639 by Harald Nielsen from the early 1930s. ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Baccarat, The Perfume Bottles, French Book by Cristallerie de Baccarat, 1986
Located in Atlanta, GA
Baccarat, Les Flacons a Parfum - The Perfume Bottles, by Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat and edited by Henri Addor and Associés, Paris in 1986....
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
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
Wild River Safari, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Wild river safari is an original film from the 1940s.
It includes original packaging.
8mm or 16mm.
Good conditions
Category
1950s European Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Jazz Mania and Collection, French Book by Frédéric Marchand, 1997
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jazz Manies et Collections (Jazz Mania and Collections), French Book by Frédéric Marchand, 1997.
Preface by Francis Hofstein and Bernard Lion.
The author has collected 180 objects on...
Category
1990s French Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
(KYD) - DICKENS - Barbara (from The Old Curiosity Shop) - ORIGINAL SKETCH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens).
TITLE: Barbara (from The Old Curiosity Shop)
PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920]
DESCRIPTION: ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR SKETCH...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Sala Bianca The Birth of Italian Fashion
Located in London, GB
Published by Electa 1992 in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, June 25-Sept. 25, softback in slipcase.
On the 22nd July 1952, Giovanni Battista Giorgini, a Florentine fashion buyer, organised the fourth ‘Italian High Fashion Show’ in the Sala Bianca. He invited European and American press, buyers and designers, in order to showcase the best of Italian fashion...
Category
1990s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Sabino Artistic Glass Opalescent Fish by Marius Ernest Sabino
Located in Lisbon, PT
An Art Deco fish opaline glass figure miniature with mouth up by Marius Ernest Sabino.
Circa 1933
“Sabino” signed.
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Vintage White and Black English Pond Yacht
Located in Port Chester, NY
A charming vintage model yacht with sails made from old sail cloth and original brass accents. Stand is recent to hold the ship upright and stabile. Measurements include the stand.
Category
1930s English Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Southwestern Pottery - Anasazi to Zuni
Located in Bradenton, FL
Southwestern Pottery - Anasazi to Zuni by Allan Hayes and John Blom. Softcover book, published in 1997 by Northland Publishing. Manufactured in Ho...
Category
1990s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Pioneering 20th Century Design: The Torsten Brohan Collection (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Sotheby's sale 8th March 2005 London.
This covers Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernist lots. There are many photographs of the items throughout the catalogue., with 257 lots.
When the...
Category
20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
12 Various Vintage Brooches Different Models, Made in 1960
Located in Oostrum-Venray, NL
Various Vintage Brooches Different Models, Made in 1960
A collection of different vintage brooches.
With stones in different colors combined with gold and silver tones, this vintag...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate
A Pair Chamois Trophies on Wooden Plaques Germany 1960s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A Pair Chamois Trophies on Wooden Plaques Germany 1960s
A set of two vintage Black Forest chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) trophies mounted on carved wooden plaques with brown and gree...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Rustic Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Antler, Wood
Rare Mid Century Swiss Air DC 4 Chrome Plated Ashtray
By Buhler
Located in Weesp, NL
Introducing a Collector's Dream: Rare 1960s Swiss Air Chrome-Plated Ashtray with a DC-4 Airplane Model!
Are you ready to own a piece of aviation history that's not just functional b...
Category
1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Chrome, Iron
George A. Tice Photographs, 1953-1973 - 1st edition, 1975
Located in London, GB
Published by Rutgers University Press, 1st edition, 1975. Soft cover, English text.
George Tice was considered a prolific and well-established photographer in his thirties. A tender...
Category
1970s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Schoenhut "Humpty Dumpty Collection" Giraffe Circus Toy c.1903-1935
By Schoenhut
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Jointed wooden giraffe manufactured in the 1900s by the Schoenhut Piano Company as part of the Humpty Dumpty Circus collection. Made from c...
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paint
5 Vintage Taxco Mexico Southwestern Sterling Silver 925 Brooch Pins 54g
Located in Dayton, OH
Lot of 5 vintage Mexican sterling silver pins / brooches. Lot includes: segmented rectangular with inlaid stone circles, marked Piedra Plata, Martinez, Sterling Taxco 276, Eagle wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Winston CHURCHILL. Lord Randolph Churchill - 2 VOLS. - FIRST EDITION - 1906
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston.
TITLE: Lord Randolph Churchill.
PUBLISHER: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., 8-11/16" x 5-7/8", illustrated with ...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Narcissa Ward Miniature "Christmas Morning" Diorama c.1933-1942 (FREE SHIPPING)
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A highly detailed diorama titled "Christmas Morning" featuring a French living room scene during Christmas morning. Almost every piece of molding, furniture, rugs, and accessory items that are contained in the room is designed and created by hand. Original signed tag on the back. Comes with two booklets by Mrs. James Ward Thorne (Narcissa Ward), an original photograph signed by the artist and newspaper clippings.
CREATOR Narcissa Ward aka Mrs. James Ward Thorne.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1933-1942.
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Wood, Glass, Fabric, Metal, Paper.
CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use.
DIMENSIONS H 11.25 in. W 13.75 in. D 7.75 in.
HISTORY
Mrs. James Ward Thorne of Chicago loved dollhouses and miniatures as a child. After traveling in Europe where she collected miniature furniture and accessories, Mrs. Thorne commissioned over two dozen miniature rooms created by cabinetmakers from her own drawings. The scale is: one inch to one foot. The rooms were exhibited in the 1933-1934 Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, the 1939 San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition, and in the 1940 New York World's Fair.
Later, Mrs. Thorne had 29 more rooms created, copying Europe's castles, museums and historic homes. She commissioned architects to create historically accurate settings and had the textiles and carpets made by the Needlework Guild of Chicago. The rooms showing the French and English architectural and decorating styles from the 1500's to the 1920's, were exhibited in 1937 at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1942 Mrs. Thorne gave 37 more Miniature Rooms to the Art Institute of Chicago. Those rooms offered views of American history between 1875 and 1940. The Art Institute of Chicago's Thorne Miniature...
Category
Early 20th Century American Classical Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Glass
Vintage Golf Book, Brought Forward, by H.m. Bateman
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Humorous Book Of Sport Drawings, Brought Forward By H.M. Bateman.
An amusing book of drawings, first published in 1931, hard back book with original colour pictorial cover wi...
Category
1930s English Sporting Art Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Brass letter holder depicting vessel with sails unfurled England 1900s
Located in Milan, IT
Brass letter holder with two compartments depicting vessel with unfurled sails, lost-wax casting, early 20th century English manufacture.
Measures 11.5x11x14.5 cm - inches 4.4x4.3x5...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 9000 6-CD Tuner Hi-fi System 1990s by David Lewis
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
Hi-fi system BeoSound 9000 6-CD/Tuner with two loudspeakers (Beolab 1).
The BeoSound 900 can be placed either vertically (mounted on it own support or directly on the wall) or horizontally.
The CD's are easily loaded and held by spring suspended jaws, discs not in play can be replaced without interrupting the playback. The auto-positioning feature ensures that CDs are always returned to the position in which they were first placed.
The Glass-covered aluminum plate holds the CDs and the rails for the CD carriage, while a backlit acrylic plate illuminates the CD currently playng.
BeoSound 9000 offrs unprecedents flexibility to ensure the same uniform movement of the glass cover regardless of the placement of the BeoSound 900 vertically or horizontally, upright or flat. To counteract the effect of the gravity, a digital time control constantly monitors the movements of the cover and adjust the motor, keeping the complete movement wiithin 3,5 and 4 seconds.
Such an abundance of fast moving mechanics means that special measures have been taken to ensure that BeoSound 9000 is safe to operate. Small prismatic lenses are placed at each end of the aluminium frame, controlling an infrared beam across the front of BeoSound 9000. If the beam is violated, the CD clamper will stop immediately.
If the glass door is lifted while the clamper is in motion, it will decelerate immediately. A power failure feature ensures that the clamper is not damaged in a gravitational free-fall, if BeoSound 9000 is mounted vertically.
Ingenious engineering solutions and intricate mechanical movements in a product that continues to surprise and delight users today – and all this from the inspiration of old vinyl records spinning on the record player’s turntable...
Category
1990s Danish Other Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Other
Continuing Tradition: Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., 1914-1991by William R. Mitchell 1st
Located in valatie, NY
A Continuing Tradition: Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., FAIA 1914-1991 by William R. Mitchell, Jr. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This book captures the elegance and style of the resident...
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vest Pocket Hawkeye Folding Camera c.1924-1935
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
The Vest Pocket Hawkeye Model B folding camera with a leather wrapped body and chrome accents.
Shown with life size hand.
CREATOR Eastman Kodak Co.
DATE OF MANUFACTU...
Category
Early 20th Century Industrial Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Eileen Gray: Objects and Furniture Design (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
by Sandra Dachs, Patricia De Muga & Laura Garcia Hintzo
Focuses on Eileen Gray, a breakaway designer in a world dominated by male-centric style schools
Besides an introductory essay, each title in the By Architects series is compiled by key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original productions, and ambient shootings
A design-orientated book for a design-orientated series, Eileen Gray boasts an innovative layout and a special binding
Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco.
Eileen Gray was to stand alone throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another - whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands, or a formal one such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne - Gray remained staunchly independent.
Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working. Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe, who shared much of her ideology. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table...
Category
20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
BRITISH CAMPAIGN & GALLANTRY MEDALS DiSPLAY PICTURE VERY DECORATIVE EXAMPLE
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very decorative display case housing multiple medals for Britich Campaign & Gallantry
Please note the...
Category
20th Century English Campaign Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
The Early American Furniture Maker's Manual - A. W. Marlow - New York, 1974
Located in London, GB
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1st edition 3rd printing, New York, 1974. Hardback with English text.
The ideal step-by-step handbook for casual hobbyists who love a st...
Category
1970s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
An Impressive Fully Mounted Taxidermied African Male Lion, 20th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Impressive Fully Mounted Taxidermied African Male Lion, 20th Century
With a walking attitude and with head inclined to the left, raised on a naturalistic rock and sandy base, hou...
Category
20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Animal Skin
2 Vintage Southwestern Sterling Silver Mozaic Coral Turquoise Inlay Rings
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage Native / Southwestern statement rings / bands featuring sterling silver with inlaid mosaic designs. Purchased from OB's Indian American Shop in Gallup New Mexico, circa 1960...
Category
Late 20th Century Native American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
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
Vintage Baines Golf Trade Card, Burhill Golf Club.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines Golfing Trade Card, Burhill.
A rare circular golf trade card in the shape of a bramble golf ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Bai...
Category
1920s British Sporting Art Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Leonardo Da Vinci, French Book by Jean-Claude Frere, 1994
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in Atlanta, GA
Leonard de Vinci (Leonardo Da Vinci), French book by Jean-Claude, Frere, 1994.
We generally agree to recognize Leonardo da Vinci as the all-time greatest artist. This book retraces h...
Category
1990s French Beaux Arts Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Unique Vintage Handmade Postmodern Ceramic Colorful Menorah Candleholder, Signed
Located in Amityville, NY
Amazing and unique handmade ceramic Chanukah menorah candleholder. Featuring multiple different techniques and materials; stoneware, glaze, and even seemingly Raku, there are numerou...
Category
1990s American Post-Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
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.
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