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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Period: 1980s
Period: 1920s
Vintage Gucci Playing Cards, 1980s Italy
By Gucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare Gucci playing cards in the original box. Cards are plastic and washable. Two complete decks with two jokers and a bridge card in French. Both sets still sealed in plastic and un...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic, Paper
The Birds
By Kirk Henderson
Located in London, GB
Original unique painting used for the cover of Cinefantastique magazine volume 10, number 2 in 1980. Acrylic and airbrush on artboard. Included with this painting is a copy of the original magazine, which has been placed in a protective sleeve, and fixed to the reverse of the frame
In 1980 when Kirk Henderson was commissioned to design the cover of Cinefantastique magazine. Hitchcock's The Birds was already a legendary horror film. Henderson not only included Tippi Hedren and the menacing birds in his artwork, he also included a tonal blue portrait of the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
This film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is loosely based on the 1952 novelette of the same name by Daphne du Maurier...
Category
1980s French Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Automatic Vending Machine With Coin, Italy, 1980s
Located in Palermo, IT
Vintage automatic vending machine with coin, Italy, 1980s
in use in a bar in my city. It works with a 50 cent (euro) coin. Intact and functional, sma...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Art, Woman and Cars, French Book by Gilles Neret, 1989
By Modern History
Located in Atlanta, GA
L’Art, la Femme et L’Automobile, (Art, Woman and Cars), French Book by Gilles Néret and Hervé Poulain, 1989.
When cars started appearing at the end of the 19th century, people hesita...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Golf Book, The Golf Courses of Great Britain, Bernard Darwin.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Golf Book, The Golf Courses Of Great Britain By Bernard Darwin.
A fantastic new and revised edition golf book written by Bernard Darwin, one of the greatest golf writers ever to put pen to paper. 'THE GOLF COURSES OF GREAT BRITIAN' is the follow up to Darwin's original book fifteen years on from 'THE GOLF COURSES OF THE BRITISH ISLES, DESCRIBED BY BERNARD DARWIN, PAINTED BY HARRY ROWNTREE'. The book is with its original hard green cloth cover with embossed title to front and with gilt title to spine. The book has wonderful illustrations of famous holes of famous courses by Harry Rowntree and great descriptions of the individual courses by Darwin that make excellent reading.
ex Norwich Public Library, library stamps and label and perforation to the main title page and stamped throughout the book.
Amongst the courses in the book are St. Andrews, Sunningdale, Walton Heath...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Large Original Vintage Map of The South Pole, circa 1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great map of The South Pole
Original color.
Published by Alexander Gross
Unframed.
Repairs to minor edge tears
Category
1920s English Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Memphis, Barbara Radice 1984 First Edition
Located in London, GB
First edition, published by Rizzoli, 1984
‘Research, Experiences, Result, Failures and Successes of New Design’
Founded in 1981 by designer Ettore Sottsass, the Italy-based Mem...
Category
1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Large Original Vintage Map of The United Kingdom, circa 1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great map of The United Kingdom
Original color.
Published by Alexander Gross
Unframed.
Category
1920s English Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Kieselstein Cord Diamond 18k Yellow Gold 3D Alligator Cuff Bracelet
Located in Dallas, TX
This authentic Barry Kieselstein-Cord bracelet is finely crafted from 18k yellow gold featuring an intricate and detailed 3D sculpted full figure alligator, from the larger part with...
Category
1980s American Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Black Forest Style Carved Walnut Barometer, Germany, ca. 1920
Located in Barntrup, DE
Black Forest style carved walnut barometer, Germany, ca. 1920.
An impressive carved walnut barometer with masterfully carved flowers and leaves. A small mirror on the top of the roun...
Category
1920s German Black Forest Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Walnut
Art Deco Period Sterling Silver Engine Turned Cigarette Case
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco, sterling silver cigarette case with gilt interior and hinged lid, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1927, W.T. Toghill and Co., Ltd. - makers. Sterling silver is eng...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver
Rare Antique Books Set of 10 The World's 50 Best Short Novels from 1929
Located in San Diego, CA
The World's 50 Best Short Novels Set of 10 Red Cover 1929 Funk and Wagnalls. All together they measure 6 in. x 4 in. x 8 in. Unique and rare complete collection of 10 editions from 1...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Linen, Paper
Vintage Meccano Building Game in Original Box
By Meccano
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Embark on a journey through time with this original Meccano building game, presented in its vintage box. Crafted by Meccano Limited in England, this piece of history invites you to u...
Category
1980s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
(KYD) - DICKENS - The Half-Pay Captain (from Sketches By Boz) - ORIGINAL SKETCH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens).
TITLE: The Half-Pay Captain (from Sketches By Boz).
PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920]
DESCRIPTI...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
(KYD) - DICKENS - Tim Linkinwater (from Nicholas Nickleby) - ORIGINAL SKETCH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens).
TITLE: Tim Linkinwater (from Nicholas Nickleby)
PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920]
DESCRIPTION: ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR SKE...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
H.R.H the Prince of Wales, on Forest Witch After Sir Alfred Munnings.
By Alfred Munnings
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
The Prince Of Wales By Alfred Munnings.
A rare and signed Sir Alfred Munnings coloured lithograph of H.R.H The Prince Of Wales, sat astride his chestnut hunter, Forest Witch...
Category
1920s British Sporting Art Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Keith Haring Love Ball art 1989 (book)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring illustration art 1989 (Love Ball centerfold illustration by Haring):
Rare published program highlights the iconic May 10, 1989 Love Ball, a high-end, celebrity-studded c...
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
(KYD) - DICKENS - Mr. George Sampson (from Our Mutual Friend) - ORIGINAL SKETCH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens).
TITLE: Mr. George Sampson (from Our Mutual Friend)
PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920]
DESCRIPTION: ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR ...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Large Original Vintage Map of Japan, circa 1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great map of Japan
Unframed
Original color
By John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute
Published, circa 1920
Free shipping.
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Joseph Clayton CLARKE (KYD) - DICKENS - The Pavement Artist - ORIGINAL SKETCH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens).
TITLE: The Pavement Artist (from Somebody's Luggage).
PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920]
DESCRIPTION: ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOL...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Book: Man Discovers the Earth (USSR, 1986), 1J198
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Embark on a captivating journey through "Man Discovers the Earth," a vintage book from the USSR, circa 1986. Filled with captivating photographs showcasing the wonders of the world,...
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1928 Hamilton Railroad #2 10K Gold Filled 21J Pocket Watch 16s Runs
By Hamilton
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique late 1920’s Hamilton Railroad pocket watch with braided leather fob. White face with black Arabic numerals; second counting sub-dial with Arabic numerals. Art Deco scalloped edge and Greek key details. Runs.
Case: Wadsworth Watch...
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Vintage Baedeker's Guide, Tyrol & Dolomites, English Language, Published 1927
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an vintage Baedeker's Guide to the Tyrol and the Dolomites. A German, bound travel book of 612 pages, published in English, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1927.
Bae...
Category
1920s German Victorian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Leather Fly Fishing Wallet
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A good pigskin leather fishing fly and cast wallet with embossed tram line decoration. The brown leather is in original condition. The wallet has two inside pockets, a selection of p...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
The Tiffany Wedding by John Loring
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Tiffany Wedding, by John Loring with an introduction by Patricia Warner. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Stated first edition published in Octo...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Hickory Golf Club, Iron, Cann & Taylor.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Hickory Golf Club, Iron, Cann & Taylor.
A nice original hickory blade iron with hand punched dot face markings. The hickory shaft with J. H. Taylor "Autograph" and a polished...
Category
1920s British Edwardian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
1986 Antoni Tàpies Book: 'Tapies i la Nova Cultura'
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Explore the artistic genius of Antoni Tàpies with this remarkable 1986 book, titled 'Tapies i la Nova Cultura,' edited by Polígrafa. This is a special illustrated edition, encapsulat...
Category
1980s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Extraordinary Walking Stick Horn Handle Silver
Located in Berlin, DE
massiv horn handle
silver shaft
robust stick
(V-215).
Category
1920s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Horn
Vintage Hickory Shafted Putter, the Knole
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Hickory Golf Club, Blade Putter, The Knole.
Unusual bar backed hickory putter by Cyril Fryers, The Knole. The golf club with hickory shaft, suede leathe...
Category
1920s Scottish Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Vintage Hickory Golf Club, Mid Iron.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Hickory Golf Club, Mid Iron.
A fine and nicely weighted dot punched faced mid iron by Josh Taylor (brother of John Henry "J.H." Taylor who was best known for his fine British Open play, winning his first Open in 1894 and went on to win it a further four times). The hickory shaft with polished leather grip, the rear of the club head marked 'Selected, Mid-iron, Warranted Hand Forged, Josh Taylor (signature) Richmond Park' with Taylor's 'Greyhound' cleek mark. The original hickory shaft stamped 'Josh. Taylor Selected'. Taylor was a professional at Aldeburgh and later at a number of other clubs: Seacroft (from 1907), Acton (from 1909), Sudbury (from 1920) and Richmond Park (from 1924).
The measurements shown are the length of the shaft with hosel and the width and depth of the face.
A great golf club iron in good original condition and very usable for modern hickory play. Approximate 24° loft & swing weight C5.
Taken from Wikipedia:
Joshua Taylor (1881 - 28 September 1957) was an English professional golfer, the younger brother of J. H. Taylor. He played in the 1913 England-Scotland Professional Match and for Great Britain in the 1921 match against America.
Taylor was born Northam, Devon in 1881, 10 years after his brother J. H. Taylor.
Playing with his brother J.H., he won the Southern Professional Foursomes Tournament in 1910. The event was played in late January at Stoke Poges...
Category
1920s British Edwardian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Large Antique Wooden Ship on Stand
Located in Summerland, CA
Charming model of triple masted sailboat on stand.
47” wide
Category
1920s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Golf Club Iron by Cann & Taylor With J.h Taylor Autograph
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Hickory Golf Club, Iron, Cann & Taylor.
A nice original hickory blade iron with hand punched dot face markings. The hickory shaft with J. H. Taylor "Autograph" and a polished...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
England 1929 Art Deco Chinoiserie Desk Lighter In Sterling Silver Jade And Lapis
Located in Miami, FL
Art deco box desk lighter made in England.
A beautiful table-desk lighter, created in London England back in the 1929. This sculptural piece has been crafted during the high art dec...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Jade, Lapis Lazuli, Silver, Sterling Silver
Vintage 1989 Barbie Mattel Original Pink Paper Book Covers NOS - Many Available
By Mattel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage 1989 Barbie Mattel Original Pink Paper Book Covers NOS - Many Available. Item features new old stock vintage collection of Mattel Barbie book covers. Circa 1989. Measurements...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Tiffany's 150 Years by John Loring
Located in Bradenton, FL
Tiffany's 150 Years by John Loring. First edition, published in 1987 by Doubleday & Company Inc. of Garden City, New York. Hardcover with dustjacket, 192 pages.
Category
1980s Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Dunhill Brass Tinder Pistol Table Lighter
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This Dunhill Tinder Pistol is a fine example of an extraordinary table lighter which is in the shape of a flintlock tinder (gun) pistol from the XVIII century.
It is made of brass a...
Category
1920s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Edition, 1922
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition, first state. Rebound in ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gil...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Antique English Trophy Baseball Soccer Swimming Award Plaque Repousse c1926
Located in Shreveport, LA
Antique English Trophy Baseball Soccer Swimming Award Plaque Silver Plate c1926.
Direct from England, just arrived in our most recent container, we have several of these one-of-a-kin...
Category
1920s British Sporting Art Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver Plate
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, 1987
Located in New York, NY
Exhibition book from the Whitney, 20th century drawings. Works by prominent 20th Century American artists, with descriptive text including.: Thomas Hart Benton, Elie Nadelman, Earle ...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
ANTIQUE CIRCA 1920 ART DECO LEATHER CLAD CASE PLAYiNG CARDS SET BRASS CARDS TOp
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very nice and highly collectable Art Deco brown leather card case with brass cards plaque to the top an...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1921 Monday or Tuesday
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderful copy of Virginia Woolf's breakout story collection 'Monday or Tuesday'. Being one of a small 1,000 copy print run.
Illustrated, with four woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, Woolf's elder sister. Bell designed a number of dust jackets for books published by the Hogarth Press...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1929 The Prince
By Machiavelli
Located in Bath, GB
An exceptionally scarce Limited Edition of Machiavelli's sixteenth century political treatise, limited to only ten copies printed on vellum leaves.
Number ten of ten copies printed ...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1982 Moto Guzzi Cafe Racer V50 Italian Motorcycle
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
V50 Moto Guzzi Cafe Racer.
A wonderful Moto Guzzi café racer. This customised Moto Guzzi V50 is a lightweight, 500cc powered motorcycle with visual minimalism, featuring low-mounted...
Category
1980s English Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Large Original Vintage Map of Mexico, circa 1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great map of Mexico
Original color.
Good condition
Published by Alexander Gross
Unframed.
Category
1920s English Edwardian Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Dracula by Bram Stoker, First Grosset & Dunlap Edition, 1927
By Bram Stoker
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Stroker, Bram. Dracula. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1927]. First Grosset & Dunlap Edition. 8ov. Presented in original orange cloth boards, stamped in black, and the original pictorial dust jacket. With a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case.
Presented is the first Grosset & Dunlay edition of Bram Stroker’s Dracula, published in 1927. The book is presented in its original orange cloth boards, stamped in black, and the original pictorial dust jacket. The book has a new archival quarter leather and cloth clamshell case, with raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, and an inlay of the dust jacket design on the front.
Dracula is a gothic horror novel written by Irish author Bram Stoker. The story follows the efforts of Professor Abraham Van Helsing and others to defeat the vampire Count...
Category
1920s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Antique Birmal All Metal Lawn Tennis Racket
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage tennis racket, Birmal all metal racket.
A fine 'Birmal' all metal lawn tennis racket made by the Birmingham Aluminium casting Co. The racket has the original metal strings, ...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum
Black Colored Metal TV Television Tower of Nuremberg Scale Design Model, 1980s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Scaled model of the Nuremberg television tower also called Nuremberg Egg (because of the Design). A nice architectural sculpture for every living or man’s room. Diameter given in dim...
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Pipe stand, tobacco, smoking, design, Hagenauer 1920/30 Art Deco, Vienna Austria
Located in Wien, AT
A very rare object of the famous Austrian workshop Hagenauer, based in Vienna since the opening in 1898.
Objects made by the designers Hagenauer are sought after worldwide and this ...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1928 The House at Pooh Corner
By A.A. Milne
Located in Bath, GB
A beautifully bound first edition copy of A A Milne's noted story collection 'House at Pooh Corner'. A wonderful copy of this beloved work, housed in a custo...
Category
1920s British Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Jasper Johns by Mark Rosenthal, Museum Edition Trade Paperback, 1988
By Jasper Johns
Located in Philadelphia, PA
“Jasper Johns, Work Since 1974 ” by Mark Rosenthal, a Museum Edition Trade paperback, from the 1988 exhibition mounted at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Jasper Johns (born May 15, ...
Category
1980s American International Style Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
F. S. Payne Elevator Car Control Pedestal
Located in Norwell, MA
Iron and brass elevator “switch”, which is the term used for the control used to raise and lower the elevator car. With brass maker’s badge. We have stripped, polished, and sealed it...
Category
1920s North American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Vintage Snaffles Horse Racing Print, A Point To Point. Charles Johnson Payne.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Snaffles Horse Racing Print, A Point To Point. Charles Johnson Payne.
A good framed equestrian hand coloured lithograph by Snaffles, titled 'A Point To Point'. The colourful ...
Category
1920s British Sporting Art Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Bruce Weber by Bruce Weber, 1st Limited Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Bruce Weber by Bruce Weber. Published by Twelvetrees Press, Los Angeles, 1983. Stated 1st Limited Edition (1/5000) hardcover with dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated with over 50 full-page photogravure plates of male models and actors, a few tinted with halftone colors. Contains subjects: Brothers, Matt...
Category
1980s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Safe Deposit Box In Steel, Czechoslovakia 1980s
Located in Zohor, SK
Step back in time with this remarkable vintage steel safe box, a testament to both craftsmanship and security. Crafted in the 1980s within the borde...
Category
1980s Slovak Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Unique Murano Glass Sculpture, Dino Rosin, Face of Jesus, 20th Century, Venice
By Dino Rosin
Located in ROTTERDAM, ZH
What. A. Piece. Of. Art. This Murano glass sculpture is just stunning. The head of Jesus is made from mouth blown Murano glass. It is worked free hand on...
Category
1980s Italian Baroque Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Murano Glass, Wood
Egyptian Revival Nude Queen Copper Table Lighter
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Art Deco era copper Egyptian Revival nude queen Table Lighter featuring a figural lighter with a removable lighter at the top.
1920, United States, comes e...
Category
1920s American Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
Complete Alice & the Hunting of the Snark, Illustrated by Ralph Steadman
Located in valatie, NY
The Complete Alice & The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. Published by Salem House Publishing Topsfield, MA, 1987. First edition thus hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in...
Category
1980s American 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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