Collectibles and Curiosities

Antique late-19th century Victorian walnut cased games compendium, the interior comprising a chess set, draughts, dominoes, dice, cribbage board with markers, leather bound boards fo...

Antique English Victorian dinner Gong with Sheffield silver-plated Bovine horns.

This is a high quality large Games Compendium, complete with many individual games in its original hardwood storage box with a hinged lid. All the pieces are well made and complete. The box is very well made of a jointed hardwood, possibly red walnut and is a high quality piece in its own right. The box has developed a lovely color and patination from use and wear. The exterior has a brass oval inset into its top, a brass twin lever lock and brass hinges. The interior is sectioned into different sub compartments by hardwood dividers. Many different games are included within the compendium, including; 55 piece 9 - spot dominoes Chess set - Very good high quality set, large pieces( Kings 8.7 cm high) and glass eyes to Knights, Draughts with 24 x turned hardwood pieces Backgammon with 30 x turned hardwood counters 2 sets of playing cards and two Bezique marker boards Hardwood turned dice shaker and various different dice tiddlywinks Pick up sticks...

Le Cirque and Circo branded frosted glass ice bucket branded on both sides. Made in Italy. A private size Ice Bucket with, “Le Cirque” in script on one side and the Manufacturer, “Circo” on the other. Once part of the Bar Service at New York’s famed Restaurant, Le Cirque. Measures 7 1/8" W x 5 1/2" D x 6 1/2" H Condition: Unused stock from Le Cirque Restaurant...

Rare piece of weightlifting memorabilia. Unusual conversation piece for use or as a collectors piece Beautiful, tactile lustrous patina. Lignum vitae is sought after for the beauty of its grain, coloring, patina, density and toughness The dumbbell is a free weight...

Unique and large size, antique corpus of Christ on a blackened oak cross. If you are looking for a large crucifix with a not too overwhelming corpus of Christ for your house of prayer or for your home(chapel) then this unique ecclesiastical antique from the late 1800s could be the one. According to the former owner, this ancient bronze-color painted and sizable corpus and cross came from a monastery in Germany. The details in the anatomy of this Christ sculpture are very well carved and they clearly reveil the work of a seasoned carver / sculptor. We were also immediately impressed by the coloring, because the patina on this corpus from a little distance very much resembles the patina of antique bronze sculptures that you can find in every major market square here in Europe. We also particularly appreciate the details in the face and the position of the head of Christ. Both the angle in which He bowes His head and the details in His face are very realistic and they leave a lasting impression. We believe the artist has perfectly captured the moment in which Jesus bowed His head as He died on the cross. The ebonized oak cross is original to this corpus, but we think it was ebonized later in time, because it makes this unique and stunning sculpture stand out better. This solid oak cross has metal-strengthened openings in the back (both atop and at the bottom) via which this crucifix is safe and easy to mount. Because of the quality, the rarity, the large size, the beauty and the deeper meaning we are convinced that this antique crucifix too will find a new home soon. Whether it be in a private home, monastery or in a church, this work of religious art from the late 1800's will never fail to impress. Thanks to the pair of metal hooks on the back, safely mounting this ecclesiastical antique tight to your wall will be very easy to do. Our fair price for this one of a kind crucifix even includes perfect packing (in a custom made crate) and also worldwide delivery from our store to your door in just 4 to 6 days. Maximum height x width x depth of the cross & corpus: 56 x 30.5 x 8 inches. Maximum height x width of the antique wooden corpus...

This is an antique mounted fishing reel. An English, mahogany and brass reel of sporting decorative interest and mounted on a travertine base, dating to the late Victorian period and later, circa 1900. Of great appeal to the keen fisherman for decorative display Displaying a desirable aged patina and in good order Select stocks show fine grain interest and deep russet hues Quality brass fittings throughout presents warm golden tones Skilfully mounted upon a stout travertine plinth...

Painted Ladies, San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians. Photographs by Morley Baer, text by Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larson. Published by E.P. Dutton of New York in 1978, printed...

VV-X Victrola Phonograph, wind up record player with ten 78 rpm records. This Model number VV-X 147174J, was manufactured by The Victrola Talking M...

Antique 19th century Victorian solid silver table lighter, on a hoof stepped base, mounted with two jockey boots with a whip shaped lighter inserts, the j...

A fantastic mid-Century Coastal shell form silent butler. Usually made of copper, brass, or aluminum, a silent butler is "a small receptacle with a han...

This is an early styling doll. When have you seen another dating to the 1800s. Its mounted to a cabinet with one draw. In the draw are a handful of worn original leather and horse ha...

This remarkable and very finely carved study of the biblical figure of St Paul, The Apostle who was originally Saul of Tarsus born BCE. Tarsus in Cilicia (now in Turkey). He died circa 62 – 64 CE in Rome, Italy. He was one of the leaders of the first generation Christians and was often considered to be the most important person after Jesus in the history of Christianity. This highly accomplished wood carving is a difficult material for detailing English oak. It shows him standing barefoot and dressed in simple robes with a sword in one hand and a scroll in the other. His face has been well captured with a good expression, detailed hair and a long beard. The small scale of this figure would indicate it was not originally church decoration...

Silver gilt Judaica Torah breast plate by Jacob Langleben, 1896 English, late 19th century Measures: Height 62cm, width 25cm, depth 9cm This superb antique piece is a large, Jewish Torah...

Antique wooden doll sized high chair with foot rest and swing arm tray. Measure: 26"

A vintage gentleman's library telescope Not sure exactly of it's age. Estimated Mid Victorian Period ( 1860-1880). Uncertain to maker and origin. ...

A 19th century, early Victorian period walnut and inlaid Canterbury whatnot music stand, barley twist supports, with blind frieze drawer to the cavetto base, all standing on 4 elegan...

Antique 19th century Victorian freight truck used to transport feed to local dairies, this metal carriage has a solid oak top, original wheels and tilt lever, later sign written for ...

Four excellent Civil War-era daguerreotype portraits, each framed in elaborate gold foil. Three images (woman and children) appear to be hand-colored and gilded. These portraits are presented in a fantastic carved gutta percha "Union Case", decorated with a mother, child, and dog on cover and guilloche-style geometric engraving on back. Amazingly, this case appears to be the same one held by the woman in the upper left-hand photograph...

Carrying import marks for London in 1893 by Thomas Goodfellow, this charming, Victorian, Antique, Sterling Silver Model of a Shoe, features a gilt in...

This is a 19th century antique hardwood inlaid banjo barometer with a thermometer and a 10' silvered dial, brass bezel with convex glass. It is a very...

TALL Antique French Cast Iron Cross Crucifix~~Chapel Church Garden Architectural Yard Cemetery Prayer Room Wall Hanging~~c. 1890s Fab...

Antique book printing / engraving plate - featuring stems of Geranium and Currant plants with titles - unsigned - walnut frame - country of origin unknown - 19th century. Excellent antique condition - no loss - no damage - no restoration - oxidation of the metal plate in areas - signs of age and use. Printing plate...

TALL Antique French cast iron cross crucifix~~chapel church garden architectural yard cemetery prayer room wall hanging~~c. 1890s Fab...

Wonderful and deeply carved Victorian wall bracket Corbel. This all handcrafted, Victorian masterpiece has the most wonderful shape and patina. The organic shape and the natural flowing of the deeply carved, acanthus leaf is an absolute joy to behold. Apart from some minimal imperfection (consistent with age), this top quality carved, solid oak bracket from the mid-19th century is in great condition. This fine antique can...

French Victorian black lacquered and bronze trimmed 6 sided cigar holder with music box at base. 52/54 ring gauge, 6.25 length. *One door does no open aut...

Fabulous monochrome map of Paris. Vignettes of St Germain En Laye, Saint Cloud, Versailles and Fontainbleau. Unframed. Drawn by J.Dower. Lithography by Weller. 4 sheets j...

ABOUT This is an original pair of leather wrapped French navy binoculars with a working compass on the end. "Jumelle Marine Paris" (Sailor Twin) is ...

An antique 19th century Victorian period market scale by J.H. Piper & Co. of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. Cast iron base, bowl rest, interio...

Four magnificent macaws on a row. Perched on a gild wooden ornament that is waal mounted. A composition inspired by the famous 17th century Hondecoeter paintings. Resulting in a dynamic tableaux that exploding in colour. One Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) and three Blue-and-gold macaws (Ara ararauna) Note: All animals used for their work came from captivity and died on natural causes. No animals are raised or killed for their work. The works of Dutch Artists Sinke and van Tongeren are inspired by golden age old master painters...

A very rare Victorian taxidermy dog, often scaled down by the best naturalist of the period. Also could be the extinct English White Terrier circa 1860 ...

Left: Bald Eagle & Snakes (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) This magnificent bird of prey fighting two snakes. A Puff adder (Bitis arietans) and a Blood Python (Python brongersmai). This battle takes place on top of an antique marble and zinc plinth. Note: Not available for the US Right: Verreaux's Eagle & Snakes (Aquila verreauxii) A very rare black eagle in the midst of a tough conflict with a Royal Python (Python regius) and a Boa constrictor (Boa constrictor). Situated on an identical plinth to the Bald Eagle. Two impressive sculptural pieces. Price for the set: € 60.000,- (excl. VAT) Price for single: € 35.000,- (excl. VAT) Note: All animals used for their work came from captivity and died on natural causes. No animals are raised or killed for their work. The works of Dutch Artists Sinke and van Tongeren are inspired by golden age old master painters...

2 similar French Victorian brass fireman's helmets. (Priced Each).

People like to use the term ‘apprentice pieces’ when referring to small pieces of miniature furniture,but more often than not this isn’t the case. But what is an apprentice piece and why are they often confused with miniatures? Here we aim to answer these questions! The majority of miniature furniture are in fact sample pieces used by travelling salesmen. Workshops would send out salesmen on lengthy country-wide tours, with a miniature of each piece on his sales cart. This meant the cabinet maker could use the smaller form to show off his skills, without the salesman having to carry a full size piece of furniture wherever he went. Using exactly the same skills and techniques as used on the full sized pieces, the miniatures offered a way of potential buyers being able to get a feel of the quality of goods the workshop produced, before committing to a purchase. Better than a flat ink drawing in a catalogue. A much smaller number of these miniatures are termed ‘apprentice pieces’. Apprentice pieces, although again a scaled down version of the workshops’ offerings, were made by an often inexperienced apprentice. They were given lesser quality materials to work with and the craftsmanship was often less refined. Antique miniature furniture...

ARTIST William Schmollinger (1811-1869) London : George Virtue, 1832. A highly attractive map in gothick style, with an ornamental architectural border, inset views of Dunstable Priory and Woburn Abbey...

19th century hand carved gold gilt cherub/putti fragment A high-quality hand carved 19th century gold gilt paint over sectioned pine example. This wonderful piece details realistic human features, which suggests it was carved for a special interior section of sorts. Likely to have been part of a larger collective at some point. It would look delightful and highly decorative positioned over a doorway entrance. Size in inches: H 10” x W 15” x D 5” Origin: France Material: Pine Date: 1850 - 1880 Completely solid in structure and form without any breaks. Detail loss across the painted surface as shown. We sell antique...

Victorian Stick Barometer circa 1880 Finely Carved and inlaid with satinwood decoration. Possible Scottish provenance.

Vintage full size reproduction copper and brass deep sea diver’s helmet, converted to a night light or lamp. Measures: 18".

Antique late-19th century Victorian burr walnut cased games compendium, the interior comprising a chess set, draughts, dominoes, dice, cribbage board with markers, leather bound boards for games, playing cards, droughts counters, a dice shaker...

A fine antique Doulton & Watts (pre Doulton Lambeth) salt glazed stoneware Nelson jug dating from around 1840. The jug portrays Nelson in military unif...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely John Cary Travel Celestial Globe in Box marked Cary & Co London, No. 21540 This globe I believe is classed as a 14 inch which is the...

Pair of antique mid-late 19th century Christian hymnals, one leather bound book of Methodist Hymns, impressed with the name Mrs. Rachel daugherty, and one blue cloth bound American s...

A fine Captain’s desk in particularly well chosen and colorful Burl wood with string inlaid details and ebonized moldings. The very top with a 3/4 brass gallery and worn brass plaque...

Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and extremely unique and rare 19th century British Tunbridgeware hair pin/bobbin or slide. This slide is unlike any of it’s kind we have seen before…. it is a very rare survivor ! From circa 1860–1880. Made of walnut with gorgeous marquetry inlay on the entirety of the front with classic Tunbridgeware micro-mosaic all over the front. The rear is walnut. The marquetry inlay appears to be various different woods, namely, maple, walnut and satinwood. Would have been worn in a Lady’s hair bun with the micro-mosaic facing forward. This would have belonged to a very elegant lady in the mid to late 19th century. Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion. There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery in Tunbridge Wells. The famous makers of Tunbridge ware were in the Tunbridge Wells area of Kent; their most notable work was from circa 1830-1900. Early makers of Tunbridge ware, in Tunbridge Wells in the mid-18th century, were the Burrows family, and Fenner and Co. In the 19th century, around 1830, James Burrows invented a technique of creating mosaics from wooden tesserae. Henry Hollamby, apprenticed to the Burrows family, set up on his own in 1842 and became an important manufacturer of Tunbridge ware, employing about 40 people. Edmund Nye (1797–1863) and his father took over the Fenner company when William Fenner retired in 1840, after 30 years in partnership with him. Thomas Barton (1819–1903), previously apprenticed at the Wise factory, joined the Nyes in 1836, and worked as Nye’s designer; he took over the business in 1863 and continued there until his death. In Tonbridge (near to Tunbridge Wells), George Wise (1703–1779) is known to have had a business in 1746. It continued with his son Thomas, and Thomas’s nephew George (1779–1869), who took over in 1806. In its early years the company made articles such as workboxes and tea caddies with prints of popular views; later items had pictures created from mosaics. Their workshop in Tonbridge, Wise’s Tunbridge Ware Manufactory, was next to the Big Bridge over the Medway; the building was demolished in 1886 to widen the approach to the bridge. Tunbridge ware became popular with visitors to the spa town of Tunbridge Wells, who bought them as souvenirs and gifts. Articles included cribbage boards, paperweights, writing slopes, snuffboxes and glove boxes. At the Great Exhibition of 1851, Tunbridge ware by Edmund Nye, Robert Russell and Henry Hollamby was shown; Edmund Nye received a commendation from the judges for his work. He exhibited a table depicting a mosaic of a ship at sea; 110,800 tesserae were used in making the picture. The manufacturers of Tunbridge ware were cottage industries, and they were no more than nine in Tunbridge Wells and one in Tonbridge. The number declined in the 1880s; competent craftsmen were hard to find, and public tastes changed. After the death of Thomas Barton in 1903 the only surviving firm was Boyce, Brown and Kemp, which closed in 1927. Marquetry was an old technique which was continued by Nye and Barton to create images such as birds or butterflies. ‘Green Oak’ as caused by the fungus Chlorociboria aeruginascens. Stickware and half-square mosaic was invented by James Burrows in about 1830: a bunch of wooden sticks of different colours, each having triangular or diamond-shaped cross section, were tightly glued together; in the case of stickware, the resulting block was dried, then turned to form an article such as the base of a pincushion. For half-square mosaic, thin slices were taken from the composite block, and applied to a surface.[1][2][4] Tesselated mosaic, was a development by James Burrows of half-square mosaic; it was adopted by George Wise and Edmund Nye. Minute tesserae were used to form a wide variety of geometric and pictorial designs. Many sorts of wood were used for the various colours; about 40 were in regular use. Only natural colors were used; green was provided by “green oak”, produced by the action of fungus on fallen oak. Designs for articles were often taken from designs of Berlin wool work.

This antique 1st Edition book titled Our Mutual Friend was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman and Hall of England in 1865 in the period Victorian style with etchings by Hablot Knight Browne...

Elizabeth, the Queen Mother : A Twentieth Century Life by Grania Forbes. Elizabeth, the Queen Mother is a celebration of the life of the nation''s most t...

Amazing pair of life-sized polished cast solid brass faux elephant tusks mounted to tiered round brass stands, attributed to Suzanne Dahl and Jerry Barich from their Versailles Colle...

This is a pair of antique carnival plaques. A Venetian, bronze on oak decorative wall plates, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Fasc...

No chips or cracks to the Stoneware tray. Heavy item about 60 lbs. Seems to be working, but you will need counterweights to use it, that will go on the metal tray. Ironstone stone...

Antique 19th Century Victorian Black Forest carved figures of sheep used as props from a christmas nativity. Such items were usually bought back by tourists from the Swiss / German b...

About A late 19th century balance scale. The body is Mahogany with two brass trays, brass and glass window and bronze inner mechanism. ...

Schoenhut clown Antique German papier mâché roly poly clown toy by Schoenhut. Dated to the first quarter of the 20th century this item still works when pu...

English Victorian Modern sterling silver smoking box 1885. Rectangular with straight sides. Scroll-bracket handle mounted to central panel between two hing...

An unusual antique brass table vesta or nib holder decorated with a novelty black enamel figure of a boy diving on the ground dating from the 19th ...

This antique 1st edition book titled Little Dorrit was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman and Hall of England in 1857 in the period Victorian style with etchings by Hablot Knight Browne...

A beautiful mahogany framed scoring cabinet by Cox & Yeman circa 1890, featuring hand painted sliding panels ,revolving numbers and a central slate panel....

Antique sterling silver and wood gavel or auction hammer. The gavel is engraved with Judge's name and is a commemorative hammer or gavel for the years of service of the judge. The ...

A stylish Continental, probably Dutch, wooden handled silver ashtray or cheroot holder dating from the 19th century. The heavily made container is of re...