Brass Architectural Models

CARL AUBÖCK - Corkscrew "Key" made around 1950 Beautiful large, old key, with hidden steel screw In good original condition with normal signs of wear. It is the biggest size ever ma...

It is made of solid brass and weighs approximately 5 kg, dates from the 70s, from the very first French Mac Donald's. 5 holes are provided on the rear side for fixing the latter. W...

USA, circa 1980s. Vintage Charles O. Perry brass ball puzzle sculpture. Originally designed in the 1960s. Precision craftsmanship, mathematical design. Can be dis-assembled and re-as...

Miniature Wunderkammer Grand Tour architectural model, entirely handmade, in balsa wood and brass, depicting the Tower of Pisa. The bells made of brass are inserted in the final part...

Large galvanized tin and wood architectural model of a beautifully detailed seven hexagonal storied Chinese buddhist pagoda in original old dry...

This pair of brass decorations in the shape of the Eiffel tower conjures the romance of a voyage to Paris. Made in France in the 20th Century, the intricate lattice-work is rendered ...

Standing at 39 inches in height, this large brass and wooden altar piece was originally used in an Italian church to display a statue. The roof of the altar piece is held up by four ...

Very rare praetorian tablet in brass and wood signed Cittelli in Milan from the early 19th century. Instrument for tracing and topographical surveying...

Brass clisigonimeter with horizontal circle signed F. Miller Innsbruck n. 115 second half of the 19th century. Complete with accessories and original wooden box. Box size 21 x 19 x 7 cm - 8.2 x 7.5 x 2.8 inches. Excellent condition, fully functional. Topography studies instruments, surveying techniques, calculus and plans to represent graphically in scale a part of the Earth surface on a map, indicating its details like streets, rivers, buildings, cultivations… Topography is one of the most antique...

Brass telescope topographic level, signed firmato F.H Temple Maker Boston made in the second half of the nineteenth century, in original patina and in excellent condition, fully func...

Topographic level signed La Filotecnica Ing. A. Salmoiraghi Milano N. 19971 of burnished brass, from 1930s. In excellent condition and complete with original wood box with brass hinges, accessories and closing hooks. The instrument consists of a telescope, one level, and three adjustment screws. Box size 33 x 18,5 x 21 inches 13 x 7.3 x 8.2. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London. After having stayed and worked in different locations, in Piedmont, in Paris and Florence, Ignazio Porro (1801-1875), well-known scientist, professor of optics, inventor and precursor in the field of wide-angle lenses, settled in Milan and began teaching at Polytechnic. In Milan in 1865 he also founded a school-workshop specialized in the construction of topographic instruments together with Alessandro Duroni, pioneer of Italian photography, with the name of Filotecnica. On the death of Duroni, in 1871, Angelo Salmoiraghi, a pupil of Porro, already a very young soldier during the third war of independence against the Austrians, entered into society with his master and in 1877, after the Porro's death he bought the factory, which took the name of La Filotecnica Ing. A. Salmoiraghi, expanding its product range, producing mathematical instruments for drawing, astronomy, meteorology and navigation; the company builds, among other things, the first Italian sewing machine. During the First World War, it supplied war instruments...

Telescope diopter for praetorian tablet signed Secretan Paris n. 3733 from the early 1900s. Praetorian Tablet: the name derives from Pretorius, a professor in Altdorf, who conceived it in 1590. Used to trace medium and small scale maps, as it allows you to draw in detail and with contour lines in view of the terrain. Missing from the line. Measure cm 20,5 x 10 x 16 – inches 8.15 x 4 x 5.9 Secretan was a manufacturer of scientific instruments founded in Paris in 1845 by the Swiss mathematician Marc Secretan (1804-1867). Topography studies instruments, surveying techniques, calculus and plans to represent graphically in scale a part of the Earth surface on a map, indicating its details like streets, rivers, buildings, cultivations… Topography is one of the most antique science...