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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Color:  Yellow
Italian Canary Yellow Glass and Brass Ashtray, circa 1950s, Italy
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful Italian canary yellow glass and brass ashtray, Midcentury Modern period, circa 1950s, Italy. A great piece for a cocktail table, side table, etc. Piece has two supports a...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Crystal, Brass

Vintage MCM 1960s Kenneth Jay Lane Nautical Rope Twist Cuff Bracelet
Located in New York, NY
Bold, large vintage KJL nautical knot rope twist cuff bracelet. Spring opening Signed KJL From the collection of an East Hampton socialite, daughter o...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Metal

1960s Bathroom Scale by Hanson in Lemon Yellow Lime Green Dot Mid-Century Mod
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Very hard to find Psychedelic Era bathroom scale in wonderful condition, for decor or gentle uses. In the manner of a Verner Panton or a Josef Albers de...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Plastic

1950s Balloon Ashtray Dish Yellow Stoneware Pottery Tent Circus Carnival Italy
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Subtle Oval-shaped Ashtray with a Hot Air Balloon / Circus Carnival. No markings, just a small remnant of a paper label. No chips, and no cracks.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Stoneware

Vintage 14k Yellow Gold, Ruby and Diamond Cocktail Ring
Located in Shippensburg, PA
VINTAGE 14K YELLOW GOLD, RUBY AND DIAMOND COCKTAIL RING With 5 rubies and 6 diamonds Item # 109WJF22P An elegant eye-catching cocktail ring with a playful composition, it features a...
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Collectibles and Curiosities

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Gold

Original Travel Caddie in Bright Yellow Fiberglass / Black Interior, circa 1960
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
This item is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house. Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beach...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Fiberglass

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Located in Buggiano, IT
Pair of Italian night stands, in honeycomb, with floral motif inlays, original from 1960, yellow glass top.  Comes from an old country house in the Chianti area of Tuscany. The paint...
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Italian Night Stands Original from 1960
Italian Night Stands Original from 1960
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Danish Modernist Silver Plate Ashtray or Incense Burner by Carl Cohr, 1950s
Located in San Diego, CA
Egg-shaped silver plated brass ashtray or incense burner. Titled The Smile, it was designed and manufactured by Carl Cohr in Fredericia Denmark. Stamped Cohr, Denmark, 1950s.
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1960s Vintage Italian Vincenza 18-Karat Brushed Gold Bamboo Bangle Bracelet
Located in Haarlem, NL
Vintage Classic 18-karat gold faux-bamboo Italian, Vincenza made bracelet. Consists of nine gold etched and brushed finish bamboo segments which, when closed, form a solid heavy (33g...
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Minimalist Solid Desk in Oak France 1960s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Minimalist dark stained oak desk with dovetail construction connecting the top to the side panels in solid oak with a floating part for 2 drawers. A beautiful piece of craftsmanship ...
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19th Century Child’s Mahogany Bagatelle Table, circa 1840
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century child’s mahogany Bagatelle table, circa 1840, mounted on a period custom base. The shallow rectangular mahogany case is hinged to open as ...
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Decorative Dish Murano Glass Circular Midcentury Modern Italian Design 1950s
Located in Palermo, IT
Circular plate made of large thick Murano glass in the shade of transparent with black lattice decoration. Made in Italy in the 1950s. Note: We try to offer our customers an excell...
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1950s alabaster Ashtray
Located in LYON, FR
Mother of Pearl ashtray bought in Hawaii in the late 1950's. Since then it has lived in Wollongong Australia. Amazing Lustre. Has a one chip on the botto...
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1950s American Organic Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

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1950s alabaster Ashtray
1950s alabaster Ashtray
H 1.19 in W 3.94 in D 5.12 in
Vintage California Original Ceramic Pottery Ashtray
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Classic mid-century modern ashtray in brown and orange, gold glazed ceramic. The ceramic tray is in good condition. Stamped embossed with “#774 Calif Orig USA ©” This could make an interesting retro trinket tray or small relish dish.
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Rocking Horse in Painted Wood
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rocking Horse in Painted Wood Keywords: children's accessories, rustic, French country
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Wood

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Rocking Horse in Painted Wood
H 35 in W 44 in D 11 in
Rope Twist Carved Oak Nautical Barometer
Located in Norwell, MA
Early twentieth century barometer with porcelain face with merchants name A Black & Co., Nautical Optician, Glasgow. Carved rope twist case with brass bezel. Brass hanging tab. Nice ...
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Brass

French Sarreguemines Late 19th Century Miniature Sink with Pastoral Scenes
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French miniature sink from the late 19th century, with pastoral scenes and and removable basin. Created in the Moselle department located in current Northeastern France, this minia...
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19th Century Painted Wood Carousel Swan Child's Seat with Bell
Located in Atlanta, GA
Whimsical 19th century Continental painted and carved wood swan form carousel seat with bell.  
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Mechanical Money Box Piggy Bank, Vintage West Germany, 1960s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Gorgeous vintage sheet metal money bank. Operated by a mechanical mechanism to deposit the coins. Aging in a few spots but is still a great collectible. Neat post office design. A beautiful decorative item for display. Made in Western Germany...
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Large Crucifix, Red, Green, Yellow Glazed Ceramic, Belgium, 1980s
Located in Chicago, IL
Eleven inch tall wall crucifix in ceramic, handmade in Belgium in the 1980s. Glossy marine green cross with red and yellow interior cross shape. The color red has fat lava textured c...
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Georges Jouve and Mathieu Matégot Ashtray, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ashtray designed by Georges Jouve and Mathieu Matégot. Manufactured in France, circa 1950. Green ceramic, metal and rattan. Signed. In good condition, with minor wear consist...
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In the Manner Ingo Maurer POP Modern Plastic 11 Children's Clothes Hangers 1970s
Located in Miami, FL
From the 1970s in the style of Ingo Maurer’s Op Pop FLAIR colorful heavy plastic clothes hangers. A set of 11 colorful plastic hangers for children clothing...
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Edward Wormley Exhibition Catalog
Located in New York, NY
76-page catalog from the exhibition "Edward Wormley: The Other Face of Modernism," held at the Lin Weinberg Gallery in 1997. The exhibit helped re-introduce Wormley's work to the mar...
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H 11 in W 8.5 in D 0.5 in
Murano Orange Yellow Italian Art Glass Mushroom Toadstool Paperweight Sculptures
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown Vaseline yellow, orange and white Italian art glass mushroom / toadstool set. Created for the Fornasa De Murano A L'Insegna Del Moreto Company, by...
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1960s Yellow German Pop Art Undulating Tripod Key Candy Dish Table Sculpture
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Germany, 1967. A yellow rotomolded abs plastic three wave ashtray, but never used as an ashtray.
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Mid-Century Modern Era Bennett Walsh Pacific Stoneware Yellow Tiger Ashtray
By Pacific Pottery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An oversized midcentury Tiger ashtray, signed B. Walsh (Bennett Walsh), dated 1973. Made of stoneware and showing an incised image of a tiger glazed in primary pop-colors of orange on yellow. The deep rim has three slots for holding cigarettes. A great coffee table piece. In the mid-1960s, Pacific Stonewares was based in Portland, Oregon and distributed through Neiman Marcus. Their use of trippy imagery and psychedelic glazing make their pieces highly collectible. Marked: B Walsh, copyright 1973 Pacific Stoneware Inc...
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1964 Moderenist Trippensee Solar System Planetarium, Model SOL-100
By Trippensee Planetarium Co.
Located in Buffalo, NY
1964 Moderenist Trippensee solar system planetarium, model SOL-100. Amazing midcentury design, early plastic, large sun and 10 planetary colorful bodies.
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Located in New York, NY
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Located in Vlimmeren, BE
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1948 Tin Publicity Sign for La Neva Cycles
Located in Antwerp, BE
Very rare Litho Publicity Display Sign in Metal for La Neva Cycles Agency. Vintage Tin Advertising Sign of the brothers Depypere for their luxurious edition of Bicycles - bikes called La Neva. It was a small Factory based in Kuurne, Belgium. Marque Déposé - Date of issue 1948, Sign with Relief letters. Made by Rob. Otten, Chaussée de Gand 734, Bruxelles, Belgium. Beautiful lithographic design with antique Biplane...
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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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