Laverne Originals Wallpaper Sample Booklet

A finely bound set of the complete fifteen volumes of Cope Tobacco's 'Smoke-Room Booklets', an scarce to see complete set with the original wraps bound in. A very scarce to see comp...

Model of a simple office desk, made of metal with vinyl top. Made in America, circa 1920.

Rare and beautifully produced, this small booklet of poetry by Alfred Richard Meyer was published in 1921 with a stylized cover illustration by Richard Scheibe depicting two archers ...

Antiques - Authentic Reproductions Sales Catalogue of the H.C. Valentine & Co., Antiques Co., East Franklin St., Richmond, Virginia VA, c1940. A hard-cased catalog containing 10-booklets: English Sheffield Silver, Lawn & Garden Furniture from Old Virginia...

Sinke & van Tongeren exhibited this extremely rare Auzoux Gorilla by carefully taking apart the model and creating an exploded view of this historically important piece. When viewed from a particular angle all pieces come together to form the original shape. It was part of the exhibition called ‘TIER’ at MOA in The Netherlands The story of a remarkable 19th century anatomical model created just four years after Darwin unleashed a political storm with his theories on human evolution. The publication of Charles Darwin’s controversial On the Origin of Species in 1859 caused debates to rage about human evolution, debates which witnessed the politicisation of a creature whose existence had only recently been confirmed by modern science. On one side of the argument was the Darwinian camp; on the other were those opposed to Darwin’s theory, such as Richard Owen, the famed Director of the Natural History Museum and a man who, interestingly, coined the word ‘dinosaur’. Tales of the creature in question had endured for centuries, but up until 1847 it remained a myth, an unknown. This all changed thanks to the missionary Thomas Savage and the anatomist Jeffries Wyman who wrote a paper for the journal of the Boston Society of Natural History in which they described a new species: Troglodytes gorilla. (Later, in 1929, Harvard zoologist Harold Coolidge would apply the synonym Gorilla gorilla...

A turn of the century French salesman's sample of a chest in the bamboo style with a marble top. Circa 1900 to 1915. Three handles missing.