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Holiday Ornaments Designed by Malene Birger for Georg Jensen Collectibles
By Georg Jensen
Located in Miami, FL
Holiday ornaments designed by Malene Birger for Georg Jensen. The ornaments are made of brass and gilded with 24-carat gold.
Measures: 7" High x 6 1/'2" Wide and approximately 1.19 i...
Category
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Pair of Bronze Viking 1 and 2 Mars Landing Commemorative Medallions
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of bronze Viking 1 and 2 Mars landing commemorative medallions, circa 1976. This rare pair was issued by Medallic Art Co. to commemorate the Viking ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
USSR Cold War Era 10 x 80 Large Anti-Aircraft Binoculars, date stamped 1972.
Located in Canterbury, England
A superb set of Russian 10 x 80 Large Anti-Aircraft Binoculars, date stamped 1972, manufactured during the Cold War period and originally issued to Soviet forces with outstanding opt...
Category
1970s Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Five Original New York City Subway Straphangers on Pole
Located in Stamford, CT
Five original New York City subway straphangers mounted on the original pole. The cast iron and porcelain 'straphanger' or pivoting grab handle was made by the Rico manufacturing com...
Category
Early 20th Century American Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Pair of Antique Carnival Plaques, Venetian, Bronze, Decorative, Victorian, 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Victorian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
1920s Rare Levi Strauss & Co. Belt Buckle
By STRAUSS
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Brass belt buckle marked "San Francisco, CAL." Original riveted quality clothing. Patented May 20, 1873 trademark. With original black leather belt which has seen wear but complete. ...
Category
1920s American Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
20th Century American Solid Silver Gimbal Novelty Golf Lighter, circa 1900
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th century American very unusual, novelty solid silver gimbal golf themed lighter, of unusual design, the ball gimbol shaped as a golf ball, mounted with a tusk and a...
Category
20th Century American Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
Ancient original carriage from the 1800s
Located in Cesena, FC
Original Italian carriage from around 1870-80.
Four-wheeled carriage equipped with a large foldable canvas bellows,
with a two-seat seat for passengers and fitted with a higher seat ...
Category
1870s Italian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Antique 20th Century Victorian Cast Iron Royal Warrant c.1900
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
An antique early 20th Century cast iron government royal warrant, likely from a magistrate court or government building. Beautifully cast and hand-painted. A remarkable piece of hist...
Category
20th Century British Other Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Vintage opera glasses - 20thc
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Vintage opera glasses - 20thc
Binoculars - object of curiosity
Measures : 10x5,5cm H:3,5cm
Wear consistent with age and use
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Two Limoges Enamel Paintings Including Portrait of Henry VIII
By Hans Holbein
Located in London, GB
These exquisite portrait plaques were made in the French town of Limoges, which is renowned for the fine quality of its enamel wares. The panels have been painted with oval, half-length portraits of British Tudor monarchs...
Category
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Enamel
Antique Brass Fox Head Walking Stick, Glass Eyes, Scarf Ring
Located in Miami, FL
Antique Brass Fox Head Walking Stick, Glass Eyes, Glove Ring
Offered for sale is an antique Victorian brass fox-head walking stick with a brass glove ho...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Circa 1900 or Earlier French Oak Syrah Wine Barrel
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1900 or earlier oak Syrah wine barrel, French. Top carved "639, ARLDA", the tap holes closed. Staved with heavy iron straps. Painted with grapes & "Syrah Cote de Provence, Prov...
Category
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
A pair of Grand Tour Busts of Roman Emperors, mid 19th c
Located in Stockholm, SE
This pair of small Grand Tour busts is crafted from gilt bronze, showcasing intricate detailing that reflects classical design influences. Each bust features a wonderful patina, addi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Israeli Enamel Street Sign – "Rehov HaGaon Eliyahu" (1948)
Located in New York, NY
This enamel-on-iron street sign, produced in Israel in 1948, features Hebrew and English text in a classic blue-on-white design. It marks "Rehov HaGaon Eliyahu," a street named in ho...
Category
Mid-20th Century Israeli Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Enamel, Iron
1930s Art Deco Gents's Skyscraper Enamel Cufflinks
Located in Devon, England
A rare find are these totally original enamel gents matching cufflinks dating from the 1930s. Great Art Deco geometric styling and color, can't be confused with any other era can the...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Enamel
19th Century French Gold Mounted & Mother of Pearl Etui Set, c.1870
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century French gold mounted on mother of pearl, extensive traveling etui set, of elongated octagonal form, the gold mounted with polished mother of pearl panels and the lid applied with cast and enamelled floral decoration, the lid opens with a push-button. Inside enclosing the original gold and steel implements:, scissors, pen knife...
Category
19th Century French Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Gold
Antique Judaica Spice/Herb Brass Mortar and Pestle with 10 Commandments
Located in Doha, QA
This is a very rare and absolutely unique hand made Brass Judaical Spice Mortar and Pestle with 10 Commandments and two lions in the front which represents a Torah Shield.
The Pestle...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Swiss Nema Cipher Machine
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Swiss-engineered cipher machine is a fascinating piece of 20th-century military and engineering history, and this particular example is one of the ...
Category
20th Century Swiss Other Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Art Deco 1930s-1940s Stylish Pyramid Shaped Box Bag
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this superbly stylish and rare 1930s Art Deco pyramid box bag, a beautiful design. I can't sing the praises of this bag enough, it's an absolute delight. Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
19th Century Austrian Silver Gilt, Enamel & Rock Crystal Drinking Horn, c.1880
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Austrian exceptionally rare solid silver gilt, enamel and rock crystal drinking horn, by Hermann Ratzersdorfer, Vienna, circa 1880s. The drinking horn is made of...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Rock Crystal, Silver, Enamel
Danish Flag Post on Marble Stand with Royal Monogram of King Frederik IX, 1947
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Danish flag post with Dannebrog on a marble stand with Royal Monogram of King Frederik IX.
The flag post is most likely made for the coronation of the Ki...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Marble, Silver Plate
Antique Opalescent Perfume Bottle with Brass Mounts and Painted Medallions
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique opalescent perfume bottle is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in Europe, likely in France or Italy in circa 1890 for a Grand To...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
WWII Vintage Water Can
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is a vintage metal gas can. It has a really nice patina.
Category
20th Century American Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Monumental Mid-Century French Nouvelle Cuisiniere Advertising Sign
Located in Forney, TX
A monumental vintage advertising sign from France, believed to be custom one-of-a-kind, the giant sign crafted of metal, dual sided, polychrome enamel paint...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Streamlined Moderne Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Russian Electromechanical Wheel-Based Cipher Machine Fialka M 125
Located in Madrid, ES
M-125 Fialka-electromechanical wheel-based cipher machine
USSR rotor-based cipher machine
M-125, codename Fialka (Russian: ??????), was an el...
Category
1950s Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Margaret Thatcher and State of Qatar, Garrard & Co. Silver Gilt Presentation Set
Located in New York, NY
Margaret Thatcher and state of Qatar, Garrard & Co. Silver gilt presentation set, London, 1983.
MARK OF GARRARD LTD, LONDON, 1983
A Three piece Elizabeth II, silver and silver ...
Category
20th Century British Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
Leonard Bernstein's Edison Award, 1968
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Leonard Bernstein's Edison Award, 1968,
Last photograph is Leonard Bernstein receiving this Edison Classical Music Award in 1968
The Leonard Bernstein Edison Award, received in 1968...
Category
20th Century European Modern Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Antique Wood & Brass Pill Roller from a Pharmacy Apothecary
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Antique Wood & Brass Pill Roller from a Pharmacy Apothecary
This is an antique apothecary pill rolling machine, a brass chemist's countertop instrum...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Medieval Egyptian Mamluk Brass Tray Stand with Silver Inlay
Located in London, GB
This exceptionally beautiful and rare silver-inlaid brass tray stand dates from the medieval period, when the Mamluks ruled Egypt and Syria (1250-1517). The Mamluks originated as slave-soldiers, who served the Muslim caliphs and Ottoman Empire. With time, the Mamluks became a powerful military caste, and they managed to take control and establish themselves as rulers of certain areas within the Abbasid caliphate. The Mamluk dynasty commissioned great works of art and architecture, particularly in Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, which was described in the 14th Century as ‘the centre of the universe and garden of the world’ (Ibn Khaldun, 1382).
This tray stand is of biconical form, with a raised central band and flared base and rim. It is decorated with scrolling vines, overlaid with Thuluth inscriptions and roundels. On the lower body, the roundels contain floral motifs, and in the upper, stylised depictions of birds. The Thuluth inscriptions praise the patron, referring to him as ‘The High authority, the Lordly, the Possessor’, and ‘the learned’. The underside of the rim is engraved with a heraldic medallion, possibly the patron’s symbol.
In the middle ages, when this piece was made, this item would have stood in a grand interior, supporting a tray full of fruit and fine food. The owner of this lavish piece which still bears traces of its original silver inlay would likely have been an Amir (prince) or some other important figure who was close to the Sultan in the Mamluk court.
Mamluk tray...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Islamic Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass, Silver
Antique Meikai Camera
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Meikai camera. Equipped with a New Meikai f-50mm lens. This simple lens, with optical glass and built-in UV filter, suggests a piece of equipment aimed at amateurs or casual photogr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
20th Century Gold Plated Rattan Walking Stick, Shell Handle and Bamboo Stick
Located in Miami, FL
20th Century Gold Plated Rattan Walking Stick, Shell Handle and Bamboo Stick
Offered for sale is an early 20th-century rattan or bamboo walking stick with gold-plated accent trim ...
Category
Early 20th Century Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Gold Plate
Pair of Brass Trinket Dishes with Silver Greek Coins by Illias Lalaounis
By Lalaounis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Pair of vintage brass and sterling silver trinket dishes by Ilias Lalaounis, Greece. A sterling silver Greek coin (replica) is set in the middle of each...
Category
1970s Greek Greek Revival Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver, Brass
Cx-52 Model Swiss Cipher Machine
Located in New Orleans, LA
A triumph of ingenuity and craftsmanship, this Swiss cipher machine is a fabulous example of mechanical precision. Cipher machines are used to encrypt a...
Category
20th Century Swiss Other Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Antique Leitz Wetzlar Slide Projection Machine
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Leitz Wetzlar slide projector. With case for storage and transport. The black plastic frame features a functional design with a ventilated base and four small metal feet for stabilit...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Hollywood Regency Early 20th Century Page Turner or Letter Opener Horn and Brass
Located in Haarlem, NL
Very large and decorative Hollywood Regency 1920s page turner or letter opener made by hand out of a curl goat Horn and brass.
On the brass it reads: AER
But the some letters are h...
Category
Early 20th Century European Hollywood Regency Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Rare Antique Gamewell Fire Alarm Base Station
Located in Round Top, TX
Very rare base station for a circa 1880 Gamewell alarm system. The unit has beveled glass all the way around. The system was in use in the 1880s, and al...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Chinese Travel Opium Lamp, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
By the 18th century, opium use had become as central to Chinese social life as taking tea or smoking tobacco, fostering a subculture rich with its own customs, traditions, and exquis...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Post War 1953 Very Unusual Trencher Art Bookends In Bronze And Aluminum
Located in Miami, FL
Bookends with 1953 US Navy AER-53 Dummy Artillery Rounds
Elusive and historical pair of bookends, created during the post WWII period and the Korean war, back in the 1953-1955. They...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze, Aluminum
Period Renaissance Early 16th Century Processional Cross, France
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Exceptional Period Renaissance processional cross early 16th century, France
Extremely rare and beautiful processional cross from the early period of the French Renaissance. This ...
Category
16th Century French Renaissance Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
1930 Royal Automobile Club Associate British Enameled Radiator Cap Car Badge
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This Royal Automobile Club Associate car badge was made by the Patent Die Assoc. Co. of London in presumably 1929 in London England in the period...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Antique Frame French Book Journal Display/Painting 13th-19th Century
Located in Doha, QA
This rare and remarkable piece begins with a backdrop composed of beautifully, handwritten love letters from the 1800s. There are three scrolls made up of additional love letters, sealed with red wax from the 19th century scattered around two antique books. The open book on the left, was written during the time of the 30 Year War, 1618-1648 in France, when the Treaty of Westphalia changed the map of Europe. During this period, the church attempted to begin marriage registrations and within this written relic, there are numerous marriage entries with names and dates. The book is bound by animal hide from the 12th-13th century and when it is unfolded, it becomes a giant piece of parchment filled with faded ink handwriting in mysterious Old French. The closed book on the right is from Louis XIII - XVI era and is bound in antique animal hide parchment from the 12th-13th century. When the animal hide is unfurled, the inside is adorned in faded handwritten ink in peculiar Old French. Inside the journal is elegante handwriting in ink but it is difficult to identify the cryptic content. This journal was possibly written by an unknown noble figure or bishop. Settled below the journals, is an antique, intricate silver feather ink...
Category
15th Century and Earlier French Gothic Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Gold, Silver
Chinese White Brass Opium Lamp Tweezers, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of white brass tweezers once used to advance the wick of an opium lamp. The antique tweezers are simply shaped and feature a bell-shaped scrape...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Antique Canadian General Store R.B. Hay Hoe & Co. Tea Advertising Display Tin
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique general store advertising store display tin for the R.B. Hay Hoe & Co. tea is presumed to have been made in Canada in approximately ...
Category
Late 19th Century Canadian Victorian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Dutch Je Maintiendrai World War Two Peace Biscuit Tin
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce vintage Dutch ‘Je Maintiendrai’ ( I will maintain) WWII peace commemorative large biscuit tin dating from around 1945. The tin of large, tall cylindrical shape has its origi...
Category
1940s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
Antique Spanish Coin Dated 1882
Located in Miami, FL
Fine Spanish coin that was previously on a silver bracelet (sold separately).
Spain, Alphonse XII (1874-1885), 5 Peseta, 1882,
Year: 1882
Metal: Silver.
Category
19th Century Spanish Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
Metal Rescue Stretcher from the French Alps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unusual metal stretcher from the French Alps, circa 1960. Thick metal bars with wire frame. Great piece for a winter home. Good vintage condition.
Category
1960s French Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Pair Of Cherry Smash Fountain Syrup Jars
Located in Essex, MA
Cherry Smash was a fountain syrup made from cherry syrup which soda jerks mixed with carbonated water. Founded in 1901 by John E. Fowler of Richmond Va. In...
Category
Early 20th Century American Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Early 20th Century English bronze letters
Located in London, GB
“SUMMER”
A cool collection of early 20th Century English bronze letters that spell “SUMMER”. Still in place these letters have their original support screws which have bent over ti...
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
Antique WW1 Era Brass Trench Art Engraved Shell Casing Dinner Bell or Gong
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very unique and interesting engraved shell casing is unsigned with respect to its maker, but presumed to have been made in possibly Kuwait or Turkey in circa 1917 in a Folk Art style. The shell casing is from an enormous solid brass artillery shell that has been cut and fashioned into a well tuned bell or gong. The shell has been engraved with various panels or vignettes such as doves, palm trees, a landscape and a central crest identifying the years it commemorates. The dinner, meeting or prayer bell...
Category
Early 20th Century Kuwaiti Folk Art Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Antique French Butcher's Horse Meat 'Boucherie Chevaline' Advertising Trade Sign
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique butcher shop horse meat advertising sign, or Boucherie Chevaline' has no maker's marks, but presumed to have originated from France a...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Modernist Matching Pair of Enamel Gents Cufflinks, circa 1930
Located in Devon, England
Extremely stylish and totally original are these matching pair of English 1930s Art Deco modernist enamel gents cufflinks. Fabulous geometric patterning and color, with a slight mode...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Enamel
Art Deco Brown Genuine Cord Ladies Handbag, 1930
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this super stylish "Arvey" Genuine Corde bag in chocolate brown with original change purse. Three gold tone bars across the front f...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
19th Century Cast Iron Military Wall Plaque Sculpture of German Officer
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century cast iron military wall plaque sculpture of German officer.
Category
19th Century German Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Antique National Cash Register Co. Model 422X with Paper Receipt Ink Printer
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique National Cash Register Co. Model 422X with Paper Receipt Ink Printer
Classic American vintage at its finest, this cash register is beautiful...
Category
Late 19th Century American American Empire Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Antique Historical Judaica Freemasonry Memorial Plaque Vienna-Paris 1861-1886
Located in Doha, QA
This is an absolutely rare and one of a kind custom made Plaque represents the History of Jewish People and their acceptance in society and freemasonry through out the world. The Plaque had been hand crafted and designed by August Klein- Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria.
The Revolution of 1848 in the Austrian Empire seen by many Jewish intellectuals as a welcome opportunity to agitate for the emancipation of their community. Generally the social evolution of the Jewish community, the growing number of Jews who wanted to become Masons,their cultural integration, and the progress of the process that would soon lead to their legal emancipation all worked in favor of this change in attitude.
In Austria it all started in 1742, only 25 years after the founding of the Grand Lodge of London and Winchester, the Lodge "Aux Trois Canons” was consecrated in Vienna by a Lodge from Breslau. It was, however, closed only six months later by order of “Empress” Maria Theresa I. Her husband Franz Stephan von Lothringen, (later the German Emperor Franz I...
Category
19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Enamel, Metal, Bronze, Silver
Roman Empire Domitian Coin circa 76-77 AD Set in Gold with Diamond Accents
Located in Atlanta, GA
An authentic Roman Empire, Domitian (circa 76-77 AD), silver Denarius coin, minted in Rome, set in a custom 22-karat gold bezel with 22-karat gold bail with gold bead and diamond acc...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Gold
Large, very fine, and unique Indian gilt-metal and silver sporting shield
Located in London, GB
Large, very fine, and unique Indian gilt-metal and silver sporting shield
Indian, c.1927
Depth 13cm, diameter 68.5cm
Awarded as a polo trophy to a team wh...
Category
1920s Indian Anglo-Indian Vintage Metal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver