Original Small Reversed Glass Sign "We Do Not Cash Checks"

‘Antiques for the Table’, A Complete Guide to dining room accessories for Collecting and Entertaining by Sheila Chefetz. Penguin Publishing Group 1993. Signed and inscribed first edition 4th printing hardcover with dust jacket. Inscribed "Enjoy our 'feast' for the eyes!" More than 200 full-color photographs. 'Antiques for the Table' presents dozens of table setting ideas for every occasion. Antiques authority Sheila Chefetz tells readers how to use, store, identify, and appreciate fine examples of 18th, 19th, and 20th century China, glass, and silver. A definitive volume on antique tableware...

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...

Three N.O.S. ( new old stock ) bakelite ashtrays produced by Kartell, Italy in the 1970's. Bakelite , “phenol formaldehyde” , was invented in 1906 by the belgian Leo Baekeland (18...

Table Settings, Entertaining and Etiquette: A History and Guide by Patricia E. Roberts. Viking Press, New York, NY, 1967. Third Edition hardcover with dust jacket. A concise history of good manners and utensils are displayed. It presents many pictures and diagrams explaining the Fine Art of entertaining and showcasing beautiful silverware, crystal ware...

Sotheby's; A Double Catalogue, A Discerning Eye, a collection of important English furniture from A Knightsbridge Apartment and Property from the Estate of the Late Lady Samuel of Wy...

A large late 19th century copper and brass funnel. From Wiltshire County, England.