Victorian Chromolithograph What Is Home Without Mother Motto in Gilt Wood Frame

An early 19th century Staffordshire transfer printed cup plate with a source print from Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard’s Way to Wealth.” The motto reads, “Diligence is the Mother of Good Luck. Now I have a sheep and a cow everybody bids me a good morrow.” The scene shows a man with his arm on a cow, conversing with a man on his horse tipping his hat in greeting. Sheep lie in the foreground, a house stands in the distance. A black transfer printed on a pearlware, earthenware body with a molded rim and a double daisy border. The pattern is illustrated and discussed in “Gifts for Good Children: the History of Children’s China...

A delicate pair of handmade magnifying wire rim eye glasses from the American Civil War era, circa 1860. A great looking historical conversation p...

First Edition, Second Impression. of An address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October 1944. London: Faber and Faber, 1945. 8vo; 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (218 x 13...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely lightly restored Burroughes & Watts London Mahogany Snooker scoreboard with mother of pearl counters A truly stunning example of Victorian Snooker...