Animal Skin Collectibles and Curiosities

Vintage Berber / Moroccan adufe or square frame drum. This double sided drum is fashioned of a wooden frame covered with stretched leather (usually goat ski...

An Italian straw work basket shaped hand bag from Bologna, a fantastic, typical and rare almoner basket used by Italian religious for charity purposes to collect begging. Decorated all over with intricately patterned straw covered case, a braided straw on an oval wooden structure. The oval wooden lid features a detailed repoussé silver layer decorated with scrolls and vegetal motifs and centered by a green precious stone. Silver hanlde is coated with leather and decorated by applied repoussé silver floaral elements and topped by a precious stone. Red lining inside. Silver elements are marked 800 and are realized by Stefani silvermaker from Bologna in the Mid-20th Century. The attribution to the silversmith Enea and Alessandro Stefani was mademade for similar artworks on the antiques market. Handmade in Italy, in Bologna, Emilia Romagna region, dating back to the first decade of 19th century, this oval shaped, hand-realized lidded almoner with arched handle was once used as hand-bag for begging and can be used nowadays for sewing, weaving or knitting works. Finely repoussé silver flowers are applied on the whole oval body of this straw basket. This basket is wonderful as a decorative object or an unusual storage solution. Bag basket making is an ancient and humble craft, but in the hands of a skilled artisan a simple basket can become a truly beautiful work of art. In good condition, with working lock and key on the lid. In overall good condition, minor signes of wear consistent with use and age, the lid shows a small cracking in the internal wooden cover. see closed up picture. A lovely antique Italian handmade box for collectors. Listed height of 42 cm refers to hanle's height - 26 cm is just the basket height. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago requires a governative license for export called Belle Arti. The shipping may require additional 2-3 handling weeks to require and get the license according to the final destination of the artwork. The historic Stefani silverware was founded in Bologna in the early 1900s by Enea Stefani, who had learned the art of the silversmith at another historic Bolognese reality, the Zanetti workshop. In 1920 Enea Stefani inaugurated his workshop in Via Clavature, which will be the headquarters of the famous company until it definitively closes in 2015. First Enea and his son Alessandro then produce works of the highest quality, sometimes true masterpieces, working the silver with the ancient techniques of chiselling, embossing, engraving, wax casting, enriching their creations with semi-precious stones and high-fire enamels. The great mastery in the workmanship is combined with an aesthetic research and a poetic vein, especially in Alessandro, who succeeds his father in 1974, and who also signs numbered specimens, which lead to the creation of splendid pieces, such as candlesticks, rocaille-style double , cutlery, centrepieces, masgalani-silver basins...

19th Century English pull along child’s toy An extremely well made Victorian English pull along toy cow. Made from cow skin, cast metal supported wheels, car...

Wonderful pair of Western leather wrapped wrought iron stirrups. Each stirrup is hand wrapped and stitched together with leather stripping. These will make wonderful Western Décor...

A oversized full leather replica of a balmoral boot, likely to of been used in a great exhibition/trade show circa 1890, the boot is in good condition for its age age related wear as...

Masai Shield hand painted with pigments on (Cow)hide. This stunning elliptical graphic shield was probably owned by a warrior herder as younger warriors w...

Masai Shield hand painted with pigments on (Cow)hide. This stunning elliptical graphic shield was probably owned by a warrior herder as younger warriors w...

Mexican hand tooled embossed leather case with leather cup. 5- Four sided Dice. 2-Decks of cards. 28 black, red and white dominoes with metal pin in center to avoid scratches when pl...

Vintage Manchester United football collector leather ball, 1966. Featuring official club branding, A leather football made up of 12 panels with lac...

Beckets Museum Display We are proud to offer a unique ex maritime museum example, of a Sailors 19th Century folk art wooden oar with applied early beckets....

A vintage taxidermy hat rack offers antlered deer wall mount on shield shape oak plate with central mirror and hoof hat or coat hooks, circa 1940. M...

Dated December 1901, we offer this rare antique Mexican photo album of Secretaria de Maniobras y Guerra from Porfiriato age, contain 16 plates of war man...