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Material: Softwood
Pair Of 16th Century Italian Memento Mori
Located in Hastings, GB
A truly exceptional pair of Memento Mori 'remember you must die' painted on board, these date to the 16th century and were originally housed in an North Italian Monastery, this incre...
Category
16th Century Italian Gothic Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Impressive Antique Hand Carved Oak Gothic Revival Door Complete with Wall Frame
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning Gothic architectural door with strong iron hardware in original frame.
This striking and all hand carved door was originally probably part of a church or monastery and the ...
Category
19th Century European Gothic Revival Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
19th C Antique Chess Set Game Regency Shape with 96mm Kings in Pine Lidded Box
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good and complete handmade, hardwood chess set game of 32 pieces in a handmade pine box with a sliding lid, which we date to the turn of the 19th Century, Circa 1900.
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Category
Late 19th Century British Régence Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hardwood, Pine
Early 20th century hand crafted pine architectural roof model
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century hand crafted pine architectural roof model
A highly decorative example of an early 20th century hand crafted English architectural roof top model. This perfect f...
Category
1920s British Victorian Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Antique Gothic Revival Top Quality Hand Carved & Gilt Wooden Church Wall Bracket
Located in Lisse, NL
Deeply carved, extra large size, Gothic Revival corbel, bracket with a stunning patina.
Finding unique antiques that have just that little bit more than your average is what we alwa...
Category
Early 20th Century European Gothic Revival Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Pine
Antique Hand Carved & Hand Painted Gothic Revival Wall Bracket, Shelf or Corbel
Located in Lisse, NL
Quality carved, great design and good condition Gothic wall console / bracket / sculpture stand.
This practical size, architectural church bracke...
Category
19th Century European Gothic Revival Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
19th Century French Provincial Antique Monumental Copper Tabernacle
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A late 19th Century, antique large French Provincial monumental church Tabernacle made of hand crafted copper, in good condition. The pyramid, partly...
Category
Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Copper
Huge 18th Century hand crafted gesso over pine all seeing eye starburst fragment
Located in London, GB
Huge 18th Century hand crafted gesso over pine all seeing eye starburst fragment
A rare and oversized example of an 18th Century hand carved gesso over pine “Eye of Providence” or ...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Folk Art Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Late 19th C Anthropomorphic Taxidermy Scene Artist & His Muse by William Drew
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Late 19th Century cased anthropomorphic taxidermy scene of two Squirrels and a stoat in bedroom/boudoir setting. One squirrel dressed as an artist in a beret, painting smock smoking ...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine
Early 19th Century Danish Articulated Artist’s Mannequin
Located in Kastrup, DK
Beautifully crafted, large articulated artist’s mannequin made from pine wood, dating from the early 19th century.
It features jointed limbs and remains in its original condition, w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Danish Folk Art Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
18Th Century Water Gilded Sunburst Around Clouds
Located in Hastings, GB
An incredible and very rare late 18th century Italian water gilded sunburst, with a formation of clouds surrounded by sunrays, in beautiful time worn condition, one ray has been lost...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Tennis Umpire Chair
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Tennis Umpire Chair.
A traditional wooden Tennis Umpire Chair finished in green paint, maker unknown. The chair is with arm rests and folds in ste...
Category
20th Century British Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Gerry Lopez Lighting Bolt ‘Sting’ Surfboard
Located in Haleiwa, HI
‘Sting’ model surfboard shaped by Gerry Lopez. Bold red deck tint with orange wrapped rails/bottom. Shaped by Gerry “Mr. Pipeline” Lopez, the revered surfer, shaper, journalist, film...
Category
2010s North American Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Lightning Bolt 'Pipeliner' Surfboard shaped by Gerry Lopez
Located in Haleiwa, HI
‘Pipeliner’ model Lightning Bolt surfboard shaped by Gerry Lopez in 2024. Bold yellow deck tint with classic black wrapped rails/bottom and red pinstripe detail. Hand shaped from a Clark Foam...
Category
2010s North American Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Early 19th Century Hand Carved Madonna & Child Santos Religious Figure
Located in London, GB
Early 19th Century Hand Carved Madonna & Child Santos Religious Figure
A stunning early 19th century religious artifact, in the form of a hand carved Santos Madonna and child statue...
Category
1820s Unknown Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Miki Dora Da Cat Signed Surfboard shaped by Greg Noll (1998)
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Greg Noll Mickey Dora “Da Cat” model limited edition longboard shaped in 1998. Serial #120/250. Featuring a gorgeous Hawaiian coffee color floral patterned nose reveal, with matching...
Category
1990s American Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Weighted Resin Chess Set Game in Jointed Wood Box 9.5cm Kings, Ca 1930s
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good and complete English resin moulded "weighted" chess set game of 32 pieces, in a jointed pine box, all dating to the early/ mid 20th century, Circa 1930's.
The chess p...
Category
Early 20th Century British Medieval Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Resin, Pine
19th Century Wooden Fake Book Boxes
Located in London, GB
19th Century Wooden Fake Book Boxes
A fine example of late 19th Century hand crafted pine fake book document boxes. Hand crafted individually and painted with dates and the name Roq...
Category
1880s Unknown Victorian Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Antique Hand Carved Large Size Statue of Saint Joseph and Child Jesus Sculpture
Located in Lisse, NL
Large and high quality carved antique sculpture of Joseph holding the child Jesus.
If you are looking for a great value for money, work of religious art then this quality carved church relic could be gracing your home or monastery or house of prayer soon. This may not have been carved out of the most expensive or hard woodtype, but that is not what this antique is about. This striking and meaningful sculpture is all about the natural manner in which both the little boy Jesus and Saint Joseph have been hand-carved out of wood and how an accomplished sculptor clearly has spent a whole lot of time, focus and dedication to get the details of this large and meaningful sculpture very right. In this case, the hands and feet, the curly hair, the serene facial expressions, the perfectly natural body postures AND the perfect draping of the cloths are the most eye-catching details. Ones that most mortals would never be able to create like this and it will have taken this skilled artisan weeks rather than days to create.
We believe that this unique antique is made of basswood or pine and it has been hand patinated (original). This was probably done to make the entire sculpure look more warm and calm (no wood grains taking away anything from the beautiful details we described). This meaningful and quality crafted work of religious art is ready for you to enjoy and, to us, it breathes a holy serenity and beauty that will never fail to impress. No matter where you decide to have it on display, this ecclesiastical antique will never fail to impress and if you already have a place in mind for 'them' then maybe you should be their next custodian.
Mind you, our price for this hand carved antique church statue...
Category
19th Century European Gothic Revival Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Pine
12' Presentation Rowing Oar Trophy, Oxford University, 1897 Balliol
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Rowing Oar, 1897 Balliol College Oxford, 2nd Torpid.
The full-length oar is an original traditional presentation rowing oar with gilt calligraph...
Category
Late 19th Century British Sporting Art Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Antique 6-String Mahogany, Rosewood & Pine Ukrainian National National Balalaika
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique 6-String Mahogany, Rosewood And Pine Ukrainian National Balalaika C1920
Measures - 26 5/8" x 15" x 4 1/2"
Category
Early 20th Century Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany, Rosewood, Pine
Huge Early 20th century English architectural pine model
Located in London, GB
Huge Early 20th century English architectural pine model
A well modelled early 20th century hand carved oversized pine architectural model. Showing natural age and minor loss as sho...
Category
Early 20th Century British Late Victorian Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century Taxidermy Snow White Terrier "Fruach"
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very well mounted taxidermy snow white terrier with silk bow collar, resting on a scarlet velvet cushion with braided gold fringing and graduated painted blue background.
The terr...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine
Early 19th Century Marionette Puppets
Located in London, GB
Early 19th Century Marionette Puppets
A rare untouched example of two hand crafted early 19th century marionette puppets, likely to be French in...
Category
1820s French Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Pine, Paper
12' Presentation Rowing Oar Trophy, Oxford University, 1899 Balliol College
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Rowing Oar, 1899 Balliol College Oxford, Head of the River.
The full-length oar is an original traditional presentation rowing oar with gilt calligraphy and Balliol college insignias. The rowing blade...
Category
19th Century British Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
3x World Champion John John Florence's personal surfboard by Pyzel
Located in Haleiwa, HI
3x World Champion John John Florence personal surfboard. Florence is the 2016 / 2017 / 2024 WSL World Champion of Surfing. This 5'10 swallow-tail Astro Pop model was made by John Pyzel. Florence is 1 of only 4 World Champions from Hawaii. The other Hawaiian world champs include Derek Ho (1994), Sunny...
Category
2010s American Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Early 19th century brass surveyor's level with compass
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century brass surveyor's level with telescope, compass and spirit level.
With original brass mounted pine case.
Telescope length: 18 1/4 inches. - 46.5 cm.
Fitting for tripod mount, now re-mounted on a modern brass plate for desk top display.
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1970s Vintage Lightning Bolt Surfboard shaped by Rory Russell
Located in Haleiwa, HI
1970s Vintage Lightning Bolt surfboard shaped by Rory Russel. Features sleek black tint with white lightning bolt and complimentary rail bolts. Winged pintail shape design. Signed on...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
1960's Vintage Bunger Custom Surfboard/ Longboard
Located in North Miami, FL
Vintage 9'5" single-fin 1960s Bunger Custom Surf Shop long board. An outstanding vintage collectible art piece. It's not cosmetically perfect but it's in darn good shape for its age....
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
11x World Champion Kelly Slater personal surfboard used in competitions
By Al Merrick
Located in Haleiwa, HI
11X World Champion Kelly Slater personal surfboard used on the world tour of surfing. Shaped in 2005 by the renowned Al Merrick. This surfboard represents a significant piece of worl...
Category
Early 2000s American Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Vintage Single-Fin 1960's Daytona Beach Surf Shop Custom Surfboards by Miller
Located in North Miami, FL
Vintage 9'4" single-fin 1960s Daytona Beach Surf Shop Custom Surfboards by Miller. An outstanding vintage collectible art piece. It's not cosmetically perfect but it's in darn good s...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Collection of Antique Neoclassical Plaster Cameos
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A superb collection of 16 antique plaster cameos and intaglios of French and English origin presented in a wooden tray, supplied loose. These 19th century plaster cameos each display...
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Pine
Late 19th Century Folk Art Victorian Miniature English Taxidermy Dog
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very rare late Victorian/Early Edwardian taxidermy dog, often scaled down by the best naturalist of the period.
Housed in its original glazed and gil...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine
1970s Vintage Aipa Wave Crest Hawaii Sting surfboard
By Ben Aipa
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Vintage 1970s Aipa Wave Crest Hawaii surfboard. Features striking blue airbrushed flames design with pinlines and matching blue single fin. A remarkable example of Ben Aipa’s famous ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Antique Carved Fish Trophy of a Fochaber Salmon.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Carved Wye Salmon Trophy Fish.
An excellent Fochaber's studio carved wooden cock salmon. The half block salmon has relief fins and is beautifully executed and painted to a high stand...
Category
Early 1900s British Sporting Art Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
1970s Vintage Gerry Lopez Lightning Bolt Surfboard
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Mid-1970s Vintage Gerry Lopez Lightning Bolt surfboard. Features a vibrant yellow tinted deck with jet-black lightning bolt, ruby red single fin, and dia...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
19th Century Glazed Specimen Box Containing Wheat Agricultural Scientific Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rustically produced 19th century glazed specimen box containing wheat and grain hybrids.
The pine hinged box opens to reveal two glazed and segmented sections, with a painted blue...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine
Vintage Hobie classic longboard (mid 1960s)
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Vintage 1960s Hobie Surfboards classic longboard. Ferrari red panels with original Hobie fin. Hobie Surfboards Dana Point logo with a beautifully crafted wooden tail-block. A prime e...
Category
1960s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Hardwood, Softwood
Vintage 1970s Lightning Bolt surfboard by Tom Parrish
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Mid-1970s vintage Lightning Bolt surfboard made by Tom Parrish. Features bright yellow tint with double rail lightning bolt pinstripes. Beautiful red lightning bolt design with complimentary black shadow. A remarkable example of highly coveted 1970s Tom Parrish shaped Lighting Bolt surfboard.
In 1972, Gerry Lopez and Jack Shipley started the popular lightning bolt surfboards label in Honolulu...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Spectacular Pair of Elk Antlers
Located in New York, NY
Spectacular pair of elk antlers, mounted on a circular base of unfinished knotty pine.
Category
20th Century American Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Antler, Pine
1940 Ford Woody Vintage Surfboard Tailgate Display
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Beautifully detailed 1940 Ford Woody replica display featuring two vintage balsawood 1960s longboards. Functional tail lights/FORD emblem center light. Rare example of a custom made ...
Category
Early 2000s Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Small Size Antique Handcrafted and Carved Pine and Oak Home Wall Christ Crucifix
Located in Lisse, NL
Another finely detailed early 1900s carved crucifix and corpus of Christ.
This sacred and religious work of art is a hand-carved out of pinewood Christ mounted on an oak cross and t...
Category
Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak, Pine
Surfboards Hawaii Classic Longboard (1963)
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Surfboards Hawaii classic longboard shaped in 1963. 10' 3" square tail shape. Featuring beautiful blue-turquoise rails and bottom, pinstripe details ...
Category
1960s North American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Vintage 1970s Ocean Pacific Wave Mural Surfboard
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Vintage 1970s Ocean Pacific (Op) wave mural surfboard. Features stunning airbrushed work of art depicting a nocturnal wave mural. Rounded pintail shape design. A beautiful example of...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Vintage 1960s Greg Noll Custom Signed Longboard
By Greg Noll
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Early-mid 1960s Greg Noll custom longboard. Features a single redwood stringer design with wood tailblock. Black resin stripe with complimentary black single...
Category
1960s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
1966 Vintage Greg Noll Miki Dora “Da Cat” longboard
By Greg Noll
Located in Haleiwa, HI
1966 vintage Greg Noll Miki Dora Da Cat longboard. Features the legendary black cat color scheme Miki Dora was known to ride. A remarkable example of the hig...
Category
1960s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
American Three Masted Clipper Ship Model Sovereign of the Seas Under Glass, 20th
Located in Charleston, SC
American three masted clipper ship model displayed in a mahogany glass case. She was the fastest ship ever built in 1852. California clipper ship mo...
Category
20th Century American American Empire Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Mahogany, Pine, Paint
Miniature William and Mary Style Oyster veneered Chest on Stand
Located in London, GB
This beautiful and intricate William and Mary style oyster veneer miniature chest on stand is done to a 12/1 scale.
It is made with the same hand made traditional methods as in the...
Category
2010s British Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine, Yew
17th Century Alpine Tabernacle from Hautes-Alpes, France
Located in Dallas, TX
Most likely originating in the Queyras valley of France, this Alpine tabernacle was hand-carved from mountain pine in the 1600s. The Queyras is located in the Hautes-Alpes department...
Category
17th Century French Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Iron
17th Century Italian Painted Confessional Box
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Stunning 17th Century Italian painted confessional box.
From a private house Tuscan chapel, this wonderful piece is museum quality.
The faux painting is all original.
There is a seat...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine, Paint
Carved Pine Rocking Horse
Located in Cheshire, GB
Carved and painted pine rocking horse with leather saddle and harness on trestle rocker.
Dimensions
Height 47 inches
Width 66 inches
Depth 19...
Category
Early 20th Century British Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
1979 Vintage Ocean Pacific Wave Mural Surfboard with artwork by Bill Stewart
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Vintage 1979 Ocean Pacific wave mural surfboard with artwork by Bill Stewart. Features amazing wave mural scene depicting barreling wave with Hawaiian hibiscus flowers in foreground,...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
Biedermeier Walnut Miniatur Chest of Drawers
Located in Darmstadt, DE
The miniature or model chest of drawers dates back to the Biedermeier period and was made with walnut veneer on a softwood body. The chest of drawers is in very good restored conditi...
Category
Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut, Softwood
1970s Vintage Lightning Bolt surfboard by Barry Kanaiaupuni
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Early-1970s Lightning Bolt surfboard made by Barry Kanaiaupuni. Features large and wide lightning bolt jag design, a telltale sign of the earliest of...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
19th Century Carpenters Pine Tool Chest and Tools The chest is in pine
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century Carpenters Pine Tool Chest and Tools
The chest is in pine with metal banding, it is set on wheels and has layers of trays
We have left the contents of the chest with i...
Category
Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Antique Mounted School Bell, English, Bronze, Oak, Pine, Georgian, Circa 1800
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique mounted school bell. An English, bronze bell on oak and pine plinth, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800.
Of superb proportion ...
Category
Late 18th Century British Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Anthropomorphic Taxidermy Boxing Squirrels by Edward Hart
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very rare anthropomorphic taxidermy scene of two red squirrels boxing, housed in its original pine and glazed case with hand painted backdrop.
The...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine
1970s Vintage Town and Country Surfboard by Ed Angulo
Located in Haleiwa, HI
1979 Town & Country surfboard made by Ed Angulo. Features a gorgeous red tinted deck/rails with dual T&C laminates and boxed single fin setup. A remarkable example of a 1970s surfboard made under the iconic Town and Country surfboards...
Category
1970s American Vintage Softwood Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Foam, Softwood
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