Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Period: Mid-20th Century
Color: Gray
Midcentury Made, Cast Aluminum Batmobile Classic Car Deskpiece Mercedes SSK
Located in Lisse, NL
Great for a mancave and very cool on a desk also.
This mid-century eye catcher is incredibly cool and tactile. It is the only one of it's kind we can find and it is in excellent condition. The real car that comes closes (in our view) to this aluminum model is the 1930s Mercedes Benz SSK (see image nr. 10). It may have been made as a luxurious ashtray, but with a shape and a look like this, it does not need to be functional. This is a work of art and can certainly be displayed as such. This one-piece, cast aluminum car...
Category
European Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Old Phywe Germany alligator brain anatomical model, plaster 1950's
Located in Hoogeveen, NL
Rare old anatomical plaster model of the alligator brain. Beautiful details on a bakelite base. Worn but still in beautiful condition and as shown in t...
Category
German Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bakelite, Plaster
Wind Tunnel Model of a Douglas Destroyer Made by NACA/NASA in 1942
Located in London, GB
A very rare World War II 1/5 scale wind tunnel development model of a Douglas "Destroyer" XSB2D-1 torpedo and dive bomber, circa 1942.
The model was made by N.A.C.A. and tested at...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Mid Century Industrial Cast Aluminium Set of Left Size 9 Men Rubber Boot Moulds
Located in Haarlem, NL
Nice decorative 1950s industrial cast aluminium industrial set of two left rubber boot moulds in size 9 men. They are not solid all the way but still very thick and heavy.
Both stam...
Category
European Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Rollglobus 'Rollable Globe' by Austrian Geographer Robert Haardt
Located in Vienna, AT
For sale is an original Austrian "Rollglobus" (rollable globe). It was produced in Austria in the 1950s and designed after the system of Austrian Geographer Robert Haardt. The little...
Category
Austrian Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plastic, Paper
Vintage Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture of David
By Michelangelo
Located in Houston, TX
Stunning vintage Italian carved carrara marble sculpture or statue of David.
Offered is a good sized well executed marble figure of David as a youth, copied from the original by Mic...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Pair of Hollywood Regency Brass Cranes
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of Hollywood Regency brass cranes. These stunning midcentury brass crane statues are well detailed and make great decorative accessories. Grea...
Category
Unknown Hollywood Regency Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
1960's Scale Model of a Boeing 720
Located in London, GB
A aluminium scale model of a Boeing 720 circa 1965.
1/60 scale.
On original stand.
The Boeing 720 is a narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, a 707 derivat...
Category
Dutch Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Aluminum Mannequin Torso Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Made out of a material far more interesting than your standard dress form, this oddly unique, mannequin torso is both playful and sleek. A true stateme...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Ceramic Easter Egg from Atelier Madoura, circa 1960s
By Madoura
Located in London, GB
Vintage ceramic egg figure from Atelier Madoura, Vallauris, France (circa 1960s). This egg-sized ceramic figure is painted with a stylized suited man w...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Rare Pin Cushion Doll by Fasold & Stuach, c1930
Located in Devon, England
This piece is absolutely gorgeous, and complete with half doll and pincushion together. The porcelain half doll has wonderful mint green colour dr...
Category
German Art Deco Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Porcelain, Cotton, Silk
1930s, Art Deco Flapper Girl Pin Cushion Half Doll
Located in Devon, England
Lovely 1930s Art Deco pin cushion half doll in the form of a young girl with a black bob haircut, typical flapper styling. Nicely detailed features with sensitive painting. Both arms...
Category
German Art Deco Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Ceramic
Large Roman Neoclassical Plaster Foot of Hercules
Located in Houston, TX
Unusually large and well detailed neoclassical Roman plaster foot sculpture of Hercules. This vintage Italian academic plaster foot sculpture wo...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plaster
Hand Forged Iron Decorative Sailing Ships, a Pair
Located in Germantown, MD
Pair of decorative hand forged iron ships. Good condition. Vintage items form the 1960s.
Measures 12"W x 3.5"D x 12"H.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Iron
Art Deco Flapper Girl Pin Cushion Doll Made by Fasold & Stauch, c1930's
Located in Devon, England
This very charming flapper girl pin cushion doll has a real echo of Betty Boop about her. Lovely detailing, all hand painted and styling with her fur trim coat. The colours are brigh...
Category
European Art Deco Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Murano Glass Rhinoceros
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage Murano glass Rhinoceros. This realistic Murano rhino sculpture is clear and gray glass with controlled bubbles and in great condition.
Category
Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Midcentury Spitfire Fighter Aircraft Model
Located in Weesp, NL
Beautiful metal fighter airplane model of the legendary Spifire which was produced from 1938-1948.
The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft ...
Category
British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
1930's Art Deco Streamline Arrow Plane Car Design Study Model
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A plaster design study attributed to an artist designer at the Hill Auto Body Metal company based in Cincinnati Ohio . The company specialized in streamline equipment for airplanes and would periodically go into the automotive field with race cars and streamline bodies . This study may be based on the 1932 rear engined teardrop car called the Arrow Plane for customer Lyman Voelpel a wealthy Chicagoan and may have served as inspiration for six McQuay-Norris Cars built during that period and into 1934. The bodies were aluminum over a steel and wooden frame work and has Ford under pinning's including suspension , brakes and V8 engines...
Category
American Streamlined Moderne Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plaster
Large Hollywood Regency Brass Seashell
Located in Houston, TX
Large Hollywood Regency brass seashell. Beautiful table accessory.
Great patina!
Could be polished if desired.
Category
Hollywood Regency Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Scale Model of the KLM DC-8 Know as the The Flying Dutchman
Located in London, GB
A scale model of the KLM "The Flying Dutchman" Douglas DC-8 by Verkuyl of the Netherlands.
On original stand.
Made by Matthys M Verkuyl - B...
Category
European Industrial Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Midcentury MiG-17 High Subsonic Fighter Airplane Model
Located in Weesp, NL
Rare midcentury chrome-plated brass MiG-17 fighter jet airplane model. The MiG-17 was first build in the USSR in 1952.
Though the MiG-17 still strongly resembles its forebear, it had an entirely new thinner and more highly swept wing and tailplane for speeds approaching Mach 1...
Category
Russian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Royal Air Force Hastings Model Airplane, circa 1940s
Located in London, GB
A splendid enamel painted cast aluminum model of a Handley Page Hastings on newly made polished aluminum stand. This model was originally made for the Air Ministry at the end of the 1940s when the Hastings was first introduced.
Dimensions: 52 cm/20½ inches (length) x 571.75 cm/28? inches (wing span) x 31.25 cm/12? inches (maximum height on stand).
Designed and manufactured by aviation company Handley Page for the Royal Air Force...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Large 1940s Magnesium Bodied Indianapolis style Tether Race Car
Located in Ferndale, MI
Large 1940s magnesium bodied tether race car. Speed chief.
Category
American Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum, Other
Large Vintage Model LCM USN Landing Craft
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large vintage model LCM USN landing craft.
Category
American Folk Art Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Germany 1950 Didactics Medical Anatomy Enlarged Model of a Human Trachea
By Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden
Located in Milan, IT
Didactic anatomical enlarged model of a trachea made in the 1950s, made of hand-colored cellon and mounted on a bakelite base. On a label on the base you read Deutsches Hygiene Museu...
Category
German Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bakelite
Old English Leather Rhino Made in the 1950s
Located in Oostrum-Venray, NL
This is a rhino made in England sometime in the 1950's.
The rhinoceros is covered with real leather, presumably bovine leather, beautiful brown in color.
This is a nice item to...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Leather
Large Vintage Cast Metal Decorative or Toy Colonial Canon Model
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This large cast metal canon shows no maker's marks, but is presumed to have been made in the United States in circa 1965 in a Colonial Revival style. This model canon...
Category
American Colonial Revival Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
Unusual Giant Comb, Barbershop Sign, Denmark, 1950s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A large unique comb that hang outside a Barbershop in Esbjerg, Denmark. From circa 1950-1980. It is made from solid aluminium and is a rather precise and detailed imitation of the vi...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
A Vintage Bullet Shaped Architectural Mold
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A vintage aluminum mold, bullet shaped, on a stand.
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
White Rustic Glazed Bandini Art Deco Fauns circa 1938 for Zaccagnini
By Mario Bandini, Urbano Zaccagnini
Located in Melbourne, AU
A pair of cherubic fauns, playing music. One sports a cupid's bow in one hand and blows a conch Horn. A quiver of cupid's arrows lies at his feet. The second faun accompanies on a ba...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Terracotta
Abstract Sculpture
Located in Rochester, NY
A striking metal sculpture of a fish. Iron with gold gilt decoration. Probably Asian.
Category
Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal, Iron
Art Deco French Souvenir Porcelain Trinket Tray
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this delightful early 1930s Art Deco porcelain souvenir tray. Depicting a young girl dressed in a sailors outfit with a large floppy hat on a conch shell and originating from France. Beautifully hand painted with lovely coloring and attention to detail. She has manufacturers number impressed to the back of the shell. She once would of had a paper umbrella much like the ones we use for cocktails today so this could easily be added. These souvenirs were sold in holiday destinations and often as a winnable gift from a local travelling fair. Today these souvenirs are highly collectible and sort after and range vastly in quality. This particular one is above average in it's design and craftsmanship. It's also a very nice size to display or use. This beautiful trinket tray...
Category
French Art Deco Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Ceramic
Vickers Viscount 800 Model, Made for KLM, circa 1957
Located in London, GB
An 1950s aluminium model of a Vickers Viscount 800.
This model was produced for the Dutch airline KLM.
The type 800 was an improved variant of the Viscount with an extended fusela...
Category
Great Britain (UK) Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Art Deco Pierette Half Doll Pin Cushion
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this petite and very skilfully painted Art Deco pin cushion head manufactured by the German factory of William Goebel. For your consideration is this rare designed Art Deco Pierette half doll...
Category
German Art Deco Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Ceramic
Carved Wood Folk Art Airplane, circa 1940s
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This carved wood Folk Art airplane has an amazing original paint surface and functional propeller and wheels.
Category
American Folk Art Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Sheet Metal
Vintage Bucherer "Laurel and Hardy" Aluminum Doll
By Bucherer
Located in Napa, CA
1940s aluminum Stan Laurel doll with articulating joints made by Swiss watch company Bucherer. From comedy duo "Laurel and Hardy" of early Americ...
Category
Swiss Vintage Mid-20th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
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