American Collectibles and Curiosities
Color: White
Place of Origin: American
Mills Novelty Art Deco Green Porcelain Penny Scale
By Mills Novelty Company
Located in Ferndale, MI
Art Deco period penny scale by Mills Novelty co. Period green porcelain pedestal with cream colored foot hold.
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Cast Iron & Tin Toys of Yesterday with a Price Guide Don Cranmer, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Cast Iron & Tin Toys of Yesterday with a Price Guide Don Cranmer. Published by L-W Promotions, Sharon Center, OH, 1974. 1st Ed softcover, 108 pages with 100's of illustrations and an...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Joan Mitchell-Drawing into Painting by Mark Rosenthal, 1st Ed Exhibition Cat
Located in valatie, NY
Joan Mitchell-Drawing into painting by Mark Rosenthal. Published by Cheim & Read, New York, 2017. 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog (Oct. 27, 2016-Dec. 23,2016), hardcover with dust jacket. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Bukowski, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Presentation Copy First Paperback Edition
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: bukowski, charles.
Title: mockingbird wish me luck.
Publisher: los angeles: black sparrow press, 1972.
Description: presentation copy first paperb...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
SCHULZ - Peanuts Jubilee - FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING OF SNOOPY !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SCHULZ, Charles.
TITLE: Peanuts Jubilee. My Life and Art With Charlie Brown and Others.
PUBLISHER: NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING. 1 vol., 15-3/8" x 11-3/8", illustrated, inscribed on the half-title "For B. J. with every best wish - Charles M. Schulz" with the addition of a large full body sketch of Snoopy, hardcover, original stamped silver boards.
CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, mild general handling to covers, foredge of rear pastedown and endpaper worn, internally clean and bright, overall VERY GOOD.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: "B.J." is B.J. Thomas best...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sotheby's, Property from the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller, Oct. 11-12, 2005
Located in valatie, NY
Property from the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller (October 11 & 12, 2005) by Sotheby's. Sotheby's held a single-owner sale of Property from the Estate of Mr. Laurance S. Rockefeller, who is remembered as a pioneering venture capitalist, a dedicated conservationist and a visionary philanthropist from one of America's most prominent families. Highly respected by policy makers and consulted by presidents, Mr. Rockefeller was deeply committed to both his charitable and business endeavors. With a discerning eye, he applied the same care to assembling his personal collection of paintings, ceramics, porcelain and ethnographic art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century Dentist's Treadle Drill, by Ss White Dental Manufacturing Co.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company Treadle Drill, Operational *
USA, circa late 19th century
*Operational means, when the foot pedal is engaged the engine wheel turns, there are no attachments to test, we do not know if the mechanism will do anything more than spin the 'wheel engine'
An intact, very complete (except for drill attachments ) antique dental...
Category
Late 19th Century Industrial Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Iron
Bill Blass Collection: New York, October 21-23, 2003 Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
The Bill Blass Collection: Sotheby's New York, October 21-23, 2003. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. Large 474-page catalog for the auction of r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Houses by Thierry W. Despont, 1st Limited Ed, With Letter to Herbert Kasper
Located in valatie, NY
Houses by Thierry W. Despont. Published by Office of Thierry Despont, New York, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Private edition with personal letter to Sandra and Herbert Kasper. He was an American fashion designer known as Kasper. He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After World War II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was also a famous art collector. He was an avid art collector, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer.unnumbered copy of a run of 1000. With letter from Despont to his client. Mr. Despont was Associate Architect for the Centennial Restoration of the Statue of Liberty and has completed the restoration of Clayton, the Frick family mansion in Pittsburgh. Mr. Despont designed the Decorative Arts Galleries of the new J. Paul Getty Museum and, in collaboration with Richard Meier, was responsible for the interior design of the museum's sculpture and painting galleries. The office also completed the 50,000 square foot flagship store on Bond Street for Ralph Lauren. In the US, the firm designed the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue on East 63rd Street in New York and the flagship store for Harry Winston in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Despont and his office have completed several very high end hotel projects. Among them are the renovation of the Carlyle Hotel in New York, Claridge's and The Dorchester in London, and Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida. Current hotel projects include the renovation of the Ritz Paris, the Dorchester Collection's new 45 Park Lane Hotel in London, The Chatwal in New York, and the Divan Hotel in Istanbul. volume with its own dustjacket. These books were given only to clients of the firm. Privately printed set, issued between 1990 and 1995 in a special case. Volume I. 1990, unnumbered copy of 1000 published. Illustrated with photographs by Philippe-Louis Houze and watercolors by Bonnie Glasser. Provides high quality photographs of exteriors and interiors of important houses planned...
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Scott Henderson Design for Mint Inc. White Porcelain Pig Shaped Piggy Bank, 1980
Located in Miami, FL
Scott Henderson Design for Mint Inc. White porcelain open top pig, piggy bank, animal sculpture Mid-Century Modern.
Marked at Base, Makers Trademark.
...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Whitman, Walt, Song of the Open Road, Limited Editions Club, Signed, 1990
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Whitman, Walt.
Title: Song of the Open Road.
Publisher: NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1990.
Signed Limited Edition. 1 vol., fo...
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas. Published by Viking, 1981. The White Hotel is a novel written by the British poet, translator and novelist D. M. Thomas. It was first published in Ja...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Georgia O'Keeffe Studio Book
By Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in valatie, NY
Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: The Viking Press, 1976. Unpaginated softcover. Folio size book of work by Georgia O'Keeffe with reproductions and text that cover...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Fernand Léger by Peter De Francia 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Fernand Léger by Peter De Francia. Published by Yale University Press, 1983. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Joseph Fernand Henri Léger; (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a...
Category
1980s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
White Heat
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card number 5 for White Heat 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney...
Category
1940s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Important Teddy Roosevelt Letter from White House June 1907
By Theodore Roosevelt
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting A Very Important Teddy Roosevelt Letter from White House June 1907.
On ‘The White House’ letterhead. Typed and personally signed and amended by President Theodore Roosevelt.
With it’s original White House envelope, stamp and postage marks.
Dated June 14th 1907.
What makes this letter so important is the author, the office and the content.
It refers to the beliefs and opinions of the then President and First Lady (Edith) towards the women’s sufferage and empowerment movement that was the ‘hot topic’ of the time.
It is addressed to Eliza Calvert Obenchain who was a well known author at the end of the 19th Century and Early 20th Century. In 1905, Teddy referred to her book “Aunt Jane of Kentucky’ in a speech and recommended that every man in America should read it to understand ‘the plight of their womenfolk’. He regularly corresponded with her and we have a number of those letters in our collection. It appears that both he and Edith became big fans of Mrs Obenchain who was also heavily involved in the Suffragist movement.
The letters also provide a fascinating and historic record of Roosevelt’s personal beliefs and feelings on female empowerment.
The Letter Reads:
The White House
Washington
Oyster Bay, N.Y.,
June 14, 1907
Personal
“Dear Mrs. Obenchain:
I gladly accept the autographed copy of “Aunt Jane” which you have been so kind to send me. But Aunt Jane is so good and so wise that she must not (amount “race (illegible)) fall into the terrible mistake of the self-indulgent, selfish, shortsighted women, cold in heart and in temper, who shirk the duties of mother-hood and then try to cover up to themselves and to others their cowardice or self-indulgence by making believe they are actuated by wise or lofty motives. *
With great regard, believe me,
Sincerely yours,
Theodore Roosevelt
*And she must not give aid and comfort to unsexed or sexless creatures by a jest which they may take for earnest !
Mrs. Eliza Calvert Obenchain,
Bowling Green, Kentucky.“
The envelope is From: The White House.
Addressed to: Mrs. Eliza Calvert Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky and marked ‘Personal’.
It is stamped on the front as posted from Oyster Bay, New York Post Office on June 16 1907.
It has a red 2 Cent...
Category
Early 20th Century American Classical American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937.
This poster was created for the films re-release in 1958.
This was ...
Category
1950s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Handmade Houses A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art by Art Boericke
Located in valatie, NY
Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art by Art Boericke. Scrimshaw Press, California, 1973. 3rd printing hardcover with dust jacket. The book is a photo-journey through the...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christie's Important English Furniture, from Collections Peter Glenville
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: Important English Furniture including Property from the Collections of Peter Glenville and Hardy William Smith, 10/17/03 New Yo...
Category
Early 2000s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Northern Plains Breastplate
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Northern Plains bone tube breastplate with brass beads, Russian blues and shell conch having one blue padre bead and two brass beads.
Period: Early 20...
Category
Early 20th Century Native American American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bone
Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques
Located in valatie, NY
The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1958. First edition, fifth printing, hardcover with dust jacket. 848 pp....
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Modern White and Golden Pearl Resin Necklace with Tusk Pendant
Located in Miami, FL
Modern white and gold-tone faux-pearl necklace with large tusk pendant.
Faux-pearls made of glass-filled resin.
Category
1980s Modern Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Brass
Hyman G. Rickover Signed Letter to Robert L. Michaels, Exceptional Content, 1972
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an original typed and signed letter from Vice Admiral Rickover to Robert L. Michaels, dated January 31, 1972, regarding the capabilities of U.S. nuclear-powered submarin...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
At Home in Savannah, Great Interiors, First Edition
By Harris Tattnall
Located in valatie, NY
At Home in Savannah, Great Interiors. Boca Raton: Gold Coast Publishing. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1978. 87 pp. A photographic overview of 21 houses and their interio...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"American Painted Furniture, " First Edition Book
By Cynthia V.A. Schaffner, Susan Klein
Located in valatie, NY
American Painted Furniture by Cynthia V.A. Schaffner and Susan Klein. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1997. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. An examination of A...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Chief White Feather "Dr. Teyet Ramar" Sioux Beaded Vest
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Chief white feather "Ramar" Dr. Teyet Ramar , better known as Chief White Feather Sitting Bull (1908-1957) Born of Sioux father and Chippewa mother, he was a direct descendant of an even more famous chief, Sitting Bull. Teyet Ramar graduated from Shelton College, New York City, and before his conversion was a feature organist in Broadway theaters...
Category
Early 20th Century Native American American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Beads
Metal Toys from Nuremberg Unique Mechanical Toys Firm Georg Kellermann, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Metal Toys from Nuremberg: The Unique Mechanical Toys of the Firm of Georg Kellermann & Co. of Nuremberg, 1910-1979 by Gerhard Walter. Schiffer Publishi...
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1940s Isamu Noguchi Black+White Train Clock Modernist Japanese Industrial Design
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Sale includes both, and both clocks are untested, thus graded DISTRESSED, despite being cosmetically good.
Category
1930s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
The Colonial Silversmith, His Techniques & His Products, 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Colonial Silversmith, His Techniques & His Products by Henry J. Kauffman. New York: Galahad Books, 1969. 1st editon hardcover with dust jacket. 176 pp. An overview of Colonial si...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
By George D. Painter, R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston
Located in valatie, NY
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. First edition third printing hardcover with dust jacket. 291 pp. A historical cartography of the Vinl...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers" Book by John Heisey
By John Heisey
Located in valatie, NY
“A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers” book by John Heisey. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,1986. Third printing hardcover wit...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Wallace Nutting General Catalogue, Supreme Edition
By Wallace Nutting
Located in valatie, NY
Wallace Nutting General Catalogue, Supreme Edition. Exton: Schiffer Limited, 1977. A reprinted edition soft cover. A catalogue of Wallace Nutting's furniture originally published in ...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vermont Clock & Watchmakers, Silversmiths, & Jewelers, 1778-1878, Signed Ltd Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Vermont Clock and Watchmakers, Silversmiths, and Jewelers, 1778-1878 by Lilian Baker Carlisle. L.B. Carlisle, Burlington VT, 1970. 1st, signed and numbered Ed (#601/1000) hardcover w...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Architecture of Middle Georgia, The Oconee Area, by John Linley, 1st Ed
By John Linley
Located in valatie, NY
Architecture of Middle Georgia, The Oconee Area by John Linley. Athens: The University of Georgia Press. 1st edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1972. 1...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gardens 1st Ed
By Burke Wilkinson
Located in valatie, NY
Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gardens by Burke Wilkinson. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego, CA, 1985. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. ...
Category
1980s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Chinese Export Porcelain: An Historical Survey by Elinor Gordon First Edition
By Elinor Gordon
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Export Porcelain: An Historical Survey by Elinor Gordon. Stated first edition hardcover. Main Street / Universe Books, New York, 1975. By the doyen of export porcelain. A col...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Autobiography of Surrealism First Edition Review Copy
By Marcel Jean
Located in valatie, NY
The Autobiography of Surrealism, Marcel Jean, editor. The Viking Press, 1980. First edition pre-publication review copy hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with 90 black and whit...
Category
1980s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Michael Graves Buildings and Projects 1966-1981, First Edition
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in valatie, NY
Michael Graves buildings and projects 1966-1981. New York: Rizzoli, 1982. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 303 pp. A book on architect Micheal Graves and his work done betwe...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Bristol and Other Coloured Glass by John Bedford
By John Bedford
Located in valatie, NY
Bristol and Other Coloured Glass by John Bedford. New York: Walker and Company, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. 64 pp. One in a series of four small handbooks called "Collector's P...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Hallyways, Corridors and Staircases, First Edition
By Leslie Geddes-Brown
Located in valatie, NY
Hallyways, Corridors and Staircases, developing the decorative and practical potential of every corner of your home by Leslie Geddes-Brown. New York: Ryland Peters and Small, 2002. F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Plain and Ornamental, Delaware Furniture 1740-1890, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Plain and Ornamental: Delaware Furniture 1740-1890. Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1984. First edition soft cover. 60 pp. A catalog...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sienese Painting, From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century, First Edition Book
By Bruce Cole
Located in valatie, NY
Sienes Painting, From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century by Bruce Cole. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 243 pp. The history of painting in Siena from its beginnings of the 13th century to the 15th century. The Sienese style was an artistic language of power, inventiveness and beauty. It featured a highly decorative use of color, the construction of complex space and a particular emotional expression. Artist's include Simone Martini...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
French Eighteenth Century Furniture by Genevieve Souchal, First Edition
By Genevieve Souchal
Located in valatie, NY
French Eighteenth Century Furniture by Genevieve Souchal. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. 128 pp.; 127 illustrations, including thirty...
Category
1960s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Teddy Roosevelt and His Great White Fleet American Flag, ca 1907-1909
Located in York County, PA
Rare & Beautiful American Parade Flag With Images Of Teddy Roosevelt And His Great White Fleet, 1907-1909, Ex-richard Pierce Collection:
46 star parade ...
Category
Early 1900s Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silk
U.S War Department Commissioning Pennant with 13 Stars
Located in York County, PA
EXTREMELY RARE U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONING PENNANT WITH 13 STARS, A REVERSAL OF THE U.S. NAVY COLOR SCHEME, TWENTY-FOUR FEET ON THE FLY, SP...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wool
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