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Place of Origin: American
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Desktop Humidor in Walnut with Details in Ebony Featuring a Suede Base
By Brian Holcombe
Located in Princeton, NJ
Desktop humidor in walnut and ebony. Interior liners in Honduran mahogany. I use Honduran mahogany in the construction of my humidors because it does not impart a flavor and because ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Braided Rawhide Quirt
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Finely braided 19th Century rawhide quirt with three knots. Measures: 14" plus 15" flapper, last quarter of the 19th century.
Family Owned & Operated
Cisco’s Gallery deals in the ra...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hide
Original Oversize US Production Still for Aliens
Located in London, GB
Original oversize US production still for Aliens 1986 James Cameron
sequel to Alien 1979.
Category
1980s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Vatican Museums, Rome
Located in valatie, NY
Vatican Museums, Rome. New York: Newsweek, Inc.,1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 172 pp. A beautiful book by Newsweek as part of a series called 'Great Museums of the World.' It illustrates the Papal treasures in the museums and galleries that make up the Vatican Museums. It includes marble statues, frescoes, Medieval manuscripts...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Americas Earliest Known Pyrography Pennsylvania Portrait, 1819
Located in South Burlington, VT
America’s earliest known dated pyrography portrait panel of a Pennsylvania couple.
This unique work of art is hand-incised using a pyrographic (pyrography) wood burned technique and then hand stained/painted.
A Pennsylvania Portrait...
Category
19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire, Illustrated by Major Felten, 1931
By Major Felten, Charles Baudelaire
Located in London, GB
Published by Ives Washburn, 1931 Large Folio-sized Hardcover book; 98 pages with 16 illustrated plates by Major Felton. Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks. Very Good Condition.
A Fir...
Category
1930s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Southern Plains Pony Bow
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Southern Plains decorated pony bow. Buffalo hide, beads and red ochre. Original string of twisted horse hair.
Period: Mid-19th century
Origin: Southe...
Category
Mid-19th Century Native American Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Gaertner Spectroscope, 1930s Scientific Instrument
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Gaertner spectroscope, 1930s scientific instrument.
The spectroscope is an instrument used in chemistry and physics to observe and analyze the electromagnetic radiation emitted by...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast, First Edition 1840
Located in London, GB
Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.
First Edition, Harper & Brothers N.Y. 1840.
A very important c...
Category
1840s Early Victorian Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sotheby's the Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg & the Antique Company
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's the collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg & the Antique Company of New York, November 2006. 468 pages, 738 lots of important Europe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"Woodie Wagon Brooklyn Taxi" Sculpture by Paul Jacobsen
By Paul Jacobsen
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Custom sculpture constructed of painted wood.
Paul Jacobsen used everyday objects, such as chairs, cars, airplanes, trains, motorcycles and puzzles, all built from scratch and turns...
Category
2010s Folk Art American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Pocahontas and John Smith, Chromo-Lithograph, Dated 1870, Rare
Located in Incline Village, NV
"Pocahontas Saving The Life of Captain John Smith" is a chromo-lithograph made by the "New Eng. Chromo Lith. Co. Boston" (printed on the lower left border). It is dated 1870...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Walnut, Paper
President Abraham Lincoln Genuine Bedroom Wallpaper, 19th Century
Located in Jersey, GB
Seven fragments of wallpaper from Abraham Lincoln's bedroom in Springfield, Illinois
Before he left for Washington to become sworn-in as President in 1861, Lincoln and his family lived at 413 South Eighth Street in Springfield, the only home the President ever owned.
These unique fragments of wallpaper come from Abraham and Mary Lincoln's bedroom in their Springfield home.
The Springfield home in which the Lincolns lived was built by Rev. Charles Dresser who married Abraham and Mary in November 1842.
Rev. dresser sold the home to Lincoln in 1844 for $1500. In the mid-1850s, the home was raised to a full story residence with the Lincolns' bedroom located at the north of the second floor.
Future custodians of the house included Mrs Lincoln's nephew, Albert S. Edwards and his wife Mrs Mary Edwards Brown.
These wallpaper fragments...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1940s Hand-Painted Model Tobacco Sign
Located in New York, NY
A great hand-painted 1940s tin on wood advertising sign. Nicely faded, with striking graphic images,
USA, circa 1940s.
P104.
Category
1940s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tin
Huntsman, What Quarry? by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a Play in Three Acts
Located in valatie, NY
The King's Henchman, a Play in Three Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1927. (D-O date code for April 1939.) First Edition no dust jacket. She ...
Category
1930s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Color and Light Luminous Atmospheres for Painted Rooms, 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Color and light: Luminous atmospheres for painted rooms by Donald Kaufman. Clarkson Potter, New York, New York, 1999. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket....
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christies New York, Roger Prigent's Malmaison, November 2002
Located in valatie, NY
Christies New York: Roger Prigent's Malmaison, November 2002. After the diagnosis of macular degeneration, Mr. Prigent reinvented himself as a dealer in ...
Category
Early 2000s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sotheby's New York Important Jewelry #6254 December 11, 1991, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's New York: Important Jewelry: 6254: December 11, 1991. 380 lots all photoed in color and fully described with results.
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
American Rustic Tramp Art Game Table
Located in New York, NY
American Rustic Tramp Art style game table with green & red painted top supported with a pedestal base on a round platform (32 chess pieces)(signed 1994 PAUL CUNNINGHAM)
Category
Late 20th Century Rustic American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
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
1940s Folk Art Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sheet Metal
1940s Plaster Anatomical Heart Model on Wood Stand
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Instructional, anatomical, plaster, heart model on 7" diameter wood base, circa 1940s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Industrial American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Killer's Kiss
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Stanley Kubrick's 1955 Film Noir.
The film starred Frank Silvera and Jamie Smith.
This poster is conservation linen backed and would be shipped rolled i...
Category
1950s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Met Museum of Art Book
Located in valatie, NY
‘American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ by Albert TenEyck Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1965. First Edition, 1st printing...
Category
1960s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
First Edition of David Hicks on Home Decoration Book
By David Hicks
Located in New York, NY
A first American edition copy of the eponymous "David Hicks on Home Decoration" book. In very good condition. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Wood Geometry Surface and Volume Teaching Sphere
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Fantastic multidimensional geometry teaching sphere. Wonderful warm patina to wood surface. Original notes displayed on the sphere and inside. Opens up to many different shapes and o...
Category
Early 20th Century Steampunk American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Great Bookstore in Action by Adolph Kroch, Signed First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
A great bookstore in Action by Adolph Kroch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. Second edition hardcover with paper label on spine and cover. 32 pages. The autographed editi...
Category
1940s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"Low Bridge" Casting Cry of the Salt Water Angler by Kenn Bayless, Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
"Low Bridge" casting cry of the salt water angler by Kenneth Bayless. Fish and Game Publishing Co., 1950. Signed and numbered (#175) 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket. illustrated with...
Category
1950s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
White by Design by Bo Niles First Edition Hardcover Book
Located in New York, NY
A first edition hard cover with cloth binding and dust jacket of "White by Design" by Bo Niles. Forward by Ralph Lauren.
"White by Design" focuses on a world of white rooms and white houses. Features a Richard Meier house in Connecticut, Ralph and Ricky Lauren...
Category
1980s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Decorative Faux Turtle Shell on Wrought Iron Stand
Located in Chicago, IL
A very sculptural resin tortoise (or turtle) shell, mounted on a tall black wrought iron stand. Hand-painted finish includes accents of copper and gold coloring. Shell measures: 28" ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Resin
100 Designers' Favorite Rooms Projects of the World's Finest Designers 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
100 Designers' Favorite Rooms: Selected Projects of the World's Finest Designers and Architects by John L. Pellam. Barons Who's Who, 1993. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This book shows landmark projects from North America, Asia, Europe, and other regions, and residential projects in private estates, penthouses, and vacation villas around the world. Each featured room is accompanied by color photos, with background on the projects and the designers, plus photos of each of the designers. Includes a photographers' index and an index of featured designers...
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Limited Edition Sterling Silver Gong Style Pendant Designed by Harry Bertoia
By Harry Bertoia
Located in New York, NY
This pendant design was originally hand tooled in the 1970s at the Bertoia shop in Bally, Pennsylvania. Bertoia contemplated a complete line of jewelry since the 1940s pieces had bee...
Category
2010s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sotheby's, Important American Furniture of Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's; Important American Furniture, The Collection of Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz. Sotheby's: New York, 1988. Unpaginated softcover. The single-owner sale includes a group of rare 18th century Newport furniture...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century Rawhide Quirt
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Rawhide braided quirt with lead filled handle.
Period: Last quarter of the 19th century
Origin: Montana
Size: 14" plus 11" flapper.
Family Owned & Oper...
Category
1880s Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hide
American Legion Baseball and Basketball Folk Art Paintings
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pair of baseball and basketball paintings found in a Midwestern American Legion hall. These were proudly displayed behind the legion hall bar. Grea...
Category
1940s Folk Art Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Partridge: Christie’s New York May 17, 2006
Located in valatie, NY
Partridge: Christie’s New York May 17, 2006. Partridge, a sale of select property from the renowned Partridge gallery in London, took place in New York. A leader in the field of 18th...
Category
Early 2000s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Collecting Antique Metalware by Evan Perry
Located in valatie, NY
Collecting antique metalware by Evan Perry. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, USA, 1974. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Located in London, GB
Original American film poster for the 1969 Classic western staring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross. This size poster would have been used outside the cinema at the time o...
Category
1960s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Industrial Cast Iron Pulley
By MD&S Co
Located in Sagaponack, NY
Industrial Cast Iron Pulleya An Industrial cast iron pulley with latch marked 'MD & S CO' 'PHILA. PA. U.S.A.'.
Manufactured by MD&S Co, USA, 1900s.
Category
Early 1900s Industrial Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Coffee Table Engine from DC4 Aircraft
Located in Paris, FR
Coffee table engine from DC4 aircraft by Douglas Aircraft Company.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Chrome, Nickel
Tracy Feith Red Plaid Wool Mini Skirt with Hand Appliqué Sequins & Leaves, 1980s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
From Tracy Feith, a 1980s vintage boho chic mini skirt, in a plaid wool with hand sewn appliqués of sequins and leaves with top stitched embroidery.
The red, orange, and white pla...
Category
1980s International Style Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wool, Sequins
Sotheby's Important American Furniture from Thomas Mellon and Betty Evans
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Important American Furniture from the Collection of the Late Thomas Mellon and Betty Evans New York 6/19/98. Softcover auction catalogue with results. Thomas Mellon Evans u...
Category
1990s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Great Exhibition
Located in valatie, NY
The Great Exhibition. New York: Gramercy Books, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. 328 pp. A facsimile of the illustrated catalogue of London's 185...
Category
20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Modern C. Jere Style Ship Wall Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This beautiful mid-century wall art features a three dimensional sailboat sculpture with plenty of intricate detail. A wonderful realistic design in the style of C. Jere with multipl...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Nez Perce Saddle Throw
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Highly decorated Nez Perce saddle throw on brain tanned elk hide. 50” plus 30” fringe, both ends. Heavy bull hide. Similar, but not matching, 12" beaded panels on each side. Second time around. 24" war...
Category
Early 20th Century Native American American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Beads
Sotheby's NY Chinese Ceramic Sculpture from the Collection of Lillian Schloss
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's NY: Chinese Ceramic Sculpture from the Collection of Lillian Schloss. First Ed softcover with dust cover. With 43 lots fully illustra...
Category
1980s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Copper and Brass Country Grain Separator
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Copper and brass grain separator from Iowa; complete. Seedburo equipment company, Chicago 1912.
Period: Last half of the 20th century.
Origin: Iowa
Size: 33" H x 16" W
Family Owned...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Copper
John Addington Symonds: A Biography, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
John Addington Symonds: A Biography, by Horatio F. Brown. Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1903. 1st Ed Moroccan leather and cloth hardcover. Symonds was an English poet and literary cri...
Category
Early 20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Pair of Brass Studded Leather Tapaderos, Western United States, circa 1930
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Tapaderos (stirrup covers) were used by ranchers when herding cattle in the brush and open field.
Made of stitched heavy gauge leather and decorated with applied brass studs, both r...
Category
Early 20th Century Country American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Christie's, Estate of Doris Merrill Magowan, May, 2002
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's, Estate of Doris Merrill Magowan May, 2002 in New York. 1st Ed softcover auction catalogue. 195 pp and 225 lots all photographed in color and full...
Category
Early 2000s American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Blonde Ice
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1948 film noir directed by Jack Bernhard and stars Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige and Michael Whalen.
Category
1940s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Allan Adler Sterling Silver Modernist Cufflinks, circa 1963
By Allan Adler
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Early Allan Adler cufflinks, full marked "Allan Adler" and "Sterling" featuring a modernist grid pattern fixed to a modernist style sterling post.
The cufflinks measure 11/16" (17...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
1899 Poole Brothers Antique Railroad Map of the Illinois Central Railroad
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is an 1899 railroad map of the Illinois Central and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroads, published by the Poole Brothers. The map focuses on the continuous United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Antilles. Remarkably detailed, the rail routes of the Illinois Central RR are marked in red, which each stop labeled. Major stops are overprinted in red, bold letters, with the short rail distances to New York listed above the stop and short rail distances to New Orleans listed below the name.
In addition to the Illinois Central network, numerous different rail lines are illustrated and the company running that line is noted along with many stops along each route. Sea routes from New Orleans to locations in Central America, the Caribbean, and Europe are marked and labeled with destination and distance, along with routes originating from Havana. Inset at bottom left is a map of Cuba; an inset map of Puerto Rico...
Category
1890s Antique American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Located in valatie, NY
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The Trustees, 1978. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The book consi...
Category
1970s Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christie's NY Interiors Auction Catalogues, 2008-2009, Set of Three
By Christie's
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A group of three auction catalogues from the Christie's New York 'Interiors' sales.
The Interior sale catalogues are noted for their in-depth writings and beautiful full-color pho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary International Style American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Vols. I & II, Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
American Silver 1655-1825 in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston by Kathryn C. Buhler, Volumes I & II. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1972....
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20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale" Book by Christopher Gilbert
By Christoper Gilbert
Located in valatie, NY
The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale by Christopher Gilbert. New York: Tabard Press, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket. 288 pp. An extensive resource book on the life and work of T...
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20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Louis Vuitton – Fashion Photography
By Charlotte Cotton, Louis Vuitton
Located in London, GB
First edition, published by Rizzoli, 2014
In 3 essays by Charlotte Cotton, and nearly two hundred photographs from photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Juergen Teller and Mario Testino, illustrate the ever-evolving fashion photography...
Category
2010s American Collectibles and Curiosities
"Treasury" Still Bank, American, circa 1970
By John Wright Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
"Treasury" cast Iron still bank is a re-issue of a bank made in 1928 by the Grey Iron Casting Company, and was made by The John Wright Company in...
Category
1970s Folk Art Vintage American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
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