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Item Ships From: Europe
Place of Origin: British
Sciacca coral necklace, England end of 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
The necklace features a double strand of rod-shaped Sciacca coral elements juxtaposed at right angles in the threading. The round clasp is made of golden metal and features a central...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral, Metal
Epns Sandwich Box in Leather Case
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Victorian Sandwich Box.
A fine metal sandwich tin, lunch box, in a leather casing. The leather is very fine quality with extra fine stitching, buckle fastening and belt loop ...
Category
20th Century Late Victorian British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Rowing Oar, Queen's College Eight 1920
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Rowing Oar Blade, Queen's College Eight 1920, Oxford University.
The full-length oar is an original traditional Queen's College Eight (Oxford University) presentation rowing oar with...
Category
1920s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Late 19th C Gregory Bottley Scientific Collection of Mineral Fossils Shell
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A good collection of Gregory Bottley mineral, fossils and shell all contained in there original teak trays and card board sleeves.
Each specimen has its original hand written and nu...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber, Hardwood
Unusual Vinaigrette Made in Birmingham by Francis Clarke, 1848
By Francis Clarke
Located in London, GB
An unusual Vinaigrette made in Birmingham in 1848 by Francis Clarke.
The Vinaigrette is modelled in an unusual shaped rectangular form. The cover is engraved with an outer border of...
Category
19th Century Early Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Marimbaphone
Located in Cheshire, GB
Oak cased glockenspiel, the solid oak frame supporting five brass keys with tubular brass cylinders below. All raised up on four splayed legs united by undertier.
Dimensions
Height 3...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Willow Cricket Bat
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Juniors Willow Cricket Bat.
A good juniors willow cricket bat. The bat with no decipherable makers name. A nice decorative bat with good patina.
Category
Mid-20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Willow
Vintage Style Ski Photography, Framed Alpine Ski Photograph, St. Moritz
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
'St. MORITZ', a modern framed and mounted black and white photograph after an original 1930's skiing photograph. The frame is black with a burgundy undercoat, the glazing is clarity+ premium synthetic glass. Black & white alpine photos are the perfect addition to any home or ski lodge, so please do check out our other ski photos and winter landscapes.
Prior to being a recreational activity skiing was purely a means of traveling from A to B through the snow, it only started to become the sport it is today in the mid-1800s.
St. Moritz is a luxury alpine resort town in Switzerland's Engadin valley. It has hosted the Winter Olympics twice, has the Cresta Run...
Category
1930s Sporting Art Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paper
1858 The Story of Jack and the Giants
By Richard Doyle
Located in Bath, GB
An exciting retelling of Jack the Giant Killer, beautifully illustrated throughout by Richard Doyle, a smart copy.
A vivid retelling of 'The Story of Ja...
Category
1850s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
An antique silver vesta case of extra small proportions by William Hair Haseler
Located in Central England, GB
This fine silver vesta case is of an unusual rare small size. It measures Height 3.7cm x width 2.7cm x depth 1cm. It is a high quality very solidly made example. Hallmarked for Birm...
Category
1920s Edwardian Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Patent Golf Club, M.J Lewis Perfect Putter
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
PERFECT PUTTER, M.J. Lewis.
A fine, patent blade putter with unusual ovoid shaped shaft. The shaft is made from greenheart or danga wood, is teardrop shaped with the point to the front but terminating into a square grip, all to help with alignment. The face with dot punch markings, rear of the head 'Stainless, PERFECT PUTTER, M.J. Lewis, Registered No. 748219'. There is a step on the top edge of the face.
Martin J...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Staunton Fierce Knight Weighted Club Chess Set 8.5cm Kings Jointed Box, 19th C
By Jaques of London
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good quality and complete English handmade hardwood "Weighted" Club Chess Set game of 32 pieces, in the Staunton Fierce Knight pattern, all within a jointed wood box ...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Treasury Of Botany, Vol 1&2, English Language, Reference Book, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of antique reference books 'The Treasury of Botany' by Samuel Maunder. Published in English by Longmans, Green & Co of London, in the Victorian period, dated 1884.
F...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Dimple Pattern Golf Ball Mould.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Two-Part Dimple Golf Ball Mould.
An interesting un-named dimple pattern golf ball mould. The steel moulds with locating slots to ensure the correct alignment of the pattern, ...
Category
1930s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Antique Cylinder Sundial Late 19th Century
Located in Firenze, IT
Shipping policy No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included).
A boxwood cylinder sundial, also kn...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paper
Oak cased barograph and barometer
Located in Cheshire, GB
Oak-cased barograph and barometer retailed by Harrods London, having five bevelled glass panelled removable lid, and a drawer below to house the charts. The mechanical eight-day move...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
A shell cameo mounted in gilt metal with a Santa figure, England 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Oval shell cameo, mounted in golden metal depicting a figure of Santa holding a cross. The back has traces of attachments to a double chain, for use as a choker. England, late 19th c...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Antique Book in Case, Hillingdon Hall or the Cockney Squire, English, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique cased copy of Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire. An English language novel published in the Victorian era, this edition dated 1888.
Originally written in 1845...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Backgammon set in leather case with needlework board & vintage counters - Blue.
Located in London, GB
The saddle leather case opening to reveal a needlework board, vintage counters and dice in a veg tan throwing cup.
Made in UK by Nick Plant
These beautiful unique boards are made in ...
Category
2010s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Vintage Books, Fungi Interest, English Language, Biology, Reference, Scientific
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a set of 3 vintage Fungi reference books. In English, hard bound scientific biology titles, published in the mid 20th century.
Comprising the following three titles: A Manu...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Judaica - Antique Sterling Silver Pair of Rimonim by Maurice Salkind in 1920
By Morris Salkind
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1920 by Maurice Salkind, this impressive pair of sterling silver Rimonim feature floral chasing, eagle finials, deer, hanging bells and beaded bases. The hand...
Category
1920s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th century croquet set in pine box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
1920's croquet set in pine box.
Set comprises of six 34 1/4 inch mallets, 4 balls and 3 pegs. No hoops.
Obvious signs of use. Presented in a lightly polished pine box.
Category
Early 20th Century Rustic British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
A beautiful shell cameo mounted in golden metal, England 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Shell cameo with an asymmetrical edge, mounted in gold metal depicting a neoclassical female profile with a rich hairstyle decorated with a garland of flowers. The back has traces of...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
3 Antique Badminton Library Books, English, Boating, Driving, Cricket, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a set of 3 antique Badminton Library Books. An English language, hard bound reference title on sporting topics, dating to the late Victorian ...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century Walnut Miniature Chest
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality Late 19th Century Walnut Miniature Chest, With Crossbanded Decoration Top Top, Over Five Long Drawers With Replacement Turned Brass Knobs And Crossbanded Decoration, R...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
1967 Endless Night
By Agatha Christie
Located in Bath, GB
A vanishingly scarce signed example of the first edition of one of Agatha Christie's favourites of her own works.
The first edition, first impression with no further impressions sta...
Category
1960s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
20th Century English Large Model M.T. Casper Trader Monrovia Oil Tanker, c.1970
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A massive Norman Hill scale model of M.T. Casper Trader Monrovia crude oil tanker in wood and perspex display case. The finely detailed model was constructed in the 1970s by Scale Mo...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine, Plastic
Golf Club, Gassiat Type Putter by Ernest F. Sales of Sunningdale
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Gassiat Style Putter, Ernest F. Sales, Sunningdale.
A good example of a hickory shafted persimmon wood 'Jean Gassiat' type putter with a polished leather 'pistol grip'. The makers name is stamped on the crown of the club 'Ernest F. Sales, Sunningdale GC, Special'. There is a half a brass plate to the sole of the club head and because of its squared off nose, a 'Gassait' putter could also be used...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hickory
19th C Scientific James DeVille L N Fowler Phrenology Plaster Bust Head Curio
By L. N. Fowler
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A larger than the normal plaster cast phrenology head, with its original painted finish and paper labels.
The original makers label is partially missing leaving it a bit of a myster...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Rare Solid Bronze Armorial Crest Coat of Arms Lovely Verdigris Patination
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely antique solid bronze coat of arms armorial crest with lovely natural verdigris patina
This is a very good looking and well made coa...
Category
20th Century Post-Modern British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Robert Simpson Golf Club Bookends.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Robert Simpson Bookends, No. 3 Iron & Wood.
A pair of bookends hand crafted from high quality traditional materials with original 1940's club heads. The heads came from the Carnousti...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Victorian gold bracelet with shell cameo. England 1860.
Located in Milan, IT
Victorian era bracelet with shell cameo. The bracelet is made with a band of woven 12K gold wire. The edges are reinforced with a continuous herringbone pattern. The clasp consists o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Victorian era gold and Sciacca coral pin, England, 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
The Victorian era pin, is made out of 8 Kt.yellow gold and pink–orange Sciacca coral. A brunch of gold describes a curved motive with smaller brunches rising from it. At the end of e...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral, Gold
Vintage Jaques Brass Bound Oxford Croquet Set in Pine Box
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Jaques 'Oxford' Croquet Set.
A Jaques garden croquet set in original pine box with four brass bound ash mallets. To complete the set there are four coloured balls in the stan...
Category
Late 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Microscope cloth counting glass by Casartelli
Located in London, GB
Microscope cloth counting glass by J. Casartelli & Son of Manchester. Circa 1910.
In original black leather case with satin and velvet lining.
Marked: J. CASARTELLI & SON SALFORD.6...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
A relic from the family of Bounty Mutineer John Adams: documented piece of Bark
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A relic from the family of Bounty Mutineer John Adams: An exceptionally rare documented piece of Bark Cloth from the Pitcairn Islands, with a fragment of paper pinned to it stating ‘...
Category
19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Cromwell Motorcycle Helmet
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Cromwell Motorcycle Crash Helmet.
A fine motorcycle, pudding basin shaped helmet made in England by Cromwell. The helmet with silver and blue paint with the words 'Surrey' an...
Category
1950s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
20th Century British Solid Silver 'Rifle Regiment' Centrepieces, c.1961
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Impressive mid-20th century British one of a kind military centerpieces, each modelled as a quiver of arrows supporting a laurel wreath, on a recumbent writhen dragon, mounted to an ...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Leather Football
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A Vintage 18 Panel Leather Football.
A vintage leather soccer ball with eighteen leather panels and a valve hole to the top to enabled bladder inflation. Leather in good condition.
S...
Category
1960s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Antique English Mahogany Cased Compass by Stanley, London
By Stanley & Co., London 1
Located in Bath, GB
A very handsome Victorian military explorer's compass dating to around 1840 / 1860 set in a hinged mahogany block measuring 2" square.
The compass has a shapely blued-steel needle (...
Category
1850s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Victoria era gold and Sciacca coral long chain, England 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
Victorian era necklace in gold and Sciacca coral. The long chain is in 8 Kt yellow gold, with quarter-turn links, with a smooth body. Finally with lobster clasp. the necklace is enri...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral, Gold
Jewelry Box Apprentice Chest Brass Engraved Thistle Miniature
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Chest of Drawers Jewelry Box Apprentice Chest Brass Engraved
Solid brass apprentice chest of drawers, chest with 5 working drawers all with stylized...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
English Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ships Telegraph No. 1858, 1940
Located in Delft, NL
English Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ships Telegraph No. 1858, 1940
English Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ships Telegraph with twin faced head and English commends on a brass...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Set of 5 Large Original Vintage Sea Charts, circa 1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
5 great maps or charts of the oceans
I particularly like the color of these maps
Unframed
Original color
By John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute
Published, ...
Category
1920s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Huge Steel Crucifix
Located in London, GB
A huge 7ft 8” steel crucifix. Created in the modernist style circa 1970’s. This enormous steel cross was an unfinished project rescued from a now defunc...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
A Fine Silver Mounted Hunting Hanger
Located in London, GB
A Fine Silver Mounted Hunting Hanger
The pommel mounted with a silver gilt recumbent lion
Steel, silver, agate, leather
England
Late 17th Century
Size: 74cm long - 29¼ ins long / 77cm long - 30¼ ins long (with leather scabbard)
Provenance:
Ex Private collection
cf:
For two similar hunting hangers see Finch and Co, catalogue number 25, winter 2015, item number 37 a. and b.
The hunting hanger was also a status symbol. Sometimes their ivory or agate handles would be richly embellished with jewels proudly displayed in sets of engraved steel hunting accessories and worn at the belt by European princes. Hunting and forestry officials could be distinguished by the design of their hunting swords...
Category
Late 17th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Agate, Silver, Steel
20th Century Silver-Mounted Glass Match Striker, Royal Cruising Club, c.1935
By John Grinsell & Sons
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th Century silver mounted and textured ribbed glass match striker, Of round shape, mounted with a plain silver collar, applied with The Royal Cruising Club flag. The ...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
1970 Passenger to Frankfurt
By Agatha Christie
Located in Bath, GB
A vanishingly scarce to see signed first edition of this classic Christie mystery, signed by Christie to friend and confidante, Carlo Fisher.
The first edition, first impression wit...
Category
1970s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1924 A Passage to India
By E.M. Forster 1
Located in Bath, GB
An exceptional first edition of this canonical work of colonial era fiction, presented in an excellent example of the original unclipped dust wrapper.
An Important Work, First Editi...
Category
1920s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Golf Club, Unusual Deep Face by Gibson of Kinghorn
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Unusual Deep Face Golf Club By Gibson Of Kinghorn.
Hickory golf club iron by William Gibson, Fife. The deep face iron with diagonal line face markings, the rear of the club head is w...
Category
1910s Edwardian Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Hickory
Antique Book, The Coaching Age, Stanley Harris, English, Hard Bound, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique reference book, The Coaching age by Stanley Harris. An English language, hard bound non-fiction title, dating to the Victorian period, dated 1888.
Fascinating acc...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Cross necklace. Mediterranean coral from Sciacca, England 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A thin and long necklace constructed from fragments of Sciacca (Sicily) coral perforated in an irregular sequence is closed by a low-carat gold clasp with an elongated barrel. A regu...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral, Gold
Pair Of First Edition Novels by Minette Walters, Signed, English, Hard Bound
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of First Edition novels by Minette Walters. An English language, author signed hard-bound crime fiction, dating to the early 1990s.
An award-winning author, Minette Walters (September 1949) has written over 15 titles since her first novel The Ice House...
Category
Late 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
William IV Silver Gilt Vinaigrette by Thomas Shaw, 1831
By Thomas Shaw
Located in London, GB
A William IV silver gilt Vinaigrette of unusually small size, probably for a child. Made in Birmingham in 1831 by Thomas Shaw.
The Vinaigrette is silver gilt and is modelled as a po...
Category
19th Century William IV Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
1907 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
By Edward Fitzgerald
Located in Bath, GB
A sumptuously bound copy of this noted work, presented here in a highly decorative Bumpus binding, with exquisite gilt detail and watered silk pastedowns.
The 1907 edition of the wo...
Category
Early 1900s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mid 20th Century Folk Art Pug Bull Dog Leather Coin Purse Bag
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderful leather coin purse, with what appears to be bull dog possibly a pug.
Pressed leather front with its original applied eyes, nickel plated metal wear.
The exterior is in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Large Antique Taxidermy Dome, English, Display Showcase, Late Victorian, C.1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique taxidermy dome. An English, glass collectible display showcase, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880.
Quality and generously sized display dome
Display...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
1970s British Bronze and Chrome AC GMT Co. Industrial Wall Clock White Dial
By Industrial Design
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Rescued from Industrial scrap yards and brought back to life in our UK workshop, our expert process allows us to create a high quality clock of luxury standards.
At A.C GMT Co. we ...
Category
1970s Industrial Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Chrome
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