British Collectibles and Curiosities
52
787
to
32
506
239
787
787
787
40
35
17
11
9
7
7
4
3
3
2
1
1
230
1,347
1,791
198
787
528
226
139
108
181
168
54
77
70
64
49
51
305
226
209
116
106
2,031
787
652
573
413
8
4
3
3
2
Period: Early 20th Century
Place of Origin: British
Large Elm Tiller from the Brixam Fishing Trawler 'Provident'
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large elm tiller with a bronze helm and turned finial from the Brixham fishing trawler 'Provident', 1924
Provident details:
Builder: J Sander...
Category
1920s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Antique Billiard or Snooker, Pool Engraved Glass Panel
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Late Victorian engraved glass panel depicting a game of snooker in progress. It is reputed the players are Queen Victoria, John Bull, Punch and Gl...
Category
Early 20th Century Sporting Art British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Sailing Steam Boat, Antique Yacht Model, Prince Albert Steam Yacht
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Probably a boat builders model of S.Y. Prince Albert Steam Yacht.
An exceptional museum-quality model of the steam yacht, Prince Albert'. The fine shipbuilder's model is outfitted with a raised paneled mahogany cabin with glazing with working hatch and door. The interior of the cabin is with a mahogany table, two benches, steps and a brass stove...
Category
Early 20th Century Sporting Art British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Antique Mahogany and Oak Propeller from the Engine of a 1919 Avro 504 Airplane
Located in London, GB
A historic propeller from the Le Rhone Rotary engine of an Avro 504 airplane. This fine early, large laminated, mahogany and oak propeller, made circa 19...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany, Oak
Pair of English Polished Steel Ship Lanterns by Meteorite, Circa 1900
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of English port and starboard polished steel ship lanterns with Fresnel lenses, vented tops, and mounting handles. Meteorite Firm. Early 20th ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Large Recumbent Lion of Glazed Stoneware from England
By Whitaker & Co., Ltd.
Located in Austin, TX
A large English lion figurine of glazed stoneware featuring a recumbent lion with fine modelling to the head and body.
Dimensions: H 18 1/2" x W 30 1/2" x D 10".
Marked: Whitak...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pottery, Ceramic, Earthenware
Early 20th Century Leather Faux Book Box, United Kingdom
Located in Napa, CA
Large leather book box with lock and key. Book is bound with leather and stamped G.T.H.
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Antique English Miniature Oak Chest of Drawers
Located in Port Chester, NY
Charming piece, lovely color. Suitable for smaller pieces of jewelry. Well-made, chipwork and champhered elements.
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
English Edwardian Lifesize Figurehead of Edward VII
Located in New York, NY
English Edwardian lifesize gilt carved figurehead of Edward VII wearing a crown and holding a globe (early 20th cent.)
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
English Miniature Painted Chest of Drawers from the Turn of the Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
A painted English miniature nest of drawers from the late 19th-early 20th century. This exquisite English miniature brown colored nest of drawers features five drawers with two cubby...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Small Set Antique Draughts / Checkers / Backgammon Counters
Located in Bath, GB
A beautiful boxed set of gaming counters, perfect for Draughts / Checkers / Backgammon / Triktrac.
The counters are made from turned wood, all in very good condition each measuring ...
Category
1910s Edwardian Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
The Works of John Ruskin; The Library Edition in 3 Leatherbound Volumes
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Works of John Ruskin; The Library Edition in 3 volumes published by George Allen, 156 Charing Cross Road London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1907. Limited edition of 20...
Category
Early 1900s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Large Weighted Boxwood Chess Set by Benetfink, Cheapside, London c.1900
By Benetfink & Co.
Located in Bath, GB
A handsome large Staunton style chess set in Boxwood dating to c.1900.
The set remains in very good overall condition with wear commensurate with age and use. One of the bishops ...
Category
Early 1900s Edwardian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Boxwood
2 Volumes. Robert H. Hobart Cust, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Robert H. Hobart Cust, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 3/4 red morocco and decorative boards. The raised band spines display gilt-tooling....
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Small Antique English Brass Framed Magnifying Glass c.1900
Located in Bath, GB
A small antique English magnifying glass with a polished brass handle and frame. The glass has a good magnification and remains in undamaged condition.
Dating to c.1900, it remains...
Category
Early 1900s Edwardian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Antique English Folding Brass Linen Thread Counter - Magnifying Glass
Located in Bath, GB
Dating to the early twentieth century, c.1900/1920, this is an antique cast brass linen thread counter, of course usable to magnify whatever you wish.
Heavy solid cast brass with a ...
Category
1910s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Antique Oak Revolving Snooker, Billiard Cue Rack
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Revolving Oak Snooker, Billiard or Pool Cue Stand.
A fine quality oak billiard / snooker cue rack raised on three bun feet and revolving around a central turned pillar. The stand is ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Antique English Boxed Bone & Ebony Wood Dominoes
Located in Bath, GB
A charming set of late Victorian dominoes or dominos, complete with a handsome polished wooden storage box with a sliding lid.
Dating to around 1900, the set is better than many, wi...
Category
Early 1900s Edwardian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Antique Wooden Staircase Model, England, 1920s
Located in San Francisco, CA
This lovely diminutive English staircase model from the 1920's is certain to add interest to doll houses and playlands of every scale. The model is of traditional design and carved o...
Category
1920s Edwardian Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
An Art Deco silver mother of pearl green enamel necklace/pendant circa 1920
Located in Central England, GB
An Art Deco silver mother of pearl green enamel neckless circa 1920
This beautiful and very eye catching Art Deco necklace/pendant is a delicate and stylish piece which is made from unmarked silver (tested). It has a fine chain from which suspends the main circular silver pendant inlaid with a bright iridescent ring...
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver, Enamel
1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Bound by Riviere & Son in full orange calf with the cover displaying a multi-color inlay snake around a gilt-tooled challis and...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Dulcephone horn gramophone c. 1910. Wooden horn, large, magnificent phonograph
By Decca, HMV
Located in London, GB
Dulcephone horn gramophone, c. 1910.
Superb grand scale, stunning wooden horn.
This is a stunning early 20th Century horn gramophone in outstanding ori...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales by Sir A. Q. Couch, Edmund Dulac illustr.
Located in Middletown, NY
SINGED LIMITED EDITION
This superbly illustrated volume is one of Dulac's finest works, produced at a time when book illustration had reached its peak. The book was immensely popular and the limited edition sold out before publication. It was "issued for the Christmas market and was a runaway success. Dulac's bibliographer.... identifies at leat 16 British and American commercial editions published before the end of the 1930s." (100 Great Books Famous in Children's Literature. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press/ Grolier Club, 2015; p. 212)
In the monograph on Dulac by Colin White (London: Studio Vista, 1976) the author points to the special coloring of the plates "... a wide range of colors, from the well-known blues to the newer combinations of orange and yellow, and showed Dulac's superb invention at its most imaginative." (pp. 46-47). He won two gold medals at the 1911 Barcelona International Exhibition for a submission that included one of the original drawings for this book (pl. 31).
The collection includes four classic French tales: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast, and is beautifully bound in London by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910
Folio, 13 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches (350 x 245 mm); half-title, frontispiece with tissue guard, title, preface, list of illustrations, 129 pp. and 29 color illustrations pasted into decorative frames with relevant quote from the text. 3/4 blue morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London (stamped on flyleaf), with marbled boards and matching endpapers; 5 raised bands, gilt title on spine, t.e.g. Very light scuffing at corners and bottom edges. Pages and illustrations clean and bright, all tissue guards present and in pristine condition. Limited Edition de Luxe copy no. 477 of 1000 printed, numbered and signed by the artist in ink on the limitation page.
[Grolier 62]
Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953) was a French-British naturalized magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. In 1905 he received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Weber Upright Piano Flame Mahogany Fluted Legs Stylised Neoclassical Inlay
Located in Leeds, GB
A 1912, Weber upright piano for sale with a figured, mahogany case. Piano has fluted Doric style piano legs with an urn shaped pedestal.
Entire cabinet is inlaid in a variety of woods with stylised Neoclassical motifs and geometric forms.
The front panel is inlaid with a central oval and inverted scalloped stringing, surrounded by crossbanded hexagons and circles.
The piano fall features stringing in a classical meander. The key escutcheon is surrounded by swagged bellflowers. Swagged bellflowers also adorn the square piano cheeks. The base of the piano fall is inlaid with a scrolling guilloche punctuated with trefoils. The piano top rim is inlaid with crossbanded satinwood with circular inserts. Piano has an eighty-eight keyboard and two pedals.
Neoclassicism draws inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
European Neoclassicism began c. 1760 in opposition to the then-dominant Rococo style. Rococo architecture...
Category
Early 20th Century Neoclassical British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
24 Volumes. John Fiske, The Writings.
Located in New York, NY
24 Volumes. John Fiske, The Writings. Edition de Luxe. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines display raised bands, bordering, floral pane...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1 Volume, Edward Fitzgerald, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Special Edition. Bound by Rivière & Sons in full red calf with the covers displaying bordering, ornate, and detailed floral...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1 Volume, Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. First Edition. Bound in full green morocco with the cover displaying a gilt-tooled border and the original publisher's cloth cover affixe...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Francis Bacon, the Essays
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Francis Bacon, The Essays. Bound by Morrell in full brown morocco with the covers displaying floral and ruled gilt-tooled borders. The spines display raised bands, borderin...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Vintage Nautical Half Hull, English, Pine, Decorative Ship Model, circa 1930
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage nautical half hull. An English, pine decorative ship model, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1930.
A charming example of a half hull model
Displays a desirable patina
Pine shows fine grain interest
Presented with the ship's name 'Pioneer' - one small loss to part of the 'n'
1919 displayed as the date of the vessel was broken up
This is an appealing vintage half hull...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
English Turn of the Century 1900s Milliner's Hat Mold Form with Patina
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English wooden Milliner's hat mold form from the early 20th century, with nice patina. Created in England at the very end of Queen Victoria's reign, this wooden hat mold will make...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Ironstone Suffragette Plate w/ Votes for Women Text, Made for Alva Belmont, 1914
Located in York County, PA
IRONSTONE PLATE WITH "VOTES FOR WOMEN" TEXT, MADE JOHN MADDOCK & SONS FOR SUFFRAGIST ALVA BELMONT FOR MARBLE HOUSE, HER FAMOUS ESTATE IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1914:
Porcelain objects related to the Suffrage movement are extremely scarce. The most celebrated of all American suffrage dinnerware consists of a service of white ironstone, commissioned by Alva Belmont,* prominent Newport, Rhode Island, socialite. Belmont was the founder of a pro-suffrage group called the Political Equality Association. According to Suffrage memorabilia expert Ken Folley, "There are at least eight different examples known in this design, including a cup and saucer, a lunch or dinner plate, a salad or bread plate, a berry bowl, a soup bowl, a celery dish...
Category
1910s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Large 16 Oz Sheffield James Dixon & Son's Liquor Hip Flask with Monogram
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large English 16 Oz Sheffield Silver James Dixon & Son's liquor hip flask with DMP monogram.
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pewter
Impressive Collection of 82 Antique English Bridle Rosettes
Located in Bridgeport, CT
These English equestrian bridle mounts and pins range in various subjects and motifs including dogs, equestrian, floral arrangements, nautical and monarchy. Note: Four are solid bras...
Category
Early 20th Century British Colonial British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Read More
Pamela Shamshiri Shares the Secrets behind Her First-Ever Book and Its Effortlessly Cool Interiors
The sought-after designer worked with the team at Hoffman Creative to produce a monograph that beautifully showcases some of Studio Shamshiri's most inspiring projects.
Moroccan Artworks and Objects Take Center Stage in an Extraordinary Villa in Tangier
Italian writer and collector Umberto Pasti opens the doors to his remarkable cave of wonders in North Africa.
Montecito Has Drawn Royalty and Celebrities, and These Homes Are Proof of Its Allure
Hollywood A-listers, ex-pat aristocrats and art collectors and style setters of all stripes appreciate the allure of the coastal California hamlet — much on our minds after recent winter floods.
Whaam! Blam! Pow! — a New Book on Pop Art Packs a Punch
Publishing house Assouline and writer Julie Belcove have teamed up to trace the history of the genre, from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama to Mickalene Thomas and Jeff Koons.
The Sparkling Legacy of Tiffany & Co. Explained, One Jewel at a Time
A gorgeous new book celebrates — and memorializes — the iconic jeweler’s rich heritage.
What Makes a Gem-Encrusted Chess Set Worth $4 Million?
The world’s most opulent chess set, weighing in at 513 carats, is literally fit for a king and queen.
Tauba Auerbach’s Geometric Pop-Up Book Is Mighty Rare, Thanks to a Hurricane
This sculptural art book has an epic backstory of its own.
Step inside the Storied Mansions of Palm Beach’s Most Effervescent Architect
From Spanish-style courtyards to fanciful fountains, these acclaimed structures abound in surprising and elegant details.