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Place of Origin: British
Christie's: Boughton Monchelsea Place Maidstone, Kent South Kensington
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: Boughton monchelsea place maidstone, Kent South Kensington. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog with 672 lots fully described and photographe...
Category
1990s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ammonite group cluster in matrix
Located in BAARN, UT
Lower lias. Approx. 200 million years old.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Antique George III Period Square Piano by Beck
Located in London, GB
Antique George III period square piano by Beck
English, 1788
Height 81cm, width 148cm, depth 52cm
This elegant instrument is a square piano, a type popul...
Category
Late 18th Century George III Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Hotels, Motels & Condominiums Planning, Design & Maintenance by Fred Lawson
Located in valatie, NY
Hotels, Motels and Condominiums: Planning, Design and Maintenance by Fred Lawson. Architectural Press / Cahners 1976, London. Hardcover with dust jacket. "...
Category
1970s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Staffordshire Pottery Flatback Model of Balmoral Castle
By Staffordshire
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
The hollow potted castle is mounted on a long oval shaped base molded in relief with swirl patterning with a raised molded banner reading BALMORAL CASTLE...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pottery
Sotheby's, Easton Neston, May 17-19 2005 2 Volumes, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's, Easton Neston, May 17-19 2005. Pair of auction catalogs, softcover 1st Ed. 734pp. English text. A pair of large and well illustrated catalogue...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Royal Doulton Golf Plate, Series Ware
By Royal Doulton
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Royal Doulton Series Ware Golf plate.
Royal Doulton rack plate with polychrome golf scene and the proverb, "EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY, AND EVERY MAN HIS HOUR", designed by Charles Crombie. The rear of the plate with Royal Doulton trade mark, pattern No. D3395 and '18'.
Charles 'Chas' Crombie (1885 - 1967) was an illustrator whose work is well known to the collector. His pictures can be found in many forms, on postcards, calendars, in books and on Royal Doulton ceramics.
Royal Doulton Golf...
Category
1910s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
How to Buy Rare Books by William Rees-Mogg, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
How to Buy Rare Books, A Practical Guide to the Antiquarian Book Market by William Rees-Mogg. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. First edition hardcover with dust jacke...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Royal Silver Calcutta Races Trophy
By Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd.
Located in New Orleans, LA
This stunning piece of horseracing history was presented to the winner of the 1933-1934 Calcutta Races on behalf of King George V. The Calcutta Races was the premier horseracing event in Asia of the period, and its prestige is reflected in this trophy, crafted by the silversmithing firm Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
4 Volumes, Edward Step and William Watson, Favorite Flowers of Garden and GH
Located in New York, NY
4 Volumes. Edward Step and William Watson, Favorite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse. Bound in 3/4 green morocco and linen boards. Raised band spine gilt with gilt title panels and f...
Category
1890s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Late 19th century Wooden and Brass Polarimeter Antique Physic Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden and brass polarimeter with cast iron tripod base from the late 1800s. It is an instrument used to determine the concentration of sucrose and glucose in raw materials and sugar...
Category
1890s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Howard Hodgkin Paintings - Michael Auping, Susan Sontag - 1st Edition, T&H, 1995
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by Thames and Hudson, London, in association with The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 1995. Texts by Michael Auping, John Elderfield and Susan Sontag...
Category
1990s Mid-Century Modern British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Lawn Tennis Racket, the Premier, Kertesz Todor, Budapest
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Imported lawn tennis racket, Kertész T?dor, Budapest.
A wooden lawn tennis racket 'The Premier'. A nice ash framed racket with convex wedge. The walnut wedge is embossed 'The Premie...
Category
Early 1900s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ash, Cedar
Marrakesh Style The Magic of Living in Morocco by Barbara Stoelitie, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Marrakesh Style: The Magic of Living in Morocco by Barbara Stoelitie. Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 2009. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Here is a lavish survey...
Category
Early 2000s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christie's Millden: a Scottish Lodge
Located in valatie, NY
Millden: A Scottish Lodge Including Property From Endsleigh, Devon; Harewood House, Yorkshire; & Glamis Castle, Angus, by Christie's Auction House, Lond...
Category
Early 2000s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Ship's Bulkhead Barometer, English, Maritime Instrument, Edwardian, 1910
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique ship's bulkhead barometer. An English, brass and oak maritime weather instrument, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910.
...
Category
Early 20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
WW2 1939-1945 8th Battalion the Durham Hd Hq Wing Military Campaign Chest Trunk
Located in GB
We are delighted to this stunning small Military Campaign Chest with the original label that states 8th Battalion The Durham HD GR wing
The label has the privates name on which is...
Category
1930s Campaign Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Hermes Riding Crop
By Hermès
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Hermes riding crop with deer antler handle. The shaft is covered in a beautifully braided leather and finished at the bottom with twine. The...
Category
1960s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
1 Volume. Richard R. Holmes, Queen Victoria
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Richard R. Holmes, Queen Victoria. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco and linen boards. The cover displays a crest in gilt. Raised band spine with panels displaying gilt royal detai...
Category
1890s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Large Antique Officer of the Watch Telescope, English, Negretti and Zambra, 1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large antique 'officer of the watch' telescope. An English, single draw refractor for terrestrial or astronomical use by Negretti and Zambra of London, dating to the late V...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, First Edition, Uncorrected Proof, 1963
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: FLEMING, Ian.
TITLE: Thrilling Cities - UNCORRECTED PROOF.
PUBLISHER: London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, UNCORRECTED PROOF. 1 vol., only 175 copies printed, illustrated. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial printed wrappers, without the exceedingly scarce proof dustjacket.
CONDITION: General light...
Category
1960s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century Scottish Agate and Silver Bracelet circa 1880
Located in Central England, GB
A Superb Scottish Agate and silver bracelet
This beautiful Scottish agate bracelet Is made from alternate figured green and orange agate carved and shaped panels with a silver eng...
Category
19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Agate, Silver
Antique George III Quality Mahogany Banjo Barometer
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality mahogany banjo barometer having a swan neck pediment, original thermometer and an engraved circular silvered dial with original hands and brass bezel, qual...
Category
1780s George III Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
Queen Victoria’s Silver Coffee Service by William Bateman & Daniel Ball
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Queen Victoria’s silver coffee service, by William Bateman & Daniel Ball, comprising a coffee pot and burner, a cream jug and a sugar basin, each...
Category
1830s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Penny-Farting Made by Griffith’s & Sons of Wolverhampton,
Located in London, GB
A Special Clyde by S. Griffith’s & Sons of Wolverhampton, Circa 1880.
Frame marked with makers name and model type.
With display stand.
Diameter of front wheel: 50 inch. Dia...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Clock Face Numerical Billiards Scorer Oak Cabinet with Rotating Dials
By John Thurston
Located in Radstock, GB
An exceptionally rare and fine quality Billiards marker by Thurston of London circa 1860
Constructed from an excellent cut of English oak with a shaped pediment.
There are four...
Category
1860s Early Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Recording Copper Rain Gauge by Casella & Co of London
By Casella
Located in London, GB
An 8" diameter recording copper rain gauge by C F Casella & Co of London.
With an internal 24 hour "Gluck" barometer recorder.
Height:63 cm.
Diameter: 28 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
A model of a Dockyard built teak and brass field cannon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A model of a Dockyard built teak and brass field cannon, with a brass barrel set on a brass-bound carriage with large wheels and a brass-bound bucket, swabs and ramrods to scale, fin...
Category
1930s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Vintage Style Ski Photography, Framed Alpine Ski Photograph, 'SCHUSS' Murren
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
'SCHUSS' Murren, Switzerland, a framed and mounted black and white photographic image after an original 1930s skiing photograph. The frame is a hand colored reeded wooden black frame...
Category
2010s Sporting Art British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Style Ski Photography, Framed Alpine Ski Photograph, Liebe Im Schnee
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
'LIEBE IM SCHNEE', 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...
Category
1930s Sporting Art Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Wood
Vintage Style Ski Photography, Framed Alpine Ski Photograph, Haircut Sir
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage style Ski Photography, framed Alpine Ski Photograph, Haircut Sir.
'HAIRCUT SIR', a modern framed and mounted black and white pho...
Category
1930s Sporting Art Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Wood
Trollope, Home & Haunts of the Italian Poets, 2 Vols. 1st Ed 1881 Leather Bound!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: TROLLOPE, Frances Eleanor & T. Adolphus.
TITLE: The Home and Haunts of The Italian Poets.
PUBLISHER: London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1881.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION....
Category
1880s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Antique British Medical Sterilizer with Original Burner, Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique British medical sterilizer with original burner, Circa 1890.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Copper
Georgian Yew Wood Miniature Chest of Drawers
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming and rare 18th century Georgian yew
wood miniature chest having four long drawers
with original brass knobs raised on original
shaped bracket feet.
(There is often debate as to whether miniature furniture was
made as an apprentice piece, which is when a craftsmen who
is looking for a job at a workshop would create something to
showcase their talents, or whether it was made as a travelling
salesman's sample piece, which is when a few articles were
made as scale models in advance of a road trip during which a
salesman would travel the country showing prospective clients
the kind of items they could produce back at the workshop and
take orders from. This particular example doesn't really appear
to quite fit either of those briefs however and may well have just
been made as an individual, one off piece in a provincial workshop.
One of the reasons for this is the construction from solid yewwood
which is a rarely used material in items any larger than this as the
trunks generally don't grow large enough. The overall quality is
excellent and clearly somebody has spent many, many hours
producing this wonderful piece. A really quite charming piece of
antique miniature furniture...
Category
Mid-18th Century Georgian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Yew
Antique Late Victorian English Sterling Silver & Garnet Brooch & Bracelet Set
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique brooch and bracelet set is signed by an unknown maker, and originated from England and dates to approximately 1900 and done in the period Late Victorian style. The set i...
Category
Early 20th Century Late Victorian British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Unique Folk Art Guernsey Shell Diorama Display
Located in London, GB
19th century unique Folk Art Guernsey shell diorama display
We are proud to offer a unique folk-art hand-crafted example of a seashell diorama. Display...
Category
1880s Folk Art Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber
Fanny Burney, Diary & Letters of Madame D'arblay, in a Full Leather Binding 1854
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: BURNEY, Fanny - Madame D'arblay.
Title: Diary and Letters of Madame D'arblay.
Publisher: London: for Henry Colburn, 1854.
Description: NEW EDITION. 7 vols., 6-11/16...
Category
1850s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1M Marquetry Pintail Longboard. Handcrafted Skateboards from w o o d p o p.
By Emma Wood
Located in Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
This marquetry skateboard from the w o o d p o p studio is an example of the type of modern marquetry that w o o d p o p is becoming synonymous with. Since its inception 10 year...
Category
2010s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
King Edward VII Coronation, June 1902 Framed Red Flag
Located in Hastings, GB
King Edward VII coronation, June 1902 framed scarf / flag.
This scarf is an original antique piece of British history and patriotic memorabilia.
...
Category
Early 1900s Edwardian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Cotton
Indoor Cricket Game Hand Made Wood Set of 18 Pieces, circa 1900
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is an original wooden Cricket Game, all handmade, comprising 18 pieces, for indoor use on a table or carpet, all dating to the late 19th or early 20th century, circa 1900.
Th...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming, First Edition, 1956
By Ian Fleming
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Fleming, Ian. Diamonds are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Rebound in full black calf leather, with diamond stamped boards, gilt tooling, gilt titles, and raised bands to spine, and a spectacular quarter leather clamshell case.
This is the first edition, first printing of Ian Fleming’s fourth James Bond novel, Diamonds are Forever. The book was published by Jonathan Cape in London on March 26, 1956. The book tracks 007 as he infiltrates the deadly world of diamond smuggling, tracking smugglers from Sierra Leone to the United States. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling.
As with the three previous Bond books, the first edition of 12,500 copies sold out quickly. The novel was serialized in The Daily Express newspaper in April 1956 onwards. It was the first novel Fleming sold to the newspaper, a decision that led to an overall rise in the novel’s sales. Book sales were also assisted by the press in November 1956, following the visit of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden...
Category
1950s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Pair of Art Deco Marigold Carnival Glass Rolls Royce or Packard Bud Vases
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of automobile bud vases are unsigned, but presumed to have been made in England in approximately 1920 in the period Art Deco style. The vases are done with a thick clear gl...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Art Glass
Christies 2004 Chirk Castle Wales 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Christies 2004 Chirk Castle Wales. 1st Ed auction catalog. 656 lots on 296pp. color photos and fully described, with results. The construction of Chirk Castle began around 1295 durin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christie's: Furniture, Pictures & Silver from Tythrop Park, April 27, 1995, 1st
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: Furniture, Pictures & Silver from Tythrop Park, April 27, 1995. 1st Ed Soft cover. A Christie's Auction catalogue for the Cotton family. Listings include works from Isaac Liger, James Shruder, Peter Archambo, and David Willaume...
Category
1990s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Billiard Rules Pool Rules Pyramid Rules Victorian Framed Rules
Located in Radstock, GB
This framed and printed sheet Rule frame is very unusual because it actually
features the rules of three games Billiards, Life Pool and Pyramid pool.
Printed by the famous Glasgo...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Large Controlled Bubble Glass Match Striker Holder by Thomas Webb Crystal
By Thomas Webb & Sons
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Superb large Thomas Webb English controlled bubble glass match striker. Acid etched relief marked "Webb England" with a company mark used from ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Crystal
Jockey Scale by W & T Avery
By W & T Avery
Located in New Orleans, LA
A fantastic piece of horse racing history, this English jockey scale was specially crafted by W. & T. Avery of Birmingham. These handsome scales were used...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Alpine Ski Photograph, 'Haircut Sir', Taken from 1930s Original
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage, antique Alpine Ski photograph.
'HAIRCUT SIR', a new mounted black and white photographic image after an original 1930s skiing photograph. Prior to being a recreational activity skiing was purely a means of travelling from A to B through the snow, it only started to become the sport it is today in the mid-1800s. The price displayed is for the mounted photo only.
Image size 40cm x 25.5cm = 15 ½" x 10".
The alpine photograph...
Category
1930s Sporting Art Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1 Volume, Osmund Airy, Charles the Second
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Osmund Airy, Charles the Second. Bound in full red morocco with covers displaying beautiful border details and a crest in gilt. Raised band spine gilt with panels displayin...
Category
Early 1900s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
The Ipcress File
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for The Ipcress File 1965.
This British espionage film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, and stars Michael Caine as Harry Palm...
Category
1960s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Christie's: Parham Park Pulborough, West Sussex, May 1996
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: Parham Park. Pulborough, West Sussex. May 1996. Auction catalogue. 184 pp. 1052 lots. Color photos. With results. Property from Parkham Park Tr...
Category
1990s British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Lawn Tennis Racket, the Test by Stevenson
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
The test wooden framed lawn tennis racket.
A good wooden laminated framed tennis racket called The 'TEST'. The throat with colourful decal one side, The "TES...
Category
1930s Vintage British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, First Edition
By Anthony Ray
Located in valatie, NY
English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford by Anthony Ray. Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1968. Stated first American edition hardcover...
Category
20th Century British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Matisse Picasso, From the Estate of Herbert Kasper, Thank You Letter From MOMA
Located in valatie, NY
Matisse Picasso by Anne Baldassari, Elizabeth Cowling, John Elderfield, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine and Kirk Varnedoe. Published by Tate Gallery Publishing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique English Battersea Locket in the Form of a Clock
Located in Tampa, FL
An 18th century English Battersea locket enameled with a clock face on one side and a floral decoration on the reverse.
Category
1790s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Enamel
English Pearlware Pottery Miniature Cottage Moneybox
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming and rare antique English, probably Yorkshire, pearlware pottery miniature cottage moneybox dating from the early 19th century. The small cottage stands raised on a stepped...
Category
Early 19th Century George III Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pottery
1 Volume, Marcus B, Huisn, Happy England
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Marcus B. Huisn, Happy England. Bound in 3/4 green morocco and white vellum boards displaying a gilt title, gilt and red morocco flower detailing. Raised band spine gilt with panels displaying ornate gilt and red morocco flowers along with gilt title panels. Top edge gilt with marbled endpapers. Various illustrations by Helen Allingham...
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Early 1900s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Midcentury Sterling Cocktail Picks, Golf Bag Holder and 6 Golf Club Picks
Located in Nantucket, MA
Set of 6 cocktail picks in the form of golf clubs with a golf bag form holder. The golf bag is marked Sterling 950 on the bottom. The set comes in its original fitted box (box shows ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sporting Art British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
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