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Period: 1850s
Peter Hertz 1857 Denmark Vesta Cigar Cutter Lighter Box In .925 Sterling Silver
By Peter Hertz
Located in Miami, FL
Multifunctional vesta lighter box designed by Peter Hertz (1811-1885).
Beautiful antique vesta case, created in Copenhagen Denmark at the silversmiths workshop of Peter Hertz in 185...
Category
Danish Early Victorian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
19th Century Life-Size Corpus Christi Figure Leg
Located in London, GB
19th century life-size corpus Christi figure leg
We are proud to offer a very unusual religious artifact, dating from early to mid-19th century and either Spanish or Italian in orig...
Category
Spanish Early Victorian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak, Paint
American Nautical Brass Housing & Wood Collar Floating Distress Beacon, C. 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
American nautical brass housing and wood collar floating distress beacon with a glass lens, mid-19th century.
Category
American American Empire Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Amazing Arma Christi, circa 1850
Located in London, GB
Amazing Arma Christi, circa 1850
We are proud to offer an amazing museum quality circa 1850 Arma Christi. Likely German or Austrian in origin, an excepti...
Category
German Folk Art Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
19th Century Seascape with a Brig in High Seas
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Seascape with a Brig in High Seas, signed illegibly and dated 1857, an oil on canvas painting featuring a Brig laboring in heavy sea...
Category
Unknown Other Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Canvas
1859 "Map of the United States of America..." by J. H. Colton
By J.H. Colton
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an 1859 “Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico, the West Indies and Central America with Part of...
Category
American Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1850 Two-Volume Set of Lord Byron's Illustrated Works
By William Anderson, Lord Byron
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
1850 two volume set of Byron's Works, printed by A. Fullerton, Edinburgh. Scarlet Morocco leather & gilt bound set filled with superb steel engravings of Italy, etc. Lord Byron's hom...
Category
Scottish Victorian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Rare Monochrome Shell Cameo of a Female Bacchus, c. 1850
Located in Hamburg, DE
This exceptional antique cameo, likely from England and dating to around 1850, is carved from a single-colored shell—a rarer choice compared to the more common layered varieties. It ...
Category
Victorian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Shell
Rolfe's Angling Sketches, Fishing Picture, Not Long Caught.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Rolfe's Angling Sketches.
An extremely rare colourful fishing lithograph after Henry Leonidas Rolfe (1823 - 1881) 'Rolfe's Angling Sketches, Not ...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Trollope, A Decade of Italian Women, First Edition, 2 Vols. 1859 Leather Bound!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: TROLLOPE, T. Adolphus.
Title: A Decade of Italian Women.
Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall, 1859.
Description: First Edition. 2 vols., 7-15/16" x 5-3/8", frontis po...
Category
British Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1852 Geometrical Constructions Chart by C. W. Knudsen
Located in Garnerville, NY
Twenty two (22) meticulously rendered hand written and drawn geometrical constructions by C. W. Knudsen, circa 1952. The piece is inscribed in red lower left, C. W. Knudsen, August 1...
Category
American Schoolhouse Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper, Parchment Paper
Burmese Wood, Bone and Brass Tobacco Pipe, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
A large tobacco pipe from old Burma (Myanmar), circa 1850. Solid wood bowl, chamber and shank. The stem is made of bone, attached to the shank by a mor...
Category
Burmese Other Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
19th Century Gold Gilt Carved Holy Water
Located in London, GB
19th century gold gilt carved holy water
We are proud to offer an exceptional example of an Italian 19th century gold gilt carved wood holy water. In untouched form this item is cl...
Category
Italian Victorian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
19th Century Italian Sedan Chair
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century Italian Sedan Chair
This is a mid 19th Century piece, it is the Rococo style, in Green and Gold and upholstered inside in a heavy gold brocade, complete with cushion ...
Category
Baroque Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pine
Fine Shipyard Model of a Steamship
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine shipyard model of an early sailing steam screw ship of the transitional sail to steam period with good detailed deck fittings including hatches, ...
Category
English Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Life and Liberty in America by Charles Mackay, 1859
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Mackay, Charles. Life and Liberty in America: or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada, in 1857-8. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Octavo. Illustrated with ten engra...
Category
American Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
English Brass and Wood Barrel Nautical Spyglass James Chapman, London Circa 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
English brass and wood barrel nautical ship captain's spyglass with a single draw, polished sunshade, lense cap, and engraved focal tube by maker James Chapman St. Catherines Dock, L...
Category
English William IV Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
The Life of Israel Putnam by William Cutter, 1859
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Cutter, William. The Life of Israel Putnam, Major-General in the Army of the American Revolution, Compiled from the Best Authorities. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. Later printing....
Category
Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Walking stick, with painted miniature of St. Luke, Giulio Zanetti Italy 1860.
By Giulio Zanetti
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: jeweled walking stick, silver knob in the shape of a milord worked in tourchon, with finely engraved and gilded parts. At the top of the knob, a miniature painted in e...
Category
Italian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Silver, Enamel
N.E. View of the United States Capitol, Washington, DC Antique Proof Print 1858
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This engraved print shows a view of the United States Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C. The print depicts the neoclassical building from the northeast orientation, with a bustling street scene in front. The steel engraving is a proof printing, drawn and engraved by Henry Sartain and published in 1858.
Plans began in May 1854 to build a new cast-iron dome for the United States Capitol. The then-architect of the Capitol Thomas Walter and his team were sold on the aesthetics of a new dome, as well as the utility of a fire-proof one. A year later, on March 3, 1855, President Franklin Pierce...
Category
American Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Set of Four Pig Sticking Prints, Lithographs
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Set Of Four Pig Sticking Lithographs.
A very good, framed set of four pictures of an old and rare subject 'Pig Sticking'. The rare pictures are after Alb...
Category
European Sporting Art Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Pawnee Pipe Tomahawk, circa 1850-1870
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pawnee pipe tomahawk. File burnt and tacked with remnants of yellow paint over entire shaft. Exhibited in the Wichita Falls Museum 1967, Maryland Academy of Art and Science 1969, Flo...
Category
American Native American Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
American Oval Timber Trade Sign with Two Masted Ship and Rope Boarder. C. 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
American oval hand carved timber trade sign with a centered two masted ship, rope border, upper painted banner "The London and New York Trading Company"...
Category
American American Empire Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rope, Wood, Paint
Antique Victorian Shadowbox with Religious Crucifix Scene, c. 1850's
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Victorian Era religious shadowbox frame depicting Christ and the instruments of Passion also known as the Arma Christi. Features background print in sepia...
Category
American Victorian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
The Virgin and child with little St-John, after Raphaël (1483-1520)
Located in Paris, FR
Miniature depicting The Virgin and Child with Little Saint John, known as the Virgin with Veil or the Virgin with Blue Tiara (Louvre), after Raphael (1483-1520), signed lower left J....
Category
French Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
1853-86 The Collected Works of Cuthbert Bede
By Cuthbert Bede
Located in Bath, GB
A beautiful fine set of the collected first editions works of Cuthbert Bede, pen name of Edward Bradley, a set of his scarce novels uniformly bound by Bickers.
A very smart first ed...
Category
British Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
French Baroque Style Hand Carved Giltwood Processional Cross
Located in Birmingham, AL
Antique French Baroque style hand carved giltwood baton de ceremonies or processional crosses used in a village cathedral in the South of France, circa 1850s. These exceptional cross...
Category
French Baroque Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
1856 U.S. Coast Survey Map of Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay from 1856. The map depicts the region from Susquehanna, Maryland to the northern Outer Banks in North Carolina. It also shows from Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia to the Atlantic Ocean. The map is highly detailed with many cities and towns labeled throughout. Rivers, inlets, and bays are also labeled. Various charts illustrating more specific parts of the region are marked on the map using dotted lines. The lines form boxes, and the corresponding chart number and publication date are given. Extensive triangulation surveys were conducted the length of Chesapeake Bay and are illustrated here. Hampton Roads, Virginia is labeled, along with the James, York, and Rappahannock Rivers, which were all extensively surveyed.
The chart was published under the supervision of A. D. Bache, one of the most influential and prolific figures in the early history of the U.S. Coast Survey, for the 1856 Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an American physicist, scientist, and surveyor. Bache served as the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey from 1843 to 1865. Born in Philadelphia, Bache toured Europe and composed an important treatise on European Education. He also served as president of Philadelphia's Central High School and was a professor of natural history and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon the death of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, Bache was appointed Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey.
The Office of the Coast Survey, founded in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of Commerce Albert Gallatin...
Category
American Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
American Painted Ash Drum Now A Table
Located in Essex, MA
With a painted eagle and inscription.
Category
American Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ash
Sculptural Bookstand for Giffen & Giffen
By Giffen & Giffen
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A unique and sculptural bookstand made almost entirely of long patinated copper-plated steel rods twisted in such a fashion to create an esthetic yet structurally strong frame.
Category
American Arts and Crafts Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
American Cast Iron Nautical Anchor and Dolphin Motif Umbrella Stand, Circa 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
American cast iron nautical umbrella stand with centered anchor ring attached and intertwined with rope, two smaller tridents with spears, and resting on a...
Category
American American Empire Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Pair of Porcelain Portrait, 19th Century Gilded Bronze Frame Signed A.Giroux
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of porcelain and enamelled portraits featuring a man and a woman of the 17th century. It is most likely a portrait of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Austria. The two porcelain m...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
1855 "New-York City & County Map" by Charles Magnus
By Charles Magnus
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a beautiful hand-colored map titled “New York City & County Map with Vicinity entire Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City &c.” The work was published in 1855 by Charles Magnu...
Category
American Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Cricket Print of Joseph Guy of Nottingham
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Cricket print of Joseph Guy of Nottingham.
A framed, tinted and hand colored lithographic portrait of the All- England cricketer Joseph Guy (1813 - 187...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Portrait of Madam Vigée-Lebrun and her daughter after Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Located in Paris, FR
Miniature portrait of Madame Vigée-Lebrun and her daughter after Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842). Signed "Joséphine Rozier", titled lower right and dated 1856. Gilded stucco and w...
Category
French Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Christmastide: Its History, Festivities and Carols, by William Syndys, 1852
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Syndys, William. Christmastide: Its History, Festivities and Carols. London: John Russell Smith, [nd, 1852]. Illustrated with hand-colored engravings. Oc...
Category
English Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Print of a Swiss Guard for the Pope in The Vatican, 1850
Located in Langweer, NL
Description: Antique costume print titled 'Sergent Suisse de la Garde du Pape'.
Old print depicting a Swiss sergeant of the Pope's guard. This print originates from 'Costumes Mod...
Category
Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Silver Boot Vesta Case and Taper Holder
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Russian silver vesta case in the form of a boot, an addition to our diverse smoking related silverware collection.
This exceptional antique silver vesta case...
Category
Russian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
19th Century Mayhew Family Tree from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard from 1855
Located in Nantucket, MA
Very rare 19th century Mayhew Family tree from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, lithograph on paper laid on linen, printed in 1855, in form of liter...
Category
American Other Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Linen, Paper
Dining Table Made from a 19th Century Ship's Steering Wheel
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A dining table made from a 19th century ship's steering wheel, upon an antique binnacle with bronze feet, English, circa 1850.
With a modern glass top.
Category
English Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Pair of English Bronze Signal Cannon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine pair of English bronze signal cannon, the tapering 36 inch two stage barrels set upon original mahogany carriages with bronze fittings and ...
Category
English Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
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
British Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Old Tibetan Bronze Bell or Cymbal
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Antique Bronze bell or Cymbal, hand hammered - Tibet - half XIX century - can be hung from the ceiling, hanging and hitting it.
CYMBAL is a percussion instrument. Now it is used in m...
Category
Tibetan Tibetan Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Fine Pair of Bronze Cannon by McAndrew and Woore English, circa 1850
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine pair of bronze cannon by McAndrew and Woore, set on their original brass bound black painted oak carriages with brass spider wheels, also with a p...
Category
English Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Illustrated Map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with Notable Landmarks
Located in Langweer, NL
John Tallis & Company is known for producing maps and atlases that were highly regarded for their accurate cartographic detail and their distinctive style. They often included ornate...
Category
Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century Feench Barometer Antique Scientific Instrument Weather Misure
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden barometer with cedar wood trim at the edges, signed Caux Opticien Rue Rivoli près du Louvre Paris, mid-19th century; dial with the meteorological indications on paper printed ...
Category
French Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Silver Cheroot Case from Mtb ‘Brave Borderer, ’
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A silver cheroot case from MTB ‘Brave Borderer,’ of rectangular form, the exterior textured, the interior gilt and incised with an image of the boat above the legend ‘H.M.S. “Brave Borderer” 1858-59’ and the initials ‘N.D.F’. Fully assayed.
The Brave-class fast patrol torpedo boats...
Category
English Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Mid-19th Century American Stationary with Manuscript Letter, Signed 1854
Located in Langweer, NL
American stationery with in the top the following text printed:
E pluribus unum – Latin for "Out of many, one" (also translated as "One out of many" or "One from many") – is a traditional motto of the United States, appearing on the Great Seal along with Annuit cœptis (Latin for "he approves the undertaking [lit. 'things undertaken']") and Novus ordo seclorum (Latin for "New order of the ages"); its inclusion on the seal was approved by an Act of Congress in 1782. While its status as national motto was for many years unofficial, E pluribus unum was still considered the de facto motto of the United States from its early history. Eventually, the United States Congress passed an act (H. J. Resolution 396), adopting "In God We Trust" as the official motto in 1956.
The thirteen letters of E PLURIBUS UNUM makes its use symbolic of the thirteen original states like the thirteen stripes on the US flag. The meaning of the phrase originates from the concept that out of the union of the original Thirteen Colonies emerged a new single nation. It is emblazoned across the scroll and clenched in the eagle's beak on the Great Seal of the United States. (Source: wikipedia)
Text below the portraits: "The Presidents of our Great Republic."
Letter paper with hand-colored engraving showing the portraits of the 14 presidents of the USA from George Washington up to Franklin Pierce...
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Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Galvanometer Antique Measuring Instrument Used for Telegraph Cables 1850 circa
Located in Milan, IT
Vertical mirror galvanometer made in 1850 circa, oak and glass, three adjustable screws at the base. Tool constituted by a magnet bar movable inside a coil and connected to a needle. In the absence of current the needle is positioned vertically while when the coil is crossed by the current it creates a magnetic field that moves the needle. This type of galvanometer was used for measurement of insulation of telegraph cables...
Category
British Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Print No. 1 of 400 Depicting a Nautical Schooner Made in the Mid-19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Print depicting a schooner, no. 1 of 400 copies signed Z21, made in the mid-19th century. Non-coeval briarwood frame; measures with frame 50 x 40 cm.
Category
British Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Victorian Bronze Imperial Standard Bushel Measure
Located in Essex, MA
Impressively large bushel measure for the County Of Gloucester, England. Inscribed
"Imperial Standard Bushel". "County Of Gloucester". Made by Bate of London. Dated 1853 and 1834. ...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Original Antique Print of a Street Scene in Naha, Okinawa in Japan, 1856
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled ‘Street in Napha Lew-Chew'.
Antique print of a street scene in Naha, the capital city of the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Okinawa used to be called Great Lew C...
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Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Crossroads of Empires: A John Tallis Map of the Isthmus of Panama, 1851
Located in Langweer, NL
The Tallis map of the Isthmus of Panama is a beautifully detailed work, characteristic of the maps produced by John Tallis & Company, which was one of the last cartographic firms to ...
Category
Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Decorative Antique Map of the Malay Archipelago or East Indies Island, 1851
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map Indonesia titled 'Malay Archipelago, or East India Islands'. With vignettes of Victoria Mount, New Guinea, Nativaes of New Guinea an...
Category
Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1851 Tallis Map of China with Tibet, Formosa, and Burma – Engraved by J. Rapkin
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: 1851 Tallis Map of China with Tibet, Formosa, and Burma – Engraved by J. Rapkin
Description: This is a finely engraved and delicately hand-colored map of China, published a...
Category
Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Beautiful Lithograph of The Vulcano Gunung Lamongan, Java, Indonesia, c.1853
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'G. Lamongan'. Beautiful lithograph of Gunung Lamongan. Gunung Lamongan or Mount Lamongan (1,651m - 5, 417 ft) is a small stratovolcano located between the massi...
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Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Map of Western Africa with Vignettes of Cape Coast Castle etc, ca.1851
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled ‘Western Africa’. Includes decorative vignettes titled Christiansborg, Cape Coast Castle, Sierra Leone and Bakel. Originates from 'The Illustrated Atlas, And Modern History Of The World Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, Edited By R. Montgomery Martin'. Published; John Tallis London, New York, Edinburgh & Dublin. 1851. Drawn and Engraved by J. Rapkin.
Artists and Engravers: John Tallis (1817-1876) was a British map...
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Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Original Antique English County Map, Leicestershire, J & C Walker, 1851
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great map of Leicestershire
Original colour
By J & C Walker
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. 1851
Unframed.
Category
English Other Antique 1850s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
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