1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Period: 1930s
Color: Black
Authentic Art Deco Black Bakelite Bangle Bracelet with Sterling Accent
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Black Bakelite bangle bracelet with sterling silver band adornment.
Measures: 2 3/8" inside circumference.
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Samuraï Maeda Armor
Located in Paris, FR
Armor Samuraï Maeda, ceremonial armor
with handcrafted helmet and protects.
Made with original japanese fabrics only use for
samuraï armor confection, ...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Glass
Antique English Table Tennis Trophy Award Plaque c1939 Silver plate Shield
Located in Shreveport, LA
Antique English Table Tennis Trophy Award Plaque c1939 Silver plate Shield.
Direct from England, just arrived in our most recent container, we ...
Category
British Other Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique English Order of the Odd Fellows Society Trophy Award c1939 Silver plate
Located in Shreveport, LA
Antique English Order of the Odd Fellows Society Trophy Award c1939 Silver plate.
Direct from England, just arrived in our most recent container, we have several of these one-of-a-kind English trophies that are brimming with provenance, and oh “the stories they could tell”!
This large oak plaque/trophy is highly engraved, with large, dimensional descriptive plaque at the top, as follows:
“INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS...
Category
British Other Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver Plate
Solid Brass Motor Yacht Throttle
Located in Norwell, MA
Boat throttle that has gear and throttle stick. Meticulously polished and lacquered and fitted to a varnished base with rope carved border. Unit has been converted into a lamp. Decor...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Ships Wheel by John Hastie of Greenock
Located in Norwell, MA
Very nice antique solid brass ships wheel that has been highly polished and lacquered. The hub has deeply engraved makers name "John Hastie & Co...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, First Edition, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Melville, Herman. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Moby Dick. New York: Random House, 1930. First Trade Edition with Kent Illustrations. Rebound in full leather. Housed in a matching cu...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ship Wheel from a Wheeler Yacht
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass ships wheel with the name wheeler cast into one of the spokes. Wheeler was a famous maker of yachts, up to seventy five feet, cabin cruisers, etc.
Hemingway wrote his ...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Brass Boat Compass in Varnished Wood Box
Located in Norwell, MA
Classic early twentieth century boat compass by Dirigo of Seattle Washington. The gimballed compass has been meticulously polished and lacquered. This classic marine instrument is fi...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Engine Order Telegraph with German Commands
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass ships telegraph with German commands. With engraved maker’s plate on top marked: "Lubecker, Maschinenbau - Gesell shaft, or LMG, Ship...
Category
European Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1930s Wrist Military Compass in the Shape of a Watch Antique Surveyor Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Wrist military compass in the shape of a watch in brass, bakelite and leather strap.
English manufacture from the 1930s used by English army officers...
Category
Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Grouping of 1940s Toy Robot Molds
Located in Pawtucket, RI
Graphic collection of assorted steel spacemen and robot molds from the 1940s.
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
PH Grand Piano Vintage Model 'mid 1930's' by Poul Henningsen, Modern, Sculptural
Located in Copenhagen, DK
This PH Grand Piano, from around the mid 1930's is an excellent-conditioned vintage instrument. It was in 1930 that this instrument was first designed b...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Chrome
Savoy Cocktail Book Cradock Harry London Constable 8° Illustrated Orig
Located in Munich, DE
First edition of this iconoc, definite text on cocktails features highly decorative pictorial endpapers. The book is illustrated throughout in Art Deco manner by Gilbert Rumbold. On ...
Category
English Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Art and the Machine Book by Sheldon and Martha Cheney
Located in New York, NY
Seminal early consideration of Machine Age design and architecture in America, tracking the rise of the industrial design profession, written by Sheldon and Martha Cheney and publish...
Category
American Machine Age Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Thorens "Excelda" Camera Phone Phonograph Player circa 1930s Very Rare
By Thorens
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an authentic Excelda portable gramophone, the portable phonograph of the 1930's that resembled the pocket cameras of that time (usually ref...
Category
Swiss Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Virginia Woolf. the Years, First Edition, 1937 in a Fine Full Leather Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Woolf, Virginia.
Title: The Years.
Publisher: London: The Hogarth Press, 1937.
Description: First Edition. 1 vol., 7-3/16" x 4-15/16", boun...
Category
British Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Massive Maritime Ships Winch by Rex
Located in Norwell, MA
Ships winch by REX, model 110. This is extremely heavy, 220 pounds. The huge brass drum has a shaft that runs through the winch connecting to a chain sprocket. Also fitted with an ir...
Category
European Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Brass Yacht Binnacle Compass
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass boat compass binnacle that has been meticulously polished and lacquered. Gimballed compass inside. Mounted to a varnished wood base with carved rope border. Interior has ...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Solid Brass Ships Wheel on Stand
Located in Norwell, MA
Very impressive eight spoke ships wheel mounted to a geared pedestal. The pedestal head is engraved Dake Engine Company, Grand Haven Michigan, Serial numbe...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Uncensored Anthology Gathered from Many Questionable Sources, Leather, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
An Uncensored anthology gathered from many questionable sources.
Illustrated by Joseph Wynn. Published by The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1939. The only copy in leat...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Solid Brass Ships Wheel on Stand
Located in Norwell, MA
Very impressive eight spoke ships wheel mounted to a geared pedestal. The pedestal head is engraved Dake Engine Company, Grand Haven Michigan, serial numbe...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Rare Vintage Dutch Tandem Bicycle by Burgers
Located in Montreal, QC
Rare Vintage Dutch Tandem Bicycle by Burgers including a Tajindia Rolex oil bicycle lamp.
Measures: Seat height in front 36 in. seat height in the back...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
The Adventures of Oliver Twist, 1st Ed Thus
Located in valatie, NY
The Adventures of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. 1st Ed Thus hardcover with slip case. Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress, Charles Dickens' 2nd...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
A rare and delightful pair of leather early 20th Century hand crafted apprentice shoes. One of the smallest examples we have seen to date.
...
Category
British Victorian Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Art Deco Cast Iron Stagecoach Door Stop with Original Paint, 1930
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Great example of a western stagecoach in original paint. Colors are still vibrant. C1930 with precise castings. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear.
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Historical Views on Staffordshire China by Ellouise Larsen, 1939
Located in valatie, NY
American Historical Views on Staffordshire China by Ellouise Baker. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. 1st Ed hardcover, missing sli...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Hand Forged Iron Leather Bow Medieval Archery
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Leather forged iron bow
Vintage Archery Hand Forged Iron Leather Bow Medieval
45 tall x 15 d x 1 thick
Preowned original unrestored vintage conditio...
Category
Tribal Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Art Deco Spelter Metal Nude Greek Goddess Torch Tip Table Lighter
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Nude Greek Goddess spelter metal torch tip table lighter featuring a nude flapper gilded in bronze. The urn next to her contains the oil and striker with the...
Category
Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Spelter
Ulm Minster Church Souvenir Building Vintage, Germany, 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A 1930s souvenir building architectural model. Some wear with a nice patina, but this is old-age. Made of metal. A beautiful nice desktop item or jus...
Category
German Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Eiffel Tower, Sacré-Coeur, Arc de Triomphe Souvenir Building Architectural Model
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A decorative Eiffel Tower, Sacré-Coeur and Arc de Triomphe souvenir building sculpture. Some wear with a nice patina, but this is old-age. Made of metal and a marble base. This item ...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble, Metal
Rare Chrome Art Deco Elephant Pipe Holder by Ronson
Located in Van Nuys, CA
A ronson elephant two pipe holder with a chrome elephant and accents with a black powder coat base. It is listed in advertisement "Ronson - the World's Greatest Lighter" as "Extremel...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Chrome
Ship's Binnacle by Baker Lyman of New Orleans, Louisiana
Located in Norwell, MA
Ship's binnacle with maker's plate from Baker Lyman Company of New Orleans, Louisiana. Wonderfully restored binnacle with gimballed compass and interior lighting.
Overall dimensio...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Yacht Blueprint of a Fifty Foot Yacht by Howard Chapelle
Located in Norwell, MA
Original blueprint drawing of a fifty foot "Express Cruiser" from the workshop of Eldredge-McInnis Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts. Interesting design...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Pair of Steel Port and Starboard Lights
By Artistic Brass & BZ Wks NYC
Located in Norwell, MA
Pair of ship's lanterns, port and starboard, with polished steel cases that have been stripped and meticulously polished and lacquered. This is a first class pair of lanterns with copper badges from Marine Division Artistic Brass and Bronze...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Original Blueprint for the Sailing Dingy “Burp” by John Alden
Located in Norwell, MA
Blueprint from John G Alden, naval architect, 131 State St, Boston. Plan is for No. 559, a class A sailing dingy named "Dunk.” Showing all hull lines in great detail. Rich blue color...
Category
Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sold Brass Ship's Searchlight Mounted to a Ship's Decking Pedestal
Located in Norwell, MA
Ship's spotlight with meticulously polished and lacquered finish. Glass lens. Mounted on an iron pole with a mahogany and holly replicated ship's decking. The base weighs over 200 po...
Category
Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Godard Armand "Woman Sitting with Doves" Art Deco Sculpture black marble
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
"Jeune femme aux colombes" "young woman with doves" By Armand Godard.
Beautiful sculpture with beautiful patina Art Deco period representing a woman sitting feeding birds on oval terrace in black marble.
Very fine work.
Signed.
France,
circa 1930
Armand Godard made many chryselephantine statuettes in bronze and ivory in the Art Deco style, especially for the foundry Edmond Etling. In the 1920s and 1930s, he exhibited in Paris in the salons of the Society of French Artists. During the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris, he showed a monumental statue 4.5 meters high and a patinated plaster sculpture.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble
Solid Copper Ships Lantern with Fresnel Lens
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid copper ships lantern with Fresnel glass lens. No burner. With vented top, carry handle, and hinged door on rear. Note the flake to the lens....
Category
Unknown Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
Vintage 1930s Black Leather Medicine Ball from a Gym, Czech Republic, 1930s
Located in Vienna, AT
A decorative handcrafted medicine ball from a Czech gym, dated circa 1930s. Made of thick black saddle leather in good vintage condition with charming patina...
Category
Czech Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Antique Cricket Weathervane, Lords Father Time
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Lords old father time weather vane.
A vintage replica of the father time cricket weather vane that can be found at Lord's Cricket Ground, London. The weath...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
1930s Italian antique Sketch of a Campaign to Fight Tuberculosis
Located in Milan, IT
Sketch of a futurist poster, 1930’s, campaign against tuberculosis with united strength 10 cents for poor sicks with tuberculosis, for the national campaign to inform people about th...
Category
Italian Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Pair of 1930s Reproduction Ancient Roman Soldiers Helmets
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Pair of 1930s metal reproduction ancient Roman soldiers helmets.
Category
Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Pair of Italian Military Epaulettes
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Italian Military epaulettes. Handsome pair of black and gold thread stitched functioning naval epaulettes with the crown of Savoy, stars and b...
Category
Italian Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metallic Thread
Will Rogers Autograph and Original Walt Disney Animation Drawing, 1930
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a unique collage featuring both a signature by Will Rogers and a Walt Disney animation drawing of the famous entertainer. The postal...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
German Bauhaus Era Porcelain Medical Doctor Sign, 1930s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Black concave porcelain sign with white slightly raised letters. It a German sign from the 1930s. It originally hung out side a medical doctors praxis i...
Category
German Bauhaus Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Die Neue Raumkunst in Europa und Amerika Book
Located in New York, NY
Important and brilliantly edited survey of early modernist furniture and interiors. Written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by Julius Hoffmann in Stuttgart in 1930. Features work by a who's who of the period's top designers, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Donald Deskey, Maurice Dufresne, Paul Laszlo, Jaques Adnet, Rene Herbst, Eugene Printz, Fritz Brehaus, Andre Lurcat...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Bakelite "Fish Themed" Still Bank, American, circa 1930
Located in Incline Village, NV
This very unique still bank is a "must have" for the discerning still bank collector, in that it is made of bakelite, in addition to it having a fish theme; only a couple of other banks depict a fish. American and probably manufactured around circa 1930, (making it an Art Deco piece), this pre-war bank, though unmarked, is undoubtedly a bakelite product; that company having been formed in 1922, utilizing the discovery and patent of bakelite in 1907 and 1909 respectively. Art Deco collectors would find this piece highly decorative and "period" compatible.
This fish bank is in excellent and all original condition. The bank is rare in and of itself, but another element that makes it particularly scarce is the fact that, other than the old "knife in the slot" there was no way to remove the coins once the bank was filled without smashing it apart and destroying it. Great gift for that February/March pisces birthday.
Dimensions: 8 1/4" long x 5" high x 2 1/8" wide
Note:I am a leading specialist in the field of vintage coin banks...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Aage Hjalmer Steenberg Sterling Silver Case, Denmark, 1934
By Aage Hjalmar Steenberg
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Sterling silver enamel guilloche compact by Danish designer Aage Hjalmer Steenberg.
Makers Mark reads, "1429 836 STERLING" with the hallmark "AHS". ...
Category
Danish Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Meubles et Sièges du XVIII Siècle by André Theunissen, Limited, Numbered 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Meubles et Sièges du XVIII Siècle: Menuisiers, Ébénistes, Margues, Plans et Ornemaentation de Leurs Oeuvres (Furniture and Seating from the 18th century: Carpenters, Cabinet Makers, Marks, Plans and Ornamentation of Their Works.) Paris: Éditions "Le Document", 1934. Limited edition #398 fabric hardcover with no dust jacket. French text. 195 pp. A remarkable French book on 18th c furniture...
Category
French Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"Roosevelt & Garner" Embroidered Armband Supporting the 1932 Democratic Ticket
Located in York County, PA
"ROOSEVELT & GARNER", AN EMBROIDERED ARMBAND SUPPORTING THE 1932 DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL TICKET AND THE REPEAL OF PROHIBITION
Made for the 1932 Democratic presidential Campaign ticke...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Nautical Spot Light
Located in New York, NY
Vintage nautical or industrial ship spotlight / search light / lantern by Crouse Hinds. USA, circa 1930. For display purposes only; not tested for us...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Alligator Suit Case Jan Kiepuras' Deco Period
Located in Sharon, CT
A beautiful high quality deluxe brown/black suitcase, much travelled by the acclaimed and famous Polish/American opera and film star Jan Kiepura. Note ...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Animal Skin
Antique Folk Art Hand-Carved Ships
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
Two hand whittled ships with exceptional detail from the early 20th century, found in New Jersey.
Category
American American Craftsman Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Traditional Shield Swimming Trophy
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Traditional Shield Swimming Trophy
The is a traditional golden oak shield has a large silver plated mount, in the centre “CATHOLIC SCHOOLS SWIMMING FATHER HUDSON’S SHIELD BOYS”
...
Category
British Colonial Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Table Tennis Shield Trophy, Art Deco Trophy, Chelmsford
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Traditional Shield Trophy, Art Deco Table Tennis Trophy, Chelmsford
The is a traditional Oak and silver plated shield trophy very much in the Art Deco...
Category
Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Mata Hari
By Gosta Aberg
Located in London, GB
Original Swedish film poster from the 1931. This film was broadly based on the life of Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was a German spy during World War I. Greta Garbo starred as the title role, alongside Ramon Novarro and Lionel Barrymore...
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
Ghoul
By Marc Stone
Located in London, GB
Original British movie poster for the film The Ghoul (1933) Directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke.
This large poster was designed to be glued to b...
Category
English Vintage 1930s Collectibles and Curiosities
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