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Period: 1940s
BENEY 1940 Art Deco Penge Model Petrol Pocket Lighter In Chromed Steel
Located in Miami, FL
Petrol pocket lighter designed by Robert Ernest Beney.
This is an unusual petrol pocket lighter, created in London England by the Beney company back in the 1940. This lighter is the Penge semiautomatic model and has been crafted with modernist art deco patterns in solid chromed steel with engine turned geometric designs. The lighter is in near mint condition with very little trace of use. This lighter is a treasure from the past, that embodies the elegance and style of its era, making it a must-have for collectors and enthusiasts alike.
Brand & Model: Beney, Penge
Mechanism: Petrol, push button semi-automatic.
Material: Chrome, steel and brass.
Year: 1940-1946.
Weight: 49.5 Grams, (31.75 Dwt).
Measurements: 53 mm by 40 mm by 10 mm (2.09 x 1.58 x 0.39 Inches).
Hallmarks: The lighter is stamped at the base with British marks and signed in full, "BENEY PENGE MODEL MADE IN ENGLAND".
The Beney Company
The Beney Company was founded by Robert Ernest Beney in 1918, who invented and sold the first Beney mechanical lighter in 1919, three years prior to Dunhill. Beney also designed an automatic mechanism for Dunhill's hunting horn lighter...
Category
English Art Deco Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1948 Sterling Silver 'Tennis' Presentation Trophy
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive vintage George VI English cast sterling silver presentation trophy in the form of a tennis player; an addition to our diverse presentation silverware collection.
This fine vintage George VI cast sterling silver presentation piece has a circular waisted form to a circular domed spreading base.
The surface of the cup is plain and unembellished.
This vintage tennis trophy...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
1930s Vintage Solid Cast Iron Sachs Carbine Rifle Gun Molds Industrial Factory
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Listing is for one rifle. So let us know which one you would like to have when making order. One is stamped, 133 Sacks Gun.
Vintage industrial cast iron rifle molds, time worn patin...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Alexandre Noll Exotic Wood Cigar Ashtray Bowl / Dish Signed, France, circa 1950
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Lovely Alexandre Noll cigar ashtray / bowl / Dish. Carved in exotic wood.
Alexandre Noll hand carved Cigar Ashtray.
Mid-century.
France, c. 1950
Hand carved signature to underside '...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Gulliver's Travels
Located in London, GB
This is a ver rare original Japanese film poster for The 1939 Fantasy Animation Gulliver's Travels. This film was directed by Dave Fleisher.
This poster was created for the films fir...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Set of Nine Vintage Steel Measurement Pyramids, Czechoslovakia, circa 1940s
Located in Zohor, SK
Rare accessory with a real history behind it. A metal pyramid originally used as a meassurement instrument at a sports field in Czechoslovakia since 1940s. The field was for ball and...
Category
Czech Industrial Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Second Chorus or Follie di Jazz
By Enrico De Seta
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1940 musical comedy second chorus.
This Hollywood musical stars Paulette Goddard and Fred Astaire and features Artie Shaw...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Mobili di Ulrich by G. Morrazoni, 1945
Located in CA, CA
Mobili di Ulrich by G. Morrazoni
Milano, Luigi Alfieri, 1945. Excellent red cloth hardback with embossed gold title. 26 pages of text and 78 pages containing 133 photographs and 24 ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Ships Engine Room Telegraph by Bendix
Located in Norwell, MA
Very heavy and loud ship engine room telegraph. With brass faceplate displaying ships commands including ahead and astern, full, half and slow, standby and...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Antique Vintage Wood Toy Airplane Propeller
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Antique wood toy airplane propeller
12 x 1.13 x .38 thick
Original unrestored vintage condition
Refer to images listed please.
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Vintage USSR Axe: 1940s, Heavy and Distinctive, 30x13cm, 1J184
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Embrace a piece of history with this robust vintage axe hailing from the USSR and originating in the 1940s. Crafted for durability, its heavy build and uni...
Category
European Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
925 Sterling Silver B-25 Mitchell Aircraft Brooch w/ Moving Propeller Props
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Vintage B-25 Mitchell bomber brooch with moving propeller props made from 925 sterling silver. The back of the pin-locking clasp and is signed "sterling".
Measurements: 0.75" Tall X...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
"Drummer Boy" Tin-wind-up Toy by Louis Marx, New York City, circa 1940's
Located in Incline Village, NV
This 1940's "Drummer Boy" brightly colored lithographed tin wind-up toy capitalizes on the popularity of marching bands, spawned from World War II and the preponderance of patriotism...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tin
1940s Chiropractor Bench
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great 1940s chiropractor bench; chrome and green vinyl with a Lucite handle.
Category
Unknown Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Chrome
"Cry of the City" Original American Lobby Cards
Located in London, GB
Original American set of eight lobby cards for Robert Siodmak's 1948 film Noir staring Victor Mature, Richard Conte.
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Carl Sandburg, 'Henry Flannery', Bronze Wood, Limited Signed Edition, 1941
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Sandburg, Carl ( Henry Flannery ).
Title: Bronze Wood.
Publisher: San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1941.
Description: limited signed edition. 1 vol., 8-3/4" x 11-...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Fabric
Fishing Trawler Blueprint
Located in Norwell, MA
Ships blueprint for a 127 foot Booth Fisheries fishing trawler the legend plate reads Gielow Incorporated, Naval Architects and Engineers, New York. Mar...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Gilt Bronze Brooch by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt bronze brooch "Moise ou la Traversee du Desert" by French Jeweler Line Vautrin, circa 1940s.
The patinated surface features amazing details illustrating the biblical story of Moses crossing the desert out of Egypt...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Journey into Fear
Located in London, GB
Original American photographic production still.
For the 1942 Film Noir Journey into Fear. The film starred Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Brighton Rock
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for the 1947 Crome thriller Brighton Rock.
This film was directed by John Boulting and starred Richard Attenborough, Hermonie Baddeley, William Hartnell....
Category
British Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
WWII Navy Fritz Bendix Aviation, Baltimore Barometer in Leather Case
Located in San Francisco, CA
WWII Navy Fritz Bendix Aviation, Baltimore Barometer in Leather Case
6.75" x 4"H
Category
Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Original poster Loterie Nationale 9E Tranche 1940 by Artist Derouet Lesacq
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1940, France
- framed
- original, no reprint
- Artist:Derouet Lesacq
- Lithograph printed in colour
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Category
Art Deco Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Glass
Nautical Signal Flag of Letter "P" in Shadowbox Frame
Located in Norwell, MA
International maritime signal flag of the letter "P," "PAPA," set into a shadowbox frame. The cotton flag has a white canvas hoist with a sisal rope and wood toggle, with a maker's l...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Cotton
Boat Blueprint of the "Grayling JR" from Motor Boating Publications
Located in Norwell, MA
Boat blueprint from Motor Boating's Build a Boat series. This blueprint shows a George Crouch design of the twenty-four-foot runabout "Grayling JR." George Crouch was a famous boat d...
Category
Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Horse Cart Il Cavallino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Horse cart, beautiful aged still functional.
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Flamingo Road / Viale Flamingo
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1949 Film Noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott. This siz...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"Great Expectations" Original Belgian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian movie poster for David Lean's film adaptation of Charles Dickens famous novel. The artwork on this poster is unique to the film B...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Plaster Virgin Traditional Figure in a Wooden Altar, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional religious plaster figure of a virgin in a wooden altar.
Made in traditional Catalan atelier in Olot, Spain, circa 1940.
In original condition, with minor wear consisten...
Category
Spanish Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Clothes Hangers attributed to Fontana Arte, Brass Wood Glass 1945 Italy
By Fontana Arte
Located in Milano, IT
Fontana Arte.
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Set of Three Curling Stone Desk Pieces, Paper Weight, Pen Holder
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Three Piece Curling Desk Set.
A nice collection of three miniature desk top granite curling stones. Two are paperweights complete with handles and the third is a pen holder. A great ...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Granite
Son of Fury / Il Figlio della Furia
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1942 film Son of Fury starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney and George Sanders.
This film was directed by John Cromwel...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Juke Girl
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the 1942 crime mystery film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and staring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan.
This poster is conservation linen backed and it would b...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
French Modern Painted And Giltwood Sunburst Barometer
Located in Houston, TX
French Modern Painted and Giltwood Sunburst Barometer.
This unusual French mid century modern star shaped barometer is executed in a beautiful shade of red with gilt
wood accents.
Th...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Guido Cacciapuoti Bronze Horses Couples 1940 Italy
Located in Milano, IT
Guido Cacciapuoti bronze horses couples 1940 Italy.
Category
Italian High Victorian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
The Spiral Staircase / La Scala Al Chiocciola
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1946 mystery, horror film The Spiral Staircase.
This film was directed by Robert Siodmak and stared Dorothy McGuire...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
'Crossfire' Original US Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
Original US lobby card for the 1947 film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum. This lobby card is also signed by Robert...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Angels with Dirty Faces/Gli Angeli Con La Faccia Sporca
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster for Michael Curtiz's Classic 1938 crime film staring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, the poster is designed by the wonderful Italian artist ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1949 Comedy, Horror Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.
The film was directed by Char...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Belgian Black Board, Chalkboard
Located in Udenhout, NL
Early 20th Century Belgian Black Board, Chalkboard, in a good state.
Category
Belgian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Slate
Leather & Brass Humidor #3617 by Carl Auböck II, 1940s
Located in London, GB
A leather-clad, brass-lidded humidor, designed by Carl Aubock II during the 1950s.
The combination of brass and leather is typical of the designs by the second-generation Carl Aubö...
Category
Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1940s Copper+Brass Ships Starboard Lantern Wartime Merchant Vintage Cabin Light
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rare to be presented in unmolested and unpolished condition. No electric light source, would need this to be added.
A Large C.P.G. & Sons STARBOARD copper and brass ships lantern ...
Category
American American Craftsman Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Copper
White Heat
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card number 5 for White Heat 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Lost Weekend / Dias Sin Huella
Located in London, GB
Original Argentine film poster for the 1945 Drama / Film Noir The Lost Weekend.
This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Ray Milland, Jane Wyman ...
Category
Argentine Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Italian Midcentury Anatomical Educational Torso
Located in Weesp, NL
Educational midcentury Italian anatomical torso produced in the 1940s by Produzione Scientifica Paravia known for its accurate anatomy models.
Measures: H. 67 x W. 34 x D. 26 cm.
...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Composition
"White Heat / La Furia Umana" Original Italian Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for White Heat, 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney was synonymous with gangste...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article
Located in valatie, NY
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article. July 1943 Americana Illustrated volume XXXVII, number 3. This was a publication of "The American Historical Company," New York City. Wi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
New Parade Castle Film News, 1943
Located in Roma, IT
New Parade Castle Film News of 1943.
18 mm complete edition. Original slipcase.
Good conditions.
Category
European Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Copper Port and Starboard Ships Lanterns by Meteorite, "25029" & "19203"
By Meteorite
Located in Norwell, MA
Pair of solid copper and brass ship's port and starboard ships lanterns by the venerable and famous English maker "Meteorite." The copper cases are fitted with brass labels including port, starboard and Meteorite plates with serial numbers "25029" and "19203". These have clear Fresnel glass lenses with removable colored filters. Heavy brass lens...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
1943 "USO Map Guide to Washington"
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a WWII map of Washington, DC, issued as a guide for service men and women visiting or working in the city during the war. The map was created by Allen F. Free and published a...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Johnny DC Comics Superman Chrome & Brass Table Lighter
Located in Van Nuys, CA
2-3/8" dia. by 2.25" tall plated metal table lighter issued as a gift from DC Comics to their biggest distributors in the 1950s. Sides of lighter feature ima...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Modernist Brooch, Atelier Borgila, 1945
Located in Örebro, SE
Beautiful modernist silver brooch from Atelier Borgila -1945.
Signed with maker's mark.
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Giovanni Bellini by Philip Hendy and Ludwig Goldscheider, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Giovanni Bellini by Philip Hendy and Ludwig Goldscheider. ?Publisher Phaidon; 1945. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With 6 tipped in color plates and 122 b&w plates. Giovanni Bell...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Paul Strand: Photograph 1915-1945 - Nancy Newhall - 1st edition, 1945
Located in CA, CA
Published by the Museum of Modern Art, 1st edition, New York, 1945. Hardback, English text.
This exhibition catalogue is the first critical monograph issued by MoMA on a photographer. It was published in conjunction with a planned series of one-man focal retrospectives to bring some of the prominent American and European photographers to the fore, and photography has since then entered the category of fine art as far as MoMA is concerned.
A catalyst and legend among his peers and the photography world at large, Strand’s revelatory photography captures a subtle change of mood, a slipt-second thought; his ‘nature morta’ of a kitchen bowl...
Category
Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
The Life of a Forgotten Magicians
Located in London, GB
The Life of a Forgotten Magicians
We are proud to offer a unique collection of one of London’s most unquestionably entertaining magicians known as Bernard and Ms Radar. A fascinating collection of 1940s-1960s items relating to the telepathic magic act 'Bernard and Miss Radar', a mind reading husband and wife duo, who extensively toured British theatres performing their telepathy based act and who were apparently the recipients of the 'World Convention of Magicians Award', which they received at the Magic Circle Convention in London in 1955. The collection comprises the basis for their act; 2 large handmade jigsaw puzzles, a “Radar” hat, top hat and other associated items with which they performed. There is also a large quantity (over 1000) of publicity photographs, theatre contracts, Magic Circle programmes, scrapbooks and other ephemera relating to their career, plus approximately fifteen original 1940s and 1950s theatre and other posters and several hand bills and flyers, all including Bernard and Miss Radar on the billing, along with other variety acts of the period. Some of the theatre posters included are; The Hippodrome, Eastbourne, Arcadia Theatre, Skegness, Commodore, Ryde, The Knightstone, Weston-Super-Mare and The Palace Theatre, Reading, which now all been framed to preserve them for display.
Dimensions in inches: (Poster sizes) H 32” x W 22” x D 2”
Origin: England
Condition: Aged through wear and tear is present across all the item, some fading across the posters however they are not torn or damp. Some of the hand painted items also show aged wear and light discolouration. Please take note that these items are over 70 years old and would have been used as part of this magician’s act, therefore its safe to say these items all show age, however, are very well preserved. Please review all the photos and propose questions were unsure of the condition to avoid any disappointment.
Over 1000 artifacts - most not pictured due to volume of items. Postage cost is high due to the weight (30kg) and volume of items in this lot, 10 posts mounted, 1 full box of archived material, top hat box...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Rare Alexander Girard Detrola Radio, circa 1946, Modernist
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice original working condition,, replaced back..
Signed with stamped manufacturer’s mark to underside: [12132].
USA
Medium
Design/Decorative Art
Manufacturer
Detrola Radio...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Japanese Ships Engine Order Telegraph
Located in Norwell, MA
Japanese ships telegraph. Unit has been stripped of paint and polished. Aluminum head with brass handle. 43 pounds. 40 tall by 8 by 9. Mounted to a wood...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
St. Mungo Golf Ball by Mfg CO
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
St. Mungo Bramble Golf Ball.
A very nice bramble pattern golf ball with original paint which remains bright and with minimal paint loss. The gutta percha covered, rubber core, golf b...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rubber
Héctor Aguilar Sunflower 0.940 Silver And Amethyst Quartz Brooch
Located in Mexico City, MX
An interesting 1940's Mexican 0.940 Silver brooch by Taxco silver designer Héctor Aguilar. The sunflower-shaped brooch is shows an amethyst quartz in the middle and spheres surroundi...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Quartz, Silver
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