1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Period: 1950s
Color: Beige
Kilgore Authentic Anatomical Preparation Human Skull
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Prepared by legendary medical supply company Kilgore International, this is an advanced anatomical reference human skull!
An exceptional authentic vint...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bone
Picasso's Variations On Velazquez Painting "The Maids of Honor" Abrams, 1st Ed.
Located in Rochester, NY
Picasso's Variations on Velazquez Painting "The Maids of Honor" And Other Recent Works - With a Personal Reflection by Jaime Sabartes - Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York. Pub...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1950s German Newspaper Advertising Tin Clips Midcentury Graphic Design Set
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Small collection of light duty metal clips, from German newspapers. Silkscreen on thin metal. All working.
Kölnische Zeitung (Cologne Gazette)
Frankfurter Rundschau
Rheinische P...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tin
Vintage Erskine 200 Sterilized Barber Shop Shaving Brush
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Vintage ERSKINE 200 Sterilized Barber Shop SHAVING BRUSH Nylon Bristles
Rubber Stamped Sterile 200
4.5 tall x 1.38 diameter
Preowned original vintage...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Nylon, Rubber
Ceramic and metal smoking set on tripod table. Italy, 1950s/60s
Located in Torino, IT
Ceramic smoking set
and metal composed of
an ashtray,
a small mortar and
a container, arranged
on tripod table.
Italy, 1950s/60s
ORIGIN
Italy
PERIOD
1950s/60s
MATERIALS
Ceramics a...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Enamel
20th Century Made in Japan Brass Opera Binocular, 1950s
Located in LEGNY, FR
Very nice opera binocular from the 50s in its original fabric pouch and box.
Made of brass. Removable handle using a small key.
Adjustment of the view thanks to a wheel at the fron...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Flag 1953
Located in Hastings, GB
British Royal Family
A Rare And Historical Royal Coronation Flag from The Coronation Of HRH Queen Elizabeth 2nd, June 2nd 1953.
Due To The Size T...
Category
English Empire Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Cotton
House & Garden’s Complete Guide to Interior Decoration, Hardcover Book, 1953
Located in Philadelphia, PA
House & Garden’s Complete Guide to Interior Decoration – Hardcover Book, 1953 Edition.
First published in New York in 1947 by Simon and Schuster, this is the updated 1953 Edition,...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Nautical Signal Flag in Frame
Located in Norwell, MA
Framed maritime signal flag representing “SUBSTITUTE 1” in the international code of signals. This authentic and ocean used pennant is made of individual panels of yellow and blue. F...
Category
Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Nautical Signal Flag in Frame
Located in Norwell, MA
Framed maritime signal flag representing the number “7”, “SEVEN” in the international code of signals. This authentic and ocean used pennant is made of individual panels of yellow an...
Category
North American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Cotton
Chelsea & Other English Porcelain Pottery & Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Coll
Located in valatie, NY
Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection by Yvonne Hackenbroch. Published in London for The Metropolitan Museum of History and Art by ...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Anatomical Model of the Human Ear by Somso, 1950s
By Somso
Located in Naples, IT
Didactic model of the human ear, materiale plastico, made in 1950s by Somso, a German company active since the second half of the nineteenth century, known as an excellence in the de...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
PVC
Large 1950s Vintage Scientific Anatomical Human 3D Educational Eye Eyeball Model
Located in Lafayette, IN
1950's Vintage scientific human 3d eyeball model. Hand-painted with wonderful original patina!
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rubber
Mickey Mouse / Lights Out
Located in London, GB
Original artwork (ink and gouache)
from Mickey Mouse annual, Mickey and Friends 1951. The annual was printed in 1952. It is the from page 45 titled Lights Out...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paint, Paper
Mickey Mouse / Mickey's Garden
Located in London, GB
Original artwork ink and gouach
from Mickey Mouse annual, Mickey and Friends 1951 the annual was printed in 1952. This painting was done along side a poem Mickey's Garden found on p...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paint, Paper
Plaster Church Traditional Artwork, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional religious plaster wall artwork of a church.
Made in traditional Catalan atelier in Olot, Spain, circa 1950.
In original conditio...
Category
Spanish Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Plaster Cross Traditional Artwork, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional religious plaster wall artwork of a cross.
Made in traditional Catalan atelier in Olot, Spain, circa 1950.
Olot has a long tradi...
Category
Spanish Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Vintage Brass Tic Tac Toe Set Game on Custom Lucite Base
Located in North Miami, FL
This polished brass Mid-Century Modern vintage tac tac toe square game set has 10 players total of X's and 0"s. A new lucite base was made to give it h...
Category
Taiwanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Plaster Virgin Traditional Figure, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional religious plaster figure of a virgin.
Made in traditional Catalan atelier in Olot, Spain, circa 1950.
In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and...
Category
Spanish Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Automaton Singing Birds
Located in Norwich, GB
Automaton Singing birds
Automaton singing birds housed in a gilded case standing on a stepped gilded base.
Three articulated singing bird...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Plaster Jesus Traditional Figure, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional religious plaster figure of a young Jesus with a fish.
Made in traditional Catalan atelier in Olot, Spain, circa 1950.
In original condit...
Category
Spanish Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Gertrude Stein, Mrs. Reynolds. Inscribed by Alice Toklas, First Edition 1952
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: STEIN, Gertrude.
Title: Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes.
Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.
FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY ALICE TOKLAS. 1 vol...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric
The Big Heat / Il Grande Caldo
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Fritz Lang's 1953 Film Noir staring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. The artwork on this poster was created one of the greatest Italian poster artists ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Williams, Tennessee, Sweet Bird of Youth, 'First Edition, Inscribed, 1959'
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Williams, Tennessee.
Title: Sweet Bird of Youth. New York: New Directions, 1959.
Description: First edition inscribed. 1 vol., hardcover...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric
Steamship Painting of SS Southern Cross
Located in Norwell, MA
Gouache painting of the steamship Southern Cross, with red, white, and blue stack. Vessel is sailing amongst a great group of ships and yachts, all with...
Category
Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paint, Paper
"Lincoln Bank" Still Toy Savings Bank, American, circa 1950
Located in Incline Village, NV
This seldom seen bank is technically a mechanical bank but basically it is a still bank with a slight mechanical function, that being; once it is full of coins, it opens up automatic...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tin
Vintage Solid Brass Maritime Spotlight on Pedestal
Located in Norwell, MA
Nautical spotlight. Great piece of industrial lighting. Solid brass and highly polished, fitted to a heavy brass pedestal. Glass lens. Head is fitte...
Category
Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Worden Wood Painting of USS WASP
Located in Norwell, MA
Gouache painting showing the iconic aircraft carrier USS WASP as painted by legendary Marine artist Worden Wood. The WASP is shown in great detail with cre...
Category
Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paint
Harvey
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card number 7 for Harvey, 1950.
This Lobby card has been signed by James Stewart.
This lobby card was previously in the collection of a US collector, who obtained the signature in person at the Motion Picture retirement home in Los Angeles, run by the Academy, where he visited. Harvey is a classic James Stewart comedy-drama, based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer prize-winning play of the same name. It was directed by Henry Koster, and tells the story of a man whose best friend is a pooka (a mythology spirit able to take on the form of various animals). In this film Harvey is a 6' 3½" tall rabbit...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Detective Story / Pieta Per I Giusti
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for Detective Story 1951
This Film Noir was directed by William Wyler and starred Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker.
This fil...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Anatomical Model of the Human Ear Painted Plaster by Somso 1950s
By Somso
Located in Milan, IT
Didactic model of the human ear, painted plaster, made in 1950s by Somso, a German company active since the second half of the nineteenth century, known as an excellence in the devel...
Category
German Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Dancer, Doll, 1950, Spanish
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Dancer, Doll, 1950, Spanish
Measures: H 33cm, L 23cm, P 17cm.
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric
Experiment Perilous / Schiava Dal Male
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 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Golf Print, Come to Britain for Golf by Roland Hilder
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage golfing travel poster, 'Come to Britain for Golf' by Roland Hilder.
A striking golfing poster by Rowland Hilder entitled 'Come to Bri...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"The Gunfighter or Romantico Avventuriero" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for "The Gunfighter", 1950.
This western was directed by Henry King and starred Gregory Peck and Helen Westcott.
The post...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1950 Vintage Pictures Depicting Three Ships Launching Riva Trigoso Shipyards
Located in Milan, IT
Rectangular frame with original pictures depicting three ships launching in Riva Trigoso shipyard: Reggio ferry of Ferrovie dello Stato (8th March 1960)...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
I Confess / Io Confesso
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for I Confess 1953
This film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and stars Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter and Karl Malden. It has an interesting story: a p...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1950 Vintage Pictures Depicting Three Ships Launching Riva Trigoso Shipyards
Located in Milan, IT
Rectangular frame with three pictures depicting three ships launching in Riva Trigoso shipyards. Montello launched on October 14, 1961; Athinai launched...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"Harvey" Original US Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
Original US Lobby card number 2 for Harvey, 1950.
This Lobby card has been signed by Jesse White, who played the male nurse, who falls for Elwood's sister, Myrtle Mae
This lobby card was previously in the collection of a US collector, who obtained the signature in person at the Motion Picture retirement home in Los Angeles, run by the Academy, where he visited. Harvey is a classic James Stewart comedy-drama, based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer prize-winning play of the same name. It was directed by Henry Koster, and tells the story of a man whose best friend is a pooka (a mythology spirit able to take on the form of various animals). In this film Harvey is a 6' 3½" tall rabbit...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1950 Vintage Pictures Depicting Three Ships Launching Riva Trigoso Shipyards
Located in Milan, IT
Rectangular frame with original pictures depicting three ships launching in Riva Trigoso shipyard: Monfiore transatlantic launched on August 25, 1959; M...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Big Knife
Located in London, GB
Original American style a movie poster for Robert Aldrich's 1955 drama starring Jack Palance, IDA Lupino, Rod Steiger.
The poster is conservation paper b...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Silver vintage necklace Leaf shaped by Heribert Engelbert AB, Sweden 1957
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elegant vintage silver necklace with oval leaf shaped elements nicely connected to each other. Made by Stigbert for Heribert Engelbert AB Stockholm, Sweden in 1957. This beautiful mid-century chokernecklace is divided into several rods of shaped leafs connected to each other. The necklace is stamped Sterling Sweden, HE Stigbert B9.
Measure total lengt 42 cmL, each link 2.5 cmL and 1.5 cmW. Good vintage condition.
Engelbert is an upmarket, exclusive jeweler...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
"Come to Britain for Golf" Vintage Travel Poster, circa 1952
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a 1952 vintage golf travel poster, entitled Come to Britain for Golf by Rowland Hilder. The lithographic poster was published by the T...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Midcentury Molecular Models Set from the 1950s, 7 Pieces
Located in Wien, AT
7-part set of different molecular models for chemistry lessons. Made in the Czech Republic in the 1950s. Sturdy iron wire construction with bakelite balls. Excellent original conditi...
Category
Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Cowboy
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for the Western Cowboy 1958 starring Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi and directed by Delmer Daves.
Category
Belgian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
"On the Waterfront" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster from (1954) 41 x 27 in. (104 x 69 cm)
This poster would have been used outside the cinema at the films original release.
This is a Classic American crime dr...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
"Pickup" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster from the 1951 film Pickup. Hugo Haas (1901-1968) was an acknowledged master of bad girl films. He was born in Czechoslovakia, wher...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
President Richard Nixon's Football
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Nixon football. This rose bowl football was presented to Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1954. Nixon gave the ball to his nephew. His nephew and ...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / I Cavalieri di Nord Ovest
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949.
This western was directed by John Ford, and stars John Wayne, Joanne Dru and Jo...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Model RAF Vickers Valliant ‘V’ Bomber Aircraft, circa 1955
By Westway Aircraft Models
Located in London, GB
Magnificent painted cast metal alloy Vickers Valliant ‘V’ bomber in RAF ‘anti-flash white’ livery, on original stand. By the renowned UK model making firm of Westway Models, circa 1955.
Dimensions: 27.5 cm/10? inches (length) x 29.5 cm/11? inches (wing span) x 16.5 cm/6½ inches (maximum height on stand).
The Vickers-Armstrongs valiant was a British high-altitude jet bomber, and was part of the Royal Air Force's "V bomber" nuclear weapon equipped strategic deterrent in the 1950s and 1960s. It was developed by Vickers in response to a specification issued by the Air Ministry for a nuclear-armed jet-powered bomber. The Valiant was the first of the three types of V bomber to become operational, and was followed by the Handley Page Victor and the Avro Vulcan...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Vintage Illums Bolighus Danish Brass Metalworks Footed Bowl attrd. Carl Aubock
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Vintage Mid-Century brass sculpture, attributed to Carl Auböck. These were designed for Illums Bolighus, this one is marked, DENMARK, some are marked, Illums Bolighus. In as-found o...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers by Granville Hugh Baillie
Located in valatie, NY
Britten's Old Clocks And Watches And Their Makers by Granville Hugh Baillie. Bonanza Books, New York, 1956. 7th edition hardcover with dust jacket. A historical and descriptive account of the different styles of antique clocks and watches...
Category
North American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
House of Wax / La Maschera di Cera
Located in London, GB
Original exceptionally rare Italian poster, that has only surfaced a few times.
This American colour 3-D horror film was directed by Andre DeToth and stars Vincent Price. It was a r...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Where Danger Lives
Located in London, GB
Original US Title card for the 1950 film noir directed by John Farrow and Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Modernist Sterling Silver Bracelet
Located in Atlanta, GA
A selection of Modernist Sterling Silver Bracelets, American, circa 1950's. The bangle and the cuff with the semi-precious stone we...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan
Located in London, GB
Original Belgian film poster for Vittorio De Sica's 1951 Drama, Fantasy starring Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa.
Category
Belgian Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
1957-1962, Rare Georges Braque 'Au Vent d'Arles' Archive Books and Lithographs
Located in Paris, FR
Extremely rare set of Georges Braque archives maquettes books and lithographs created with the publisher 'Au Vent d'Arles', Paris.
The set is composed with:
- L'Ordre des Oiseaux (...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Diamond and Platinum Flower Ring
Located in New York, NY
A stunning diamond and platinum flower ring with a center diamond of 1-carat with a total of 3-carat.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Platinum
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