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Period: 19th Century
Johannes Brahms Composer Historic Hand Autographed in Ink Engraving / Etching
By Johannes Brahm
Located in Westport, CT
Johannes Brahms autographed hand signed in ink engraving etching 1885 with original cardboard to back of frame.
Johannes Brahms
German composer and pianist, 1833-1897
"In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs", a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von...
Category
Austrian Romantic Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
1870 Antique Burnished Brass W F Stanley Level Surveyor Measurement Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Topographic level signed W.F Stanley of burnished brass, from the second half of the 19th century. In excellent condition and complete with original mahogany box with brass hinges an...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, England 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. England early 19th century.
Category
English Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Three Sterling Silver Mounted Commemorative Horse Hoof Inkwells
Located in London, GB
These interesting inkwells were crafted in Britain between the Victorian period and early to mid-20th century.
The works have been created from horse hooves, applied with sterling silver mounts. Each hoof has been set onto a silver horseshoe and features a silver top and lid. Two of the tops have been engraved to imitate real horse hair, while the third is more simple, with banded ornament. All three have been given covers, two of which feature commemorative inscriptions. One lid states, ‘The Grey/1907-1917’ — presumably the name of the favourite racehorse, whose hoof this is — and another reads, ‘Mavourneen/ Died June 29th / Aged 53’. ‘Mavourneen’ is an Irish Gaelic word meaning ‘my beloved’. The dedicatee’s age of 53 implies that they were a human, perhaps a jokey, or racehorse owner. The lids open up onto a silver-lined interior, intended to be used for storing ink as part of a desk arrangement. The inkwells are stamped, on their underside, with silver hallmarks and maker’s marks, ‘J.T.’ and ‘C & CS’.
This set of three horse hoof inkwells...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
3 Volumes. John Addington Symonds, Sketches & Studies in Italy.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. John Addington Symonds, Sketches & Studies in Italy. Bound in 3/4 white calf with linen boards. Gilt-tooling and red calf label on spine. Top edges gilt. Illustrated front...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Antique Statue of Virgin Mary and Child , 19th Century
Located in Basildon, GB
A Pine Carving of Virgin and Child signed E. Lechner. Carved in 15th Century style, a high relief with a hollowed back and depicting the crowned Virgin standing on contrapose with lo...
Category
European Gothic Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Pine
19th Century Miniature Bagatelle Board
Located in London, GB
An unusual miniature mahogany Billiard Bagatelle board, having green baize surface with inset numbered cups flanked by boxwood & ebony score peg-holder...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
Cameo or intaglio, Hercules against the Nemean lion. Possibly, Italy.
Located in Madrid, ES
Cameo or intaglio, Hercules against the Nemean lion. Glass. Possibly, Italy, 19th century.
The figurative representation that can be seen, of a muscular man fighting with a lion, i...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
3 Volumes. Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England. Bound in full tree calf. The covers and raised band spines are gilt-tooled with red and green morocco labels. All the ...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostrand with Riviere Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Cyrano's nose got in the way of his heart. A must-have for collectors of French classics.
Rostand, Edmond (1868 – 1918). Cyrano de Bergerac.
Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasq...
Category
European Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Military Mess Dragon Table Lighter Gifted to Earnest ‘Bee’ Edwards Liverpool FC
Located in Northampton, GB
Dragon Registration Number 51318
From our Silver collection, we are absolutely thrilled to introduce direct from the family a Dragon Table Lighter Gifted to Earnest ‘Bee’ Edwards. The lighter in the form of a dragon stood upon a flaming grenade with a tail formed from Blackbuck Antelope horn. The dragon stands with its mouth agape with the wick simulating the dragon breathing fire with a chained candle snuff. To the front of the dragons chest...
Category
English Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver Plate
1891-1896 The Novels of George Eliot
Located in Bath, GB
A handsomely bound set of the novels of George Eliot, as well as a short story collection, with many illustrations.
A seven-volume set, one containing two volumes bound in one, in h...
Category
British Antique 19th Century 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 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Steam Yacht Corsair Water Pitcher
Located in Norwell, MA
Custom made water pitcher made for J Pierpont Morgans private yacht Corsair, flagship of the New York Yacht Club. Both sides are adorned with Morgans pri...
Category
North American Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
A sailor’s carved coconut Bugbear powder flask
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A sailor’s carved coconut Bugbear powder flask. This carved coconut is carved with two ovals, one showing a military panoply with standards, bayonets, swords and bugles all above a ...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coconut
Austro-Hungarian period safe F. WERTHEIM & C. with key, 1800s
Located in Manzano, IT
Austro-Hungarian period safe F. WERTHEIM & C. with key, 1800s
Style
Vintage
Periodo del design
Before 1890s
Production Period
Before 1890s
Year Manufactured
1800
Maker
Wertheim & C.
...
Category
Austrian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
French Opera Binoculars Lemaire Fabt Paris
Located in Chula Vista, CA
19th Century French Opera Military Binoculars Lemaire Fabt Paris
5 w x 2.5 D x 5.88 H
Leather Metal
Original unrestored vintage used condition
Refer to all images listed
Category
French Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
19th Century Moroccan Brass Hanukkah Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Hand hammed and hand engraved brass Hanukkah lamp, Morrocco, 19th century stands with oil fonts with pinched spouts attached to the back plate. Han...
Category
Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
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 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1820-1825 Works of Sir Walter Scott
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning full calf fine binding of the first editions of these important works by prolific and renowned writer Sir Walter Scott.
Sir Walter Scott (177...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
French Eglomise Barometer
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A fine decorative french eglomise barometer.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Rare Scrimshaw Decorated Horn
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A rare scrimshaw decorated horn, engraved over one side with the Royal Arms countersigned and titled ship profiles for the Great Eastern, the Great Britain,...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Horn
A German Four Piece Silver and Marble Brit Milla Set, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
This exceptional late 19th-century German four-piece silver and marble Brit Milah set is a remarkable example of fine craftsmanship and religious tradition, housed in its original fi...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble, Silver
Nautical survey magnetic compass signed Elliott Bros London late 1800s
Located in Milan, IT
Rare magnetic nautical surveying compass, brass, late 19th century signed Elliott Bros London complete with leather case. This is a small compass, 7 cm diameter, typically used in re...
Category
Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
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 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
1839-1877 The Works of Charles Dickens
Located in Bath, GB
A beautiful and very clean and bright set of works by renowned author Charles Dickens. In a tree calf Mansell binding.
Five volumes. From the renowned English writer and social crit...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Unique full size sedan chair/sedan carriage from the late 19th century
Located in Harderwijk, NL
Offered this unique full size sedan chair/carriage from the late 19th century with great original details.
When was the last time you saw an original sedan chair? Let alone a sedan chair that is also for sale, this is your chance! This nice original antique sedan chair...
Category
Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
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 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
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 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rope, Wood, Paint
"Rough Shooting" First Edition Antique Engraving by Douglas Adams, circa 1893
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a first edition print of Rough Shooting, signed by the artist, Douglas Adams. The print was published by Thomas McLean and depicts a highlands s...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1821 The Works of Henry Fielding
Located in Bath, GB
A new edition of the works of Henry Fielding in ten bright calf leather bound volumes.
Henry Fielding was an eighteenth century English novelist known for his satires and comic nove...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century, Irish Marine Botany Specimens Made for the Niagara Falls Museum
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century Irish Marine Botany Specimens made for Thomas Barnett of the Niagara Falls Museum. Seaweed samples were collected off the West Coast of Ireland in 1871 by Mrs. Maria J.W. Kirkwood and presented to Thomas Barnett Esquire, proprietor of the Niagara Falls Museum. These come as two separately framed pieces with hand embroidered lettering surrounded by seaweed and a poem written by Victoria Hall.
Free shipping within the United States and Canada.
The Niagara Falls Museum was a museum most notable for being the oldest Canadian museum (1827), as well as for having housed the mummy of Ramesses I for 140 years before its return to Egypt in 2003. It was founded by Thomas Barnett of Birmingham, England and underwent a few vocational changes in its history.
More on Thomas Barnett and the Niagara Falls Museum.
Thomas Barnett was born on December the 4th, 1799 near Birmingham, England. He moved to Canada in the early 1820s and opened the Niagara Falls Museum in 1827 at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Barnett had a passion for collecting oddities. He retrofitted a former brewery house to exhibit his private collection. Although Barnett was aware of the collection patterns of his North American contemporaries, his own approach bore an uncanny similarity to the British tradition, such as the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the first traditional museum in Britain.
The Niagara Falls Museum had humble beginnings. In 1827, the first museum contained Thomas Barnett's own cabinet of taxidermic curiosities. Although the details were not documented, the collection was likely composed of a number of mounted animals of local origin, combined with a smattering of Native American artifacts. Barnett's collection however rapidly grew. Prior to 1844, an account of the museum's contents stated that there were over 5000 items, including bipeds, quadrupeds, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, shells, minerals, and Native American curiosities. Through the first fifty years of its existence, the Niagara Falls Museum continued to acquire similar artifacts through the diligent efforts of the Barnett family and their associates.
In 1854, Sydney Barnett (son of Thomas Barnett) made the first of his three trips to Egypt (two by himself and one with Dr. J. Douglas of Montreal) and purchased four mummies as well as a host of other Egyptian antiquities. In 1857, mastodon remains were discovered in St. Thomas, Ontario and later placed in the museum. In 1859 an inventory of the museum's contents included, in addition to the previously mentioned artifacts, an egg collection...
Category
Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
19th C. German Stag Horn Thermometer and Barometer
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A remarkable German Folk Art Weather Station in the Black Forest Style. Elaborate and sinuous construction with stag horns of various sizes, boar tusk...
Category
German Folk Art Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Antler, Horn
Cameo or intaglio, male profile. Glass. Possibly Italy, 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Cameo or intaglio, male profile. Glass. Possibly Italy, 19th century.
Glass cameo with a male profile in the classical manner accompanied by a pseudo-signature in the Greek alphabet...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Very Fine Gilt Bronze, Cloisonné Enamel and Porcelain Holy Water Stoup
Located in London, GB
A very fine gilt bronze, cloisonné enamel and porcelain holy water stoup
French, late 19th century
Measures: Height 54cm, width 34cm, depth 9cm
This b...
Category
French Renaissance Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
3 Volumes. (Various) History of Paris.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. (Various) History of Paris. Bound in 3/4 blue calf with the covers displaying open and gilt-tooling. The raised band spines display gilt-tooling with wine morocco labels. ...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
19th Century Model Field Gun on Carriage, Cast Iron Porch Cannon
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th century Model Field gun on carriage, cast iron porch cannon
A good and well made piece, the field gun is made in good detail, this piece has spent m...
Category
British Colonial Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
1 Volume. Goodrich, Frank B. The Court Of Napoleon.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Goodrich, Frank B. The Court Of Napoleon. Illustrated in color by Jules Champagne. Bound in full brown morocco, all edges gilt, raised bands, blind tooling on covers and sp...
Category
American Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1898-1899 The Works of Henry Fielding
Located in Bath, GB
A beautifully bound, limited edition of this complete set of twelve collected works of Henry Fielding, with an introduction by Edmund Gosse.
A Limited Edition set, one of only seven...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1860 Grand Tour Bronze Statue of Place Vendome Column with Napoleon, Marble Base
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for auction this stunning antique circa 1860 Grand Tour bronze statue of Place Vendome Column with Napoleon on top in so...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
1 Volume. Walton & Cotton, The Complete Angler.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Walton & Cotton, The Complete Angler. Bound by Bayntun in 3/4 tn calf and marbled boards. The Spine displays raised bands, figurine panel details, bordering, and label lett...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Mid 19th Century English Games Compendium
Located in Chicago, IL
This beautiful maple and ebony compendium box has a hinged lid and a pair of front doors that swing open to reveal the boxwood and ebony hand-carved chess pieces. Each chess piece si...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bone, Boxwood, Ebony, Maple
Pair of White Gorgonian Branches, Italy, 1870
Located in Milan, IT
A pair of sand-white gorgonian branches from the Wunderkammer in the shape of a fan. The bases are in carved and silvered wood in the shape of a vas...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Antique English Silver Plated Soccer Trophy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Silver Plated Soccer Trophy.
Category
English Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver Plate
Victorian Carved Walnut Figural Tobacco Box
Located in Essex, MA
Standing figure of a gentleman wearing a hat, holding a pipe and holding a cane by his side.Hinged and opening to a humidor. Rectangular base. From an Amherst Mass estate.
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
Antique Italian Micromosaic Plaque Depicting the Capitoline Doves
Located in London, GB
This Fine, circular micromosaic plaque shows four doves drinking water from a golden bowl, upon which they perch. The Classical design for the mosaic is taken from one found in the Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa in the 2nd century AD. Hadrian's mosaic, which was on the floor as is traditional, was probably based on a design by Sosus of Pergamon, a Greek master artist. Known as the Capitoline Doves...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Sterling Silver Cigar Tube, Hallmarked Birmingham 1875
Located in London, GB
Splendid sterling silver cigar case designed to hold a single cigar. Hallmarked Birmingham 1875 and stamped with maker's mark.
Dimensions: 11 cm/4⅜ inches (length) x 2 cm/¾ inch (ma...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Model of a Full Rigged Windjammer
Located in Norwell, MA
Carved wood sails set at a graceful angle on the three masts. Details include surrounding railing, cabins, hatches, capstan, anchors, chain, scribed deck, wheel, etc. Set into a case...
Category
North American Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
c1895-9 La Comédie Humaine
Located in Bath, GB
The complete magnum opus of French novelist Honoré de Balzac 'La Comedie Humaine' in beautiful uniform Riverside Press half crushed morocco bindings.
Undated Paris edition published...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Chinese Painted Bamboo Walking Stick, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century walking stick from northern China is comprised of a length of thin bamboo that has been steamed and bent into a hook shape. The bamboo segments are painted in alter...
Category
Chinese Folk Art Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bamboo
French Planetary Clock InGided Brass And Marble Planetarium Tellurium
Located in Madrid, ES
French Planetary Clock In Golden Brass And Tellurium Marble, Planetarium
Rare French planetary from the 19th century in brass and Royal Red marble base...
Category
Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble
19th C Wax F.Ziegler Anatomical Models Studies Embryo Plant Scientific Medical
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rare pair of wax studies by F.Ziegler taken from the imagery of F.Keibel
We believe the larger of the two models to be off a human embryo and the other to be of a plant.
The ...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1869-86 The Novels of William Makepeace Thackeray
Located in Bath, GB
A nicely bound fully illustrated collection of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray.
Complete in twenty-four volumes.
Volume I, 'Vanity Fair Volume I', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and nineteen plates. Collated, complete.
Volume II, 'Vanity Fair Volume II', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, and eighteen plates. Collated, complete.
Volume III, 'The History of Pendennis Volume I', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, vignette title page, and twenty-two plates. Collated, complete.
Volume IV, 'The History of Pendennis Volume II', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and twenty-two plates. Collated, complete.
Volume V, 'The Newcomers Volume I', published in 1869. Illustrated by Richard Doyle...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century English Regency Toleware & Brass Parrot Bird Stand
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rare and early 19th century original painted toleware and brass parrot stand, age related abrasions. knocks and minor dents all commensurate from age and use. The brass section has...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
British Framed Coat Of Arms
Located in Essex, MA
Painted crest featuring Britannia with scenes of places and things.
Category
European Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Early 19th Century Antique George III Mahogany Stick Barometer by Cremonino
Located in Devon, GB
A fine and well-proportioned early 19th century figured mahogany barometer signed ‘Cremonino, Fecit.’
This barometer has a broken arch pediment above a flush-glass door, enclosing ...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Victorian Key Wind Mechanical Small Striped Cat Child's Toy, As Found
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique mechanical toy is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in Europe, possibly England or Austria in approximately 1880 and done in...
Category
Austrian High Victorian Antique 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
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