Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Period: Mid-20th Century
Color: Red
Park Sherman 1930 Art Deco Chromed Steel Roller Lid Box With Red Bakelite
By Park Sherman
Located in Miami, FL
Decorative desk box designed by Park Sherman.
Very decorative desk box, created during the art deco period in America by the Park Sherman Company, back in the 1930. This roller-lid ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel, Chrome
1930s French Large Tow Truck Toy in Red Metal
Located in Sofia, BG
Large toy tow truck made in red lacquered metal with nice details and opening compartments.
France, circa 1930.
Category
French Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Vintage model of a Ferrari Hydroplane 1954 50cm
Located in London, GB
This is a superb Vintage model of a Ferrari Hydroplane 1954. Its cars are adored on all corners of the globe and are seen as the ultimate status symbo...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Dickens, Charles. a Christmas Carol - ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: Dickens, Charles.
TITLE: A Christmas Carol.
PUBLISHER: London: William Heinemann, 1964.
DESCRIPTION: 1 vol., 7-15/16" x 5-13/16", illustrated with full page color p...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Large Bracelet With Mediterranean Coral Branches
Located in Madrid, ES
Large Bracelet With Mediterranean Coral Branches
LARGE BRACELET WITH BRANCHES OF MEDITERRANEAN CORAL ELEGANT ITALIAN BRACELET FROM THE 1950s WITH BRANCH...
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral
Huge Turquoise And Red Coral Necklace 643 g
Located in Madrid, ES
Huge Turquoise And Red Coral Necklace
Huge Turquoise and Red Coral Necklace.These huge polished chunks of turquoise are accented with huge high...
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral
Vintage Bracelet In Carved Red Coral And pearl Beads
Located in Madrid, ES
Vintage Bracelet In Carved Red Coral And pearls Beads
VERY ELEGANT BRACELET FROM THE 70'S MADE WITH MEDITERRANEAN RED CORAL CARVED WITH SHAPES O...
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral
Vintage Santa Mailbox
Located in Asheville, NC
Vintage Santa mailbox, made of tin and wood this small child size mailbox is a dear reminder of sending letters to Santa whether you are naughty of nice!
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tin
Winston Churchill, Marlborough His Life and Times, All First Editions, 1933/8
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston S.
TITLE: Marlborough His Life and Times.
PUBLISHER: London: George G. Harrap, 1933, 34, 36, 38.
DESCRIPTION: ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 4 vols., 9-1/16...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Charles DICKENS, A Christmas Carol, 1940, IN A FINE ONLAY BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles.
TITLE: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.
PUBLISHER: Chicago: the Monastery Hill Press, 1940.
DESCRIPTION: 1 vol., 6-1...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
American Historical Views on Staffordshire China, Signed First Edition
By Ellouise Baker Larsen
Located in valatie, NY
American historical views on Staffordshire China by Ellouise Baker Larsen. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, 1950. Rare, signed, new revi...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Green Mansions A Romance of the Tropical Forest, First Edition Thus
Located in valatie, NY
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by William Henry Hudson. New York: Knopf, 1943. First Edition thus hardcover. With a foreword by John G...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Regency Furniture Designs 1803-1826 by John Harris 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Regency Furniture Designs (from Contemporary Source books) 1803-1826 by John Harris. Published by London / Alec Tiranti, 1961. 1st Ed hardcover with slipca...
Category
English Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Set of Five David Hicks Design Books
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A very good set of five classic interior design books by David Hicks, the much sought after and highly regarded English designer and decorator. L...
Category
Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Alta Moda: Eternal Elegance of 1960s buy M Kumakiri (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Published in 1990 in Japan in a limited edition of 1,000, this book is a beautifully illustrated retrospective showing 1960s psychedelic patterns and prints with bold floral and pais...
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Chalice
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Italian sterling silver Chalice finely embossed and chiselled 800 punch at the base. cup in golden bath. Excellent condition with its original packaging.
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Vintage Mid-Century Glass Ruby Red Cigar Ashtray
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage mid-century large round glass ruby red cigar ashtray
Mid-Century Modern glass ashtray circa 1960's – 1970's USA.
Hand-made by Viking Art Glass...
Category
American Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Art Glass
Joan Miro Life and Work by Jacques Dupin, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Joan Miro Life and Work by Jacques Dupin. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1962, New York. 1st Ed hardcover with Brodart covered dust jacket. A Catalogue Raisonne of Miro's paintings from 1914-1961. 596pp. 1158 illustrations, including 46 color hand-tipped plates...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Spielmann & Jerrold, Hugh Thomson His Art, First Edition 1931 in a Fine Binding!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: SPIELMANN, M. H. & Walter Jerrold.
Title: Hugh Thomson His Art His Letters His Humour And His Charm.
Publisher: London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1931.
Description: Firs...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Original Tourism Posters Promoting Mexico 68 Olympic Games Bursting with Colors
By Lance Wyman
Located in Mexico, DF
Striking original large posters printed for promoting tourism to Mexico´s 68 Olympic Games. Each poster is dedicated to a specific Mexican craft or tradition, such as "Fireworks", "Piñatas", "Ceramic doves", Textiles and flowers. The poster illustrations were commissioned to different artists, with very varied styles. The first version printed (before the graphic identity program was completed) had simply the word "MEXICO" with a Roman font, the later version portrays at the top or bottom of each -as a unifying element- the games´ logo that integrated very successfully "Mexico 68...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage 1940s Store Gas Station "No Smoking" Porcelain Advertising Display Sign
Located in San Diego, CA
A great original vintage porcelain over metal sign reading "No Smoking" and dates from the 1940s. Was hung up in a bar, restaurant, gas/service station or store. Would go great in an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Super King 3-Wheel Roller Skates
Located in Peekskill, NY
This pair of rare midcentury English 3 wheel street skates were produced for only a short time by Davies Steel specialities. They date to the 1960s. This designs advantage is the low centre of gravity, 3 wheel balance...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
Waugh, Evelyn, Waugh in Abyssinia, First Edition, Presentation Copy, 1936
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Waugh, Evelyn.
Title: Waugh in Abyssinia.
Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1936.
Description: First Edition Presentation Copy. 1 vol., inscribed on the ...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric
Stalingrad to Berlin The German Defeat in the East by Earl Ziemke, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East by Earl F Ziemke. United States Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, DC, 1968...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Mid-Century Glass Ashtray Ruby Red Triangular
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage modernist mid-century glass ashtray ruby red triangular.
Mid-century glass ashtray circa 1960's - 1970's USA.
Large and stunningly beautiful art glass ashtray by Viking in...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Art Glass
Dutch Set Blood Coral and Gold by Leesener, Amsterdam
Located in Delft, NL
A Dutch set blood coral and gold by Leesener, Amsterdam
A set of a necklace and bracelet with red blood coral with gold lock. The necklace has 3 rows with red coral and gold lock ...
Category
Dutch Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Memoirs Year of Decisions and Years of Trial and Hope, Signed and Inscribed
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Truman, Harry. Memoirs by Harry S. Truman. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955-1956. Both volumes signed and inscribed. First Editions with dust jackets. Two-volume set. Housed in ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1950s Red Cigar Boxes with man and top hat for Abonné Gran Valor , Netherlands
Located in Antwerp, BE
Two stylish 1950s Empty Cigar Boxes - Tobacco Boxes from Abonné Gran Valor.
Their slogan is - Smoke Abonné and be satisfied.
Red Boxes with beautiful Design of a Smoking Gentleman w...
Category
Dutch Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tin
Italy 1930s Ing Ferrero Double Strain Gauge Original Box Measuring Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Double strain gauge signed Brevetti F.lli Ingg. Ferrero Savona n.384583 mod E74 - S3, circa 1930, in its original box complete with accessories and magnifying glass.
It is an instrument used to...
Category
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Pair of Hand Tooled Leather Book Ends with Laced Edges
Located in Ferndale, MI
Pair of leather bookendss with hand tooled flower design. Trimmed with intricate leather lacing around edges.
Category
American Rustic Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Mobili Veneziani Laccati, Venetian Lacquer Furniture, 2 Volume Set First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Mobili Veneziani Laccati, Venetian Lacquer Furniture, 2 Volumes by Giuseppe Morazzoni. Luigi Alfieri, Milano, nd, First Edition hardcovers. ...
Category
Italian Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mobili di Ulrich by G. Morrazoni, 1945
Located in London, GB
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 Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vintage Huckley Barrel Carnival Game
By St. Louis Carnival Co.
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage carnival game made by the Saint Louis Carnival company. We also have the original paper game rules signs with these. Please note that not all crates are painted St. Louis Car...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Clay, Wood
Exaltation of Larks, or The Venereal Game by James Lipton
Located in valatie, NY
An Exaltation of Larks, or The Venereal Game by James Lipton. 10th edition hardcover no dust jacket. Lipton's humorous retrieval of zoological collective nouns, and whimsical inventi...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
All About Amos 'n' Andy and Their Creators, by Correll & Gosden
Located in valatie, NY
All About Amos 'n' Andy and Their Creators, by Correll & Gosden. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1930. 2nd Ed hardcover, no dust jacket. This is the inside story of the creation of one of the...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Child's Jet Age Modernist Scooter
Located in Ferndale, MI
Child's Jet Age Modernist Scooter . Original red paint . There is label remnant intact . This will ship slightly disassembled .
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
1950s Yatch/Aircraft Compass Bubble Torpedo Table Sculpture Art War Relic
By Bendix Corporation
Located in Hyattsville, MD
For use as Prop not functioning. No break, and no cracks to molded forms or aluminium base plate. Sits flat.
Measures: W 24 x D 9 x H 14 in.
Category
American Industrial Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Rare VW Beetle Pedal Car by Pines
By Pines of America
Located in Highland, IN
Made by Pines of America Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana this exceptional vintage VW pedal car comes with its original cardboard box. These plastic pedal cars...
Category
American Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Einzelmöbel und Neuzeitliche Raumkunst Book
By Ludwig Kozma
Located in New York, NY
Seminal 1930 survey of early modernist furniture and interior design projects by known German and other European designers. Approximately 200 different designs featuring about 70 designs by Ludwig Kozma, who designed the striking red and black cover of the hardbound volume. Designers include Augenfeld, Brehaus, Hoffmann, Jeanneret, an early Paul Laszlo in Budapest, Le Corbusier, Sobotka, and Josef Frank, along with a host of lesser-known names. 196 pages, most filled with black and white plates...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Selden Rodman – Conversations with Artists First Edition, 1957 'Scarce'
By Selden Rodman
Located in London, GB
First edition, very scarce hardback, published by The Devin-Adair Co., 1957
35 American painters, sculptors and architects discuss their work and one another with Selden Rodman, d...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Lucky Horse Pin
Located in Seattle, WA
bakelite horse pin with pair of boots and horseshoe for luck
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
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