Embossed Religious Items

This beautiful antique family bible, titled "Glorious Gospel Blessed God" was printed in England circa 1870. The bible shows the title page of a book titled "Brown's Self-Interpreti...

A scarce ecclesiastical antique European Baroque religious altar reliquary monstrance with holy relic! circa 1825 Also known as a ostensorium, ostensory, or relic shrine, this remarkable vessel would have been used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran, Anglican, and various other Christian churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, typically an important venerated Saint relic...

This beautiful antique National Family Bible was printed in England circa 1870, with an abridgement of the commentaries of Scott and Henry, and conta...

This beautiful antique family Bible was printed in England circa 1870. Titled Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible containing the Old and New Testament; to which are annexed an extensive introduction; marginal references and illustrations; an exact summary of the exact books; a paraphrase of the most obscure or important parts, explanatory notes, evangelical reflections, etc... Many additional references and a life of the author, with numerous colored illustrations in oil and on steel. The bible is in very good condition commensurate with age and use, and adorns a rich patinated black leather with gilt accents, and antiqued brass locks...

This beautiful antique Holy Bible was printed in the United Kingdom by Blackie and Son dated 1864. Black leather bound, the bible flaunts an engraved and embossed gilt covering with a center medallion, and the spine is engraved with "Holy Bible". Entitled "Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible," with numerous additional notes by the Reverend Henry Cooke, the Holy book contains the Old and New Testaments, marginal references and illustrations, a summary of the several books,an analysis of each chapter, a paraphrase and evangelical reflections upon the most important passages, and numerous explanatory notes explanatory notes, and evangelical reflections by the famous Reverend John Brown. The first page contains a beautifully sketched medallion of Moses "Restoring the Tables of the Law". The early 19th century bible...

Spectacular & pure Gothic design clock for the collectors of truly unique and stylish antiques. Finding this unique Gothic clock truly felt like a blessing. The overall design is remarkable, but the combination of the craftsmanship and the sheer multitude of the wrought and cast iron Gothic details are what take this antique clock to the next level. This clearly is no ordinary clock, this can only be described as a work of art and a masterpiece of a truly skilled and seasoned artisan. The Gothic church...

An Italian straw work basket shaped hand bag from Bologna, a fantastic, typical and rare almoner basket used by Italian religious for charity purposes to collect begging. Decorated all over with intricately patterned straw covered case, a braided straw on an oval wooden structure. The oval wooden lid features a detailed repoussé silver layer decorated with scrolls and vegetal motifs and centered by a green precious stone. Silver hanlde is coated with leather and decorated by applied repoussé silver floaral elements and topped by a precious stone. Red lining inside. Silver elements are marked 800 and are realized by Stefani silvermaker from Bologna in the Mid-20th Century. The attribution to the silversmith Enea and Alessandro Stefani was mademade for similar artworks on the antiques market. Handmade in Italy, in Bologna, Emilia Romagna region, dating back to the first decade of 19th century, this oval shaped, hand-realized lidded almoner with arched handle was once used as hand-bag for begging and can be used nowadays for sewing, weaving or knitting works. Finely repoussé silver flowers are applied on the whole oval body of this straw basket. This basket is wonderful as a decorative object or an unusual storage solution. Bag basket making is an ancient and humble craft, but in the hands of a skilled artisan a simple basket can become a truly beautiful work of art. In good condition, with working lock and key on the lid. In overall good condition, minor signes of wear consistent with use and age, the lid shows a small cracking in the internal wooden cover. see closed up picture. A lovely antique Italian handmade box for collectors. Listed height of 42 cm refers to hanle's height - 26 cm is just the basket height. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago requires a governative license for export called Belle Arti. The shipping may require additional 2-3 handling weeks to require and get the license according to the final destination of the artwork. The historic Stefani silverware was founded in Bologna in the early 1900s by Enea Stefani, who had learned the art of the silversmith at another historic Bolognese reality, the Zanetti workshop. In 1920 Enea Stefani inaugurated his workshop in Via Clavature, which will be the headquarters of the famous company until it definitively closes in 2015. First Enea and his son Alessandro then produce works of the highest quality, sometimes true masterpieces, working the silver with the ancient techniques of chiselling, embossing, engraving, wax casting, enriching their creations with semi-precious stones and high-fire enamels. The great mastery in the workmanship is combined with an aesthetic research and a poetic vein, especially in Alessandro, who succeeds his father in 1974, and who also signs numbered specimens, which lead to the creation of splendid pieces, such as candlesticks, rocaille-style double , cutlery, centrepieces, masgalani-silver basins...

This beautiful antique family bible was printed in England circa 1870, with an abridgement of the commentaries of Scott and Henry, and containing also many thousand critical and explanatory notes selected from the Standard Authors of Europe and America. The commentaries condensed and the whole edited by the late Reverend John Eadie, professor of biblical literature to the United Presbyterian Church. The book flaunts an engraved brown leather and gilt covering, and is embellished with two brass locks and embossed brass edges. The bible features the old and new testament, and is fully illustrated with plates from original paintings by eminent artists; it also has colored maps, family register, roll of honor and the Lords Prayer...

This beautiful antique Holy Bible was printed in Bradford, United Kingdom. Entitled "Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible," it contains the Old an...

This beautiful antique Holy Bible was printed in Boston by W. L. Richardson and Co, circa 1884. With over 2500 Scripture illustrations on steel, woo...

An 18th century Italian silver book binding. An impressively designed, this book binding is formed by two, nearly identical covers, each embossed w...

Early 20th century Art Deco silver Hanukkah lamp Menorah, Poland, circa 1920. Essential design and timeless elegance feature this antique silver Jewish lamp handmade with a rectangular base and two sphere supports connected to a demi lune shaped squared section main body. With eight oil receptacles and original servant lamp inserted in the center. Marked with silver maker mark JS and Polish silver mark on the base. Weight: 533 grams.   Bibl. Tardy, Parigi 1985, pag. 330.  The lamp is in good age related condition, comes from a villa on Lake Maggiore and weighs 533 grams and is in good condition except for a small dent on the edge of a candle and one on the edge of the base. It is an antique Italian oil lamp...