Canvas Sports Equipment and Memorabilia

A fantastic vintage MCM original oil on canvas. A chic Abstract composition in deep rich colors. Signed by the artist. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

This book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonne of the work of Mark Rothko, one of the greatest abstract artists of the 20th century. It documents his entire outpu...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas signed and dated 1939s. Excellent pictorial quality Italian school. Beautiful landscape of southern Italy in a summer day. Sold without frame. Attent...

Antique brass orrery planetarium made for the German market by Jan Felkl Prag in the second half of the nineteenth century. Cast iron base, papier mâché´ globe, with detailed territorial map and oceanic currents. Very good condition. Measures: Length 75 cm - 29.5 inch, height 48 cm - 18.8 inch, width 28 cm - 11 inch. Shipping in insured by Lloyd's London and the gift box is free (look at the last picture). Jan Felkl (1817-1878) was born in Bohemia and already in 1840 he had designed some globes in 6 different sizes. During the following 20 years he became the biggest maker of globes in market Austro-Hungarian, making terrestrial and celestial globes in 17 different languages, lunar globes and planetaria. Felkl showed his globes at international fairs in 1867 in Paris and in 1873 in Vienna. He established his Geographic and lithographic Institute in Prague for Making globes and maps. In 1870 he moved his factory from Prague to Roztok and his youngest son became his partner in the firm now named Felkl & Son, making globes and selling them all over the Europe and also in the Usa. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London; our gift box is free (look at the last picture). The orrery is the most detailed and complex representation of the cosmos and in addition to the movement of stars,it includes movement of the sun, moon and planets, like a giant clock mechanism. Among these devices one of the oldest was an orrery by Archimedes, which Cicero speaks widely in Tusculanae Disputationes I, 63: when Roman troops sacked Syracuse in 212 BC, the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus in Rome brought the instrument of Archimedes, who, thanks to his ability and divine intelligence that he possessed, had managed to generate the motions of planets, each so different, from a single rotation.
Because of heliocentric system theorized by Copernicus, it was possible to create mechanical antique orreries...

Time to upgrade your personal gym to include a stylish punching bag? This piece is made of vintage leather and has seen some action though is in great sha...

1920's Gladstone Bag in perfect condition. The bag closings are in perfect shape and condition and everything works perfectly. The bag has some minor spots but for the age of the bag...

A fantastic Gaff Cutter pond yacht, lovely “bread and butter“ wood hull construction dating to the first part of the 20th Century. Bread and butter construction is when planks of woo...

Antique Golf Club, Brassie (Fairway Wood). Persimmon head socket head brassie/spoon with hickory shaft and a leather grip. The head is possibly stamped 'Jersy Hill, Harrogate', face ...

Antique Golf Club, Scared Head Brassie A nice original beechwood head golf club with hickory shaft and sheepskin grip. The scared head club with traditional...

A large and extremely rare 24-inch terrestrial globe by Newton Our most magnificent and rare globes were a pair of 24-inch Newton globes. These too were updated in 1852 (terre...

Golf And Golfers, Past And Present By J. Gordon McPherson. A rare, well produced first edition golf book, Golf And Golfers, Past And Present. Published in 1891 by William Blackwood &...

Silver Plated Hole In One Trophy. A nice unusual golf trophy, ideal as an hole in one trophy. Started life as an inkwell, stamped Sheffield with indistinct makers mark. Golf ball is ...