Neoclassical Collectibles and Curiosities

Vintage weighted medicine ball Maker unknown Very nice vintage condition.

Lot of seven pieces of Wedgwood lavender (light blue) on cream embossed Queensware, including a table lighter with brass colored top, main ashtray, a...

Birds of America PEARSON, Gilbert T., edited by Published by Garden City Books, Garden City, 1936. Illustrated with color plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes...

The Great Cars Ralph Stein Grosset & Dunlap, 1967 - Automobiles - 251 pages. Profusely illustrated text provides detailed descriptions of the appearance, specifications, and performance of twenty-five of the greatest automobiles ever built. At the time this was published, this was a premium introduction to many classic cars. Special Photography by Tom Burnside. STEIN, RALPH. Published by London Hamlyn, 1967 The Great Cars. "Thirty-five years of close attention to excellence in automobiles have given Ralph Stein a formidable expertise which is happily laced with warm affection, pure enthusiasm, and a saving humour. Here he explains, in stylish prose and with total recall...

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Edition of 1959. Faust : a tragedy. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In a modern translation by Alice Raphael. Illustrated with eighteen lithographs by Eugene Delacroix. New York Heritage Press, 1959. 183 pages The translation is copyright 1930 by Alice Raphael; the special contents of this edition are copyright, 1932, by The Limited Editions Club This is a beautiful vintage Heritage Press book of Faust by Goethe. It has eighteen stunning illustrations by the renowned French artist Delacroix who is known for Liberty Leading The People. The cover has some signs of wear and the spine and a small white mark. This Great Book would be a classic addition to your collection. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature. Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. The celebrated illustrations by Delacroix. Alice Raphael worked on the translation for 12 years. Parts 1 and 2 are integrated seamlessly. The Delacroix lithographs...

"Lot of nine vintage and antique pewter / lead toy soldiers representing a variety of eras from the Revolutionary War to post-World War II; five are by C.C. Stadden (British red coat with a peaked cap hand over sword and leaning on a musket, labeled “British Grenadier 1777 Revolutionary”/ British red coat with peaked cap holding a musket, labeled “Delaney’s Loyal (Tokies) Regiment Revolution”/ Revolutionary War era British red coat with a musket on his shoulder and a tricorn hat / post WWII soldier holding a map, labeled “USA Modern”/ Civil War era Union Cavalry officer with a sword holding a map), one by Greenwood and Ball (World War I era German soldier with a sword on his hip reading a map), and three uncertain (Civil War era Union soldier in a slouch hat and holding a rifle, labeled “US Reg. Infantry Full Dress 1861”/ American soldier at attention in a blue uniform, labeled “USA 1948”/ Napoleonic French(?) Imperial Guard grenadier). “Greenwood & Ball was started in 1938 by John Greenwood (sculptor) and Katherine Ball (painter). Katherine Ball left the company in 1961 to get married. The company was one of the first to start selling 25mm scale figures. John Greenwood sold the company to W.F. Pearce in 1971 and the company name carried on as a brand. The majority of the 25mm figure ranges were most recently owned by Amazon Miniatures. Other sculptors to work for them included: Al Charles, John Braithwaite, Cliff Sanderson, and John Tassell.” “Charles C Stadden (always known to friends and family as Chas) was born in Leytonstone, London on 12th June 1919. His parents were Francis Stadden and Emily James who had been married on 10th February 1912 in West Ham Registry Office. Francis Stadden had served in the Middlesex Regiment and the Devonshire Regiment during WW1 attaining the rank of Company Sergeant Major. In peacetime he was employed as a stationers manager for Strakers of London. Chas had three older brothers, Frank, Arthur (always known as Gyp) and Victor (Vic) and a younger sister, Pearl. Having such a background of military service must have made an impression on the four young Stadden boys. Two of Emilys sisters were married to servicemen, and while Chas was a young boy his mother had taken him on visits by train to Chichester where his Aunt Louise lived while her husband Augustus (in the RAMC) was stationed at the barracks there. His childhood was a happy one living in Epsom Road, Leytonstone, close to Epping Forest, and then during the 1930’s at Gordon Road, Wanstead. He was educated at Canterbury Road School in Leyton and had an interest in things military from an early age. Christmas presents were usually toy soldiers, and his father used to bring Chas postcards depicting military uniforms when he came home from work. Another lifetime interest was steam trains, which began when Chas and Vic used to play at Snaresbrook level crossing pulling on the railings pretending to be signalmen. Chas left school at 14 (despite gaining an art scholarship) to work as a Liftboy at Martins Bank, 68 Lombard Street, London. He was dismissed within two years for causing £400 worth of damage to one of the lifts while 'larking about' with one of the heavy ledger trolleys. To avoid telling his parents of being given the sack he decided to join the military at Stratford while still underage. Chas thought he was destined to be a trumpeter in the Royal Artillery and lasted 40 days until his mother Emily managed to retrieve him. His second spell of civilian employment as a switchboard operator also ended in dismissal due to ‘larking about’. At this time Chas was a keen racing cyclist and obtained a summer job building racing bikes which was his introduction to light engineering. Although he enjoyed this work, at the end of the season he was laid off and had to take work as a parking attendant and nightwatchman. In the summer of 1939 he returned to the cycle trade until called up to military service under the Militia Act at the age of 20, enlisting on 1st December. He passed the medical A1 fitness but was found to be slightly shortsighted. This meant that he was unable to join the infantry (preferably the Lancashire Fusiliers) as he wanted but was instead sent to restart his military career at the 7th Drivers Training Centre RASC, Luton. During his full time military service Chas was with the Royal Army Service Corps (Horse Transport), The Cyprus Regiment and the Royal Fusiliers...

Set of neoclassical green marble broken column bookends, Italy circa 1960's The bookends are signed ITALY on the base.

Vintage brass American football paperweight or decorative sport memorabilia. Large and heavy. Great football sculpture in cast brass, football trophy...

A pair of Mr. Peanut nut spoons, made by Carlton Silver Plate in 1941. The spoon is detailed on both the front and back. Mr. Peanut is the advertising logo and mascot of Planters, an American snack-food company. He is depicted as an anthropomorphic peanut in its shell dressed in the formal clothing of an old-fashioned gentleman: top hat, monocle, white gloves, spats, and a cane. He is reportedly of British heritage and has the proper name of Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe. The original...

This chess board in in solid Malachite. It has been made in Italy in the 1960's. It is in good condition.

Antique World War II era United States Army Air Force airplane fuselage segment, mounted in a shadowbox frame and featuring the stars and bars decal ...

Art Deco sterling silver cigarette case, USA. Manufactured in silverware company Napier, 1930. Hinged lid with beautiful enameled image of sailing ship. Hallmarked with NAPIER and ST...