Victorian Collectibles and Curiosities

"Antique early 20th century Wiefel & Company doll with bisque head by Armand Marseille, sleep eyes, composite hands, wood lengs, and soft body, marked “1908 DEP W & Co 121 AM” on back of head and dressed in a lace edged dress and floppy hat. “In 1912 Erste Steinbacher Porzellanfabrik was sold to Hugo Wiefel and renamed Wiefel & Company, thus a new doll mark was used of W & Co or W & C with or without a doll mold number. By 1914 Wiefel's manufacturing was shut down because of World War I and restarted up again in 1918, although it doesn't appear that bisque doll...

19th Century reverse painted glass games board We share what we love, and we love the decorative nature of this stunning English 19th Century reverse painted glass games board. With aged surface across the glass reflection and wooden frame. With a glance of old news paper...

Late 19th Century Jewellers Trade Sign We share what we love, and we love this untouched example of a watch makers, jewellers trade sign. Make from cast iron and zinc, double sided, with traces of the painted clock face on both sides. We have mounted this object to a cast iron bespoke stand for ease of display. It can be removed from the stand and hung if you wish. One of the best examples we have been lucky enough to uncover. Size of inches: H 31” x W 18” x D 3.5” (Includes stand) Condition: Aged Origin: European Age: late 19th century Note: This item weighs close of 30kg Completely solid in structure and form, Natural aging across all surfaces, an aged 100-year-old antique item, loss of paint, one side of the clocks zinc face...

The hollow potted castle is mounted on a long oval shaped base molded in relief with swirl patterning with a raised molded banner reading BALMORAL CASTLE...

A beautiful hand made Sterling Vinaigrette on delicate chain - opens to a fine, hand made Flower grille. For todays purposes, could be used as a ...

A Superb Scottish Agate and silver bracelet This beautiful Scottish agate bracelet Is made from alternate figured green and orange agate carved and shaped panels with a silver eng...

This antique brooch and bracelet set is signed by an unknown maker, and originated from England and dates to approximately 1900 and done in the period Late Victorian style. The set i...

This miniature copper kettle was probably a salesman's sample, which would be far easier to carry around than a proper sized one. The body is copper, the knob for the lid is brass, a...

English Victorian walking cane with light wood shaft and handle carved as monkey head with metal alloy collar stamped 995.

A very large antique Victorian brass lobster-form box. English, Late 19th Century. Measures: Height 34cm, width 91cm, depth 41cm. This exceptional piece is a remarkably large brass box...

English Victorian cane with rotating bone spindles and ebony octagonal handle.

A stylish antique porcelain pastille burner model of Roberts Burn’s Cottage by renowned English potter William Henry Goss (British, 1833-1906) and dated 1893. William Henry Goss was probably best known for his prolific production of crested china wears which were developed for the souvenir trade however alongside these produced a number of other items which have become highly collectable today. This finely made pastille burner is modelled as a long single storey cottage with three windows...

Made by the renowned American toy manufacturer in approximately 1920, this wooden toy baby grand piano has been autographed in two places by the legendary Liberace. The piano shows o...

Antique German bisque head doll by CM Bergmann with articulated jointed limbs and composite body, non-original human hair, sleep eyes, marked “Ma...

Brass Game Score Counters. A pair of Victorian brass, gun metal, whist game score markers. The top of the circular counter rotates to reveal the scor...

An exquisite and exceptiionally rare Spanish billiard marker by Mayol Y Poch of Barcelona circa 1880. Probably made from Madera wood. A high end ...

A fine antique Doulton & Watts (pre Doulton Lambeth) salt glazed stoneware Nelson jug dating from around 1840. The jug portrays Nelson in military unif...

Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and extremely unique and rare 19th century British Tunbridgeware hair pin/bobbin or slide. This slide is unlike any of it’s kind we have seen before…. it is a very rare survivor ! From circa 1860–1880. Made of walnut with gorgeous marquetry inlay on the entirety of the front with classic Tunbridgeware micro-mosaic all over the front. The rear is walnut. The marquetry inlay appears to be various different woods, namely, maple, walnut and satinwood. Would have been worn in a Lady’s hair bun with the micro-mosaic facing forward. This would have belonged to a very elegant lady in the mid to late 19th century. Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion. There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery in Tunbridge Wells. The famous makers of Tunbridge ware were in the Tunbridge Wells area of Kent; their most notable work was from circa 1830-1900. Early makers of Tunbridge ware, in Tunbridge Wells in the mid-18th century, were the Burrows family, and Fenner and Co. In the 19th century, around 1830, James Burrows invented a technique of creating mosaics from wooden tesserae. Henry Hollamby, apprenticed to the Burrows family, set up on his own in 1842 and became an important manufacturer of Tunbridge ware, employing about 40 people. Edmund Nye (1797–1863) and his father took over the Fenner company when William Fenner retired in 1840, after 30 years in partnership with him. Thomas Barton (1819–1903), previously apprenticed at the Wise factory, joined the Nyes in 1836, and worked as Nye’s designer; he took over the business in 1863 and continued there until his death. In Tonbridge (near to Tunbridge Wells), George Wise (1703–1779) is known to have had a business in 1746. It continued with his son Thomas, and Thomas’s nephew George (1779–1869), who took over in 1806. In its early years the company made articles such as workboxes and tea caddies with prints of popular views; later items had pictures created from mosaics. Their workshop in Tonbridge, Wise’s Tunbridge Ware Manufactory, was next to the Big Bridge over the Medway; the building was demolished in 1886 to widen the approach to the bridge. Tunbridge ware became popular with visitors to the spa town of Tunbridge Wells, who bought them as souvenirs and gifts. Articles included cribbage boards, paperweights, writing slopes, snuffboxes and glove boxes. At the Great Exhibition of 1851, Tunbridge ware by Edmund Nye, Robert Russell and Henry Hollamby was shown; Edmund Nye received a commendation from the judges for his work. He exhibited a table depicting a mosaic of a ship at sea; 110,800 tesserae were used in making the picture. The manufacturers of Tunbridge ware were cottage industries, and they were no more than nine in Tunbridge Wells and one in Tonbridge. The number declined in the 1880s; competent craftsmen were hard to find, and public tastes changed. After the death of Thomas Barton in 1903 the only surviving firm was Boyce, Brown and Kemp, which closed in 1927. Marquetry was an old technique which was continued by Nye and Barton to create images such as birds or butterflies. ‘Green Oak’ as caused by the fungus Chlorociboria aeruginascens. Stickware and half-square mosaic was invented by James Burrows in about 1830: a bunch of wooden sticks of different colours, each having triangular or diamond-shaped cross section, were tightly glued together; in the case of stickware, the resulting block was dried, then turned to form an article such as the base of a pincushion. For half-square mosaic, thin slices were taken from the composite block, and applied to a surface.[1][2][4] Tesselated mosaic, was a development by James Burrows of half-square mosaic; it was adopted by George Wise and Edmund Nye. Minute tesserae were used to form a wide variety of geometric and pictorial designs. Many sorts of wood were used for the various colours; about 40 were in regular use. Only natural colors were used; green was provided by “green oak”, produced by the action of fungus on fallen oak. Designs for articles were often taken from designs of Berlin wool work.

An exceptionally rare and fine quality Billiards marker by Thurston of London circa 1860 Constructed from an excellent cut of English oak with a shaped pediment. There are four...

The Beauty of Jewellery Book by Joan Frank. Crescent Books, 1979 - 93 pages Hardcover 1st Edition. An appreciation of fine jewelry for the non-expert, with a chapter on the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Title: Beauty of Jewelry Frank, Joan Publisher: Crescent Books Publication Date: 1979 Binding: Hardcover Great table book on high end jewelry.

This framed and printed sheet Rule frame is very unusual because it actually features the rules of three games Billiards, Life Pool and Pyramid pool. Printed by the famous Glasgo...

A 19th century, early Victorian period walnut and inlaid Canterbury whatnot music stand, barley twist supports, with blind frieze drawer to the cavetto base, all standing on 4 elegan...

Wall hanging brass door bell. This bell is on a hinged brass bracket and comes complete with hand clapper, it is in very good condition, it is very ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning 1856 hand watercolour map of the Austrian Alps titled Dept Des Hautes Alpes taken from the Atlas National...

ABOUT This is an original pair of leather wrapped and painted brass field binoculars marked on the eyepiece with "LeMair Fabt Paris". The black metal focus wheel works well and th...

English Victorian bamboo cane having a handle carved as stylized pelican with a silver collar and brass tip.  

A scarce and unusual John Wesley commemorative black printed saucer size plate probably sold as a fund raising item for the Wesleyan Methodist Centenary...

A fantastic piece of horse racing history, this English jockey scale was specially crafted by W. & T. Avery of Birmingham. These handsome scales were used...

A good quality mid-19th century mahogany Miniature wellington chest of four drawers Having original turned knobs and locking Pillaster ...

English Victorian style simple briarwood cane with small brass top and leather cord.  

English Victorian brass merchants scale with square glass tray, round brass tray, and inset oval mirror.  

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning 1856 hand watercolour map of the Austrian Alps titled Dept Des La Course taken from the Atlas National ...

This antique mechanical toy is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in Europe, possibly England or Austria in approximately 1880 and done in...

English Victorian-style simple wood cane with silver skin design handle with hallmarks at base.

A very unusual, possibly unique, historical Certificate of Merit awarded at the drum and pipe band contest held at Crystal Palace between 1880 and 1883 and awarded in 1883. The certificate is hand-painted on a rectangular sheet of milk glass and is painted as a hanging cloth banner...

Queen Victoria’s silver coffee service, by William Bateman & Daniel Ball, comprising a coffee pot and burner, a cream jug and a sugar basin, each...

People like to use the term ‘apprentice pieces’ when referring to small pieces of miniature furniture,but more often than not this isn’t the case. But...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning 1856 hand watercolour map of the Austrian Alps titled Dept Des Hautes Pyrenees taken from the Atlas Nat...

Unique antique 19th century African American (possibly mulatto?) doll with bisque head and hands, molded boots and cropped hair style, and a cloth body dressed in a yellow dress.

English Victorian smoking stand on rectangular oak carved base with metal figures and horse drawn fire engine & various smoking accessories.  

This antique butcher shop horse meat advertising sign, or Boucherie Chevaline' has no maker's marks, but presumed to have originated from France a...

2 similar French Victorian brass fireman's helmets. (Priced Each).

English Victorian walking cane with ebonized shaft and carved bull dog head handle and brass tip.  

The American Flora: Or History of Plants and Wild Flowers, by A.B. Strong 1847 The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general d...

English Victorian light wood cane with brass ball top and fluted sleeve.  

This breathtaking taxidermy specimen features a naturalistic, life-sized Mountain Goat, expertly mounted in premier quality. The Mountain Goat is a ...

19th century 3 antique Victorian gold topped canes or parasol handles, some monogrammed, one with mother of pearl, see more pictures.

Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes A rare and delightful pair of leather early 20th Century hand crafted apprentice shoes. One of the smallest examples we have seen to date. ...

Swedish Edwardian ebony square shaped cane with simple silver handle. Hallmarks on handle with C. G. Hallberg stamp. Engraved name of prior owner at handle in script.

Lister's conch fully silvered shell 5". Creel and Gow has been working with the same atelier in Rome, Italy for over 20 years to make our signature silvered shells. Our workshop has ...

Spanish American War Commemorative Mirrored Hall Rack USA, Circa 1900 An uncommon example of American historical memorabilia, This mirrored hall...

This antique mechanical toy is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in Europe, possibly England or Austria in approximately 1880 and done in...

English Victorian bamboo cane with pewter cap with an impression of a horseshoe.  

English Victorian burl wood cane with large brass ball top and fluted sleeve.

A fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and enamel envelope style vesta case; an addition to our silver case collection This fine antique Victorian English s...

English Victorian wood cane with pewter swirl design ball top.  

English Victorian-style wood cane with bronze hand and ball top.  

English Victorian light oak walking cane with bronze flame form handle and brass tip.