Vintage Brass Bookends Featuring Native American Brave

- Very fine quality evoking classic Art Deco architectural designs - Beautiful form with the layered segmented curves creating soft yet bold...

A characterful 19th century, domed, overseas, travelling, steamer, trunk in canvass with leather trim, handles and brass hardware with lock. No key. The exposed straps removed. Beari...

A fine, 19th century, high quality, crocodile attache, briefcase or overnight case with exposed handle, brass hardware with lock stamped 'secure l...

A fine, high quality leather suitcase, the top leather embossed 'JGV', with reinforced corners, leather handle and brass hardware, the lock stamped 'EHOFMANN 11457' No key. The inside with brass label 'To Dr John...

A fine, 19th century, high quality, leather, overseas, travelling, steamer suitcase with exposed straps, handles and brass hardware with lock stamped with a crown and 'VR (Victoria Rex) patent' and key. Bearing brass owners label incised 'J Tully' and the front embossed 'Warrantied Solid Leather'. Original blue and white ticking and leather interior with straps and internal folding divider and compartments. Bearing maker's label 'J C Sweeney, manufacturer of portmanteaus, trunks, India overlands, ladies boxes, travelling bags, hat cases...

The exterior painted black, metal carrying handles. Opening to reveal a beautifully, figured and fitted mahogany interior with sliding doors and compartments. Wonderful deep and ri...

Art Nouveau pair of Newcomb College Pierced Brass Bookends A pair of Newcomb College Pierced Brass Bookends, circa 1930, by Rosalie Roos Wiener, de...

An unusually large, and very decorative pair of beautifully-painted Meissen porcelain figures representing the two continents: America, with her highly-stylized native Indian dress...

This set of armchairs is typical of the French pared-down and chic take on the Directoire style in the 1940s. They have a light-colored wood structure and feature wide and comfor...

Pair of sconces, of iron and carved giltwood; each backplate having three arrows crossed behind a bow over festooning and rosette, three scrolling candlearms terminating in wooden cups...

This academic drawing was executed by Joe Waano Gano, an important Native American artist with a prestigious career in California in the 1930s and 1940s. Born a Cherokee Indian...

Antique Sioux (Native American/Plains Indian) Parfleche in a box form constructed of rawhide and intricately painted in an abstract design with hourglass and geometric motifs with natural pigments and red trade cloth. At the time this was created, the Sioux Indians were nomadic and are associated with vast areas of the Great Plains of the United States including present-day North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Montana. Authenticity is guaranteed. Box is in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Parfleches are rawhide containers which were fundamental to the Plains way of life. Functioning essentially as protective travelling suitcases, they enabled the nomadic tribes to effectively pursue buffalo herds and migrate between seasonal camps. So critical were they to a nomadic existence that over 40 tribes are known to have historically produced parfleches. Collectively, these tribes inhabited an area which encompassed the entirety of the Plains, as well as the parts of the Southwest, the Transmontane and Western Plateau regions. Parfleches were, out of necessity, robust and versatile objects. They were designed to carry and protect within them anything from medicinal bundles to seasonal clothing or food. In fact, it was because of the containers’ robusticity and variety that parfleches earned their name in the Anglo world. Derived from parer (to parry or turn aside) and fleche (arrow), the word parfleche was coined by 17th century French Canadian voyageurs and used to describe indigenous objects made from rawhide. Despite their common utilitarian function, parfleches served as one of the major mediums through which Plains Indian tribes could develop their long-standing tradition of painting. In fact, it is in large part due to the parfleche that tribal style emerged. Even though parfleche painting developed simultaneously with beading and weaving, painting as an artistic tradition held particular importance in tribal culture. Believed to have evolved from tattooing, it had always been used as a conduit through which tribal and individual identity could be expressed. As such, many tribeswomen were deeply committed, some even religiously, to decorating their parfleche either with incised or painted motifs that were significant to them and/or the tribe. For some tribes, such as the Cheyenne, the decorative processes which surrounded parfleche production were sacred. For others, it seems that their parfleche designs shared an interesting artistic dialogue with their beadwork, indicating a more casual exchange of design motifs. This particular relationship can be seen in Crow parfleche...

This nude figure, decked out in an Errol Flynn moustache and slicked-back hair, was executed in dark red pencil by Joe Waano-Gano, an important Native American artist with a prestigious career in California in the 1930s and 1940s. Born a Cherokee Indian...

Architectural ornament, cast iron in the half round with a scrolled cartouche headed by a raised arm with sword enclosing a standing figure of a Algonquin Native American with bow an...

Original vintage film poster for a German nature documentary about New Guinea - Geisterland Der Sudsee / The Fabulous South Seas (Spirit Land of the South Seas) - directed by Eugen S...

Set of ten Weinhold Reis colored lithographs of the Blackfeet; period frames - Scalping Woman; Wife of Night Shoots; Lazy Boy; Blackfeet Medicine Man; Long...

Fantastic bronze bookends. Gilt bronze sculptures of North American native tribal chief. Mounted over green marble. Signed A. Bofill and numbered 35...

Vintage brass Duck bookends. Larger size. Good condition. Has nice size to hold a stack of books. Great for your desk or bookshelf. Any dark are...

Vintage Brass Shell bookends, circa 1985.

These appealing vintage brass bookends depict a spread-wing bald eagle perched on a rectangular base. The base is stamped with the date “1776...

Vintage American wood women shoe form molds mounted as bookends Vintage wooden shoe making mold from the 1930s. A pair of shoe form bookends, these well carved solid wood shoe mould would have been used to make handmade shoes. These molds were traditionally made for each customer and would be used each time they came into the cobbler for a new pair of shoes. It is in good original condition with the patina and metal that shows age. Cobbler molds size 6.5 B model 258 Made from solid wood, I love these moulds because of their individual nature but also they are almost a piece of sculpture. This elegant women wooden shoes bookends form mold make a great addition to your vintage decor. Vintage hand carved wood cobbler shoe molds...

Polished Brass Bull and Bear Bookends Paperweights. Vintage American Art Deco style brass bull and bear bookends, paperweights. These stunnin...