1880s More Objets d'Art and Vertu

A yellow gold tennis racquet propelling pencil pendant, Sampson Mordan & Co, 1880 This fun Victorian novelty item featuring an realistically modeled gold strings...

very nice needle box of French fashion gold-style seamstresses, rich decorated yellow gold. she's in perfect condition. either to hide some secrets or to t...

Five agate intaglios of varying size and age have been mounted in 18 karat gold settings. The settings are connected by golden balls made out of 18karat . They are threaded on a foxt...

An exceptional vermeil round jewelry box with silver-gilt interior, very finely chiselled with crosspieces, hemmed by friezes of interlacing and foliage. On the lid, a central medall...

This wonderful sterling lion fob seal is a replica in miniature of the Medici lion sculptures which guarded the steps to the Villa Medici in Rome. The lions w...

A desk accessory from America's gilded age featuring —naturally— gilded bronze, a kingfisher, a snail, a conch shell, and a handy candle holder. If you're like me —and I sincerely hope you're not— you have been stark raving obsessed with America's gilded age since you were seven or eight. You've read every biography ever written about the Vanderbilt family, Edith Wharton is your favorite author, and you feel in your heart that The Breakers mansion in Newport Rhode Island should be decommissioned as a museum and you should be allowed to live in it. The Breakers is the most impressive of the Newport "summer cottages." It was built in the early 1890s by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built the original Vanderbilt fortune. Breakers is a seventy-room cottage of nearly 170,000 square feet. Its bathrooms had hot and cold running seawater and the cottage featured wall-to-wall opulence throughout. Google "Breakers Mansion" right this moment and visit the Wikipedia page. Toward the bottom of the page on the right is a photograph of the library. Click on that image to make it full-sized. Wouldn't this desk accessory look perfect on the little table in front of the green silk sofa...

Antique Victorian 18ct Etruscian Bordered Pietra Dura Pendant,dated circa 1880. This pendant is a good example of fine quality pietra dura with a h...

Antique friendship pendant "gage d'un ami qui soupire pour vous" in gold, pearls and extremely fine enamel work. Made in France, circa 1880

A Guilloché (in English usually "Guilloche") is an engraving technique in which a very precise, intricate pattern is mechannically etched in an underlying material with very fine det...

Pretty Gold Minaudiere ,18 Carat From Another Era . The weaving of the perfect state gives flexibility to this so delicious object .

This decorated spring-loaded coin-holder is engraved with spirals and swirls in an almost paisley fashion. Perfect on a chain worn as a locket, or on a chain in your pocket- it's abs...

Wonderful mid-Victorian 18K cased gold dog's head fob. This sweet puppy looks up at you with wistful eyes that seem to say 'please pet me'. This rare fob is ...