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Item Ships From: Italy
Turtleshell hair comb-diadem, France 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Tortoiseshell tiara comb for hair surmounted by an element decorated with tortoiseshell volutes. France circa 1900. (SHIP TO EU ONLY)
Category
Early 20th Century French Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Pair of Miniature Lady Portraits 19th Century French School
Located in Milano, MI
A lovely pair of portrait miniatures of two ladies, by a French skillful artist who painted in fine pointille technique on paper this pair of portraits in the 1870s circa.
Set in tw...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
19th Century Wooden Barometer Signed Burlinson Ripon Antique Instrument Weather
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden barometer signed Burlinson Ripon made in the mid 19th century. Silver-plated brass dial engraved with weather indications and the name of the m...
Category
1850s British Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Group of small wooden geometric models with chromatic faces, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Group of 16 little solid wooden geometrical models for teaching class. One face of each is colored following the chromatic scale of colors. Paravia, Italy beginning XX century.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Italian or German anatomical bust.
Located in Lugo, IT
Italian or German anatomical bust.
The profile photos are without organs.
The measurements refer to the wooden base.
The conditions are as per the phot...
Category
1890s German Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gesso, Wood
A land surveying square, France 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Octagonal brass land surveying square. Each side has a slot, which allows to aim the distance and evaluate 90 and 45 degrees when measuring the field. ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Official British aviation pocket compass signed E. KOEHN Geneva, 1915
Located in Milan, IT
British aviation officer's pocket compass signed E. KOEHN Geneva Switzerland V 1915 brass in the shape of an onion clock. The compass has a snap-lock cover with release button insid...
Category
1910s Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
STRATEGO Chessboard in Walnut by Lorenzo Di Giovanni for Teckell
By Teckell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stratego chessboard, designed by Lorenzo di Giovanni and manufactured by Teckell, features an extra-clear crystal top with a solid marble base, available in three options: Calacatta ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Crystal, Carrara Marble
Grand Tour Neoclassical Style Faux-Marble Temple
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and important wooden memorial temple covered in faux marble.
From the purest neoclassical form, this Grand Tour piece of furniture is a classic piece of furniture of grea...
Category
1810s Italian Neoclassical Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paper
Cristallino Crystal Foosball Table with Black Field by Teckell
By Teckell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cristallino is crafted using avant-garde technology and the skilled hands of Italian artisans who perfect every detail for a unique and exclusive work of art.
Cristallino unites the beauty of gold and Teckell’s extraordinary quality and style. Tempered clear crystal table, 15mm thick, cerium-polished bevels.
Playing field in laminated shatterproof crystal, two connected 8 mm-thick sheets.
Goals with polished stainless steel frames and handcrafted nets.
Players, handles and accessories in aluminium.
Stainless steel and aluminium joints that are milled, chrome-plated and polished.
Hidden, adjustable feet for leveling table Teckell® Innovation
Rod ends featuring two layers of shock absorption: special, high carbon steel springs and technopolymer bumpers that the rods pass through.
Quick mount handles that fit perfectly and can be removed and replaced.
Measures: L 140 cm x H 92 cm x W 74/174* cm * table with rods...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Crystal
1930s Germany Botanical Model of the Lamium Purpureum Flower
Located in Milan, IT
Educational model of the Lamium purpureum L. (false purple nettle) flower made of painted papier mâché with a Bakelite base from the 1930s, German ma...
Category
1930s German Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Parchment Paper
Induction Coil or Sled Antique Scientific Instrument by Du Bois Reymond 1870
Located in Milan, IT
Induction coil by Du Bois Reymond, also known as Sled of the Du Bois Reymond system designed around 1870 during electrophysiology studies by Emil Du Boi...
Category
1870s Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Camel sculpture attributed to Liberty London
By Liberty of London, Omersa
Located in Lugo, IT
Leather camel attributed to the Liberty atelier in London
Good condition.
Thank you
Category
1940s English Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Animal Skin
Paravia Collection 100 Rocks, Educational Material, Italy 1950s
By Paravia
Located in Naples, IT
Collection 100 Rocks, Teaching Material, Italy 1950s
Geology teaching board "Minerals and Rocks" G.B. Paravia Scientific Collection - Turin
The ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rock Crystal
Handcrafted roxinho and walnut wood 'Backgammon-Checkers-Chess' game
By Rossana Orlandi
Located in Milan, IT
The board game, completely handmade, is made of handcrafted woods of walnut, maple and Roxinho. The Roxinho wood, the purple one, comes from the Amazon and is certified. It is a very...
Category
2010s Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Maple, Walnut
End 19th century Large Nautical Mahogany Rudder with Eight Spokes Bronze Hub UK
Located in Milan, IT
Large mahogany rudder with eight spokes with bronze hub. English manufacture of the end of the 19th century. Diameter 130 cm - inches 51.2, depth 15 cm - inches 5.9.
There are evidences showing that already in the third millennium BC, in ancient Egypt, people used wooden oars...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Caravaggesque Oil on Copper "Flagellation of Christ" Baroque Sicilian, 17th Cent
By (After) Caravaggio
Located in Milano, IT
Splendid 17th-century Italian painting by unknown artist, but certainly a follower of Caravaggio, relying on style and drawing.
The painting has a very beautiful gilded wooden frame, with a subtle greek with spheres and an overlying rectangular frame with sinuous flowers on each corner, very elegant and beautiful.
The painting depicts one of the most depicted religious scenes ever, the scourging of Christ, and is entirely done in oil on copper.
The scourging of Jesus is an episode narrated in the Gospels (Mk15:15-16; Mt27:26-27; Lk23:16-26; Jn19:1-17[1]).
Scourging is a flogging, particularly bloody, by means of sticks, rods or cat-o-nine-tails, the latter instrument consisting, in the Roman typology, of a short stick to which were secured several strings ending in metal claws, leads and bone splinters that caused tremendous lacerations and fractures to the tortured person. Chains are used in this scene, both to immobilize Jesus Christ and to flog him, as we can see in the upper right hand of the scourger.
According to some personal research, it turned out that the actual scourging of Christ was mostly depicted at the column, while this Christ is on the ground, so presumably Christ here is scourged during the Way of the Cross at one of those stages where he fell.
The painting has a very dark coloring, which is why this painting is believed to faithfully follow Caravaggio's style of dry, authoritarian brushstrokes. The painting shows a figure agonizing on the ground that continues to receive beatings and floggings of all kinds, representing Christ; his face is crucified in a loquacious expression of pain, he turns his eyes to heaven as if to invoke God, but at the same time those same eyes admonish the wickedness and arrogance inherent in humanity.
Christ has one hand resting on the ground in the act of holding himself, while the other takes a completely unnatural stance against the barren ground. His body appears hardened to wanting to parry the blows, his legs are curled up on his knees as he takes kicks from the soldier above him. Christ is depicted pinned down from the neck with a very large and strong black iron bolt held by the other soldier. The soldier on the right in the foreground wears a one-shoulder tunic with an orange tunic and blue pants. On his feet he wears gray shoes, at his waist he has a belt with an iron helmet...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
$17,126 Sale Price
20% Off
1900s Brass Bakelite Magnetic Topographer Compass Surveyor Measurement Instrumen
Located in Milan, IT
Magnetic topographer compass from the early 1900s, brass and bakelite base; instrument consisting of a magnetized needle free to rotate on a horizontal plane, marking with its tip th...
Category
Early 1900s European Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Oscar Dog Bowls by Gio Bagnara
By Stephane Parmentier
Located in New York, NY
GIOBAGNARA
Renowned for its elegant creations that convey luxury
without ostentation, GIOBAGNARA adheres to the
highest standards of craftsmanship. By pursuing
a philosophy that incorporates traditional know-
how with leading-edge technologies, and offering a
limitless color palette of quality leathers and suede,
founder Giorgio Bagnara has been able to experiment
and push the technical boundaries of his craft in
order to create pieces that are both beautiful and
functional.
Launched in 1999, the GIOBAGNARA brand
has quickly earned a reputation for expert leather
workmanship, and its founder has become a key
partner for a large number of interior designers
as well as a select group of yacht and private jet
designers who rely on his specialized knowledge
to realize made-to-measure commissions.
In 2015, Giorgio Bagnara expanded his leather
goods portfolio with the acquisition of saddle leather
specialist RABITTI1969.
In 2017, Bagnara initiated a collaboration with French
designer Stéphane Parmentier, who was appointed
creative director of GIOBAGNARA and its affiliate
brands.
In 2018, the company’s portfolio grew with the
strategic acquisition of PIGMENT FRANCE...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Antique Walking Stick with Silver Handle
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Antique walking stick with silver handle: may be French, from the early twentieth or late nineteenth century.
It's very elegant functional.
ref. O/7571
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Ettore Eramosa Brown Marble Backgammon Board
By Giobagnara
Located in Milan, IT
Part of the Ettore collection, this elegant backgammon board is so striking that can be displayed on a living room coffee table, console, or side table as a superb decorative object....
Category
2010s Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble
$3,398 / item
Smoking set Knuth and manufactured Soldi & Scati
Located in Guazzora, IT
The original 1950s emerald green resin ashtray with lighter, designed by designer Knuth, is a charming piece of midcentury design. This period, known for its clean lines, innovative...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
$95 Sale Price
78% Off
Ceramic Medieval Chessboard with Chesses, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
This Ceramic Medieval Chess is a ceramic chess set consisting of medieval characters and a wooden chessboard.
Dimensions: cm 26 x 60 x 60.
Good conditions.
The shape of the set reminds an ancient medieval castle.
If you are fascinated by crusaders, knights, steel armor, castles or dragons, this medieval chess set...
Category
1970s European Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Mahjong Game Board in Black Polished Ebony Passione Di Gioco
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Ebony polished mahjong with ruthenium brass parts.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ebony
Pianoforte tedesco con preziosi legni di frutta e intagli 1930
Located in Cantù, IT
Pianoforte tedesco anni anni 30. Restaurato nelmeccanismo ed arricchito
con preziosi legni di frutta e intagli. A sobbalzo fatti da autentici artisti ebanisti intagliatori. Private c...
Category
19th Century Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
A pair of celestial and terrestrial globes, E.Pini, Gussoni & Dotti, Italy 1892.
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of Italian globes. On an ebonized wooden base, worked on the lathe, with a circular foot and perfect patina, are placed: a celestial globe of 9,2 inches, compiled by the enginee...
Category
1890s Italian Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Italian Parchment Map of the City of Pisa Dated, 1640
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Florence, Tuscany
An antique map of the Tuscan city of Pisa engraved for The 'Itinerarium Italiæ Nov-antiquæ' by Matthäus Merian the Elder and printed in 1640....
Category
1640s Italian Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Vitra Miniature "Wiggle Side" Chair by Frank Gehry Designed in 1972
By Frank Gehry, Vitra
Located in Naples, IT
For more than two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has been making miniature replicas of the most important pieces of its design furniture collection. The Miniatures Collection summa...
Category
Early 2000s German Mid-Century Modern Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Engraved boxwood sun clock English manufacture mid-19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Engraved boxwood diptych sun clock with brass hinges and locking hooks, book-shaped, mid-19th-century English manufacture. The clock has an orientation compass inserted in the base w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Miniature Furniture and Chairs from the 60s
Located in Lugo, IT
Miniature furniture and chairs from the 60s
A piece of furniture is missing a rubber and a non-original red knob
Good condition.
Thanks
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
$3,330 / set
Nautical compass on cardan joint signed La Filotecnica Milano from the early 1900s
Located in Milan, IT
Nautical compass on gimbal made by Filotecnica Milano of the early 1900s. The compass consists of a copper and glass vessel; at the bottom, a metal stem is attached to which rests t...
Category
1910s Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
Women's Leather- Covered Bicycle Natural
By Bottega Conticelli
Located in Milan, IT
More than a method of transportation, this women's bicycle is a collector's item. Covered in hand sewn leather, it will make a striking impression no matter where you go. It can withstand all weather conditions due to its water-resistant, natural wax coating and acquires a unique patina over time. A matching, handwoven basket...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
$5,060 / item
Paravia Magnetism and Electricity Cassette with Original Instruments, 1960su2028
By Paravia
Located in Milano, IT
Paravia, scientific instruments, vintage educational kit, 1960s, Norstedts, magnetism, optics, thermology, mechanics, applied electricity, top vintage lab, educational set, experimen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper, Magnets
Pisa Tower Box
By Pinetti
Located in Milan, IT
Compact, elegant, and functional, this captivating box set is an iconic board game that will be a timeless addition to a living room decor. The 54 pieces are crafted of Canaletto walnut accented with biege, white, and red lateral leather bands. The pieces neatly fit in a beige leather box, the contrast between the supple leather and the hard wood enhancing the set's visual sophistication. This one-of-a-kind set will be a spectacular addition to a games...
Category
2010s Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Wood
$2,415 / item
Blaupunkt Colorado 60's Plant
By Blaupunkt
Located in Milano, IT
System with power of 5 5 W. consisting of tube radio, and turntable in addition Bluetooth system (BT 5.3) that allows you to connect any kind of smartphones and tablets, all complete...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Set of 3 Vintage Parker Pens, 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Set of 3 Vintage Parker Pens.
With their original box.
Excellent condition.
Category
1990s Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
$356 / item
21th Century Italian Sterling Silver Chalice
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Liturgical chalice in sterling silver.
Volutes have been embossed on the base of the chalice, typical of the Baroque style, interspersed with hammered parts.
A golden cup...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
$3,035 Sale Price
20% Off
Bussola nautica da tasca in ottone, firmata 5m LANCERS COMPASS. Inghilterra 1920
Located in Milan, IT
Bussola nautica da tasca in ottone, firmata 5m LANCERS COMPASS, manifattura inglese degli anni venti. La bussola è dotata di coperchio e di anello per la catenella. Rosa su carta a o...
Category
1920s Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Pencil Aviation Drawing Depicting a Caudron G Wwi Aircraft by Riccardo Cavigioli
By Riccardo Cavigioli
Located in Milan, IT
Pencil-drawing by Riccardo Cavigioli in the early 1920s depicting a two-seat biplane airplane for reconnaissance Caudron G III, French production of 1914, equipped with a Le Rhone 80...
Category
1920s Italian Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Jeweled walking stick, Lilies of the Valley, by Renato Brozzi, Italy 1900.
By Renato Brozzi
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: Art Nouveau jeweled stick, L-shaped knob in 800/1000 silver (parts of the knob are gilded) worked in repoussé and finished with a chisel, depicting a floral motif: bra...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Silver
Tabula Aurea Chessboard
By Giordano Viganò
Located in Milan, IT
This wooden chessboard features an edge covered in ebony wood and silver. The top is foldable and becomes a box that contains the pieces. The top layer of each piece is covered by si...
Category
2010s Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
$26,565 / item
Scientific wooden model of the architecture of a dairy farm, Italy of the 40s
Located in Milan, IT
Miniature scientific model (Scale 1/100) for educational use, entirely handmade, in painted wood, depicting an architectural project of a dairy farm, external views and the laborator...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Compass by hand magnetic sensing, signed Henry Browne & Son early 1900s
Located in Milan, IT
Compass by hand magnetic sensing, signed Henry Browne & Son Ltd Sestrel Made in England, No. 6162/B Barking & London early 1900s Height 25 cm - inches 9.8, compass diameter 10.5 ...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Fassamano French Tortoise Antique Eyeglasses Second Half 19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Fassamano (from the French face-a-main) eyeglasses with handle that turns into a case shaped like the lenses; dark tortoise eyeglasses, oval lenses...
Category
1860s French Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Stick Barometer Mahogany Board Antique Weather Measuring Instrument J. Ramsden
By Jesse Ramsden
Located in Milan, IT
Stick barometer mounted on a mahogany board complete with vernier reading the variation of atmospheric pressure signed by Jesse Ramsden, end of the 18th century.
Very good condition...
Category
1780s Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Ciclotte Bike in Glass Fiber by Luca Schieppati
By Luca Schieppati
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ciclotte Bike is an innovative exercise bike, designed and made in Italy, that combines idea, form and technology rethinking the traditional aesthetic an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass
$16,758 / item
Walking stick, with painted miniature of St. Luke, Giulio Zanetti Italy 1860.
By Giulio Zanetti
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: jeweled walking stick, silver knob in the shape of a milord worked in tourchon, with finely engraved and gilded parts. At the top of the knob, a miniature painted in e...
Category
1850s Italian Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Silver, Enamel
Austro-Hungarian period safe F. WERTHEIM & C. with key, 1800s
By Alfred Wertheimer
Located in Manzano, IT
Austro-Hungarian period safe F. WERTHEIM & C. with key, 1800s
Style
Vintage
Periodo del design
Before 1890s
Production Period
Before 1890s
Year Manufactured
1800
Maker
Wertheim & C.
...
Category
Early 1800s Austrian Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
Orologi Da Polso Book, 771 Illustrations, 401 Pages, 1988
By Priula & Verlucca, H. Kahlert, R. Muhe, G.L. Brunner
Located in Sacile, PN
Orologi Da Polso book Priula e Verlucchi edition 1988
771 illustrations, 401 pages.
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
GUFRAMINI Pratone by Ceretti, Derossi & Rosso - 1stdibs New York
By Gufram Furniture, Riccardo Rosso, Piero Derossi and Giorgio Ceretti
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
The mini Pratone® plays with the juxtaposition of a "large-small" proportion by reducing to 7/8 the giant Pratone that was designed in 1972 by Ceretti, Derossi, and Rosso, and exhibited that year at the MoMA as part of the Italy: The New Domestic Landscape exhibition. Just like the original version, the base of the "mini" sculpture shows the writing ‘Pratone’ on one of the sides, and 42 soft stems stretching in different directions complete the radical look of this little icon.
As if in a fairy tale, the Gufram icons have become smaller and have now turned into Guframini®! The most radical Italian design...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Gilded Antique Friezes for Furniture
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
- Rare gilded friezes for furniture, to enrich Your door, Your mirror, Your headboard of bed etc. -
O/6842 - crown antique in gilt bronze - cm. 26 x height 1...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Beaux Arts Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
$1,070 / set
Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere Charles-François Delamarche Paris, 1805-1810 Circa
By Charles Francois Delamarche
Located in Milano, IT
Charles-François Delamarche
Ptolemaic armillary sphere
Paris, circa 1805-1810
Wood and papier-mâché
covered with printed and partly hand-coloured paper
It measures 15.74” in height, ...
Category
Early 1800s French Empire Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Wood
Radiofonografo Cubo RR 126 Fo by F.lli Castiglioni for Brionvega
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Brionvega
Located in modena, Emilia-Romagna
First series of the famous Brionvega RR 126 FO cube.
Produced in 1965 and fully restored has the following features:
- silk-screen printing and high-gloss lacqu...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
1890 Small Antique Nautical Brass Pelorus Boyce-Meyer Pelorus Bronxonville N.Y
Located in Milan, IT
Antique small brass Pelorus, signed Boyce-Meyer Pelorus Bronxonville N.Y., made in the late of the XIX century. It has a sight system with a compass card with eight winds and goniome...
Category
1890s American Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1950s Anatomical Teaching Model Of Normal Size Depicting A Hoolow Foot
Located in Milan, IT
Anatomical teaching model of normal size depicting a hollow foot in section showing a strong accentuation of the plantar arch and how the foot rest is mainly on the forefoot and heel...
Category
1950s Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Vintage Tin Toy Car, 1990s - Retro Collectible Charm
Located in Manzano, IT
Vintage Tin Toy Car, 1990s - Retro Collectible Charm
Add a touch of nostalgia to your collection with this vintage tin car toy from the 1990s. Expertly crafte...
Category
1990s Italian Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron
$1,284 Sale Price
40% Off
Boatswain's whistle in brass and copper English manufacture of the 1920s
Located in Milan, IT
Boatswain's whistle made of brass and copper English manufacture of the 1920s, on the sides anchor. Length 13.x2.5x1.8 cm - inches 5.3x0.8x0.7. Good condition.
This type of whistle i...
Category
1920s Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Vintage Schick Razor, 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Schick Shaver with bakelite handle.
Good condition.
Category
1940s European Vintage Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Fassamano French Tortoise antique Eyeglasses second half 19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Fassamano (from the French face-a-main) eyeglasses with handle that turns into a case shaped like the lenses; dark tortoise eyeglasses, oval lenses...
Category
1860s French Antique Italy - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Mechanical Equatorial Sundial, Johann Michael Bergauer, Ante 1745
By Johann Michael Bergauer
Located in Milano, IT
Johann Michael Bergauer (Simonsfeld, 1676 - Innsbruck, 1745 circa)
Mechanical equatorial sundial
Signed: Michael Bergauer Insprugg? Innsbruck?
Ante 1745
Gilded and silvered brass; glass.
Measures: closed 1.29 x 3.50 x 4.92 in (33 x 89 x 125 mm); open 5.19 x 3.50 x 3.81 in (132 x 89 x 97 mm).
Weight: the sundial 0.49 lb (224 g); the case 0, 20 lb (95 g)
Original wooden case covered in brown leather.
State of conservation: very good. It has some signs of use. The spring that allowed for the two parts of the instrument to remain open is missing (absent even in the comparative specimens kept in museums).
The sundial is composed of two overlapping plates hinged together on the north edge.
The base plate is octagonal and is supported by three turned legs. The upper face is gilded and a compass with a magnetic variation index has been inserted. The rest of the surface is occupied by a rich decoration of engraved scrolls, centered around the inscription “Michael Bergauer Insprugg”. A foldable oval support with a plumb-bob is attached with a hinge on the southern edge. On the reverse of the base plate a table of the latitudes of some European cities (expanded with the vertical writing “Meiland 40” on the edge and “Rome” deleted) and of Jerusalem has been engraved. A Cam marked for 0 °-70 ° is applied near the northern edge. This can be adjusted to change the inclination of the upper plate according to the latitude; originally a spring, now lost, made it possible to keep the two plates of the clock open.
The second plate is round, has a toothed edge and measures 3.26 in (83 mm) in diameter: it is slightly smaller than the octagonal base which it rests upon and overlaps when the instrument is closed.
The recto is gilded and there are three concentric graduated circles engraved on it:
- the outermost is the equatorial hour dial, numbered I-XII, I-XII;
- the second-one is that of days 1-30 of the lunar month and has “Aetas lunae” engraved on it;
- the third, silvered, is a subsidiary hour dial, with double numbering 1-12; originally it could have been rotated.
The engravings of the first two circles are enameled in red.
In the center - on the polar axis - there is an alidade, at the end of which is associated the silvered minute dial. This, in turn, is welded, perpendicularly, to a small disc, also silvered, with a triangular gnomon. The plate, alidade and minute dial are connected to each other by toothed mechanisms.
Below is the procedure for measuring the time:
1) Adjust the Cam under the base of the clock, based on the latitude of your location;
2) Place the watch on a flat surface using the plumb-bob and with the side closest to the compass facing south;
3) Keeping the instrument still, manually rotate the alidade until the shadow cast by the triangular gnomon on the small silvered disc falls on the line marked below it;
4) The hour and minutes can therefore be read on the hour and minute dials set on the alidade respectively.
Johann Michael Bergauer, who sometimes only signs his works as Michael Bergauer, was born in Simonsfeld, north of Vienna. His apprenticeship as a watchmaker took place in Landshut and he probably worked as a laborer in Augsburg before becoming a watchmaker at the court of Karl Philipp von der Pfalz in Innsbruck in 1708. In the following years, his repeated attempts to obtain Innsbruck citizenship are documented and, in 1721, he is listed as a resident. In 1724 he was admitted to the guild of watchmakers, with which however he had continuous problems. In 1732 he presented a "masterpiece". This is the last reference to his business; he must have died before or in 1745 because in that year his widow appealed to the City Council.
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