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Item Ships From: Palm Springs
Antique Japanese Mitsuore Ningyo of a Girl
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Mitsuore ningyo of a girl, a jointed costume doll crafted of wood and covered in multiple layers of burnished gofun, made to stand as well as kneel, fabric and wire upper arms to facilitate costuming, a beautiful modeled face...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silk, Wood
Cartier Textured Plorgalva Gold Plated Lighter in Original Box
By Cartier
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice Cartier Gold plated lighter in a textured pattern. It comes with its original box. There are no papers with it. The lighter functions as it should as you can see in the photos...
Category
20th Century French Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate
Antique Japanese Takeda Ningyo
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Takeda Ningyo, depicting a kabuki actor on the stage, dressed in kinran dragon & cloud brocade coat with sleeves thrown back, chirimen silk crepe sleeves of inner coat embr...
Category
1820s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Early Japanese Takeda Ningyo
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Japanese Takeda Ningyo, depicting an actor on stage in the role of an emperor, standing, costumed in silk and kinran brocades holding a paper scepter (shaku), the head carved o...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Vintage Hermes “Lipstick” Lighter Working
By Hermès
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful vintage lighter by the Iconic French firm of Hermes. The lighter works on lighter fluid with a reservoir on the bottom that’s is accessed via a little screw. The spark is...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
1980’s S.T. DuPont Laque de Chine Gold Plated Lighter with Box and Papers
By S.T. Dupont
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A pretty S.T. DuPont Lighter in gold plate and Laque De Chine, Chinese Lacquer. The lighter has its original box and instruction manual, and guarantee card. It shows a purchase date...
Category
1980s French Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate
Japanese Takeda Ningyo of an Actor Playing a Warrior at Sea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Takeda Ningyo depicting an actor from a Kabuki play in a role of a warrior at the sea with his anchor design embroidered on the sleeve and the stage prop waves in the foregr...
Category
1840s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Hermes Chess Set, 1985
By Hermès, Rena Dumas
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful and elegant chess set designed by Rena Dumas for Hermes circa 1985. Come with a leather folder. Pieces are made of steel and brass. The King...
Category
1980s French Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Rare 1920’s Dunhill Unique Lighter Mother of Pearl and Horn Lift Arm Working
By Dunhill
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful early Dunhill Unique Lighter with Mother of Pearl and Horn decoration. The Unique lighter series are special and this is a working beauty. The lift arm design works well ...
Category
1920s British Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Horn, Mother-of-Pearl
Antique Chinese Black-and-White Jade Pebble Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Black-and-White Jade Pebble Snuff Bottle, nephrite carved in the overall shape of a white peach of longevity with a black bat of happiness resting...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Jade
Antique Chinese Natural Double Gourd Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Natural Double Gourd Snuff Bottle, Qing Dynasty. The long natural gourd is referred to as a double gourd having a cinched waist cent...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Organic Material
Antique Chinese Peking Red Overlay Snowflake Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Peking Red Overlay Snowflake Glass Snuff Bottle, of flattened ovoid shape with sloping shoulders, round neck, thin and flat mouth rim, raised oval foot and countersun...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
S.T. DuPont Laque De Chine Lighter with Box and Papers
By S.T. Dupont
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice DuPont Butane lighter with a laque de chine and gold plate finish. In good condition with the original box and manual and blank guarantee card. The lighter works. I’ve had a n...
Category
1980s French Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate
Antique Chinese Natural Gourd Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Natural Gourd Snuff Bottle, Qing Dynasty. A dried globular knobby gourd that is hollowed, lacquered and buffed to serve as a snuff bottle with an...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Organic Material
Antique Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Dragon Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese porcelain dragon snuff bottle, cylindrical pillar form with high shoulder, short neck, everted lip and concentric grooved base painted in underglaze cobalt blue of a single f...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Cinnabar-red Overlay White Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Cinnabar-red Overlay White Glass Snuff Bottle, 19th century. The flat oval white glass bottle has a thinn overlay of opaque dense red glass resembling cinnabar lacquer and deeply carved away in a cinnabar style to reveal a scholar’s studio with a footed vase with flower arrangement, teapot with a bird on top and a low table on one side, the other with a scene of a fish drum(token symbol of the immortal Zhang Guo Lao...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
1950 Vintage American Folk Art Band Stand Hand Painted Goofy Jazz Music Stand
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hand painted band stand folding music stand, circa 1950s. Great folk art design and Goofy dog painted. Possibly from the Jazz Mill in Phoenix. Great wall han...
Category
1950s American Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Composition, Metal
Antique Chinese Burl Wood Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese burl wood snuff bottle with a large auspicious three legged toad on the front in high relief, overall oval shape with oval foot rim and countersunk flat base, adequat...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Burl
Religious Chalkware Diorama
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Amazing religious chalkware wall hanging found in a Catholic church in Philadelphia. The pictures describe it all. Wonderful detail and dimension.
Category
19th Century American Folk Art Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster
Charles Hollis Jones Miniature O Line Rocking Chair
By Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful miniature chair/rocker from his o line series, this piece by Charles Hollis Jones is as one of his first ventures into sculpture. The piece is diminutive in scale when co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Custom Chess Set and Game Table
By Bridges over Time Originals
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A custom made walnut and maple chess set and game table we commissioned. It is solidly made with squares of curly maple and walnut. The table legs and borders are solid walnut. The c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Oak, Walnut
Rare Favre Leuba Bathy 160 US Divers Aqualung Dive Watch w/ Orange Dial & Bezel
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A stunning Rare Dive watch, this Favre Leuba Bathy 160 has a great orange dial and bezel. It model 53253. It has the Aqualung US Divers seal on the dial. Included is the original ban...
Category
1970s Swiss Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stainless Steel
Pair of Signed limited Edition Photography Books by Mel Roberts
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pair of signed Mel Roberts first edition photography books. From 2000 and 2001.
Both books are hand signed.
In great condition.
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Model of Navy Dirigible Airship
Located in Palm Springs, CA
We were fortunate and acquired this rare Pressed Tin Toy Dirigible. It depicts the U.S. Navy’s L-2 Dirigible.These early Navy Dirigibles were made for the United States in Germany by...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
A Pair of Burmese Rock Crystal Reliquaries
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Pair of Burmese Rock Crystal Reliquaries. Two Buddhist stupa shaped containers, one with a bulbous beggar’s bowl shaped body and the other with flange...
Category
18th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rock Crystal
1980’s Ivanko 22 Karat Gold Plated Weight Set
By Ivanko
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A limited edited Ivanko weight set plated in 22-karat gold made in a limited run in the early 1980s. There are four 5-pound weights, four 2.5-pound weights,...
Category
1980s American Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
19th Century Zinc Angel Kneeling on Clouds
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Most likely an alter or sanctuary piece for holding candles. Wonderful scale and perfect paint surface. Many layers of vivid colors. Appears to have been molded from two pieces.
Category
19th Century American Other Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Zinc
Vintage Huckley Barrel Carnival Game
By St. Louis Carnival Co.
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage carnival game made by the Saint Louis Carnival company. We also have the original paper game rules signs with these. Please note that not all crates are painted St. Louis Car...
Category
1940s American Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Clay, Wood
Large Quartz Crystal Specimen on a Separate Leather Covered Wood Base
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice large quartz crystal specimen sitting on a wood base that looks like it’s covered in leather and painted black. The pieces are separate and I have put a piece of felt of the b...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Wood Lawn Bowling Game Original Caddy and Bowling Balls, circa 1900
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Lawn bowling set and caddy. The best orange and yellow paint. Great as a display or design accessory. Or play the game! Complete and as good as it gets. Includes 14 wood carved pins...
Category
Early 1900s North American Folk Art Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Beautiful Piece of Quartz Crystal Mounted on a Custom Solid Zebra Wood Base
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A stunning of colored quartz crystal mounted on a custom solid zebra wood base. The piece is oddly shaped and a custom iron holder is balancing it beautifully. The exotic zebra wood ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Late 19th Century Prosthetic Hand with Leather Glove
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The quality of leather glove on this prosthetic speaks to its owner's affluence. Marked on the inside, presumably by the owner.
Category
19th Century American Steampunk Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Antique Chinese Cameo Agate Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Cameo Agate Snuff Bottle, rounded square from with raised foot rim and round neck, concave mouth rim, narrow mouth, well hollowed depicting a horse, bee and a monkey....
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Agate
Santa Rita Retablo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This late 19th century Mexican Folk Art devotional painting depicts St. Rita of Casia, the patron saint of lost and improbable causes.
Wishing to join an Augustinian convent ...
Category
19th Century Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Tin
Mid-Century American Large Scale Wood Carved C-133A Plane
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Mid-century large-scale wood carved Folk Art Cargomaster C-133A. An actual barn find discovered in Washington State farm country. Hand-carved and painted. Two pieces: wing piece atta...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Vintage Lucite Chess Set in Travel Case
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1970’s lucite chess set. The pieces are in a smoky brown and clear acrylic with a fitted case with a board built into the top. The case is vinyl I bel...
Category
1970s American Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Acrylic
Antique Chinese Black “Sea Pine” Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Black “sea pine” snuff bottle of a rocky outcropping with a fish and crayfish in relief, 4 inset green shell eyes, hollowed interior. Jadeite stopper with brass colla...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Organic Material
Andre Guiron Vallauris Lascaux Pottery
By Andre Guiron
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice bowl or cigar ashtray by the French artist Andre Guiron executed in Vallauris. It feautures Lascaux cave painting figures. Signed on the base. In good condition with minor imp...
Category
20th Century French Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pottery
Late 19th Century Spanish Colonial Carved Santos with Glass Eyes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Late 19th century hand-carved Santos with inset glass eyes and original gesso paint surface. On custom museum display stand. Base measures 6" x 6".
Category
Late 19th Century Central American Spanish Colonial Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Early Silver Plated Menorah
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice early 20th century silver plated Menorah. In estate found condition, we have not tried to polish it. Nice patina.
No markings at all, but assumed to be silver plated and Euro...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver Plate
Late 19th Century Carved Spanish Colonial Christ Nino Santo with Glass Eyes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Late 19th century carved baby Jesus Santos with glass eyes and custom display stand. Handmade with carved wood and gesso. Glass inset eyes. Left and r...
Category
19th Century South American Spanish Colonial Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Brass and Lucite Magazine Holder by Charles Hollis Jone
By Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1970’s Magazine holder by renowned American designer Charles Hollis Jone.
Constructed of clear lucite and polish brass. We also have a chrome one in a different listing.
It’s in ...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
5 Studio Del Campo 1960’s Enamel Pieces
By Studio Del Campo
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A lovely collection of 1960’s Studio Del Campo enameled pieces. There are 5 pieces, 2 lighters, 2 ashtrays and a bud vase. The vase and lighters are likely bronze or brass based, the...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Hexagon Nautical Seashell Basket
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Six sided resin waste basket or planter embellished with nautical seashells. Waste Basket measures 13.5" high and 16" diameter.
Category
1960s American Organic Modern Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Shell
Vintage Leather Medicine Ball
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage heavy leather medicine ball. Great worn chocolate brown leather patina. Hand-painted team info or weight numbers on side.
Category
1920s Unknown Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Collection of Three Black Vintage Leather Medicine Balls
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Great vintage collection of three black leather medicine balls. Excellent warm vintage patina. Traces of white painted team letters and numbers.
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
1960’s Del Campo Enamel Lighter and Ashtray
By Studio Del Campo
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice Del Campo Studios set from the 1960’s in an Enamel yellow-green color. Both pieces are marked Del Campo, Italy. The lighter is approximately 6.25 inches tall and the ashtray i...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Enamel
American Legion Baseball and Basketball Folk Art Paintings
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pair of baseball and basketball paintings found in a Midwestern American Legion hall. These were proudly displayed behind the legion hall bar. Grea...
Category
1940s American Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Wood Carved American Folk Art Muscle Car
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hand carved Folk Art American Muscle car. Wood carved with original paint surface.
Category
1950s Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Vintage Resuscitation Male Dummy Training Head
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage resuscitation man's head. Open mouth connected to tubes that would raise chest for CPR training. Resuscitation dummies were invented in th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Steampunk Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rubber
Antique Chinese Porcelain Pillar Blue & White Dragon Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese porcelain dragon snuff bottle, unusual cylindrical pillar form with no neck, unglazed top and bottom concentric grooved base, narrow aperture, painted in under glaze cobalt b...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
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