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Platinum ring featuring a beautiful oval earth mined ruby weighing 1.10 carats. Heavy simple platinum setting. High quality pure red ruby measures abo...

Exquisite "Virginian" by Oneida sterling silver flatware set, 92 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 9" 12 forks, 7 1/8" 12 salad forks, 6 1/4" 12 teaspoons, 6" 12 flat handle but...

14k White Gold 1/2ct Genuine Natural Diamond Ring with Sapphire Halo (#J4626) 14k white gold diamond and blue sapphire ring. The ring...

Incredible platinum pin/pendant featuring a large Australian black boulder opal. The opal has blue-green play of color with brown ironstone. The large opal measures about 22mm x 14mm...

Art Deco 14K white gold filigree ring featuring 3.34ct antique cushion cut aquamarine, measuring about 10mm x 9mm. The color of the gem is best represented on the hand, not as blue a...

Stunning MILBURN ROSE BY WESTMORLAND sterling silver Flatware set - 93 Pieces. This set includes: 12 KNIVES, 9" 12 FORKS, 7 1/4" 12 SALAD FORKS, 6 3/8" 12 TEASPOONS, 6" 12 CREAM SOU...

Valdres by Th. Marthinsen (Norway) 830 silver flatware set with ornate pierced handle, 46 pieces. This set includes: 8 Dinner Knives, 9 1/2" 8 Dinner Forks, 7 5/8" 8 Luncheon/De...

Bountiful by Oneida sterling silver flatware set, 77 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 9" 12 Forks, 7 1/4" 12 Salad Forks, 6 1/2" 12 Teaspoons, 6" 12 Place Soup Spoons, 6 1/2" 1...

Bella unbelievable Botanical & Architectural Gem antique rug About: Well... what is there to say about this rug that eyes can't see. It is beyond beautiful, beyond jaw-dropping, and more than grand - it is all-encompassing. It is vast in it's nourishment to the eyes and to the soul - a source of giving. Every single knot is tied with dedication, you can see that because the workmanship is unreal. Every color dyed with natural dyes, which you can see because of the richness and depth in each centimeter. The design of this rug incorporates the rich and luscious gardens of Persia, mixed with the iconic inspired architecture of the old empire. The handful of borders woven in this piece really frame the center perfectly. Each border could be a solo border of another rug, the detail, intricacy, and fluidity create a nice flow for the eyes before we get into the fairy tale in the center. The four corner spandrels are remarkably detailed surrounding the pistachio green finial...

Georg Jensen Sterling Silver “Parallel” AKA “Relief” flatware. Designed by Oscar Gunlach-Pedersen, for Georg Jensen's Silversmithy 1931. Gunlach-Pedersen trained as a sculptor and ar...

Named for the Richard the Lion Hearted, this pattern was inspired by the rich architectural decoration of old English mansions. Introduced in 1932, the design appears to be deeply ca...

Slender and graceful, the smooth clean lines of this refined pattern are distinguished with deeply carved floral ornaments at the tip and neck. Raised borders along the fluted stem e...

Harold Altman was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League, the Black Mountain College, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and was a graduate of ...

Antique Botanical Beauty with Magenta, Green, Mocha, Ice Blue & Canary Yellow About: Really lovely piece Size: 8.11 x 12.1 Age: Antique C. 1930's Pile: Medium velvety wool with nic...

"Giving a Sign (C-33)" is an original black serpentine stone sculpture by Colleen Madamombe. The artist signed the piece at the base. This artwork features a woman in a large, textured dress gesturing to her side. 11" x 11" x 6" art Colleen Madamombe was born in 1964 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Considered to be among the finest new talents from Zimbabwe, she has won the award of Best Female Artist of Zimbabwe for the past three consecutive years, and is quickly becoming an established figure of the Second Generation of Zimbabwean stone...

14K White gold filigree bar pin brooch featuring 5 cornflower blue Montana sapphires and seed pearls. GIA report#2235187921 states round brilliant cut natural unheated blue sapphires...

Exquisite rare Dinner Size Les Cinq Fleurs by Reed and Barton sterling silver Flatware set, 63 pieces. This set includes: 12 Dinner Size Knives with blunt plated blades, 10 1/4" 12 ...

With a dedication to perfection and quality, Christofle flatware creations unite craftsmanship and modern technique, resulting in flatware to be handed down through generations. Po...

These handsome but quirky brothers designed by Miguel and Ilse Silva for Wooda are the result of an engaging mix of personality, love, fun and mischievousness. Los Hermanos Calavera(...

Rare "Gorham-Plain" by Gorham Sterling silver flatware set - 102 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner forks, 7 1/2". 12 luncheon forks, 7". 12 salad forks, 6 1/2". 11 teaspoons, 5 7...

14K white gold filigree .14ct diamond ring. The European cut diamond weighs .14cts and has I1 clarity and H-I color and measures about 3mm. The diamonds are set with 4 new prongs. Th...

Drawing inspiration from the iconic “Captain’s Chair,” a fixture of his childhood summers on Cape Cod, Scott Mason’s next-generation design, the Pilot Lounge Chair for Wooda, combines 3D modeling and CNC wood...

Original color lithograph poster by Rene Prejelan. Ponctua (The best and least expensive precision watch), 1910. A fine watch at a fine price- and the...

12 knives 9 1/8", 12 forks 7 1/4", 12 salad forks 6 1/2", 12 teaspoons 6", 12 cream soup spoons 6 3/8", 12 place soup spoons 6 3/4", 12 cocktail forks 5 5/8", 12 flat handle b...

Lovely ROSE BALLET BY INTERNATIONAL Sterling Silver flatware set - 53 pieces. This set includes: 12 KNIVES, 9 1/4" 12 FORKS, 7 1/4" 12 SALAD FORKS, 6 3/4" 12 TEASPOONS, 6" 2 SERVING...

These handsome but quirky brothers designed by Miguel and Ilse Silva for Wooda are the result of an engaging mix of personality, love, fun and mischievousness. Los Hermanos Calavera ...

English Provincial by Reed & Barton sterling silver flatware set - 32 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9 1/8". Eight forks, 7 1/2". Eight salad forks, 6 3/4". Eight teaspoon...

NORSE BY INTERNATIONAL sterling silver DINNER SIZE Flatware set - 63 Pieces. This set includes: 8 DINNER KNIVES, 9 7/8" 8 DINNER FORKS, 8" 8 SALAD FORKS, 6 3/8" 8 TEASPOONS, 6" 8 CR...

Scarce Louis XV by Birks (Canada) sterling silver Flatware set, 60 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, 8 5/8" 8 Forks, 7" 8 Pastry Forks w/bar, 6" 8 Small Teaspoons, 5 1/2" 8 Hollo...

Horizon by Easterling sterling silver flatware set, 34 pieces. Great starter set! This set includes: Six knives, 8 5/8", six for...

1ct Cushion Cut Genuine Natural Tanzanite Ring with Diamonds (#J830) Exceptionally beautiful 14k ring set in yellow gold with a cushion cut tanzanite equaling 1ct and measuring 7.1m...

This hand-knotted 4' x 6' Persian rug in soft sage, blue, and plum organic wool blends traditional floral design with a calming, contemporary palette. Expertly crafted by skilled art...

14k Gold 2 Carat Blue Genuine Natural Sapphire and Diamond Halo Ring (#J3800) 14k white gold ring featuring a very fine round blue sapphire weighing 1.53 carats. The sapphire has ve...

Strasbourg by Gorham sterling silver flatware set of 304 pieces. This large set includes: 48 knives, 8 7/8", 48 forks, 7 1/8", 48 salad forks, 6 3/8", 48 teaspoons, 5 7/8", 48 c...

The accent is on form and symmetry in Royal Danish, which takes its influence from the traditional artistry of Scandinavia. Bold openwork reflects this modern interpretation, even on...

Art Deco "Park Avenue" by Manchester circa 1931 sterling silver Grille size flatware set, 60 pieces. Grille Size features elongated handles on the knives and forks. This set includes...

Old Newbury Crafters silver is genuinely hand-made and wonderfully heavy, the machine cannot match the quality, durability, look and feel of handmade silver. Superb 40 piece sterl...

Stunning monumental Marie Antoinette by Revinet D'Enfert French vintage Silverplated Flatware set - 275 pieces. This set features a c...

"See Ya Next Week" is a giclee print on paper after a 1999 acrylic and pastel on grocery bag signed by Reginald K. Gee. A male and a female embrace in the foreground. The man's face ...

Rare Edgewood by International c1909 sterling silver Flatware set - 106 pieces. This set includes: 12 Regular Knives w/silverplated blades, 9 1/8" 12 Regular Forks, 7" 12 Salad Fork...

Buccellati is known and admired throughout the world for producing the finest quality Italian silver. The Old Italian sterling silver flatware collection from Buccellati features tim...

Solid pine coat hanger produced in Sweden in the 1970s. Features eight adjustable arms and can be taken apart. In good vintage condition with some signs of age and patina. Note:...

"La Peine Perdue (The Wasted Effort)" is a color lithograph after original 1962 painting by Rene Magritte. Two blue curtains are parted on either side. Two curtain shaped mirrors show a sky and clouds. A ball sits right to the left of the mirrors. Art: 12 x 9.75 in Frame: 22.75 x 20.38 in René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts. René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother. Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers. In 1926, René Magritte signed...

Dinner Size Serenity by International sterling silver Flatware set, 74 pieces. This set includes: 12 Dinner Size Knives, 9 1/2" 12 Dinner Size Forks, 7 5/8" 12 Salad Forks, 6 1/2" 1...

Superb highest quality Art Deco Vienna Austria 800 silver flatware service - 165 pieces. This set includes: 10 dinner size knives, 10" 10 dinner size forks, heavy, 8 3/8" (impressi...

"Lounging Reader" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and signed & dated it on the verso. This piec...

Georg Jensen Sterling Silver and Amethyst Pendant Designed By Bent Gabrielsen, design number 145 Designer: Bent Gabrielsen Maker: Georg Jensen Design #: 145 Circa: post 45 (1945-77)...

Grande Renaissance by Reed & Barton Sterling Silver Flatware 12 Set - 48 pieces. This set includes: 12 KNIVES, 9 1/8", 1 12 FORKS, 7 1/2", 12 SAL...

Gable like symbol of authority Ibibio, Nigeria, c1940

Platinum ring featuring 5 fine oval emeralds accented with small diamonds. The emeralds have bright grass green color and fine quality. The emeralds range in size from 5x3mm to 6x4mm...

The Kafi 1 (Icelandic for submerged) hors d'oeuvre board has an elongated proportion that adds a dynamic appearance to any setting large or small. Recessed bowls provide a perfect sh...

Formality by State House sterling silver flatware set, 61 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 8 1/2", 12 forks, 7 5/8", 12 s...

A pair of 14K yellow gold cufflinks featuring large Tahitian black cultured Pearls. The pearls are completely round, are free from blemishes, and have a peacock natural color. The Pe...

With a dedication to perfection and quality, Christofle flatware creations unite craftsmanship and modern technique, resulting in flatware to be handed down through generations. Th...

Vibrant colors arranged in bold rectangles form a striking artwork. Measuring 92 x 92,  this piece explores the diverse sizes and shapes possible in the humble rectangle. Its captiva...

Victorian 18K yellow gold pin with applied green gold accents featuring an enameled scene of a man and woman - a courting couple. The enamel is bright and...

Reeded Edge by Tiffany and Co. sterling silver Flatware set, 101 pieces. This pattern was introduced by Tiffany in the year 1937 and features a classic timeless Queen Anne design wit...

The present print is one of several examples produced for Nathaniel Currier by his longtime collaborator Frances F. "Fanny" Palmer. Harry T. Peters wrote of her: "There is no more interesting and appealing character among the group of artists who worked for Currier & Ives than Fanny Palmer. In an age when women, well-bred women in particular, did not generally work for a living Fanny Palmer for years did exacting, full-time work in order to support a large and dependent family ... Her work ... had great charm, homeliness, and a conscientious attention to detail." One of a series of four prints showing American country life in different seasons, the image presents the viewer with a picturesque view of a successful American farm. In the foreground, a gentleman rides a horse with a young boy before a respectable Italianate country house. Two women and a young girl pick flowers in the garden and several farm workers attend to their duties. Beyond are other homes and a city on the coast. 16.63 x 23.75 inches, artwork 28.13 x 33.38 inches, frame Entitled bottom center "American Country Life - May Morning" Signed in the stone, lower left "F.F. Palmer, Del." Signed in the stone, lower right "Lith. by N. Currier" Copyrighted lower center "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of N.Y." Inscribed bottom center "New York, Published by N. Currier 152 Nassau Street" Framed to conservation standards using silk-lined 100 percent rag matting and Museum Glass with a gold gilded liner, all housed in a stained wood moulding. Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

The pattern Rambler Rose features a trellis of "rambling roses" down the center of the handle. This pattern was first introduced by Towle in the year 1937. Monumental Rambler Rose...

For 70 years, James Robinson has been selling exquisite handmade sterling silver flatware in Sheffield, England. Today, the silver is...