Collectibles and Curiosities on Sale

Refurbished antique oak wood Victor Type M Phonograph Talking Machine record player with it's horn. Some minor dings in the horn. Please see images...

Georg Jensen exceptionally rare No 4 Necklace C.1915. The foliate links with oxidized stippled background against polished silver each bezel set with pairs of oval coral colour caboc...

Austrian Jugendstil enamel copper Brooch Josef Hoffmann Wiener Werkstatte circa 19010 Black White Gold Josef Hoffmann was one of the most active desig...

Dyer, Frank Lewis and Thomas Commerford Martin. Edison: His Life and Inventions. New York: Harper & Bros., 1910. First Edition. Two Volumes, Octavo. In the publisher's original cloth...

Hilton, Harold H., Smith, Garden G., The Royal & Ancient Game of Golf. London: The London and Counties Press Association Ltd., 1919. Published for Golf Illust...

Evans, C.S. (editor). Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Cinderella. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1919. Numbered #20/300 copies of the Edition de Luxe, printed on Japanese vellum, and s...

Le Mobilier Français en Russie. Meubles des XVIIe & XVIIIe siècles et du commencement du XIXe conservés dans les Palais et les musées impériaux et...

An iconic poster by the master, Leonetto Cappiello, this striking stone lithograph from 1912 features an elephant as the mascot for cigarette rolling...

A beautifully colored and patinated set of three antique juggling pins. These are well-used and have acquired a deep character and rich color. ...

Presented is an original World War I poster by Frances Adams Halstead from 1916. The poster features a depiction of figure "Columbia" holding a large American flag as she stands atop a globe. The figure is set against a light blue background with text reading "Columbia Calls" above in yellow and "Enlist now for U.S. Army below in black bold letters. This recruitment poster shows the symbolic figure Columbia in center. Columbia was a poetic name for the female personification of the United States, or sometimes even The New World according to Europeans. Frances Adams Halstead designed both the poster itself and the poem that accompanies it. By 1916 Halstead was convinced that war between Germany and the United States was inevitable. After the U.S. entered into the war in 1917, the U.S. Department of War purchased 500,000 of Halstead’s poster. Halstead pledged the proceeds of the sale to an established home for orphaned children and American soldiers. Italian-American artist Vincent Aderente produced the illustration for the piece in accordance with Halstead's design. The poster features Halstead's original poem in the lower right hand corner of the composition. At the top of the poem is a very small swastika symbol. Prior to the Nazi’s party adoption of the symbol in 1920, the swastika was actually used to represent good luck and success. Swastika, a Sanskrit word, literally translates to “good to be.” The symbol is small, but it is associated with good luck and fortune as the poster was completed years before Nazi Germany of WWII. Here, the allegorical figure of Columbia inspires a sense of encouragement to men willing and able to join the war effort. As was common in a great deal of WWI posters...

Kendall & Co. of Paris A highly unusual green onyx and Sterling silver cigar ashtray, the central bowl also lined with onyx features four, wide cigar rests, and the tray is set on...

Spanish Navy Isla (Isle) de Luzon, built in 1886 for the Spanish Navy as a second-class cruiser. circa 1915. The U.S. Navy took possession of her, following the Spanish-American war and had her towed to Singapore to repair damage. She was reboilered with Babcock & Wilcox boilers in 1911 and now had two smoke stakes USS Isla de Luzon commissioned in the United States Navy on 31 January 1900, Commander J. V. B. Bleecker in command. After going through the Suez Canal, she arrived at Pensacola, Florida on 16 March 1903. Later she was transferred to the Missouri Naval Militia, and, two years later, to the Illinois Naval Militia on the Great Lakes. During World War I, in April 1917, Isla de Luzon was located in Chicago as a training vessel on the Great Lakes. The Isla de Luzon decommissioned 15 February 1919 and was designated as yard Craft at the Naval Torpedo Station, Rhode Island until her name was struck from the Navy on 23 July 1919. The Luzon was sold 10 March 1920 the Bahama & West Indies Trading Co., New York and renamed Reviver. The photograph is signed by Admiral George Dewey...