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Best of the BEST! 17th to 19th c. French sterling silver, Georgian jewelry, sewing etc
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$506 USD SaleSALE Magnificent Antique Ivory Card Case, Victorian & with Sterling Silver Pencil
Antiques:Ivory
This is my favorite type of antique card cases, partly owing to the fact that they're large in size and will not only hold today's standard business cards, but also because you can tuck in a few credit cards, a few $100 bills, a house key, and off you go for an evening out, or a business after-hours, with your drop-dead gorgeous little conversation piece in hand. Yes, I've used these as evening cases, business card cases, as well as just an item to struggle over at home as I try to decide ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Pristine Antique Napoleon III Ivory Calling Card Case, Necessaire
Antiques:Ivory
Remarkable antique French 1840-70 Napoleon III era carved ivory calling card case, pristine condition with incised & enamel filled monogram and original baffled interior! Solid genuine ivory covers front, back and binding and all as fine as can be with only a tiny nip to the bottom of the binding panel. An ornate interlaced monogram centered on the front panel, engraved and then filled with a blue enamel. Beautiful! Nothing too frilly, just an elegant old ivory case! The interior in an expanding ...
$251 USD SaleSALE RARE Georgian Era Toothpick, 12k Gold Retracting Vanity Tool
Antiques:Ivory
We've got a fine collection of antique Georgian/Napoleonic era to Victorian era toothpick cases in inventory, not a single one of which retains the original old gold toothpicks within. Then we found this elegant old one - a retracting pick for tooth scraping and picking, ivory handle (yes, it's got 2 small splits from age shrinkage), which works perfectly with the gold slide button on side. Sanitized, but you probably don't intend to use it anyway. If you've got your own collection of ivory and ...
$676 USD SaleSALE RARE Antique 1700s Ivory Pique Etui, Snuff Box - Marie-Antoinette Era Treasure - 1750-1790
Antiques:Ivory
Well, having waited months and months for the CITES certification process before we could import the wonderful ivory and shell treasures found during our last buying trip to France, we're listing quite a few today. What a chore - even the French CITES office didn't know how to fill out the certificates for USA and told us we didn't need it for antique items, but we aim to please our Gov., and so we do have these antique items fully documented. That said, this fabulous hand painted table snuff ...
$1,101 USD SaleSALE RARE Antique 1700s Painted Ivory Etui, Snuff Box - Marie-Antoinette Era Treasure - 1750-1790
Antiques:Ivory
Well, having waited months and months for the CITES certification process before we could import the wonderful ivory and shell treasures found during our last buying trip to France, we're listing quite a few today. What a chore - even the French CITES office didn't know how to fill out the certificates for USA and told us we didn't need it for antique items, but we aim to please our Gov., and so we do have these antique items fully documented. That said, this fabulous hand painted table snuff ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Superb Antique French Necessaire, Dieppe Carved Ivory Carnet du Bal or Dance Card
Antiques:Ivory
The carving and condition of the ivory on this elegant mid-1800s 'necessaire' or dance card (carnet du bal) is remarkable in that there is not a single petal or leaf with damage or loss. The raised bas relief carving is adeptly achieved, and has all the earmarks of being from the acclaimed carver's community of Dieppe, France; typically just called 'Dieppe' and known as being among the finest old ivory carvings. The ivory is African elephant tusk and is over 150 years of age, legally imported. ...
$506 USD SaleSALE Antique Cigar or Spectacles Case, Ivory and Silk, Leather
Antiques:Ivory
Perfect now for use as an evening purse, tucking your glasses, credit cards and a few $ bills (probably $100 bills, right?) into the several pockets within, along with your car key or house keys, maybe a small compact or lipstick. The leather baffled sides expand so you can actually plan on a bit more space as you fill it up. Of course, these cases were originally made to house a gentleman's cigars, several on each side, and this one would have also housed folded flats of matches, rather than ...
$506 USD SaleSALE Antique Georgian Era Carved Ivory Alphabet Game, Box, c. 1700s
Antiques:Ivory
A most unusual little treasure; a game of some sort or teaching aid for children (thought it seems so fragile for a child's toy), the alphabet in capital letters, missing just a single one (Y), and still housed in the perfectly preserved tiny box that is less than 2" in length. A fabulous find! Dates latest 1700s to as late as 1840. We think it is English in origin. Very good to excellent condition for age and type. We find that not a single letter is broken, and only one is missing (Y). The box ...
$234 USD SaleSALE Antique French Coin Purse, Ivory and Silk, Enamel Plaque Miniature
Antiques:Ivory
With a wonderfully preserved silk lining, still sectioned in the manner of the mid-late 19th century coin purses commonly given to children upon religious confirmation, this beautiful little treasure has the added interest of a fine old French enameled plaque, likely much earlier, (c. early 1800s). While we don't believe this coin purse would have originally come with such a plaque, and we think it predates the coin purse, it's a lovely accent to the purse, even with its obvious flaws, and the ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian Era Ivory Opera Glasses, Binocular. Case or Etui
Antiques:Ivory
I just want to go to a sporting event, race track or opera - somewhere that begs me to bring this stunning old Victorian era set of binoculars out of my bag and put them to use. The superb old ivory barrels and eyepieces are so opulent; feel so heavy and decadent in the hands, and with crisp clear lenses, a perfect way to elevate your enjoyment of any event. And when you're not using them, rest them atop a little stack of old leather-bound books on a table top for a perfect vignette in your ...
$251 USD SaleSALE Antique Patch Box 'Boite a' Mouche' in hand Carved Ivory, Dieppe, France
Antiques:Ivory
With the typical finely carved fruit and flowers that assures us this is from Dieppe, the small port village on the western coast of France, long known for the Master carvers and finest ivory work in Europe, 17th through 19th century. This little patch box or rouge pot would date early to mid-1800s, and with only a small age/drying crack on the rim of the top, it survives quite admirably and well. Superb carving, much prettier in person. Ivory is so difficult to photograph well! Good to very ...
$1,016 USD SaleSALE Vernis Martin Antique Carved Ivory Patch Box - c. 1700s - Marie-Antoinette era hand painted ivory
Antiques:Ivory
Absolutely French, this glorious hand painted in the manner of Vernis Martin (look up the process on the internet to learn more about this favorite decorative style of Marie-Antoinette), this superb ivory patch box is a remarkable 200 years old and more - the experts invariably date these to the Louis XIV period, 1700s to earliest 1800s. I fully agree with them, and the museum piece you see here might well have spent time at Versailles amid the courtiers of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette's ...
$506 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian Carved Ivory Pig, Large, A Toothpick Stand or Pin Cushion
Antiques:Ivory
With a cork set in the recess carved into his back, this wonderful Victorian era carved ivory pig was most certainly a toothpick holder or a pin cushion in his original state and era. The cork is very old, probably the old original one, and it's been 'picked to death', so to speak, could be replaced if you wanted to use it for toothpicks, or just left as it is to hold pins and needles. He's got the cutest face, and a well-padded anatomy that you're just going to love. He's also got an old ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Antique Dual Hair Memento Ivory Patch Box, 18K Gold Mounts - RARE and wonderful!
Antiques:Ivory
What a superb antique patch box! The papered lining still in place, and the 18K gold framed insets of thickly plaited hair are both in place and pristine, as well. The case is, as noted, a patch box. We're often asked what a patch box is, or what 'patches' are, more often. The fashion within France, in particular and later throughout Europe during the mid1700s to early 1800s was to have a noticeable beauty mark. Whlie some very few fortunate souls had them, most applied them along with their ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Antique Victorian Carved Ivory Wolf/Bear Glove Stretcher - Black Forest Germany Carving
Antiques:Ivory
I think this is a wolf, and then I look and decide it is a bear, instead. I'll leave it to you to decide. It's a wonderful old carving, figural, and in great condition there atop the handles of this extra large (gentleman's) glove stretcher from the Victorian era. There is a very old repair to one side; apparently some very strong 'bear' of a gentleman needed to pry his gloves to a much larger manly size at some point and created a break in the one side, as is visible there with the pinned ...
$931 USD SaleSALE Antique French Missal, 1800s Ivory Necessaire & Coin - RARE 19th Century Boxed Set of 3
Antiques:Ivory
&Carved in tusk ivory, this beautiful mid-1800s French communion gift set of prayer book (missal or missel) with crucifix on the cover; a 'necessaire' or note pad in ivory cover; and the attending coin purse as well, all still in the original fitted and HUGE leather presentation case with domed top - This is the first we've had in ages, and with the large size box beautifully preserved as are its contents, it's a RARE treat! No chips or cracks or flaws in the natural tusk ivory covers, which are ...
$336 USD SaleSALE Antique Dieppe, French Carved Ivory Needle Case, Etui or Necessaire, c.1840-60, Sewing Item
Antiques:Ivory
The beautifully hand carved ivory front cover with it's outer border of fruits and florals is a certainty to have been carved by the famed Dieppe, France seafarers who learned their craft in the long journeys to and from the exotic ports from which the stores of Paris were moved in the 16th through 19th centuries. Dieppe is a sleepy western coast of France seaport village now, but it once was the port through which goods were brought in from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The sailors stayed on ...
$506 USD SaleSALE Antique French Coin Purse, Vernis Martin HP on Ivory, c. 1810-60, Manner of Boucher, Fragonard
Antiques:Ivory
In the manner of layered painting and varnish which ages to golden hues over time, and which is called "Vernis Martin" or varnish in the manner of the Brothers Martin. This style was developed in the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, used on walls, furniture and small items in their time and you'll see much of it in the Palace at Versailles when you tour there. These smaller items, objet de virtu, the dates are often a bit later. The painted ivory coin purse you see here would date early ...
$676 USD SaleSALE Antique Georgian 18k and Enamel 'Souvenir' Etui, 'Boite a' Mouche', Patch Box or Toothpick Box,
Antiques:Ivory
This little French etui, either once held toothpick and teeth cleaning implements, or it held patches (the little black dots men and women, alike, applied to their faces in mid-1700s to late 1700s). The box is enhanced by a raised border of cut steel 'jewels', and further by the deep convex raised cartouche of glass covering a foiled or enameled cobalt blue ground with raised ornament of 18k gold (as is the frame on the cartouche, I might add) that says, "souvenir", is encircled by a neat row of ...
$1,526 USD SaleSALE Antique Etui, Miniature Sepia Paintings, 18K Gold, Ivory - c. 1780-1820, Napoleonic Era Love Memento
Antiques:Ivory
With iconography of faithfulness (the dog), love (the letter in the hands of the young woman), devotion and honor (the making of a victory wreath of vines being made by a mother) worked into each tiny grisaille painting, this one was most certainly a special gift, perhaps from a Napoleonic soldier to his love who was to wait for him - the delicate paintings are very small, only about 1 1/8" high and slightly over 1/2" wide, yet are charming depictions, full of life and emotion. The gold frames ...
$209 USD SaleSALE Dieppe, France Antique Ivory Card Case, Necessaire
Antiques:Ivory
This charming antique ivory card case, necessaire, (sometimes noted as a 'carnet bal' or dance card), it was often also a gift upon first communion, along with a matching coin purse for offerings and a prayer book with matching covers. The ivory has no flaws or cracks, very slight warping. The Ivory carved & monogrammed cartouche is superbly done, remains tight and well set. This is elephant tusk ivory, and these came from mid-1800s ivory imports into Dieppe, France. Very good condition ...
$421 USD SaleSALE French, Dieppe! Splendid Antique Ivory Cigar Case, Etui
Antiques:Ivory
The western coastline seaport village of Dieppe, France has a very long history as Paris' importing port, and one thing it's also marked as is one of the premiere enclaves of ivory carvers in the 18th and 19th centuries. The artisan colony that congregated there near the shipyards must have reveled in the imports of tusks, and picked over every load to find the finest ivory. The carved ivory busts, figures, purses, coin purses, cases of all sorts that emerged from the hands of those artists and ...
$421 USD SaleSALE Fabulous Hand Carved Dieppe, France, Ivory Powder or Trinket Box, Victorian Era
Antiques:Ivory
Ah, the stunning old fruit and florals carved in the French seaport village of Dieppe, along the westernmost coastline, and famous for its remarkably beautiful carvings in this natural old ivory. This one is larger than others we've had or have, and would have been a powder or trinket box rather than a patch box as most are. It is 2 1/2 inches in diameter, and is a lovely one to display. Some damage, shown well in our images. Good to very good condition, this one has an old restoration to the ...
SOLDSOLD Fab Antique Dieppe Carved Ivory Cover, French Prayer Book or Missal
Antiques:Ivory
Fabulous & rare 19th century French Napoleon III era missal or prayer book with elegant Dieppe, France carved genuine ivory cover with figural ivory medallion of cattails, Holy chalice or goblet and dove! I just love these old ivory covers, such time and care taken to carve the delicate ornamentation and this one is not only fully complete but in nearly pristine condition! Ivory covers front, back AND binding, even an ornate reticulated bronze clasp, no detail spared on this one. The original ...| Items 1 - 24 of 24 | Page 1 of 1 |
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