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$120 USDAntique Victorian 11" Valentine Card Multilayer Paper + Cloth w Poem Inside
Antiques:Large Victorian Valentine Card
Offering an antique Victorian Valentines Day card. This is a large Valentine card measuring 11" X 8" when closed. It opens and there is a poem inside. The face of the card has three levels that raise up on little paper legs. The first level is the base one which is embossed paper in silver and pink flowered hearts. The next level is paper covered with daisies, forget me nots, and green vines. The third level is silver lace gilt paper with angels. This level is edged in blue silk fabric ruffles. ...
$125 USDAntique Japan Woodblock Royal Palanquin with Guards
Antiques:Art:Japan Woodblock Royal Palanquin
Offering a wonderful, framed and under glass, 2 panel, 19th century Japanese woodblock print. This diptych measures 12 1/2" X 18 1/2 on the portion that is seen. With frame it measures 21" X 26". Featured is a scene with gorgeously attired royal servants pulling a royal palanquin. This wood block is very refined with simple but elegant expression and color. The artist has signed his name in ink characters. The two panels appear to be joined. No tears or insect holes or stains. Maybe a slight ...
$50 USDAntique China Export Brass and Enamel Box with Glass Stones
Antiques:Accessories:Brass Box China Export Trade
Offering an antique brass, hinged box from China of the 1920's. This box measures 7" in length and 4" in width and 2 1/2" in height. The exterior is decorated with colorful enameling, glass stone flowers in red and green, and in the center of the top, an enamel relief picture of the forbidden city. The box has four feet and the interior is lined with wood. There is no structural damage and the hinge works perfectly. The brass is a bit tarnished and the enameling has some fading of the color in ...
$105 USDAntique 14" German Fairy Tale Clay Relief Wall Platter
Antiques:Primitives:Story Platter Clay Relief
Offering an antique, hand molded and carved, decorative clay wall plate from Germany. This is a unique piece, brought to MN. from Germany, by immigrants at the turn of the century. The plate is large, measuring 14" in diameter and not flat but deeply concave, a large shallow bowl with an intricate hand painted scene. The picture is of a boy in a sled pulled by a reindeer. Behind them are the roofs of a town and they are on a bridge leading to a castle surrounded by trees. I think this might be a ...
$125 USDAntique Japan WoodBlock Royal Ox Drawn Palanquin with Guards
Antiques:Art:Japan Woodblock Royal Palanquin Oxen
Offering a wonderful, framed and under glass, 2 panel, 19th century Japanese woodblock print. This diptych measures 12 1/2" X 18 1/2 on the portion that is seen. With frame it measures 21" X 26". Featured is a scene with royal servants guiding an ox pulled palanquin. This is a very refined piece with simple but elegant line and expression. The artist has signed his name in ink characters. The two panels appear to be joined. No tears or insect holes or stains. Maybe a slight yellowing and aging ...
$550 USDVery Old 9 1/2" long Hand Carved Black Coral Branch Mermaid
Antiques:Primitives:Carved Black Coral Mermaid
I am offering a very old piece of carved black coral branch. This belonged to my great aunt and was a gift to her. The curved branch is 9 1/2" in length and quite thick with a circumference of 3 1/2" at the widest part. The carving is of a mermaid and she has a face, hair, breasts, a belly button and tail. The main body is quite polished and smooth but the tail and hair have a cross hatch pattern carved on. The tail portion has a 1/4" hole drilled through it. I think something could be inserted ...
$125 USDAntique AE Bavaria Double Sided Porcelain Bowl with Handle
Antiques:Bavarian Porcelain Double Side Bowl Basket
Offering a gorgeous, double sided porcelain bowl with handle. This has a makers mark but it is somewhat faded and looks like A & E. I am pretty sure this is Bavarian or German. The two sided bowl has a ruffled edge and pictures of wildflowers on each side. The applied handle has applied flowers at its base on either side. The bowl measures 11" in length and 10" in width. It is 4" high at the curved handle. The gilt on the bowl is worn here and there but I cannot find any chips or cracks. This ...
$125 USDAntique 1860 Bavaria Double Sided Porcelain Bowl with Handle
Antiques:Bavarian Porcelain Double Side Bowl Basket
Offering a gorgeous, large, double sided porcelain bowl with handle. This is only marked with the year 1860 on the bottom, no makers mark but I am pretty sure this is Bavarian or German. The two sided bowl has a ruffled edge and pictures of blue and pink hydrangeas on each side. The bowl measures 14" in length and 10" in width. It is 5" high at the curved handle. The gilt on the bowl is worn here and there. There are two chips underneath the rim and a few tiny nicks here and there. One side of ...
$135 USDAntique Rosenthale Bavaria Ivory Vienna Cake Plate & Bowl
Antiques:Rosenthale Bavaria Ivory Vienna Plate Bowl
Offering a fabulous dessert set of cake plate and large bowl. This is marked: Rosenthale - Ivory - Bavaria - Vienna - Us Patent Applied For - plus some additional hand written numbers. The cake plate has two cut out handles and measures 10" in diameter. The bowl also has a cut out handle on two sides and measures 9 3/4" in diameter. No chips, cracks or crazing marks. Stunning design of roses and wild flowers.
$850 USD6 rare Aesop's Fables antique 1870 blue MINTON TILES
Antiques:Mantels, Fireplaces:Blue Minton Tiles Aesop's Fables
Offering a set of six antique Minton Tiles from the 1870’s. These are from the famous Aesop’s Fable series designed by John Moyr Smith for Minton’s Enameled Tile - China Works at Stoke on Trent in England. The tiles came from around the fireplace in the children’s nursery of an old house we had. These six were favorites of my aunt so she had them framed. I have more of them, loose single pieces, but some of them are broken and chipped. The ones in this offering also have some damage as they were ...
$300 USDAntique Augsburg Germany Engelbrecht Religious Colored Engraving
Antiques:Art:Engelbrecht Germany Engraving
Offering a beautiful antique engraving from the 18th century, framed and under glass. This is a Martin Engelbrecht allegorical religious piece that illustrates Psalm XXXVI. "How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. For with you is the fountain of life;in your light do we see light. Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who ...
$135 USDBeautiful Chinese Woman Ancestor Painting on Silk
Antiques:Art:Chinese Ancestor Painting
Offering an antique, Chinese ancestor painting. This beautiful face was hand painted on stretched silk. The painting is framed, matted and under glass. It has a wide mat of pale green velvet and this is somewhat faded. The framed painting measures 15" X 19". The visible portion of the painting measures 8 1/2" X 11 1/2". The painting of the woman ( I assume it's a woman because she is wearing hanging earrings and has jewels in her cap) is starkly beautiful. The silk has rippled a bit and you an ...
$112 USDAntique Neyret Freres France 14" Tapestry Brother and Sister
Antiques:Textiles, Linens:Neyret Freres Woven Silk Stevensgraph
Offering a stunning, antique (mid 19th century) woven silk Stevens graph style picture. This is from France and is one of two my aunt owned, that I am listing separately. This one is signed in the corner NF which stands for Neyret Freres, the small company that made these pictures in the early 1800's. Jacquard looms created the tapestries through a series of cards that worked together to create highly detailed works. Neyret Freres was contemporary to the more well-known Stevengraph of England. ...
$130 USDANTIQUE embroidered Easter Linen TABLECLOTH w/ Hand made LACE
Antiques:Textiles, Linens:Embroidered Linen Table Cloth
Offering a fabulous, antique, hand embroidered tablecloth. This table cloth features nine, large ecru colored linen panels, each joined to the next with cream colored, hand made lace. Each linen panel is fully hand embroidered with thick, twisted silk/cotton thread, in a complex floral pattern bordered with green latticework embroidery. The spring flowers make this a wonderful Easter tablecloth. The lace edging is 2 1/2" wide. The lace that connects each panel is 2" wide. Each linen panel ...
$300 USD1700's Augsberg Germany Engelbrecht Colored Engraving Religious Allegory
Antiques:Art:Martin Engelbrecht Religious Engraving
Offering a beautiful antique engraving from the 18th century, framed and under glass. This is a Martin Engelbrecht allegorical religious piece that illustrates Matthew 3:10“ Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” Martin Engelbrecht was one of the most prolific engravers and print sellers in Augsburg Germany, at the close of the 17th century. Along with his brother Christian, Martin dominated ...
$135 USDAntique China Hand Made Red Dragon Drum with Rooster
Antiques:Musical Instruments:China Hand Made Drum
Offering a beautiful, antique wood drum from China that dates from the late 1920's early 1930's. This wonderful old drum has red lacquered wood sides and skin or parchment surfaces attached with hand made nails. Each side has a different painting. On one side is a rooster crowing at the sun and on the other side is a rather cute faced dragon. The drum has a metal loop on each side and there is still old twine tied on. Amazingly the drum has very little damage and that, only some peeling of the ...
$350 USDAntique 1900 Paris France sgnd Red White Marble Mantel Clock with Dog
Antiques:Clocks, Timepieces:Dogs:Animals
Offering a really wonderful, antique, made in France mantel clock. This large clock measures 17" in length and 9" in height. It is made of red and white marble with a black marble or onyx base, and weighs almost 25 lbs. The glass face door opens. To one side is a large German Shepherd dog made of some kind of metal. The metal does not attract a magnet so it may be spelter. The dog is a bit taller than the clock. At the back of the clock is a lovely brass grill door which opens to reveal the ...
$200 USDAntique Japan Ivory 3" tall Okimono Temple Servant with Broom
Antiques:Japan Elephant Ivory Okimono Temple Servant
Offering an antique Japanese okimono carved from elephant ivory. My aunt had a collection of elephant ivory netsuke, okimono and small ivory birds which she brought back from Japan at the start of World War Two - WWII. She never displayed them and they were found in her estate all wrapped in old tissue, neatly laid out in boxes. I believe the birds are from the 1930's and the ivory netsuke are somewhat older. This particular ivory piece is an okimono or small carved figurine. I think this may be ...
$225 USDAntique 1900's Anabori Carved Ivory Clam Shell Miniature Village
Antiques:Pierce Carved Ivory Clamshell
Offering an antique, carved elephant ivory clam shell from China of the 1900's. This is called anabori or cavern carving. This amazing item measures 2" in length and sits on a small wood platform. The clam shell was cut from one solid piece of tusk and shaped into a slightly open clamshell. The interior was pierce carved into a miniature village scene with a pagoda and people moving around doing things. The exterior of the clam shell has a tiny shell and barnacle carved on. The ivory here has ...
$175 USDAntique Twisted Steel Philippine 20" KRIS KERIS Moro Sword
Antiques:Moro Twisted Steel Sword Philippines
Offering a fantastic antique sword - knife from the Philippines. I don't know anything about weapons but I believe this is a twisted steel Kris. My grandmother called it a Moro sword (Moro means Muslim in the Philippines where this sword came from). The sheath or casing is old bamboo with some zig zag designs carved into it. The handle has been covered with some clear tape to cover some bamboo crumbling off one on side. The whole thing measures almost 21" in length. The 14" blade is steel that ...
$125 USDAntique Yixing China Jiangsu Zisha Clay Dragon Tea Pot
Antiques:19th Century Zisha Tea Pot
Offering an antique clay teapot from 19th century China. This is a purple clay or Zisha clay tea pot and has the artist's chop mark sunk into the clay bottom. The pot is small by Western standards measuring only 4" in height and about 8" from handle to spout. The Chinese used to drink the tea from the spout so each pot was meant to hold enough for just one person. This beautiful piece is a dragon pot with his head and neck as the spout and the handle being his tail. These are painted in bright ...
$250 USDVery Old Polished and Carved Black Coral Branch 10 1/2" long
Antiques:Primitives:Carved Black Coral Branch
Offering a wonderful piece of long black coral branch. This branch and several others came out of my aunt's estate. This particular piece is gently curved and measures11" in length. It has a diameter of 15mm at the face level ( about 3/4") and at the base 20mm (7/8") It has a nice sheen on most of the surface and is very smooth to the touch. At one end of the branch a face has been carved in a primitive fashion. There are eyes, a nose and a mouth. Perhaps this was meant to be a mermaid. Along ...
$130 USDAntique Imperial Arcade Coffee Grinder Iron and Wood
Antiques:Tools:Coffee Grinder Imperial Arcade
Offering an antique coffee grinder marked on the top; Imperial Arcade Mfg. Co. This piece dates to well before 1900, probably the 1880's. The coffee grinder measures 6 1/2" square and 5" in height, not including the large handle. It is heavy, weighing about 5 lbs. The grinder is made of iron (I think) and is most ornately decorated. It has a swing out door on the top and the grinding mechanism inside is clean and turns smoothly. The knob on the end of the long turning handle is carved wood. The ...
$400 USDSt.George Mivart 1896 Hand-Colored Parrot Lithograph Chattering Lory sgnd by Keulemans
Antiques:Art:St George Mivart Lithograph
Offering an antique, framed lithograph from my aunt's estate. This is a magnificent, hand colored lithograph taken from St. George Mivart’s; A Monograph of the Lories or Brush Tongued Parrots. That book was published in London 1896 by R.H. Porter, and it contained 61 hand-colored plates by John Gerrard Keulemans. Only 250 copies of the book were ever produced. This lithograph was taken from one of those books. Directly underneath the colored picture it reads; 1) The Chattering Lory - Lorius ...
$400 USDSt.George Mivart 1896 Hand-Colored Parrot Lithograph Purple Bellied Lory sgnd by Keulemans
Antiques:Art:Mivart Lithograph
Offering an antique, framed lithograph from my aunt's estate. This is a magnificent, hand colored lithograph taken from St. George Mivart’s; A Monograph of the Lories or Brush Tongued Parrots. That book was published in London 1896 by R.H. Porter, and it contained 61 hand-colored plates by John Gerrard Keulemans. Only 250 copies of the book were ever produced. This lithograph was taken from one of those books. Directly underneath the colored picture it reads; The Purple Bellied Lory - Lorius ...
$125 USDAntique Metal Man and Woman Running Sculpture Spain Altar Detail
Antiques:Bronze Sculpture Altar Detail
Offering; an absolutely beautiful, antique figural plaque. It came from my aunt's estate and all I can find out about it, is that it came off an old altar in Spain that was being torn down. It is a detail from a larger scene. The piece features two people running, a man and a woman. It is very detailed in form although whatever gilt surfacing it had at one time is mostly gone. The sculpture measures 9" in length and about 5" wide at the widest part. It is a hollow relief and was attached I ...
$100 USDAntique Cut Glass Sterling Hinged Cap 4 3/4" Perfume Bottle
Antiques:Sterling Crystal Perfume Bottle
Offering a 19th century cut glass and sterling silver perfume bottle. This antique perfume measures 4 3/4" in height and has a flat ground base. The body is a round ball with an alternating pattern of zipper teeth and stars. From the round body rises a thin neck that is cut in a series of recessed diamonds. The cap is hinged and opens and closes securely. On the back of the cap is marked STERLING 8625 with a logo that looks like an sword piercing a letter B. The cut glass has one tiny rough spot ...
SOLDSOLD Framed HARPER'S WEEKLY Civil War cover of JUNE 29,1861 Women Sew Havelocks
Antiques:Art:Civil War Magazine Cover
Offering a very interesting cover from the Harper's Weekly Journal of Civilization. This is dated: New York - Saturday, June 29, 1861 the year the American Civil War started. The cover picture is a full engraving of women seated in a parlor sewing, and the title is: The War - Making Havelocks for the Volunteers. This is an original cover from the 1861 magazine and not a reproduction. The paper is in excellent condition with no tears or stains or foxing. The picture is under glass and has been ...| Items 1 - 28 of 28 | Page 1 of 1 |
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