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$450 USDVictorian English Brass Mesh Letters Box or Caddy
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
I love it when these come my way, which isn't as often as I would like, so I was delighted to find this one on a recent buying trip. Made from brass wire mesh, it would sit perfect on a desk or foyer table or could also be wall-hung from the thick brass loop at the top. This one is meant to keep one organized, with two compartments, one for "Letters In" and the other for "Letters Out". A wonderful addition on any home or office in excellent condition. Measures 6 1/2" wide x 4 1/2" deep x 7 1/2" ...
$145 USD SaleSALE Pair Antique English Wall Hanging Letter Racks or Holders - Victorian
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
How wonderful to find a matching pair of these, and how amazing they have stayed together over the last 110 years; they date to the late Victorian period, around 1890 to 1900. The pierced or reticulated brass fan-shaped panels are also beautifully decorated to enhance their appeal. The two panels are screwed to a solid English Oak back panel, nicely polished and each having a brass ring at the top to allow for wall-hanging. The price is for the pair, both in excellent condition and measuring 6" ...
$237 USD SaleSALE Antique English Copper and Brass Chamberstick - Registered 1888
Antiques:Metalware:Other
A really superb and most unusual lamp-shaped solid copper chamberstick, enhanced with polished brass embellishments including the handle and floral mounts. This is a really solid piece, very heavy and beautifully made; the underside is stamped with the British Registration number for 1888, always desirable to find. Excellent condition with a few minor dings (insignificant but mentioned for accuracy). Measures 7" x 3 1/4".
$425 USD SaleSALE Large English Victorian Brass Photograph Frame
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Photograph Frames
Dating to around 1880, this is a large and unusual brass photo frame with thick twisted solid brass rope to the sides and linked loops in each corner, it has a certain equestrian look to it. The front is glazed to protect your favourite picture and the brass stand to the back is original. Really super solid quality in excellent condition. Measures 11 1/2" x 8" with an aperture of 10" x 6 3/4".
$195 USD SaleSALE Stunning Antique Polished Copper Photograph Frame - Victorian
Antiques:Metalware:Other
Dating to around 1880, Victorian in period, this is a really stunning polished copper photo frame further enhanced by some engraved highlights on the foliate scrolls. Standing on it's original folding easel back, it remains in excellent condition measuring 6" in diameter. The glazed aperture measures 3 1/8" in diameter, ready for one of your most cherished pictures.
$175 USD SaleSALE Delightful Pair Gilded Lyre Bookends
Antiques:Metalware:Other
A wonderful pair of highly desirable book ends, as useful as decorative. Dating to around 1900, the underside of each is covered with a green felt or baize to protect your furniture. The reverse of each Lyre is stamped with the number 14963. Excellent undamaged condition measuring 5 1/4" x 3".
$250 USDPair Antique English Brass Candlesticks - Victorian
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
A most handsome pair of square column candle holders, cast in solid English brass and dating to around 1880. Their simple elegant design includes a few flourishes if design to make them decorative enough to impress. Excellent condition having been professionally polished to gleam, they measure 3 7/8" x 3 7/8" x 8" tall.
$295 USDSmall Antique Pierced Folding Brass Book Stand / Lectern
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
Dating to around 1880, this English Victorian book rest is smaller than many, perfect for that special book, perhaps a prayer book or smaller bible. It would also look perfect in the kitchen for recipe cards or again a smaller cookery book. There are two semi-circular supports at the front which is where the book would sit and the pages held back with the green cord with solid brass ball weights. The cord is a replacement so in good order and ready to use. The book-rest stands on a folding easel ...
$350 USDAntique Equestrian Themed Solid Brass Pocket Watch Holder - Horseshoe
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
A wonderful cast brass pocket watch stand dating to around 1900. It is marked on the back both Musterscutz (which I believe means "Registered") / and "Registered" in English. The stand is in the form of a horseshoe with the hook at the top to hand a nice pocket watch. The stand is decorated with a wonderful Equestrian / Horse Racing vignette with a racing / jockey's cap and a whip with the end decorated with a dog's head. Perfect for the horse riding, hunting or racing enthusiast remaining in ...
$395 USDStylish Pair Antique English Cast Brass Candlesticks c.1860
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
I love the design of these candlesticks, they just have a presence and sophisticated style about them. Beautifully cast and engraved the columns rise to a wonderfully shaped candle receptacle, bulbous in form with the outer case having vertical gaps all around. Ready to decorate your home or office, solid and heavy dating to the Victorian era, around 1870, professionally polished to gleam. As useful today as 140 years ago, measuring 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" at the base and standing 8" tall.
$495 USDPair Classic Antique English Brass Corinthian Column Candlesticks - Victorian
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
A very smart and stylish pair of classic solid brass candlesticks dating to around 1880, Victorian in era. They are a hefty weight, over two kilos or five pounds, for this reason they will be shipped overseas in two separate registered airmail packages; this cost is however included. Top notch and ready to use in excellent condition and standing 10" tall.
$950 USDGrand Large Antique English Cast Brass Letter Rack / Stationery Holder - Cherub
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
An absolute stunner of a stationery caddy made to be the star on the best of desk tops. The quality is exceptional made from solid cast brass and weighing in at around 3 kilos or 7 pounds!! The two dividers in the centre of the caddy are removable for easy cleaning which can be seen in one of the pictures. The front has the most wonderful cast winged Cherub or Putti figure, quite charming. The pierced or reticulated work is quite wonderful creating a real centrepiece of heirloom quality. Superb ...
$325 USDDecorative Antique English Brass Wall Hanging Letter Rack / Holder
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
A wonderful and highly decorative brass mesh wall letter or correspondence holder as useful today as 120 years ago when it was first made. The front is enhanced with a thick solid cast brass frieze with an intricate foliage frame with a central mesh panel mounted with a brass plaque with the cast "Letters" wording. It can be hooked or mounted on the wall with the decorative scroll at the top of the rear panel and there are two smaller loops at the bottom of the rear panel ... due to these it ...
$165 USDUnusual Victorian Solid Brass and Polished Steel Tea Bell
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
A very stylish and unusual tea bell (I have tried it but nothing arrived!) in solid brass and what I presume is a coil of polished steel making up the handle. A very authoritative ring is heard when rung. Excellent condition measuring 6 1/2" tall and dating to around 1900, late Victorian or perhaps early Edwardian.
$195 USDUnusual Decorative Antique English Brass Match Strike / Table Vesta
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Match Holders / Strikes / Vestas
A wonderful and handsome table-top solid cast brass match strike with a hefty base with beautiful engraving. The match chamber has the textured lined surface for striking non-safety matches (I used safety matches for the photograph). The chamber is deep, I had to stuff the bottom with some paper to prop the small matches to a good height. Also some of those wonderful extra long matches would look stunning displayed in it. Excellent condition, minor wear commensurate with age. The base diameter ...
$295 USDEnglish Antique "Cards and Envelopes" Holder / Caddy
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
A really delightful and most unusual Envelopes & Cards caddy in highly decorative pierced or reticulated brass which has been professionally polished to gleam. There is a makers mark to each side panel - embossed flower; I am unsure of the manufacturer; but most certainly it would have been made in the Birmingham area of England around 1880. Each division measures 4" in width. A highly decorative desk accessory in perfect condition. The base measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/4".
$150 USDUnusual Antique English Spherical String Box / Dispenser With Cutter
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Desk Accessories
A handsome Victorian string box or dispenser standing on three complimentary ball feet and dating to around 1880, Victorian in period. The lid is removed and replaced by turning the top, there is a finely engineered threaded mechanism. The top is beautifully decorated with pierced or reticulated work; the box is complete with the cutter to the top which would have been used to cut off the correct length of string or twine. Most unusual and in excellent condition; a few minor dents / dints; ...
$185 USDPretty Antique Reticulated Brass Letter Rack or Holder
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
An absolutely adorable lady's letter rack made from English brass and dating to the late Victorian era, around 1890 / 1900. The base has an attractive scalloped shape and both panels are pierced and decorated with a repousse floral garland. In excellent condition having been professionally re-polished to gleam. Measuring 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" tall.
$185 USDVictorian English Brass Cheroot Cutter
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Cheroot Or Cigar Cutter
A most unusual and very handsome small cigar or cheroot cutter. The base has a decorative repousse frieze and the very top of the cutter has a repousse lion's face on. It is here where the cutter is operated pushing it down to cut the end of the little cigar, the tray below would catch the cut off end. An interesting and attractive addition to your collection. Dating to around 1880,. it remains in excellent condition. Measures 4 1/2" tall with a base diameter measuring 1 3/4".
$135 USDFrench Gilt Musical Hand Mirror - Tambourine
Antiques:Metalware:Other
Perhaps for the musician in your life, this is a really unusual figural hand mirror with the bevelled mirror itself being inset to a small tambourine, and yes, it does make the appropriate sound when shaken. The handle is beautifully crafted and really very nice quality. Excellent condition, measuring 7 1/4" in length with the tambourine having a diameter measuring 4".
$395 USDFrench Gilded Bronze Photograph Frame with Enameled Bird
Antiques:Metalware:Other
An absolutely exquisite French picture frame dating to around 1880. The frame is sprung, so when the picture requires changing the top is extended to dismantle. There is a good chunky bevelled glass at the front to protect your photo. The top is what makes this a really special piece with it's decorative Bronze Dore mount which incorporates a superb enameled Bluebird, the enamel is perfect. Excellent condition with a few spots of silver solder to the rear, stable and obviously unseen from the ...
$250 USDFrench Grand Tour Eglomise Counter / Table Bell - Lourdes
Antiques:Metalware:Other
An unusual 19th century souvenir from Lourdes in France made from gilded metal which retains a super original antique patina. There are three Eglomise or paintings under glass, two featuring "Our Lady of Lourdes" and one featuring the "Rosary Basilica". The sprung lever on the top is also in the form of Our Lady of Lourdes and raises the clapper and when released springs to ring the internal bell. The bell sits on the original alabaster base with the original red paper still on the underside ...
$350 USDFabulous Antique Brass Wall Hanging Letter Rack or Holder
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
So English and so Victorian, this is a fabulous brass wire mesh letter rack with a handy handle to the top, perfect for wall-hanging. Because of it's large size, it could originally have been for newspapers or magazines but too small I think for today;s media. This lends itself perfectly for the larger letters and papers we all accumulate on a daily basis of course just as handy in the home office for organizing all sorts of things. The sides have a decorative scroll at the end of each ...
$295 USDAntique Brass Double Counter Bell In Gong Form
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
A really wonderful and most unusual Victorian counter bell in the form of a dinner gong with a push button each side each operating a different clapper to ring the bell. Tucked behind one of the legs is a British registration number which is always a bonus to find, the number looks to be 5478 which would date it to 1884. Most unusual and in excellent condition. Measures 5 1/2" wide x 5" tall.
$250 USDAntique English Brass Letter Rack or Holder c. 1890
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Letter Racks Or Holders
Dating to the late Victorian era, these brass wire and mesh letter holders are always highly sought-after due to their decorative appeal. Each side retains it's solid brass plaque with red enameled " Letters " engraved in. As useful today as it was 120 years ago. Excellent condition and measuring 5" wide x 4 1/4" deep including feet x 7" tall to top of handle.
$395 USDAntique Gilded Faux Bamboo Triple Photograph Frame c. 1880
Antiques:Metalware:Other
A spectacular and hard to find French triple photo frame created from faux bamboo beautifully gold washed. It stands on a folding easel back for table top usage but also comes with a ring at the top for wall hanging if desired. Excellent condition with each glazed aperture measuring 3 5/8" x 2 3/8" and all together measures 9 1/2" x 6 7/8" wide. Perfect for those with three children or three grandchildren!
$395 USDAntique Fox Hunting Themed Menu Holder - Equestrian Interest
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
A really very unusual English brass horseshoe shaped menu holder, once silver plated but now down to warm brass. I printed this menu in seconds on the computer, so quick to do and really makes a spectacular impression when entertaining, a real talking point and a lot of fun. The menu is held in place at the top with the sprung fluted clip and sits at the bottom in the two feet. Above this fluted clip there is a vacant plaque which could be engraved if desired. On top of this is a wonderful solid ...
$117 USDAntique English Miniature Wedding Ring Photograph Frame c 1880
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Photograph Frames
Always popular and highly collectible are these tiny nineteenth century little pressed brass photo frames. This one is in a circular form with a small piece of glass glazing the front to protect the picture inside, this little period picture comes with the frame. The folding easel stand to the back is in perfect working order. I haven't touched the finish; it is untouched with a good antique patina which only comes with age. The front could easily be given a quick polish to gleam should the new ...
$225 USDLarge Antique Brass Figural Pen or Nib Wipe - Pig
Antiques:Metalware:Brass:Desk Accessories
A large example of one of these charming desk - top nib wipes meant to wipe the excess ink from a traditional dip pen. The cast brass pig is filled with firm natural bristle, perfect for absorbing the ink. A quality solid piece in excellent condition, measuring 4 1/2" long x 2 3/4" tall. Dates to ca. 1880.
$295 USDLarge (11") English Victorian Scissors and Sheath
Antiques:Metalware:Brass
A super pair of very large scissors complete with their original sheath. Perhaps originally for dress-making as they seem too large for a desk-top pair of paper scissors. Excellent condition, measuring 11 inches in length.
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