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$225 USDMid Victorian Enamel Clover Perfume Casket Hinged Gilt Bronze Scent Box
Antiques:Vanity Items:Perfume Caskets
Beautiful mid Victorian enamel perfume casket. Exquisite gilt bronze clover design over cobalt, ruby, and white enamel. The foliate clover design covers each surface of this delightful casket, with an enameled cartouche on the lid. This hinged scent box has an ornate, movable handle and stands 3" tall on four little feet. To the top of the handle, it measures 4 1/2". The clasp is marked Pat. (Patented). The casket opens to reveal the original royal purple fitted velvet interior with it's three ...
Antiques:Vanity Items:Powder Puffs:Swan's Down:Sterling Powder Jars
Fabulously rare and exquisite complete set Duhme & Co. sterling silver powder jar dated 1884 and Art Nouveau sterling silver handle swan's down powder puff. A superb vanity set that has been together for over 100 years. First, the sterling silver powder jar by Duhme & Company. Herman Duhme started his company in the 1840's. By 1910, exactly 100 years ago, Duhme was out of business. The sterling silver handle powder puff is made of the finest swan's down, marked for PM&M and with a patent date of ...
$450 USDArt Nouveau Poppies Hand Mirror Superb Porcelain Painting
Antiques:Vanity Items:Mirror & Brush Sets:Hand Mirrors
Spectacular Art Nouveau porcelain hand mirror, hand painted (not a transfer) with luscious orange poppies against a lavender and green backround. Domed porcelain plaque, exquisitely painted with vivid blooming poppy flowers, fat ripe poppy buds, green leaves and trailing stems. The backround is a rich lavender and grass green, flowing perfectly into a smokey backround at the base of the porcelain plaque. Exquisite brass frame and Art Nouveau handle, lavishly repoussed with lily pads, with ...
$2,495 USDLimoges French Enamel Portrait Gilt Ormolu Vinaigrette
Antiques:Vanity Items:Vinaigrettes
Rare and outstanding French Limoges Victorian enamel portrait and gilt ormolu vinaigrette. Exquisite French enamelled portrait of a beautiful woman in 18th century costume on a raised, red enameled plaque, framed by a gadrooned border and elaborate, ornate grillwork in gold ormolu. Ormolu onlays of flowers and leaves on red enamelled surround. The sides of this vinaigrette box are repoussed with double garlands of acanthus leaves, with a tiny gadrooned border under the rim of the lid. The ...
$195 USDVictorian Solid Ivory Glove Stretchers
Antiques:Vanity Items:Glove Stretchers:Ivory
Beautiful pair of Victorian solid ivory glove stretchers. An indispensable vanity accessory for the Victorian lady of means to ensure her gloves would fit in the proper manner. Carved ivory, hand tooled, and fitted with tiny silver pins. They work perfectly and are exquisite to behold. These ivory glove stretchers measure 8 3/4" in length and are in excellent condition. Circa 1880.
$250 USDVictorian Amethyst Glass & Enamel Gilt Dore Hatpin
Antiques:Vanity Items:Hatpins
Fantastic antique hatpin. Intricate caged design featuring scrolls and tiny gold flowers. Two large faceted amethyst glass stones are prong set on either side, with gold flowers and tiny seed pearl flower centers. The gilt scrolls are chased with tiny designs. Black enamel around the top portion of the hatpin head. Measures 7 1/2" in length, with very minor bending of the shaft. The head measures 1 3/4" in length and 1 7/8" wide. It is in very good condition, with some loss to the gilt at the ...
$239 USDVictorian Silver Repousse Handle & Swan's Down Powder Puff
Antiques:Vanity Items:Powder Puffs:Swan's Down
Gorgeous Victorian silver repousse and swan's down powder puff, circa 1900. The silver handle is very heavy on this piece, securely attached to the puff, it is very weighty and wobbles a little. It is monogrammed in Victorian script and looks like SC, with fancy repoussed scrolls around the edge. We have not tested the silver content of this piece and find no mark we can see above the down. It is high quality and a beautiful example, likely at least .800 silver, we haven't tested it to avoid ...
$595 USDVictorian 14K Gold & Enamel Handkerchief Holder With Finger Ring Chain
Antiques:Vanity Items:Handkerchief Holders
Incredibly exquisite nineteenth century 14k gold and enamel handkerchief holder with delicate, feminine finger ring chain. Beautifully enameled in black over gold, with Art Nouveau acanthus leaves and diamond design. The ball on the shaft slides to open and close the hanky holder. The pinkie finger ring displays the hanky to perfection, an essential vanity accessory or jewelry for the affluent Victorian lady of means. This extravagant indulgence of pure nineteenth century decadence is perfect ...
$625 USDViennese Enamel & Bronze Porcelain Hand Mirror Portrait Courting Scene
Antiques:Vanity Items:Hand Mirrors:Enamel
Beyond exquisite Viennese enamel miniature hand mirror in bronze. Hand painted and enameled on porcelain, the painting depicts a lovely courting scene with a walled rose garden backround. The bronze handle and elaborate bronze mounts frame a small oval mirror with stunning details in openwork, gadrooning and tiny fleur de lis swags. The master enamelists working in Vienna in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries painstakingly crafted their magnificent enamels in a very long and arduous process ...
$395 USDVictorian Sterling Silver Genuine Long Handle Swan's Down Art Nouveau Powder Puff
Antiques:Vanity Items:Powder Puffs:Swan's Down
Exquisite Victorian swan's down powder puff with long sterling silver handle. This is a rarely seen form, these elegant down puffs are becoming hard to find anyway, to find a long handled one is indeed, very rare. This is a true long handle puff too, not just a longer "knob" handle, but a genuine long sterling handle, only the second one we've ever found. This scarce treasure features a long solid sterling silver handle, marked Sterling on both sides. The handle is heavily repoussed with ...
$125 USDVictorian Diamond Nail Enamel 1890's Powder Box Dr. J. Parker Pray's Mint Vintage
Antiques:Vanity Items:Powder Boxes
Very rare to find Victorian era powder box. Dr. J. Parker Pray's Diamond Nail Enamel powder. Wonderful Art Nouveau graphics with soft pink Victorian cabbage roses. The box is even shaped like a diamond, and is dated 1890. Dr. Pray's claims "this powder polishes finger nails brilliant as diamonds"...renowned and unequalled". ..The box is still full of it's original contents. It has been opened, never used. The box has a 5/8 cent Proprietary Tax stamp, dated 1898, when this box was sold by Dr. J. ...
$320 USDFrench Gold Dore Filigree & Guilloche Enamel Venetian Jeweled Hinged Patch Box
Antiques:Vanity Items:Patch Boxes
Fabulous French gold dore filigree and guilloche enamel hinged patch box compact, covered with Venetian glass jewels. Intricate gold dore filigree work on the lid, with central medallion plaque of cobalt enamel, handpainted with pink roses and green leaves. Around this center medallion are cobalt and red cabochon "jewels". The Venetian glass stones are prong set. The sides have a very fancy gadrooning and repousse design. The box is hinged, it opens to reveal the original beveled mirror in ...
$1,598 USDFrench Gilt Butterfly Figural Tussie Mussie Art Nouveau Posey Holder Victorian Porte Bouquet
Antiques:Vanity Items:Tussie Mussies
Exquisite and outstanding describes this glorious French gold gilt figural butterfly tussie mussie. Fabulous openwork in gilt metal, original pin and finger ring. Superb detail and fine quality workmanship. Measures 6 1/4" in length, excellent condition with no damage, no breaks in the metal. Circa 1880.
SOLDSOLD Fabulous Art Nouveau Hair Pin Gold Gilt & Celluloid Hair Comb
Antiques:Vanity Items:Hair Combs:Hair Pins
Super fabulous Art Nouveau hair comb in honey colored celluloid with over the top gold gilt metal top. The elaborate ornamental gilt metal top is riveted to the celluloid comb, or hair pin really, since it has two prongs. The top is quite heavy but the pin supports the extravagance quite well. Overall the piece measures just over 5 1/2 inches tall, the gilt metal top by itself measures 2 1/2 inches tall and 2 inches wide. Excellent condition with no damage and no breaks or gilt loss. Likely ...
Antiques:Vanity Items:Mirror & Brush Sets
Absolutely exquisite Victorian hand mirror and brush set with fabulous cloisonne plaques. Superb workmanship, the Chinese were masters at the art of cloisonne. The backs of the mirror and brush are worked in deep, rich colors, featuring the double image of a butterfly on each one. When viewed, the plaques appear to have a large butterfly framed in floral garland repousse. A closer look reveals a smaller butterfly in the center. The gilt ormolu handles are attached to the plaques with a gold ...
SOLDSOLD Mid Victorian Coin Silver Hair Comb Engraved Bumblebee & Leafy Branches C.1850
Antiques:Vanity Items:Hair Combs:Silver:Coin Silver
A fabulous example in mid Victorian coin silver. This is a rare back hair comb, in a bowed shape with thirty two tines, none are missing or broken. The top of the comb is scalloped, and the bridge is engraved with wonderful foliate designs of trailing tree branches and leaves. In the center of the bridge is an engraved, whimsical bumblebee. The comb is just over 1 1/2" tall and measures 4 1/2" in length. Please note the very tiny, beaded, gadrooned backround. This is a back comb, from the period ...
SOLDSOLD Japanese Rosewood Geisha Box With Carved Bamboo & Cherry Blossoms
Antiques:Vanity Items:Geisha Boxes
Fabulous antique Japanese geisha box in rosewood. Two drawers, lift up mirror, the classic design in a large rosewood box with brass mounts. The frame around the mirror is carved after cherry blossoms, the drawer brasses feature Oriental motifs of stylized birds with carved bamboo on the japanned double doors. Signed with Japanese characters on the lower drawer and again inside, this vanity box is hand made and carved, the small drawers are beautifully dovetailed. These are hard to find in this ...
SOLDSOLD Mid-Victorian Aluminum & Carved Horn Hair Comb With Cutwork C.1860
Antiques:Vanity Items:Hair Combs
Beautiful antique hair comb of clarified, carved horn and diamond cut and repoussed aluminum. This is a larger example than most, aluminum combs were first made in the early nineteenth century, and today they are not easily found. Aluminum was an expensive, coveted metal afforded by the wealthy and not that many were made. This gorgeous comb is as shiny and lovely as the day it was made, since aluminum does not oxidize or tarnish like other metals. The aluminum top features elaborate, ornamental ...
SOLDSOLD Victorian Fluffy Swan's Down Powder Puff
Antiques:Vanity Items:Powder Puffs:Swan's Down
We love these rare to find nineteenth century powder puffs. Genuine swan's down puff, soft and fluffy even after 100 years. This one is exquisite, a perfect example. Measures 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Circa 1900.
SOLDSOLD Victorian Sterling Silver Swan's Down Powder Puff
Antiques:Vanity Items:Powder Puffs:Swan's Down
Another fabulous Victorian powder puff, fluffy swan's down with a sterling silver repousse handle. Fancy monogram in Victorian script, floral repousse around the edge of the handle, which is marked Sterling on the base with a maker's mark we can't make out. The puff measures 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Excellent condition with no damage. Circa 1900. One of our Victorian powder puffs is on exhibit in the Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary, Canada, part of their Oases In A New Land Exhibit. ...
SOLDSOLD Victorian Sterling Silver Tussie Mussie Art Nouveau Posey Holder Porte Bouquet Dated 1882-1907
Antiques:Vanity Items:Sterling:Tussie Mussies
Exquisite Victorian sterling silver tussie mussie posey holder, or porte bouquet. Superbly repoussed in the Art Nouveau style of the nineteenth century period in which it was made, with trailing lillies, scrolling cartouches, and tiny repoussed lily pads at the tip of the handle with trailing stems going up the sides. This rare and glorious posey holder is dated 1882 on one side, and 1907 on the other, it was likely given in celebration of a very special anniversary, perhaps a silver wedding ...
SOLDSOLD Victorian Coin Silver Hair Comb Crown Design Dated 1878
Antiques:Vanity Items:Hair Combs:Silver:Coin Silver
Magnificent Victorian coin silver hair comb. Gorgeous hair comb, with an embossed crown design, very regal, fit for a queen! Large comb with five tines, it measures 4 3/4" tall and 3 1/4" wide. On the back is incised, Pat. Apr.30.1878. No damage of any kind. An exquisite and hard to find piece.| Items 1 - 22 of 22 | Page 1 of 1 |
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