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Chinese Qing Cabinet with Black Lacquer
Gold Painted Embellishments
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
cosmological references. Interior offers 2 fixed shelves and a trap door that allows access to the bottom of
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Traps
Materials
Lacquer, Paint
French 19th Century Glass Fly Catcher
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
bottom of the dome is meant to be filled with a small amount of sugar water solution for flies to trap
Category
19th Century French Other Antique Traps
Materials
Glass
1920s-1930s Goyard Trunk, Goyard Wardrobe Double Hanging Section Steamer Trunk
By Goyard
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
.
Its interior is in very good condition with all its leather traps, its pockets for shoes, its two
Category
1920s French Antique Traps
Materials
Brass
Japanese Antique Octopus Fishing Pot
Located in South Burlington, VT
A recent Japanese acquisition
Rarely seen, this Japanese octopus fishing pot was used to trap
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Traps
Materials
Pottery
20th Century Art Deco Glass Bowl/ Jardiniere Amber Colored, Austria, circa 1920
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
shape adorned by unique design elements. The amber colored glass shows small trapped air bubbles and
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Antique Traps
Materials
Glass
Japanese Antique Octopus Fishing Pot
Located in South Burlington, VT
A recent Japanese acquisition
Rarely seen, this Japanese octopus fishing pot was used to trap
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Traps
Materials
Pottery
Antique Black Safe, Strongbox in Wood
Iron, Original Keys, 17th Century Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
safe or for furnishing a strong and elegant environment. Red lacquered interior with shelves, trap door
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Traps
Materials
Iron
Vintage Blown Glass Bulbous Demijohn Carboy in Emerald Green
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Century, France). Composed of mouth blown glass with emerald hue exhibiting trapped air bubbles within the
Category
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Traps
Materials
Blown Glass
Distressed Metal and Leather Catcher
s Mask, c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
a fencing mask for Alexander Tyng, then with the Harvard Nine. At first, Thayer’s better mouse trap
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Traps
Materials
Metal
Leather and Metal Catcher
s Mask, c.1940
By Spalding
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nine. At first, Thayer’s better mouse trap was derisively called a rat trap. But the catcher’s mask
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Traps
Materials
Metal
Tibetan Dhangro Dhami Drum Shaman Medicine Healing Buddhist Phurba, Nepal
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
and human faces handle, beads trapped inside.
This drum is handcrafted in Nepal.
The healing drum is
Category
1920s Nepalese Tibetan Antique Traps
Materials
Leather, Wood
Japanese Antique Octopus Fishing Pot
Located in South Burlington, VT
A recent Japanese acquisition
Rarely seen, this Japanese octopus fishing pot was used to trap
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Traps
Materials
Pottery
1878 Siebe Gorman Firemens Rescue Mask
By Siebe Gorman
Co.
Located in Peekskill, NY
into a smokey building to rescue those trapped within.
Category
Late 19th Century English Industrial Antique Traps
18th Century Antique Italian Cassina Marchigiana Hand Painted Nuptial Chest
Located in Encinitas, CA
trap the lion in its cave. A villa is reflected in the lake and forest foreground with mountains in the
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Traps
Materials
Fir
Large Murano Bullicante Vase by Barovier
Toso, c.1940s
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Watford, GB
previously impressed on the first layer are not covered, thus causing air to be trapped between both layers
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Antique Traps
Materials
Glass
Vintage Steel and Green Leather Catcher
s Mask, c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nine. At first, Thayer’s better mouse trap was derisively called a rat trap. But the catcher’s mask
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Traps
Materials
Steel
Japanese Fine Antique Octopus Fishing Pot- Rare Find
Located in South Burlington, VT
used to trap octopus on old Japan's high seas coastline areas. Also known as a takotsubo it dates to
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Traps
Materials
Pottery
Early 20th C. Steel and Leather Catcher
s Mask c.1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alexander Tyng, then with the Harvard Nine. At first, Thayer’s better mouse trap was derisively called a rat
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Traps
Materials
Steel
Metal and Leather Catcher
s Mask, c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
, then with the Harvard Nine. At first, Thayer’s better mouse trap was derisively called a rat trap. But
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Traps
Materials
Metal
Two Chinese Guardian Lions in Bronze, Iron, Early 20th Century
Located in Lomita, CA
stands on the body of a dragon that is trapped at her sides. She has a mark with the maker's signature
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Traps
Materials
Bronze, Iron
The Tribute Money
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
-22 - (NIV) "Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar"
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Traps
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Martha
s Vineyard Goldeneye Hen Decoy by Frank Richardson, circa 1920
Located in Nantucket, MA
hollow carved body with "trap door" on bottom and applied lead weight. Looks to be all original paint
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Traps
Materials
Wood
17th Century Italian Old Master Painting - Time unveiling truth - Allegory Dark
By Francesco Solimena
Located in Aartselaar, BE
profound gloom of a cave in which she was born and hidden, trying to hold her trapped in the cave are envy
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Antique Traps
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Art Nouveau Antique French Stove
Located in Austin, TX
a porcelain handle. The two direct ovens are separated by a vent trap. The bottom right door opens
Category
Early 1900s Antique Traps
Materials
Iron
Santa at Chimney (Exchange National Bank)
Located in Incline Village, NV
coin trap at the base. Coins are deposited in the slot provided at the top of the chimney (see images
Category
1920s American Folk Art Antique Traps
Materials
Lead
18th Century, French Louis XVI Carved Giltwood Console
Located in IT
a flowery vase with traps in the shape of a moray eel.
In the important noble palaces the consoles
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Traps
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
"Cigarette Vending" Mechanical Bank. Circa 1920
s
Located in Incline Village, NV
dispensed. Coins are removed via a key lock trap at the bottom.
Condition is excellent and all original
Category
1920s American Art Deco Antique Traps
Materials
Tin
Antique wall-hanging vase made from Japanese bamboo/River fishing equipment
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Meiji to early Showa period. It was placed in rivers to trap eels and loaches, which, once entered
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Traps
Materials
Bamboo
Winter landscape oil painting of a horse and sleigh
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
number of works featuring people riding in a horse and carriage or pony and trap. By the mid to late 1920
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Traps
Materials
Oil, Panel
Japanese Meiji Embroidered Lions Wall Hanging
Located in Hastings, GB
piece is purely stretched over a board and trapped behind the frame carefully, completely Removable
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Traps
Materials
Fabric
Antique Imperial Jade
Pure Gold Dragon Ring
Located in Northampton, MA
of light, and soothes the ravaged soul. The highly translucent stone captures light and traps it
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Antique Traps
Materials
Jade, Gold, 22k Gold
Allegory Of Love Oil On Canvas Northern Europe 17th 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
to prove how everyone, of any social class and every age, can fall into the trap of falling in love
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Antique Traps
Materials
Oil
"South, The Story of Shackleton
s Last Expedition 1914-1917, " circa 1920
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
icy year in Antarctica; after drifting trapped in the ice for nine months, the Endurance was crushed
Category
1920s Antique Traps
"Bulldog Bank" American, circa 1880 Cast Iron Mechanical Bank
By J.
E. Steven
s Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
into the mouth swallowing the deposit. Coins are removed by twisting the round original coin trap on
Category
1880s American Folk Art Antique Traps
Materials
Iron
Antique Bird Print of the Greenfinch by Sepp
Nozeman, 1770
Located in Langweer, NL
Australia and New Zealand. In Malta, it is considered a prestigious song bird, and it has been trapped for
Category
18th Century Antique Traps
Materials
Paper
Victorian Inlaid Gold-in-Quartz and Agate Horseshoe Earrings
Located in Narberth, PA
solidification process, veins of gold became trapped with the crystals of quartz in the mine. This created a very
Category
1880s Unknown Victorian Antique Traps
Materials
Quartz, Agate, Yellow Gold, 14k Gold
Antique Lithograph of Large Green Pigeon by Keulemans, Sumatra c.1887
Located in Langweer, NL
. Keulemans, one of the most renowned bird illustrators of the 19th century, and printed by P.W\.M. Trap.
The
Category
Late 19th Century Dutch Antique Traps
Materials
Paper
Oil painting of a lady in a Pony Phaeton
By Frederick Albert Clark
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Frederick Albert Clark
British, (1869-1954)
Pony and Trap
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1906
Image
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Antique Traps
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Bobby Jones Flicker Book, No. 11C, Out the Rough and Putt
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
No. 34 Eagles No. 35 Flip the Frog No. 36 Mickey Mouse - Cheese-Trap No. 37 Mickey Mouse - Cat
Category
1920s British Sporting Art Antique Traps
Materials
Paper
Extraordinary Natural Viewing "Moon Shape" Stone
Located in South Burlington, VT
metamorphic stone -the design you see are of natural plants that were trapped inside when the stone was formed
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Traps
Materials
Stone
Antique French Bronze Sculpture "Cicogne
Crab" by Alfred Barye
Located in Shippensburg, PA
having just trapped a crab under it’s talons. The casting work is exquisite, the bird handsomely chiseled
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Traps
Materials
Bronze
French Art Deco Pink Glass Three-Light Pendant Light Signed Degue, 1920s
By David Gueron Degue
Located in Barntrup, DE
bulbs.
Air bubbles trapped in the glass emphasize the age of the glass.
Dimensions: diameter: 34.5 cm
Category
1920s French Art Deco Antique Traps
Materials
Glass, Wood
Ben Hur Screen-Used Mechanical Ship Movie Prop
By MGM Studios
Located in Peekskill, NY
during filming. In addition there is a trap door on the hull with a spring mechanism. When wanted this
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Traps
Materials
Copper
"Bank of Education
Economy" Mechanical Bank. American, circa 1895
Located in Incline Village, NV
wonderful child's learning tool is completely original in every aspect, including the plunger, the trap at
Category
1890s American Folk Art Antique Traps
Materials
Iron, Nickel
Early 20th Century English Fairground Fortune Telling Penny Machine
Located in London, GB
, the penny passes through a simple weight distributed swing arm hinge trap that releases the pull
Category
1910s British Folk Art Antique Traps
Materials
Wood
19th century Painting - Time unveiling truth - Allegory Rubens Baroque
By Peter Paul Rubens
Located in Aartselaar, BE
she was born and hidden, trying to hold her trapped in the cave are envy, hypocrisy and stupidity, who
Category
19th Century Old Masters Antique Traps
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Parlour Golf Toy, Tommy Green by Schoenhut, Philadelphia
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
, mounded bunker, assorted sand traps, water hazard, flags, boundary signs, balls, and various styles of
Category
1920s American Sporting Art Antique Traps
Materials
Beech
"Hall
s Excelsior" Cast Iron Mechanical Toy Savings Bank. American, Circa 1869
By J.
E. Steven
s Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
can be quite challenging----especially for a child. Later examples provided a coin trap receptacle
To
Category
1860s American Folk Art Antique Traps
Materials
Iron
18th Century English George II Walnut Wingback With Modern Fabric
Located in Chicago, IL
slicing through while also trapping the heat from the fireplace. They were originally created with no
Category
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Traps
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Barrage (Eby parallels WWI soldiers sacrifice with sacrifice of Christ on cross)
By Kerr Eby
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pacific. He witnessed and recorded the violent battles of Tarawa and Guadalcanal and was trapped for three
Category
1920s American Realist Antique Traps
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
19th century romantic painting Roosters at a farm - bird countryside
By William Huggins
Located in Aartselaar, BE
Trap on the Dee". He moved to Betws-y-Coed in 1876 so that he could paint landscapes. One painting that
Category
19th Century Romantic Antique Traps
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
19th Century French Antique Bronze Sculpture of “Renard” by Alfred Dubucand
By Alfred Dubucand
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A rare and exceptionally well detailed model of a trapped fox, it is an expertly cast work that
Category
19th Century French Antique Traps
Materials
Bronze
"Gillnet Boats" Pacific Coast Antique Dry Point Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
trapping as a child to provide extra food. Throughout Knowles’ life he crafted his persona as a rough and
Category
1920s American Realist Antique Traps
Materials
Paper, Printer s Ink, Drypoint
19th century romantic painting Roosters in the countryside - bird dove
By William Huggins
Located in Aartselaar, BE
. John's" (1874) and the "Salmon Trap on the Dee". He moved to Betws-y-Coed in 1876 so that he could paint
Category
19th Century Romantic Antique Traps
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Kashmir Sapphire
Diamond Ring SSEF, AGL
GCS Certified No-Heat, 2-Carat Stone
Located in Northampton, MA
trapped in the finest, faintest threads causing them to glow. Sapphires had been prized for centuries, and
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Traps
Materials
Diamond, Sapphire, 22k Gold
JAPAN 1895 Meiji Okimono Sculpture of a Daikoku Carved In Ivory
Located in Miami, FL
basket of riches with several carps jumping out and holds a trap in his left hand.
This piece is very
Category
1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Traps
Materials
Ivory
The Captive, Study of a Naked Man, Red Chalk Study, Carracci Gallery
By Annibale Carracci
Located in London, GB
appear trapped in the architectural spaces in the walls and sat around the fresco that featured Perseus
Category
18th Century Renaissance Antique Traps
Materials
Paper, Chalk
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Find a variety of antique traps available on 1stDibs. Frequently made of fabric, metal and wool, all antique traps available were constructed with great care. Antique traps have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century. Antique traps bearing Victorian or Folk Art hallmarks are very popular at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made antique traps over the years, but those made by Emmanuel Fremiet, Herman Friedrich Funch and Springfield Armory are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
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