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Period: 1850s
Fine English Letter / Postal Scale in Malachite by Sampson Mordan, circa 1860
Located in Bath, GB
A very fine and rare antique English desk or letter scale, the base covered in stunning green Malachite. The gilded brass or bronze fittings are all hand engraved and the two pans...
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English Early Victorian Antique 1850s More Desk Accessories

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Malachite, Bronze

A Set of Two Scottish Banded Agate Table Seals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Jewels for your desk or table.......A Pair of antique semi-precious Scottish banded agate wax seals for sealing letters. They are hand carved in natural s...
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English Victorian Antique 1850s More Desk Accessories

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Agate

19th Century Viennese Miniature Covered Silver and Enamel Cornucopia
Located in New York, NY
A very fine antique jeweled, silver Viennese enamel covered Cornucopia. Each panel is beautifully enameled with cupids, Angeles and Maidens with neoclassical mythological subjects, f...
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Austrian Medieval Antique 1850s More Desk Accessories

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Enamel

Antique English Burr Walnut Hand Painted Porcelain Stationery Box, circa 1850
Located in Bath, GB
A quite wonderful and romantic stationery box, ready to grace the finest of desk-tops. Made from burr walnut the wedge shaped box is smothered in fine quality polished brass mount...
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English Early Victorian Antique 1850s More Desk Accessories

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Brass

An Ashford (Derbyshire) black marble pen tray
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An Ashford (Derbyshire) black marble pen tray, of rectangular form with two pen trays and a small circular well centred under a bronze handle in the form entwined serpents, the pen trays decorated with inlaid pietra dura borders. English, circa 1850. Ashford marble is a type of limestone which can be polished to a glossy black finish. It is quarried in only two sites in Derbyshire and has been used as a decorative building material since Bess of Hardwick commissioned a chimney piece of Ashford stone for Chatsworth. In the 18th century Henry Watson...
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English Antique 1850s More Desk Accessories

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Marble

Aneroid Desk Barometer by C W Dixey
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An aneroid desk barometer by C W Dixey, the 4inch silvered dial with blued indicator and gilt recorder needles divided to 32 millibars, with curved bar Fahre...
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English Antique 1850s More Desk Accessories

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Ebony

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Located in New Orleans, LA
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H 14.25 in W 14.25 in D 6.5 in
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Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
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Located in Miami, FL
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Antique Brass Mounted Walnut Writing Box With Secret Drawers. English C.1860
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
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JAZ Paris 1930 Art Deco Geometric 8 Days Glass Desk Clock in Stainless Steel
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Malachite Slab, Italy around 1850
Located in Greding, DE
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H 21.66 in W 14.57 in D 0.79 in
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Located in London, GB
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Mid-19th Century French Brass Duboscq Saccharimeter Antique Physic Instrument
By J. Duboscq, Paris 1
Located in Milan, IT
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Antique Set 36 Wedgwood Jasperware Medals of King Queens England, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning set of thirty six antique Jasperware medals of the Kings and Queens of England from William the Conquer to William IV, mounted in...
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Located in Greenwich, CT
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Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
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