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Period: 1930s
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
A rare and delightful pair of leather early 20th Century hand crafted apprentice shoes. One of the smallest examples we have seen to date.
...
Category
British Victorian Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Leather
Bronze Statue of a Juju Man, Benin, 1930s
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Statues of Juju Man or shamans were used for ceremonies connected with religious beliefs and magical practices. The general understanding of their meaning as including a supernatural...
Category
Beninese Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
1 of 3 Signed Roger Guerin 1930 Fleur De Lis Ceramic Stoneware Pottery Vase Pots
By Roger Guerin
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this one of a kind, fully signed, original circa 1930 Roger Guerin ceramic pots of large proportions with Fleur De Lis decoration
Roger Guèrin (1896-1954) was one of the leading Belgian ceramists in Bouffioulx near Charleroi. Typical was his use of flowing glazes in his decorations. He was true to the history of this region, often working on a type of hard ceramic (fired to over 1250 degrees Celsius) which was made there since the late Middle Ages. He exhibited at the Paris expos...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
English Early 20th Century Amazing Scratch Built Locomotive
Located in London, GB
Amazing scratch built locomotive
We are proud to offer one of the best examples of English early 20th century scratch built Folk Art examples. Modelled on an English steam locomot...
Category
British Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Solid Primitive Mesquite Stool
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this stool made in Mesquite hardwood, circa 1930. Made in Mexico hand carved using machete and chisel. Fully restored. Clear markings showing age and heavy use, ready to use...
Category
Mexican Primitive Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Moroccan Berber Henna-Dyed Woman
s Ceremonial Head Scarf
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven wool veil of an unusual format, sparsely embellished with touches of embroidery, used as a head cover in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdallah Berber people...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Lobi Stool by Sikire Kembire
By Lobi People
Located in Glasgow, GB
This is a very rare stool from the renowned carver Sikire Kembere of the Lobi people of Burkina Faso . The stool is in the traditional form of three legs and Janus heads one male and...
Category
Burkinabe Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Hardwood
Early 20th Century English Scratch Built Toleware Horse and Cart Model
Located in London, GB
“Where thers muck thers money”
Early 20th century English scratch built toleware horse and cart model
A wonderful example of a unique Folk Art scratch-built horse and cart model. This item is made from metal sheets, toleware and old enamel advertising signs. It would likely have been placed on a shop counter to obtain donations from customers. The carts cover...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Gouache Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Woman Helen Wagner Malta 1930s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
An early contemporary still-life Gouache portrait painting of a woman. On paper, this piece depicts a seated woman reclining in a pigmented blue chair. Her hair is short and dark and she wears a red dress. This sketch was created by Helen Wagner Malta and is signed at the bottom right in black ink "Helen Wagner" before her marriage. Her later works are signed "Helen Wagner Malta".
Helen Wagner Malta was born in 1912 and worked in New York City in the 1930s teaching at the Harlem Art...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Schmidt Tole-Ware Decoy Goose
Located in London, GB
Schmidt tole-ware decoy goose
We are proud to offer a highly decorative Schmidt tin tole-ware double sided painted decoy goose dated circa 1930. This is a ...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Tin
English Shell Grotto House
Located in Kent, Dover
An English shell grotto modelled on a cottage, with doors and a glazed window with mirror interior. Nicely worked throughout with no losses.
Category
English Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Shell
1930s Navajo Ganado Pictorial Rug with Bow and Arrow, Hubbell Trading Post
By Navajo
Located in Denver, CO
This exceptional vintage Navajo rug, woven in the 1930s, is a rare and striking example of Ganado pictorial weaving. Handwoven by a Diné (Navajo) art...
Category
American Native American Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Moroccan Berber Henna-Dyed Woman
s Ceremonial Head Cover
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven wool veil used as a head scarf in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdallah Berber people of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas region. The pattern is obtained with the re...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Floral Qarabagh Rug in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
The floral ornamentation typical of French and English carpets of the 18th-19th century has influenced specific oriental carpet families. In the Caucasus this style became extremely ...
Category
Russian Bessarabian Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Poster Kina Lillet, Robys
Robert Wolff
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Poster Kina Lillet - Robys (Robert Wolff)
Lithograph mounted on canvas
1937
Stentor printing
130x197cm
Signed and dated
In very good condition.
Category
French Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Copper Ships Starboard Lantern
Located in Norwell, MA
Highly polished and lacquered solid copper ships lantern with clear Fresnel glass lens and removable green filter. The copper bodied lantern has brass bez...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Art Deco Painting By H.Stephany / Ruhlmann "Fruits", c.1933
By Henri Stephany
Located in Encino, CA
Henri STEPHANY ( 1880 - 1934 )
Frequently collaborated with Jacques Emile RUHLMANN
"Fruits" circa 1933
Gouache on paper
H.19"3/4 x W.18"3/8
H.27...
Category
French Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Vintage Embroidered Central Asian Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woollen structures made by mankind. Some of the earliest we know date from the 5th century B.C. and were found under ground in the frozen kurgans of Siberia...
Category
Kyrgyzstani Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1930
s Woven Bark Fibre Panel
Located in London, GB
This 1930's panel, from the Mbole culture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been woven from bark fibre. Dark-coloured strands of fibre, dyed with the roots of a banana tre...
Category
Congolese Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Two Mounted Mbole Woven Bark Fibre Panels, DRC
Located in London, GB
Woven panels such as this would have decorated the walls of a traditional meeting house.
The panels are made from woven bark fibre decorated with striking geometric designs. The da...
Category
Congolese Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Plains Beaded Knife Sheath 1930s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beaded Knife Sheath
Plains
1930s
Cut glass trade beads, hide, sinew, tin cones, twisted hide, dyed horsehair.
Excellent original conditio...
Category
American Native American Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Other
Patrick McAllister Tugboat Sign
Located in Norwell, MA
Wheelhouse ship's nameboard for the McAllister Towing Tug Patrick R. McAllister. This wrapped around the wheelhouse. As you can see this is very distressed. APPROXIMATELY EIGHT F...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Ceremonial Camel Cover Rug
Located in New York, NY
Ceremonial camel cover rug. A large animal trapping, most probably a ceremonial cover for a camel made of felted wool and decorated with embroidered motif...
Category
Turkmen Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Felt
$1,400 Sale Price
28% Off
Vintage Vienna Dressmaker Mannequin Doll 1930
Located in Wien, AT
Baldessari Vintage model / dressmaker mannequin 1930s, Austria Vienna, good condition.
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Other
Outsider Art Hand-Carved "Shotgun Wedding" Tableau
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Crude hand-carved and painted wedding party figures (bride, groom, officiant - likely a preacher, and witness - presumably the father of the bride)...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Cotton, Wood, Paint
Exquisite Red Ground Vintage Beni Mguild Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Mguild tribe is located in the mountainous region of the Moroccan Middle Atlas. Together with the Beni Ouarain, they represent the earliest Berber presence in that region as...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Painted Tin Letter of Luminous Signs U, Rewired with Bulbs, USA, 1930
Located in Milan, IT
Painted tin letter of luminous sign (U) red color, rewired with bulbs, USA, circa 1930. The Letter U has been rewired for the US.
Category
American Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Vintage Kurdish Polychrome Wool Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Perdehs were used as tent dividers by the Kurdish tribes of Eastern Anatolia. Each flat-woven wool panel is individually dip-dyed and subsequently hand-stitched to the other panels. ...
Category
Turkish Minimalist Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1930s Oversized Folk Art Wooden Gavel
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unique and large commemorative gavel given to Fred G. Fraser as Chef de Chemin de Fer in 1938 by the Promenade Nationale General Committee in Los Angeles, CA (a...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Dan People, Ivory Coast, Female Figure "Lu Me"
Located in Leuven , BE
In Dan society, sculptures of women are prestigious objects that reflect positively both on their owners' and their subjects' reputations. Among the most costly of Dan expressive for...
Category
Ivorian Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Monumental Mexican Serape Weaving Bolster Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This handwoven Mexican weaving bolster pillow has amazing colors and in fine condition. The backing is in black cotton linen. The insert is down and fe...
Category
American Adirondack Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Brass Perko Ships Lantern
Located in Norwell, MA
Highly polished and lacquered boat lantern by Perko. With original oil burner and wick. Fitted with two rich blue lenses and mounted to a thick wood base. Weight is 6 pounds.
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Charming Pair of Vintage Metal Carnival Ladies
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A matching pair of silver metal female figures in a striking pose with hair caught in the wind. Probably carnival art. Makes unexpectedly charming wall art with a folk art feel. They...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$2,200 / set
Kirghiz Embroidered Tent Band
Located in Milan, IT
A rare complete tent band, embroidered in wool on a felt background, embellished at its bottom by polychrome tassels. The Kirghiz people of Central Asia empl...
Category
Kyrgyzstani Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1930
s Beaded Snuff Container. Zulu, Southern Africa
Located in London, GB
This intimately-sized 1930's Zulu snuff container has been beautifully decorated with glass beads. A circular opening features on one side, and on the other side, overlapping blue-an...
Category
South African Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Beads
Copper Ships Cabin Lantern by Davey of London
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid copper ships cabin lantern with polished and lacquered finish. Original burner is intact with electric socket added from above for home display. With ...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Custom-Mounted Wide-Brimmed Woven Fibre Hat, Kasaï Region, DRC
Located in London, GB
This finely constructed and decorated grass fibre hat from the Kasaï region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was collected in the 1930's. This wide-brimmed hat was likely made...
Category
Congolese Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Solid Copper Port and Starboard Ships Lanterns
Located in Norwell, MA
Highly polished copper and brass ships lanterns by Anderson and Gyde of England. With clear glass fresnel lenses, removable red and green filters, brass bezels and hinges, mounted to...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Copper
1 of 3 Signed Period Roger Guerin 1896-1954 Ceramic Stoneware Pottery Vase Pots
By Roger Guerin
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this one of a kind, fully signed, original circa 1930 Roger Guerin ceramic pots of large proportions.
I have three posts for sale, one has a stitched detailing, another, fler de lis and lastly one with handles and Deers, this sale is for the pot pictured alone, the others are listed under my other items and not included in this sale
Roger Guèrin (1896-1954) was one of the leading Belgian ceramists in Bouffioulx near Charleroi. Typical was his use of flowing glazes in his decorations. He was true to the history of this region, often working on a type of hard ceramic (fired to over 1250 degrees Celsius) which was made there since the late Middle Ages. He exhibited at the Paris expos...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
1930s Wood Campgrounds Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage wood campgrounds sign from the 1930s. Sign was used to let people use shovels and supplies and make sure they are returned. Great rustic sign, cool piece of Americana. 2.5 fe...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Set of Seven German Hat Forms
Located in Stamford, CT
Seven different style wooden hat forms from the 1930s. Each is displayed on a metal stand.
Category
German Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$1,280 Sale Price / set
46% Off
Oli painting Made On Canvas With Gilded Frame Signed By Kai Drews From 1930s
By Kai Drews
Located in Lejre, DK
Oil painting framed in a gilded wooden frame with motif forest landscape in warm colors signed by Kai Drews from the 1930s
Measurements: L:45cm W:57cm
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Dated 1932 Norwegian hand-crafted birch wood jug / tankard, Baroque style
Located in Skien, NO
Primitive antique/semi-antique tankard in birchwood from Norway.
Handcrafted in 1932 with a unique pattern, intricately decorated around the entire body and lid with hand-carved Ba...
Category
Norwegian Baroque Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Birch, Nutwood
$784 Sale Price
20% Off
1 of 3 Signed Roger Guerin 1930 Deer Ceramic Stoneware Pottery Handle Vase Pots
By Roger Guerin
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this one of a kind, fully signed, original circa 1930 Roger Guerin ceramic pots of large proportions with Deer decoration and handles
I have three posts for sale, one has a stitched detailing, another, fleur de lis and lastly one with handles and Deers, this sale is for the pot pictured alone.
Roger Guèrin (1896-1954) was one of the leading Belgian ceramists in Bouffioulx near Charleroi. Typical was his use of flowing glazes in his decorations. He was true to the history of this region, often working on a type of hard ceramic (fired to over 1250 degrees Celsius) which was made there since the late Middle Ages. He exhibited at the Paris expos...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Dutch Art Deco Bookends by Godefridus Boonenkamp 1931 Ceramic Pottery
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Gorgeous Dutch ceramic pottery Art Deco bookends. Designed by Godefridus Boonenkamp in 1931.
Very nice, large bookends, made of white baked earthenware ...
Category
Dutch Art Deco Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Polished Copper Cream Pail
Located in Norwell, MA
Polished copper cream pail with brass and nickel trim with steel carry handle.
Category
English Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Copper, Steel
$350 / item
Wooden Folk Art Plane, circa 1930s
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Large, handcrafted wooden Folk Art plane with articulated pilot and original paint surface. Great hand carved folk art pilot.
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
Oli Painting Made On Canvas With Gilded Frame Signed By T.H Skovgaard From 1930s
Located in Lejre, DK
Oil painting with motif of a fisherman's wife hanging things to dry. In the background is a small house with a shed next to it, and the coast can be seen behind the house. In the for...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
French School Teacher Educational Painting "Charcutier"
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Painted by a school teacher in rural Hautes Pyrenees, France. Based on the Toto, Lili, Rene and Jojo French educational stories. Most likely the teacher...
Category
French Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bronze sculpture of Umberto Mastroianni
Located in Torino, IT
Sculpture Umberto Mastroianni
Head made of bronze by lost-wax casting.
Probable 1930s era, a time when a Mastroianni in the early days of his career used to practice with female fa...
Category
European Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
$3,328 Sale Price
20% Off
Collection of Dagari Spirit Figures From Burkina Faso
Located in Hudson, NY
This impressive collection of four carved wood figures are from the landlocked African country of Burkina Faso. This nation bordered by 6 other countries ...
Category
Burkinabe Tribal Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pair of 1930s Tlingit Totems
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Tlingit culture is divided into two moieties, or groups: Eagles and Ravens. These groups, also called clans, are exogamous – which means they marry out to the other group – and are m...
Category
American Native American Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Cedar
$8,250 / set
Solid Copper Ships Anchor Lantern
Located in Norwell, MA
Sturdily built solid copper ships anchor lantern with fresnel glass lens, heavy protective brass bars, brass makers badge with name of Telford Grier, Mack...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Set of Columns
Located in London, England
Set of porcelain display columns.
Circa 1930.
H 13/19cm x W 7/8cm x D 7/8cm
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
$171 / set
Antique concrete sheep statue, first half of 1900s
Located in SAN PIETRO MOSEZZO, NO
Beautiful statue depicting a seated sheep, made in the first half of the 1900s or so in mixed concrete and stone grit material.
The statue was hand-painted and shows signs of the pa...
Category
Italian Brutalist Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Cement
W P A Style Terracotta "Bear" Sculpture, Art Deco, Modern
Located in Buffalo, NY
W P A style terracotta "BEAR" sculpture, Art Deco, Modern, charming stylized depiction. Painted, minor chipping (bottom).
Category
Unknown Folk Art Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Restored Hardwood and Polished Steel Pulley
Located in Norwell, MA
Varnished wood yachting pulley with polished hooks and tether ring. Weight is 1 pound. X-125
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Stunning handmade circa 1930 Childrens Rocking Horse of a Dachshund Sausage Dog
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this one of a kind hand made in England rocking horse in the form of a Sausage dog.
What a charming period piece of children’s folk art...
Category
English Art Deco Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Copper Ships Masthead Lantern
Located in Norwell, MA
Polished copper ships masthead lantern engraved on chimney with makers name Georg Wosidkow & Co., Vastergatan Sweden. With clear glass Fresnel lens, h...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Copper Ships Port and Starboard Lanterns
Located in Norwell, MA
Pair of solid copper ships port and starboard ships lanterns from the Steamship Cyrena. With makers badges from William Harvie of Birmingham. Both are fitted...
Category
Vintage 1930s Folk Art
Materials
Copper
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