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Place of Origin: East Asian
Chinese Export Silver Cigarette Case Depicting the Bund and the Angel of Peace
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Export Silver Cigarette Case Depicting the Bund and the Angel of Peace, Shanghai, c. 1930–1940
129 grams, 4.5" W × 3.5" H × 0.33" D (8.75" W open)
A rare and historically s...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Sterling Silver
The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1969
Located in Devon, GB
Issued for the first Japanese release of the film in 1969, this fantastically bizarre Japanese B2 poster offers some of the best artwork created to promote the Beatles' 1968 hit psyc...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Batman
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1966
Located in Devon, GB
Fabulously kitsch and colourful, this rare Japanese B2 poster advertised the first full length feature film of the DC Comics character Batman. Released by 20th century Fox in 1966 as...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Linen, Paper
Chinese Export Sterling Silver Walking Stick Handle, circa 1900
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Chinese Export sterling silver walking stick handle, circa 1900. Monogram of the famous ichthyologist Dr. Hugh McCormick Smith, "H...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
$144 Sale Price
36% Off
The Beatles
A Hard Day
s Night
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1964
Located in Devon, GB
A rare and sought after Japanese B2 poster for The Beatles' first full-length feature film 'A Hard Day's Night,' which followed the fab four over an anarchic 36 hours in London at th...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Chinese Silver
Leather Theatre Opera / Wedding Tiered Phoenix Headdress, 1920s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Silver & Leather Theatre Opera / Wedding Tiered Phoenix Headdress, 1920s
Silvered Metal & leather and embroidered Mandarin hat
This Chinese silv...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
$3,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Qui Etes-Vous, Polly Maggoo?
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for The 1966 French New Wave film
Qui Etes-Vous, Polly Maggoo? This film was directed by William Klein and starred Sami Frey, Grayson Hall and Donyale...
Category
1960s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Nora Inu / Stray Dog
Located in London, GB
This is an exceptionally rare very rare original Japanese film poster for Akira Kurosawa's 1949 crime film.
This is not the general release poster but one created for local theatres ...
Category
1940s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$6,131
Taxi Driver
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1976
Located in Devon, GB
Set amidst the moral decay of New York City following the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal, Martin Scorsese's 1976 psychological thriller "Taxi Driver" starred Robert De Niro as a l...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Vintage Observation Binoculars by Toko, Japan, 20 X 120
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Japanese Ex-navy 20 x 120 binoculars.
A large pair of Japanese ex-navy observation binoculars mounted on a vintage adjustable wooden tripod. The WWI...
Category
1940s Industrial Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Aluminum
$20,506 Sale Price
30% Off
WWII Japanese Yosegaki Hinomaru “Good Luck” Flag Signed Patriotic Slogans, Names
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
WWII Japanese Yosegaki Hinomaru “Good Luck” Flag – Silk with Leather-Reinforced Corners, Signed with Patriotic Slogans and Names
This authentic Yosegaki Hinomaru (“Good Luck Flag”) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Showa East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Leather, Silk
Petite Chinese Opium Lamp Scissors
Located in Chicago, IL
An elegant pair of scissors once used to trim the wick of an opium lamp. Formed of steel and copper, these petite scissors feature gracefully curved handles and short blades engraved...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Copper, Steel
Large coffee sculpture Table Ryosuke Harashima Contemporary Zen Japanese Mingei
By Ryosuke Harashima
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Table or sculpture made by Ryosuke Harashima.
This work is made of antique Japanese antique sled that was used for caring bamboo charcoal at kiln, coper ...
Category
2010s Japonisme East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Copper
Go West
Located in London, GB
This is a ver rare original Japanese film poster for The 1940 Comedy Go West This film was directed by Edward Buzzell and starred Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx.
This poster...
Category
1950s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,703
Chinese Floral Incised Brass Brazier, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th century handcrafted bronze hand warmer would have been owned by a woman of means and filled with coals so she could warm her hands on cold...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
A Fistful of Dollars
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1967
Located in Devon, GB
Featuring a stylish photomontage with Clint Eastwood’s surly stare front and centre, this scarce B2 poster advertised the first Japanese release of Sergio Leone's 1964 Spaghetti Western ‘A Fistful of Dollars.’ First released in Italy as ‘Per un pugno...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Pair of Chinese White Brass Coal Chopsticks, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of white brass chopsticks for moving burning coals in a hibachi or hand-warmer. Such chopsticks were also used to safely touch opium pipe bowls or tools that had been heated b...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Original Vintage Japanese Movie Poster, 1982
Located in Devon, GB
Steven Spielberg's timeless tear jerking tale of a young boy's friendship with a stranded extraterrestrial was both widely critically acclaimed and enormously commercially successful...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Big Eye Japanese Navy Nikon 20 × 120 Binoculars
Located in Eindhoven, NL
Large and powerful binoculars made by the Japanese company Nikon in the 1950s
An elegant and stylish piece for the study or library, and very suitable to take on board your yacht.
...
Category
1950s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Aluminum
Japanese Life-Size, Edo Period, Red and Black Lacquered Palanquin or Norimono
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese red and black lacquered palanquin or norimono
Edo period, early 19th century
Made of lacquered wood, latticework and bamboo, black velvet and gauze with gilt scroll...
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Textile, Silk, Rattan, Rope, Wood
Japanese American Cypresswood or Hirohi ‘Walsh, Hall
Co, Yokohama’ Tea Chest
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese Cypresswood or hirohi ‘Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama’ tea chest
Yokohama, 1862-1897, with inscription reading: Choicest Natural Leaf Yamashiro Tea, Packed by Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama
Measures: H. 53.5 x W. 61.5 x D. 41.5 cm
Including original wood box
The chest gold, silver and red lacquered on a black lacquer ground, the top decorated with an eagle sitting on a branch, looking at a small escaping bird, the front with a pheasant under a chestnut, one side with a cockerel amongst foliage, the back decorated with an argus pheasant...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Japanese Painting Depicting Commodore Perry’s Ship with Buddhist Monks Aboard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese painting depicting Commodore Matthew Perry’s flagship USS Mississippi bringing the coffin with the remains of US marine private Robert Williams who died while serving on t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Edo Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paint, Paper
Japanese Export Nagasaki Lacquer Box with the Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese export Nagasaki lacquer tobacco box with the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Edo-period, circa 1810
The box in black lacquer on copper, ...
Category
19th Century Edo Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Copper, Gold
Historical Presentation Table Lamp Early Aeronautics Circa. 1916
Located in Fulton, CA
A one-of-a-kind important and historical aeronautical achievement presentation in the form of a lamp. Engraved on what appears to be a brass mortar shell. Presented by the Japanese government to Arthur Smith in 1916. Arthur Smith was a famous American airplane pilot during the early 20th century.
Measures 28.5 inches to top of finial.
This lamp was presented by the Japanese government to Arthur Smith in 1916. Aerial exhibitionist Art Smith barnstorming Japan in 1916, 1917. A 10 year old, Honda Mamamatsucho, pedaling a borrowed bicycle over 10 miles to witness the event. Honda would later cite the experience as one of the most impressive things he"d ever seen which cemented his interest in mechanical objects and motorized vehicles that years later led to the creation of the eponymous company bearing his name.
SOURCE: HONDA MOTOR COMPANY
ARTHUR R. SMITH 1890-1926
Was Fort Wayne Indiana's "Bird Boy." He was a pioneer of aviation, a creative thinker, and a hard worker whose self-confidence and faith brought the thrill of flight to legions of people across the U.S. and Japan.
Just two years after the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk...
Category
Early 20th Century Industrial East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Japanese Antique Wood Juicer, Ric.00033
Located in Norton, MA
Japanese made entirely from wood, this antique was used mainly as a juicer for fruits.
L:25in(63.5cm) H:16in(40.6cm).
Category
Early 20th Century East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Japanese Sculpture Okimono of a Dutchman, Dutch Colonial, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare wood Japanese Okimono of a Dutchman playing with a bat
Edo period, 18th-19th century or earlier
The Dutchman is standing and h...
Category
Early 18th Century Edo Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Boxwood
Antique Marble Chinese Calligraphy Horsehair Brush
Located in San Diego, CA
Large calligraphy Antique Chinese brush made of solid marble handle and horsehair beautiful and unique.
Category
20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Marble
Yellow Submarine
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for The Beatles 1968 music animation.
The art work on this Japanese poster is unique to the films release in Japan.
The poster is unfolded and conservat...
Category
1960s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,703
Antique Asian Japanese Shoes Leather Wood Open Toe with Cleats
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Antique Asian Japanese shoes leather wood open toe with cleats 19th century Japan
Pair of antique wood, iron & leather garden shoes with cleats -m...
Category
19th Century Anglo-Japanese Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Casablanca
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1946
Located in Devon, GB
An exceedingly rare and attractive poster for the first Postwar release of 'Casablanca' in Japan, printed only for use in the three theatres where the film premiered on 13th June 194...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Pair of Vintage Drum Shape Bar Stools SONY Speakers Reversible Seats MINT!
By Sony Corporation
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Pair of Vintage Drum Shape Bar Stools SONY Speakers Reversible Seats MINT!
Very solid built cabinets. Both speakers work as expected.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Chinese 1891-1911 World
s Fair Souvenir Seated Elder Farmer Mud Man Figure
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Chinese 1891-1911 World's Fair Souvenir Seated Elder Farmer Mud Man Figure. Moderate size. Sun tanned skin (tea dyed unglazed pottery). Yellow lined blue coat over blue pants. Note t...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Ceramic
Taira Clan Saga
Located in London, GB
This is an incredibly rare original Japanese film poster for Kenji Mizoguchi's
1955 historical drama Taira Clan Saga.
This film starred Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizô Ichikawa and Tatsuya...
Category
1950s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$4,019
1980s Vintage Memphis Swatch Twin Phone
By Swatch
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents
1980s Vintage Memphis Swatch Twin Phone
3.25 h x 3 w x 9.5 long
Original vintage
Refer to images
Category
1980s Post-Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Plastic
Help!
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1965 musical comedy Help!
Starring The Beatles, and directed by Richard Lester.
The art work on this Japanese poster is unique to the films rele...
Category
1960s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,294
Tonite Let
s All Make Love in London
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1967 British music documentry Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. This film was directed by Peter Whitehead
and starred Alan Aldridge, Julie C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Gulliver
s Travels
Located in London, GB
This is a ver rare original Japanese film poster for The 1939 Fantasy Animation Gulliver's Travels. This film was directed by Dave Fleisher.
This poster was created for the films fir...
Category
1940s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,021
Star Wars
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster this unique design was used for the films Japanese release of the film.
The art work is by Seito (dates unknown).
This poster is unfolded and conserva...
Category
1970s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,021
Chinese Woven Bamboo Foot Soldier
s Helmet, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
This conical woven hat originates from 19th century China and is expertly crafted entirely of bamboo. The outside consists of slivers of bamboo woven together with rattan strips, sec...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bamboo
Chinese Silk Skull Cap with Gilt Lacquered Box, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
No self-respecting man in Qing-dynasty China would leave the house without some kind of hat. In fact, headgear was so central to social status that a boy’s passage into manhood was m...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silk, Cane, Wood, Lacquer
Pair of Chinese Twisted Iron Coal Chopsticks, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of iron chopsticks for moving burning coals in a hibachi or hand-warmer. Such chopsticks were also used to safely touch pipe bowls or tools that had been heated by an oil lamp...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Paul Newman
Hud
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1963
Located in Devon, GB
Evoking the wide, flat landscape and beating sun of the American West, this rare knockout poster for the original Japanese release of revisionist Western ‘Hud’ places Paul Newman cen...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Linen, Paper
Chinese Painted Bamboo Walking Stick, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century walking stick from northern China is comprised of a length of thin bamboo that has been steamed and bent into a hook shape. The bamboo segments are painted in alter...
Category
Mid-19th Century Folk Art Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bamboo
Chinese Handheld Ink Block, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese innovations in ink, block printing and movable type fed the technological push toward expanding the written word's range of influence throughout the world. This printing push...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Elm
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Original Vintage Japanese Uncut Movie Poster, 1981
Located in Devon, GB
A rare two-sided uncut printer's proof for the Japanese release of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' When cut, this sheet would have provided eight Japanese B5 or 'Chirashi' mini posters for use as flyers in cinema lobbies to promote current and future releases. Popular with Japanese collectors, Chirashi often take the form of a miniature replica of the movie's poster, with information printed on the reverse. Conceived by producer George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg in their first collaboration, the spectacular 1981 action-adventure blockbuster 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' starred Harrison Ford as globe-trotting action-hero archeologist Indiana Jones in a quest for the biblical Ark of the Covenant. Created by Lucas as a tribute to the cliff-hanger western and adventure serials of the 30s and 40s, Raiders was a massive box office success, becoming the highest grossing film of 1981 and remaining one of the highest grossing films or all time when adjusted for inflation. Almost universally acclaimed by critics, with The New York Times calling it one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Chinese Travel Opium Lamp, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
By the 18th century, opium use had become as central to Chinese social life as taking tea or smoking tobacco, fostering a subculture rich with its own customs, traditions, and exquis...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Tibetan Red Lacquer Cymbal Case Lid, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Ornately patterned and framed with brass fittings, this box lid dates to the 19th century originally enclosed a pair of large Tibetan cymbals. Used in processions and dance performances, cymbals provided percussive backing to wind instruments...
Category
19th Century Tibetan Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Fahrenheit 451
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for the 1966 French Science fiction film Fahrenheit 451. This film Starred Oskar Werner, Julie Christie and Cyril Cusack and directed by Francois Truffa...
Category
1960s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,021
The Getaway
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for The Getaway 1972,
This film starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw and was directed by Sam Peckinpah.
The art work on this Japanese poster is uni...
Category
1970s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$681
Mongolian Horn Libation Cup, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Used more for social interactions than everyday imbibing, this Mongolian libation cup accompanied a scholar to social gatherings held by literati known as...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Horn
The Girl on a Motorcycle
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968
Located in Devon, GB
A rare Japanese B2 for the 1960s cult classic 'The Girl on a Motorcycle,' which followed Marianne Faithful on a psychedelic motorcycle ride across...
Category
1960s Modern Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Chinese Lotus Mooncake Mold, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century hand-held wood press is carved with a large mold used for shaping festive mooncakes. Packed with lotus root, red bean, or other regional fillings, mooncakes are a d...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Chinese Calligraphy Brush, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Along with paper, ink, and inkstone, the brush was part of the four treasures found in a scholar’s studio. Arguably the most important tool, the brush served as a direct link to the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Fine Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Spoon, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A delicate example of the time-honored practice of blue-and-white ceramics, this 19th century porcelain soup spoon was likely used as an everyday ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Porcelain
Handheld Chinese Mooncake Mold with Lotus Pods, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This late 19th century hand-held wood press is carved with a large mold used for shaping festive mooncakes. Packed with lotus root, red bean, or other regional fillings, mooncakes ar...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Handheld Chinese Mooncake Mold with Lotus Pods, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This late 19th century hand-held wood press is carved with a large mold used for shaping festive mooncakes. Packed with lotus root, red bean, or other regional fillings, mooncakes ar...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Antique Chinese Mooncake Press, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the mid-19th century, this rustic wood press is carved with twenty round molds used for shaping festive mooncakes. Packed with lotus root, red bean...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Papillon
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for Franklin J. Schaffner's 1973 drama starring Steve McQueen and
Dustin Hoffman.
This poster is unfolded and conservation linen backed and it would ...
Category
1970s Vintage East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$476
Handheld Chinese Mooncake Mold, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This late 19th century hand-held wood press is carved with a large mold used for shaping festive mooncakes. Packed with lotus root, red bean, or other regional fillings, mooncakes ar...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Provincial Chinese Kite Reel, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This unusually-shaped object is a 19th century Chinese kite reel, cleverly carved to contain small wooden beads that rattle back and forth as the reel is used. A popular past time, kite flying...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique East Asian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
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