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Period: 1930s
Charming Miniature Art Deco Rocking Chair in Beech, Bauhaus Style, 1930s
Located in Knivsta, SE
Charming Miniature Art Deco Rocking Chair in Beech, Bauhaus Style, 1930s
A charming and sculptural miniature rocking chair from the 1930s, crafted in beautifully finished beechwood....
Category
Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Beech
1930s Cast Saving Pig / Money Box Made by Swedish Gold Smith Olof W. Nilsson
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Absolutely beautiful and unique saving pig / money box made by Swedish gold smith Olof W. Nilsson in Kristianstad Sweden in the 1930s.
This money box is beautifully detailed shaped ...
Category
Swedish Other Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
$1,177 Sale Price
20% Off
1930s Amusement / Carnival Motorcycle Ride, Carousal, Merry-go-round
Located in Buffalo, NY
1930s Antique midway amusement park wooden motorcycle ride is one of the earliest produced for carousels and merry-go-rounds. Wonderful aged patina, ...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
Large Art Deco Traditional Wooden Artist Mannequin Model, Italy 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A handmade wooden Artist mannequin model - all joints move as they should. Found on a Estate sale in Modena, Italy.
Shows some minor wear - but looks beautiful on display! Some scrat...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
Charming Miniature Seating Group in Bauhaus Style from the 1930s-1940s
By Bauhaus
Located in Knivsta, SE
Charming miniature seating group in aluminium and with a table top in teak. Manufactured during the 1930s-1940s in period-typical Bauhaus style.
Measure: The whole group, arranged l...
Category
European Bauhaus Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Aluminum
Salesman Sample Bauhaus Three Legged Stool
Located in Hanover, MA
Interesting and unusual miniature Bauhaus 3-leg stool, possibly a salesman's sample or maquette.
Round seat is black lacquered turned wood ~7.5 inches diameter by 1 inch thick.
T...
Category
German Bauhaus Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Exceptional Model of Schooner Wanderer
Located in Norwell, MA
Very fine antique model of the armed schooner "Wanderer". Nice patina to the scribed deck with a large swivel gun, cabins, helm, and a great crew carved in uniform. There are brass r...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Early 20th century clockwork Automaton Diorama
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century clockwork Automaton Diorama
A truly wonderful example of an early 20th Century Dutch clockwork automaton diorama. The animation takes place after both clockwork me...
Category
Dutch Victorian Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Art Deco Traditional Wooden Hand Large Artist Mannequin Scale Model
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A handmade wooden Artist mannequin hand model - all joints move as they should. Found on an Estate sale in Vienna, Austria.
Shows some minor wear - but looks beautiful on display! So...
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
Half Hull Model of an American Packet Ship
Located in Norwell, MA
Varnished half model of an American merchant ship. Hull is varnished bright above the waterline and painted green below.
Weight: 11 lbs.
Overall Dimensions: 10" H x 45" W x 4"...
Category
Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Rare Builders Half Model of the Herreshoff Yacht Avanti
Located in Norwell, MA
Half model of the Sparkman & Stephens designed and Herreshoff–built 56.8 foot yawl Avanti. Built in Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1935. This is a builders half model with engraved namepl...
Category
Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Half Model of the Herreshoff Yacht Pleasure
Located in Norwell, MA
Fine half model by Marsom Pratt of the Herreshoff design 907 of 1924. The hull is painted blue over white, with mahogany cabin and trim. Mounted to a backboard.
Weight: 3 lbs.
Ov...
Category
Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Ship Model of the Bark Jessie of New York
Located in Norwell, MA
Model of the armed brig Jessie of New York. Fitted with eight cannon on deck. Hull is painted green and white. Rigged with full standing and runnng rigging. Mounted to an inlaid crad...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Yacht Model of the Schooner Yacht Wanderer
Located in Norwell, MA
Antique ship model of the American schooner yacht Wanderer. The masts are rigged with deadeyes, pulleys, and standing and running rigging. The varnished deck carries two built up cab...
Category
Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Early Handmade Wood Model of the RMS Queen Mary
Located in Lyndhurst, NJ
An early (probably late 1930s) model of the RMS Queen Mary all hand carved and painted down to the smallest detail. The condition is quite good with...
Category
Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
New Bedford Whale Ship Model Of "Cortez"
Located in Norwell, MA
New Bedford whale ship model "Cortez". Full wood model, fully rigged. Made by Captain Hall. Provenance: Original owner purchased ship model from the New Yor...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Eskimo Model Kayak, Wood Covered with Seal Skin, Lined with Bone
Located in Leuven , BE
What makes this model so special is that all the hunting devices are still present: spears, harpoons, spear thrower, wood float board, and bladder, paddles and other equipment used for seal hunting. Please note how well these are made in a stunning combination of wood and bone and lashed on deck under bone and sinew spear securers. Despite the kayak frame...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Animal Skin, Wood
1934 Americas Cup Yacht Rainbow Half Model
Located in Norwell, MA
Fine carved wood half model of the 1934 Americas Cup Yacht Rainbow. Planked deck with brass fittings. Mahogany skylights with brass bars. Ships whee...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
20th Century Brass Model GNR Atlantic 3 1/2 Inch Gauge Steam Locomotive c.1930
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Early 20th Century brass model, showcasing the GNR Atlantic locomotive 251 and its three-axle tender. Crafted to a 3 1/2 inch gauge, the model gleams with polished brass, copper, and...
Category
British Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Danish Art Deco World Globe with Compass on a Wooden Base, Heimdal No. 34
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A rare surviver in shape of this 90 years old Globus. Its made from paper-covered bakelite suspended in a numbered brass frame on an Art Deco/architectural st...
Category
Danish Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
$908 Sale Price
45% Off
Art Deco Two English Pottery Glass Eyed Dog Figures
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
Two delightful English Art Deco pottery novelty dog figures with glass eyes made by Fielding’s and Crown Devon and dating from the 1930’s. The small figures portray two small puppy d...
Category
English Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Ceramic
Early 20th century barbers point of sale hair comb and brush
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century barbers point of sale hair comb and brush
We share what we love, and we love this rare example of an oversized point of sale barbers hair...
Category
British Folk Art Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plastic, Wood
Vintage Wooden Hat Form Mold, Vienna, Austria, 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Stunning beautiful wooden hat form mold, found at an estate sale in Vienna, Austria. Has the form of the typical Art Deco style. So we believe it was made in the 1920s. Nice decorati...
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Botanical Model in Enlarged Section of a Moraceae Syconium, Italy, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
Model in enlarged section of a Moraceae syconium (fig for example is a syconium). The model is made of painted plaster and almost certainly made by Paravia in the 1930s. Measures cm ...
Category
Italian Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plaster
Antique Folk Art Hand-Carved Ships
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
Two hand whittled ships with exceptional detail from the early 20th century, found in New Jersey.
Category
American American Craftsman Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
$2,400 / item
Vintage Wooden and Felt Hat Form Mold, Vienna, Austria, 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Stunning beautiful wooden and felt hat form mold, found at an estate sale in Vienna, Austria. Has the form of the typical Art Deco style. So we believe it was made in the 1930s. Nice...
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
1930s Elastolin Farm / Yard. 65 pc. O&M Hausser.. Antique toy, made in Germany
By Elastoform
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare 1930s Elastolin Farm / Yard. over 65 pc. O&M Hausser.. Antique toys, made in Germany,,Over 50 year collection. Amazing Early Elastolin Farm compri...
Category
German Country Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Composition
Liberty of London Small Brown Leather Hippopotamus Decorative Model
Located in Reading, Berkshire
1920's Liberty of London Small Hand-Crafted Brown Leather Hippopotamus with Glass Eyes Decorative Model.
Category
British Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Leather, Glass
$581 Sale Price
44% Off
White Rustic Glazed Bandini Art Deco Fauns circa 1938 for Zaccagnini
By Urbano Zaccagnini, Mario Bandini
Located in Melbourne, AU
A pair of cherubic fauns, playing music. One sports a cupid's bow in one hand and blows a conch Horn. A quiver of cupid's arrows lies at his feet. The second faun accompanies on a ba...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Terracotta
$1,080 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"Penthouse, " Perfume Group by Lelong in Art Deco Box, Unusually Fine Condition
By Lucien Lelong
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although the perfume industry in France and America embraced the new streamlined and geometric styles of the 1920s and 30s -- which we would call Art Deco tod...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Glass
Builders Model of Royal Yacht Squadron Yacht Rys, Ceto
Located in Norwell, MA
Extraordinary original dockyard builders model of the royal yacht squadron vessel RYS CETO, a 130 ton diesel yacht owned by the Earl Fitzwilliam. ...
Category
European Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
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 Models and Miniatures
Materials
Leather
Ronson USA 1934 Art Deco Black Lacquered Rondette Desk Lighter in Stainless Stee
Located in Miami, FL
A stainless steel lighter designed by Ronson.
Very beautiful desk Rondette lighter, created in New Jersey United States by The Ronson Co. during the art deco period, back in the 1934. This is a very unusual lighter designed with wonderful geometric patterns and crafted in solid steel with a central round body set upon two smaller cylindrical feet. Embellished with black lacquer, creating a great contrast with the base polished steel. Extremely well made and solid construction with very nice care and attention to all details. This surely is a very decorative piece and a great conversation item in gorgeous and exceptional preserved condition.
Weight: 104.9 Grams, (67.24 Dwt).
Measurements: 66 mm by 21 mm by 82 mm (2.59 x 0.83 x 3.23 Inches).
Marks: Stamped with the maker's mark and signed, "RONSON US PAT.RE.NO.19023 RONSON RONDETTE ART METAL WKS INC NEWARK NJ US PAT.RE.NO.19023".
The Ronson lighter company started as The Art Metal Works in 1897 and was incorporated on July 20, 1898, by Max Hecht, Louis Vincent Aronson and Leopold Herzig, in Newark, New Jersey. Louis V. Aronson was a huge creative driving force for the company; and, with a few business adjustments, including the addition of Alexander...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Scale Model of the Clipper Ship Flying Cloud
Located in Norwell, MA
1930’s Era ship model of the Boston built American clipper ship “Flying Cloud”. This is a well-executed model from the 1930s. the carved wood hull has a scri...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
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 Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Boeing 314 Airplane Pan American
Clipper
, circa 1938
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Art Deco Aviation Model Boeing 314 Airplane Pan-American 'Clipper', circa 1938
A superbly crafted rendering of the legendary transoceanic Boeing 314 Pan-Ame...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Builders Half Model of a Speedboat
Located in Norwell, MA
Yacht designer's scale model of a double ended speedboat. Superbly shaped and crafted. Varnish finish. Mounted to a painted backboard small and delicate. Circa 1930.
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Antique Model of an Eastport Pinky Fishing Schooner
Located in Norwell, MA
Quality model of a double-ended "Eastport Pinky" fishing schooner. This model is a former museum piece. Mustard painted deck with hatches, winch, line tubs, anchors, etc. Great model...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Antique Model of a Double Ended Trading Vessel
Located in Norwell, MA
Antique model of a double ended river trading vessel with hinged masts to pass under bridges, and a varnished deck. The hull is painted black and gold. Quality model.
Weight: 4 l...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Scale Model of a Herreshoff Yacht
Located in Norwell, MA
Rare period model of a Herreshoff "Class" boat. The sleek scale hull is fitted with floorboards, tiller, boom crutch, cleats, blocks, etc.. Fitted with a dropped centerboards. Set on...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century Chrome on Brass Car Mascot Entitled "Bagpipes"
Located in London, GB
A striking chrome on brass Car Mascot, in the form of a Scotsman dressed in a kilt playing the bagpipes. Exhibiting a well polished surface and fine hand fin...
Category
Art Deco Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Naval Architect
s Half Model of a Speedboat
Located in Norwell, MA
Quality architect's half model of a double ended competition speedboat. The hull is marked with the lines of the vessel. Possibly a C.W. Mower design. Mounted to a wood backboard. Ci...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Period Model of the Packet Anglo Saxon
Located in Norwell, MA
Antique ship model with provenance. This model of the packet ship “Anglo Saxon” was “presented by Charles H Taylor of Boston to the Pelham Country Club as ...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
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 Models and Miniatures
Materials
Cedar
$8,250 / set
Half Model
Located in Norwell, MA
Exceptional half model of an American sailing yacht. Beautifully carved hull with a rich dark patina. Large scale, quite beamy but still sleek. Mounted to an original backboard. This...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
$2,495
Rare Yankee One Design Class Blueprint
Located in Norwell, MA
Incredibly rare original blueprint for the "Yankee One Design Class". This is the sail plan drawn at the one half inch equals to one foot. The plan s...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Paper
Windjammer Ship Model Diorama
Located in Norwell, MA
Cased diorama of a three masthead clipper ship. Fully rigged with fifteen spars on the three masts. Deck details include built up cabins, hatched, capstan, wheel house, cleats, clock...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Superb Speedboat Half Model
Located in Norwell, MA
Sleek and beautiful varnished architect's half model of a double ended speedboat. This model is a piece of art. The vessel displays exceptional design. Hul...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Folk Art Model of the Yacht Roamer
Located in Norwell, MA
Choice antique model of the yacht roamer. This is a unique showpiece with its varnished deck, cockpit, rudder, etc.. Built as a seaside playboat, it is now a...
Category
American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Builder
s Model of a Competition Speedboat
Located in Norwell, MA
Exceptional architects model of racing speedboat. Varnished hull with gold cove stripe. Painted cockpit and engine covers. Possibly from the workshop of Charles Moyer. Mounted to a s...
Category
North American Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Epoxy model obverse 5 frank Leopold III 1936
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: mirror image portrait of Leopold III right, date left
Reverse: blank
By Marcel Rau
POSSIBLY UNIQUE
In coin production, epoxy or plaster models are used in the early de...
Category
Belgian Vintage 1930s Models and Miniatures
Materials
Epoxy Resin
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