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Period: Late 19th Century
A jaw with teeth made of painted papier-maché, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Anatomical model for schools for educational use depicting a jaw with teeth, made of painted papier-mâché, all placed with the support of a cylindrical iron rod on a round base in bl...
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Italian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Iron

Antique Crucifix Holy Water Font French Napoleon III
Located in Labrit, Landes
Holy water font crucifix Napoleon III, French, 19th century Wood, plated-brass and brass Metal benitier holy water font representing a shell. The crucifix is of painted wood, held i...
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French Napoleon III Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

Ichimatsu Ningyo Doll from Japan Around 1890
Located in Hamburg, DE
Ichimatsu Ningyo doll is a Japanese shell limestone doll from the Meiji period. The doll body as well as the head, forearms, hands, legs and feet are made...
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Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Limestone

English Victorian Monkey Head Cane
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian walking cane with light wood shaft and handle carved as monkey head with metal alloy collar stamped 995.
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British Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Wood

Late Victorian Murano Glass Mosaic on Black Jet Stone
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Late Victorian Murano glass mosaic on a black jet stone set in a golden filigree backing. Measures: 1 3/4" long x 1 1/4" wide x 1/2" depth.
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American Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Murano Glass

Antique Thurston Co Ltd London Snooker Billiards Scoreboard
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Antique Thurston & Co LTD London Snooker Billiards Scoreboard. This is a great example of English craftsmanship made of mahogany late Victorian. The slate is in wonderful condition. ...
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English Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Slate

The Boys of 76 by Charles Carleton Coffin, 1876
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Coffin, Charles Carleton. The Boys of ‘76. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. First Edition. Illustrated. Octavo. Rebound in ¼ burgundy leather and cloth boards with raised bands, gi...
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American American Colonial Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Leather, Fabric, Paper

Antique English Oak and Brass Postal Scale
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English oak and brass postal scale.
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English Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

1891-1896 The Novels of George Eliot
Located in Bath, GB
A handsomely bound set of the novels of George Eliot, as well as a short story collection, with many illustrations. A seven-volume set, one containing two volumes bound in one, in h...
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British Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

3 Volumes. G. Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World. Second Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco. The covers and raised band spines are gilt tooled. Al...
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American Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Leather

Late 19th Century German Ceramic Beer Stein
Located in New York, NY
Steins with anti-Jewish images were very popular in late 19th century Germany. The constitution of the newly unified Germany, adopted in 1871, emancipated all Jews. The following dec...
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German Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Pewter

10 Volumes. Lord Macaulay, Complete Works
Located in New York, NY
10 Volumes. Lord Macaulay, Complete Works. Knickerbocker Edition. Bound in 3/4 red calf with marbled boards. Covers and raised band spines are gilt-tooled. Top edges gilt. Marbled en...
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British Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Leather

W. Hartmann Antique Oak Copper Ships Binnacle Nautical Maritime Compass
Located in Dayton, OH
Late 19th Century Ships Binnacle by W. Hartmann. Binnacles are an important navigation tool. They are often in the helm of the ship and allow sailor to maintain the correct course. This beautiful example has an octagonal case made from oak with brass fittings and removable copper dome...
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Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

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Brass, Copper

Antique Chinese Rose Quartz Carved Snuff Box
Located in Toronto, ON
This exquisite large antique Chinese circa 1880 carved rose quartz snuff box is a rare Maison Nurita find. Snuff boxes were first used by the Chinese and Mongolians during the Qing d...
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Chinese Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Rose Quartz

William Farren of Cambridge Golden Pheasant Taxidermy Glass Dome Wall Mount
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderful mount by William Farren of 23 Regent Street Cambridge of a Golden Pheasant. Housed in a wall mounted glass display dome, on a velvet ground mahogany base. The original ...
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English Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Hardwood

Large Antique Hand Carved Wood Black Forest Wall Plaque W. Crucifix Behind Glass
Located in Lisse, NL
Museum quality and condition work of religious art with amazing, hand carved details. This amazingly hand carved wooden wall plaque is not only of great quality and condition, it also has a patina that is unlike anything you ever saw. Over the decades we have sold a number of unique and interesting crucifixes, but we had not yet come across one that is inside such a beautiful branches and leaf frame in the Swiss Black Forest style. For us to have found it in this amazing condition again felt like a blessing and we are grateful to be able it to offer it to our 1stdibs clientele first. At the centre of this Christian-work-of-art-wall-plaque and behind the original, mouth-blown convex glass 'window' is an even more detailed sepiolite sculpture of Christ on the cross. The details in this crucifix sculpture...
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European Gothic Revival Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Other

American Victorian Walnut Cased Standing Magnifying Glass
Located in Hudson, NY
This large American Victorian standing magnifying glass is encased in a carved and turned walnut frame and is adjustable to height with a wooden screw set device. Made circa 1880 the...
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American Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Glass, Walnut

The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, Edited by Harris Nicolas
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Walton, Izaak, with Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation… Edited by Sir Harris Nicolas. London: Chatto and Windus, 1887. Fourth Nicolas Edition. Small 8vo. Presented in modern full brown Moroccan leather with raised bands, gilt titles, and tooling to the spine, stunning illustrated gilt title to the front. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout. Presented is a 1887 printing of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton’s famous treatise on fishing, The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Published by Chatto and Windus in London, this beautifully bound volume was the fourth edition to be edited by Sir Harris Nicolas. The book is presented in modern full brown Moroccan leather boards with gilt titles and illustrated throughout with wood engravings from 27 of the most prominent artists of the time. The Complete Angler was first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot of St Dunstan-in-the-West out of London, UK. Izaak Walton continued to add to the original book for a quarter of a century. A significantly enlarged edition appeared in 1655, and the last edition supervised by Walton, published in 1676, included additional fly-fishing material written by his friend Charles Cotton. The 1676 edition has been among the most often reprinted books in English literature. The Compleat Angler...
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English Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Leather, Paper

Antique Judaica Spice/Herb Brass Mortar and Pestle with 10 Commandments
Located in Doha, QA
This is a very rare and absolutely unique hand made Brass Judaical Spice Mortar and Pestle with 10 Commandments and two lions in the front which represents a Torah Shield. The Pestle...
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Austrian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

19th Century Arnold Son Veterinary Operation Key Table "Canine Table"
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderful late 19th century operation table also known as the "canine table" Made by Arnold & Son who where established in 1819 as a chemist and dru...
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English Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Oak

English Victorian Wood and Pewter Cane
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian-style wood cane with pewter swirl design ball top. Some losses, top 1.5\" depth 
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Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Pewter

Terrestrial globe published by Ernst Schotte co, Germany 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Terrestrial globe in watercolored paper, fixed with an inclined axis through a small brass arm, mounted on a black turned fruit wood base. Published by Ernst Schotte & Co. Berlin, Ge...
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German Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

French Crucifix on Pedestal, Late 19th Century
Located in Labrit, Landes
Crucifix on pedestal for altar French late 19th century. Silver-plated brass. The whiteness of the Lamb symbolizes innocence and purity. Christ, the sacri...
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French Napoleon III Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass, Silver

A mushrooms models: Agaricus Campestris, Germany 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
A model for pharmacy of mushrooms. Specimen Agaricus Campestris, Made out of paper machè watercolored. Rectangular wooden black base with moss and hay. Germany circa 1890.
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German Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Wood

Antique Map of Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore, Moluccas by Dornseiffen - 1884
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Map of Halmahera Ternate Tidore Moluccas Dornseiffen 1884 This finely detailed antique map depicts the northern Moluccan Islands with Halmahera (Gilolo) at its center, inclu...
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Dutch Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

Italian Telegraph in Solid Brass, 1880
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Italian Telegraph in solid brass, 1880.
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Italian Art Nouveau Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

Late 19th Century Siamese Stone Relief Temple Carving
Located in Hudson, NY
This temple relief was purchased from a late 19th century upstate NY garden. This lovely Buddhist carving is in an as found state taken directly from the...
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Burmese Other Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Stone

1898-1899 The Works of Henry Fielding
Located in Bath, GB
A beautifully bound, limited edition of this complete set of twelve collected works of Henry Fielding, with an introduction by Edmund Gosse. A Limited Edition set, one of only seven...
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British Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

English Victorian Brass and Burl Wood Cane
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian burl wood cane with large brass ball top and fluted sleeve.
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Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

English Victorian Wood and Brass Cane
Located in Queens, NY
19th Century English Victorian wood cane with etched brass top.
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British Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

English Victorian Style Wood and Silver Cane
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian light wood cane with silver handle and brass tip.  
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Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Silver, Brass

19th Century Irish Folk Art Whale Tooth
Located in Coeur d Alene, ID
Irish Folk Art. This sperm whale tooth was etched during the 19th century, in Ireland. There'sa a drinking sailor on one side, and a barmaid on the other -...
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Northern Irish Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Other

Tafra Island in Suriname - A Romantic River Landscape by Karl Martin, 1888
Located in Langweer, NL
Tafra Island Suriname River View 1888 Dutch West Indies by Karl Martin This atmospheric river landscape depicting Tafra Island in Suriname was published in 1888 as part of Karl Mart...
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Dutch Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

Antique Venezuela La Guaira Landscape - Dutch Colonial Tinted Lithograph, 1888
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Venezuela La Guaira Landscape 1888 Dutch Colonial Tinted Lithograph This atmospheric 19th-century tinted lithograph depicts a rural landscape in the La Guaira region of coas...
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Dutch Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

Stuffed House Sparrow Bird for Natural History Cabinet, Italy, 1880
Located in Milan, IT
Natural specimen from Wunderkammer Stuffed bird (Passer domesticus) House sparrow mounted on a wooden base with cartouche Specimen for laboratory and Natural history cabinet. S. Brog...
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Italian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Animal Skin, Wood, Paper, Feathers

Antique Caribbean Island Group Panorama - Dutch West Indies Seascape, 1888
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Caribbean Island Group Panorama 1888 Dutch West Indies Seascape This refined panoramic seascape plate was published in 1888 as part of Karl Martin’s important scientific and...
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Dutch Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

French Figurative Bronze Gas Cigar Store Display
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Made in Paris France, antique 19th century bronze African Pygmy playing cymbals with a cigar in mouth. The cigar can be lit with gas, the gas valve fitting on the back is in working ...
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French Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Bronze Narcissus Based on the antique, excavation patina, 19th century
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Bronze Narcissus Based on the antique, excavation patina, 19th century
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French Renaissance Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Metal

English Victorian Wood and Brass Cane
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian light wood cane with brass ball top and fluted sleeve.  
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Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

Antique Handmade Qajar Persian Lacquer Photo Album Silver on Leather
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Late 19th century Middle Eastern photo album book, Qajar period, hand painted lacquer enamel with silver on leather large photo album. Painted enamel central plaque depicting a Mosqu...
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Persian Islamic Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Silver, Enamel

English Victorian Ebonized Cane with Stirrup Top
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian ebonized cane with silver stirrup loop top.  
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British Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Silver

Decorative Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Shoe Model, London, 1896
Located in London, London
Carrying import marks for London in 1896 by Edwin Thompson Bryant, this Antique Sterling Silver Model of a Shoe, features attractive chased decoration. The shoe model measures 3.75"(...
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English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Sterling Silver

1888-1891 The Bankside Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Located in Bath, GB
An attractive fifteen volumes of the limited edition Bankside Shakespeare, edited by Appleton Morgan, and uniformly bound in half calf. One of 500 limited edition copies of the Bank...
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American Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

1892-1901 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Located in Bath, GB
An exceptionally beautiful thirty volume set of the works of Scottish novelist and writer Robert Louis Stevenson, in sumptuous half crushed morocco bindings. Very rare in an vibrant...
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British Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

American Brass Nautical Ship Wheel Mounted on Geared Pedestal w/ Rope Base 1890
Located in Charleston, SC
American brass nautical ship wheel with a central circular brass hub, eight brass spindles with bulbous handles, solid brass geared pedestal, rudder indicat...
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American American Empire Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

c1890 Works of George John Whyte-Melville
By George Whyte-Melville
Located in Bath, GB
A uniformly bound set of these delightful novels and poetry from George Whyte-Melville. A uniform set in signed half crushed morocco binding by Bayntun. Twenty-four volumes of nov...
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British Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

Collection of Ten Antique Carpet Balls
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ten carpet balls crafted in stoneware, decorated and glazed in several different colors and designs including a white cue ball.
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English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Stoneware

Antique Wood Planes Set by W. Butcher Unbranded – Vintage Hand Tools
Located in San Carlos, CA
Own a Piece of Woodworking History: Antique Plane Set (W. Butcher & Unbranded) A handsome pair of 19th-century wooden planes, rich in patina and chara...
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English Industrial Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Wood

Victorian Era Woman’s Lace-Up Leather Boots
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dating to the Victorian Era, a pair of dark brown leather woman’s tall lace up boots, attributed to Utz & Dunn, boot makers based in Rochester, New York, circa 1890-1900. Utz and D...
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American High Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Leather

19th Century Holy Land Mother-of-Pearl Icon
Located in London, GB
This fantastic mother-of-pearl icon was made in Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century, and is beautifully carved with mother-of-pearl and set with abalon...
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Israeli Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl

Antique Novelty Billiard Clock
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Novelty Billiard mantel clock. A rare and very unusual novelty mantel clock, the base being a miniature billiard table. The drum-shaped clock case has a 6 cm porcelain dial fronting...
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British Sporting Art Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Metal

Antique Novelty Billiard Clock
Antique Novelty Billiard Clock
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Antique Map of Indiana – The Hoosier State with Railroads Counties, 1888
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Map of Indiana – The Hoosier State with Railroads & Counties, 1888 This antique engraved map of Indiana, published in 1888 by Rand, McNally & Co. in Chicago for their *Impro...
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American Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

A shipyard model of the liner Nippon Moru, dated 1898
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A shipyard model of the liner Nippon Moru, dated 1898. This shipbuilder’s model has a pink hull, black topsides and two black funnels. It is executed in meticulous detail with two c...
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English Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Brass

1873 "Map of the States of California and Nevada" by Chas. Drayton Gibbes
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is Warren Holt and Charles Drayton Gibbes' 1873 “Map of California and Nevada.” This map is considered to be one of the finest large-scale ...
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American Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Paper

3 Volumes. Dr. Doran, F.S.A. Annals of The English Stage.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. Dr. Doran, F.S.A. Annals of The English Stage. Bound in 3/4 green morocco. All edges gilt. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Asprey. Spin...
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English Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Leather

19th Century Northern Plains Beaded Possibles Bag
Located in Coeur d Alene, ID
Northern Plains beaded possible bag. Sinew sewn and beaded on softly tanned hide using colors of red white heart, pea green, greasy yellow, royal blue and...
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American Native American Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Other

An ecclesiastical Italian carved olive wood figure group, circa 1880
Located in Central England, GB
This superb, rare Italian hand carved olive wood religious figure group of Jesus with Mary and Joseph. Joseph is standing with a lantern in one hand and his other arm is around Mary...
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Italian Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Olive

19th Century Majolica Palissy Tobacco Jar Thomas Sergent
Located in Austin, TX
Large Majolica Palissy tobacco jar attributed to Thomas Sergent, circa 1880 unsigned. Naturalistic movement of the end of 19th century. The jar have the shape of a trunk with a bir...
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French Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Majolica, Ceramic, Faience

A pair of magnifyng glasses, Italy 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
A pair of Wunderkammer round shape magnifying glasses for scientific purpose with black wooden frames, mounted over a black wooden bases. Italy, circa 1870.
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Italian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Glass, Wood

19th Century Hand Painted Greek Orthodox Religious Icon Circa 1885
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered is an authentic 19th century hand painted original icon; hand painted on a wooden panel; in completely all original condition with no touch up paint or restoration of any kin...
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Turkish Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Collectibles and Curiosities

Materials

Wood

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