Massachusetts - Desk Accessories

Dog breed sculptures are bountiful. But hand-carved French Bulldog, English Bulldog, or Boxer sculptures, not so much. This is a rare and beautiful find. Finely, expertly, and artis...

A tortoise can live to be two centuries old and this little guy is no exception. Crafted from cast bronze, the shell lifts off to reveal a carved and etched plaque of natural, untrea...

For the jade lover and collector: a natural, raw jadeite jade boulder paperweight or statuary piece. Affixed with glue to an antique (circa 1920s) hand-ca...

A vintage (circa 1980s) Gump's San Francisco letter opener and magnifying glass pair created in gold-tone non-tarnish metal with hand-engraved floral details and with sleek, beautiful black nephrite jade handles. The pair come in their original pale gold brocade fabric pouch but I do not have the original box. This iconic pair of essential desk adornments are a must for the Gump's or jade collector. My grandmother had this same set plus another with green jade handles. I have always preferred the black handles, though. Classic Gump's, timelessly elegant. Maybe you think you're not a magnifying-kind of person but I would beg to differ. You would be surprised by how useful an optically excellent (which this is) magnifying glass actually is. And you can create completely unique photos...

A desk accessory from America's gilded age featuring —naturally— gilded bronze, a kingfisher, a snail, a conch shell, and a handy candle holder. If you're like me —and I sincerely hope you're not— you have been stark raving obsessed with America's gilded age since you were seven or eight. You've read every biography ever written about the Vanderbilt family, Edith Wharton is your favorite author, and you feel in your heart that The Breakers mansion in Newport Rhode Island should be decommissioned as a museum and you should be allowed to live in it. The Breakers is the most impressive of the Newport "summer cottages." It was built in the early 1890s by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built the original Vanderbilt fortune. Breakers is a seventy-room cottage of nearly 170,000 square feet. Its bathrooms had hot and cold running seawater and the cottage featured wall-to-wall opulence throughout. Google "Breakers Mansion" right this moment and visit the Wikipedia page. Toward the bottom of the page on the right is a photograph of the library. Click on that image to make it full-sized. Wouldn't this desk accessory look perfect on the little table in front of the green silk sofa...

From a distance, it's just a stack of lovely antique leather-bound French books. But lift the top book and a cunning brass hinge is deployed, raising the "lid" and presenting a discrete private bar...