Name: Heart Shaped Trinket Box, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Price: $0.00
Description: "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love"King Edward VIII, from his famous abdication speech of 1936.
A lucite box in the shape of heart formerly property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The heavy heart shaped lucite slider is a relic of one of the most scandalous romances of the 20th Century and property from the Villa Windsor in the Bois de Boulogne, decorated by Maison Jansen and dispersed by Sothebys in the 1990s.
Name: Danish Silver Ice Bucket
Price: $1,250.00
Beautifully crafted Jensen-esque ice bucket of crystal and sterling from the 1950's. Sterling grape clusters hang from the similarly decorated, ribbed and hinged handle. Beautiful quality and workmanship. Denmark.
Name: French Box with a Stamp “Rose”
Price: $750.00
Hand crafted "Rose" made of hundreds of French stamps.,circa 1950's. Unusual french novelty in its own glass and brass framed casket. Excellent condition.
Name: Gilt Venetian Glass Bird Candlestick
Price: $575.00
Unusual handblown glass candlestick Murano Italy. An opalescent gilt bird on a perch is the central motif. Circa 1950's. Excellent condition.
Name: Schiaparelli’s Heart Soap Set
Price: $125.00
I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink, Shocking Pink"
Elsa Schiaparelli
Schiaparelli's amusing shocking pink heart soaps, a surrealist idiom for one washing one's hands with hearts. In their unused, original packaging.
Name: Rare French Celluloid Flapper Tape Measure
Price: $0.00
Rare art deco celluloid tape measure in the shape of an independant flapper.
Pull on her cigarette to reveal linen tape. Very unusual. 1930s. France
Name: Art Deco Celluloid Vanity Pierrot Powder Puff
Price: $1,450.00
French figural powder puff of Pierrot hidden in a celluloid mandolin.
Pearlized and marbleized celluloid is used for this unusual table piece. Pierrot "puff" is hidden in a retractable door which opens by pulling down a lever along the side. Amusing art deco vanity table piece. Hand painted detailing. France 1930s.
Excellent condition.
Name: 1930’s Abercrombie + Fitch Travel Hangers
Price: $325.00
Long before the A+F became universally known as the cult jeans brand for the worlds youth, they were known as the original purveyors of the finest equipment and supplies for the sophisticated world traveler. Items were made of the finest quality and designed specifically to meet the needs of a sporty and demanding clientelle (think Ernest Hemingway, not Dree Hemingway).
Included in the original cowhide leather case are a pair of extendable chrome finish travel hangers for those long trips abroad. So elegant and vestige of a time gone by. Although considered cumbersome by today's standards, these types of travel accessories were de rigeur when when hunting, fishing or on safari.
This case hold 2 collapsible hangers.
1930's. Made in England for the American Market.
Name: Modernist Sterling Candy Dish
Price: $675.00
Unusual Modernist sterling candy or nut dish from the 1950's.
At first glance, this design could be a public pool by Zaha Hadid or a decoration for George Jetson's amoeba coffee table. High style sterling silver holloware was never produced in large quantities in the period. This lovely design was made by Reed and Barton.
8" x 5" x 1".
Name: Victorian Lancet Kit
Price: $185.00
Physicians in the 19th Century carried these kits on their house calls to help "breathe a vein". Luckily, bloodletting went out of favor in the early 20th Century as a treatment to cure disease.
This particular kit comes intact in its original leather case with filigreed metal decoration, with 2 differing knives in mother of pearl sheaths. A great conversation piece for the doctor of the house! 3.5" x 2.25". 1850's UK.
Name: Victorian Bookmark, Theodore B. Starr
Price: $450.00
Oversized Victorian sterling bookmark with etched florals patterns from the late 19th Century (1885). Beautiful heavy gauge silver with flower blossoms, leaves and a pair of conjoined animal heads near the hole at the top which would have probably held a silk ribbon for easy access. Produced by in the USA by Dominick and Haff and retailed by Theodore B. Starr. 8.5" x 2". Excellent condition.
Name: Victorian Stamp Box
Price: $575.00
Wonderful and rare late Victorian stamp box. Imagine going to your local jeweler and having a personalized sterling "letter" box enameled with your information just to carry stamps. Wonderful detailing with enameled postmark dates (8-25-1890!) and a stamp (2 cents!). Amazingly cool. USA 1890's. 1.25" x 1"
Name: Art Deco Love Token 1
Price: $125.00
Charming 1930's Art Deco love token. Photo image of young lady with a mirror on the back. Silk faille carrying case with sterling tab decorations. Possibly made as a momento for a young man (Please see another mirror with a young mans image from the same estate also in this Gallery). 2.25". 1930's USA. Excellent condition.
Name: Art Deco Love Token 2
Price: $125.00
Charming 1930's Art Deco love token. Photo image of young gentleman with a mirror on the back. Silk faille carrying case with sterling tab decorations. Possibly made as a momento for a young lady (please see another mirror with a young womans image from the same estate also in this Gallery). 2.25". 1930's USA. Excellent condition.
Name: Art Nouveau American Silver Bowl
Price: $2,250.00
Unusual figural sterling fruit bowl from the early 20th Century. An Art Nouveau maiden's face is centered in the base of the bowl with her hair strewn with leaves and berries in high repousse along the large decorated lip.
The American maker's mark is illegible as it was struck twice, but, it is dated 1903. An extremely beautiful and unusual sterling bowl in the Art Nouveau taste.
9" across. Sterling. Excellent condition.
Name: Colorful Bakelite Swizzle Sticks
Price: $0.00
Colorful Bakelite Swizzle Sticks from the Art Deco era. The brilliant tropical colors contrasted well with the chrome and glass bar ware of the 1930's.
5.75" x .75".
1930's USA. Excellent condition.
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