Very beautiful thimble in 750 thousandths gold in its small leather-covered case. It is marked "eagle's head". It is in superb condition, with no dents or dings. Height: 2.25 cm diameter: 1.7 cm
Très belle archelle en fer forgé début 18éme Siècle
Munie de tous ses crochets d'origine
Rare décor de piques surmonté d'une fleur de lys
Très bon état d'origine
Longueur : 50 cm
Hauteur : 34[...]
Very curious lamp base, made in several parts. Each comes from coconut, finely engraved and sculpted. The base is decorated with geometric decoration, rows of pearls and florets, and the foot, rosette[...]
Superb entirely chiseled silver snuffbox, from the Louis XV period.
The box is rectangular in shape with scalloped edges.
The hinged lid is decorated with a scene to identify presenting three char[...]
Carved and particularly gilded wooden seal or stamp representing a dragon from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Very good quality sculpture for this terrifying and powerful dragon with traces o[...]
A very beautiful and large bronze mount with a beautiful patina. Found in Norfolk (UK).
Height: 6.8 cm.
In Norse mythology, wolves represent strength, cunning and ruthless aggression. They are c[...]
Large and beautiful Norman box from the beginning of the 19th century with a beautiful original and atypical painted decoration of birds and flowers, all on an almost black background that is rare to [...]
Cane with pommel in the shape of a greyhound's head with sulphide eyes and surmounting an ebony and ivory ring.
Good condition,
Delivery costs Metropolitan France 20€, please contact us for other de[...]
Molded round edge. Pronounced movement, slightly rounded bottom. LCE hammer punch from an unidentified master. Property marks: MP and SR Visible turn finish on the reverse. Numerous scratches from use[...]
Interesting canoe prow representing a zoo-anthropomorphic ancestor (half-man/half-crocodile). Today, the canoe remains the most common means of transport in the Sepik River valley. Wood with traces of[...]
Fun brand of glasses for cocktails from the Art Deco period: circa 1930.
Two ducks pull a cable on which are placed the 10 newspapers used as glass brands .
PIZETTE signature on the ducks’ legs. Dim[...]
Pretty purple gorgon fixed on a blackened turned wooden support from the late 19th century.
Origin from Senegal, return from a trip, 1960s.
Sessile organism, living attached to its substrate in the [...]
An Oak And Wrought Iron Bound Coopered Ships Bucket.
Anglo Dutch Circa 1800-1850.
In very good original strong used condition, with beautiful old patination.
38cm high till top of handle, 24cm [...]
20th century fountain pen. Tested 18 carat gold on its exterior. Beautiful collector's model: used a little. Made in France . Dimensions: 13.3 cm Total weight: 24.5 g
Grande Carta Corografica degli Stati di S.M. Re di Sardegna del 1772 di Stagnon e Borgonio
Large and Rare Chorographic Map of the States of H.M. the King of Sardinia in 1683 corrected and augmented[...]
Stick with long ivory knob engraved and painted with a neoclassical scene depicting a sculptor. Malacca wood barrel. Cites certified. 18x3 cm. H: cm
88.
Very beautiful rudder paddle collected on the island of Mushu, northern Papua New Guinea. This type of paddle serves as a rudder to steer the outrigger canoes used in this region. Presenting an ancest[...]
Series of three vintage riveted copper caramel pans from the late 18th and early 19th centuries from an old confectionery. Three similar models but different sizes. Very good condition overall with no[...]
Anonymous [Germany (Bavaria)], 18th century. Pretty dial housed in a round brass box, unscrewable, fitted with a paper compass rose whose 12 directions are indicated in brown handwritten ink and color[...]
SUNDIAL OF FAIRLY ORIGINAL DESIGN. THE PLATE WHICH REASES ON THREE SET SCREWS IS PROVIDED WITH A COMPASS, THREE SET SCREWS AND LATITUDE ADJUSTMENT FROM 45 TO 50 degrees
Beautiful hourglass in walrus ivory with floral decoration engraved on the plates and the four cones. Very good condition, slight superficial cracks on one plate.
Voltaire complete work - 75 volumes - dated 1828. A large set of very decorative book covers but also works that can be read beyond the aesthetic qualities of the whole set.
In good condition (some[...]
Quick description
Old and astonishing wrought iron door knocker.
Two-headed winged serpent, beautifully crafted work quite difficult to date, but 18th century or before.
Perfectly presented on an [...]
Quick description
Old and astonishing wrought iron fountain mask.
Representation of a Satyr, beautifully crafted work quite difficult to date, but 18th century or earlier.
Perfectly presented on a[...]
A miniature of a violin and its archer...
In wood, leather, brass, horsehair and various...
From the 1950s/60s...
Certainly an end-of-school work...
In good general condition except on the end of [...]
A small bottle in molded blown glass...
With gold and black embellishments...
And with the original labels...
From the house of SEMPÉ - AIGNAN - SABAZAN - GERS - FRANCE...
1950s/60s...
In good co[...]
Jean-Marie Ricard deux traictez l'un du don mutuel fait par testament ou par contrat et l'autre des dispositions conditionnelles onéreuses remuneratoires, demonstratiues , onéreuses, dilatoires et à t[...]
Signed "P[aris] B[erville] - Registered model - 25 Chaussée d'Antin - Paris". The camera lucida is an optical instrument allowing to draw or trace an image using a triangular prism and lenses, the dev[...]
Statuette showing a pregnant WOMAN, seated on a stool, with her hands on either side of her umbilicus. Her hair is in several small buns.
Akan culture, Ghana and Ivory Coast
Copper alloy
H. 6 ; L[...]
Popular art soldier of the empire and cantinier in natural carved and polychrome wood the base of the cantinier sign H Knight 19th century accidents and missing
English naval telescope, early 1800.
The telescope is signed "John Gray n.4 East Smithfield London", "Improved Day or night"
"Day or night" telescopes were commonly used on ships and could be us[...]
Pretty Sao necklace, made up of 49 terracotta elements dating from the 13th/16th centuries,
in round, starry, flat, and chiseled shapes (from 1 to 5 cm in diameter).
The necklace has been wound on a[...]
Oblong-shaped toilet or birth basin with loops for attaching a comfort pad.
Cesare LUCOTTE hallmark: LC / insect
Length: 43.3 cm.
PARIS, Second half of the 19th century
Unusual model without [...]
Pewter “mouse” URINAL in bulbous shape with tubular overflow.
Clear hallmark of Jean-Baptiste ANTHOINE active from 1883 : ANTHOINE / PARIS / 39 RUE FAIDHERBE
Length: 27 cm.
PARIS, End of the 19th[...]
Large iron-rimmed wooden wine pitcher with handle, 19th century. JPQ stamp. Dimensions height 37.5 cm base diameter 30.5 cm circumference at center 99 cm. Good condition.
Sphygmograph of Etienne-Jules Marey by Charles Verdin in Paris, circa 1860-1870. Very good copy of this sphygmograph, complete and in perfect working order. The sphygmograph is the first marketed devi[...]
Objets publicitaire maison Ricard et autres. 9:en tout comprenant 1 bouteille Ricard hauteur 30 cm en porcelaine jaune 70cl pastis de Marseille dessinée par Garouste et Bonetti signée nPaul Ricar[...]
Society Archipelago, island of Tahiti, early 20th century, very pretty pestle, penu in Tahitian, in gray basalt whose function was to reduce the pulp of fruits and tubers to a paste on wooden crushing[...]
Surprising belt buckle, probably, in bronze, in the shape of a fish, and provided on the reverse with two studs to rivet it to the leather and a claw to hook it to the other side of the belt. It is mo[...]
Pharmacy sign on oak wood panels circa 1880. The cup represents the medicine container and the snake represents wisdom and healing.
Very good original and decorative panel.
Pretty goat's head in silver metal from the end of the 19th century. Coming from India or Arab countries... at the base a base which opens. Can be snuff box or pommel of canes or mahout batin
Ex-Guy Mercier collection, Belgium.
The Mabea, located in southern Cameroon, were strongly influenced by the Fang, an ethnic group present from Yaoundé in Cameroon to Ogooué in Gabon. The Mabea hav[...]
Bronze pyrogen with brown patina representing a well dating from the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century. The scraper is in the pulley wheel. A plaque "Susse France et sans garantie[...]
Wall pyrogen in pewter with brown patina representing a cat and a pot dating from the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century. The scraper is in a frame to the right of the pot.
Dime[...]
CHURINGA animated by SIX RAYING figures
Aboriginal culture, Western Australia
Late 19th - early 20th century
Wood and pigments
Length: 77.5 cm; Width: 10.5 cm
Set of two bronze pyrogens dating frol the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. The first represents a child holding a boot and the second represents a shoe.
Dimensions of the child hold[...]
Pyrogen in gilded and chiseled bronze decorated with Chinese animal trainers dating from the 19th century.
Dimensions:
Height: 11.5cm
Width at bottom: 8.8cm
Diameter at top: 4.2cm
Art Nouveau bronze pyrogen in the shape of a tree trunk decorated with plants and insects dating from the end of the 19th century. The scraper is on the bottom (see photos).
Dimensions:
Height: 5.[...]
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