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Early 19th Century Italian School Memento Mori Oil on Canvas Welcome Death
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A almost life size depiction of a human skeleton holding a length of chain, with a banner at the base. We believe the piece to be Italian from the language used within the banner, ...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Five Mid 20th C Fairground Oil on Board Mythical Folk Art Portraits of Kings
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fabulous collection of original fairground or theatre art portraits of mythical kings in a classical backdrop. To adorn a ride or production, my gut is fairground and likely used a...
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Mid-20th Century English Carnival Art

Materials

Wool, Glass, Giltwood

19th C Theatre Interest Photograph Album of Actors & Actresses Circa 1880
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Theatre Interest a photograph album circa 1880 of 150 mainly Woodburytype photographs of actors and actresses. Mostly annotated, many in an early hand, including Miss Ellen Terry, M...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Leather, Paper

Taxidermy Natural History Collection of 20 19th C Microscope Specimen Slides
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of 20 Victorian glass microscope specimens slides, with hand penned titles and catalogue numbers. Glass with a paper covering and a decorative tartan border, age relat...
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Antique 19th Century English Taxidermy

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Paper

18th Century Ethnographic Interest Asian Natives & Temples Framed Engravings
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of four late 18th century engravings of local tribes and temples from the Asian continent, printed by Nathaniel Parr and James Basire. Later housed in 19th century ebon...
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Antique Late 18th Century English Prints

Materials

Glass, Pine, Paper

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Japanese Ikebana Bamboo Baskets
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Collection of four Japanese woven bamboo Ikebana baskets, all of wonderful form and colour. Each hand woven, one with a sculptural root handle. Late 19th to early 20th century in ag...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Sculptures and Carvings

Materials

Bamboo

Winterhalder & Hofmeier Schwarzenbach Chinoiserie Small Grandmother Clock
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A charming grandmother clock decorated in the chinoiserie taste with typical scenery and figures. Smaller than your average grandmother clock and larger than your typical granddaug...
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Early 20th Century European Chinoiserie Grandfather Clocks and Longcase ...

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Pine

19th C Country House Library Plaster Bust of Composer Pianist Felix Mendelssohn
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A good 19th century library plaster bust of the German composer, pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn, on a typical socle base. The plaster bust has its original painted finish,...
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Antique 19th Century European Busts

Materials

Plaster

Early 19th C Georgian Original Painted Green Pitch Pine Dog Box Bed Crate
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A late Georgian pitch pine crate that would off originally been used for transporting a dog on a carriage. In wonderful original condition, with its original green painted finish tha...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Iron

Early 20th Century Pair of Mirror Witches Balls on Bronze Stands
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A matching pair of early 20th century mirrored witches balls, with pressed steel galleries and hanging hoops. They have later been associated to a pair of extremely well cast and he...
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Early 20th Century English Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Large 19th C Woolly Mammoth Mammuthus Primigenius Molar Specimen Taxidermy
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An incredibly preserved, large Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) molar section, the piece has a fantastic patina from decades of handling. A very small section missing from one...
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Antique 19th Century European Taxidermy

Materials

Natural Fiber

19th Century Large English Victorian Dolls House Original Paint
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large and well proportioned three storey dolls house with a peak roof and central chimney over a six sash window facade and centre door. The house has its original painted cream e...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Victorian Toys and Dolls

Materials

Glass, Pine

Rare Pair of Late 19th Century Tattoo Specimens From A French Sailor Curiosity
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very odd and rare pair of preserved human tattoos, believed to be from a French sailor. Depicting a Prussian solider and a young lady. Later housed and mounted in period maple fram...
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Antique Late 19th Century European Nautical Objects

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Maple

19th Century Maritime Nautical Sailor Folk Art Carved Cassia Pod Nut Curiosity
Located in Lowestoft, GB
We believe this to be a cassia pod, and likely picked up by a sailor on his travels in the mid to late 19th century. The pod has been hollowed out with two hinged doors and external ...
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Antique 19th Century European Nautical Objects

Materials

Natural Fiber

18th C "Stolen or Strayed" Gem Penned Notice Sign For its Return Giltwood Frame
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A stolen gem!!!! beautiful penned circa mid to late 18th century notice for it to be returned. Housed in a later glazed deep moulded gilt frame “Stolen or strayed the 8th instant At...
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Antique 18th Century English Signs

Materials

Art Glass, Giltwood, Paper

19th C Manner of Pugin Scottish Gothic Revival Green Leather Folio & Stand
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A decorative gothic stand and folio, the stand in pine with its original ebonised finished, the folio covered in its perfectly worn green leather with steel cartouches, straps, centr...
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Antique 19th Century Scottish Gothic Revival Magazine Racks and Stands

Materials

Leather, Pine

Circa 1900 American Ringling Brothers Circus Fairground Cart Panels Tiger & Lion
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rare survivor, fantastically decorative pair of plaster and hand painted animal cart panels used by the Ringling Brothers Circus Show circa 1900 The two panels would have hung ov...
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Antique Early 1900s American Carnival Art

Materials

Plaster, Pine

Late 18 C W.Curtis Hand Coloured Botanical Lithograph Plates Faux Marble Mounts
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Decorative pair of late 18th century hand coloured lithograph plates of a Franklin Tartar and Black Hellebore. Originally both part of the botanical book Flower Garden Displayed by ...
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Antique Late 18th Century English George III Decorative Art

Materials

Paper, Art Glass, Giltwood

19th Century Police Report Buggery With A Horse 1871 William Prudice Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Poor little horsey!!! A penned police report 1871 by a L. J. Deacon Deputy Clerk of the Peace William Prudice on the thirteenth day of June, in the year of our lord one thousand ei...
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Antique 19th Century English Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Glass, Giltwood, Paper

1826 George Smith’s The Upholsterer’s Guide A Hand Tinted Textile Engraving
By George Smith
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A original hand coloured copperplate engraving from George Smith’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide published by Jones & Co, London, 1826. George Smith was upholsterer and ...
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Antique 1820s English George IV Prints

Materials

Paper

Eight 19th Century Italian School Watercolours Turkish & Eastern Portraits
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Mid to late 19th century collection of eight Italian school figural studies of Turkish and Eastern gentleman, each in traditional dress and annotated in pencil to the bottom. Waterc...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings

Materials

Art Glass, Wood, Paper

Late 19th Century Folk Art Victorian Miniature English Taxidermy Dog
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very rare late Victorian/Early Edwardian taxidermy dog, often scaled down by the best naturalist of the period. Housed in its original glazed and gil...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Taxidermy

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine

1807 British School Studies Dead Robin & Kingfisher by Richard Pillar A Fair Lad
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Early 19th Century British School studies of a dead robin and kingfisher both similarly inscribed to the lower margin. Watercolours on paper with pencil underdrawings, housed in glaz...
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Antique Early 19th Century English George III Paintings

Materials

Glass, Giltwood, Paper

1850 12 Hand Coloured Botanical Plates From the American Practice of Medicine
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of 12 mid-19th century hand colured engravings of botanical specimens from the American Practice of Medicine, 1850 Each has been professionally mounted and framed in a ...
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Antique Mid-19th Century American Victorian Decorative Art

Materials

Paper

19th Century Pair of French Chateau Leather Appliqué Floral Mercury Wall Mirrors
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rather odd matching pair of late 19th century French mirrors, will appliqué leatherwork. Each mirror is profusely covered with leather flowers and foliage, over a thick pine caucu...
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Antique 1880s French Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors

Materials

Leather, Mirror, Pine

19th Century Framed Engravings From The New Book Of Martyrs by Henry Southwell
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of 11 framed and glazed engravings taken from the New Book Of Martyrs By Henry Southwell The 11 engravings show authentic and genuine historical account of the many dre...
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Antique 19th Century English Religious Items

Materials

Glass, Pine, Paper

25 Chromolithograph Plates "New Models of Wood & Marble" by Eugène Berthelon
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A impressive collection of 25 Parisian framed chromolithograph plates of "New models of wood and marble", by Eugène Berthelon The pictures also have there original folio and informa...
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Antique Early 1900s French Decorative Art

Materials

Art Glass, Wood, Paper

Late 19th C Memento Mori Calligraphy In memory of Maria Arthur Manchip Died 1899
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fantastically decorative pen and ink calligraphy composition celebrating the life of a Maria Arthur Manchip who dies 1899. On paper, in a gl...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Paintings

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Original Poems, Stories, Tales & Death “D.Bradbury for Original Pieces” 1830
Located in Lowestoft, GB
“D.Bradbury for original pieces”, a book crammed with original poems, stories, tales and deaths. 117 pages beautifully penned, written between 1830 and 1849 Age related discolourati...
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Antique 19th Century English Early Victorian Books

Materials

Paper

Pedro Cottage 1837, Stories & Sketchbook Illustrated by Joseph Scoundrel Square
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Early Victorian marble paper, hand written and illustrated book “Pedro cottage” likely a fictional publication “illustrated London published by knobs and co No. 16 pledge hole plac...
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Antique 19th Century English Early Victorian Books

Materials

Paper

George III Mahogany Square Back Bergere Armchair Country House Antique
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A George III Mahogany square back bergere armchair, with the best red Moroccan leather upholstery, in untouched country house condition. Plenty o...
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Antique Early 19th Century English George III Bergere Chairs

Materials

Leather, Mahogany

19th C English Country House Scarlet Red Chinoiserie Lacquered Cabinet Armoire
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Beautifully bruised 19th century scarlet lacquered cabinet, decorated with typical oriental scenes and figures. Original ironwork is all present and correct, lots of age related wea...
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Antique 19th Century British Furniture

Materials

Pine

19th Century Pair of Clowns Leather Tap Shoes Dan Leno, George Wild Galvin
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A pair of elongated tap dancing clown shoes, leather uppers and soles with metal taps on the heals, the shoes come with a large account of ephemera related to Dan Leno, by repute the...
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Antique 19th Century English Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Leather

Early 20th C School Classroom Plaques Classics, English, History & Economics
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of four oak classroom door plaques, hand painted with gilt lettering, chamfered decorative edges and counter sunk fixing holes. More than likely from a well to do teach...
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Early 20th Century British Edwardian Signs

Materials

Oak

Early 20th Century Taxidermy Snow White Terrier "Fruach"
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very well mounted taxidermy snow white terrier with silk bow collar, resting on a scarlet velvet cushion with braided gold fringing and graduated painted blue background. The terr...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Taxidermy

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine

Large 19th Century Mottled Coco De Mer & Glass Dome Maritime Sailors Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large late 19th Century Coco De Mer, housed in a period glass display dome. The Coco De Mer is mounted on an orange threaded and tasseled stem set within a ebonised base. The do...
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Antique 19th Century Seychellois Taxidermy

Materials

Velvet, Natural Fiber, Glass, Wood

Early 19th C Classical Plaster Sculpture Flora Goddess of Spring Humphrey Hooper
By Humphrey Hopper
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fine and early to mid 19th century plaster depiction of Flora the Goddess of Spring, possibly by Humphrey Hooper Flora, the Roman goddess of spring, through the chaplet of flowers...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Plaster Encoche Sculpture By Mary Syme Boyd (1910-1997) Manner of Antoine Houdon
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A 20th century plater sculpture by Mary Boyd signed and dated to the base 1931, very much in the manner of Jean Antoine Houdon and his L'Ecorché. Age related discolouration, staining...
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Vintage 1930s Scottish Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Late 18th C Japanese Edo Period Palanquin Bow (Rimankyuu) Country House Antique
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A Japanese Edo Period Palanquin Bow (Rimankyuu) with two racks of arrows. The bow with reflexed design made of whalebone, the back and belly painted with golden mon and the grip (n...
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Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antiquities

Materials

Iron

Early 19th C Hand Coloured Satire Etching Macaronies Drawn After the Life Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Macaronies drawn after the life, satire etching housed in a period Birds Eye maple frame circa 1800 The etching, coloured by hand, and divided into two parts. On the left is represe...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Prints

Materials

Glass, Birdseye Maple, Paper

19th C The Albino Family Barums Museum New York Sideshow Fairground Circus
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Currier and Ives hand coloured lithograph print of The Albino Family circa 1860 “They have pure white skin, silken white hair and pink eyes,Rudolf Lucasie, Wife and Child who have ...
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Antique 19th Century American Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Glass, Oak, Paper

19th Century Glazed Specimen Box Containing Wheat Agricultural Scientific Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rustically produced 19th century glazed specimen box containing wheat and grain hybrids. The pine hinged box opens to reveal two glazed and segmented sections, with a painted blue...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Scientific Instruments

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine

19th C Hand Painted Entomology Studies Gothic Revival Shadow Box Taxidermy Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of finely painted entomology studies, on card later mounted and set within a fantastic velvet lined, glazed period gothic revival shadow box. The shadow box has its or...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Taxidermy

Materials

Velvet, Glass, Pine, Paper

19th Century Circa 1860 Button Miniature Portraits Indian Mutiny
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Indian Mutiny, a framed display of hand-painted button miniatures of 6 Indian leaders who escaped execution after the Indian mutiny, c. 1860, circular head and shoulders miniatures p...
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Antique 19th Century Indian Paintings and Screens

Materials

Glass, Paper

Early 20th Century Country House Horse Stable Name Plaques Signs
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A charming collection of six, hand painted Horse stable name plaques. Each plaque is pine, with an ebonised painted ground and gilt lettering. Age related knocks and abrasions comm...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Signs

Materials

Pine

Late 18th George III Provincial Folk Art Painted Oak Games Chess Side Table
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderful and original George III provincial painted oak games table, with a canted column and cruciform base. The table has its original painted finish, with painted blue and whi...
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Antique Late 18th Century English George III Painted Furniture

Materials

Oak

Eggshell Lacquered Box & Cover Summer House by Artist Thierry Voeltzel
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rather wonderful box and cover in the form of a county estate summer house, wooden carcass with a lacquered finish over a mosaic of eggshells. The stepped cover/roof lifts to reve...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Blanket Chests

Materials

Eggshell, Pine, Lacquer

Early 20th Century Large Foxed Mercury Mirror Witches Hanging Ball Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A larger than the normal witches mercury mirror ball, with a beautiful time worn oxidisation to the interior. Thick hand blown glass with a simple steel hanging hoop, turn off the ce...
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Early 20th Century English Scientific Instruments

Materials

Blown Glass

Early 20th Century Travelling Jewellers Precious Stone Samples, T.G.Woods
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A glazed sample case of precious stones, the collection of 12 gilt tins house a range of uncut stone samples all with their original hand penned labels. Among them is a rough diamond, Indian rubys...
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Early 20th Century British Edwardian Collectible Jewelry

Materials

Tin

Early 19th Century Pencil Sketch, Warrior & Divines Medieval Grand Tour
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rather odd pencil sketch on paper, housed in a later glazed and ebonised frame. The sketch shows a medieval scene, with a warrior in the centre with divines either side. Age rela...
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Antique Early 19th Century European Drawings

Materials

Softwood, Paper

Circa 1780 Sailor's Naval Maritime Pen & Ink Wash Portrait Sketch's Folk Art
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A charming late 18th century pen and ink wash group of portrait sketches on paper, housed in a glazed period gilt wood frame. Some elderly ...
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Antique Late 18th Century British Nautical Objects

Materials

Giltwood, Paper

Late 19th Century Pencil Sketch Epitaph Man Who Ate Too Much Fish Curio Macabre
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Pencil on paper sketch of a grave yard, possibly fictional. Mounted on period hand made marbled paper, framed in a maple veneered frame. “French epitaph on a man whose death was occ...
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Antique Late 19th Century European Drawings

Materials

Glass, Maple, Paper

English Early 20th C Oversized Huge Ex Museum Leather Bound Book Folios Box
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of 6 huge museum storage folios in the fashion of old English leather-bound books. Wooden caucus, with gilt tooled leather spines and...
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Early 20th Century English Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

19th Century Folk Art Prisoner of War Straw Work Noahs Ark
Located in Lowestoft, GB
19th Century straw-work Noah's Ark with multi coloured straw decoration, sloping roof and sliding side panel The technique of straw work involved dying pieces of straw different col...
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Antique 19th Century European Nautical Objects

Materials

Straw, Pine

18th C Trio of Large Lacquered Japanned Furniture Panels Faded Grandeur
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fabulous trio of large doubled sided pine lacquarded japanned panels, one side showing a typical garden scene with shrubbery, pagodas, birds etc. The other side is decorated with ...
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Antique Late 18th Century European Lacquer

Materials

Pine

Late 20th Century Porcelain Peint Main Vintage Trio of Trinket Boxes by Limoges
By Limoges
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Beautiful porcelain peint main (hand painted) vintage trio of trinket boxes by Limoges, circa 1980s, With brassware clasps. These unusual pieces are in excellent condition, and jus...
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Vintage 1980s French Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Enamel

Early 20th Century Whimsical Parlour Game Charades Cards Parker Brothers
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of 51 wonderfully rendered parlour cards, drawings and hand-written text lithographed onto weighty card. The cards have been mounted later on a blue velvet covered boar...
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Early 20th Century American Games

Materials

Velvet, Glass, Wood, Paper

Circa 1890 French Satinwood Concave Distortion Mirror Viewer Scientific
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Circa 1890 French concave mirror card viewer, all constructed of French polished light wood, with ebonised stained elements. Sliding card holder, hinged handle and mirror. In part...
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Antique 1890s French Scientific Instruments

Materials

Glass, Satinwood

19th C Wee Book of Riddles Hand Penned Notebook, by a J.A Soames 1869
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A interesting and comical miniature hand penned riddles notebook, by a J.A. Soames Sept 27. 1869 Retaining its original patterend orange paper cover, 32 pages in total with 29 pages...
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Antique 19th Century English Books

Materials

Paper

1869 After Diego Velazquez Portrait of Sebastian De Morra Dwarf Jester
By Diego Velã¡zquez
Located in Lowestoft, GB
After Diego Velazquez (1599/1660) Portrait of Sebastian De Morra the court dwarf and jester at the court of Philip IV of Spain Instinctively signed and inscribed 1869 on verso. Hou...
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Antique 19th Century European Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Canvas

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