13 Antique Magic Lantern Glass Slides Taft Museum Artwork Architecture Figures

Set of twelve vintage MMA Christmas tree ornaments featuring reticulated / pierced designs. Includes 1971 (sterling) designed by Josepf Domjan, 1972 (sterling) by Antonio Frasconi, 1974 (sterling) by Jozef Domjan, 1976 (sterling) by Lance Hidy, 1977 (sterling) by Sondra Mayer, 1979 (sterling) by Lance Hidy, 1980 (silverplate) by Joseph Domjan, 1981 (silverplate) by Sondra Mayer, 1982 (silverplate) by Elisabeth Hyder, 1983 (silverplate) by Ron McNamer...

Large, heavy, vintage, late 20th-century silver-plated menorah, produced by The Jewish Museum. Design features eight screw-in candle cups on a rectangular base with scalloped / foliate legs and edging, behind which is a backsplash depicting Jewish / Old Testament heroine Judith, carrying her sword and the head of Holofernes, while a heavenly hand anoints her with water from above. Judith is framed in more foliate swags with a crown at the top and an additional shamash candle cup on the right-hand side. This menorah oil...

Lot of 106 mid century die cast lead, podfoot style toy soldiers by the Barclay Manufacturing Company. "The Barclay Manufacturing Company was an American metal toy company based in New Jersey that specialised in diecast toy cars and hollowcast toy soldiers. Due to their common availability at five and dime stores, collectors often refer to Barclay's toy soldiers as "Dimestore soldiers". Barclay Manufacturing was formed by Leon Donze and Michael Levy in about 1922. In its heyday Barclay produced 500,000 toys a week, making them the largest toy soldier manufacturer at that time in the United States. In 1939 Barclay acquired another toy soldier company, Tommy Toy and its art deco sculptor Olive Kooken. Some of Barclay's first vehicles were slush cast white metal made in the 1930s. Also about this time, and into the 1940s, the company made a variety of military vehicles – tanks, trucks with cannon and other cars painted brown. Despite the inroads of plastic toy soldiers, Barclay kept manufacturing theirs in metal. Following the war, Barclay changed the helmets on their soldiers to the M1 Helmet. In about 1951 Barclay conserved metal by eliminating bases on their soldiers, which collectors nicknamed podfoot soldiers because each foot appeared as a flattened rounded blob. These were painted similar to figures in American comic books of the time – olive drab uniforms with green helmets with "enemy" soldiers in red uniforms with white helmets. In 1960, the lead soldiers...

"One" by Janet Biggs, American, b. 1959 1993 Cibachrome Photograph in steel frame. #1/3   Sans Frame - 35.25” x 45.25”

7 Antique glass lantern slides with motifs of Belgium. 1. Brussels, panorama 2. Bussels, Grand Palace, portraying people on the central square 3. B...

19 antique glass lantern slides with motifs of Austria. 1. Salzburg, Mirabell Palace 2. Salzburg, Grossglockner 3. Salzburg, electric suction 4. S...

20 Antique glass lantern slides with motifs of Italy. 1. Pompeii, man standing in front of columns 2. Venice, St. Salute 3. Rome, Castle Sant'Ange...

20 Antique glass lantern slides with motifs of Italy. 1. Stromboli, erupting volcano 2. Rome, Colosseum 3. Rome, Colosseum 4. Bozen, Cabel car 5....