This is a knockout. The essence of pre-war California style. $225. The Tudor Tile Company was founded in 1927 and produced its wares under that name until 1939 when it was sold and renamed California Art Products. Particularly noted for its Spanish designs, by 1931, its products were differentiated into seven lines: Decorative Type A, Decorative ...
Very handsome piece, with a wonderful feel of movement, aliveness, on the wrist. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require wire transfers. Please ...
This is it: the real deal. By the great American designer and begetter of the modern Mexican craft of silversmithing, bearing ALL his hallmarks, those in the silver itself, and that of his and his atelier's high artistry. And here is a great link to a page concerned with Spratling hallmarks: http://www.spratlingsilver.com/hallmarks.htm Call for pricing. We ship using UPS ...
A honey of a ring, really exquisite. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require wire transfers. Please feel free to enquire about shipping ...
It is not surprising that other silversmiths often copied Hector Aguilar's style, and when they did it with such skill, as in this charmer, the results are very pleasing. A poison ring or pillbox ring is a type of ring with a container under the bezel or inside the bezel itself that could be used to ...
This is a really terrific 1950s piece. Whimsical and elegant, the playfully simplified bird, a dove-like heron or a heron-like dove, sits atop a three-tier wind-cup whirligig. Side mount. Wonderful patina and weathering. The work of an unknown Laguna Beach artist of high talent. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger ...
This beautiful pair of silver candelabra (c. 1940) were made by Juventino López Reyes. Having gotten his start at Maciel, he opened his own workshop La Platería Del Recreo in 1935. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost ...
Superb example of American cast iron. It has an elegance that lifts it into a category beyond folk charm. The head is particularly finely modelled and the column it sits on has beautiful lines. Original and complete, with a later replaced retaining screw. 1930s. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger ...
Partially paralysed (we blame Mothra) this unusual pointy-headed Japanese Robot can still move some of its limbs. Its personality is intact. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and ...
All complete. One of the neatest home 16mm movie cameras ever designed. The Cine-Kodak was the first 16mm camera, introduced in 1923. It was a rectangular cast aluminum box approximately 8 inches square, and was cranked by hand at two turns per second to achieve the necessary 16 frames per second. Hand turning meant that a tripod ...
What an exuberant sign to put up at a city limit! City of Banning. Stage Coach Town USA. Scenic Gateway. Healthful Living. Population 13550. Since the population of Banning was 12,034 in 1970 and grew to 14,020 by 1980 I would place the USE of this sign as lasting up to about 1975, with the numbers ...
Porcelain enamel 1914 California license plate. The first year they were issued. California was very late in beginning the official issuance of license plates. More than a decade after New England first pioneered state-issued plates, California first issued plates to motorists with a dated 1914 porcelain. This ordinance was passed on May 31, 1913, and became effective January first ...
We never see cubs. And now we have them. Utterly winning. These cement garden sculptures don't stick around long in the store. We'll miss them. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We ...
Double upside down horseshoe and crucifix picture frame. Frame measures 8 3/4" x 17 3/4". Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require wire ...
Very large Carnival wheel circa 1960. Wheel measures 4 feet across 6 inches deep . One side displays very well: The other has paint loss. Unusual silver and orange. Stars adorn both sides. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be ...
A top hat and two derbies. So smart. The top hat in gros-grain bears the mark of the great 19th century Boston establishment of Collins & Fairbanks, the 7 1/4 size derby is from the enterprising Ham The Hatter of Dover, New Hampshire and the 7 1/8 bears the brand of the T.H. or H.T. ...
Utterly romantic, and really beautifully modeled and painted, these utterly belong in that temple of the imagination, the home library. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for ...
A great Spanish Revival wrought iron log holder. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require wire transfers. Please feel free to enquire about ...
The Philco Predicta is an American television made in several models by the Philco company in the late 1950s. It is arguably the most iconic television set in existence and is to many people the "classic" 1950s TV set—although with its trademark detached picture tube, it could not be more atypical of an early television ...
"Remember the Maine!" And we did. And we still do. The sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor was a casus belli of the Spanish-American War and has stayed in our collective memory ever since. This extraordinary model is another example of the powerful pull maritime disasters have on our imaginations, as well as satisfying ...
Double sided porcelain enamel with its original surrounds for hanging (extremely rare). Pure Oil Company was an American petroleum company founded in 1914. By the 1960s, sales were $700 million a year, and Pure Oil ranked as one of the country's 100 largest industrial companies. The company motto was "Be sure with Pure." It was sold to ...
Strictly, even sternly utilitarian, five cast iron hat & coat triple hooks mounted on a strip of black painted wood, this coat rack has acquired a certain poetry through wear and tear and use and age. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have ...
Battered but beautiful, complete as far as we can tell but not yet quite operational, this Mills "Bursting Cherry" 25c slot machine is one gorgeous hunk of Americana. The Mills Novelty Co was one of the pioneers of vending machine technology and mechanical musical instruments, and joined with the inventor of the slot machine, Charles ...
Yellin's influence on ironwork in the United States continues to this day. His work is generally acknowledged to be unsurpassed, perhaps never even equalled. Certainly many talented blacksmiths were inspired by his designs, such as the unknown artisan who produced these beguiling dragon candlesticks. Whimsical, humorous and folkloric, and really quite magical. Call for pricing. We ship ...
One cylindrical and one rectangular box with a long rectangular tray comprise this group of Arts and Crafts objects. To say that these are in the style of the unsurpassed Dirk Van Erp is simply to place them stylistically, and also to give us the pleasure of invoking the great Arts & Crafts master's name. Call ...