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Chinese Overlay Snuff Bottle with Silver Stopper. Qing.

July 29th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in chinese antiques, snuff bottle
Old China: Glass Overlay Snuff Bottle from the end of 19th century with moss-green overlay on a white bottle.The bottle is carved all around with symbols of luck - bats and ancient money.Silver stopper ( with coral) and silver spoon (Seems to be not the original one but fits perfectly well). Size: 1,2 x 0,9 x 3,4 inches.Condition: There are no faults – except that the consistence of the white

Old China. 2 small wooden Figurines. Qing Dynasty

July 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Qing, chinese antiques, scrimshaw, sculpture
Qing Dynasty, 2 wooden figural pendants Guan Yin and Lu Tongpin. ( holes for jointing at head and base-parts ).55 and 60 mm, Fine condition. Nice, antique carvings.

Antique Chinese Seal of Scarce Stone. 2 Characters

July 15th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in chinese antiques, seal, wenfang si bao
Antique Chinese Siegel made of Gui Hua Shi (siliceous sinter, silicea sinter). Attractive designed seal with flower/stone motif decoration as side carving. Engraved as seal are 2 characters „overtake oneself".Diameter: 10 mm, Height: 50 mm. Very fine condition. App. 19th century.Seals made of siliceous sinter are scarce and expensive.

Knowels Hare signed Litho Postcard. Girl with huge Hat.

July 8th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in art nouveau, artist signed, beauty, vintage postcard
Attractive, lithographed Art Nouveau postcard, depicting a pretty girl with huge hat, entitled Eloise.Uses as postcard in Graz in 1914. Fine condition.John Knowles Hare was born in 1884. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York. In the early 1900s he designed many magazine covers like "Sympathy", "The Saturday Evening Post" oder "The Country Gentleman".Hare died in 1947 in

WWI: Calendar from 1916 as double Postcard. Military Strike

July 6th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in WW1, calendar, ephemera
Decorative postcard calendar from 1916 ( double postcard). The front side is lithographed and shows a soldier with gun. This patriotic postcard was issued for collecting funds for war-widows and orphans.The inside is the actual calendar and the reverse the space for the actual mail.Used in Austria in 1916, military cancellation, fine condition, not common.

Two small old Japanese Woodblock Prints Geisha Portraits

July 3rd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Uncategorized
Old Japan: 2 small woodblock prints, artist signed, depicting portraits of 2 pretty ladies. Each one is 3 x 4,2 inches ( 7,5 x 11 cm ). Both are in very fine condition. Technorati-Tags: woodblock,Japanese,Geisha,decorative

Austro Hungarian Empire: Decorative Emperor Francis Joseph Postcard - col-5269

July 2nd, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Uncategorized
Austro Hungarian Empire: Decorative Emperor Francis Joseph Postcard - col-5269

Continental Art Nouveau Postcard with Plane from 1917

July 1st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Uncategorized
Very decorative, Germen advertising postcard for Continenatal company "Continental-Aeroplanstoff". The image shows a small plane and scared watchers. Text at reverse, fine condition. MORE such Postcards