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Sunny Queensland: Vintage Postcard Sugar Cane

March 29th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in postcard, vintage postcard
Old Australia: Scarce vintage postcard, depicting a group of men, harvesting sugar cane. Entitled “Sugar. Queens Land”. Unused postcard from app. 1900. Fine condition.

Desirable Art Deco Silver Necklace with Dancer

March 26th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Austria, art deco, art nouveau, decorative, silver
Most decorative Art Deco silver necklace from the early 1900s. The pendant depicts a dancer with a shawl made of butterfly wings. There is a hallmark at the reverse with an embossed butterfly and the number 800. The chain has silver shows hallmarking too PAC and 925. The necklace has no faults – just the silver has slightly darkened and can be easily cleaned. The pendant is 1,6 x 1,1 inches (

China, Qing Dynasty. Butterflies. Application for a Hat

March 24th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Qing, antiques, chinese antiques, decorative
Qing Dynasty: Chinese metal application ( 2 pieces) resembling butterflies. Those pieces have been fixed on hats to bring luck or keep away evil. The larger one is 2,1 x 1,5 inches, the smaller one 0,5 x 0,4 inches. Alloy with silver component. Delicate design, fine condition.

Snails: Antique Chromolithograph and Etching from 1902

March 22nd, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in antique print, chromo lithograph
Decorative old chromo lithograph from 1902. Extremely good graphic with a kind of 3 dimensional effect. It depicts 17 different kind of snails as they live in the sea. Artist signed: Merculiano. Size: 9,8 x 6,1 inches. The second graphic is an etching and depicts 15 kinds of snails with lungs. Size: 9,8 x 6,1 inches. Both were printed in Leipzig in 1902

The Gate of Shimizu in Kioto. Albumen Photo from app. 1885.

March 21st, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Albumen Photo, Japan, photography
Antique Japanese Photograph depicting the Gate of Shimizu in Kyoto with monks as visitors. Albumen-photo, thin paper, fixed on paper with small glue spots at he corners. 10,9 x 8,5 inches, fine condition, app. 1885.

Help us win! War Bond Postcard W.W.I.

March 12th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in WW1, postcard
W.W.I.: Help us to Victory! Lithographed postcard to advertise war bonds. Designed by Fritz Erler. Unused postcard in poster-style from app. 1915. Very fine condition