In mint condition with original tag this whiting and Davis brooch is truly unusual in its mixture of modernist styling and rhinestones. The chrome circle is decorated with watermelon Rivoli rhinestones, five tear shaped faux pearls dangle from the bottom. The circle is slightly larger than an inch and a half. The pin comes with its original whiting and Davis price tag of nine dollars.
This incredibly rare needle case made by W. Avery & Son in 1877, is the sought after Golden Cart!
Measuring 3 inches long by 2 inches wide by one and three-quarter inches tall, this amazing 150 year old item is in remarkable condition.
We wish to thank Terry Meinke. Terry is probably the world's foremost expert on Avery needle cases. Her exhaustive research on the subject is available to all and is recommended reading for all collectors.
You can visit Terry's website here:
Avery Needle Case Resource Center
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Isn’t she beautiful? And very hard to find. Made by the Sebastian miniature company of Marblehead Mass, this statue of Saint Joan of Arc is beautifully detailed! Measuring 4 1/2 inches tall, she is in excellent vintage condition. The only fault I could find is a spot at the back of the base that looks like it was a factory fault.
Her base is also marked 1952.
She has her original foil Sebastian miniatures label.
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This is such an incredibly rare item!
Made by Royal Doulton from 1912 to 1926, and designed by Harry Allen ,the Tunis line was part of their seriesware Middle Eastern scenes.
This fabulous chamberstick weighs a pound and a half and is 6 inches in diameter. A heavy duty item, these chambersticks were designed to sit solidly on your nightstand and reduce the possibility of fire.
In all my years of buying and selling I have never seen this chamberstick in this pattern, it is quite the find. Without chips or cracks, it is finely crazed, as is common in Royal Doulton from that era.
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Measuring 19“ x 23“ at the outside of the frame, this lovely painting of a sky scape on Cape Cod at dusk is a real beauty. Painted by Vivien Oswell, A known painter on Cape Cod.
$145Featuring excerpt from Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_her
Kilroy was here is a meme that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers clutching the wall.... According to Charles Panati, "The outrageousness of the graffiti was not so much what it said, but where it turned up." It is not known if there was an actual person named Kilroy who inspired the graffiti, although there have been claims over the years....The phrase may have originated through United States servicemen who would draw the picture and the text "Kilroy was here" on the walls and other places where they were stationed, encamped, or visited. An ad in Life magazine noted that WWII-era servicemen were fond of claiming that "whatever beach-head they stormed, they always found notices chalked up ahead of them, that 'Kilroy was here'". Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable notes that it was particularly associated with the Air Transport Command, at least when observed in the United Kingdom...According to one story, German intelligence found the phrase on captured American equipment. This led Adolf Hitler to believe that Kilroy could be the name or codename of a high-level Allied spy. At the time of the Potsdam Conference in 1945, it was rumored that Stalin found "Kilroy was here" written in the VIP bathroom, prompting him to ask his aides who Kilroy was.[2][9] War photographer Robert Capa noted a use of the phrase at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944: "On the black, charred walls of an abandoned barn, scrawled in white chalk, was the legend of Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's soldiers: KILROY WAS STUCK HERE."...One theory identifies James J. Kilroy (1902–1962), an American shipyard inspector, as the man behind the signature.[6] James Kilroy had served on the Boston City Council and represented the Roxbury district in the Massachusetts Legislature during the 1930s. He worked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy during the war checking the work of riveters paid by how many rivets they installed. Usually, inspectors made a small chalk mark which riveters used to erase, so that they would be paid double for their work. To prevent this, Kilroy marked work he had inspected and approved with the phrase "Kilroy was here" in more durable crayon.
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We were fortunate enough to aquire an extraordinary collection of the finest miniature figural bronze and brass curios to come to market in some time. We have some listed and placing more on every day.
Here is a sampling.
Check them out in the shop. Priced for all levels of collectors.
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Hi, it's Dawn. Tony sends his love.
Our shop has been closed for a few years now but we never stopped searching for treasures.
We have teamed up with connoisseur extraordinare, Kerin Lynch, and her fabulous Etsy shop JunkQueenJellyBean.
Here's the link.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/JunkQueenJellyBean
