Filter Collection (1800s)

Every once and awhile some amazing pieces are made that use and re-purpose furniture parts, here is a perfect example.
The piece is made [...]

The Victorian era had way to honor their loved ones. The movement grew during the Renaissance revival period, bringing the idea of pure love and [...]

Narcotic Bottle, circa 19th Century for Tincture of Chloride: of Morphine 
Abbreviated on the recessed label as Tinct: Chlor: of Morphine
The label [...]

Like the other 19th C. bottle I posted, the "Tinct. Cannab. ind.", the bottle is almost the same shape and age. The ground glass stopper [...]

Terp Heroin Patent Medicine By Foster's Quack Medicine Bottle 

Double Portrait Locket with 2 Daguerreotypes Man and Woman Rose Gold Ornate Case Civil War Era

A Double Portrait Gold Filled Locket Man and Woman in Pocket Watch Style Case Civil War era 

Rose Gold Brooch with Tintype Portrait of Young Man with Stylish Beard Circa Civil War Era

Gold Filled Broach Hand Tinted Tintype Young Man Portrait Civil War Era 

Civil War Era Hair Art Brooch October 5th 1861 Rose Gold 12K Memento Mori

18k Gold Etruscan Revival Ram's Head Bracelet Earrings and Brooch Set

Reclining Mary Magdalene Reading in the Wilderness Painte Porcelain in Ornate Oval Frame After Batoni Circa 1870's 

Crica 1900 Austrian Cold Painted Bronze Owl Bookends on Marble 

No. 24, Kayano Wasuke Fujiwara no Tsunenari from the series Pictorial Biographies of the Loyal Retainers by the Japanese woodblock artist Yoshitoshi hitsu.

No. 13, Hazama Shinroku from the series Pictorial Biographies of the Loyal Retainers by the Japanese woodblock artist Yoshitoshi hitsu.

Aimé Perret (French 1847-1927) Oil on Canvas of Peasant Woman with Pitch Fork c. 1880.

A sterling silver tea strainer hallmarked for London 1802 with the silversmiths mark of WE WF

Sterling Silver Mark with London hallmark, Lion with Crown
Duty [...]

Lacrymatory Glass Tear Vial Victorian Tear Jar, circa Late 19th C.

Lacrymatory also spelled lachrymatory, are tear collectors used in funeral and love loss practices. [...]

Circa 1880's Oil on Canvas of Religious Man

The canvas is stretched and is stamped on the back, I am unable to read the maker [...]

More images and details coming soon

National Inauguration Ball March 4th 1865 Unused Invitation.
Original and a very rare invitation to the 1865 Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln [...]

Lambert's Pictorial Anatomy Chart, dated 1851.
Republished from Bougery and Jacob, Paris
Printed in Colors by F. Michelin 180 Fulton St.

This amazing and early medical pull [...]

Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Model of the Vendome Column Circa 1880's

Grand Tours were a rite of passage of the rich in the 1700s to 1800 [...]

Henry Troemner..."was by far the most prolific of balance manufacturers in the United States, making scales and balances for almost every conceivable use: assay, [...]

Victorian Brass with Wood Ball Claw Footed Wood Stand with Grotesque Faces and Oak Leaves
Year: Circa 1890's
Material: wood with brass feet


The Grotesque [...]

Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art Sake, this stand tells and shows just that. The cultured look of the "far off Orient", utilizing the creative and [...]