28.00 USD

Pysanky, an incredibly intricate and beautiful Ukrainian folk art, requires patience and a steady hand. This vintage pysanky Easter egg was made many years ago by woman who obviously mastered the art.

I bought a basket full of these amazing hand painted eggs at an estate sale. They are delicate and beautiful creations. This one has a green, red, & purple geometric design with what looks to be a black snowflake motif.

This is a vintage egg -- a real chicken egg. The insides of the egg were blown out before the shell was prepared transform it into a pysanky. The egg is in good condition.


Measurements: The size of a standard chicken egg.

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18.95 USD

Create an instant family story with this intriguing vintage black and white photograph of a mother reading to her three sons. One son stares straight into the camera with an expression of gentle defiance. Did he grow up to be your black sheep grandfather? Wealthy rich uncle?

This vintage framed photo has a great patina of age. The silver-tone metal frame is slightly bent on the upper right-hand side. With a magnifying loop, you can detect some dust visible under the framing glass.

The back of the frame has a lovely gold velvet backing with both an easel stand for propping the photograph on a desk, as well as a metal loop for using it as wall decor.

Measures approximately 9 1/4 inches x 7 1/4 inches in frame.

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35.95 USD

Art Deco era Opalex glass ashtrays bear the marks of the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, or Cie Cie for short. Taken from a French Line cruise ship, these cool vintage ashtrays date back the 1930s and the age of international ocean liner travel.

Stashed away for years, the green and pink colors are great, and the paint transfer lettering is in good condition showing only minor wear.

Listing is for one ashtray. Select your color at check. Or, buy both!

3 1/4" x 2 1/4" x 3/4"


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65.00 USD

Wear this amazing old fashioned mother of pearl bead choker necklace with a modern minimal outfit for a sophisticated contrast. The decorative clasp can be separated from the necklace and worn as a brooch. Clasp may be worn at the front or the back. A versatile piece of vintage jewelry proving that classic never goes out of style.

The almond-shaped mother of pearl beads have a luminous sheen and are accented by small white beads. The gold-tone clasp has floral details.


This necklace is old, circa 1940s - early 1950s, at least. It can be worn as is, or if you prefer, give it a good cleaning and polish up those luminous mother of pearl beads. The gold-tone clasp shows some wear.

Over all length 16"; Brooch/Clasp is approximately 1 1/2" long.

This beautiful choker necklace would make a very special gift for someone special. It will come to you in a gift box ready for giving.

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18.95 USD

Vintage photography memory booklets are a nifty way to capture your school days. These keepsake memento photo albums are a simple folded card with cartoon figures depicting the classic school personalties such as "My Favorite Teacher," "The Class Queen," "Big Shot," among others.

The cartoons are so sweet and very retro. Manufactured by National School Studios, Inc, circa1950s, these charming booklets are in great condition for their age. Two of them are smooth card stock and are slightly yellowed. Two of them are textured card stock, are slightly narrower, and have yellowed a bit more.

Great for high school class reunions, fill the photo albums with old graduating portraits and give them as door prizes.

This listing is for four (4) booklets.

Approximately 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

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45.95 USD

The Rite of Exorcism vinyl lp has amazing cover art & is the perfect sound track for a spooky halloween party. Published by Crunch Records in 1974, the recording was conceived and researched by Rev. Patrick J. Berkery with an original script by Morty Jay.

Album sleeve is in good condition showing typical wear and would look amazing framed as art work. There is a small notch along the top right side, wear including some paper loss around the edges and some scratches. The white inner sleeve has a tear. The vinyl lp is clean and plays well.

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14.95 USD

This circa 1940s Dixie Lid Ice Cream Premium poster shows a young and handsome Richard Greene, best known for his role as Robin Hood in the 1950s British TV series.

Dixie produced these collectible movie star poster sheets in conjunction with 20th Century Fox movie studio. Dixie Ice Cream offered specially designed scrapbook looseleaf binders for fans to store their Hollywood star premium collections.

In exceptionally good condition, the card stock sheet has two punch holes for insertion in a binder. There is some light wear around the punched holes which have been reinforced around the edges. Colors are vibrant. Back printed with additional photographs and description of the star.

10" x 8"


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35.00 USD

This vintage novelty globe is a curious retro find. The globe sphere is made up of individual pieces of paper edge printed with Jacques-Louis David's painting The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799). It appears as though the paper sheets were intended to be used as a notepad. The paper globe has an acrylic lucite base and an a half-meridian frame with degree indications.

The globe is small. It has a 4-inch diameter and a 4-inch square lucite base. The globe is 7 3/4 inches tall including the stand and base, and has a "Crafted in Taiwan" label on the bottom.

Genuine vintage, expect typical wear including light scratches on the metal meridian and lucite base.

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Other globes currently in stock:

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www.etsy.com/listing/202438286/globe-with-moon-charm-bracelet-vintage
www.etsy.com/listing/221218761/wood-globe-world-globe-vintage-globe
www.etsy.com/listing/257807925/vintage-moon-globe-1969-lunar-globe
www.etsy.com/listing/256838448/celestial-globe-vintage-globe-replogle
www.etsy.com/listing/259466095/vintage-globe-crams-celestial-globe-star


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49.95 USD

Instant collection of ten Golden Nature Guides, this informative and fully illustrated vintage nature book set can do double duty as a cool decor accent in a child's room, office or library and has handy references on a varieties of science topics including botany, butterflies and moths, fossils, insects, landforms, mammals, non-flowering plants, pond life, reptiles and amphibians, and seas shells.

The vintage pocket-size nature field guidebooks published in the 1950s by the Golden Press are in good condition for their age. They were used in their time and show varying degrees of wear with several volumes having paper loss or price tag sticker residue on their covers.

Each book measures 6 inches by 4 1/8 inches. Together, the science book bundle takes up approximately 3 3/4 linear inches of shelf space.

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25.95 USD

Hand painted on a blue & white stained glass panel, this vintage God Bless Our Home sign is suitable for wall decor in any room in the house.

The vintage sign would make a wonderful housewarming gift.

This is a hand-painted vintage sign, as such, it shows light wear, but has no chips or cracks.

Sign measures approximately 10 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches. The sign has a chain-link frame and hang chain.

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75.95 USD

Beautiful edition of Hottenroth's classic Le Costume Chez Les Peuples Anciens et Modernes is filled with line illustrations and color plates illustrating the history of clothing and fashion.

The book covers clothing, jewelry & ornaments, armory, hats, and more. The vintage reference book is a treasure trove of information and ideas about clothes and costuming.

The vintage book is in good condition showing typical wear with fraying around the edges and at the top and base of the spine. Paper is tanning from age. A few pages have light soiling. Color plates are vibrant and in very good condition. The ex-library book has pencil markings and a red "Glen Ridge Free Public Library" stamp on the title page. The library stamp can be found again at various points throughout the book. The color plate opposite the title page is splitting from the book at the top (approximately 3 inches). The library card due date envelope and bar code tag on the back endpaper. The book is written in French with no English translation.

Le Costume Chez Les Peuples Anciens et Modernes by Fr. Hottenroth
Traduction Par M. John Bernhoff
E. Weyhe, New York
In French; 6 1/2" x 9"
No Publication Date, Circa 1929; 213 Pages; Fully illustrated with black & white line drawings and color plates.

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75.00 USD

This Art Deco era Akro Agate glass ashtray set has oxblood streaks swirled into pale blue glass. The set includes four small ashtrays and a cigarette holder.

Vintage ashtray sets such as these were designed for use on card tables allowing each player to have his or hers own ashtray and a supply of cigarettes in the center. Bring the set into the 21st century and use the set on poker or bridge night, using the ashtrays as individual tidbit dishes or coasters. The cigarette holder has an octagonal shape & would make a lovely small vase.

This type of opaque swirled glass is often referred to as slag glass, or marble glass. Aktro Agate Glass Company began as a marble making company in 1911, developing into a manufacturer of jars, vases, children's dishes, ashtray sets, as well as other household items. The company ended production of its wares in 1949 and closed its doors in 1951.

Three of the ashtrays are clearly marked with the Akro Agate flying crow. The logo is not clearly formed on the fourth ashtray & cigarette holder.

This Akro Agate cigarette set is in excellent vintage condition. No cracks. No chips. The pieces are clean.

Each ashtray measures approximately 2 7/8" square. The cigarette holder approximately 2 2/4" tall with a 2 1/2" diameter across the top.

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19.95 USD

You're sure to hit a strike giving this fun retro lucite keychain to the bowling enthusiast on your gift list. Unused and with its original Swank price tag, the silver-tone metal keyring is attached to a round lucite disk with a bowling bowl and pin inside of it.

Keychain is in excellent vintage condition and comes in a gift box ready for giving.

Measurements: 4" long total length; Lucite disk 1 1/4" diameter

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225.00 USD

The best description of this fabulous antique farmer encyclopaedia is the title, which reads as follows:

The Illustrated Stock Doctor and Live-Stock Encyclopaedia including Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Poultry, with all the Facts concerning the Various Breeds and their Characteristics, Breaking, Training, Sheltering, Buying, Selling, Profitable Use, and General Care, and All Diseases to which they are Subject; The Causes, How to Know, and What to do; given in plain, simple language, free from Technicalities, but Scientifically Correct, and with Directions that are Easily Understood, Easily Applied, and Remedies that are within reach of the People. Also, the recent, approved, humane methods for the preservation and care of stock, the prevention of any disease, and restoration of health.

Carefully prepared, after a ripe experience of twenty-five years in stock-raising and an extensive practice in veterinary surgery, by J. Russell Manning, M.S., V.S.

To which has been added A Complete History of Bees, giving the latest and most approved methods and system of bee culture as perfected and practiced by D. A. Jones, the renowned bee-king of Beaton, Ontario. Also a valuable treatise on dogs, containing their history, breeds, training, diseases, and especially giving a sure preventive of hydrophobia.



Over 400 Illustrations, including steels, chromes and wood cuts.

Published by Hubbard Bros., Philadelphia, 1890.

This is the first edition of this highly collectible farm and veterinary classic. The book is in very good condition for an 19th-century reference book. Both fold-out horse teeth charts are present. The first and larger chart has a few small tears, and is a bit crumpled. The binding is tight. Pages are mostly clean. I noted one horse wood block that had been outlined in pencil by a previous owner. There are a few dog-earred pages. The cover shows typical shelf wear with rubbing and some fraying at the top and bottom of the spine.

This is a big, heavy book, weighing well over 4 lbs. and measures approximately 10" long x 6 1/2" wide x 3" thick.


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175.00 USD

This antique Steamer & Hose Milton Bradley sectional puzzle made it from the 19th to the 21st century in amazing shape. The vintage toy comes in its original decorative box. Dating from the Victorian era, the antique puzzle is made up of 42 individual chromolithographed sections.

The puzzle is complete with 42 pieces. Each puzzle slice measures approximately 5 inches tall and slightly less that 1 inch wide. The puzzle measures about 41 inches long.

The puzzle is in very good condition. The cardboard box shows wear particularly at the corners. A small piece of the right-hand side corner lid has broken off and is in the box with the puzzle. It could be glued back in place, but I will leave that up to you.

Box measures 7 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 1/8".

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125.00 USD

This beautiful piece of Higgins glass is one of Frances and Michael's early pieces made in their home studio between 1948 and the early 1950s before their partnership with Dearborn Glass. The piece has a hand-etched signature.

Small and wonderful, the fused glass piece has a striking pattern of muted oranges and pink. Originally intended for use as an ashtray, the dish has indentations on two sides.


Founded in 1948, Frances & Michael Higgins began producing their now famous art glass in their Chicago apartment using kilns set up behind their sofa. Using the ancient art of glass fusing, the Higgins created the quintessential art glass of the Mid-Century Modern era.

The ashtray is 4" x 4" and is in very good vintage condition with no cracks or chips.

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24.95 USD

Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be, the future's not ours to see Que Sera Sera...

Now that you have the song in your head, why not add these cool vintage ceramic movie title letters to your home or office bulletin board?

Taken from a vintage set of Mitten's Movie Tilers, each white ceramic letter has a metal push pin on the back for use on a bulletin board or soft piece of wood.


Black background not included.

Listing is for the eleven letters shown on the display board.

Letters will be sent to you in a gift box.

The letters are in good condition showing typical wear and some light soiling at the edges of some of them.

Letters measure 3/4"


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175.00 USD

An amazing social document, this lot of twenty-four (24) vintage date book dairies and account ledgers span from 1916 to 1944. They all belonged to one person, Rebecca H. Wheeler of Philadelphia, PA.

The interesting date book journals and accounting records reveal that Rebecca once worked for the Philadelphia Ledger and for the Federal Reserve bank. Her record keeping provides an insightful look at the changes in the prices of common everyday things such as taxis, stamps, milk, lunch & dinner out, library fines, movies, apples, oranges, ice, eggs, bread, etc. There are entries for friends's birthdays, movies and lectures attended, the first day crickets were heard in the summer, as well as other notations.

Some of the journals include names and addresses of relatives and friends.

Most of the journals are leather. Some of the date books include a variety of supplemental information such as world maps, postage rates, population census information, lists of national holidays, U.S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau flag signals. Some of the diaries have gold gilt edging.

All of the pocket-size date books show signs of age and the passing of time. Some of the bindings are weak and a few are broken. The covers are nicked, show wear, and some of the leather journals have marked where stickers were removed.

There are dates books from the United Security Life Insurance and Trust Company, a Royal Memorandum Book, Miles Combination Diary, Excelsior Diaries (1923 - 1932), as well as some unbranded date books.

There are 24 date/account books in all for the following years:
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920 (2 for this year, a "Cash Account Book with Mr. J. Mitchell Elliot & a date book
1921
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944

19.95 USD

This assortment of vintage Christmas wrapping paper is perfect for scrapbooking, holiday craft projects, or lending a fun retro touch under your holiday tree.

The vintage wrapping paper lot includes 10 sheets with 5 designs including toy soldiers playing drums, jolly Santa Clauses, Christmas lanterns, Christmas greetings, and an assorted holiday motif with ornaments, a partridge in a pear tree, Christmas bells and more.

Each folded sheet opens up to 30 inches by 20 inches.

The vintage Christmas wrapping paper is in good, unused condition.

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125.00 USD

This antique "Sky View New York" souvenir spoon has an amazing New York City skyline detail on the handle with the Statue of Library and East River bridges, and an image of The New York Public Library on the spoon bowl. The New York Historical Society Museum has one of these cool antique silver spoons in their collection.

Dating from 1911, the year the New York Public Library opened to the public, this collectible spoon would make a great gift for the spoon collector, New York City lover, or library enthusiast.

Spoon measures approximately 5 inches x 1 inch x 3/4 of an inch.

Marked F.S. & S.M. Copyright 1911. It does not bear a sterling silver mark.

The vintage spoon is in very good condition with some light tarnish in spots.



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