75.00 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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18.95 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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65.00 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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65.00 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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29.95 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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75.00 USD

Long before the Internet granted us almost instant access to information, trivia, and argument settling answers to questions, people relied on reference books.

This handy nineteenth-century edition of Conklin's Vest Pocket Argument Settler would make a fun gift for the modern-day Internet geek. It's filled with information that a hip 19th-century man would have needed to know, starting with "Presidential Election Results by State 1860 to Date (1896), and ending with a "Table showing how many Days A Note has to Run." The book has an index of topics including:

Alaska, Cost of, to the United States
Argument Settlers About the Air, Earth, Water, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and the Human Species
Beliefs, Queer
Bell Time on Ships
Bicycle Questions and Argument Settlers
Brick, Number of, Required to Construct any Building
Cement, How to Make a Good
Corn, How Deep to Plant
Divorces in Various Countries
Funeral Customs, Curious
Greeting, National Forms of
Habits of a Man of Business
Inks, How to Mix for Tints
Laws About Homesteads
Manners of Great Men
Oat Meal, Value as Food
Paradoxes of Science, The
Religious Beliefs, Strange
Scriptural Money, The Value of
Things That Never Will Be Settled
Valuable Suggestions to Clerks and Workingmen
Wheat Prices Since 1860, Annually
Year, The Ancient and Modern

And so much more, including advertising pages at the back.

This is a genuine antique book not a reproduction. Expect wear. Overall the small pocket-size book is in good condition. There is wear on the cover and a bit of fraying around the edges. The paper is very lightly tanned with age. The back hinge is broken and there is some separation at the front but the binding is tight. Note that the page prior to the title page sticks slightly (see photograph three) near the top of the page. There is a bookseller's star-shaped embossed stamp and a red price mark.


Conklin's Vest Pocket Argument Settler by Prof. Geo. W. Conklin of Hamilton University
E.A. Weeks & Company, Chicago, 1896
256 Pages
5 1/2" x 2 9/16"

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19.95 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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19.95 USD

A classic Catholic book, Lives of the Saints for Every Day of the Year is an essential volume for a Christian library.

This circa 1950s vintage presentation copy of the classic storybook of Catholic saints has imprinted detailing on the cover, gold-gilt title lettering, decorative endpapers, an attached red ribbon book mark, a color illustration opposite the title page, and sepia-toned pictures of saints throughout.

The vintage religious book is in good condition showing typical age and use related wear. There are some breaks along the inside front spine edge on the endpaper as shown in photograph two. Binding is tight. Pages are clean.

Lives of the Saints for Every Day of the Year
edited by Rev. Hugo Hoever, S.O.Cist., Ph.D.
Catholic Book Publishing Co., New York, 1959
Illustrated; 511 Pages
6 1/2" x 4 1/8"

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375.00 USD

Rare vintage Raymond Peynet Rosenthal "Ponytail Girl" brandy snifters, these crystal glasses from the 1960s are truly hard to find. The vintage crystal glasses are perfect for cognac, brandy, or an apéritif.

Raymond Peynet (1908 - 1999) was a French illustrator and designer most famously known for his beloved "Les Amoureux de Peynet" characters.

In near mint condition, each one of these Rosenthal crystal glasses is etched with Peynet's iconic "Ponytail Girl" with two birds undoing her corset.

Each glass has an etched "Peynet" signature and the Rosenthal marked on the bottom.


Add this unique glassware set to your barware collection.

Set of Six (6)


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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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95.00 USD

These vintage Bibliothèque de la Pléiade editions of Albert Camus, Jean Giono, and the ancient Greek historians Herodotus & Thucydides are bound in green and brown leather. The set would make a lovely edition to your home or office library. The collection would also make a very special gift for a Francophile friend.

Created in the 1931 by Jacques Schiffrins, who later went on to found Pantheon Books, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade volumes are high-quality books with a slightly larger than pocket-size format. Each book in the set is bound in leather, has gold gilt lettering and spine decorations, a clear plastic dust jacket and is printed on Bible paper -- a thin grade of wood-free uncoated paper often used for Bibles containing cotton or linen fibers which increases the paper's durability without adding bulk. The books were published by Gallimard and printed in France.

The books are in good condition. Each volume has two ribbon bookmarks and clear plastic dust jackets. The dust jackets show some shelf wear but have done their job and have kept the leather covers in beautiful condition. The jacket on the Giono volume has a tear on the spine. Pages have some soiling along the edges. Pages are clean. Bindings are tight.


Set includes:
Albert Camus
Gallimard, Paris, 1962
2090 Pages
7" x 4 1/2" x 1 3/4"


Jean Giono
Gallimard, Paris, 1972
1490 Pages
7" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Historiens Grecs I
Herodote - Thucydide
Gallimard, Paris, 1964
1873 Pages
7" x 4 1/2" x 1 3/4"

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95.00 USD

Ma Bell, Bell Telephone, Bell Systems, Southern Bell, Southwestern Bell, Pacific Northwest Bell, Northwestern Bell, Indiana Bell,…. A T & T, all these names have a familiar ring to those of a certain age.

This set of glasses with the 1969 Saul Bass Bell Telephone logo are an amazing find. I've never seen anything like them, and who knows when you'll see them again. The pedestal design, smokey glass, and the gold logo scream 1970s.

Listing is for a set of six (6) glasses.

Glasses do not look as if they were ever used.

Measurements: 5 1/2" tall; 3" diameter; 2 1/4" square base

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45.00 USD

Antique brass advertising hand mirror from the late 1800s has a beautiful Art Nouveau design and an image of an Abram Cox Stove.

The small advertising mirror measures mere 3 7/8" long. In addition to the Abram Cox Stove, the mirror is marked "Princess Novelty" and "Requires No Blacking - Handsomest Range Made - For Handsomest Girl See Other Side."

The mirror's handle is marked "Duplicate Mirror Sent for 10 cent stamps Abram Cox Stove Philadelphia, Pa."

This sweet little collectible mirror is over 100-years old and show typical wear. The are some spots on the mirror and the brass has a nice patina of age.


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35.00 USD

Two treasure troves of folk dancings, these instructional textbooks dating from 1913 & 1944 are filled with dances and traditional songs from around the globe.

Designed to be used by teachers in high schools and colleges as part of a well-rounded physical education curriculum, the books provide step-by-step dancing instructions as well as musical arrangements.

The books have attractive green and red cloth bindings.

The Folk Dance Book compiled by C. Ward Crampton M.D.
A.S. Barnes Company, New York, 1913, 82 pages

Folk Dancing in High School and College by Grace I. Fox, M.A. & Kathleen Gruppe Merrill
Drawings by Charlotte St. John
A.S. Barnes Company, New York, 1944, 89 pages

Books are in good vintage condition with typical wear for books their age. Pages are yellowed. The Folk Dance Book has numerous hand-written notations including the music and dance instructions for "Road to Isles" a Scottish folk dance written in pen & pencil.

Each book measures approximately 8 3/4" x 11 1/4".

Within the U.S.A., books will be shipped via USPS Media Mail. I ship internationally, please send me a message with your location for a shipping quote.

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495.00 USD

"Gone Fishing!"

With his fishing pole in his hand and his dog at his side, this little boy is on his way to catch some fish. This set of cast iron bookends with a bronze finish would make an adorable decor accent in a kid's room or a cute gift for the fancy fisherman.

Cast by Verona and dating from the 1920s, the antique bookends are in good condition and have a deep patina of age.

Bookends are approximately 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide by 2 inches deep.

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125.00 USD

This striking vintage Hanukkah menorah will make an impressive display in your home during the Jewish Festival of Lights. The vintage menorah has a modern look and would make a great wedding or housewarming gift.

Made from bronze coated metal, the vintage menorah has a lovely green patina. The vintage candelabra shows light wear.

Approximate Measurements:
10 1/2" Long
4 1/4" Tall
1 3/4" Deep

Made in India

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19.95 USD

Good organizing skills never go out of style. Brush up on your indexing and filing rules with this awesome vintage textbook. The small vintage library and office skills book is filled with fabulous illustrations of good organizing systems.

Genuine vintage book from the 1930s, this former library book has its Dewey Decimal classification number (651.5) on its cover. There are several Fairleigh Dickinson University and Fairleigh Dickinson Union College stamps throughout the book including stamps on the book's page edges, as well as "DISCARD" stamps on the title page. The book shows wear. A child scribbled on the front endpapers. There is a white ring stain on the cover, a "Due Date" slip on the back left-hand side endpaper, and glue residue on the right-hand side back endpaper. All these flaws add to the quaintness of this old-fashion library science book. Binding is tight.

Principles of Indexing and Filing
by Laura H. Cadwallader, A. B. Ph.D. and S. Ada Rice, B.S. in Ed.
The H.M. Rowe Company, Baltimore, Chicago, 1932
Ex-Library Copy
146 Pages
7 1/4" x 5 1/4"

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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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35.00 USD

Awesome vintage cropped top would look fantastic paired with a black skirt or pair of black jeans. Made from an amazing lurex fabric, the black and gold metallic cropped blouse has no label and appears to have been homemade by a talented seamstress.

The vintage shirt has a peter pan collar, a small bow accent at the neck, and a back zipper.

A genuine vintage blouse dating from the 1950s - early 1960s, the garment is in very good condition showing light wear. The zipper is just over 18 inches long and about 1/4 of the zipper tape extends beyond the bottom of the hem.

Measurements taken flat:
Length: 18 inches from shoulder to hem
Bust: 23 inches from underarm to underarm
Sleeves: 9 inches long

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