28.00 USD

The mighty American bison is captured in miniature in this vintage ceramic salt and pepper shaker set. The American bison, also referred to as the American buffalo, is a classic motif in Native American, Western, Southwestern, and country ranch decor.

An iconic symbol of the prairie, the American Bison is also the symbol of abundance in Native American culture.

The vintage bison salt and pepper figurines would make a terrific housewarming gift or present for the collector.

Each ceramic bison figurine is approximately 4 1/4" long by 2 1/4" tall. The vintage bison salt and pepper shakers are in good condition having no chips and no cracks but they are missing their cork plugs. One of the bison has its original foil stickers identifying it as a "Souvenir of Wellsboro, PA." and as made in "Japan."

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145.00 USD

Beyond awesome vintage Astro Ray metal game target has a colorful solar system graphic on one side and NASA's Mercury Friendship 7 space capsule, (John Glenn, February 20, 1962) along with a Morse Code chart on the reverse side.

From a vintage circa 1960s AstroRay space target game, the metal game target can be hung as wall art in an outer space themed room, man cave, game room, office, or anywhere else you want a fun & quirky decor accent. And, if you get a set of magnetic darts, you can play the game!

This is a genuine vintage toy target that was played with in its time. It shows signs of wear including soiling, dings, and light scratches. Overall, the target is in very good condition for its age. The metal target is labeled "Astro Ray" within a classic atomic age symbol.

Approximate Measurements:
12 3/4" Diameter

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75.00 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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395.00 USD

Cool collection of vintage Replogle globes in their original box, this retro globe set includes three 6-inch metal orbs representing the earth, moon, and the heavens.

Made as an educational toy, these highly detailed globes come along with their original information booklets, Story of the Globe, Story of the Moon, and Story of the Celestial Sphere. Each globe has a gray plastic stand.

The globes are in overall good condition. They are clean with little evidence of wear with the exception of a the earth globe which has two dents, one in the South Pacific Ocean just below the Tropic of Cancer and a one near New Zealand.

The Globe set was produced by Replogle, a division of the Meredith Corporation, and was made in the U.S.A. The set includes:

One Simplified 6-Inch Replogle Earth Globe, LeRoy M. Tolman, Cartographer
One 6-Inch Replogle Celestial Globe, Scan Globe A/S 1970
One 6-Inch Replogle Moon Globe, LeRoy M. Tolman, Cartographer
The Story of the Globe by Mercedes Guyette, Meredith Corporation, 1969
The Story of the Celestial Sphere, Meredith Corporation, 1970
The Story of the Moon by Robert I. Johnson, Meredith Corporation, 1969 - Booklet has a tear and paper loss on the cover on the bottom near the spine.

The original box is in good condition for its age showing shelf wear particularly around the edges and at the corners which some tears and soiling.

Box measures 21 1/2 inches long by 7 inches tall by 7 inches deep.


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15.95 USD

High-quality carpenter pencils in a beautiful shade of blue, these vintage industrial advertising giveaways from Georgia-Pacific make a cool instant collection.

Primary known as a pulp and paper company, Georgia-Pacific started out in 1927 as a lumber company.

Listing is for a set of five (5) pencils. Multiple sets are available.

Found in an overlooked corner at an estate sale, I couldn't resist the sight of the vintage blue pencils in a bright yellow box. Pencils are circa late 1960s early 1970s and are in excellent unused condition.

Pencils are 7" long x 1/2" wide x 1/4" high.

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195.00 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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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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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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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

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 Gle 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

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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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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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.


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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. Who knows when you'll see a set like this 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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38.95 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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