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Antique Pharmacists Williams Prescription File Seguin Texas and Pharmacists Medi
Antique Pharmacists Williams Prescription File Seguin Texas and Pharmacists Medicine Bottle Label Storage Shelf. Both Rare items, the file boxes are circa 1920's or earlier and measure 6.5" tall x 4 5/8" wide, one is missing the pull to open the door. No other significant issues. The label shelf is 11.5" x 9.5" tall and is about 1930's or 40's. There's probably thousands of labels, selling the lot. TW 107
$400.00
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Antique Pink Cut Velvet art glass vase
Antique Pink Cut Velvet art glass vase 7" tall with no cracks, chips, or<br>restorations.<br>tw106
$235.00
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Antique Pocket Gold Scales/test kits
Antique Pocket Gold Scales/test kits. Selling the 19th century gold testing kit<br>without the chemicals with the 18th/19th century extremely well made and<br>complete pocket gold/gem scales complete with weights all the way down to carat<br>fractions. I could find no identifying marks, but it's really well made and so<br>is the case, notice the screws on the case have offset slots in the heads, very<br>old set. Box for scales measures 4 3/8" x 2 3/8". These are both fresh from the<br>same estate, I would speculate that these were carried by a miner or some sort<br>of traveling gold trader.<br>isshelf
$510.00
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Antique Porcelain Inkwell Hand Painted Blue Flowers 19th Century
Great early Inkwell with no cracks, chips, restorations. Some wear to Gilding. All hand decorated. 3.5" tall x 3.25" wide.
$75.00
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Antique Porcelain Plaque Mounted Letter Box Secretaire c.1860
Antique Porcelain Plaque Mounted Letter Box Secretaire c.1860. 9 3/8" wide x 6<br>3/8" tall x 4.75" deep. Incredible piece, plaque is entirely hand painted, the<br>mounting is hand chased. Small piece is brass trim on around lock missing. Minor<br>damage to verneer, only significant place shown on top corner.
$915.00
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Antique Republic Period Chinese Famille Rose Scholars Desk Set
Antique Republic Period Chinese Famille Rose Scholars Desk Set. This set was<br>purchased 40 years ago as a 100+ year old antique then. It's been kept in a<br>glass display case in someone's home until now as that person has passed away.<br>Marked with 4 Character Qianlong mark. I believe it's from the first half of the<br>20th century.<br><br>The brush pot has a hairline, it's 5.5" tall x 1 7/8" wide at rim. The hairline<br>extends halfway down, that is the only piece that's damaged. The rouge box is<br>4.5" wide x 1.5" deep. Covered ink box is 2 7/8" wide x 1 3/8" deep. That should<br>give you an idea of the dimensions of the other pieces.
$2,280.00
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Antique Rookwood Pottery Pamphlet
Antique Rookwood Pottery Pamphlet. Buying the pamplet shown from the first quarter of the 20th century, 4" x 6", minor wear to edge of front cover, overall clean. kitshelf
$55.00
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Antique Royal Doulton Indian Tree Meat Platter with Drain Well Hand Painted Poly
Antique Royal Doulton Indian Tree Meat Platter with Drain Well Hand Painted<br>Polychrome Transferware 19.25" x 15.5" c.1890's. No cracks, chips, restorations,<br>crazing, very clean.
$380.00
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Antique Royal Doulton Stoneware miniatures
Antique Royal Doulton Stoneware miniatures. Selling the three pieces from the first quarter of the 20th century with no damage. Loving cup is unmarked but has been attributed to Doulton by reliable sources, it's 7/8" tall, mug and creamer are 1 9/16" tall. Selling all three pieces. kitshelf
$165.00
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Antique Royal Vienna Style Hand Painted 2 handled cup
Antique Royal Vienna Style Hand Painted 2 handled cup. 100% hand decorated with<br>no cracks, chips, restorations, or significant wear. 3 1/8" tall x 2 7/8" wide<br>without handles 4.75" wide with handles.<br>TW254
$330.00
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Antique Royal Vienna Style Hand Painted Cabinet Vase
Antique Royal Vie3nna Style Hand Painted Cabinet Vase. 7" tall x 3.75" wide with<br>no cracks, chips, or restorations. Some loss to some of the white "jewels" that<br>decorate the vase and a few of the gold ones.
$600.00
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Antique Royal Vienna Style Urn Hand Painted Artist Signed Portrait with heavy go
Antique Royal Vienna Style Urn Hand Painted Artist Signed Portrait with heavy gold and enamel Decoration on cobalt ground. Measures 10 3/8" tall with no cracks, chips, or repairs. Minor gold loss and loss to enamel shown in pics, tiny paint loss spout on woman's head. Overall excellent condition, good and tight. Guaranteed circa late 19th century Austrian porcelain. tw135
$430.00
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Antique Royal Vienna Tyrolean Dancers Figural Group
6.25" tall x 4.25" wide at widest point. Guaranteed antique circa late 18th to early 19th century Vienna porcelain. This was originally an extremely popular Meissen design in the early 18th century. Later copied by Chelsea c.1760, I've seen examples bring 20k. No major damage or restorations. There is damage to one of her bows and one petal missing off of the flower by the Man's foot. No other damage. Unusual figure.
$410.00
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Antique Royal Vienna/KPM Style hand painted Cabinet Portrait vase of beauty
Antique Royal Vienna/KPM Style hand painted Cabinet Portrait vase of beauty. Guaranteed late 19th to early 20th century, 100% hand painted, artist signed Dietrich, likely the same one that did several KPM plaques. This piece being dark and shiny is extremely difficult to photograph and way better in person. 6 7/8" tall x 3.5" wide with no cracks, chips, or restorations. Beautiful complex scene painted on all sides. isshelf
$895.00
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Antique Russian 84 silver belt
Antique Russian 84 silver belt. Amazing item with no issues. Solid silver, Approx 34.5" long, would make a cool necklace. 133.9 grams.
$650.00
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Antique Russian Icon Hand painted on wood panel
Antique Russian Icon Hand painted on wood panel. 100% hand painted from the late 19th to early 20th century. 8.5" tall x 7" wide in good condition with minor wear on edge. This Icon and others I'll be listing are all antique Icons over 100 years old all from one collection purchased 25-30 years ago from top Auction houses that specialize in these. Most of the lots are too old for me to find the lot information and I just don't have time to try to figure out the artists etc. so I am just quickly grading them based on Size, quality of the painting, and condition.
$655.00
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Antique Russian Icon Hand painted on wood panel St George Slaying the Dragon
Antique Russian Icon Hand painted on wood panel. 100% hand painted from the late 19th to early 20th century. 12.25" tall x 10.25" wide in good condition with minor wear to edge shown. Some stable cracks in paint. This Icon and others I'll be listing are all antique Icons over 100 years old all from one collection purchased 25-30 years ago from top Auction houses that specialize in these. Most of the lots are too old for me to find the lot information and I just don't have time to try to figure out the artists etc. so I am just quickly grading them based on Size, quality of the painting, and condition.
$1,465.00
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Antique Russian Icon Hand painted wood panel
Antique Russian Icon Hand painted on wood panel. 100% hand painted from the late 19th to early 20th century. 12.5" tall x 11" wide in good condition with minor wear to edge shown. This Icon and others I'll be listing are all antique Icons over 100 years old all from one collection purchased 25-30 years ago from top Auction houses that specialize in these. Most of the lots are too old for me to find the lot information and I just don't have time to try to figure out the artists etc. so I am just quickly grading them based on Size, quality of the painting, and condition.
$555.00
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Antique Russian silver box
Antique Russian silver box. 5 1/8" wide x 1.5" tall x 237.9 grams. Hand engraved with incredible skill, over 100 years old, hallmarked as shown 87.5% silver. Lid fits very tight in a good way. Do dents or significant wear.
$455.00
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Antique Russian silver mounted desk folio
Antique Russian silver mounted desk folio. 14" x 10" with thick solid 87.5% silver plate on top and solid silver feet, interior pages loose. Beautiful item, difficult to photograph.
$590.00
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Antique Russian silver spoon
Antique Russian silver spoon. 4.25" long x 7/8" wide bowl x 13.1 grams. anderas
$95.00
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Antique Salviati Venetian Glass Compote with Dolphin Stem
Antique Salviati Venetian Glass Compote with Dolphin Stem. Nice early piece of Venetian glass in perfect condition with no damage. 10" tall x 12.75" wide with no detectable markings. Yes shipping will be challenging but I will take great care to take all the pressure away from the stem.
$710.00
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Antique Santos Bishop Doll Carved Wood Polychrome 18th-19th century
Guaranteed antique hand carved santos doll most likely Mexican or Italian.<br>Measures 15.25" tall x 7" wide. Missing one arm, feet were chipped off long ago,<br>and some wood missing behind the intact arm.<br>tw84
$350.00
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Antique Santos Figure Doll Carved Wood Polychrome Glass Eyes 18th-19th century
Guaranteed antique hand carved santos doll most likely Mexican or Italian.<br>Measures 13" tall x 5.5" wide. Looks as though three tops of the fingers are<br>missing as though it was holding something. Not sure what the deal is with the<br>eyes. One may be missing or maybe it's painted over. You can tell at one point<br>it was painted pink and the paint was painstakingly removed, not by me. The base<br>appears to have a few thin coats of paint on it.<br>Tw62
$410.00
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Antique Santos Jesus Doll Carved Wood Polychrome Glass Eyes 18th-19th century
Guaranteed antique hand carved santos doll most likely Mexican or Italian.<br>Measures 14" long x 6.25" wide. Looks as though it may have been jointed at one<br>point. The eyes were foggy but I cleaned them partially with my fingernail,<br>should clean more.<br>Tw62
$465.00
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Antique Scottish 15ct gold citrine, amethyst, and agate pin
Antique Scottish 15ct gold citrine, amethyst, and agate pin. 2 1/16" x 1 5/8"<br>with no damage, tested by me to be at least 14k gold but fades at 18k. Circa<br>1870 12.1 grams.
$965.00
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Antique Scottish Agate/Amethyst/sterling thistle pin
Antique Scottish Agate/Amethyst/sterling thistle pin. Very nice 19th century<br>example fresh from a local estate collection 2.5" wide x 2" tall 31.4 grams<br>unmarked but tested sterling. Amazing condition with no detectable issues. Lot<br>of amazing hand engraving.
$440.00
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Antique Scottish Citrine/Agate/Sterling Pin/pendant h
Antique Scottish Citrine/Agate/Sterling pendant brooch 2 1/8" 32 grams, amazing<br>piece but it is missing one of the stone sections. Unmarked tested sterling.
$185.00
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Antique Scottish Citrine/Agate/Sterling Pin/pendant s
Antique Scottish Citrine/Agate/Sterling pendant brooch 2 3/8" 32 grams, amazing<br>condition with no wear to stones, hand engraved piece from the 19th century<br>functional as a pendant or a brooch. Unmarked tested sterling.
$510.00
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Antique Scottish Dirk Form Agate sterling silver Kilt pin/brooch pin
Antique Scottish Dirk Form Agate sterling silver Kilt pin/brooch 2 1/8" wide with no issues.
$165.00
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Antique Scottish Shoe Buckle Joseph Gray Styles Chester Sterling Silver with Cit
Antique Scottish Shoe Buckle Joseph Gray Styles Chester Sterling Silver with<br>Citrines. 3 1/8" x 2.25" with no damage or wear to natural stones. 34.6 grams<br>hand engraved with Keltic designs.
$510.00
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Antique Scottish Sterling Moss agate kilt pin/ Thistle brooch 1.25" wide pin
Antique Scottish Sterling Moss agate kilt pin/brooch 1.25" wide. No issues.
$145.00
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Antique Sestrel Binnacle Ships Compass with side oil lamp for lumination
Antique Sestrel Binnacle Ships Compass with side oil lamp for lumination.<br>Compass appears functional, when spun around the N keeps pointing north. No<br>significant issues. 10.5" wide x 10" tall with handle
$580.00
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Antique Sevres Style French Porcelain Inkwells/tray/Match box
Antique Sevres Style French Porcelain Inkwells/tray/Match box. Selling the set<br>over 100 years old hand painted French porcelain with no cracks, chips, or<br>restorations. Original inserts for inkwells, the Match box has a striker and<br>appears permanently attached to the tray. Tray is 13.5" wide.<br>TW203
$330.00
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Antique Shell cameo Pendants brooch signed A.C.C. on mount pin
Antique Shell cameo Pendants brooch signed A.C.C. on mount. NIce sized cameo with no damage or issues. Unsure of metal content but it looks like silver over copper. Measure 1 5/8" x 1 5/16"
$95.00
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Antique Signed Japanese Imari Charger Meiji Period Kanji Characters Mid 19th cen
Guaranteed 19th century. No cracks, chips, or restorations. Most of the Gilding<br>on the outer rim is significantly worn, also some of the inner crisscross<br>Gilding on the cobalt areas. All hand decorated. 16" x 2.25" deep.
$255.00
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Antique Silver enamel hand engraved pendant and other
Antique Silver enamel hand engraved pendant and other. One 19th century, hand engraved, great. The other appears to be carved stone, unsure of age. Neither with any markings, both sterling or high content silver. Tallest 1 5/8".
$250.00
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Antique Silver Filigree miniature box x
Antique Silver Filigree miniature box. Likely 19th century, possibly Russian, maybe Chinese. Really nice, tested and guaranteed solid high content silver. No detectable markings. 2 1/8" tall with swivel handle extended x 2 1/8" wide. trinketdrawer
$145.00
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Antique Silver Hindu Ganesha Bib Necklace
Antique Silver Hindu Ganesha Bib Necklace. Nice old heavy piece 104.3 grams.<br>Marked 80 in 4 places, I'm assuming that means 80% silver. I tested it and it<br>tests over 80% but below sterling. Total length is about 14.5" so it would fit<br>most as a choker, it has an old cloth rope holding the bottom links together,<br>one bottom dangle is missing but another could easily be removed to even it out.
$280.00
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Antique Silver Thistle engraved Fish server
Antique Silver Thistle engraved Fish server. Great 19th century fish server,<br>tests silver guaranteed solid silver not plate 80% or more. Hallmarks as shown,<br>not sure where they're from but likely for Scottish market. 10" long x 2 5/8" at<br>widest point. 62 grams.<br>silverdrawer
$175.00
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Antique Sitzendorf Porcelain courting farm couple
Antique Sitzendorf Porcelain courting farm couple. Selling the two hand painted<br>German porcelain figures from the first quarter of the 20th century. Lady with<br>loss to one finger, no other cracks, chips, or restorations. 8.25" tall.<br>figshelf
$280.00
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Antique Small Japanese Teapot Red Clay Moriage Satsuma Decoration Marbelized unu
Unmarked, but guaranteed early 20th century Japanese or older. Tiny paint flake<br>on spout. No cracks, chips, or restorations. 3"" tall x 5" wide with handle.
$95.00
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Antique Small Japanese Teapot Red Clay Thin Porcelain unusual c.1900
Unmarked, but guaranteed early 20th century Japanese or older. Tiny paint flake on spout. No cracks, chips, or restorations. 3 1/8" tall x 5" wide with handle.
$95.00
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Antique Southeast Asian Carved Polychrom Bird Wall hanging
Antique Southeast Asian Carved Polychrom Bird Wall hanging. Guaranteed 19th to<br>first quarter of the 20th century with a no brainer patina. Great piece, likely<br>Burmese or Thailand. 14.75" tall x 8.25" wide. The colors are vivid but dulled<br>by dirt, a rub down of something similar to Howards Orange oil/beeswax would<br>really liven it up if so desired.<br>TW253
$165.00
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Antique Southeast Asian Carved wood gold gilt figure
Antique Southeast Asian Carved wood gold gilt figure. 8" tall x 5" wide with stand. The figure is likely early 20th century, the stand is fairly recent. Some loss to feet, one tooth, and the tips of hands. TW252
$95.00
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Antique Spanish colonial cowboy bowie / knife
Antique Spanish colonial / knife. Good early knife 17" total length, 11 x 2 1/8" blade. Solid knife with original tooled leather sheath that fits like a glove. Makers mark stamped on metal. Estate fresh piece from a large cowboy collection, never been to auction. tw219
$700.00
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Antique Spurs North and Judd anchor Mark with leathers Western Americana c.1900
Used with no breaks or bends. These are part of a large collection I'll be<br>listing. 5 3/8" long without leathers 1" Rowel.<br>Tw30
$195.00
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Antique Staffordshire Bookends Man and Woman reclining on sofa
Antique Staffordshire Bookends Man and Woman reclining on sofa bookend figures. 19th century with no cracks, chips, or restorations. 8.5" tall x 7.75" wide.. tw105
$380.00
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Antique Staffordshire Cobbler and Wife bookend figures
Antique Staffordshire Cobbler and Wife bookend figures. 19th century with no cracks, chips, or restorations. 6.5" tall. tw105
$175.00
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Antique Staffordshire Collie Dogs Oversized Pair 12" long x 11.25" tall c.1860's
Antique Staffordshire Collie Dogs Oversized Pair 12" long x 11.25" tall<br>c.1860's. These are incredible and uncommon. The have no cracks or chips. Each<br>have had two legs professionally restored. It's very difficult to find as it's a<br>professional job. Two front in one, two rear on other. No other issues. It's<br>near impossible to find these undamaged, other dealers just aren't knowledgeable<br>or honest enough to call it.
$430.00
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Antique Staffordshire Figure Highlander Couple with Clock c.1870 13.75" x 9" wid
Antique Staffordshire Figure Highlander Couple with Clock c.1870 13.75" x 9"<br>wide. Slight firing flaw near base. No cracks, chips, or restorations. Clean<br>over glaze paint.
$135.00
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Antique Steam Locomotive Stevengraph Pure Silk Woven Picture "The Present Time"
Frame is 8.75" x 6", sight is 2" x 6" original frame. Stevengraph is in great<br>condition, original frame shows some wear.<br><br><br>The Fascinating World of Stevengraphs.<br><br>By Bill Poese.<br><br>THE FASCINATING silk pictures that we know today as Stevengraphs actually had<br>their origin in a depression in England's far flung textile industry, and<br>Richard Cobden, a 19th century English economist and statesman, may claim some<br>of the credit.<br><br>In 1860, the so-called Cobden Treaty, a free-trade treaty negotiated by Cobden<br>and removing England's protective tariff on silks, brocades and ribbons, among<br>other things, took effect. Its impact upon Coventry, where English ribbon<br>weaving had been concentrated for 150 years, was devastating. Forty five per<br>cent of Coventry's population earned their livelihood from ribbon weaving. Looms<br>were destroyed, and during a two-year period 9,000 persons emigrated to foreign<br>countries in search of employment.<br><br>But there was one man who was resourceful enough to overcome the blow<br>sufficiently to provide for his own family, the weavers in his employ, and, in a<br>small way, to bolster the economy of Coventry. This man was Thomas Stevens, born<br>in 1828 in the outlying district of Foleshill.<br><br>As a boy, Thomas Stevens had learned the ribbon weaver's trade at the firm of<br>Pears and Franklin in Upper Well Street, Coventry, and in 1854 he set up his own<br>business in Queen Street. He had learned all the aspects of his trade well and<br>the jacquard loom was of particular interest to him.<br><br>This loom was a French invention of about 1790 of Joseph Jacquard that had been<br>introduced into England in 1820, and its excellence was recognized quickly, so<br>that by 1838 as many as 2,200 jacquard looms were thumping in Coventry. The<br>principle of the jacquard loom is based upon the fact that mechanically-operated<br>devices controlled loops and pulleys to weave patterns in textiles.<br><br>Thomas Stevens improved, adapted, and refined the loom by a series of inventions<br>so that he could produce silk pieces that have exquisite detail with what seems<br>to be a three-dimensional effect. He produced pictures, musical notes, lettering<br>and portraits of amazing beauty. The first step in producing Stevengraph works<br>was an artist's drawing on squared paper. These designs were originals, copies<br>of portraits, copies of prints, and often of texts in the manner of illuminated<br>manuscripts. The Victorian love of covering the entire surface of the piece is<br>often in evidence in these pieces. The squared paper pictures look like designs<br>for cross-stitch embroidery work.<br><br>Large cards were made that carried out the artist's picture and a separate card<br>was made and per- forated for each color in every single woven line of the<br>picture. The cards were put into an endless chain arrangement and placed in the<br>Jacquard loom to regulate the operation of the warp threads. Every time the<br>shuttle carrying the weft was placed across the loom, a different card calling<br>for a variation in the warp threads and consequently in the pattern was brought<br>into use. Many pieces used ten to 12 colors. After the entire pattern was<br>completed, a space was provided and the pattern began to repeat itself. In this<br>way, the weaver produced spools of beautifully woven picture ribbons that were<br>later cut apart at the separating areas. Because of the work involved in placing<br>the cards in the loom, many picture ribbons were woven before a change was made<br>and a different set of cards was used. One 13-inch-long bookmarker that Stevens<br>produced required 5,500 perforated cards.<br><br>Thomas Stevens was not the only Coventry weaver who was able to survive the<br>depression by weaving pictorial ribbons nor was he the first to produce pictures<br>on the Jacquard loom. As early as 1801 in Lyons, black-and-white portraits had<br>amazed people. In 1855, James Hart wove silk pictures depicting Queen Victoria<br>and Napoleon 111, and in 1858 John Caldicott wove a ribbon with a portrait of<br>Edward Ellice, who was the Member of Parliament from Coventry. But the best<br>known of the jacquard picture weavers was Thomas Stevens. It is he who stands<br>out above the others and it is he who invented the term "Stevengraph."<br><br>By 1862, Stevens had produced nine bookmarkers of different designs. During 1862<br>he registered four new patterns: "Unchanging Love," "I wish you a Merry<br>Christmas," "Thanksgiving," and "Thy Bridal Day." During this same year he pro-<br>duced a few larger pieces that were desirable for framing, but he evidently<br>changed his mind about the pictures because he produced no more of them during<br>the next 16 years, confining himself, instead, to producing his popular<br>bookmarkers.<br><br>Just who made the first Stevengraph-type bookmarker is a matter of considerable<br>dispute and the contenders for the honor are John Caldicott, John Ratliff, and<br>perhaps Thomas Stevens. Among Stevens's contemporaries who did the same sort of<br>jacquard picture weaving were, in addition to those just named, the brothers<br>John and Joseph Cash, and Dalton and Barton.<br><br>In 1863, the royal marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and in 1864,<br>the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth gave the weavers ample subject matter to<br>satisfy the demands of a souvenir-hungry nation. Strangely enough, at this time<br>Stevens's competition dropped out of the race and left him a clear field for a<br>period of time to produce his bookmarkers and allied items.<br><br>By the late 1880s he had produced more than 900 items and among them are<br>sachets, birthday verses, Christmas and New Year greetings, calendars, fans,<br>valentines, ladies' neckties and sashes, emblematic sashes for fraternal orders,<br>pictures suitable for framing, and of course, the always popular bookmarkers,<br>many with tassel-tipped ends. They vary in size from 1 1/4 by 4 inches to 7 1/2<br>by 13 inches for the mounted pictures and his various items sold for as low as 5<br>cents, to as much as $14 for a sash. Stevengraphs were given as premiums to<br>people who subscribed to The Ladies Floral Cabinet in 1877.<br><br>Competition developed in the 1870s by Bolland and Welch and Lenton, who copied<br>his bookmarkers, and in the 1880s by W. H. Grant, who imitated his mounted<br>pictures.<br><br>Stevens became the father or seven children. In 1878 he moved to London to<br>supervise his expanding business. By this time he had sales agencies in New York<br>City, Cincinnati, Leipzig, Glasgow, Dublin, and Londonderry, in addition to<br>London. To stimulate sales at the expositions that were popular during the<br>period of his greatest activity he sent weavers with his version of the jacquard<br>loom to many of them. There, people could watch a piece being woven, buy it and<br>take it home as a souvenir of the fair. Among the places he or his sons did this<br>were the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876; York Exposition, 1879;<br>Edinburgh, 1886; Manchester, 1887; Cincinnati 1888; London, 1890; Chicago, 1893;<br>St. Louis, 1904; and Paris, Antwerp, Liverpool, Bristol, Boston, Brussels, and<br>Paris.<br><br>After winning more than 30 medals and diplomas, Thomas Stevens died on October<br>24, 1888, in London and was buried in the family plot in Coventry. Two of his<br>sons, Thomas and Inger, who, before his death managed the Coventry plant, con-<br>tinued the business.<br><br>Thomas Stevens had established pleasant working conditions in an industry that<br>was noted for poor conditions. His plant had adequate lighting, ventilation, a<br>pleasant dining area, and it was sanitary.<br><br>The heavy German ings of Coventry in 1940 leveled his buildings and his<br>business, but he lives on in the appreciation of hundreds of antique collectors<br>who specialize in Stevengraphs, including 175 active members of the Stevengraph<br>Collectors' Association with its headquarters at Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., and<br>members in England, Canada, Scotland, Austrialia, South Africa, and New Zealand<br>as well as the United States.<br><br>The highest price paid at auction for a Stevengraph was $1,560 in April, 1972,<br>in London. The article was a mint example of L' Immaculee Conception and is<br>extremely rare. Many examples of Stevens's work, however, are offered for modest<br>prices that are within the price range of many collectors. Individuals are<br>concerned with authenticating items in their collections as being made by<br>Stevens and also with dating them. Both of these matters present difficulties. A<br>pattern could be set up on the cards in 1865, and many times years later the<br>same cards could be used again to produce identical items. There was no limited<br>edition with the mold or etching plate being destroyed. Certain items can be<br>dated by the events they portray and the dates they bear as the one for the<br>Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Some can be dated by the number of<br>awards that are noted on the paper backing on some pieces. Many, of course, are<br>signed in the weaving. A diamond-shaped registry mark like that on pottery dates<br>many since this device was used from 1842 to 1883.<br><br>Thomas Stevens was a businessman who produced a salable luxury or souvenir<br>product. If the subject matter was attractive and the sentiment appealed, people<br>would buy them for themselves or as a little gift for a friend. As a result, he<br>and his successors' designs reflect Victorian tastes that were, in many cases,<br>universal tastes at the time. Among the portraits are those of Queen Victoria,<br>Shakespeare, King Edward VII, John L. Sullivan, Robert Burns, "Buffalo Bill"<br>Cody, Prince Otto von Bismark, and President and Mrs. Cleveland.<br><br>Under the general heading of views we find many English castles such as<br>Balmoral, Kenilworth, Warwick, and Windsor. Other views include the Crystal<br>Palace, Houses of Parliament, Tower of London and the Tower Bridge, and the<br>Centennial Exposition of Ohio Valley and Central States, Cincinnati, 1888.<br>Historical pictures include Columbus Leaving Spain, Landing of Columbus,<br>Declaration of Independence, and the Death of Nelson. Classical and legendary<br>subject matter can be found in those weavings that depict Peeping Tom, Leda, The<br>Lady Godiva Procession, and Bath of Psyche. Certain items display the<br>sentimentality of Victorians as God Speed the Plough, Good Old Days, Called to<br>the Rescue, Grace Darling, and For Life or Death. Many battleships and trains<br>are pictured and so are many sporting events. Among the latter are depictions of<br>Spanish bull, horse racing, fox , cricket, bicycle racing, tennis, and baseball.<br><br>Thomas Stevens was a highly skilled master of a delicate craft that resulted in<br>articles that will be held in high esteem as long as their silken fibers hold<br>together.<br>Tw61
$175.00
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Antique Steel Easter Bunny Chocolate mold
Antique Steel Easter Bunny Chocolate mold. Heavy steel, cookie/chocolate/ice cream mold from the first quarter of the 20th century.. Approx 8" x 14" numbered 8042 via stamp in the steel on top, no other markings i could find. TW58
$155.00
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Antique Sterling handle sock darner
Antique Sterling handle sock darner. Late 19th to early 20th century, tested<br>sterling handle with a few small dents, N monogram 6" long.
$110.00
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Antique Sterling Judaica Yad Torah Pointer with Agate handle
Antique Sterling Judaica Yad Torah Pointer with Agate handle. Guaranteed solid<br>high content 90% or more silver, tested with no detectable markings. 16" long,<br>147.5 grams with no issues. 100+ years of built up silver polish likely hiding<br>hallmarks.<br>tw125
$1,005.00
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Antique Sterling repousse Chatelaine Stamp box Heart shaped pendant
Antique Sterling repousse Chatelaine Stamp box Heart shaped pendant. Snaps shut and stays shut tightly, high quality repousse. Later versions of this are marked 925, this is marked sterling. Circa early 20th century. 16.7 grams.
$235.00
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Antique Sterling repousse Chatelaine Stamp box pendant
Antique Sterling repousse Chatelaine Stamp box pendant. 1.3" x 1.1" without bail. No damage, closes completely and stays shut tightly when worn. Apparently unmarked, tested and guaranteed solid sterling. 11.3 grams.
$125.00
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Antique Sterling Repousse Master salts and Pepper shaker in presentation box
Antique Sterling Repousse Master salts and Pepper shaker in presentation box. A really great set as shown, no bends or dents. Some wear to box but exterior is clean, the catch doesn't keep the box shut. Pepper 3.75" tall, salts 3.5" wide, British sterling hallmarks, tests sterling. Box measures 10.5" x 5.5" x 3.25" tw203
$430.00
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Antique Sterling salt spoon lot
Antique Sterling salt spoon lot. Selling the lot shown, largest 3" long Kirk and son repousse master salt spoon. 20.9 grams total. anderas
$65.00
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Antique Sterling silver Mesh bracelet
Antique Sterling silver Mesh bracelet, unmarked but tested and guaranteed high content silver. 19th to early 20th century with no issues. 43.2 grams.
$165.00