Antique Shaker - Style Hand Made Round Wooden Box

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1900: item #309649

Wonderful early lap-fingered Shaker style hand made box. Wonderful pegging and seaming throughout. Great patina. Wood appears to be pine. Diameter: 12 3/4", Height: Almost 7". One small nick on the rim of the lid, wear scratches and a couple of dings on the top of the box but this adds to this box's charm.

20" Turned Wood Candle Stand, 19th Century

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1900: item #293790
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This is a wonderful, tall candle stand of wood turned in sort of a ribbon effect. It is mounted on a turned base of wood wich is 6.5" in diameter. The turned piece at the top, which is slightly concave and serves as a basin for the candle drippngs is about 6" in diameter. The piece stands 20" high. The wood is mellow and aged, with a softness from being handled, as well as soot and candle wax. It is a lovely lighting piece.

Coromandel Wood Box

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1900: item #275249
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A Victorian Calamander or Coromandel Box with Brass and Copper Fittings and a Pierced Lid. Dimensions 8.5" wide x 5" high x 3.5" deep. From 1870-1890 and in excellent condition with the exception of a slight age separation in the inside bottom.

Small Hand Painted Box, Italian

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1930: item #256965
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This is a lovely little box hand painted with roses and mums and other flowers in a spray across the top. The colors are a cream ground behind the flowers, cobalt blue in the corners and trimmed in gilt paint around the edges. The bottom of the box is cream with green garland all around and the edges here are trimmed in cobalt. The box is in fine condition, with a nice patina from many years of light handling. It is approximately 4" square, marked made in Italy on the bottom. This is a 20t... Click for details

Handcrafted Blue Bird Mobile

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Contemporary: item #142227

This handcrafted, hand painted wooden blue bird mobile will fly with the slightest breeze. Made from solid pine, painted with acrylic paints and sealed against the outdoor elements. If you choose to hang outside Each mobile has (5) blue birds with bodies and wings 7 in long. The hanger is 16 in. long. Very relaxing to watch while chilling out in that hammock!

Carved Horse Head Handle

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1900: item #130520
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This is not an ordinary horse head. This horse is at a dead run with nostrils flaring, glass eyes bugging out, ears flat back...this is Ichabod Crane's horse! This is the most wonderful umbrella handle I ever saw. Hand carved out of a beautiful, knotty piece of wood, every muscle in his strong head is exactly correct, and as smooth as glass. It is an old umbrella handle, but I would want to make it a walking stick I think. In excellent condition. The head is about 3" long, the entire piece ... Click for details

"Tramp Art" Stool

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1920: item #73855
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The creator of this amusing seat probably never saw a Seventeenth Century Burgundian salt stool, but this delightfully resembles one! Probably designed as a close stool to house the chamber pot, it is made of softwood that has been darkly varnished; traces of gold paint outline some of the elements. The interior hinges have been replaced and the top is now covered in a heavy antique striped wool with natural dyes. A truly charming example of primitive furniture. American, probably late Nin... Click for details

Old Black Forest Type White German Shepard Pipe Holder

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1920: item #407516
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Unique wood pipe holder adorned with a carved German Shepard. The piece measures 9" high by 6" square wide and is in excellent condition for an early 20th century item, being that it is marked as a salesman sample on a foil label on the bottom.

Rooster Meerschaum Pipe

Archives: Decorative Art: Handiwork: Wood Pre 1920: item #407505
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Fine rooster meerschaum pipe in original case measuring 6" long and 2" wide and in excellent condition with no losses or cracks.