All Items : Popular Collectibles : Nostalgia : Fashion : Accessories : Pre 1930 item #983435 (stock #gaf-129)
Straight out of the "Roaring Twenties", a fantastic French handmade bugle beaded evening wrist clutch,circa 1925, comprising an envelope shape, hand held purse designed with delicate metallic beads in a classic geometric Deco pattern on an overall tortoiseshell-style background made of Czech glass bugle beads in rich shades of amber and dark chocolate, snap closure. Inside a dark taupe water silk lining with single pocket having stitched on label Made In France...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Nostalgia : Fashion : Accessories : Pre 1930 item #1291503 (stock #7105)
A rare and exotic authentic period Art Deco gilt brass and purple glass bead mesh head covering or skullcap hat c1920s. This unusual and fabulous fashion accessory would have been the height of fashion at a speakeasy or dance club; it consists of large gilt brass loops, gold plated chains and purple glass beads. It is unsigned and it measures 13" long when suspended from the central loop and 11-1/2" across the loops...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Nostalgia : Fashion : Accessories : Pre 1930 item #1348272 (stock #SK 998)
Galerie Hafner
$250.00
shipping included
An Art Deco evening bag made of woven French silk brocade in the Persian style, showing parrots among flower bouquets. The clasp with a glass or stone disk and tiny marcasites. The peach colored interior stamped in gold "Kurzman - New York - Made in France". Condition: some wear, the lining with splits. Dimension: 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm.
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Nostalgia : Fashion : Accessories : Pre 1930 item #448112 (stock #0391)
A wonderfully styled vintage Art Deco pocket comb in green celluloid with a designed sleeve. This 4-1/2 x 1-1/8" comb is in a green celluloid, which has mellowed to an olive and light butterscotch brown colour. The comb has a checkerboard decoration with cream white squares on a green and copper metallic ground; the cover has black paint, subtle hand carving and gold highlights...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Specialty : Kitchenware : Ceramics : Pre 1930 item #889426 (stock #6158)
A bright and cheerful 1920s Japan peach lustre four piece cruet or condiment stand. In the form of stylized lotus flowers, this stand consists of the lidded mustard pot with frog finial, the salt and the pepper shakers all on the fitted 5-1/2" x 4-3/4" handled stand...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Specialty : Wristwatches : Pre 1930 item #1473113 (stock #4088)
Watch Company
$497.00
Very scarce in a Hunting Model. ILLINOIS 21 Jewel BUNN SPECIAL TWO-TONE HUNTING MODEL Circa: 1921. Adjusted, "21 Ruby Jewels", Serial No. 1,373,824. The colors on the plates are bright and bold. The movement is distraction free and is clean, running and still accurate. The white porcelain Bunn Special double sunk dial is distraction free and is original. Very nice. THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE. DON'T INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET, BITCOIN, BONDS. BUY HARD ASSETS, SOMETHING PROVEN IN TIME...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Decorations : Holiday : Accessories : Pre 1930 item #1491803
A delightful composition Easter rabbit figurine from the 1920s. The dapper figure is shown in a walking pose while wearing yellow shoes, a bright red jacket and a white waistcoat. He carries a spun cotton carrot over his shoulder...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1448438 (stock #BA476)
This unusually diminutive, vintage, C1920s, Black Valentine Cupid die cut is protected in a 4 x 6 inch, decorative wood frame, surrounded by a gold foil mat featuring white foil roses. Additional tiny die cuts of pink roses are placed at each corner.

This adorable, smiling Valentine cupid die cut is in very good condition. Two very teeny fold lines are present that are very difficult to see unless using magnification (see closeup photo) - one in the left arm and another in the left wing...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1224883 (stock #BA892)
Measuring 12 inches high x 9 3/4 inches long x 6 inches wide, this extraordinarily rare, circa 1920's, Black Americana, wooden pull toy is called Shufflin' Sam!

Demonstrating some degree of age-related paint loss as seen in photos, Shufflin' Sam remains fully functional, shuffling his feet and twirling his blue umbrella when he is gently pulled along a flat surface. His manufacturer is unknown...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1150519 (stock #BA827)
Measuring 1 7/8 inches in diameter x 1/4 of an inch high, this seldom-found, circa 1920’s, dexterity game depicts a surprised or startled African baby. Likely German-made, the puzzle has no markings. It contains the 3 tiny metal balls, that with the proper manual dexterity, are to be placed in the baby’s mouth and two eyes. Two of the balls are currently fixed in place, likely due to the metal backing being very subtly pushed in...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1451181 (stock #BA762B)
Measuring 4 inches long, this circa 1920s, miniature, Black Mammy doll is unique in construction- its head and body have been fashioned from an old rubber baby nursing nipple!

Mammy’s sweet little face has been carefully hand-painted, and she has been nicely dressed in a red dress featuring flowers and watering cans, a linen apron, a linen under-slip(not usually found on nipple dolls) and a red head scarf...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Specialty : Wristwatches : Pre 1930 item #1473241 (stock #VW1821)
Watch Company
$600.00
ART DECO Ladies Diamond Wrist. SWISS Art Deco Ladies 18k WHITE GOLD 28 DIAMOND Wrist 1922 19mm diameter. Complete with the original Nylon band and Clasp! All original and very scarce. 19.5 diameter and 29mm in length, and 7mm thick. THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1476376 (stock #0608)
Super Rare Candy Box by Brown & Haley - I have not seen another one in 25 years of Collecting/Dealing with this genre. Graphics are on all four sides and top of the Box Black Girl and Boy on candy sticks seesaw Box has some wear to it, no splits. Please see photos
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1482848 (stock #0671)
Funny Graphics on this small wooden boxed puzzle. There is wear on some splits to the box corners Box Measures approx - 7" x 5"
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #383451 (stock #BA475)
Measuring 6 1/2 x 11 3/4, this lovely, early 1900's, Black subject die cut by Enoch Morgan & Sons, England, features three individual Sapolio Soap die cuts used to advertise the company product. Each die cut features the head of a young black boy centered inside a piece of fruit or vegetable- a cabbage, a watermelon and a (?) pear.

Sapolio was a brand of soap noted for its unique and clever advertising, led by Artemas Ward from 1883–1908. Bret Harte, an American short story writer and poet, ...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1474111 (stock #0519)
Superb little piece here, two Gollies riding a crocodile, cold painted bronze Measures approx 3.5" Long and 1.5" Tall
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1487419 (stock #0723)
Very nice double sided large candy tin with Black and White Harlequins.. Tin measures 8" Tall and 6" in Diameter
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #160481 (stock #mj082)
carol lane
$150.00
Early period art deco metal jewelry clip of black man's face, c.1920's. He is wearing a white painted handkerchief on his head which has the tied ends hanging down next to a brass earring. He shows the attitude of the times with "nappy" hair, large painted whites of the eyes, and a smiling painted red mouth and white teeth. Made of heavy gauge metal. Back is missing one of the two clip prongs - but is works fine. Bits of white paint on the handkerchief is missing and there is some fading of blac...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #674752 (stock #BA660)
Measuring 3.25 inches high, this delightful English child or baby transfer porcelain mug is a quite rare find!

In excellent condition with the exception of some minor wear to the gilt rim and scripted banner, the cup or mug features two gentleman sharing a tub bath- one Caucasian and one African-American. The African-American gent is surrounded by musical notes indicating that he is doing quite a bit of whistling, while the Caucasian gent covers his ears in annoyance. The scripted banner abov...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1474896 (stock #0531)
Nice, complete and hard to find Spear's Ludo Game from the 1920's, Nice Graphics on the Box. Box Lid has got wear to it and you will see from the pictures that there is a split and a little bit of the left and side missing.
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1487421 (stock #0725)
Nice old Jigger Toy Measures 11" Tall
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1485743 (stock #0716)
From 1924 - Novelty Box, likely as a fun gift box (for the time) with some language on the box that would not be used today!!
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1471903 (stock #0228)
Early paper label can for Dunham’s Cocoanut, multi-color graphic label featuring great image of monkey hitting black native in head w/ cocoanut
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1472595 (stock #0280)
One of kind large Art Deco Portuguese Tin from the 20's, it has on each corner a pillar with an Art Deco Black Americana Head. Tin For Cacau (chocolate) Soluvel Favorita from Lisboa (Lisbon) Tin measures approx 12.5" Tall, 9" Wide and 6" Deep
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1266316 (stock #BA913)
Measuring 1 3/4 inches in diameter x 5/16 of an inch high, this rarely-found, circa 1920’s, dexterity game depicts a small black boy with Fez blowing bubbles out of a pipe! The puzzle is quite colorful and is very visually appealing! The puzzle contains 4 tiny white balls of unknown material, that, with the proper manual dexterity, are to be placed in the four bubbles the boy is blowing!

Constructed of tin with a cardboard lithographed image and a glass cover, this game has a mirrored back...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #706869 (stock #BA672)
Measuring only 2.75 inches high, this darling 1920's Black Memorabilia souvenir piece is in amazing condition considering its delicate, sea shell construction.

A tiny bisque black boy holding a watermelon slice is seated on a throne of sea shells. The name of the location that this sea shell souvenir was meant to commemorate is worn and is no longer readable.

Two very minor chips are present as shown in photos which do not detract from the beauty of this piece!

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #264039 (stock #BA13)
A very RARE and highly appealing Black Memorabilia Advertising Die cut!

Marked "Copyright 1924", in the lower left hand corner, this extremely hard-to-find advertising piece measures 10.5 inches wide x 13.5 inches high. Colorful and visually interesting, the heavy cardboard die cut depicts an engaging Uncle Wabash serenely strumming his banjo on his front porch! Guess the message to the consumer was, "Eat one of Uncle Wabash's cupcakes to experience your own little slice of heaven and serenit...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1482852 (stock #0675)
Nice Large and Heavy cast Iron Jolly Ni**er Bank with Top Hat.
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Sports : Pre 1930 item #1039622 (stock #01870)
A sterling silver award watch fob or pendant from the Toronto City Playgrounds with an engraved date of 1925. This trophy fob measures 15/16" across, and it is inscribed P.R. 120 SR '25 on the back, which has the City Parks shield. It is also stamped STERLING. This sports award fob is in excellent condition with no dents, bends, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are vintage or antique and may...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1490412 (stock #0730)
Rare little book with 95 pages telling the story of both the Ten Little "N" Boys and Ten Little "N" Girls Condition is far from perfect, in that the binding has worn off but the book is still all together and no pages have come away and are still bound together by the inner strings etc. it has some pencil drawings in there, which I have not rubbed out as no doubt the original child who owned them scribbled them!! There are lots of coloured pictures to go with the story boards within the bo...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1466757 (stock #0004)
This is a superb and hard to find 1920's Vigny Golly Powder Box. Still has some of its original powder in it
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1266374 (stock #BA916)
Manufactured circa 1920's by the Wurts Creation Company, this scarcely-found, Black Chef, kitchen collectible doubles as both a string holder and a grocery list memo board!

Constructed of painted wood that is nailed and glued together, this vintage collectible retains quite a few of its original but yellowed-with-age grocery shopping list pages. The holder/board retains a ball of string and a stub of an older, red pencil. It also has an inkwell cut-out that would have accommodated a bottle of ...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Cultural : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1930 item #1427166
what pdx
$399.00
Antique Chinese Tang style pewter and Gilt Flask with incised bird on a branch and the other side is a Sage riding a deer . Nice work but the lid is stuck closed. Size just under 6" high by 2.75 wide
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1127725 (stock #BA824)
Measuring 3 3/4 inches long, this circa 1920s, miniature, Black Mammy doll is unique in construction- its head and body have been fashioned from an old black rubber baby nursing nipple!

This Mammy nipple doll is more unusual and less seldom found because she holds a tiny, plastic, white baby in her left arm. Typically when found, the Mammy nipple doll has empty arms.

Mammy’s sweet little face has been hand-painted, and she has been nicely dressed in a red and white polka dot dress with ...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1150526 (stock #BA828)
Measuring 1 3/4 inches in diameter x 3/8 of an inch high, this circa 1920’s, dexterity game puzzle depicts a fancily dressed and top-hatted black man! Likely German-made, the puzzle is without markings. Vibrant color and detailing! The puzzle contains 4 tiny white balls, that with the proper manual dexterity, are to be placed in the gent’s mouth, eyes and bow tie!

Constructed of tin with a cardboard lithographed image and a glass cover, this game is backed with its original mirror. The...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1930 item #1068531 (stock #BA798)
Protected in a 15.25 x 24.75 inch, black hard plastic frame with glass and coordinating mat, this authentic GOLD DUST Trolley Sign was manufactured by the N.K. Fairbanks Company in 1920’s!

GOLD DUST Trolley Signs are a very rare find in today’s market as they were made of cardboard, a material much less likely to withstand the test of time as opposed to tin advertising signs which were much sturdier!

This Gold Dust trolley sign features the Gold Dust Twins dressed in ruffled, red skirt...