This little wooden box is a fantasy delight to hold your most often worn rings and other jewels. It has a leather-look surface embossed with a gryffon rampant on top. The edges and all sides are ornately patterned. It as a lock, but the key has disappeared into the mists of time. There are some minor scuffs on surface. The box is 4¼” x 3½” x 2¼” in size. The age unknown, best guess is midcentury.

A nice vintage leather box embossed “Studs” on the top. Most of these boxes are round, but this example is a much more uncommon horseshoe, the lid also embossed with a horseshoe. These boxes were original intended to store shirt studs or cufflinks, but can be used for any variety of gentleman’s accessories.

Origin: probably England, ca. 1950. Condition: excellent. Dimensions: 2-1/2” x 2-3/4” x 1-3/16.

A French Art Deco cocktail pick set in the form of a large snail worked in chrome on a mahogany base. The design is by the famed French Art Deco illustrator Benjamin Rabier, who had a side job designing entertaining barware. The twelve picks have red bakelite finials. Cocktail pick holders ("porte-piques") were once a fixture of every French bar and café. Today, they can be use to spear olives of cherries in a cocktail, or to serve small hors d'oeuvres.

• Origin: France, ca...

Antique English Tea Chest in the Form of a Sideboard, in mahogany and deal, having a rectangular hinged top with shaped and carved backsplash which opens to a sugarbowl, the front with two cabinet doors opening to lidded tea caddies.

William Smee & Sons, London, published a catalog of furniture designs in 1850 which had sideboards of similar form. (See Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Designs by Edward Joy, pp 435-36.) 14"x5"x12.75"tall (key)

Small Japanese vanity tansu with seven drawers and two sliding doors, the front done in a variety of hardwoods, panels in gorgeous dark Jichimu (chickenwing wood) framed in rosewood, another set of sliding doors done in Keyaki wood, with brass handles and a beautiful lacquered black interior. Taisho period (1912-1926) Size: 13.5" height, 13.5" width, 9.5" depth

A heavy bronze Renaissance Revival Scabbard Circa 1890 measuring 8” in length

A beautiful Snuffbox or trinket box in enamelware depicting Italian Architecture, measuring 2.5” x 1.5”, 1” height (Quillen)

The subject matter of Putti assisting to direct the looker is undeniably charming On this dressing mirror, finely cast with its original beveled mirror, Ca 1940. Dimensions; Measurements as follows, 16 inches in height and 8.5 inches in width and 6 inches in depth. Condition Report; Slight rubbing to the gold from handling otherwise no condition issues noted.

This is a pretty robins egg blue and gold enameled brass compact-shaped hinged double picture frame. The cover depicting a gold butterfly over a leafy branch. When open it holds two vintage pictures Measurements: 3" square closed. Excellent condition; may need cleaning.

A beautiful Persian Tabriz Round silk and wool carpet circa 1950 measuring 81” round diameter with a cotton fringe

Wonderful finely made cordovan leather dice-form card box featuring angled corners and white enamel circles, inside having water mark painted leather, divided into three compartments, Marked on bottom GENUINE CALF LEATHER MADE IN ITALY, Circa 1940; Size: 4"x 4 1/4"; Very good vintage condition; water marks on top.

Two(2) Japanese Kiri Wood Storage Boxes, old Meiji, square box(5" x 5 1/2", 4H high), flat rectangle box(7 1/2" x 5 1/2", 1 1/2" high) in good condition.

A French Art Deco cocktail pick set in the unusual form of a large snail accompanied by a pair of baby snails. The snail is usually alone or perhaps with just one smaller one. They are worked in chrome and are set on a mahogany base. The design is by the famed French Art Deco illustrator Benjamin Rabier, who had a side jpb designing entertaining barware. The twelve picks have unusual green bakelite finials...

Italian Gilded Wall Brakets Pair, measuring 14” high each and 16” wide with shell motifs circa 1950