The Catalog
Everything currently on our floor or in short-term storage. Newer acquisitions in italics; items marked as recently sold can often be replicated on request.
Coin-operated fortune-teller by Mills Novelty Co., Chicago. Feeds a penny, dispenses one of 96 printed fortunes.
French singing bird box by Blaise Bontems. Lid springs open; feathered bird sings, turns, and blinks before retreating.
Yellow gold and black enamel mourning brooch containing a plaited-hair miniature. Reverse engraved 'Elizabeth · aet. 34 · 1871'.
Graduated faceted Whitby jet beads on a barrel clasp. Warm to the touch, as true jet always is.
Edwardian glazed display case of six iridescent Blue Morpho butterflies, pinned and labelled in period copperplate.
Antique red squirrel mount posed on a lichen-covered branch beneath a hand-blown glass dome, on ebonised base.
Chromolithographed advertising broadside for a nineteenth-century patent 'kidney, liver and bladder remedy'.
A single-family archive of forty-seven black-bordered mourning cards spanning twenty-four years of Ohio deaths.
A 9-inch fragment of narwhal tusk, engraved with a whaleboat scene and inked in the manner of mid-century American scrimshaw.
A German pupil-teaching model of the human eye, roughly ten times life size, disassembles into seven hand-painted parts.
Middle-of-the-line PLC-5 processor. 12K user words, 40 I/O racks. The one your legacy line was built around.
Sixteen isolated current-input channels for SLC 500 chassis. Sealed factory box, unopened.