China Hong Kong Sexy Girls - Gil Elvgren Facsimile wide poker size 65mm x 88mm Gil Elvgren (1914-1980) Pin Up Playing Cards. Complete 54 cards portraying Elvgren girls in high quality production. Mint in original box as new sealed.
USA The Bank of New York dated April 14 1868 per pro Lanman & Kemp ms signed J M Laren Edward K . . . Pay to the Order of US $ 1,544.00 large background print GOLD. Reverse endorsements and signatures. Cut cancelled Very Fine or better condition. 210mm x 84mm
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Saturday Magazine Constantinople. September 1842 Number 657. Eight pages dedicated to Turkey with front print of the main Mosque and water scene. Two additional print of Mosque and Fountain of the Sultan and Fountain and First Gate of the Seraglio dispersed in the txt covering all aspects of the Country: Plan of the City, Street, Fountains and Aqueducts, Religious Edifices, The Seraglio, Bazaars and Coffee Houses, Inhabitants, Galata etc. Uncoloured as published. Excellent condition. 180mm x 280mm
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Guadalupi, Gianni "The Discovery of The Nile" Chartwell Books Inc. USA. 2002 Hardcover with dust jacket. Large 4to 351 pages with full page colour illustrations, maps and diagrams many taken from originals. Comprehensive coverage with excellent Bibliography and Index. Lavish coffee table publication. ISBN 0-7858-1527-9 As new.
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Anon 'Pacific Ocean' with numerous insets of Ilsnads include 'Tahiti & Morea', 'Tongatabu', Tomga or Friendly Island', 'Nukahiva, Hivaoa and Marquesas Islands. Equatorial Scale. Coloured litho c 1895. 414mm x 262mm
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Hogg, Alex (Publisher) 'The Celebrated City of Jerusalem (now called by the Turks Cudsembaric) including it's several famous Building now in decay' engraved by John Lodge1784 published in Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography. Copper engraved print. Decorative border. Uncoloured as published. Limp paper minor foxing and stain outside printed surface on top right. Very good clean condition with wide margins. 366mm x 233mm including margins.
NOTE: Professional colouring of this print is available on request at a cost of £ 20.00 and a 2 week lapse from date of order.
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Knights Templar large round cloth badge with emblem of a Grand Officer - Captain of the Guard : two cross swords pointing downward - surrounded by gilt embroidered garter beld design and the words Great Priory along the edge.Great Priory, size: 192mm x 206mm.
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The Grand Lodge No 2 Manuscript Roll of the Old Constitutions of Masonry in the Library of the Grand Lodge of England. A facsimile of the original 17th century manuscript prepared by Mr F Compton Price for Lodge Quatuor Coronati No 2076 London and issued in 1892 for the Lodge by Bro G W Speth Sec. 7 LAncaster Place Margate Kent. Limited to One hundred copies privately printed this copy No 5. Long roll of 4 sheets in parchemnt like paper stitched together each 780mmm long 192mm wide. Excellent condition in protective tube cover.
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Simmons, Rosemary Collecting Original Prints Studio Visto with Christie's London 1980 2nd impression 1981 Hard bound with dust jacket 128 pages well illustrated guide on methods opronts oild and new framing conservation etc. Light wearing to edges of dust jacket otherwise as new. 200mm x 245mm
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Photographic reproduction of Postcard c1910 of Upper Street Islington London N1. Picture number 57392. Showing crowded street with 2 double-decker buses one open top. Excellent condition. 214mm x 149mm.
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More uncommon 8 sided top, or spinning top, that can be spun on its axis. 'Put & Take' game made from brass 28mm high. Six of the sides indicated by a T1 to T3 (take) and a P1 to P3 (put) and TA and AP on the two remaining sides. Soiled in very good condition. The gambling game was popular from 1860s to 1940's. If the top landed P1, P2 or P3, loser would put 1, 2 or 3 chips into the pot. If AP "All Put" loser would match the pot and win if opposite.
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South Africa Primitive money: Ostrich egg shell money pierced and strung together popularly referred to as 'Bushman's beads'. Used by various South African tribes including Ovambo tribe in Northern Namibia and the Herero tribes famous for its war against the Germans in 1884. Good condition. 52cm in length. Individual shell 10mm diameter.
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Penzer N M 'The Harem'. An account of the institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times. Published by Spring Books London 1967. Third edition hardcover with a dust jacket 277 pages with many interesting maps and photographic plates of early prints with costumes etc. Fascinating theme. Lightly used in excellent condition.
See Item 4273 for original Print of the Seraglio in 1740.
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Germany Zur Erinnerung Jubelfeier 1870-1895. Souvenir of the Battle of Sedan. Three vignettes showing Kaiser Wilhelm and his Generals and Napoleon's Soldiers as well as a cavalry charge. Unused in acceptable condition. Lightly soiled. Rare chromlitho postcard c1900.
Gemany Berliner Spielkarten Fabrik Standard German suits without indices. Complete 32 Skat deck by Eduard Büttner & Co. Mirror image high quality chromo-litho printing. Beautiful deck lightly used in excellent condition. Tax stamp on Ace of Spades. In plastic box.
