Our very popular Calligraphy Sets had mostly sold out, but we’re receiving more in stock right now. There is still time to receive one before Christmas! We enjoy the art of hand-lettering, and in 2017 will be releasing many more calligraphy sets in our Etsy Shop. We’ve begun buying fine antique writing implements such as …
[ffb_paragraph_0 unique_id=”pk3copb” data=”%7B%22o%22%3A%7B%22gen%22%3A%7B%22ffsys-disabled%22%3A%220%22%2C%22ffsys-info%22%3A%22%7B%7D%22%2C%22text-is-richtext%22%3A%221%22%2C%22align%22%3A%22text-left%22%2C%22align-sm%22%3A%22text-sm-left%22%2C%22align-md%22%3A%22text-md-left%22%2C%22align-lg%22%3A%22text-lg-left%22%7D%7D%7D”][ffb_param route=”o gen text”] These extremely rare Tipsy Monks California Art Pottery bookends were made by the short-lived Arts & Crafts company Malibu Potteries. The company was founded by May Knight Rindge in 1926 but burned in late 1931 and closed in 1932. We’re offering them for sale on Etsy. These …
Our newest Etsy listing is the Kodak Stereo Camera was a 35mm film stereo camera produced by the Eastman Kodak Company between 1954 and 1959. This camera has two lenses to take twin shots of scenes. These stereo images were meant to be shown on the Kodaslide Stereo Viewer. (Not included.) The camera is in …
A fantastic quote from one of our favorite fantasy authors. (That’s one of our typewriters in the background.) Feel free to share!
Our newest Etsy listing is an antique brass microscope – unmarked but appears to be from about 1910. It comes with a wooden box and some interesting ephemera. Included are a lens cleaning cloth from Anderson & Anderson Opticians and a clipping with fabulous “Turn of the Century” typography, which reads Hellige Hardax Glass. Hellige …
This Rochester Optical Premo 5 x 7 Large Format Camera was manufactured by Rochester Optical Camera Manufacturing Company in around 1895. This camera is made of mahogany wood with a leather case and brass fittings and features a telephoto lens. The lens is in very good shape, and the red leather bellows seem to be …
Newly posted to our Etsy Store, this Lambert No. 1 Typewriter is an extremely rare early typewriter from the year 1900. This unique typewriter took its inventor, Frank Lambert, fifteen years to develop. While many other early typewriters were produced at this time, the current QWERTY keyboard had not yet been set as the …
New to our Etsy Store is this gorgeous antique mechanical Jeu de Course horse racing game. Priced at $380.00 we offer free shipping to the continental US. This Jeu de Course is a Mechanical Horse Racing game made in France in around the 1890’s. The game consists of four petite (little) metal horses with jockeys …
