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Antique Needle Lace Filet Tablecloth “God Is Love 1904” Peacock Church Dogs 90 inches

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TableclothWe’re selling an exceptional collection of antique lace, found carefully stored away for decades. Identified as “Mama’s lace from the Old Country” on the bins, the pieces are outstanding quality and in excellent condition unless noted.  Victorian era, late 1800’s and early 1900’s with a few pieces having the date hand woven into the pattern.

Quite an opportunity to add to your collection.

This listing features the most exceptional of all of them in my opinion. “God Is Love 1904” tablecloth woven into the extremely intricate design pattern.

90″ x 57″ 

Elaborate design includes Peacock or Pheasant perched on tree branch overlooking a church, floral petals around. The border is fantastic — puppy dogs prancing all around the entire tablecloth. 

Card with it says “Made by Great-Aunt Varsenig Begian, Mama’s Sister-in-Law.” 

Tablecloth 2Condition is excellent; has been carefully stored for generations and generations. A few loose stitches if you look intently at pattern, but I’m not overstating when I say this is as good as one could hope for such a piece. A true OOAK piece. 

Please look at photos carefully to see all the lovely details, including the softly curved corners so that the cloth lays flat on the table. 

See our others in our eBay Store collectibles, if you want to add some of the finest quality pieces to your collection.

Victorian FIGURAL Napkin Ring Simpson 3 OWLS Silver Gold

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Victorian Figural napkin rings are a joy to collect, display, set a beautiful table! Silverplate, these were produced late 1800’s through turn of the century. Victorians often used silver-plated items for their dining room where dinner was an elaborate social event. The various figural napkin rings were assigned to family members as holders of their napkins that were used all week until wash day.

Pictured here is a hard to find version of a rare ring, evaluated in the Gottschalk & Witson book as A+ rare category.  “Long Eared Owl” with owelets roosting on a branch is “truly a beautiful ring.”

Simpson, Hall, Miller & Company #204. This version has gold plating on top of the silver plating for accent areas like the leaves and the center of the base as well as details around the legs.

Condition is VERY good, with some light wear to the gold plating. Outstanding version of this exceptionally high quality figural ring. 4″ high.  Please see our connectibles store for other napkin rings.

 

Antique Victorian Sea SHELL Art Mirror DRESSER Sailors

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We’re delighted to have found an outstanding collection of antique Victorian seashell art that we discovered while treasure hunting on Martha’s Vineyard. If you love decorating with vintage “beach” memorabilia, these are one of the nicest additions you can add to your decor.

 From a charming turn-of-the-19th century seaside “Gingerbread cottage”, these gems are now available to be shared & admired again.  These are the nicest we’ve ever offered in terms of condition, assortment and design. Similar to “Sailor’s Valentines”, outstanding detail and patience required for these one of a kind hand-made pieces dating from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. 

Features here is one of the highlights of the collection.  A miniature “dresser” complete with mirror, “faux bois” painted sides, elaborately decorated. Remarkable detail down to the mock drawers & faux brass handles. Artist over 100 years ago took great care with the placement of the miniature shells and the overall artistic designs.  Intricate pattern. This is a Very special piece, especially with the details of the drawers (don’t open, faux design.) Excellent addition to a serious collection & display.  Available at Connectibles.

Antique Child Dish Tea Set 23p Victorian Box RS Prussia

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We sell new items in our eBay store. However, our really BIG business is our mostly vintage collectibles in our eBay store Connectibles.  This is an example of a rare item we picked from a local collector last week.Child's Tea Service  This is a beautiful antique Child’s service for 6, with an original box featuring Victorian design and French graphics. According to the book R. S. Prussia: The Formative Years by Leland & Carol Marple on page 166, this set is attributed to R.S. Prussia. The set handles, spouts, and other components have been attributed to the Reinhold Schlegelmilch plant in Tillowitz. Circa 1894 – 1905, this box probably dates it to the earlier date.

(This is one) of approximately 1700 items in our store. Our items represent many categories of collectibles. We pride ourselves on finding rare and vintage items from local and regional collectors. Since our recent retirement, this quest to rescue these items and bring them to our loyal customers has become a real passion. I guess you could say it is one of our contributions to the green recycling effort.