In this issue: There’s no place like Home for the Holidays to unwrap a gift from our November featured items. As usual, we have unusual globes and collectibles to match the special interest of relatives, friends, and colleagues.
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DECK THE DESK WITH HOLIDAY GIFTS
From planetary motion to poetry in motion this group has something for the perspicacious person on your holiday list.
The long and the short of it is that you can use a Trippensee Tellurian, c. 1908, to show the position of the earth on the shortest day of the year — the Winter Solstice — this December 21st. This geared demonstration device can also be used to show eclipses, reasons for the seasons, and the transit of Venue among other astronomical phenomena. Regularly $7,500, sale price $6,500. More information.
Head due North, or, if you fancy, North by Northwest with one of our antique compasses in hand. A blue directional needle points in all directions of a brightly colored compass rose in a traveler’s simple compass(left). Regularly $475, sale price $425. More information.
Our Butterfield style sundial and compass compendium (right) features a beautiful brass bird-form gnomon for the time-keeping traveler in case the local folks cannot give him the time of day. Regularly $1,300, sale price $1,100. More information.
A Correct Globe with the New Discoveries is correct for any occasion, especially as a Holiday gift. This antique pocket globe combines a miniature terrestrial globe within a concave celestial globe portable case. Regularly $16,500, sale price $14,750. More information.
The Dead Poets Society would surely approve of our beautiful 5-volume gilt-decorated leather book set of Complete Poetical Works, c. 1900. Tennyson anyone? You’ll get your words worth from a volume of Wordsworth, not to mention Shelley, Milton, and Spenser. Regularly $600, the set; sale price $550. More information.
It's the Eye of the Tiger — roaring from a figural inkwell (left) — a gift for a friend who is totally fierce. Victorian, painted metal, with hinged lid. Specially priced $425.
Make ends meet buying a specially priced pair of c. 1940s bookends (left, flanking two larger books), heavy cast material painted to mimic antique book spines. $350, the pair.
Gavel to Gavel Coverage this season includes a diminutive Victorian oak gavel, now $250, (top photo, lower right) among many others shown on our website.
WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT
From planetary motion to poetry in motion this group has something for the perspicacious person on your holiday list.
It’s Off to the Races (left) with our U-62 Thriftway Too hydroplane model (left). It is a miniature of the real 1957 speed boat that combined aerodynamic lift with powerful engine thrust to glide across the water at very high speed in various competitive races. Regularly $2,750, sale price $2,300. More information.
The Globes of Rath (right) by globemaker Paul Rath, Leipzig, Germany are among the finest ones produced in the early 20th century. Perhaps the most desirable among them is this 8-inch terrestrial raised relief physical globe dated 1921. It is held aloft on a stand in the form of Hercules wearing the pelt of the defeated Nemean lion. Regularly $6.800, sale price $5,900. More information.
It's Time to Take a Stand, namely a 1933 Chicago World’s Fair decorated big band musician stand (left). The painted scene in the central wooden panel is a magnificent Art Deco rendition of the domed Federal Building with three huge towers erected at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. Regularly $2,700, sale price $2,200. More information. More information.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and adventure as reflected in our silver-plated Chicago Girls Flying Club Marguerite Greene Trophy (right). It was awarded in 1937 and is surmounted by a world globe which in turn holds a flying airplane. Regularly $2,800, sale price $2,400. More information.
To win the 3-legged race this charming diminutive antique Georgian style Wood Tripod Stand is in the running for a great gift selection (left). Regularly $1,100, sale price $875. More information.
You can have the upper hand — and its mate — with this pair of sculptures (right). Each is realistically modeled as a hand emerging from the ground, tightly grasping a chisel as it sculpts itself. Hand’s down the best quirky cool gift. They were created by French artist Pepito Espin-Anadon. Regularly $1,300, sale price $1,075. More information.
Our star- studded holiday event concludes with a vintage Moravian star of galvanized metal (top photo lower left), $100.