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Ode To Islesboro Lexicon: A Laconic Lexicon of Local Language, Legends, Landmarks, Locales, Legacies, and Legerdemain PAPERBACK SOFTCOVER BOOK
ODE TO ISLESBORO A Laconic Lexicon of Local Language, Legends, Landmarks, Locales, Legacies, and Legerdemain ****** OVER 300 WHATCHAMACALLITS, 78 KNITTERS, AND 1 SPIDER PAPERBACK SOFTCOVER BOOK **** This Islesboro dictionary contains over 300 secret Islesboro passwords and phrases; these words aren't a dime a dozen. This little gem of a whatchamacallit is literally the talk of the town. With several erudite essays, you'll never be at a loss for words. All the Maine-stays are here, plus those not fit to print. This little lexicon squeaks, squawks, creaks, whirrs, and even swears its' moxie beats Scrabble opponents. Don't let 'em talk behind your back. Sit up, take notice, and get schrod. The proceeds from your purchase go to the Islesboro Community Fund charity. Goose bumps, turkey s…
$25.00
Ode To Islesboro Lexicon: A…
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Antique Spritzer Sprayer BOUVAREL A MARSEILLE c1900 France
Antique Spritzer Sprayer BOUVAREL A MARSEILLE c1900 France Small antique hand operated metal pump sprayer or spritzer . For spraying fruit, vegetables and delicate growing plants such as herbs. Metal push-down button pump and nozzle. On the bottom, there is a removable cork you can pull out to refill the interior reservoir. MARKED: There is a lithographed label on the top that says BOUVAREL A MARSEILLE. Still works, squirts and spritzes however this is sold as a collectible object only, not intended for use. COUNTRY of Origin: France. AGE: Début XXème c1900 Exactly as shown in the detailed photos below. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS. All the information you need to decide about a purchase is in front of you at the time of purchase. SIZE: This measures overall approximately 4 inches x 2.75 inches x 4.25 inches // 10 cm x 7 cm x 11 cm. CONDITION: …
$125.00
Antique Spritzer Sprayer…
$125.00
Original Fine Line Ink Drawings Album fin XIXème Geometry Anatomy Greek Myths Roman Horses Technical Compass & Straight Edge
Original Fine Line Ink Drawings Album fin XIXème Geometry Anatomy Greek Myths Roman Horses Technical Compass & Straight Edge Phenomenal artist's original sketchbook. AGE: Fin XIXème, late 19th Century. MIXED MEDIA: Watercolor, fine line ink, pencil, gouache On Montgolfier watercolor paper bound into a notebook. The very fine line pen used for these originals has a fine point comparable to a modern double-zero rapidograph. SIGNED: At least two pages are signed LAURENT COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: France. Unbelievably detailed fine line drawings, paintings, and sketches. Architectural design renderings. Geometry, trigonometry, and orbital mechanics. Squaring the circle. Tessellations. Tensors and parallelograms. Anatomical studies, drawings and sketches. Greek and Roman mythic gods, chariots, horses. Sketches inspired by Biblical sources. One cartouche is a Ma…
$359.00
Original Fine Line Ink…
$359.00
Lot de 20 de LA PHOTO-REVUE 1898-1900 PRINCIPES D'ART France French Photography Art Chemistry Journal Twenty (20) Issues Complete
Lot de 20 de LA PHOTO-REVUE 1898-1900 PRINCIPES D'ART France French Photography Art Chemistry Journal Twenty (20) Issues Complete Lot of twenty (20) complete issues; a collection of the French publication PHOTO REVUE PRINCIPES D'ART. Dated from August of 1898 to March of 1901. Original antique French journal collection, printed on paper, all over 100 years of age. All are printed in black and white, on light weight fragile folded newsprint paper. Each issue contains approximately 20 pages of illustrations, text, and period advertisements and publicities. Published under the direction of Charles Mendel, Journal des Photographes des Amateurs, France. Printed in France; text is in French. Scarce. Of interest to the conservationist, chemist, camera and optics collector, scientists specializing in film, negatives, photographic restoration, and media preservation archiv…
$599.00
Lot de 20 de LA PHOTO-REVUE…
$599.00
Unusual Cast Bronze Egg Signed Sculpture Opens Reveals Fossil Shell Pebble
Unusual Cast Bronze Egg Signed Sculpture Opens Reveals Fossil Shell Pebble Original signed ovoid cast bronze desk sculpture, cast as two parts. The two halves lift apart; they separate along the equator into two separate parts. Exterior resembles a large flat pebble or ovoid egg, and fits in the palm of an adult's hand. Upon separating the two parts, the interior reveals deep impressions, on both sides, of a fossilized sea shell. MARKED with just a poinçon mark on the exterior; no fabrication mark, no signature, Poinçon mark on the exterior is the letter C followed by a point as the stamped signature mark of the artist. We don't know the name of the artist corresponding to the stamped mark on the piece. Weight is approximately 640 grams. COUNTRY of Origin: France. Exactly as shown in the detailed photos below. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS. All the information y…
$899.00
Unusual Cast Bronze Egg Signed…
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Antique Thread Gauge Ashtray Delamotte Paris France XIXème Silver Plated Brass Publicity
Antique Thread Gauge Ashtray Delamotte Paris France XIXème Silver Plated Brass Publicity Antique advertising publicity from Delamotte in Paris France. Thread gauge, pin tray, and ashtray. From the French firm DELAMOTTE, PARIS. The center reads: DELAMOTTE, Gomme et Caoutchouc, 68, rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, Paris. Embossed raised design at center of recessed center tray section is Crescent Man-In-The-Moon above floating clouds. Numbered holes encircling perimeter are thread gauges measuring metric thread size measures. Constructed of silver plated metal, with brass raised letters and brass raised numbers. AGE: XIXéme. COUNTRY of Origin: France. Exactly as shown in the detailed photos below. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS. All the information you need to decide about a purchase is in front of you at the time of purchase. SIZE: This measures overall appro…
$449.00
Antique Thread Gauge Ashtray…
$449.00
Antique Mortar XVIIIe Siècle Terre Cuite Terracotta France Approximately 15 Pounds
Antique Mortar XVIIIe siècle Terre Cuite Terracotta France Approximately 15 Pounds Antique pharmaceutical terre cuite mortar, XVIIIe siècle. Made entirely of solid, thick, very heavy terracotta clay. Unglazed natural terracotta terre cuite clay has an orange cast to the clay color. Over two hundred years of abundant signs of age and usage, and still going strong. COUNTRY of Origin: France. AGE: Années fin de XVIIIe. Exactly as shown in the detailed photos below. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS. All the information you need to decide about a purchase is in front of you at the time of purchase. SIZE: Overall height, measured bottom to top, measures approximately 4 cm // 10 inches. Top interior diameter measured across inside bowl opening measures approximately 15 cm // 5.8 inches. Upper area width measured straight across top at middle measures approximate…
$899.00
Antique Mortar XVIIIe Siècle…
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Working Telephone Sculpture Artist Modified Rotary Dial Modular Jack 1-Line Spiral Cord 1980's
Working Telephone Sculpture Artist Modified Rotary Dial Modular Jack 1-Line Spiral Cord 1980's Working modular jack single line telephone with a rotary dial. Standard functional American modular telephone jack at the rear; connects to a single line telephone wall jack. Exterior is completely covered, encrusted with glitz-n-glamour elaborate decorations It's an eclectic assortment of bit-n'-pieces, including but not limited to antique jewelry , metal parts, coins, chains, bit of eyeglasses, beads, faux pearls, etc. The exterior is clear poly coated so the designs stay fresh. The telephone is a working vintage rotary dial heavy metal telephone. The telephone has an attached modern single line modular jack. The phone plugs into, and works, with any standard American single line telephone outlet. The rotary dial works with the pleasant mechanical clicking sound whose du…
$980.00
Working Telephone Sculpture…
$980.00
Art Deco Sign Camera Lamp French Publicity Cardboard France
Art Deco Sign Camera Lamp French Publicity Cardboard France Art Deco cardboard sign.. Vissophot Lampe 69 Rhone La Lampe Moderne Pour La Photographie, VISSOPHOT , Fabriquée dans les usines Visseaux Lyon Vaise . Vestiges of ribbon adhesive on the back. COUNTRY of Origin: France. AGE: XXéme (Circa 1920 - 1930,) Exactly as shown in the detailed photos below. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS. All the information you need to decide about a purchase is in front of you at the time of purchase. SIZE: This measures overall approximately 20 cm x 13 cm // 8 inches x 5.2 inches. CONDITION: By " antique " we mean over 100 years of age. By " vintage " we mean between 50 and 100 years of age. This item is made of matter and it is OLD; this means it is NOT NEW. This is not a recent reproduction. It is not a recent copy. It is not a fake. SCROLL DOWN TO SE…
$224.00
Art Deco Sign Camera Lamp…
$224.00
German Ashtray Homeomorphic Topological Noether Kunststoffwerke Minden 4202/2
German Ashtray Homeomorphic Topological Noether Kunststoffwerke Minden 4202/2 Large vintage ashtray from Germany. Bright cherry red molded melamine plastic printed with white lettering. Emmy Noether and Henri Poincaré would have loved this, as would any physicist or mathematician. Great for holding your watch or jewelry by the bedside, whether or not you still smoke. The unusual Mexican Hat shape resembles a topological homeomorphism. The bump-in-the-middle circular shape is also reminiscent of one of the high speed drops photographs of Harold "Doc" Edgerton . This is in bright cherry red melamine molded plastic, printed with white block lettering around the outer perimeter. The outer rim is printed with white block lettering. The phrase MILDE SORTE is repeated twice, in white, around the outer perimeter rim. Milde Sorte translates from the German into English as…
$269.00
German Ashtray Homeomorphic…
$269.00
Child Shoe Form Cobbler Shoemaker Carved Wood With Metal Sole France XIXéme
Child Shoe Form Cobbler Shoemaker Carved Wood With Metal Sole France XIXéme Small antique European wooden child's shoe form. One solid wood child's foot size shoe form. For a cobbler shoemaker to make a child's right foot shoe. Marked on the toe with the number 24 and on the ankle with the numbers 636. These numbers indicate the European children's right foot shoe size. Entirely hand assembled and hand carved. The body of the form is made of solid hand whittled carved wood. The sole of the shoe form has a metal plate screwed on. Dense, solid, sturdy; a small fine example of superb craftsmanship now nearly extinct. COUNTRY of Origin: France. AGE: XIXéme Exactly as shown in the detailed photos below. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS. All the information you need to decide about a purchase is in front of you at the time of purchase. SIZE: This measure…
$359.00
Child Shoe Form Cobbler…
$359.00
Single Ice Skate Art Deco Shoe Advertising Publicity Handmade Pottery Miniature 1920 France XXéme
Single Ice Skate Art Deco Shoe Advertising Publicity Handmade Pottery Miniature 1920 France XXéme European Art Deco shoe store advertising piece: a single miniature sized clay pottery painted ice skate used for advertising and publicity. Sculpted from pottery clay and hand painted; details include ice skate's shoe tongue with laces, and top and toe trim. The skate blade is plastic and it's embedded in the bottom. COUNTRY of Origin: France. AGE: XXéme 1920 Exactly as shown in the detailed photos below. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS. All the information you need to decide about a purchase is in front of you at the time of purchase. SIZE: This measures overall approximately 10,5 cm x 9,5 cm x 4,5 cm // 4.5 inches x 3.5 inches x 2 inches. CONDITION: By " antique " we mean over 100 years of age. By " vintage " we mean between 50 and 100 years of age…
$359.00
Single Ice Skate Art Deco Shoe…
$359.00