EditorialBrochure for a Signaling Horn, Booklet of six pages in blue paper cover over a patented signal horn. The brochure does not describe the tool itself, but only lists its possible applications, for the police, railways, shipping, industry etc., Edouard Du...
EditorialBris? range of ivory, entirely painted with tempera over which a lacquer-like varnish, with a central cartouche in which 'the Triumph of Love' on the front and an Arcadian seascape at the back, surrounded by chinoiseries, whole painted with tempera ove...
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
EditorialLace-up boot made of black box calf with patent noses, Right lace-up boot made of black calf leather with patented noses. Model: Sporty with a round toe and Viennese heel made of layers of leather. The nose piece is lacquered. Seams along this and on t...
EditorialCandelabrum, given to captain Cornelis Schrijver, The candelabra consist of a candlestick and an attachment with three hinged arms. The profiled, rejuvenating foot is octagonal in diameter, with alternating straight and wavy sides. In the flat top ther...
EditorialNew patented umbrella, with an improved spring system, to swiftly open at the slightest touch.(please refer to our advertisement in the matter), plate 33 from ?motions Parisiennes. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1842. Dimensions: 182...
EditorialNew patented umbrella, with an improved spring system, to swiftly open at the slightest touch.(please refer to our advertisement in the matter), plate 33 from ?motions Parisiennes. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1842. Dimensions: 182...
EditorialThe "Cynophere", or dog-powered velocipede. It was invented by the French mechanic M. Huret and patented on December 14, 1875. It consisted of a three-wheeled vehicle, a kind of tricycle, weighing 80 kilograms and was moved by two dogs placed on the in...
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
Editorialpaper dress Paper-Caper Op Art Dress, Scott, Designer (American), 1966, paper (wood pulp, rayon mesh; patented as Dura weave) screen printed, 38-1/2 x 25-1/2 in., label: Paper-Caper by Scott, Textile and Fashion Arts.
EditorialNew patented umbrella, with an improved spring system, to swiftly open at the slightest touch.(please refer to our advertisement in the matter), plate 33 from ?motions Parisiennes. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1842. Dimensions: 182...
EditorialPenny Black stamp press. [Photographs of the British Library building at St. 2005. The Penny Black stamp press was one of several used to print the 1d black and 2d blue, the first postage stamps, issued in 1840. The stamp office of the Inland Revenue c...
EditorialDoll (Greiner Patented Head). Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 61 x 45.8 cm (24 x 18 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 30 1/2" high; 15" wide; shoulders: 10" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper.
EditorialDoll (Greiner Patented Head). Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 61 x 45.8 cm (24 x 18 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 30 1/2" high; 15" wide; shoulders: 10" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper.
EditorialSquare Piano, ca. 1800, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dutch (Amsterdam), Wood, various materials, Case L. (perpendicular to keyboard): 37.9 cm (5 in.), Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano, Corneille Charles Emanuel van der Does (1769?1827), The firm founded by v...
EditorialCream pitcher, 1875?90, Made in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, United States, American, Pressed glass, H. 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); Diam. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm), Glass, Possibly Challinor, Taylor and Company (1866?1891), Marbled glassware was originally developed in ...
EditorialHobnail Celery vase, 1886?1900, Made in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, American, Pressed glass, H. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm); Diam. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm), Glass, Hobbs, Brockunier and Company (1863?1891), In 1886, Hobbs, Brockunier and Company patente...
EditorialBiscuit jar, 1878?90, Made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, American, Pressed glass, H. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm); Diam. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm), Glass, This three-face pattern, patented in 1878 by John Ernest Miller, was a favorite with Pittsburgh gl...