Card Boxes. German or English, ca. 1920s – 40s. Three finely crafted card boxes resembling cigarette cases, with nickel-plated or gold-tone finishes. Each operating on the same principle that allows a card or other flat object to vanish, reappear, or be switched. One with weak hinge, age-consistent surface wear; very good overall.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Three Porcelain Card Boxes. 1) Maker unknown, ca. 1900. KD on lid, English style, base painted and shaped in the form of a pack of Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-06-27
CONTINENTAL MUSIC BOXES; Three: One six tune, one eight tune and one unknown, probably German or Swiss, early 20th c.; Largest: 6 1/2" x 17" Read more…
Auctioneer:
Rago Auctions
Date:
2014-12-06
Card Tripod. English or German: Joseph Bland [?], late nineteenth century. Early brass stand switches one card for another or causes cards to vanish when Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
Twenty-six Silver and Ceramic Place-card Holders and Menu Stands, a pair of Chinese silver, a pair of English sterling and another pair, an Elkington plated Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-04-12
Sterling Silver Playing Card Box with Enamel Cards on Lid. Maker unknown, ca. 1900. Sterling mark difficult to read; date unclear. Enameled cards are English. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-05-31
Four Continental Silver and Ivory Snuff Boxes, 19th century, two silver, one German, with English import marks for 1907, with enameling to lid of courting Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2004-04-24
Eighteenth Century French-German Gambling Prohibition Engraving. N.p., ca. 1750. Hand colored engraving depicting men fighting over a card game, with a poem printed in both Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-06-27
Houdini, Harry. Houdini’s German Slander Trial Archive, known as “The Cologne Papers.” Being a file of documents from the famous 1902 German court case in Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-08-23
English. Birmingham. 1899 and 1902. Each with hinged lid opening to cards. Height 2". (700/900) Read more…
Auctioneer:
Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches
Date:
2012-04-02
Two Stone and Stone-set Boxes, a small English sterling jewel box, hallmarked Birmingham, 1911, oval, with lid set with an oval agate, on small legs, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-07-10
