A Fortune Teller, 19th Century Drawing

Description

Title/Description: A fortune teller reading a man's palm, a dog beside them. Date: Circa 19th Century. Medium: Graphite on paper. Size frame: 15 ¼ inches high x 17 ¼. Size image: 7 ½ inches high x 9 ½. Condition: Good overall, with some staining and creasing.

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A Fortune Teller, 19th Century Drawing

Lot 0002

Estimate $100-$200

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Folk Art Three-Masted Ship Model.

$100

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Chinese Carved Cork Landscape.

$50

A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada.: A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada (1786 - 1855) of a geisha and a gentleman. 21 1/2 inches high x 16 1/2 wide.

A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada.

$30

A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada.: A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada (1786 - 1855) of two geishas. 21 1/2 inches high x 16 1/2 wide (framed).

A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada.

$30

Marx Locomotive with Six Marx Cars: Circa 1941, a Marx Locomotive 490 with five cars including a Mark O Gauge Marlines New York Central Metal Coal Car Tender; a Marx O Gauge Pennsylvania Railroad box car #70311; a Marx Niacet Chemical

Marx Locomotive with Six Marx Cars

$50

Seven Pre and Post War Lionel and Lionel Lines Cars: Comprising (2) Lionel Lines Sunoco motor oil cars: #1680 and SUNX 654 {poor condition for this car with rusting}; (2) Lionel Lines tinplate box cars #1679 and #2679; a Lionel Lines Tender #1689T; and

Seven Pre and Post War Lionel and Lionel Lines Cars

$50

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CCAA GLASGALERIE KOLN Mercury Glass Vessel

$10

Two CCAA GLASGALERIE KOLN Glass Ewers: Two reproductions of antique glass, each oval or pear shaped with handle, the brown frosted glass vessel 8 3/4 x 5 x 4 3/4 inches (22.2 x 12.7 x 12.1 cm), the larger 11 x 5 1/2 inches dia.

Two CCAA GLASGALERIE KOLN Glass Ewers

$10

Two CCAA GLASGALERIE KOLN Engraved Glass Bowls: Two reproductions of antique, beaker or oil lamp, frosted glass. 4 x 4 1/2 inches dia. (10.2 x 11.4 cm dia.), the oil lamp shaped, 3 1/2 x 3 inches dia. (8.9 x 7.6 cm dia.) Provenance: CCAA

Two CCAA GLASGALERIE KOLN Engraved Glass Bowls

$10

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Vintage Travel Luggage Labels Collection

$50

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Victorian Die-Cut Calling Cards Collection

$40

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$50

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Group of Vintage Valentines and Other Cards/Postcards

$40

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Francis Seymour-Haden (1818-1910), Etching

$50

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Art Deco Airplane Ink Drawing.

$40

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$50

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Three Edwardian Advertising Calendars, incl. for The Hub Saloon

$20

Two Edwardian California Advertising Calendars, Children and Flowers: Two 1911 die-cut chromolithograph wall calendars advertising Sonoma County, California businesses: Emil Emmington, General Merchandise, Postmaster, Collinsville, marked Printed in Germany,

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$20

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$50

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Three Victorian/Edwardian Calendars, Children with Flowers and Telephone

$20

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