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TIFFANY STUDIOS Six desk accessories: TIFFANY STUDIOS;Six desk accessories, New York, 1900s-20s: American Indian stamp box and letter holder, Graduate paperclip, Bookmark blotter ends, and miscellaneous letter opener; Gilt and silvered br

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Group of Five Arts and Crafts Desk Accessories: American, late 19th/early 20th century, comprising: Dirk van Erp double ended copper inkwell with pen tray, stamped marks for Dirk van Erp to base, with two glass inkwells, 2-1/2 x 17-1/2 x 4-1/2 in.;

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Tiffany Studios - Assorted Desk Accessories: Lot 247 Tiffany Studios American (20th century) Assorted Desk Accessories gilt and patinated bronze, slag glass including: a pair of bookends in the Zodiac pattern, each piece impressed TIFFANY STUDIO

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Two Chinese Hardstone and Silver Desk Accessories: Two Chinese Hardstone and Silver Desk Accessoriesearly 20th century; the first a magnifying glass with carved jade plaque to handle, semiprecious stones mounted to the silver frame surrounding the gla

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Sterling Desk Accessories, Including Tiffany and Walker: American and English (Sheffield). An assembled group of desk accessories including a sterling Walker & Hall inkwell, two sterling stamp boxes, one Tiffany, a sterling and cut glass inkwell with match

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Heintz Sterling on Bronze Desk Accessories: American, 20th century. A group of seven bronze desk accessories with silver overlay, including a letter holder, calendar, pen tray, inkwell, blotter, dresser box, and letter opener, all with Heintz m

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A Collection of Desk Accessories: A Collection of Desk Accessories 20th Century comprising a French gilt stag inkwell, an English silver mounted cut glass inkwell, a Rosenthal glass paperweight, a rock crystal pyramid-form paperweight

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3 Bronze Desk Accessories & Pen: Three turn of the century Bronze desk accessories. Includes an A. Marionnet (French, b. 1852) letter opener depicting a Monkey, a French advertising letter opener depicting Death looming over a doctor

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Lot Antique Desk Accessories: Lot of antique brass and bronze finished white metal desk accessories to include inkwells, letter holder, lidded box, letter opener, desk calendar etc. Condition - some wear and damage to a couple pie

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A Collection of Sterling Silver Desk Accessories.: A Collection of Sterling Silver Desk Accessories. Comprising two silver handled letter openers, one silver handled magnifying glass, one solid silver letter opener, one wood and silver candlesnuffer,

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Nine Bronze Desk Accessories: Nine desk accessories, including: 2 Art Deco scissors, a ruler, a duck letter opener, a duck paper clip, a letter opener matching the scissors, a double pheasant letter openeer and a money clip-style

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Tiffany & Co. desk accessories, two: Tiffany & Co. desk accessories, two, in an original case: letter opener and wax seal France/New York, New York sterling silver, acrylic stamped marks together with a key chain fob; each article person

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Various Makers, Collection of three desk accessories: Various Makers Collection of three desk accessories c. 1960-1970brass, stainless steel 8.25 h x .5 w x .5 d in (21 x 1 x 1 cm) 2.5 h x 3.75 w x .625 d in (6 x 10 x 2 cm) 1 h x 4.5 w x .4 d in (

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Antique Carved Desk Accessories: Four Antique Carved Desk Accessories. Including a carved ruler, Denis Camp, 1799. Carved eagle head letter opener, lignum Vitae letter opener with hand, carved heart keepsake Elisha Prescott 1864.

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Lot Of Desk Accessories: Includes letter openers, fancy bronze scissors, fountain pens and more.

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Art Nouveau and Art Deco desk accessories: A collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco desk accessoriesfirst half 20th centuryComprising a silvered metal inkstand, tray, brass box, letter opener, gilt metal lion paperweight, desk calendar, and re

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World's Most Interesting Desk Accessories

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Diminutive table globe on a brass stand, colored in a folky naive manner across land masses and adorned with boats, three large antique skeleton keys in a shadowbox frame, a Tolstoy hidden object book box, alongside a letter opener affixed to a swine hoof. Globe measures 6.5" ht.

Originally collected by the late Dr. Maxwell Hammond Stamper, Jr. (1922-2009), prolific author, attorney, and WWII Bronze Star recipient, Oakwood, OH.

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