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Civil War vintage MEDICAL CURE BROADSIDE -
A neat Civil War vintage advertising broadside for HOLLIS’S, Vegetable Pectoral Syrup, a cure for Coughs, Colds, Hooping Cough. (see: 1863 Boston Business Directory) In a nice size for easy display (8" X 7") and in fine original condition after decades of storage, this boldly printed (one side only for posting) broadside will set well in any period grouping. We are pleased to offer a "no questions asked" three day inspection with return as purchased guarantee ! please note: ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!!. If you are new to Gunsight Antiques and wish additional information or just to learn who we are, please check out our home page. Thanks for visiting our on-line store !! |
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country tin smith – lamp oil tin &c: CAPPED SPOUTS
Offered here, individually price for the collector who would like a single example, are tinned sheet iron, brass capped, spouts for use in country tin shops in the fabrication of earlier to mid 19th century tin ware. Not a big deal to most as we are not sure if there are any folks out there besides Gunsight Antiques who collect 19th century country tin, but if so, here is your chance to acquire a neat, period fabricated, spout as was sold by tinsmith suppliers who carried all manner of material necessary to country tinsmiths. Besides tinned sheet iron stock, lead solder &c, spouts such as this, cast lid knobs and the like who’s fabrication required more intricate equipment and special tools than was commonly found in small country tinsmith shops. A neat item to lay in with any 19th century tin grouping or occupational display. Seldom seen today, these are the only pre utilization examples of such we have ever seen. If you are new to our catalog and wish additional information or just to learn who we are, please check out our home page. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!! |
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Civil War era HARD RUBBER TRAVELING INK
This attractive little traveling ink measures approximately 1 inch in diameter, stands about 1 7/8 inch high and remains in an eye appealing as found and untouched condition just as it came out after decades of storage. The body and original screw cap offer that rich chocolate patina that is so desirous in this material and comes only with good honest age. A neat piece for inclusion in any Civil War vintage grouping, writing instrument enthusiast. (see: India-Rubber & Gutta-Percha In The Civil War Era by Mike Woshner ) Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !!
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attic find Antique Wood Block PICTURE PUZZLE in CRANDALL’S Pat. 1867 box.
Our photographs will likely do best to describe this colorful multi-dimensional Victorian picture puzzle. Offered here as attic found, stored in a wonderfully labeled CRANDALL’S - Great Show Acrobats – Pat. 1867 dovetailed, game box. The slide top pine box remains in excellent condition measuring approximately 9 7/8 x 6 1/8 x 2 inches. The puzzle consists of 20 wood blocks each 1 ¼ inch square. Each covered on four sides by colorfully illustrated lithograph paper, each side a portion of one of six detailed scenes. (see photos). Two period printed sheets remain in the box as a guide to scenes. (We will include laser printed views to each of the additional scenes.) The blocks remain in eye appealing condition with bright colors but with wear at the edges as evidence of period use of the toy. An attractive mid 1800s play item, the owner will have a tough time deciding which of the colorful illustrations to display. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! |
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19th century -- Skey’s - Wilnecote Works - STONEWARE OYSTER JAR
Standing 6 3/4 inches and 4 13/16 inches in diameter with a 2 1/2 inch wide opening at the mouth, this attractive 19th century oyster jar remains in pleasing condition with no cracks, chips or other detracting issues and is nicely maker marked GEORGE SKEY – WILNECOTE – TAMWORTH. George Skey established his stoneware works in Tamworth in 1860 and quickly became a world leader in the manufacture of all manner of stoneware containers. His stoneware beer bottles will offer Civil War collectors the most prevalent example of his product with oyster jars such as this one showing up in far less quantity. A coveted culinary treat of the Civil War camp, period photographic examples of these stoneware oyster jars seem reserved to the officer’s mess table. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! |
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5525 |
18th century CASED BALANCE SCALES
Our photo illustrations will do best as a description of these nice old 18th century scales. Untouched and completely original even to the original green cotton suspensions, the iron beam is nicely shaped in the classic style of the 18th century. The brass pans offer an attractive deep age patina. The original sharkskin covered pocket case remains sound at the hinges and while one of the closure clasps is missing, remains in nice condition commensurate with age and period use. The inside cover retains its period silk lining under an attractive printed guide to weight of various gold coins. All original and pleasing to the eye, this little scale will lay in nicely with Colonial / American Revolutionary War relics. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !! |
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earlier through mid 1800s cast lead APOTHECARY CAP
A rare companion piece to a nice 18th early 19th century apothecary flask or bottle, we have three original cast lead caps and are selling them individually priced for the collector who would like an example for display or to complete a nice period medical bottle or flask. Seldom seen today except in the oldest collections, the shaft of the cap fit loosely into the neck of the bottle with the weight and flat surface of the rounded cap providing a seal against the lip of the bottle. Easily removed for dispensing and quickly dropped back in place to make the seal, these cast lead caps were a handy utility in the 1700s early 1800s apothecary. Seldom surviving, I suppose to some extent, because of the multiplicity of lead use and the common re-purposing of the material by virtue of a simple charcoal fire and casting ladle original period examples are rarely seen today. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !! |
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5863 |
Occupational AMBROTYPE
We will let our photo illustrations do the talking for this offering. A common American worker of the mid 1800s, this early 6th plate ambrotype remains in pleasing condition and comes in its original case which is solid with no splits at the hinge. A classic occupational. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! :
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original c.1846-54 CONGRESS QUILL PENN by E. DeYoung, New York
An especially nice item for the antique writing instrument collector, an attractive companion piece laid in a writing desk or displayed with a period ink well, we have a small number of original writing quills and are offering them here individually priced for the collector who would enjoy an original example for display. Each of these original goose writing quills measures approximately 9 1/2 inches in length and remains in fine un-used condition. These writing quills were acquired in their period slip top box with original label proclaiming the content as CONGRESS QUILL PENS which identifies the pens as the product of E. DeYoung who is listed as a New York quill cutter from 1846 to 1854. (see: New York Historical Society Museum and the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts collections. (Each period quill pen will come with a copy of the original CONGRESS QUILL PENS label.) A scarce acquisition for the antique writing instrument enthusiast. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! :
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earlier to mid1800s PASTRY CRIMPER
Our photo illustrations will likely do best to describe this little baking utensil except to advise that remains in nice original condition with a pleasing natural age patina to brass and wood. Obviously hand crafted and completely original, this little pastry or pie crimper as they are commonly referred to, will lay in nicely with additional period kitchen collectables without spending a lot of money. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !!
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vintage – Dog & Stag MEERSCHAUM TOBACCO PIPE
A large example, (shown here with a quarter for size comparison) intricately carved with dog and stag, our illustrations will likely do best to describe this attractive old hunting motif meerschaum tobacco pipe. With lots of rich color as comes to natural meerschaum with many a pleasant smoke and a good period char as additional evidence of age and originality, this old hand carved pipe remains in pleasing condition and will display well in any tobacciana or period grouping. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !!
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5702 |
1700s early 1800s brass DOCUMENT SEAL
Our photo illustrations should do best to describe this nice old document except to advise that it is entirely original with a most appealing natural age patina and bears the name C. C. Rise. please note: ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !! |
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W. STOKES KIRK - Civil War surplus - Mounted Artillery HAT DEVICE
Our photos should do best to describe this nice original die-struck mounted artillery hat device except to offer that it is completely original, in fine unissued condition and is of the Civil War period The piece measures approximately 1 15/16 inches wide with soldered brass wire fasteners. (Note that 2 wires are missing.) Of interest to the collector will be that we acquired this piece several years ago now when we were fortunate enough to purchase a number of items brought home by a W. Stokes Kirk clerk when the Philadelphia based Civil War surplus dealer closed up shop in 1976. Founded in 1874, W. Stokes Kirk like Bannerman in New York purchased large quantities of Civil War surplus at government auction. Seems like an impossibility now but we can remember wares of the two offering original Civil War material as late as the 1950s. This piece offers a now rare opportunity to acquire such an item from what for years now has become an ever dwindling and now a nearly nonexistent supply. As with all direct sales, we are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with refund of the purchase price upon return as purchased! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! |
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5644 |
19th century Antique Cantonese Puzzle – bone ‘RING OF RINGS PUZZLE’
Believed first made for export in the 1850s, the Ring of Rings Puzzle has existed to ancient times in China with the earliest known Western written reference set down by an Italian mathematician associate of Leonardo da Vinci in 1500. Credited to craftsmen in Canton, China who first fashioned their cow bone Ring of Rings puzzle for export in the 1850s the now rarely surviving puzzle became a popular diversion throughout Europe and the Americas. This period example remains in excellent original condition with no chips, cracks or stains yet with good evidence of age and period construction. The puzzle remains complete even to its original, period appropriate, rose-head brass wires. We will send the purchaser an internet link containing the puzzle resolution, that is to remove all nine bone rings trapped on the decoratively carved handle. (This can be accomplished in 341 steps by following two simple rules.) Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! |
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5865 |
exceptional ! high profile Civil War era Zouave Fez
In a collecting field steeped with variations requiring a specialized appreciation of those variations, there is likely someone out there that will recognize this attractive Zouave fez as indicative to a particular regiment but we will leave that to the experts. With that said our photos will offer the best description of this wonderful crimson red fez. Fashioned from that classic period wool felt that it seems was most desirable to hungry moths, original examples seldom survive in any kind of condition yet while this example exhibits some minor moth tracking as evidence of age and originality it is solid with no holes and retains its original bright crimson coloration with no fading. An especially nice, high profile Zouave fez complete with its original leather sweat band and false bullion regimental number, this early Civil War fez will go well on its own or in any period headgear collection. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! : |
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July 16 1864 Scientific American - CUSTER’S HORSE-SHOE Patent
Tender with some tattering as good evidence of age and originality, yet nicely displayable with lots of eye appeal, this approximately 10 X 13 inch, July 16, 1864 weekly issue of The Scientific American is complete and contains an account of George Custer’s U. S. Patent improved horse shoe design. An appealing design line drawing is presented over the bold heading CUSTER’S HORSE-SHOE with an accompanying description of the design and intended improvement over the old standard design. The little known George Armstrong Custer effort in the patent arena has been largely forgotten and lost in time with what may have been a nail in the coffin with respect to historical credit being a subsequent transcription error from period hand written 1870 U. S. Census records. Very simply the name of George A. Custer was mistakenly transcribed in a research reference as George C Custer. This simple transcription inaccuracy from the original record led to a conclusion published in Mike O’Keefe’s Custer, the Seventh Cavalry & the Little Big Horn that the subject patent was not issued by George A. Custer but another George Custer. A look at renderings of original hand written census records will show that George A. Custer was the only George Custer with a Monroe, Michigan address as provided in official U. S. Patent documents. (This offering will come with convincing research notes with respect to the above.) Framed up or simply laid out with Civil War or Western Indian War material, this piece will add A neat piece of Americana! Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! :
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Large period agricultural stencil – Patent 1861 IMPROVED STRAIGHT DRAFT PLOW
A great size for display, this 15 ¼ X 5 1/8 inch sheet brass marking stencil is for the RULOFSON & De GARMO’S IMPROVED STRAIGHT DRAFT PLOW PATENTED MARCH 12, 1861. The stencil sports a rich natural patina with good evidence of age, originality and period use. It bears the marking of the stencil cutter H. J. HOGGSON NEW HAVEN Ct.; fore-runner to the later J. J. Hoggson & Pettis Manufacturing Co., New Haven makers of stamps and marking devices. (see: spring 1861 RURAL NEW YORKER for particulars on this Pat. 1861 plow) An eye-catching Civil War vintage agricultural, rural Americana item. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! :
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antique traveling NUTMEG GRATER
Fresh seasoning was a premium to the pallet in Colonial America through the Civil War and into the later 19th century. By that time improved refrigeration and food preservation reduced the common use of seasoning to something more pleasurable than masking the taint of gone buy food. Salt and pepper were the most commonly used seasonings with the heavy use of salt as a drying agent and preservative the most familiar. Next in line, not as a preservative but as a masking agent was the nutmeg. So prized was the nutmeg in the 18th century that the walnut size woody seed was commonly used as tender for trade and bartering. This traveling grater with its’ lidded storage compartment for the pungent little nut falls in the waining days of the time when the nutmeg was so well thought of that fakes were carved from dark hardwood for trade. A neat piece of Americana of the Civil War period, this example retains much of its’ original japanning lacquer finish. (illustrated here with a U.S. quarter for size comparison) A neat common item seldom considered worthy of preservation original period examples are seldom encountered in this condition. A neat little personal item for the Civil War haversack without spending a lot of money. Don't forget to give our search feature a try for special wants. A simple key word in lower case works best. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !!
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Vintage - Bronze APOTHECARY MORTAR & PESTLE set
This outstanding heavy cast and turned bronze # 8 mortar and pestle set dates to the earlier through mid 1800s and remains in eye appealing condition with good evidence of age and period use while remaining in excellent condition with a nice untouched natural age patina. The heavy bronze mortar stands approximately 5 3/8 inches high , is 5 3/8 inches in diameter at the mouth and 3 3/8 inches across the base. The bronze pestle is size number 8 marked as is the mortar and measures about 9 7/8 inches in length. Not to be confused with more frequently encountered later examples or the common Chinese castings, this rarely found 19th century bronze apothecary mortar & pestle set will make a nice addition to any quality medical grouping or will go well simply as a period decorative piece. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! : |
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Civil War era - Pat. 1864 BUTTONHOLE SCISSORS
Illustrated here with a US quarter for size comparison is nice old pair of buttonhole shears marked B S & Co.(BARNARD - SON & Co. Waterbury, CT) PATDE. 1864. A nice pair of scissors, dated with good evidence of age and period use yet remaining in pleasing, functional condition. A nice sewing basket or soldiers house wife item. ALL ITEMS ARE CURRENT & AVAILABLE UNLESS MARKED SOLD!! Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques !
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