Two rows of elaborate piercing highlight this superior oval sterling mustard pot with its elegant body, pierced thumbpiece and urn finial. It retains its cobalt blue liner. It is fully marked on the base (the maker's mark is upside down in the photo) and marked on the underside of the lid with a lion passant and the maker's mark, which is faint. Overall length (including handle) is 4 1/4 inches and height is 3 1/4 inches. Weight, without glass liner, is 3 troy ounces and 12 pennyweights...

This butter pick in Wallace's highly regarded Art Nouveau Violet pattern dating from 1904 is in excellent condition, monogrammed with letter "M." Length is 5 7/8 inches. Price includes free First Class Mail shipping in the USA.

Rare antique glass from a French bar used to serve absinthe. This style is known as an East glass because it was supposedly used in the East of France, in areas around Lyon. This is a heavy, hand-blown glass with a polished pontil. It has a dose mark marking the level to which it was filled with absinthe. Water was added to the liquor, making a cloudy drink. I personally like the glasses with dose marks because you can be sure they were used for a drink like absinthe to which water was added...

Antique blown glass topette from an old French bar holding three doses or portions. Each ring represented a dose, or one drink, of absinthe, which was diluted with water, often poured over a sugar cube, before drinking. The bar patron was charged for however many doses he or she consumed. This topette was hand blown in heavy lead glass and has a nice partially polished pontil on the bottom. This one is 4 inches tall and dates from about 1900 or earlier...

Beautifully bound in green half-leather with green buckram, ribbed spine, bright gilt titles and spine decorations. This is the 1914 edition published by T. N. Foulis of London, Edinburgh & Boston with 12 tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. You will be very pleased with this copy.

Softcover. Clean, tight, unread; minor foxing at top of cover. Crease (in the making) at bottom left of first few pages. This is a superb copy of the early Down East Magazine edition.

Spectacular English sterling Art Nouveau mirror with a robust floral repoussé design and original beveled glass. Made by Henry & Albert Batson in London in 1902, it stands 13 1/4 inches tall and is 8 3/4 inches across at the widest point. It retains its original backing, stand and velvet covering.

From a local estate, this International Masterpiece pierced or slotted tablespoon is in excellent condition and is not monogrammed. It is 8 1/4 inches long.

A compilation of favorite recipes from the Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, club covering the years 1916 to 1991, published to mark the its 75th anniversary. Fifty-three pages of recipes plus history of the club and cooking information. Book is spiral-bound and in excellent condition with no writing or notes on the recipes.

Fine set of three Georgian wine labels or tickets -- for madeira, port and claret -- by the renowned maker John Reily. They are cast and have a griffin crest. The definitive book, “Wine Labels,” edited and co-authored by John Salter says (p...

This is a handsome Regency period (circa 1820) breakfront bookcase of wonderful scale in warm, light colored, figured mahogany. The panels on the doors in the lower section are nicely matched, coming from adjoining flitches of the wood. The doors on the top section have lancet glazing bars on the upper part. The lower section has paneled doors and stands on a plinth. It is fitted with its original adjustable shelves throughout. Width, 80 inches; height, 87 inches; depth, 15 inches...

This chest exhibits several features that put it into a special category: wonderful warm color; string inlay with concave corners on the top as well as on the graduated drawers; a fan on the skirt, and inlay on the top edge and base. Brasses are replaced. Made in Connecticut around 1790. Dimensions: width, case, 37 1/2 inches, top, 39 inches; height, 36 1/4 inches; depth, 22 1/4 inches.