Swords, Breast Stars, Badges, Medals and other assorted pieces
The Drawing Room Antiques
# 7194a - Star: "Order of the Crown" Iran. Size is 92mm. Condition: green enamel restorations. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information. SOLD
# 7194b - Star: "Order of Leopold" Belgium. Size is 83mm. Condition: without issue. Signed on the back: "Roe la Madeleine 35 - G. Wolfers Bruxelies" Inquire for more detailed images and additional information. SOLD
# 7194c - Star: "Order of Isabella the Catholic" Spain. Size is 65mm. Condition: without issue. Hallmarked: "ceualvo 55". Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194d - Star: "Order of San Hermenegildo" Spain. Size is 70mm. Condition: without issue. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194e - Star and badge "Military order of Saint James of the Sword" Portugal. Size is 70mm. Pre-1910. Condition: without issue. Hallmarked: "Fabricant de Conderoracoes Lisboa-Frederico D. da Costa R DES Julio N-110-37". Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194f - Star and badge and lapel pin. "The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem" Vatican Holy See. Size of the star is 84mm. Condition: without issue. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194g - Star and badge. "The Order of Homayoun" "Order of the Lion and Sun" Iran. Size of the star is 94mm. Condition: 4 green enamel losses to the star and loss to 3 green enamel losses to the badge. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194h - Star and badge. "Military order of the Tower & Sword" Portugal. Size of the star is 60mm. Condition: damage to 1 white enamel rays to the star. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194i - Star and badge . "The Order of Saint Sava" Serbia. Size of the star is 90mm. Condition: damage to back blue enamel to the badge-minor blue damage to the star. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information. SOLD
# 7194j - Star. "The Order of Leopold II. Belgium. Size is 75mm. Condition: without issue. Hallmarks: No. 55 - Wolfers Bruxelles" Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194k - Star. "The Order of the Sun of Peru" Peru. Size is 77mm. Condition: loss to the circle of orange enamel surrounding the center shield. Hallmark: "Lemaitre Paris" Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194L - Star. "The Order of Isabella the Catholic-type II" Spain. Size is 75mm. Condition: without issue. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
# 7194m - Star. "The Order of the Bust of Bolivar" Venezuela. Size is 67mm. Condition: without issue. Inquire for more detailed images and additional information.
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# 7118. A wax military figure under glass. Pictured is a rare item purchased by Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, Harbor Court, Newport. Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown (1906-1985) was an American historian, socialite, and collector of military memorabilia who married into the prominent Rhode Island Brown family, founders of Brown University. Anne Brown began collecting lead toy soldiers during the couple's year-long honeymoon trip to Europe in 1930. Eventually her interest expanded dramatically to a large collection of military memorabilia, which on her death became the "Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. She was also an historian co-founding the Company of Military Historians in 1949. She wrote many book and article related to military history. Harbor Court today serves as the site of the New York Yacht Club. This piece was purchased from Christian M. Nebehay Antiques in Vienna Austria. Nebehay (1909-2003) was an Austrian art dealer, art collector and author. He became internationaly known in the art world for his works on Gustave Klimt and Egon Schiele. Artworks from Nebehay's gallery are exhibited at the world's most important museums today including (in America) the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Mrs. Brown purchased this piece, probably along with many other items, and had all shipped to her home in Newport. Size of the frame is 23" x 17" and the wax figure is 12.5" x 6.5". Mrs. Brown probably purchased this piece around 1950-53. Age: Biedermeier era: 1820-1830. Condition, minor scuffs, the fabric has probably been replaced. A rare example of Newport's end of the "gilded age" history. Price: $2,500.00.
# RUSS. A museum copy of a Russian Imperial Guard helmut in the style
of the late 19th century. Helmut for an office of the Tsar's horse guard.
Condition: good. Price: $1,750.00.
# 5777A. A reproduction Napoleonic Shako in the style of c. 1812. This old replica was made in France. Size is approximately 7 1/8. Condition. Good. Price: $350.00.
# 3922n. Oil on panel, signed: Imre Greguss (front and back), Hungarian, 1856-1910. A study for a mural. Titled: Prince Rakoczi in Transylvania. Fully documented. 9½" X 13½". Greguss specialized in paintings with a military theme and his works hang in the Military Museum in Budapest. Price: $3,850.00.
# 4092. An Imperial Hapsburg World War One docuemnt box. Hand carved wood. Circa 1916. The translation of the carved lettering is: "K & K Military Construction Administration" (The Corps of Engineers). Size: 17.75" x 14.5" x 4.25" > with the carving the box is 5.5" deep. Condition: minor losses to some of the raised carved wood decorations. Key included. Price: $2,500.00.
# 6081. A vintage Telephone: Imperial Era German Telephone: Fernsprechtischapparat OB 05. An impressive German telephone of the WWI era with two crank handles protruding from either side of the metal body. The body has a beautiful large Reichsadler transfer on each side. The body sits atop a wooden base with a corresponding wooden top which is stamped in several places. Impressed (among other notations) is the word Berlin. Several feet of cord is still attached to the base and the phone is complete. There is a small chip on the curved mouthpiece and there is a scratch on one side of the phone marring the transfer. . . .in storage in Newport for over half a century. We have not cleaned this item and do not intend to clean it. Price: $1,500.00.
# ink10. A German Military helmut inkwell. Size: 6cm x 8 cm x 8 cm tall. Condition: one small dent at "11 o'clock using the medal on the front of the cap for reference. Using the double headed eagle, you lift the helmut back to reveal the pottery ink pot. Circa 1900. in Latin on the medal: "Suum Quique" Price: $355.00.
# 6066. A Russian Bronze. circa 1881 (marked). Size: 15" long x 9" wide x 13.5" tall. Weighs 30 lbs. A male figure rides on a galloping horse (all four feet are off the ground). Great movement and detail in this statue. Attributed to Vasily Yakovlevich Grachev. Signed in Cyrillic. Foundry mark for Woerffel Foundry of St. Petersburg. Grachev was a competitor to E. Lanceray. He specialized in equestrian, hunting figures and sleigh sculptures. Original patina. In storage for 75 years. Price: $6,500.00.
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