New York Public Library Medal: Leonard baskin
The New York Public Library Medal
ENGRAVER:Leonard Baskin
ARTIST/MAKER:Medallic Art Co.
RELATED PERSON:The New York Public Library
DATE: 1961
MEDIUM: Bronze; cardboard, paper, cloth, silk
DIMENSIONS: case: 3 7/8 x 3 7/8 x 11/16 in. ( 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.7 cm ) diameter: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
MARKS: Inscription: case lid, inside, center: "Medallic Art Co./New York"
DESCRIPTION: Bronze struck medal with obverse showing double-faced head with elderly sage looking downward representing learning and wisdom, at left, and upward-looking youth reflecting hope through aspiration to knowledge, at right; legend above: "EX SCIENTIA SPES" ("FROM KNOWLEDGE, HOPE"). Reverse shows sun emitting rays of light flanked by two classical columns adorned with fruit garlands; inscription below: "THE/NEW YORK/PUBLIC LIBRARY/1961." Black square cardboard fitted case with green silk velvet lining.
1957 Gerhart Johann Hauptmann, German Dramatist and Novelist, Literary Medal, Buderus, Sold with Hauptmann's The Sunken Bell
Gerhart Hauptmann bronze memorial medal (1957) with foundry name on back, sold with first edition of Nobel Prize winning Hauptmann's " The Sunken Bell; A Fairy Play in Five Acts," Tr., Charles Henry Meltzer, New York, Doubleday, 1899.
Antique Books
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Three leather bound books of the works of Flavius Josephus, including Three Dissertations Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just and God's Command to Abraham, Tr. William Whiston, Armstrong and Plaskitt, Baltimore, 1832.
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Philip Evergood: "Portrait of Julia" Cooper Plate Engraving
“Portrait of my Wife” (1962)
Steel faced copper engraving plate done in conjunction with Philip Evergood’s oil painting, “Portrait of My Wife” illustrated in Kendall Taylor’s Philip Evergood; Never Separate From The Heart, available for purchase in Bookstore. Click below.
What is a copper plate engraving? Check out this link!
https://www.kettererkunst.com/dict/copperplate-engraving.php
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Puck History
The Republican Pharisees; “ It is the Pharisees who do this; the men who go to church on Sunday, and on the next day give money to those scoundrels, well knowing how it is to be used.”
The Republican Pharisees; “ It is the Pharisees who do this; the men who go to church on Sunday, and on the next day give money to those scoundrels, well knowing how it is to be used.”
The Republican Pharisees; “ It is the Pharisees who do this; the men who go to church on Sunday, and on the next day give money to those scoundrels, well knowing how it is to be used.”
Joseph Keepler
Puck History
The Republican Pharisees; “ It is the Pharisees who do this; the men who go to church on Sunday, and on the next day give money to those scoundrels, well knowing how it is to be used.”
The Republican Pharisees; “ It is the Pharisees who do this; the men who go to church on Sunday, and on the next day give money to those scoundrels, well knowing how it is to be used.”
The first successful humor magazine in America of cartoons, caricatures and political satire, founded in 1871 by Joseph Keppler, an Austrian born cartoonist who did many of its illustrations, two shown here. It came out weekly until it ceased publication in 1918.
This is the “pull” that Civil Service reform has with the Administration
The Republican Pharisees; “ It is the Pharisees who do this; the men who go to church on Sunday, and on the next day give money to those scoundrels, well knowing how it is to be used.”
This is the “pull” that Civil Service reform has with the Administration
Louis Dalrymple
The new Salon de Tammany; “ We are the 400—and McAllester is not in it.“
The Democratic Samson sends his fusion foxes among the Republican Philistines
This is the “pull” that Civil Service reform has with the Administration
Ehrhar
The Democratic Samson sends his fusion foxes among the Republican Philistines
The Democratic Samson sends his fusion foxes among the Republican Philistines
The Democratic Samson sends his fusion foxes among the Republican Philistines
Joseph Keppler
A False Move
Title: A False Move
Maker(s) &Production:
T. J. & J. Mayer, factory, England, Staffordshire, Longport, Dale Hall
Production Note:
The cartoon refers to the 'Durham Letter', written by Lord John Russell on the threatened assumption of ecclesiastical titles by the Roman Catholic bishops. It has been much reproduced.
Category:
lead-glazed earthenware
Name:
Prattware pot lid
Date:
circa 1850 — 1900
School/Style:
Victorian
Period(s):
mid-late 19th Century; Victoria I
Description:
White earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print. Circular. On top of lid 'A False Move', inscribed 'Check to your Queen John.' and 'Pooh pooh your Bishop/is out of his place man.'; yellow leaf border inscribed at the bottom 'A FALSE MOVE'; black key plate.
Technique(s):
moulding; whole
transfer-printing; decoration; multicoloured
glazing (coating); whole; presumed lead glaze
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
glaze; whole
TechniqueDescription:
white earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print, black key plate
Korean Ancestor Portrait
19th Century/early 20th, Korean patriarch ancestor portrait, shown seated wearing ornately decorated robe and pearls.Gilt framed and museum archival matted.
Primitive wooden powder flask, 19th century
Primitive wooden powder flask, 19th century
Primitive wooden powder flask, 19th century
Primitive wooden powder flask, 19th century
Primitive wooden powder flask, 19th century
A history of powder flasks.
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-metal-flask-successor-to-the-powder-horn/
Primitive wooden powder flask, 19th century
Mark Twain Uniform Editions - Author's National Edition in Red Cloth
Mark Twain's collected works, authorized uniform edition, 1909-1916, 24 volumes, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, authors national edition.
Click link for more information.
Barristers' Legal Scale
19th century British brass and wood barrister’s legal scale of justice.
Zenith Trans-Oceanic Wave-Magnet Radio
WWII Zenith Trans-oceanic Wave-Magnet used in Second World War effort with original booklet as to wave lengths.