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Rare Antique Brass Sikh Guru Nanak Sat Kartar Nanakshahi Good Luck Gift Token T1
Rare Antique Brass Sikh Guru Nanak Sat Kartar Nanakshahi Good Luck Gift Token T1
Bala Mardana Baba Nanak
Token Coin as shown in the photos.
Type: Hindu Token
Period: Not Known - used item
Country/Region of Manufacture: India
#bala mardana baba#1804 samvant#maharaja ranjit singh#singh kaur khalsa#sikhism sikhi#sikh history#vintage old ancient#antique rare#sikh 1843 token#brass coin#nanakshahi token#sat kartar coin#guru nanak
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The periodically controversial signs which sometimes adorns the bookshop door
#old#books#old bookshop#bibliophile#old books#michael moon's bookshop#antiquarian#antique books#findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970#rare books#Whitehaven#michaelmoonsbookshop#Moonsbookshop
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So a very unique purchase I made during hiatus… a pair of antique prosthetic arms I basically saved from being sold as lamps?? They were most likely made between 1900-1930, though one professor I reached out to says they might specifically be WWI era or thereabouts which is grand cos I’ve been getting very into WWI medicine, specifically prosthetics and plastic surgery, these past two years. Definitely a great addition to my collection regardless! They are two left arms produced for two different people but by the same maker in France and came with a swivel joint and hook, ring, and brush attachments.
#you wanna buy just one but then you think well i can’t separate them they’re friends#the wild thing is they were being sold as LAMPS like they were holding bulbs and attached to bases and everything#and I messaged the guy being like Hey Uh would you consider de-lamping those and selling them to me#had to have the little fellas WWI or not#rare to find them these days#wwi#world war one#antiques#prosthetics
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A rare antique brass knuckles pistol with original case, France, 1890.
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Victorian gift book c. 1850s-1860s with inlaid mother of pearl.
#i love these#i only have two#they are rare and fucking expensive#antiques#covet#antique books#antiquarian books#victorian books#book binding
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HORAE SUCCESSIVAE by Henshaw (1632)
Beautiful book cover of white satin with a floral design edged in gold cord, featured in Cyril Davenport’s English Embroidered Book-bindings (1899).
#beautiful books#book blog#books books books#book cover#books#antique books#rare books#book binding#book design#embroidered#embroidery
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Vicious August 1998
#I know!#a rare post of old visual kei stuff from me!#the context for this is that on one of my trips after COVID-19#I tried to find a substitute store for Trio2 which had shut down in Nakano Broadway#I had read that there were some magazine shops at least in Ochanomizu#I didn't have data and tried to navigate with my geolocation skills but ended up asking a sort of old officer just to be sure#he said something along the lines of 'but I'm just an old man...'#so a younger man came to his and my rescue and offered to help me#he understood little English and used Google Translate to communicate with me for the most#turned out he was a magazine enthusiast himself and he took me to a couple of stores#they all had only antique magazines like nothing past 2005#he found everything that had Dir en grey at each of those stores#I felt bad after a while because it was not at all what I was looking for#so I ended up buying the Xth magazine that he showed me#see above hah#just so you know I was really close to the store just with my skills#Dir en grey#young#scans#magazine#visual kei#vkei#Kyo#Kaoru#Die#Shinya#Toshiya#makeup#I'm not sure why I'm such a fan of that middle finger nail paint
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𝔄 𝔯𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔡𝔞𝔤𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔢𝔰𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠 𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔰 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢, 𝔪𝔦𝔡 յգ𝔱𝔥 ℭ𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔶
𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔠𝔢: @𝔖𝔱𝔢𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔫𝔨_𝔗
#dagger#rare#esoteric#memento mori#rituals#ritual#france#19th century#xix century#skull#grim reaper#antique
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Album “From Ukrainian Antiquity”
Album “From Ukrainian Antiquity”, compiled by Samokish together with Vasylkivsky about the life and history of Hetman Ukraine.
Fighting for political freedom, for the Ukrainian faith, the Cossacks watered every inch of their native land with their blood and sowed with their bones. They created such heroic heroes, which caused contemporaries and cause fair amazement in posterity.
#ukrainian history#ukrainian art#ukrainian culture#ukrainians#Kobzar Art#Kobzar Library#album#antique books#book review#rare books
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Witch Book Enthusiasts!
Allow us to introduce the most witch-y book currently for sale in the Rare Book Room at Powell's: 'Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions' (1681, by Joseph Glanvil)
Learn more about this and other supernatural tomes from our Rare Book specialist on the Powell's Blog.
#books#rare books#Powell's Books#powell's#vintage books#antique books#supernatural books#witch books#witchy
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Naughty Netsuke
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A rare small Egyptian Pre-Dynastic translucent pale green calcite vessel Naqada I, circa 4000-3500 B.C.
#A rare small Egyptian Pre-Dynastic translucent pale green calcite vessel#Naqada I#circa 4000-3500 B.C.#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#ancient egypt#egyptian history#egyptian art#egyptian antiquities
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Time flies when you’re having fun
#old#books#old bookshop#bibliophile#old books#michael moon's bookshop#antiquarian#book covers#antique books#michaelmoonsbookshop#Moonsbookshop#findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970#rare books#whitehaven
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compilation from an opthalmology manual by C.E. May, translated and printed in Italy in 1906 (Manuale delle Malattie dell'Occhio)
#there's a lot of eye sugery stuff in it too it's really cool!#but A LOT of collyrium descriptions have cocaine in it shdjdkf#just put a cocaine solution in your eyes and you'll be all good to go 👍#eye trauma#cw eye trauma#eye trauma cw#tw eye trauma#eye trauma tw#eye horror#(<- not really horror but just to be sure)#eye stuff#my posts#giaffa's stuff#antiques#antique books#vintage books#old books#rare books#eyes#early 1900s#scopophobia
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help I bought a gorgeous antique faux-pearl, onyx, and marcasite brooch with my initials on it
but I can't share it here
because. it has my initials on it.
#antiques#first world problems#things very rarely have my monogram or initials. and while I'm not a Classic Southern WomanTM in that respect#I do enjoy finding it in the wild!
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A Skull-Shaped Cane Knob Ivory, circa 1900
This is the handle of a cane. When used for walking, the tongue sticks out and the eyes roll into one of three positions - looking up, looking down, or completely white.
#skull#skull art#skull collecting#skeleton art#cane#cane knob#antique cane#antiques#antique#carving#walking canes#cane handle#artwork#art#halloween#macabre#antique art#tongue#eyes#rare#unique#canes#folk art
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