My art nouveau box with ginkgo leaves – 19th

Delicately art nouveau silvered pewter box with ginkgo biloba (maidenhair tree) leaves and nuts, circa 1890.

Other similar boxes

Art nouveau bronze box with blue enamel decorative on top and side. Item was purchased by Mr. Neal A. Prince, architect and interior designer, in Zagreb Yugoslavia.
Ginkgo biloba and Art Nouveau in Prague

Ginkgo biloba and Art Nouveau [...]

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My WMF curling tongs and curling tongs spirit heater, c. 1900s.

Many devices have been used to curl, wave, crimp or straighten the hair.
Some used heat, such as the curling tongs on display which would be placed
over the small spirit burner in order to heat them.
WMF MARKS

WMF – ostrich mark
I/O (Normal thickness of gilding or silver-plating, i.e. one gram of deposited silver spread [...]

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My WMF copper inkwell

ART NOUVEAU / JUGENDSTIL
WMF (Württembergische Metallwaren Fabrik)
COPPER INKWELL / INK STAND
GERMANY, ca. 1890 – 1900
MARKED WITH THE EARLY WMF STRAUSS MARK.
The German factory W.M.F. produced some of the most elegant and evocative metalware in the ART NOUVEAU style from the beginning of the 20th century until the start of World War I.
The Wurttemberg [...]

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