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Ritual Dagger, 17th century or earlier, Eastern Tibet, Kham region. Gilt copper alloy and rock crystal.

Beware the Ides of March 🔪

TRAVEL DESK SET

Ivory, Malachite, Silver-gilt

1849

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN 

The set comprises one twin-bottle inkstand with central bowl, one velvet covered letter box with key, one velvet covered blotter, one paperweight cast as a dragon, one inkwell shaped as a turret with dragon finial, one bell with carved ivory handle, one pen rest, one chamber candlestick with a cast dragon handle, one tapering vase, one paper-clip with a cast dragon, two photograph frames, one candle-snuffer and one paper-knife.

Carl Holsøe (1863-1935) 

A Lady reading Music in an Interior

The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche, 1866

John William Godward

British, 1861-1922

An Offering to Venus (detail)

this bracelet came with the original letter 

addressed to ’ pet ‘ 

christmas 1884.

the dude who invented the rule about holding hands during a seance after noticing he’s sitting next to the guy he likes: oh haven’t you heard?