(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Sèvres porcelain is French hard-paste, or true, porcelain, as well as soft-paste porcelain. Sèvres porcelain was known for centuries in France as the Porcelain of the Kings and the King of Porcelains [Le Roi des Porcelains et Le Porcelain des Roix]. It was made at the royal (now [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)To keep one’s fingers from being plagued with nicotine stains and to add some decorative style and class to smoking, the cigarette holder was invented and became a popular fashion accessory. A cigarette holder is a slender tube in which a cigarette is held for smoking. Most frequently made [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Since ancient time, hair combs have been prized pieces of possession and have even been considered as jewelry for the hair. Hair combs are also universal pieces of culture for every country in the world. For centuries women have been adorning their long hair with exquisite hair accessories, from [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)In the middle of the 19th century the supply of ivory became insuficient to meet the demand. In 1868, Hyatt Bros. of Newark, New Jersey produced a composition resembling ivory in texture and color, and called it celluloid, a colorless synthetic plastic made by treating cellulose nitrate with camphor [...]
