.: Maureen O'Sullivan - "Dancing On A Rainbow" (1933) :.

.: German Art Deco Desk Clock :.

Just a little advertising piece for "Nordische Holzgesellschaft mbH", the company doesn´t exist anymore.

.: Jugendstil Picture Frame :.

Very beautiful brass Statue holding a Picture Frame, 14'' tall, weights about 4 pounds.

.: Alarm Clock "Le Metric" by JAZ :.

.: Lee Morse - I'm An Unemployed Sweetheart (1931) :.

Lee Morse (November 30, 1897 — December 16, 1954) was an US Jazz and Blues singer and songwriter whose most popular years were in the 1920s and early 1930s, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954. Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied the fact that she was merely five feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds. Among her best known trademarks was her yodeling (!). Morse was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway (source: Wikipedia)

.: French Bakelite Alarm Clock by Japy :.

.: Jugendstil Carafe from 1906 :.

Here is a very fine ceramic bathing pitcher with a brass figural mermaid handle.  We found her in a little shop along the trail back from exploring Burg Karlstein, southwest of Prague in the Czech Republic.

.: JAZ Alarm Clock "Le Romic", 1931 :.

.: French Mantle Clock by Vedette :.

Societe Fabrique de Horlogerie la Vedette built mainly quarter chime wall clocks from 1920's up to the 1960's, but they also build mantle, longcase, gallery (dial), and electric clocks. The dual chime (Ave Maria de Lourdes and Frere Jacques) chime mechanisms were patented in 1930. In the 1940´s a more compact mechanism was introduced, to suit the smaller cases that became popular at the time.

.: Tin Box for Tea or Coffee from Germany :.

The Box is marked: "MERKUR - Kaffee-& Tee-Spezial-Geschäft"

.: Alarm Clock by DEP, 1930´s :.

Durée, Elégance, Précision - durability, elegance, precision - the marketing words used in DEP clocks advertisements in the 1920's and 30's. The brand DEP came from the family name Dépéry who were well-established clockmakers as well as clock parts manufacturers and flourished between 1826 and 1954. With the downturn of the early 1930's falling into a full-blown economic depression, the retail market in many sectors collapsed and clock makers were no exception. People simply did not purchase non-essentials. DEP tried to weather the storm by producing more utilitarian alarm clocks. But the competition for the utilitarian clock market was fierce and finally after WWII, the clock brand DEP disapppeared completely. (from sushi´s blog)

.: Lalique Art Deco Automotive Mascots :.

The chronologer of vintage photography and style, Retronaut, features a selection from the catalogue of RM Auction Houses of Florida of these exquisite so-called automobile mascots produced by Lalique from 1925 to 1932. I suppose this exceedingly rare series could not quite qualify as hood ornaments, as I think none would have weathered the elements or traffic so well, but maybe as dashboard ornaments, they were the more elegant predecessors of nodding-headed figures and fuzzy dice.