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“Irish mail” type manual movement car. First half of the 20th century. Traction vehicle that consists of four wheels, a single seat, a control in front to activate the gear and two levers (one on each side, one acts as a brake and the other is related to movement) and an acetylene headlight in front. The front axle is foot-operated for cornering. It is very similar to vehicles known as “Irish Mail”, which derived from the dresines or skunks that were used on the tracks in the construction and maintenance of railway tracks. According to another theory, these same cars, especially when they were not used on the tracks, were called the “Irish Mail” car. See, for example, children's examples from the AC McClurg and Co. catalogue; another company's 1938 Irish Mail Deluxe Racer; or with the 1920 Ben Hur Racer Irish Mail hand-car.
· Size: 150x63x73 cms
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Ref.: ZF0732
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Set of six pillars. Carved wood, stone base. India, 19th century. Row of six carved wooden pillars that have capitals at the top and carved stone bases at the bottom (these are grouped in pairs). The shafts have three different sections (square, polygonal and spiral) and a relief decoration along them, formed by plant elements, lines, simple architectural motifs, smooth areas, geometric shapes, etc. The capitals present in their composition and decorative elements a certain memory of Western classicist forms. This type of architectural elements were, for example, very often used in “haveli” (urban residence or traditional mansion) in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, with the usual differences according to geographical area, date and taste. of the owner, but also in other notable buildings. Stone bases: 28x56x27 cms.
· Size: 169x25x213 cms. bases piedra 57x29 cms
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Ref.: AB002
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Eastern door. Carved wood, bronze nails. XIX century. Two-leaf door with a frame enhanced by carved moldings towards the edge (the sides, downward, are reminiscent of bases of Indian columns), which also has an upper space decorated with a cross carved in triangles and fan shapes. the sides of it. The doors are decorated with carvings of strong European influence and have decorative and functional bronze applications or nails.
· Size: 118x33x243 cms Luz 90x194 cms
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Ref.: Z0627
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Set of four oriental columns with modern bases. Carved wood. Twentieth century. Four carved wooden columns with modern bases that have a faceted shaft and bands with fine reliefs at the top, and are topped by capitals with simple decoration and square boards. They present a similarity in some details of the shaft and the bands of reliefs under the capitals with the columns of the Haveli of the known Neasden Temple in London, and it is possible to find others from Gujarat (India) with similarities in shafts and the bands of the upper part of them.
· Size: 41x35x248 cms.
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Ref.: Z0985
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Columns. Carved stone. 19th-20th centuries. Carved stone columns symmetrical in their bases and capitals (formed by different smooth moldings), with grooved shafts and decorated at their ends with shapes that resemble leaves, resembling certain elements of ancient Egyptian architecture. These types of elements were highly appreciated for notable houses. 4 units available.
· Size: 51x51x199 cms, / 46x46x188 cms.
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Ref.: AC051
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Armor. Metal, leather, textile. Spain, 20th century. Adult armor inspired by ancient models, consisting of a helmet, gauntlets, etc., with textile elements. Note the openwork elements and, above all, the decorations in light relief based on vegetal scrolls, volutes and figurative motifs of strong heraldic influence. Weight: 33kg.
· Size: 70x55x195 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1130
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Two-leaf door with frame, and wrought iron hardware. Soria pine wood and walnut panels, wrought iron. Century XVIII. Two-leaf door with a simple frame decorated with carved walnut wood panels, thus contrasting in tone with the frame and enhancing the composition of a large rectangle interspersed with two small squares placed side by side. The frame is simple, as is usually the case with this type of pieces, and also has flanges and wrought iron fittings. The conservation of these construction elements is not common, given their purely utilitarian purpose and their replacement by more modern ones as soon as tastes change or when the old ones deteriorate.
· Size: 148x212 (Hoja 61x202 cms.)
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Ref.: Z2655
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Oak wood clothes press, Holland, 19th century. Clothes press with locked cabinet at the bottom made of oak wood in Holland. As is normal in these utilitarian elements, it lacks decoration, and was used to smooth clothes. It is not common to preserve this type of objects because they were very frequently discarded once better technical innovations became accessible. Oak wood was chosen for its construction due to its hardness and resistance.
· Size: 76x52x171 cms.
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Ref.: Z0368
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Oak wood clothes press, Holland, 19th century. The press stands on four turned legs (three of them secured with a straight chamfer), with a drawer underneath. Being a purely utilitarian piece of furniture, it hardly has any decorative elements. The oak wood used in its manufacture was chosen for its hardness and resistance, since these presses were used to smooth the clothes as much as possible.
· Size: 72x55x167 cms.
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Ref.: Z0369
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Iron corbels. 19th-20th centuries. Set of three iron corbels used in some notable residence, decorated with scrolls, lines and other elements that could link the pieces with Neoclassicism, but that also present a somewhat more modern air. The polygonal finials located under the two facing volutes at the top are reminiscent of certain elements of the East, while the composition can be compared to European traditions.
· Size: 42x17x49 cms.
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Ref.: Z1015
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Pulpit grille. Wrought iron. Century XVIII. Wrought iron grate with thirteen bars with double pear and discs in their shafts, arranged in a circle with flat bars of the same material (circular and cross combined at the base for a firmer hold, and arranged in a circle at the top), which would have been created to surround the pulpit of a church, accessible through a door created with the same grille (one of the balusters allows part of the grille to rotate). Although balustraded shapes were already used in Baroque grilles, the present composition refers more to 18th century Neoclassicism models.
· Size: 100x100x110 cms.
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Ref.: Z1045
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Fire truck or motorized sprayer. EC Flader from Jöhstadt, Germany, around 1920. Motorized sprayer designed to be pulled by horses from the firm EC Flader of Jöhstadt (name partially visible on the rectangular label on the front of the device), with a folding compartment and space for machinery in the rear area, moved with two spoked wheels and which has With vertical bar to be fixed to the ground when used. This type of machinery was used by firefighters, usually in cities, and the present example is known to have been used, for example, in 1925 in Wellsdorf.
· Size: 130x230x145 cms.
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Ref.: Z1009A
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Fire truck or motorized sprayer. EC Flader from Jöhstadt, Germany, around 1920. Motorized sprayer designed to be pulled by horses from the firm EC Flader of Jöhstadt, with a folding compartment and space for machinery in the rear area, moved with two spoke wheels and has a vertical bar to be fixed to the ground when used. This type of machinery was used by firefighters, normally in cities, and the present example, if indicated, is known to have been used in 1925 in Wellsdorf.
· Size: 340x142x125 cms.
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Ref.: Z1009C
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Still. Copper, iron handles. XIX century. Alembic with a flared copper body, a cap on the top with the usual piece in these objects and a simple support to place the device on the fire. It has four iron handles to move it. Used to carry out the distillation process.
· Size: 80x80x125 cms.
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Ref.: Z3694
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Barber chair. Iron, porcelain, etc. Triumph, Spain, around the beginning of the 20th century. 1 units available. Iron barber's chair, with a footrest highly decorated with plant elements and the name of the firm that had the patent, with a mesh seat and backrest and a headrest in red textile, matching an area next to the footrest. It is very possible that it is a copy of the Gran Lujo Nº1 model, which was manufactured in Spain under a foreign patent in 1910, and one of the most appreciated in Spain.
· Size: 79x110x120 cms.
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Ref.: Z3939
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Washing machine. Metal, etc. SKRAT, model P-7, Leonard Ryznar, circa 1945. Metal washing machine with an electric motor which would drive a circular container (that moves the clothes, a “drum”), with a water intake at the bottom to the right and with several valves and levers, as well as four legs with a circular base to better rest on the ground and prevent, as far as possible, the machine from moving when it was in operation. Leonard Ryznar (or Rýznar) was the founder of the Skrat company, which made several models similar to the present one, very popular among those who could afford them in certain areas of Europe in the 20th century. As indicated on the device itself, it is the P-7 model, produced around 1945. Towards the beginning of the 19th century, several “machines” were developed for washing clothes, consisting of a wooden box in which the clothes were placed and a manually operated system that moved them. Another variant were those that had a drum in which the clothes were pressed to wring them out. Electric washing machines were not created until the beginning of the 20th century (in 1904 these appliances were already advertised in the United States; apparently, the first in Europe appeared somewhat later), becoming a mass appliance from the late 1940s to the beginning of the the 1950s, and in Western Europe developed into an everyday appliance from around 1960.
· Size: 96x64x82 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0413
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Flat octagonal box with key closure and decorated with magnificent marquetry. On the lid, the plant decorative elements are organized around a central motif of great delicacy; On the sides, a band with symmetrical plant elements has been arranged under another band of very elegant and simple geometric motifs, so as not to eliminate the prominence of those. The motifs on the box are reminiscent of Boulle-type marquetry for their delicacy and design.
· Size: 53x53x18 cms.
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Ref.: Z0516
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Anatomical model of the skeletal system. Around 1950. On a square base and held upright with a metal rod stands the skeleton, an anatomical model of human bones widely used since the 18th century in the Faculties and Schools of Surgery, Medicine, etc.
· Size: 35x35x160 cms.
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Ref.: Z2676
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Empire style frame. XIX century. Rectangular frame with a gold finish in Empire style decorated with a fine relief decoration with a vegetal and architectural theme, of clear French influence, distributed in the bands of which the piece is composed, leaving the widest one plain with the decorative elements in the center of the sides and in the corners.
· Size: 127x169 cms. Luz 142,5x101,5 cms
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Ref.: Z3975
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Fire hose cart. Possibly, towards the first third of the 20th century. Two-wheeled cart to carry the hose, normally pulled by the firefighters themselves when in use, which also has a box in front to store tools, heads and metal parts for use with the hose, and another auxiliary hose .
· Size: 220x130x102 cms
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Ref.: Z1009B
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Brazier box in mahogany wood, 18th century. The box stands on claw-shaped legs with balls, with a circular profile and decorated with mixtilinear skirts in the lower part and nails with plant elements in the upper part. In the central hole is the charcoal container, which has two handles decorated with scallops. This type of furniture was widely used in houses as a heating system or to purify the air (burning olive pits), varying in its typology and decoration according to the importance of the family.
· Size: 87x87x20 cms.
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Ref.: Z0446
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Chapel. Walnut wood. XVII century. Chapel for a private oratory made of carved walnut wood and decorated with architectural elements of classicist inspiration (split triangular pediment, moldings, etc.) but with a clear relationship with the Baroque, in addition to certain touches reminiscent of Italian examples (particularly the columns with the carved undulations). The importance of classicism and the predominance of a simple architectural composition was common in Spanish Baroque altars, along with other more exuberant ones.
· Size: 80x14x115 cms.
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Ref.: Z0607
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Two bronze candlesticks. Twentieth century. Two practically identical bronze candlesticks with a triangular base on legs (these with plant elements ending in claws holding balls) and a vase-shaped shaft ending in a disc from which the piece for the candle starts. In some details it is reminiscent of baroque examples from the 17th century, while in others it is more similar to later examples. This mixture of styles was common in 19th century art. Weight: 12kg.
· Size: 21x20x63 cms.
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Ref.: Z0413A
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Ewer with container. Enameled porcelain. Mortiz Zdekauer, Altrohlau, Czech Republic, late 19th century. With marks on the base. Ewer and tray set decorated with bands with floral plant elements in bright blue, red and gold tones. The center of the ewer presents a female figure, present in numerous works in the factory and painted by hand, which may have been made by an artist named Asti. The tray shows two other tondos with female portraits, following the same style. The marks on the base identify the piece as a work made in Moritz Zdekauer's factory in Altrohlau (today in the Czech Republic, but formerly belonging to the Habsburg Empire). It was in operation between 1884 and 1909, changing the brand to MZ Altrolau from this date, continuing its work until 1945, being nationalized after the Second World War, continuing under the name Starorolsky Porcelan Mortiz Zdekauer.
· Size: 48x8x42 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0023
