Section
Curiosities & Oddities
The strange and specific: ethical taxidermy with documented provenance, Victorian mourning ephemera, mechanical fortune tellers, wax anatomical models, and objects too odd to catalog elsewhere. All acquisitions come with a chain-of-custody note where one exists.
Subcategories:
Taxidermy & specimensPaper & ephemeraCabinet of curiositiesVictorian mourningMechanical & automataclearShowing 2 of 2 in Cabinet of curiosities
Curator’s pick
MS-CU-1009
Pre-1900
Narwhal tusk fragment with scrimshaw whaling scene, c. 1860
A 9-inch fragment of narwhal tusk, engraved with a whaleboat scene and inked in the manner of mid-century American scrimshaw.
$2,200
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MS-CU-1010
1900-1950
Oversized anatomical teaching model of the human eye, c. 1930
A German pupil-teaching model of the human eye, roughly ten times life size, disassembles into seven hand-painted parts.
$540
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