This is a unique and original beautifully hand-incised hand painted settle or bench signed and dated 1905 . This unique work of art is hand-incised using a pyrographic (pyrography) wood burned technique and then hand stained/painted on front with images of four children, tulips, pretzels, a windmill and even a stein- a family celebration! Original...

Aesthetic Walnut Serving Cabinet, “Cherubs”, With 20 finely incised inlaid panels This is an original and beautiful hand crafted and hand incised walnut wood Aesthetic period 1890 cabinet replete with twenty (20) finely incised panels and original engraved gilt brass hardware.. Each panel in this unique work of art is painted using stains and oils...

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi culture 900 AD All stone carvings from America’s Prehistoric southwest are scarce. The majority of known carved stones come from the Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures. So examples of stone carvings from the Anasazi culture (circa 900–1300 AD) are rare especially human forms which are the...

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy stone pipe, woodland period, 2500 BP Formerly in the Harold French collection, Amboy, Indiana (photo) All stone carvings from America’s early history are scarce. Human effigy stone carvings such as this pipe example rarely come on to the market and are considered to be desirable. This pipe is likely unique...

This is a beautiful 12 inch high hand made, hand carved old wooden Folk Art Birds house- handmade in great detail with two pairs of carved and painted birds sitting atop a bird house . It is also executed in hand finished wood burned art – pyrography- and pencil signed on bottom: made by A...

              

Discovered in the estate of Walter Aigner, Taos, New Mexico, were this set of four (4) pyrography plaques featuring crosses.  Two are signed by J.W Fosdick.  They reportedly were commissioned for the Bishop’s House at 52 Williiams Street, Burlington, Vermont.

                      

          

            

Inscribed “This year mid summer he painted in new section of Yuan Ming Gardens”.  Panel depicts “LUK YU” a famous Tang Dynasty Tea master:  

Currently being exhibited at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont “Lotus Lodge” inscription Alice L Granbury Sept 2 ’14. Other signatures are signed and dated 1905 through 1917 and include patrons from Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania.          

                America’s earliest known dated pyrography panel   Provenance:  ex Carol and Richard Smyth collection, originally found in Pennsylvania, and featured in their book THE BURNING PASSION, p.7  Description in the Smyth book follows :  BEFORE: (refers to ealier time preceeding the invention of advanced platinum points and tools)...

American artist Dr. Norman W. Kingsley (1829–1913), called the Father of Orthodontia, was less known for his artistry than for his dentistry. Nevertheless, his remarkable skill, innovation, and art are an integral part of everything he did. And if all of his accomplishments in dentistry and art were not enough, he is also known for...