Shopping at Two Graces Vol. 9: Vintage Curios and Antiques

Dec 16

Written By Two Graces Plaza Gallery 68 St. Francis Church Plaza

This post is inspired by our recent inclusion in the Taos News Tempo section "Wish List". The response of which has been tremendous, everyone here in Taos has seen it and comments about how wonderful our items looked in the local newspaper keep coming our way, so thank you Taos News and the people who work so hard there.

I post these items from our store Two Graces to show you the range of the curios we carry. We also carry vintage Pueblo Pottery from New Mexico and Arizona, Vintage Fred Harvey Jewelry, Contemporary jewelry from local Taos craftspeople, and Kachinas (as you can see from the many blogs about them).

We specialize in rare and out of print books of the southwest, New Mexico, Taos, Native American, Art, Photography, Hispanic Authors, herbal, flora and fauna, and spirituality/religion. The books are sold in the store and on Amazon.com under TwoGraces and ThePlazaGallery, where you can find in the amazon search engine our inventory.

We are also a local oriented Art Gallery featuring the artwork of proprietors Holly Sievers and Robert Cafazzo.

As you will see from the photographs, we have a lot of great merchandise.

Large Mary Witkop Micaceous Clay with horsehair with handle and spout signed Ranchos de Taos, small highly polished Mary Witkop micaceous pot with horsehair

Lalique style crystal bowl and American pottery

Vintage Altamira Bison Cave Painting souvenir dish

Porcelain Deer on turquoise painted base SOLD

For the dog lover Chalk Shepard, Bonzo terrier at fire hydrant, 2 pair Salt and Pepper Shakers small and Bonzo Dogs

Vintage Homer Laughlin Harlequin, various pieces, some Fiestaware also available

A great deal of the turquoise Harlequin has been sold to a family in Australia!

We expect to soon have more... ...and much more has arrived in Yellow, Blue, Turquoise and Dusty Rose.

Bright orange set of espresso cups and saucers

Vintage Salt And Pepper Shakers Donkey, Apple, Pear, Cactus, Mickey Mouse, plastic Cats

Vintage Frozen Charlotte dolls some pairs, some singles

the 2 pairs of indian boy and girl have both SOLD

Vintage porcelain Wedding Cake Toppers, (we had them on all the tables at our wedding many years ago)

Neon Blue Pepsi Cola sign

Philadelphia Eagle Bronze sign with great patina

assorted Flower designer frogs

Candles and candlesticks, Vintage Nambe pair,

(fancy candles and small tin 'flower' candlestick pair SOLD)

Copper Bowls Miners slug copper handmade lucky cover dish, 1930's era Fred harvey Copper bowl, hand hammered kidney shaped copper bowl

Vintage Fred Harvey Copper Bowl ca. early 1930's with cloud and rain stamping, extremely RARE

Glass Quarter Moon Decanter bottle, Quarter Moon Cake pan SOLD

Assorted Vintage Cookie Cutters and madeline mold tins in Box (Sold)

Vintage Biscuit Tins or Cookie Tins (Pure Lard Tin SOLD)

Metal Horse, Eagle (large or small) Welsh Door Dragon SOLD, Buffalo Nickel dish, Water Sprite statuette, Angel Matchstick holderSOLD

Vintage Windmills Handmade rusty arty one by Alan Hart

These are the LAST of the old stock Tin Nicho Frames

Tramp Art Crown of Thorns Frame (near perfect) with tin type of man with hat holding dog which has slightly blurred from moving during photo exposure SOLD

tri colored Painted Tramp Art Frame for Tin Types, and pair of Tram Art Frames

Small Tramp Art Frame, reproduction Tramp Art Frame, Wall Pocket Tramp Art, Very early New Mexico Tin Frame, Tin Wall Candle sconce

Hand Made early Maple Salt Box, Black Forest Bear Knick Knack Shelf

Shallow relief carved prancing deer plaque from the Charles Reynolds Estate

Handmade small Felix the Cat shelf with tin work

The Angel San Raphael by Anita Romero Jones, purchase at Santa Fe Spanish Market ca 1990, standing on Tramp Art Shelf with heart details

Jim Wagner House Angel, hand carved and painted, rare and beautiful SOLD

Vintage and new Prison Art, Lamp, Heart topped box, large and small heart frames, standing Cross, pair of baby booties, made from old cigarette packages and gum wrappers, true prison art!

pair of Memory Jugs larger one from Northwest coast with shells, smaller one with broken crockery pottery and the eye...

Vintage Black Americana Bottle Cap Chip and dip Figures (the one to the far left is SOLD), there's also a butlers brush

Bottle Cap Art 2 large chain links, Bottlecap snake, bottlecap basket

Vintage Art supplies and ledger books

Vintage taxidermy Birds, BlueJay in scenic box, small wren, and South African Turquoise feathered bird

Crystal Rock Bookends, and TinTin And Snowy Bookends extremely Rare

Vintage Globe Banks, Old Atlas of the World book, and map of Arizona/New Mexico SOLD

Selection of Vintage Donkeys, the 2 in the center, art deco one to the right are SOLD

A selection of Vintage Bird items, the woodpecker is metal and picks up toothpicks from his perch

Vintage Putz Cows (the 3 cows to the front right are SOLD), and large Bull Hand carved and signed

Vintage Leopard Jaguar Folk Art from Mexico (Dancing Jaguar SOLD)

Jaguar Artist piece

Jumpin Jack carved toy and cut out toy

Vintage Handmade cutout wooden Mickey Mouse and Popeye Folk Art

Vintage Crocheted Mickey Mouse and Sunrise Kachina, seated in an Adirondack Twig Chair (signed)

Sock Monkey El Marriacchi SOLD

Leah Benau Shaker style Cat Doll handmade by a local Taos craftperson in a willow chair

Lost Glove critters by Rebecca Sievers each one of a kind

Bear Sculpture, light weight concrete casting

3 Acoma Pottery owls, 2 are SOLD, one left, Wooden Owl by Dan O'Hagan

Wind-up Donkey, Bear and Duck on a bike tin toy, squeak toy Scottie Dog with remote battery control

Poosh Clown Pinball game SOLD

Andy Warhol Superstar Collectible 'action' figures MIB

All Vintage, Pair of Mom and Dad Skookum Dolls with Baby, Pair of Boy and Girl Bully Good Skookum dolls Mint in Box, Pair of nesting dolls in felt cradle, 2 mini baby Skookum Mailers

Skookum Dolls 1930-1950's (Snookum, Bully Good) some with shoe labels some with plastic shoes

2 pair of Vintage Navajo Dolls and 3 Vintage Navajo Zuni style Pincushion Dolls

Selection of Vintage Indian Curios: wooden bust, Cigar Store style Indian, Frozen Charlotte pairs large and small, Singing Boy and Girl, Cowboy and Cowgirl ceramic or porcelain dolls, Little Indian Boy, canoe tin toy, and Bucking Bronco Wind-up toy with box

Vintage Glass and Porcelain Curio Canoes, Tin wind-up toy canoe SOLD and 2 pincushion canoes

Vintage Birch Bark Canoe selection with porcupine quill work

Argillite Beaver Bookends pair (chipped), Japan ceramic Totem Pole, carved Steallite stone eskimo in canoe with seal on base, wooden carved Vintage Totem Poles, argillite round box with lid (chipped)