Yes, he was a real character--his estate is now a park and his house was the one used in Fantasy Island:
Their peacocks (and peahens) drift into our neighborhood all the time and they are a mess. Beautiful, but a mess!
Beautiful pieces, Jon! I also have a deco mantel clock, with two flanking vases, by a French sculptor called Thomas François Cartier (no relation to the jeweler). It is on a 70's deco revival bookcase. The items were meant to go on a mantel but are under my TV.....
My very favorite Are Deco...
Here are a few Art Deco watches and a travel clock which is effectively a pocket watch with a swivel stand.
None are particularly valuable--the silver Vertex is worth a bit--but I love the deco numerals.
Lovely watches! I have several (dozen) the oldest being the verge fusee movement type, all the way to current. I rarely wear them but I do alternate watches to hang in this silver cobra watch stand where I can see them:
It is French, silvered bronze set on a marble base. Currently up for...
Classic Caron Pour un Homme from 1934. I first smelled it years ago in a shop on the Rue d'Antibes and thought--wow, that smells really old school and really French. Wearing it now I feel the same way. I may have to get out my Bleu de Travail and a striped tee underneath. Pernod, anyone?
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