Curio Cabinet.3

 

Curio Cabinet.3

Another curio cabinet view from Monsieur d'Eros Selavie's collection of books, ephemera, photographs and objet d'art; Paris, 2015. Starting from the lower left corner: lenticular, gurning face photograph, Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago 1933; miniature French photographs album circa 1900 filled with erotic images; brass tube, light refracting viewer, circa 1890s; die-cut lithographed eye, circa 1900; American pin-back button, circa 1910; circa 1910/1915 travel books in background; (along top edge) circa 1880s picture strip for praxinoscope; (along right side) pill box; pin-back buttons; American pin-up cigarette lighter, circa 1940s; die-cut clown scraps, circa 1915; circa 1910/1915 travel books in background; (book in center) La Silhouettes a la Main by R.Theo, Paris circa 1900.

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Curio Cabinet.2

 

Curio Cabinet.2

Another view through a glass cabinet case in Monsieur d'Eros Selavie's collection. On display are a variety of images and objects including (clockwise from the bottom left): five volumes of miniature books filled with photographs of German actors and actress, circa 1920s; real photo postcard of a German actor, circa 1930s; Odd Fellows fraternity pin with red ribbon, circa 1910; travel books in the background; miniature, hand-made, collaged artist's book, American circa 1980s.

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Curio Cabinet.1

 

Curio Cabinet.1

Seen through a window of one of the curio cabinets in the collection of Monsieur d'Eros Selavie, Paris circa 2015. On display from left to right: Japanese teacup with risque image on bottom circa 1960s; erotic, French mechanical, hand-made from celluloid and painted, circa 1920s; (behind) circa 1920s, Art Deco styled porcelain half-doll with arms away; Le Livre Noir French surrealist periodical circa 1950s featuring the Eiffel Tower; (in front) French postcard circa 1910 showing samples of miniature, wax, couture dolls; (in front) green, erotic, ceramic phallic pipe, origin and date unknown; embroidered Spanish postcard of St. Lucy, the patron saint of sight (note eyes on tray), circa 1940s; (in front) erotic Japanese female figurine holding her large breasts, circa 1920s and at the far right: small, primitive sculpture of a couple in embrace, origin and date unknown; repurposed plastic Barbie doll painted and posed by French Artist, Mirka Lugosi circa 2010; mini photo album of erotic photographs circa 1890s.

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