Beautiful 1930s Art Deco Aquarium Up For Grabs On EBay

By Leonard Ho

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Description from the eBay listing:

This is a beautiful Jewel “ART” Aquarium manufactured in the early 1930’s in the arts & crafts style. Jewel was the prominent manufacture of art deco and other unique style aquariums during the deco era of 1920-30’s. The company was sold in the 1940’s and there aquariums were of a much simpler style after this time period.

What is unique about this aquarium is it was the only cataloged Jewel tank that was “special order” only and you could request the style of stained glass “light boxes” you wanted on each end or in the case of this aquarium you could have beveled glass with a simple design on the front glass. In a conversation with the son of Hans Jensen (original owner of Jewel) he said they made 5 of these aquariums at the most. The aquarium itself is made of heavy iron with a thick marble base. The two stained glass sidelights light up of course and this aquarium sits on an it’s original Jewel stand. All the glass and metal is original to …read more

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