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Magic Show - Small Boy Wearing Top Hat Presenting a Magic Valentine Trick Valentine Couple Hiding under Mechanical Umbrella
Price: $10.00
Price: $12.00
Small Boy Wearing Top Hat Presenting Couple Hiding  under Mechanical Umbrella
Tuxedo, Top Hat, and Umbrella - Mechanical Young Man Carrying a Valentine Greeting Girl with Special Chalkboard Message - 2 1 I Love
Price: $12.00
Price: $14.00
Tuxedo, Top Hat, and Umbrella Girl with Special Chalkboard Message
KatzenJammer Style Valentine Card- Funny Faces with Eyes that Move Mechanical Valentine - Girl with three Expressions, Happy, Mad, and Surprised
Price: $14.00
Price: $14.00
x Girl with three Faces, Happy, Mad, and Surprised
Mechanical Valentine Girl with Baby Carriage - Come for a Ride? Dancing Dolly - Articulated Uncut Newspaper Paper Toy or Paper Doll by Dan Rudolph
Price: $14.00
Price: $20.00
Dancing Dolly - Articulated Uncut Newspaper Paper Toy or Paper Doll  by Dan Rudolph
Mechanical Valentine Girl with Baby Carriage An 11 5/8” x 17 ½” uncut color newspaper paper doll sheet by Dan Rudolph.   Copyright 1923,
Pete the Planter - Articulated Uncut Newspaper Paper Toy or Paper Doll by Dan Rudolph Margaret’s Little Brother, Bobby Butterick, September 1913 The Delineator with Bear and 2 Books to Construct
Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00
Pete the Planter - Articulated Uncut Newspaper Paper Toy or Paper Doll  by Dan Rudolph Margaret’s Little Brother
An 11 5/8” x 17 ½” uncut color newspaper paper doll sheet by Dan Rudolph.   Copyright 1923, A jointed or articulated magazine paper doll from the September 1913 The Delineator.
The Jointed Paper Doll Family by Carolyn Chester, Jean’s Young-Lady- Sister, April 1913 Articulated Jack Rabbit, a New Cut-out Toy By Dan Rudolph, 1932 Newspaper
Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00
The Jointed Paper Doll Family Articulated Jack Rabbit, a New Cut-out Toy By Dan Rudolph, 1932 Newspaper
The Jointed Paper Doll Family Series by Carolyn Chester was found in The Woman’s Magazine in 1913. An uncut anthropomorphic articulated paper rabbit by Dan Rudolph
Mechanical Valentine Girl Going Fishing for Men or Fish? Set of Mechanical Valentines - Girl Polishing her Nails, Boy Brushing his hair. Is this a Valentine Date?
Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00
Valentine Girl Going Fishing for Men or Fish? Girl polishing her Nails, Boy Brushing his hair.
Valentine -Two Mechanical Bonnet Girls with Dresses, Bowes and Secret Messages Mechanical Hat Valentine Dandy -Tuck
Price: $20.00
Price: $22.00
Valentine -Two Mechanical Bonnet Girls with Dresses Mechanical Hat Valentine Dandy -Tuck
Uncut Lion Paper Toy Kitchen Klenzer Circus 1932 The Dancing Chinaman—An Amusing Cut-Out 1909, A Jointed Paper Doll
Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00
Uncut Lion Paper Toy Kitchen Klenzer Circus 1932 The Dancing Chinaman—An Amusing Cut-Out 1909, A Jointed Paper Doll
Unpunched premium for Kitchen Klenzer by Fitzpatrick Bros. Inc - Lion. An uncut 9 ½” x 14 ½”newspaper comic sheet with a jointed paper doll to cut and construct.
Mechanical 'Copper' #14 Looking Tough on Valentine’s Day - I want to COP your Heart Uncut Zebra Paper Toy Kitchen Klenzer Circus 1932
Price: $25.00
Price: $30.00
Uncut Zebra Paper Toy Kitchen Klenzer Circus 1932
Mechanical Copper #14 Looking Bad Ass on Valentine’s Day Zebra - Kitchen Klenzer by Fitzpatrick Bros. advertising premium cut out.
Mechanical Valentine Magician with Parrot is trying a Trick with Monkey and Mice Embossed Die-cut Paper Toys - Wild Animals - Lion Family & Hyaena
Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00
Mechanical Valentine Magician An intricately detailed little group of embossed die-cut card stock toys.  Includes a lion, lioness and two cuts, who appear somewhat docile with a nearby dish of milk.  It also includes a less then docile  hyeana who has presumably grabbed meat from the wagon.   c1900.  Light wear. The lion measures 4 1/2” x 3”.
Peterli rat! c1890s German Lotto Style Counting Game c 1900 Who Knows? A Scripture Game. Published by Milton Bradley Co. Springfield, MA.
Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Peterli rat! c1890s German Lotto Style Counting Game c 1900 Who Knows? A Scripture Game.  Published by Milton Bradley Co. Springfield, MA.
A 10” x 13” boxed game with applied litho label.  It is Peterli rat! – Lustiges Gesellschaftsspiel fur grosse u. kleine Kinder (social game for children young and old). c1900. Scripture Game of WHO KNOWS by Mrs. J. A. Thurber 1869. Biblical parlor game.
Unused Embossed Die-cut Victorian Scrap Paper Doll with 5 Parts 14" Embossed Jointed Ballerina Paper Doll L&B 2781
Price: $40.00
Price: $45.00
Unused Embossed Die-cut Victorian Scrap Paper Doll with 5 Parts 14" Embossed Jointed Ballerina Paper Doll L&B 2781
A 6” x 2 ¾” embossed die-cut Victorian scrap sheet consisting of a head and upper torso and pairs of arms and legs held together with paper ladders. A 14 1/4" jointed or articulated paper embossed die-cut Victorian ballerina paper doll.
New England Botanic Medical & Surgical Journal. Semi-Monthly. Calvin Newton, M.D., Editor and Proprietor. Vol. III. No. 9. Worcester. Printed by Henry J. Howland. 1849. Divided Proverbs, A new, Amusing, and Instructive Game for Everybody, But Especially Intended for Teachers and Students of the English, German, French and Spanish Languages. Published and for sale by The Phonographic Institute, Cincinnati, O. Copyright
Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00
New England Botanic Medical & Surgical Journal.  Semi-Monthly.  Calvin Newton, M.D., Editor and Proprietor.  Vol. III. No. 9. Worcester.  Printed by Henry J. Howland. 1849.
New EnglandBotanic Medical & Surgical Journal.  Semi-Monthly.  Calvin Newton, M.D., Editor and Proprietor.  Vol. III. No. 9. Worcester.  Printed by Henry J. Howland. 1849. 2 sets of cards--each printed in 4 languages. Set 1 is the first half of the proverb; Set 2 contains the conclusion to the proverb.
Oscar – The Film Stars Rise to Fame 1948 Henderson’s Boots and Shoes Adv. Premium “Red School House” Paper Cutout School w People Play Set c1910.
Price: $55.00
Price: $60.00
Oscar – The Film Stars Rise to Fame 1948 Henderson’s Boots and Shoes
A 1948 board game based on the Oscars from the golden age of cinema.  Game is near complete, lacking only three (3) of the 15 cardboard insert playing pieces. Perry & Co. Ltd. Henderson boots and shoes advertising premium, advertising premium, red school house shoes, paper play set, vintage paper doll
My Smallest Doll's Room - Fishery Seaside German c1930 Uncut Playset - Six Kut-up Toys – All Mechanical, illustrated by Medford Thorne. Fisherman, Sawyers, Pin-wheel, Elephant, Duck Rocker, and Tiger and Monk. Copyright 1930
Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
My Smallest Doll's Room Uncut Playset
An uncut four fold paper doll set and it's original envelope. Made in Germany 10305.  In the uncut state measures 3 1/4" x 13 1/2". Six heavy card stock mechanical toys in a paper wrapper.  Kut-up Toys, All Mechanical  for Boys and Girls, New, Novel, Durable by Mechanical Kut-Up Toy Co., Manufacturers, Los Angeles, CA.
Set of 5 Die-cut Alpine Figures with Horse & Donkey Decorated for a Festival c1900 Radio Game - Milton Bradley Fine Deco Imagery
Price: $75.00
Price: $100.00
Set of 5 Die-cut Alpine Figures with Horse & Donkey Decorated for a Festival c1900
5 different embossed die-cut Alpine figures dressed in festival attire.  All appear to be poised to dance. The women in dirndl skirts and the men in lederhosen all adorned with flowers Late 1920s boxed board game titled Radio Game, Milton Bradley Co. Springfield, MASS. No. 4625.  Fine Art Deco influenced imagery on cover litho depicts two boys in knickers listing at a large radio horn, each with a dial near his feet.  Box lid also includes silhouette people border decoration on apron.  The inside of the box lid has printed Directions.  Includes Four Counters, One Dial.   The applied litho map of the United States is the game board. The spaces are different radio stations across the country.  The  Dial is divided into four time zones.  The first player to reach Station WFAA wins the game, signing off at that station.  Condition: edge wear on box.  Intact vertical repair on apron.
Six Uncut Sheets of Characters & Scenery for Richter’s Anchor Blocks Anker-Steinbaukasten-Bilder c1880s Group of 9 Gouache Wentzel (?) Paper French Infantry Soldiers 1870s
Price: $110.00
Price: $115.00
Six Uncut Sheets of Characters & Scenery for Richter’s Anchor Blocks Anker-Steinbaukasten-Bilder c1880s
Six (6) different sheets of characters and scenery to be used with Anchor Building Blocks. Anker-Steinbaukasten-Bilder, Nine (9) gouache paper soldiers Believe to be French Infantry Soldiers. c1870s. Most like printed by F. Wenzel
McLoughlin Bros. Game of Bear Hunt Board 1870 Mechanical Valentine w Hidden Maiden—Pull the tab and Maiden Appears c1880s
Price: $125.00
Price: $130.00
McLoughlin Bros. Game of Bear Hunt Board 1870 Mechanical Valentine w Hidden Maiden
The front has an applied label depicting a bear and cubs in the woods with a hunter in the tree. A mechanical friendship card or valentine – woman appears in window when cherubs “tug” on ribbons.  c1880.
Little Leprechaun Valentine Mechanical Marionette Toy - Raphael Tuck Unpunched Boxed Set - Puppet Parade - “The most Fascinating and Beautiful Toy in Existence”, Reed Toy 1943
Price: $175.00
Price: $200.00
Valentine Marionette - Leprechaun
An 11" x 9" embossed die-cut mechanical marionette paper toy by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Ltd. An 18” x 12” x 1 1/2” box containing “ Puppet Parade - The  most Fascinating and Beautiful Toy in Existence” A Reed Toy, Paper Products Division,  Electric Coproration of America,  Copyright 1943.  The set includes A t22” high x 25” wide x 18” deep Puppet Parade Stage with 12 different acts and scenery for each.  The 25 characters include The Terrific Trio, Mr. . and Mrs. Bones, Pete and Repete, Midnight Masters, Comrade Borscht, Han ‘n Eggs, Smoothie Smith, Shirley Screech, Professor Discord, Madame Lotta Song, Honeybelle Lee and Henry Highpitch..  Lacking one sheet - Honeybelle Lee and Shirley Screech., otherwise complete including promotional paper wrap on box.  Some wear.   There is also an instruction sheet for assembly and narratives regarding the characters and a play.  The characters  as designed in various forms and would be of interest to those who collect mechanical paper.  Some have articulated joints, others movable eyes, “3-d” bodies, etc.  Quite a charming set.