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Pretend Play, Paper Soldiers, Military, France
France: Imagerie de Nancy, Pellerin and Reunies de Jarville Nancy, [1870]. Six (6) different 15.5" by 11.5" uncut French paper soldiers. They include the Artillerie (Artillery), Drapeaux de l'armee francaise (flags of the French army) Dragons, Armee Francaise Turco et Spahi (Regiments), Armee francaise. Artillerie (Artillery) with 170 artillery men.....
Price: $500.00
Gouache. Decorative device designs. Black, red and white. Created on blue paper. Design size 3 3/4" x 4"
Price: $480.00
Hand-Bell Ringers,Touring Acts
Bacup, England: R. Hammond, 1880s. A CDV-sized photograph mounted on green coated card with gold border, depicting a four-person "bell ringer" choir. The four men, sadly unidentified, stand proudly in a line with their bells on display. The different sizes of the bells create different pitches/notes for them to create.....
Price: $200.00
Radio Programs,Westerns and Adventures,Pop Culture,Juvenile Shows and Programs,Code Breaking
Buffalo, New York: Hecker H.O. Company Inc, c.1935. "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders" was a Western radio program for children that aired between 1932 and 1936, and again between 1949 and 1955. It followed the adventures of a 12-year-old boy who protected his ranch from outlaws. Comic books, a......
Price: $300.00
Advertising to Women,Interpretation of Dreams,Family Medicines
Buffalo, New York: Dr. V.M. Pierce, c.1930. A charming "Dream Book" issued as a marketing promotion for family medicines sold by Dr. Pierce, as well as his "Invalids Hotel" for ailing patients in Buffalo, New York. Includes a section on dream interpretation ("VIOLETS. In season, success; out of season, lawsuits.").....
Price: $200.00
Patent Medicine,Egyptian Revival,Colognes and Perfumes,Language of Flowers and Precious Gems
Boston, Massachusetts: Joseph Burnett & Co, 1879. A handsome booklet advertising patent medicines by Joseph Burnett & Co. of Boston, featuring a colorful Egyptian Revival style illustration on the front. Includes lists of the languages of flowers and precious stones, postal rates, a yearly calendar for 1879, and advertisements for.....
Price: $150.00
ABC Books,Animals in Children's Books,Chromolithography
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1899. A scarce and attractive McLoughlin Brothers "ABC" book, themed around "Comical Pets". Inside are fourteen pages of alphabet rhymes accompanied by in-text chromolitho illustrations of playful anthropomorphic animals. There is also an alphabet page, and spelling lessons ranging from two to six letters.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Victorian Travel and Tourism
New York, New York: Thomas Cook & Son, 1879. Vol. 29, No. 10 of "Cook's Excusionist", a serial devoted to domestic and foreign travel edited by the "Tourists and Excursion Managers" Thomas Cook & Son of London and New York. The serial appears to be advertising heavily towards a newly.....
Price: $475.00
Medicine and Pharmaceuticals
Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association, 1908. Program for the second annual meeting of the West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association, due-cut in the shape of a medicine bottle. Includes: a list of officers and committee members; a detailed schedule of events; and a list of speakers. Die-cut program.....
Price: $250.00
Land development, menu
The banquet was held under the auspices of the Tax Payer’s Association. The first page of the menu is an image from a photograph of Geissenhainer. The second page is a tribute acknowledging Geissenhainer’s philanthropy, civic interests, broadmindedness…welfare and prosperity of the community in which he dwells…” The next page.....
Price: $150.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Paper Playthings, Childhood Ephemera
London (Printed in Germany): Raphael Tuck & Sons Co., Ltd, Pat. Feb 20, 1894. Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Paper Playthings, Childhood Ephemera A 10" x 6" double-fold box with center opening on reverse with embossed illustration of Little Red Riding Hood. A 9" die-cut paper doll with attached head. The.....
Price: $325.00
Original Artwork,Friendship Albums,Love and Marriage
[Cedarville and Columbia, New York]: J.C. Riker, 1839-1845. A charming friendship album presented to a woman named Jerusha Kibby (1817-1876) the year she married her husband, Solomon Devendorf (1819-1895), in 1839. Includes ink transcriptions of poetry from friends and family full of hope her her future married life, as well.....
Price: $650.00
Illnesses and Diseases,Disease Prevention,Endocrinology
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. A public health pamphlet for the general public on Goiter, "the easiest disease to prevent". Describes what the disease is, how to identify it, and how to prevent it ("A small amount of an iodide once a week"). Iodine deficiency is the.....
Price: $150.00
Valentine, Love & Friendship, Courtship, Sequins
1830. Single sheet depicts a courting couple. The women collecting a small bouquet of wheat. The oval hand colored engraving is decorated with hand stitched sequins surrounding the engraving. Reverse is blank. Measures 9" x 7 3/4"
Price: $225.00
Cruises and Sailing Trips
Printed in the Netherlands-East Indies: Albrecht & Co. Batavia-Centrum, 1933. The January 1933 sailing schedule for "Java-China-Japan Lijn", a Dutch sailing company that catered to English-speaking tourists in Indonesia from Australia and America, throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Includes a list of travel agents for booking, and a full listing.....
Price: $225.00
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Infrastructure, Railroads, Industry
Cleveland, Ohio: The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, 1900. An extensive illustrated brochure for The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, marketed as the "World's Greatest Mail Route", as well as an upscale and modern travel option for American ladies and gentlemen. Includes timetables, detailed descriptions of each of.....
Price: $225.00
Climatology, Meteorology, New England
Haverhill, New Hampshire: 1898. A letter handwritten in pencil on the back of a weather map published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, showing the upcoming forecast for Boston on Monday, August 8, 1898. Includes a temperature chart and a weather map with isobars/isotherms to show changes in air pressure.....
Price: $150.00
Hand-colored Valentine, Love and Friendship
[United Kingdom]: 1840s. Lithographed Valentine with hand coloring, depicting a handsome couple against a rural countryside town backdrop, and with verse below: "Licensed by Valentines Saint, / Our sex on this day may reveal / The hopes, and the fears, and the plaints, / That on others they're forced to.....
Price: $275.00
Tobacco Marketing, Celebrities and Historical Figures, Biographies, Chromolithography
Park Place, New York: Knapp & Company, 1890s. A complete set of 48 absolutely charming miniature chromolithographed biographies, published as part of an advertising campaign for Duke Brand Cigarettes. Each was issued in a box of cigarettes in a "collect-them-all"-type marketing ploy. The complete set here includes 7 women and.....
Price: $3,500.00
Volvelles and Spinners,Fortune Telling Games
Chicago, Illinois: J.B. Carroll Co., 1923. A "Mystic Oracle" spinner that answers one of eleven questions "by wireless"-- referencing new communication technology. In actuality, it uses magnets; to work the "Oracle", one spins the volvelle inside to point to the desired question, then closes the bifolium and spins the metal.....
Price: $150.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.75. Verso blank, appears complete in and.....
Price: $150.00
Printers Proof, Pen Advertising, Gladiators
New York: Meyer, Merkel & Ottmann. A 5 5/8" x 4 3/8" proof for Aikin Lambert & Co. New York. Logo in upper left corner "Pen is Mightier than the Sword". Scene depicts gladiators in the Coliseum dueling with pens instead of sword. Layered color, almost appears as split-fountain. Gold.....
Price: $150.00
Etiquette, Culture and Grace, How to Behave
New York: Social Mentor Publications, 1920s. A 16 pp. promotional booklet title Who are the Cultured? It identifies Five Distinct Classes and where you fit in, How Much Do You Know About Good Manners (self-test), Unpardonable Table Habits, Find Seven Social Blunders committed in a picture, plus a second what's.....
Price: $150.00
Women's Fashion,Corsets and Undergarments
Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Corset Co., c.1880. A handsome chromolithogrpah handbill advertising the "Queen Bess" brand corset and skirt supporter, patented by the Worcester Corset Company in 1877 and 1880. Features an illustration of two well-heeled young ladies wearing the garments with Elizabethan-style ruffs. On the verso is a lengthy pitch.....
Price: $200.00