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Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Advertising to Children, Premium, Coffee
Toledo OH: Lion Coffee, Woolson Spice Co., c1992. This series of picture story cut-outs or paper dolls each have 4 pieces that when constructed create a scene from a "Nursery Rhyme", depict the activities of an "Occupation" or a room in a "Doll House", all with children in adult situations.....
Price: $1,800.00
Manuscript], Odes & Sonnets
A series of correspondence from Samuel R. Wiley, San Francisco, CA to Silas Leach, Wilkes Barre, PA. Each of the Odes and the Sonnet are penned in a lovely hand with calligraphy embellishments at the top. Some with red and black borders. Philosophical and thought provoking works by an octogenarian.....
Price: $550.00
Calligraphy, Autograph Collecting
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin: 1877-1899. Autograph album of Miss Anna Allen, later Mrs. Flint c.1891, including Victorian scrap, calligraphic flourishes, and two rather fine gouaches of wildflowers. Oblong 12mo (4" by 7"), approx. 120 pp., about half-filled with contemporary ink inscriptions ranging in date from 1877 to 1899, in original green.....
Price: $175.00
Autographs, Calligraphic Drawing, Riverhead NY
Riverhead, Long Island: c.1878. The autograph book of Addie [Raynor?], resident in Riverhead, Long Island, New York c.1878. Includes a very fine calligraphic drawing by Usher B. Howell done in ink and gilt; Howell would go on to be President of the Riverhead Bank. Four leaves of loose autograph leaves.....
Price: $275.00
Childhood Ephemera, Picture Puzzle, Architecture for Children
1900: Germany. Four (4) different litho on wood jigsaw picture puzzles (Two puzzles printed on both sides). What makes this particularly interesting is that the pieces can also be used to create the architectural elements noted on the inside of the box lid. Housed in a wooden box. Also includes.....
Price: $375.00
paper doll, social history, fashion
A copper engraving cut-out from the February 1872 Peterson's Magazine that has been dressed in both paper and fabric. It is captioned "Fanny's First Flirtation". Sight view 7 3/8" x 6". Housed in period frame which measures 9" x 8" When researching the image an editor's note from Peterson's reads.....
Price: $450.00
Childhood Ephemera, Love & Friendship, Kid Gloves
New Jersey: 1894. A pair of 6" what appear to be kid skin gloves send to little Louise Wood from "Idoll" in Dresden, Germany. The accompanying note reads "My Dear little Louise! Take this little pair of gloves to Mamma and have her see how they fit. Louise, If they.....
Price: $400.00
Veteran Association of Hartford City, Menu, Social History, Historical Memorabilia
Four (4) different menus for the annual dinner of the association. Each menu with the first being January 8, 1868 includes the Officers, Music, Bill of Fare and Programme of the Evening. Each menu measures 8 3/4" x 6 1/4". Each with it's original envelope. Also includes an announcement for.....
Price: $550.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Religion and Sex Education,American Perceptions of Purity and Virginity,American Temperance Movement,Women and Temperance
United States: c.1900. Four (4) sex education pamphlets for teen girls and their mothers, promoting purity and abstinence. None actually address the subject of sex, but each vaguely gestures towards it, using terms such as “The Great Learning”. Published by religious groups, the pamphlets align sexuality with deviance, and encourage.....
Price: $400.00
Female Friendship, Victorian Albums, Civil War-era Albums , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Lebanon, Pennsylvania: 1857-1865. Friendship album of Miss Emma J. Thorne, filled with inscriptions of poetry and prose from her friends and family between the years 1857-1865. Begins with a dedication page from Augustus Wedekind explaining the intention of the friendship album - recording of memorable sentiments and events. Notable for.....
Price: $325.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Childhood Ephemera, Social History, Women's History
New York: Clark, Austin & Smith, 1858-1860. A 5 5/8" tall paper doll. The arms, head and upper torso are color printed, the remainder is blank by design. She holds a folded fan in her hand. Four (4) elaborate hand finished costumes and one shawl. With original envelope. Story with.....
Price: $400.00
Letters Patent, Woodcut, Women's Work
New Becker Washing Machine. A 19" x 11 1/2" Letters Patent broadside announcing the transfer of patent with an illustration of a young girl operating the New Becker Washing Machine (So easy a child can do it...) Unused document with decorative border design. Reverse is blank.
Price: $275.00
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
Pop-up Book, Jumbo,
New York: McLoughlin Bros. A single-fold pop-up book with applied litho depicting a family of giraffes grazing in nature. When opened the two-tier pop-up reveals jumbo rearing with a parrot swinging on a perch. The startled countryman waives his umbrella at the elephant. The printed verse on the base page.....
Price: $450.00
Prisons,Healthcare and Imprisonment
Washington, D.C. Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, [1953]. First edition of an overview of the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, one of only a few institutions "dedicated solely to the purpose of caring for the diseased and broken bodies and minds of offenders against the law".....
Price: $225.00
Psychology, Psychological Experiments, Psychology and Pedagogy
New York and Chicago: Henry Holt and Company, c.1908. Housed in the original printed envelope, this item is comprised of thirty-nine (39) individual slips of colored paper produced to be used in conjunction with Carl E. and Robert Holmes Seashore's "Elementary Experiments in Psychology" (Henry Holt, 1908). The book contains.....
Price: $150.00
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
Original Art, Made by Hand, Baby Book
May 26th,1890. 12 leaves. vellum, bound with braided silk tie. Cover reads "Baby's Book" With quote at top "each day sees some rare unfolding of the sweet young life, the dawning of a new intelligence" from A Child Shall Lead Them. Elaborately penned with watercolor illustrations. The next page is.....
Price: $900.00
Overlay, Metamorphosis, Made by Hand, Social History
France: 1830s. A 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" watercolor bust of a women - side profile on a 9 1/4" x 7 1/8" card stock. This is accompanied by fourteen different overlays of costumes for women ranging from high fashion to region costumes. Intricate designs, all with hats. The hats.....
Price: $2,700.00
Perpetual Calendar, Advertising Continental Insurance
New York: Ferris & Brown, 1866. An 11" x 10 3/4" ornately decorated perpetual calendar promoted by Continental Insurance Co. The design includes a double volvelle with a grommet at center. The smaller or green wheel is the days which are exposed through the day of the week holes. They.....
Price: $450.00
Judaism, Weddings, Celebrations, Chatunah
Germany: c.1900. Movable pop-up card made from embossed die-cut chromolithographed Victorian scrap, pink silk cord, and folded tissue paper. Depicts a traditional Jewish wedding, or "nissuin", with the happy couple and family underneath a "chuppah" (wedding canopy), surrounded by doves, against a backdrop of bright blue flower garlands in the.....
Price: $250.00
Health and wellness, herbalism, treatments and cures, constipation, Exoticism, Imperialism, Racism, Stereotypes
Washington, D.C. Alonzo O. Bliss Medical Co., c.1933. Illustrated advertising bifolium (7.25" by 5.75") with order blank and original envelope for Bliss Native Herbs, a medication for the treatment of constipation. Includes sections on how the medicine works, where it comes from, and guarantees for its effectiveness. Cartoon characters are.....
Price: $160.00
Printed on Tissue Paper, Advertising
Youngstown, OH: c1880s. A 10" x 7" advertisement printed on tissue or very thin laid paper. Promotes large and well assorted stock, best goods made into perfect fitting garments,etc. Asian occupational and mythology themes. Reverse is blank.
Price: $200.00
WWII, Pearl Harbor, Patriotism
United States: 1940s. A round military patch commemorating Pearl Harbor made in the 1940s from beads, lace, and wool fabric sourced from a service member's wool blanket. The beads spell out the phrase "Remember Pearl Harbor", with concentric red, white, and blue stars in the center. Made by hand by.....
Price: $500.00