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friendship album, lithography, hand colored lithography, art, watercolor, pencil, ink sketch, music
England: c 1830-1850s. An artist's scrap book filled with over fifty (50) pieces of original art work and hand colored lithography and other pieces. What makes this scrap book a unique find, is the consistent fine quality of the work within. Some of the hand-colored lithography is so expertly done.....
Price: $675.00
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
Childhood Ephemera, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, S & C
Germany: Socolu, (S* C) No. 407, c1930s. An 8 1/2" x 6 1/2" litho on pressed board box titled "Little Friends" with acute accents instead of dots on the "i"s. Cover illustration depicts children at play, with one child particularly protective of her doll as others look on. Includes three.....
Price: $250.00
Trade Catalogue, Visiting Cards, Address Cards, Social History
Clintonville, CT: Clinton Brothers, [1880]. A twofold or 6pp brochure with an illustration of the two brothers promoting their "Fashionable Visiting and Address Cards" Special attention will be paid to orders by mail Content includes pricing information for Centennial Chromo, Illuminated Chromo and Water Cards, Glass, Embossed Mourning, French Enameled.....
Price: $225.00
commonplace book, religion, diary, weather, courtship, daily life
New York: 1868. A wonderful commonplace book of Augusta Maria Ward Bissell, who lived in Warwick, MA. This commonplace book is a small pocket diary for the year 1868. While each entry is short, normally consisting of a few brief sentences, the details Augusta Ward chooses to record about her.....
Price: $325.00
advertising, classes & movements, temperance, medicine, patent medicine, Dr. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters
New York, NY: R. H. McDonald & Co., 1874. An almanac which also served to promote the temperance movement and advertise for the patent medicine known as Dr. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters. The bitters were promoted as being "free from alcohol" and served to purify the blood and cure a......
Price: $175.00
Children as Advertising Pawns, Patent Medicine, Dr. Miles, Paper Dolls
Elkhart In. Dr. Miles Medical Co., 1902. A 20 3/4" tall die-cut easel back paper doll depicting Dorothy (Dolly) Quincy holding a bottle of Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine. The reverse introduces Dolly,the future wife of John Hancock and of course promoting the various Dr. Miles with brief narratives and a......
Price: $450.00
German People's Part, DVP, Political, Nazi
Hamburg, Germany: Muhlmeister & Johler, c1930. A political poster for Deutschen Volkspartei (DVP), otherwise known as the German People's Party, a German political party that was the successor to the National Liberal Party. DVP was founded in 1918 and was a "right-wing liberal" party. It was eventually dissolved in 1933.....
Price: $250.00
trade cards, window shades, wall paper, eclipse
c. 1932. Two of the trade cards are actually made of wall paper, while a second two display wall paper designs. A fifth is constructed of and advertises window shade material. The final is a card with a tinted lens for viewing a solar eclipse (Aug. 31, 1932) advertising wall.....
Price: $175.00
Made by Hand, Love and Friendship, Paper with a Secret
[1880]. A 2.25" x 2.25" hand made "cobweb" or "beehive", an applied scrap of a cherub holding a bird anchoring the fringed pull and adorning the sliced paper cover. When lifted it exposes two women who are obviously friends; one is doing needlework. Reverse is blank. Token of love or.....
Price: $225.00
Engineering and Design, Steam Engines, Elevators
New York, New York: Leonard Atwood, Builder of High & Low Pressure Steam Engines and Safety Hoisting Machinery, 1870s. Bifolium (10.25" by 8") with illustrated advertisement for Leonard Atwood, Builder of High & Low Pressure Steam Engines and Safety Hoisting Machinery on first leaf, company letterhead on second leaf with.....
Price: $225.00
Engineering and Design, Water Power
Baltimore, Maryland: Bolgiano Water Motor Co., 1894. Printed receipt (5.5" by 8.5") acknowledging the sale of a gas iron from the Bolgiano Water Motor Company of Baltimore, Maryland, to the Hendrick Manufacturing Company of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Depicts a clever water-powered sewing machine in upper left-hand corner of the receipt, powered.....
Price: $150.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Social History
Germany: c1850. A 7 1/4" litho on heavy stock paper doll with his original stand and eight (8) costumes and seven (7) hats. The costumes and dolls are colored lithograph with eggwash enhancements. His costumes reflect the affluent lifestyle and times of the young boy of the day. They include.....
Price: $650.00
advertising, women's history, beauty, make-up, Lady Claire Face Powder, face powder, product sample, business history
Toledo, OH: Lorenz & Co., [1887-1890]. A small collection of four (4) pieces of materials relating to Lorenz & Co. a perfumatory and maker of cosmetic products in Toledo, OH. The first item in the collection is a small envelope housing a product sample of Lady Claire Face Powder, which.....
Price: $150.00
Ships, Manuscript, Drawings, Transportation
c1928. A hand crafted paper book with 24 leaves. It includes 10 watercolors of ships throughout the ages from the first log canoe to a 1920s passenger liner. Each full page watercolor is accompanied by an informational narrative. The center of the book includes a center-fold of a printed illustration.....
Price: $575.00
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
Childhood Ephemera, Made by Hand, Anthropomorphism,
UK: 1861. Heavy stock hand constructed covers with book tape spine. Concertina style. Inscribed Jan 28th T.H.E.A. A continuous roadway with anthropomorphic animals of all shapes and types enroute. The final two pages are the "fair" with only the vendors remaining with a progression of animals with various means of.....
Price: $1,100.00
Music and Arts Camps, Music Education, History of Maine
Oakland, Maine: New England Music Camp, 1939-1955. A grouping of ephemera related to the New England Music Camp spanning the years 1939 and 1955, including five (5) printed programs (each approx. 6.25" by 4") and one (1) photographically illustrated advertising brochure (9" by 6", pp. [12], in original printed wrappers).....
Price: $175.00
Whimsy, Fantasy, Printing
Orange NJ: Orange Volksbot Print, 1884. A 4 1/2" x 7" heavy stock used (end removed) ticket for the Orange Maennerchor Grand Masquerade Ball, held at Library Hall, Main Street. Ticket price was $1.00. The illustration is a playful scene with reveling masked gents behind a giant mask being ticket.....
Price: $350.00
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
International Friendship,Tolerance Through Play
United States: N.G.Y., 1910s. A scarce grouping of twelve (12) uncut paper dolls, each of a different nationality and performing its own "native dance" and encouraging international friendship and tolerance. Each doll has at least two outfits that slip over their heads with accessories and hats. All are girls, and.....
Price: $300.00
Promise Box, Inspiration, Bible Proverbs
Philadelphia, PA: Hebron Tract Society, [1916]. A 4" x 5" x 1 1/8" lidded paper covered box with printed label on top. It reads "Exceeding Great and Precious Promises" Thy Words were found and I did eat them Jer. 15:16. TAKE ONE AND REPLACE. When opened it reveals rolled paper.....
Price: $225.00
Patent Medicines, Treatments and Cures, Women's Health, Victorians, Mental Health
London and New York: W.H. Hooker & Co., 1880s? Illustrated Victorian booklet advertising patent medicines under the umbrella of Dr. Acker's English Remedies, which claim to treat and cure everything from consumption to "depressed feelings and the thousand ills to which the [female] sex is subject" (p. 15). The booklet.....
Price: $150.00
Salesman's dummy, Patriotism, American Holidays, Decoration Day
Chicago, Illinois: Merchants Publishing Co., 1888-1890. A grouping of three (3) Decoration Day Souvenirs ranging in date from 1888 to 1890. Two of the souvenirs are "Presented with compliments of" local businesses in Thompson, PA, and Nashua, NH; the final example is a salesman dummy with "Your Name and Address.....
Price: $350.00