New Arrivals
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women and Friendship,WWI Veterans
England: 1914. A sweet friendship WWI and post-WWI album inscribed "With love from Ethel 2nd to Ethel 1st For a....
Price: $325.00
Domestic Abuse in Advertising,Gender and Marriage in 19th Century America
New York, New York. J. Marett. Troubling to modern sensibilities, but revealing about gender roles and stereotypes in 19th century...
Price: $60.00
Handmade Invitation,Homemaking,Showers and Parties
United States: Medford, Massachusetts, 1930s. A creative handmade invitation inviting the recipient to a "Kitchen Shower for Gloria and Bob"...
Price: $75.00
Pop-Ups and Moveable Cards,Birthday Greetings
England: c.1879. A charming pop-up/moveable birthday greeting card depicting a large bouquet of flowers. The message inside reveals itself when...
Price: $100.00
Moveables and Accordion-Style Pop-Ups
Germany: 1880s. A most charming German greeting card with a clever mechanism: when the embossed die-cut scrap is pulled down...
Price: $100.00
Humor,Embossed die-cut Valentine,Moveable,Hand-colored, Alamanac
England: 1850s. A charming example of "paper with a secret" in Valentine form: small embossed die-cut bifolium with hand-colored scrap...
Price: $125.00
Lace paper,Ballerinas,Putti,Weeping Willow
United States: 1850s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved embossed lace paper colored with blue and pink, depicting ballerinas, putti, and...
Price: $85.00
Calligraphic Writing,Tokens
United States: 19th century. Eight (8) hand-lettered calling cards/tokens of friendship, displaying a range of techniques and artistic skill. Nicely...
Price: $175.00
Coquetry,Flirtation,Valentine's Day
England: 1840s. A humorous handmade Valentine, made from two hand-colored characters cut from an etching (a barber brandishing a razor...
Price: $200.00
Pastoral,Hand-colored etching
England: 1840s. An attractive hand-colored etching depicting a gentleman with a rapier stopping to admire the beauty of a young...
Price: $300.00
Nature,Valentine,Lace Paper,Hand-coloring
England: 1850s. An attractive 12mo-sized Valentine by the maker Meek, using lace paper which has been lithographed and hand-colored. The...
Price: $65.00
Lace Paper,Flora,Embossed Scrap
England: 1850s. An attractive octavo Valentine with intricately produced lace paper, depicting wild roses and lace surrounding a young couple...
Price: $125.00
Manuscript,Love Poetry,Valentine's Day,Pastoral
England: Mullard, 1860s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved octavo-sized Valentine, featuring gilt embellished lace paper, embossed Victorian scrap. This example...
Price: $125.00
Silk Mesh,Lace Paper,Embossed Scrap
England: 1850s. A fine lace paper Valentine featuring embossed Victorian gilt scrap of Cupid, a hand-colored lithographed image of a....
Price: $65.00
German Tokens and Valentines
Germany: 1861. An embossed and chromolithographed token of friendship card, featuring a small leaf in the center secured with silk...
Price: $85.00
Valentine's Day,Hand-colored lithograph
England: 1850s. Hand-colored lithographed 4to-sized bifolium Valentine (8.5" by 6.75"), with a three-stanza Valentine's Day poem underneath an image of...
Price: $110.00
Valentine's Day
United States: 1850s. An attractive Valentine featuring delicate embossed paper, yellow coloring, and a large scrap in the central oval...
Price: $110.00
Lace Paper,Winged Cupid,Holly
England: 1850s. Octavo-sized lace paper for a Valentine measuring approx. 7" by 4.75". Colored green, it features a winged cupid...
Price: $90.00
Lace paper,Valentines,Embossed Victorian Scrap
England: 1850s. A particularly fine example of embossed lace paper with gilding, for use in an octavo-sized Valentine, adorned with...
Price: $100.00
Hand lettered,Calligraphic flourishes,Love Poetry
United States: 1870s. A hand-lettered love poem "To Frederick", with calligraphic flourishes at the foot. Note the lettering, which mimics...
Price: $125.00
Punch paper,Love,Bookmark
19th century. A small green silk ribbon bookmark measuring approx. 1" by 5", with a scrap of punch paper reading...
Price: $65.00
Remembrance,Calligraphy
1843. A nice example of a remembrance token on embossed paper, "In memory of Elizabeth Frantz - Age 18 yers"...
Price: $85.00
Love and Friendship,Watercolor,Rose,Applied Leaf, Scraps
c.1850. Small embossed greeting card with applied rose and leaf, with the words "True Friendship". Measures approx. 4.5" by 3"...
Price: $75.00
Love Token,Hair,Bookmark
c.1870s. A charming token of love or friendship, make from a small scrap of silk, two locks of hair secured...
Price: $60.00