Paper with a Secret
Not everything is what it appears to be at first glance...
Shadow Puppets, Lithography
Paris, France: Lith. St. Aubin, 1860. A rare book of shadow puppetry with eighteen (18) plates lithographed by St. Aubin in Paris. Each plate depicts a pair of hands arranged to create a cast shadow in the shape of an animal or a face. Examples include: "Sanglier" ("Boar"); "Écureuil" ("Squirrel");.....
Price: $550.00
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An embossed, 7 1/2" x 8" die cut, open-out love birds, 'wedding wagon' with several tiers. The first tier has a wheel with 3 love birds. Inside the wheel are two love birds with forget-me-nots in the shape of hearts. The second tier has a some roses with a love.....
Price: $55.00
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
Love & Friendship, Original Watercolor, Folk Art, Eternal Knot of Love
c1840s. A 6 1/2" x 10 1/2" hand penned and watercolor eternal knot of love with a continuous intersection verse committing one's affection. Of particular note in this love knot is the paired illustrations in the central grid. They include pairs or couples; a man and a woman, hands, hearts.....
Price: $725.00
Panorama, Concertina, transformation, Lord Mayor
Seven Dials, W. C. W. S. Fortey. When closed measures 4 1/2" x 6". Paper wraps. Opens out to an 80" hand colored procession with the Lord Mayor concluding the procession. Created in four sections and glued together.
Price: $500.00
Pantin, Colombine, Jumping Jack, eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines, documents, correspondence
This listing is an uncut Colombine (Pantin), Imagerie Pellerin, Imagerie D'Epinal No. 1344. Published by Pellerin of Epinal, France. c 1850. The French Pantins of the 17th and 18th centuries were another form of paper doll. Usually published on sheets with six parts to each paper doll or "jumping jack".....
Price: $70.00
Pop-up Book,Nister
London: Nister, 1896. Introduction by E. Weatherly and black and white in-text illustrations by E. S. Hardy. Fanciful cover illustration "The Queen of the Bird Fairies', originally from book "Peeps into Fairyland". Verses include Pantomime Picture, Billy Amos, Hero.,A Little Boy's Pocket, The Other Donkey, Pussycat Street, How the Letter.....
Price: $875.00
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
Stereoscopes, Optics, Paper with a Secret
New York, New York: W.T. Georgen Optician, c.1910. Illustrated tri-fold pamphlet advertising the Perspectoscope, a kind of stereoscope that purports to "Double the value of the Camera" and "make its pictures look like the real object" (i.e. three-dimensional). Includes a photo of a child looking through the scope exclaiming, "Oh.....
Price: $150.00
Pop-up Books, Chromolithography, Children's Tales, Childhood Friendship
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co. A charming illustrated children's book of poetry and prose with four (4) two-page pop-up spreads depicting: a farmer and son plowing a field with horses; a sleeping child among a gentle flock of sheep and lambs; four children playing.....
Price: $825.00
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An embossed, die cut, fold down, 10 3/4" by 6" four tier valentine card. Once opened you can see the bright red honeycomb located under the pair of dove birds sitting on a climbing rose bush. To the left is a young girl holding a basket of flowers. In front.....
Price: $50.00
playing, juvenile
USA: Whitman, no. 2032. 16 pp, concertina style book applied litho on board. Brown cloth tape bind, printed on both sides. Googly-eyed children in the style of Grace Drayton children depicted in daily activities e.g. playing, reading, and boating. Measures 10" x 8", opens to 10" x 64" Cover wear.....
Price: $225.00
Penny Dreadful, Mechanical, Paper With a Secret
London: R. Canton. An 8" x 5" hand colored lithograph with women looking askance at a strutting gent. His head and mustache can be moved from side to side with a mechanism on the reverse. It is captioned "Tis a sort of thing a fellow can't understand, That when he.....
Price: $125.00
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
Pop-up, Wedding Toasts, Paper with a Secret
New York, New York: Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, 1892. A cleverly designed pop-up card chromolithographed by Donaldson Bros., advertising Emerson's Bromo Seltzer. Includes popular wedding and celebration toasts on the outside, and within, a gentleman with a pop-up arm raises his glass alongside the slogan: "Let us have wine and women.....
Price: $125.00
Paper with a Secret, Cobweb, Beehive, Love and Friendship
1847. A single fold quarto hand stenciled valentine that appears to be a lovely vase of flowers with a decorative border. Upon closure examination The vase lifts as a cobweb or birdcage to expose the temple of hymen with an eternal flame at top. A verse flanks the vase and.....
Price: $750.00
Puzzles in Advertising
Carrollton, Illinois: C.E. Underwood's Bakery and Confectionary, c.1900. A delightful puzzle and premium, printed on card and used to advertise C.E. Underwood's Bakery and Confectionary. The directions are as follows: "Place a penny (or any other small article) on any star, move it along a straight line to an opposite.....
Price: $110.00
Paper with a Secret, hidden message, mechanical paper
At first glance one sees an artfully executed watercolor stem with leaves topped by blue and yellow polished paper pinwheel flowers. Upon close examination one sees that the flowers open to display a different hand penned answer beneath each of the petals. The reverse explains this Victorian key to one's.....
Price: $450.00
dance, rumba, flip book, arthur murrary,
Bromo-Seltzer, 1940s. A flip book produced by the Bromo-Seltzer Company in conjunction with Arthur Murray, the American Dance instructor, in order to teach the dance know as the Rumba. Each page as a photograph and corresponding instructions, so that when you flip through the book, you can see the dance.....
Price: $65.00
toy, sand toy, sand, milk, cow, dairy,
Paris, France: 1890s. This paper toy depicts a woman on one side milking her cow and a little girl drinking milk at the table on the other side. Both the little girl's glass of milk and the stream of milk produced by the cow are tissue paper with a capsule.....
Price: $95.00
Raphael Tuck, Frances Brundage, mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine, victorian valentine, ephemera,vintage paper dolls, eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines folk art,
Raphael Tuck & Sons. A 7 1/4" x 5 1/2" embossed, die cut, fold down valentine with a hidden secret. The soldier dressed in his uniform is giving his girl a basket with a verse 'to My Heart's Dearest.' If you pull down the basket top you can see a......
Price: $90.00
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A die cut, fold down, 10 1/2" x 12" valentine steam ship ready to set sail. The light color honeycomb represents a dock and looking through the honeycomb is blue water with scrap bouquets of flowers. The sailer boy is waving goodbye to his loved ones. He has roses in.....
Price: $65.00
Moveable Book
NY: Stephen Daye, Inc., 1945. Spiral bound litho on board. Includes five (5) tab operated moveable plates- a soldier, a queen (crone) a princess and gold in a tinderbox. All mechanisms work well. Measures 8 3/4" x 7" slight wear on cover edges.
Price: $125.00
Trinket Box, Chocolate Box, Childhood Ephemera
1880s. A 3 3/4" x 3 1/2" paper covered pressed board box with applied litho of a young fair haired girl on the cover. Within are eight (8) small boxes each with a portion of the cover litho applied as though the boxes were a puzzle. Although the boxes could.....
Price: $325.00