Paper with a Secret
Not everything is what it appears to be at first glance...
Chromolithography, Undergarments
France: c.1890. A cheeky April Fools Day card die-cut to resemble a skirt that, when opened, reveals a fold-out pop-up...
Price: $125.00
Playing cards, Whist, Movable Paper, De La Rue
London: De La Rue, c1850. An interesting take on the whist counter. Consists of four (4) die-cut pieces. Two back...
Price: $325.00
Paper with a Secret, Novelty Valentine, Women, Love and Friendship...
124 Cheapside, London: F. Passmore, [1890]. A single fold lace paper valentine titled "The requisite Contents of a Ladys' Dressing...
Price: $650.00
Love and Friendship, Lace Paper, Octavo, Windsor
1840s-1850s. A 6 7/8" x 4 3/4" intricately cut lace paper of elaborate garden scene with a man and woman...
Price: $100.00
Shadow Puppets, Lithography
Paris, France: Lith. St. Aubin, 1860. A rare book of shadow puppetry with eighteen (18) plates lithographed by St. Aubin...
Price: $550.00
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"...
Price: $2,700.00
Love & Friendship, Original Watercolor, Folk Art, Eternal Knot of...
c1840s. A 6 1/2" x 10 1/2" hand penned and watercolor eternal knot of love with a continuous intersection verse...
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...
Price: $500.00
Pantin, Colombine, Jumping Jack, eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera...
This listing is an uncut Colombine (Pantin), Imagerie Pellerin, Imagerie D'Epinal No. 1344. Published by Pellerin of Epinal, France. c....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $825.00
transportation, steamship valentine, eclectibles, valentines, honeycomb, open-out valentine, paper dolls...
An embossed, die cut, fold down, 10 3/4" by 6" four tier valentine card. Once opened you can see the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $950.00
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...
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...
Price: $450.00
Rebus, Pictogram, Advertising, Puzzle, Education
A collection of 29 different rebus puzzles found in ephemera of everyday life. Rebus puzzles are used to catch the...
Price: $1,750.00
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...
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...
Price: $95.00