Movable & Novelty
Multiplication, Paper Slide, Early Learning
Chicago: The Simplicity Co., 1908. A 3 1/4" x 6" card folder with an image of a schoolmaster pointing at 13x13=? on the black board with 3 perplexed and 1 "bright" child ready with the answer. He holds the Lightning Multiplier in his hand. The right end of the card.....
Price: $175.00
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
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 the viewer pulls gently on the bottom of the vase. It begins, "Awake! awake! it is the day you first beheld the sun..." Inscribed in pencil to verso, "Elizette Dec.....
Price: $100.00
Marionette, Articulated Paper Doll, Movable Toy, Paper Playthings, Childhood Ephemera
London, Printed in Bavaria: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. A 12" x 8" embossed die-cut marionette of articulated paper doll comprised of three parts. The doll is wearing the traditional red riding hood. At first view her arms are tucked behind her cape. When the green string on the reverse.....
Price: $200.00
pig, movable, world's fair, chicago world's fair,
Chicago: Wig-L-Rol, 1934. A fun piece of souvenir created for the 1934 Chicago World's Fair by the company Wig-L-Rol. This item depicts a smiling pig, wiggly on top of a barrel. The item is made of cardboard with a window cut out in the center. If one holds it up.....
Price: $125.00
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 of a woman in her undergarments. The printed message inside reads (loosely translated): "First of April. When you take off your petticoat, I already find you pretty; but take off.....
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 to back slides of diamonds and spades with two octagonal pieces that also move to mark the specific card. Each piece slides independently. Each slide marked De Le Rue &.....
Price: $325.00
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
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
transportation, steamship valentine, eclectibles, valentines, honeycomb, open-out valentine, paper dolls, vintage paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, children's books, early 20th century valentine, valentines with children
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
Humorous Moveables, Paper with a Secret
United States: 1890s. A moveable depicting a gentleman in a top hat, who jumps back in alarm when a tab is pulled and an arm pokes out from the bushes holding a glass of what appears to be iced tea or lemonade. A humorous and well-designed moveable. Chromolithography on embossed.....
Price: $75.00
Concertina Book, The Night Before Christmas, TNBC,
c1900. A 12 fold concertina book. Illustrated wraps. Picture book with rhyming verse, with a storyline similar to The Night Before Christmas. A brown coat St. Nicholas and dwarfs cutting down Christmas trees and driving St. Nicholas' sleigh. Measures 2 1/2" x 3 7/8"
Price: $175.00
childhood ephemera, greeting cards, get well cards, activity books
Chicago: Whitehall, 1950. A colorful illustrated folder with side clasp depicting fairy tale and anthropomorphic characters. Two sections within each containing six (6) books and envelopes. The set includesThree clowns of Yetti Putti wishin' book / Rob Fink ; illustrations by Eoina -- Poncho the elephant wishin' book / Rob.....
Price: $125.00
Movable book, children at play, anthropomorphism
Amsterdam: Mulder & Zoon, 1955. Illustrated paper cover with fold-out die-cut boat attached to the inside of the back cover. The profusely illustrated story book depicts chilldren at place recto and children in water scenes verso. The boat from the back cover an be overlayed on each of the water.....
Price: $150.00
Children of the World, International Friendship, European Heritage
United States. Dorothy K. Weeblow, 1951. A charming interactive children's book emphasizing international friendship and cultural heritage. The story revolves around six children from European countries (England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway) who are traveling across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The young reader is asked to help.....
Price: $125.00
Zoo Animals, Interactive
New York, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. A very charming interactive children's book starring Mr. Luke, a harried zookeeper who needs help putting the animals back in their cages at the end of the night. Each of the eight die-cut animals, ranging from "Trunko" the elephant to "Humpo".....
Price: $125.00
Akron: Saalfield, 1930. An 11" x 12" die-cut polka-dot cat wheeled toy with grommeted wheels. NO. 946 Illustrated by Fern Bistel Peat. Interesting book construction with the cat opening about half way to expose a the actual book. The book measures 5" x 12". The tale of this anthropomorphic stuffed.....
Price: $75.00