Childhood Ephemera & Books
Masquerade Ball, German American Social Club
New York City: 1882. A 6 1/2" x 4" used (stub removed) masquerade ball ticket. The ticket provided admission to a masquerade ball at Terrace Garden, , February 20 [882]. The ticket is printed in German. Whimsical costumed revelers with one fellow swinging on the drapery cords. Reverse is blank.....
Price: $425.00
German Tokens and Valentines
Germany: 1861. An embossed and chromolithographed token of friendship card, featuring a small leaf in the center secured with silk cord, and a small wax seal. Dated 20 February 1861, it has lines of verse in German on the front in ink manuscript, and another several lines on the verso.....
Price: $85.00
Made by Hand, Original Artwork, Folk Art, Watercolor, Women
United States: c1900. An elegant and well-heeled Edwardian paper doll rendered in original ink pen and watercolor, together with nine (9) accompanying dresses and six (6) matching hats. A young girl's dream paper doll, she is dressed in her blue ribbon-lined undergarments and has her golden locks pulled back into.....
Price: $325.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York: McLoughlin, 1892. One sided printing. 4 3/4" cut paper doll with with five (5) d dresses and no hats. Also includes a portion of the envelope front. Top section with the name of the doll has been cut away. Note the original doll only had four costumes. The.....
Price: $125.00
Women's History, Social History, Paper Dolls, Newspaper Supplements, Fashion & Costume
Boston: Boston Herald, 1895. It began on March 24, 1895 with the publication of the 11 3/4" litho on card blonde paper doll with the following message on the reverse: The Boston Sunday Herald will issue, each Sunday, a Fashion Plate Supplement which will be in the very latest style.....
Price: $900.00
Dentistry, Dental Products
New York, New York: Curtis & Brown Mfg. Co., Ltd., c.1900. Uncut paper doll advertising a medicinal tooth powder, Brown's camphorated saponaceous Dentifrice". This is listed as "one of seven Costume Dolls of All Nations". This example is the "English Girl", dressed in a neat blue and white frock with.....
Price: $225.00
dictionary, foreign language, phrase book
Germany: Leipzig, Schmidt & Gunther, c1930. 1072 pp.cloth covers, red fore edge pages. 21 plates including frontispiece. Miniature book. A 1200 word dictionary and phrase book that translates English to Danish to Norwegian. The last 100 pages or so act as a phrase book. Giving translates for numbers, common phrases.....
Price: $135.00
German learning
New York: American Tract Society. 160 pp. Blind stamped, gilt brown cloth hard cover, illustrated, entirely in German. Begins with the alphabet, an illustration, the upper and lower case letter than a biblical verse, other items include the small and large alphabets, the vowels, simple syllables, and short stories. 6.....
Price: $18.00
Entertainment,Opera,Social History,Paper Dolls, Costume and Fashion, Pretend Play,
[1845]. This boxed set with elaborately decorated applied water color hand finished paper label is for Austrian-German opera star Marra Vollmer depicted at the center of the label. The content includes a 7.5" die-cut card stock paper doll with eight (8) elaborate costumes and headdresses. The costumes depict her various.....
Price: $6,500.00
Illustrated Billheads,Mineral Water,History of Boston,Theaters
[Boston, Massachusetts]: Fairbanks & Beard, 1858. Illustrated billhead for Fairbanks & Beard, dealers in "Mineral and Soda Waters, Porter, Ale, Cider, and Brown Stout". Made out in ink to a Mr. Wm. Almey for the sale of soda water, dated Feb 28th, 1858. The billhead depicts the famous Howard Athenaeum.....
Price: $125.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Paper Playthings, Childhood Ephemera
London (Printed in Germany): Raphael Tuck & Sons Co., Ltd, Pat. Feb 20, 1894. Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Paper Playthings, Childhood Ephemera A 10" x 6" double-fold box with center opening on reverse with embossed illustration of Little Red Riding Hood. A 9" die-cut paper doll with attached head. The.....
Price: $325.00
Children's Illustrations, Perrault, Adaptations, Morals and Cautionary Tales
London, England: Darton and Co., 1840s. A scarce edition of fairy tales in verse for children with hand-stenciled illustrations, published by Darton and Co. It features adaptations of the following tales: Little Red Riding Hood; Blue Beard; Cinderella; Little Thumb and the Ogre; Puss in Boots; Whittington and His Cat;.....
Price: $100.00
Social History, Telegram, Love and Friendship
1950. The brightly colored telegrams are congratulations on the marriages of Jean Pier Stockhelm to Laura Jane Spooner of Memphis and a second wedding, that of Nicole Fraipont to Michael Stockhelm. Also includes wedding pictures, children's pictures from the 1940s and 1950s. Housed in somewhat worn leather album. Measures 10".....
Price: $225.00
Articulated paper toy, articulated paper doll, jointed paper doll, whimsy, hand made paper doll
A truly fanciful fellow with a printed face,and card stock body parts that have been decorated with applied and layered polished and foiled papers. His exaggerated hat has a large applied flower. His bodice begins with pleated paper dickey and velvet bow tie; a crest is applied beneath the dickey.....
Price: $750.00
paper doll, social history, fashion
A copper engraving cut-out from the February 1872 Peterson's Magazine that has been dressed in both paper and fabric. It is captioned "Fanny's First Flirtation". Sight view 7 3/8" x 6". Housed in period frame which measures 9" x 8" When researching the image an editor's note from Peterson's reads.....
Price: $450.00
Prang, Leporello, Barnyard Animals, Pastoral
Boston, Massachusetts: L. Prang & Co., 1865. A folding accordion-style (leporello) children's book by Prang, featuring a happy host of barnyard animals including chickens, ducks, a horse, pigs, and a night-hawk. Advertises children's books and Valentines by Prang on lower wrapper. Measures 4.25" by 2.75" folded, approx. 4.25" by 31".....
Price: $450.00
religion
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. 31 pp. Applied marble cover, frontispiece. The story of a group of boys and the devastating effect that can occur when not obeying the gospel. OCLC: 2 (9/7/2016) 5 3/4" x 3 3/4" inscribed, some wear on cover, foxing.
Price: $25.00
Paper Dolls, Culture and Ethnicity, Social History, Pretend Play
c1840s. A set including two (2) single-sided 6 3/4" female paper dolls and eight (8) costumes depicting regional variances from various nations in Europe. Each of the costumes is lithograph with an egg wash finish. Also includes a 6" x 8 1/2" sheet depicting all eight costumes, again with egg.....
Price: $1,400.00
World's fair, business history, American dream, finance, loan
Chicago, IL: Household Finance Corporation, 1933. In 1933 Chicago hosted it second World's Fair in forty years, and it was called "A Century of Progress". It was held at the lake front from June 1st to November 1st in 1933 and May 26th to October 1st in 1934. The 'Household.....
Price: $135.00
Handmade Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Victorian
1880s. A 7 " well executed handmade papers depicting a fine Victorian lady along with her three costumes, 3 hats and night jacket. A formal white gown, appearing as a wedding gown, and two additional day dresses. Loop tabs on reverse of costume slide over the paper doll to keep.....
Price: $350.00
Paper Dolls, Made by Hand, Pretend Play, Marie Antoinette, Women's History
c1900. An elegantly designed 6 1/8" handmade watercolor paper doll in the style of Marie Antoinette and her eight (8) elaborately detailed costumes, six (6) with accompanying hats. Predominantly court dresses; one is "playing a guitar". Reverse is blank. "Marie Antoinette paper dolls - Costumes copied from portraits and paintings".....
Price: $1,500.00
Made by Hand, Overlay, Fashion & Costume, Women's History
1820s. A finely executed watercolor of a Regency era women with 14 intricately detailed watercolor overlays. Each character is identified by the artist at the upper left. They include Tyrolise A Peasant of Lucerne Consimiere de Bernes Bas Breton A Dutch Peasant A Chinese Lady Joan of Arc A Dutch.....
Price: $5,800.00
Original Artwork, Unpublished, Manuscript, Watercolor
United States: 1940s. A rather remarkable manuscript children's book rendering of the story of Snow White, with stunning original watercolor artwork. Watercolors of Snow White and/or the Dwarfs adorn each page. The manuscript is comprised of five thick leaves of large card, perhaps manufactured for albums, secured in the left-hand.....
Price: $750.00
Domestic Arts, Women's Education, Textiles and Fiber Arts
Scranton, Pennsylvania: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, 1915-1923. A grouping of five (5) booklets published by the Scranton, Pennsylvania-based Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences. The booklets were produced for its students, with each focusing on a different facet of sewing, dress construction, or tailoring. The booklets.....
Price: $175.00