Art
Sewing, Fashion Design, Original Art, Painting and Gouache
France: 1930s. "Piรจces de Confection" is a completely unique, handmade book that showcases the skills of an unidentified French tailor or seamstress. Each page features one to three squares of sewn fabric; there are 32 squares of fabric in total. Each square is labeled carefully in black ink, and shows.....
Price: $1,500.00
Woven Paper, Love and Friendship, Paper Pocket
[1850s]. An intricately woven paper pocket cut in the shape of a heart with saw tooth border cuts. One side is has painted border decoration and a polka dot painted design on the weaving. The reverse has checkerboard style painting at the base with polka dot emphasis. Measures 4 1/2".....
Price: $325.00
Pen and Ink Drawing, Made by Hand, Poetry
c1880. 15" x 12" Bristolboard card with The Old Oaken Bucket done in fine calligraphy. The caption at top reads "To Messrs Doherty Bros. Respectfully Inscribed. A pen and ink drawing of a young boy dropping the oaken bucket into the well with gilt border. Elaborate floral border decoration. A......
Price: $825.00
Made by Hand, Parlor Game, Memory and Concentration
A handmade parlor game housed in a blue paper covered pressed board box not original to the set. The top card reads "Keep Your Temper". All cards have hand penned borderlines. The game consists of 15 matching sets of four designs. The designs appear to have been cut from hand.....
Price: $650.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade paper doll with original watercolor artwork of a young Victorian woman in day wear, evening wear, and outerwear, including a feathered bonnet. Original pencil and watercolor, doll measures 5.25", includes doll and 8 (eight) separate outfits.
Price: $375.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: c.1900. An elegantly rendered family of seven (7) blonde Edwardian paper dolls in day wear, including a mother, father, and five daughters ranging in age from around three to fifteen. Original artwork, pencil and watercolor on card, sizes of dolls ranging from approx. 3.5" to 7". No additional.....
Price: $425.00
botany, flowers, flower, plant, pressed flowers
England: c1900. A charming herbarium journal that can be read in two different directions. If you open the book one way, the reader finds a herbarium with 59 pressed specimens, mainly flowers, taped to the pages. When the reader flips the book and reads it in the opposite direction, instead.....
Price: $550.00
Invitation, Art Union, Newburyport
Newburyport, MA: 1859. Printed on plain paper in green ink. The ticket is No.8388 for the New England Art Union, at Newburyport, Mass, Wednesday, February 16, 1859. The illustration depicts the interior of the Art Union. Reverse is blank.
Price: $95.00
Photography] [cinematography] [motion pictures] [trade magazines
California: 1930-1937. A collection of 86 International Photographer trade magazines which focus on technical journal articles, professional design, and photographic classified advertisements and imagery. Published monthly starting with issue 1 in February and geared toward still photography, cinematography, and motion pictures. Collection consists of (listed by year): ยท 1930 (11.....
Price: $1,000.00
drawings, watercolor, poetry, poem, flower, plants, fairy tales, retellings
c1880. 68 pg journal filled with poetry and watercolors of flora. There are a total of 25 poems in the journal, as some cover multiple pages, however this is a watercolor piece on every page depicting various flowers. At times one can see the pencil the artist used to sketch.....
Price: $525.00
Kate Greenaway
London: George Routledge and Sons. 80 pp. Applied litho cover, 25 in-text illustrations, border imagery throughout, printed in color by Edmund Evans. A listing of flowers and their symbolism along with beautiful illustrations by Kate Greenaway. The last half of book has meanings with the kind of flower and poetry.....
Price: $125.00
Mt. Washington, Tip Top House, engraving, lettersheet, hotel, observatory, New Hampshire
South Hadley, MA: Carew Manufacturing Company, July 28, 1857. An unused lettersheet which features a detailed engraving of the of the Tip Top House, a famous hotel found at the summit of Mt. Washington, in Sargent's Purchase, NH. The engraving shows an active hotel with numerous men on horses and.....
Price: $85.00
religion, drawing, art by children,
c1940s. This is a handmade coloring book, depicting "The Lords's Prayer". The interior pages were created using a mimeograph, then the outlines were colored in by a child. The name Virginia is written on the back of the majority of the pages. The pages were then bound together using brad.....
Price: $30.00
Ships, Manuscript, Drawings, Transportation
c1928. A hand crafted paper book with 24 leaves. It includes 10 watercolors of ships throughout the ages from the first log canoe to a 1920s passenger liner. Each full page watercolor is accompanied by an informational narrative. The center of the book includes a center-fold of a printed illustration.....
Price: $575.00
Tobacco Marketing, Celebrities and Historical Figures, Biographies, Chromolithography
Park Place, New York: Knapp & Company, 1890s. A complete set of 48 absolutely charming miniature chromolithographed biographies, published as part of an advertising campaign for Duke Brand Cigarettes. Each was issued in a box of cigarettes in a "collect-them-all"-type marketing ploy. The complete set here includes 7 women and.....
Price: $3,500.00
Sand Painting, Lace Paper Brading, Kynges Towne
A 1 1/2" x 2 1/2" scene created using applied color sand with watercolor background. It depicts the Ecclesiastical Parish in Brading, the 'Kynges Towne'. Created on 2 5/8"x 3 3/4" die-cut card with lace paper border. Portion of sand lacking.
Price: $150.00
Watercolor,Miniature,Punch paper and die cuts
Original miniature watercolor depicting a small boat on a shore, against a mountain and lake background. On punch paper disc measuring approx. 2.5" by 3.5"
Price: $75.00
Proof,Mezzotint,Etching
London: H.G. & Co., c.1820. Scarce mezzotint proof with etching of "Miss Nelly O'Brien", after the original painting by Joshua Reynolds. Signed "S.W. Reynolds" as engraver. Trimmed, measuring 8.5" by 6" and mounted on thicker card measuring 9.5" by 6.75". Plate mark visible.
Price: $150.00
Art Calendars
Joliet, Illinois: The Garlach-Barklow Co., 1912. Illustrated trade catalogue promoting the 1912 line of art calendars published by the Garlach-Barklow Co. of Joliet, Illinois. Distributed chiefly to stationers, it shows dozens of products newly designed for the 1912 season, offering consumers high art at a low price. Single vol. (8".....
Price: $150.00
Religion, Folk Art, Manuscript
A pencil drawing of an angel on a 9 1/2" x 8" single-fold letter sheet with embossed border decoration.. The angel is somewhat naive surrounded by a halo The penned verse reads "I would not live always, No welcome the time, Since Jesus has rain these I dread not It's.....
Price: $65.00
coloring book, art, children, la jolla, advertising, advertisement
San Diego, CA: The One and Only Coloring Book Company, 1983. 16 pp (including covers) coloring book. The front cover is in color, depicting a boy riding a flying red crayon to a castle in the sky. The coloring book acts as advertising for the neighbor hood of La Jolla.....
Price: $50.00
Original Art, Made by Hand, Baby Book
May 26th,1890. 12 leaves. vellum, bound with braided silk tie. Cover reads "Baby's Book" With quote at top "each day sees some rare unfolding of the sweet young life, the dawning of a new intelligence" from A Child Shall Lead Them. Elaborately penned with watercolor illustrations. The next page is.....
Price: $900.00
Original Watercolor,Greeting Card,Bookmark
United States: c.1900. A delicate and charming original watercolor on die-cut card, offering an Easter greeting ("Bright be thy Easter") alongside a sprig of Forget-Me-Nots and a country sunset. It is accompanied by a light green-blue silk bookmark with fringe decorated by the same artist in watercolor, with a sprig.....
Price: $55.00