Art
Sentimental Novels, Female Characters, Toys Based on Books, Female Authors and Scribbling Women, Original Artwork
United States: c1860. A charming paper doll depicting the character Gertrude Flint from "The Lamplighter" by Maria Susanna Cummins, together with six overlays showing her in different circumstances: as "A School Girl"; "Nan Grant's Dependent"; "Mr. Armory's Daughter"; "Miss Emily's Friend"; "With the Kitten the Lamplighter Gave Her"; and "The.....
Price: $450.00
Penny Magazine,Serials,Shield of Achilles,Homer,Ornithology,Whig,British Politics,Rubber,Anthropology,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
London, England: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832. The British Whig MP Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), is credited with forming The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 1826 to promote scientific and artistic ideas, and highlight achievements of Western civilization. The Penny.....
Price: $100.00
Herbarium, Made by Hand
Mexico: April 5, 1877. A title page done in pressed flowers plus three (3) pressed flower works including the title page. Include one is a symmetrical floral design; the others an elaborate basket of flowers and cornucopia. Embellished with gilt Victorian scrap. Housed in 13" x 17" frames...
Price: $2,000.00
Original Artwork,Union Jack,Silk Mesh,Lace Paper,Feathers
England: 1860s. An attractive handmade Valentine featuring fine examples of silk mesh, hand-colored silk, floral lace paper, and real applied feathers. The hand-colored silk depicts two intertwined flags, one reading "Love and Constancy" and the other a Union Jack. Octavo-sized, measuring approx. 7.5" by 5"
Price: $110.00
Remembrance,Calligraphy
1843. A nice example of a remembrance token on embossed paper, "In memory of Elizabeth Frantz - Age 18 yers". On verso "Presented to Maria(?) Frank" in fine blue calligraphic writing. Measures 7.25" by 4.75"
Price: $85.00
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design, [1910]. A single fold informational brochure for the Rhode Island School of Design's Saturday Morning Classes which were for students of all ages. This brochure focuses on the drawing courses offered by them: freehand drawing, design, and mechanical drawing. As the focus of.....
Price: $55.00
Made by Hand, Women, Watercolor
c1850s. Thirteen (13) different watercolor illustrations created by Christina Potts. One illustration depicts a fine well-appointed young girl in the foreground with a wonderfully out of perspective cow and a home in the background. A hedge with abstract stone wall at side. Excellent combination of yellows, ochre, blues and green.....
Price: $975.00
engraving, etching, mental health, street performers, dancing, dances, Minuet, fishing, ship, sea sickness
London: Thomas McLean, August 1, 1835. This set of five black and white engravings were a part of the Cruikshankiana Series, printed in London by Thomas McLean. The first set was issued circa 1825, but this collection is from a reprinting in August of 1835. The majority of the prints.....
Price: $250.00
Portraiture,Victorian Folk Art
United States: 1860s. A group of seven (7) particularly lovely Victorian folk art portraits on card, rendered in pencil and ink with gouache, five of which have been glazed. Ostensibly by the same artist, the portraits depict four women and three men, each in a decorative floral border. There is.....
Price: $500.00
Kindergarten Art,Froebel,Embroidery,Pricking
United States: c.1900. Sixty (60) examples of Kindergarten Art, including forty-four (44) examples of embroidery and sixteen (16) examples of pricking (wherein paper or card stock is pricked with a needle or awl to create shapes and designs). Both have some rather fine examples, such as the final pricking design.....
Price: $500.00
Sketch Books, Note Books, History, Trade
England: c.1854. A pocket sketch book of an unidentified gentleman ("Daniel Davies"?) containing an eclectic and curious amalgamation of content: pencil sketches (a bull frog, a dog, local characters, a seaside castle, a farm); notes on recent trade, including gold being shipped from Melbourne to England; important dates of local.....
Price: $325.00
Sketch book, Lacquer Drawings, Nacre, Mother of Pearl
1842. A 9" x 5 1/2" sketch book with 24 leaves. An 1840s book in rather poor condition with better than average pencil sketches and seven (7) fine lacquer works. They include a Chinese Village scene with a rough sketch of same on adjacent page. Alphabet letters Birds a floral.....
Price: $350.00
Love and Friendship,Watercolor,Rose,Applied Leaf, Scraps
c.1850. Small embossed greeting card with applied rose and leaf, with the words "True Friendship". Measures approx. 4.5" by 3". A lovely token from one friend to another.
Price: $75.00
Original Art, Puppet Show, Fabric Swatches
1950. A charming and fanciful group of original watercolor costume design sketches for a Puppet Show. Also features a 10" x 7" backcloth design. The drawings were made in two sizes, many with attached fabric swatches. There are 19 designs at 11" x 7 1/2", most with names for the.....
Price: $1,000.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade set of thirty-five (35) Victorian paper dolls including eight (8) men and twenty-seven (27) women. Each is already dressed in a variety of styles: mourning wear, day and evening wear, and night wear. There is even a male paper doll brandishing a knife in what.....
Price: $550.00
Children's Art, Stereotypes, Minstrelsy, Original Artwork
United States: c1900. Naive children's painting on laid paper (5" by 6.75") labeled in pencil: "This is big Ben Green". "Ben Green" appears to be a man in black face or a Minstrel-type character smoking a cigar while riding a donkey. Typical African stereotyping.
Price: $225.00
Paper Dolls, Children's Illustrations, Watercolor, Toys
United States: 1930s. A particularly well-wrought and charming uncut paper doll booklet, "The Paper Doll Family", with wonderful original watercolor artwork featuring a paper doll baby with accompanying accessories and outfits. Oblong 12mo (3.5" by 6"), 4 unnumbered leaves secured with red ribbon.
Price: $450.00
Metalworking, Bent Iron, Price List
New York, New York: Venetian Iron Co. A printed prospectus promoting the art of bent iron work to amateurs, offering an upcoming catalogue from the Venetian Bent Iron Company with related tools and equipment for sale. The amateur needs no special skills, save the ability to read, and the designs.....
Price: $275.00
Social History, Visual Culture, Albums & Journals, Commonplace Books
Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1870-1880s. Large format album with 39 leaves with applied fine chromolithograph album cards and illustrations on both sides of the page, in other words 78 decorated pages. At the center of each page is an applied album cards surrounded by watercolor illustrations and elements relevant to the.....
Price: $2,400.00
Patent Medicine, Vin Mariani, Cocaine, Advertising Post Cards, Artists
1900-1910. A collection of post cards introduced in five series of thirty created by renown artists of the day. Of the 150 cards this offering includes 119 original unused post cards and 31 photocopies of the original cards (place holders). The images were created by the artist, usually designed after.....
Price: $2,600.00
Illustration Art, History of the Book, Book Dummy
Neuruppin Germany: Neu Ruppin bei Oehmigke & Riemschneider, 1860s. A 17 1/4" x 14 1/2" uncut file copy, the first run off a lithograph stone (showing register marked, printed on vibrant orange paper, It depicts four (4) pages of a book with fine illustrations and border decoration and rhyming verse.....
Price: $425.00
Rebus, Picture Story, Watercolor, Love Token
A single-fold 6 1/2" x 4 3/4" sheet with a grapevine on the cover titled A Fruitful Theme When opened a hand penned note :Although I've hear you called a "cherry" That notion i Deery. I rather choose to eat you The "apple" of my "eye" But if you only.....
Price: $125.00
Made by Hand, Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Royalty
1890s: PM. Two (2) handmade watercolor paper dolls. The first is a 4 3/4" regal woman, the second a 3 1/2" page. Each with a single costume. The lady with a fine dress and hat with flowing scarf. The page or attendant has a hooded costume and walks a dog.....
Price: $425.00