Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
Lace paper,Valentines,Embossed Victorian Scrap
England: 1850s. A particularly fine example of embossed lace paper with gilding, for use in an octavo-sized Valentine, adorned with embossed Victorian scrap. Depicts a fairy queen surrounded by flora and birds in flight, above the phrase "Queen of My Heart". The background is an elaborate series of fountains draped.....
Price: $100.00
WWII, Pearl Harbor, Patriotism
United States: 1940s. A round military patch commemorating Pearl Harbor made in the 1940s from beads, lace, and wool fabric sourced from a service member's wool blanket. The beads spell out the phrase "Remember Pearl Harbor", with concentric red, white, and blue stars in the center. Made by hand by.....
Price: $500.00
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
Bookbinding, Salesman Sample, History of the book.
Baltimore, MD & Chicago, IL: Baumgarteg & Company AND Banghart & Fischer, [September 13, 1915]. A resale company has has sent salesman sample pieces of book binding supplies to an art teach as noted in the correspondence below. The first item is a singular sample of "Russet Crepe" which has.....
Price: $150.00
Watchpaper Love Token, Scherenschnitte, paper cutwork, Love and Friendship
[1850]. A 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" cutwork or scherenschnitte love token with symmetrical hearts with sawtooth cut border decoration. A token of love and friendship, Most likely Pennsylvania Dutch. Endearing.
Price: $350.00
Italian Marble,Interior Design,Masonry
Carrara, Italy: E. Bassani Editore, c.1963. A color-illustrated trade catalogue of Italian marble for interior design, including over fifty photos of stone ranging in color from pure white to gold, green, red, and black. Each is labeled with a name (e.g. Bianco Chiaro, Serpentino, etc.). Published in Carrara, Italy by.....
Price: $200.00
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
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
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 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
Shadow Theater, Victor Hugo, French Art and Culture, Bastille Day, Cross-Cultural
Paris: Mauclair Dacier, c1903. An ornate, and rather stunning, turn-of-the-century French shadow theater set, housed in a large chromolithographed box (15.5" by 19.75" by 3") depicting the Revue du 14 Juillet … Paris, as well as two smaller scenes of the 1893 Fˆtes Franco-Russes. Underneath the lid, a printed label.....
Price: $4,000.00
Sewing Specimens, Advance sewing technique, Pedagogy
Album of sewing samples by Miss G. C. Ayres. United States, c.1900. 4to album (9.25" by 7.5"). Approx. 75 blank leaves bound in original three quarter sheep and marbled paper sides. Contains approx. 18 sewing samples, with at least two appearing to be missing. Techniques/features include: running stitch;.....
Price: $350.00
Printing & Publishing, Lithography, Imps, Race and Racism, Chromolithography
United States: 1901. Ten (10) vibrant two-sided chromolithograph prints advertising printing inks, dry colors, varnishes, bronze powders, and paper, with one advertising a company offering engraving, electrotyping, and photography. Four (4) different companies are represented in this grouping including the Ault & Wiborg Company, J. Manz, Jaenecke Printing Ink Co......
Price: $2,000.00
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
Hand lettered,Calligraphic flourishes,Love Poetry
United States: 1870s. A hand-lettered love poem "To Frederick", with calligraphic flourishes at the foot. Note the lettering, which mimics printed type; replicating letter forms with serifs in ink by hand is harder than it looks, and shows concerted effort. On lined blue paper measuring approx. 5.75" by 5.75" Oh.....
Price: $125.00
Silk embroidery, embroidery, needle point, needle artwork
New York: M Heminway Sons Silk Co., c1900. 107 pp. A comprehensive guide to various patterns for needle point utilizing the manufacturer's products to make them. This catalog is the 8th in the series. It starts with a beginners guide to needlepoint, along with B&W photographs of the various stitches.....
Price: $50.00
watercolor folk art, 1880s, Victoriana, friendship album, eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines, documents, correspondence
Hand Made Birthday Album - A Tribute to Our Grandmother on her Eightieth Birthday, January 12, 1886 from her ever affectionate Grandchildren Velvet covered album with handmade works demonstrating penmanship, stitchery, watercolor Acrostic Prayer surrounded by a watercolor of the Holy Bible Three (3) pen and ink drawings of.....
Price: $600.00
Fibers and Textiles, Doilies, Tatting, Lace, Handmade
United States: 1900. Two (2) handmade books by the same anonymous maker displaying twelve (12) handmade "fibre doyleys". Each doily is unique and measures approx. 5.5" in diameter; the fiber used appears to be a very, very fine organic fiber . Displays the anonymous maker's remarkably fine hand skills. Each.....
Price: $475.00
thread, sewing, samples, sample set, cotton thread, silk thread
J & P Coats and Gudebrod Brothers Company, c1880. The first sample thread set in this collection was produced by J & P Coats, and has 21 different shades of spool cotton thread. On the front cover is an image of two women seating in a field, with one sewing.....
Price: $120.00
Historical Paper Dolls, Advertising Paper Dolls, Newspaper Supplements
Brook's Spool Cotton, c.1900. An uncut paper doll, produced as an advertising premium for Brook's Spool Cotton. When assembled, the paper doll stands on its own. It is a young blonde man with three hats/wigs and four different outfits, all fancy 17th century dress. Measures 7.5" by 6.5", instructions printed.....
Price: $175.00
New York Golden Age, Fraternal Organizations, Masquerade Ball
New York City: Louis E. Neuman, 1887. A 7 1/2" x 4 3/4" used ball ticket for the Arion Grand Masquerade Ball at Metropolitan Opera House. The front depicts a jester playing a stringed instrument, perhaps a zither, with a trumpeter in the background, surrounded by vignettes of revelers completing.....
Price: $175.00