Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
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
Women's History, Victoriana, Social History
c1870. A 5 1/2" x 2" brass clip of sorts with a lock in the shape of a decorative heart . A brass circle at top to attach to a chain on a chatelaine. Used by Victorian women predominantly from the 1840s-1880s. Most often hung from a chatelaine for easy.....
Price: $225.00
Made by Hand, Victoriana, Flora,
[1860s]. An 8 3/4" x 9 1/4" cut in the shape of a leaf with a silk ribbon tie. The cover has a shield shaped opening backed with silk mesh. Fern fronds and leaves arranged in a decorative display. Heavy stock covers. Six (6) interior blank pages. Sandwiched between the.....
Price: $475.00
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
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
Dolls, Sewing Patterns, Germany
Germany: c.1900. German sewing patterns and instructions for making bathing costumes and accessories for a porcelain doll, housed in the original publisher's portfolio. The contents include: one loose chromolithographed plate with illustrations of the finished garments (7.25" by 5", verso blank); one [4] pp. printed instructions booklet (5.25" by 4.5");.....
Price: $225.00
Watercolor, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play
[1905]. Affluence abounds in this pretend play family of three (3) watercolor children with costumes and their governess or nurse. The infant has three (3) watercolor outfits. Note how the governess can securely hold the baby given the position of her arms. The older girls have four (4) and five.....
Price: $375.00
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
Reward of Merit, Pinprick, Watercolor, Made by Hand
A 6" x 7 1/2" hand penned and watercolor Reward of Merit addressed to George G. Stover for Non-absence, Improvement in School, District No.__. Two stems of watercolor stippled rosebuds with nicely detailed Leaves. Of particular note is the interesting "ghost" of the flowers on the reverse of the reward.....
Price: $150.00
samples
Boston, Mass. W. C. Dodge Paper Co, 1910s. Green card stock cover of sample booklet. Contains cover samples with color and paper weight. Shows samples for various companies. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" all pages and binding intact, slight wear on edges of cover.
Price: $75.00
Perfumes,Marketing to Women,Handkerchief Extracts
New York, New York: Wenck Perfumes, c.1900. A c.1900 advertising handbill for Wenck Perfumes, marketing their perfume to well-off women as "handkerchief extracts" to lightly perfume a handkerchief. Features an illustration of their elaborate bottle design for "Gilsey House" perfume. Lists the dozens of scents available, ranging from "Acacia" to.....
Price: $85.00
Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and Suits, Misses' fashion, Junior Fashions
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Fall & Winter Fashion. Contains Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and Suits, Misses' fashion, Junior Fashions and more. Black & white fashion illustrations with multiple views often showing variations on a......
Price: $95.00
One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes, Junior Fashions, Millinery Fashions
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Springtime Fashion. Contains Variations of One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes, Junior Fashions, Millinery Fashions and more. Black & white fashion illustrations with multiple views often showing variations on a pattern.....
Price: $95.00
Sewing Patterns, Women's Clothing
New York and Paris: 1871-1904. A group of five (5) items relating to Victorian and Edwardian women's fashion, including three catalogs of garment patterns and two catalogs advertising clothing and accessories sold by upscale department stores. All are illustrated with prices, and highlight the growing availability of fashion to the.....
Price: $250.00
Beauty and Body Image,Marketing to Women,Skin Care,Hair Care
United States: 1929-c.1955. A small grouping of ephemera advertising beauty products to women, spanning the dates 1929 and c.1955. Includes an actual trial package of hair waving compound in the original envelope Provides interesting insight into what has, and has not, changed about beauty standards in America for women, as.....
Price: $850.00
illustation, watercolor, ink, drawings, comic, comic strip, comic book, advertisements
c1920s - 1940s. A collection of over seventy (70) pieces of artwork by A S Van Eerde. The work is in various stages of completion, such as notes, outlines, sketches, illustrations, and completed works. A S Van Eerde was a commercial artist that designed advertisements for clients. He also sold.....
Price: $750.00
Original Art, Made by Hand, Poetry and Verse, Anthropomorphism
[1930s]. Ten (10) original hand penned verses, each with charming relevant drawings. All are on a single 12" x 9" art board except for the tale of A Mouse and a Beetle and a sweet baby Sausage who lived together. This particular tale, written in five verses has a sad.....
Price: $1,750.00
Original Poetry, Pens, Humor, Manuscript
[West Virginia?]: 1914. A charming original manuscript poem in blue ink titled "Pen", signed by A.G. Wilcox: "Pen is a thing that they write with Pen is a thing that will brake[sic] Pen is a thing to keep in the house..." Concludes with "Pen is a thing that they write.....
Price: $150.00
Private Printing, Women's Health, Satire, Facsimiles, Illustration
1930s. A quirky illustrated facsimile of an eighteenth-century treatise written as a hoax. The disgruntled author had been rejected by the Royal Society for membership in 1750, and his response was to publish proof "that a Woman may conceive, and be brought to Bed, without any Commerce with a Man".....
Price: $150.00
medicine, pharmacy, elixir, medicated wine, schools & universities, Louisville College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
Chicago, IL: J. J. Spalding & Co., 1872. A printed copy of a paper read before the Louisville College of Pharmacy by Conrad Lewis Diehl (1840-1917) during a pharmaceutic meeting at the College. Diehl was a prominent pharmacist of his time, and the paper includes information on how to make.....
Price: $125.00
Tailoring, Clothing Design, Home Economics, Learn to Sew, Stitching , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Addison, New York: c.1920. Twelve (12) hand-sewn examples of stitching by a school girl, Catherine T. Flynn, likely made in a sewing or home economics class. Penned in her finest cursive. The techniques used include: running stitch; even basting; two examples of uneven basting; diagonal basting; two examples of gauging;.....
Price: $250.00
medicine, notes, skeletal system, anatomy, foot, leg, bones, drawings
March 1888. A wonderfully detailed notebook which features notes on the skeletal system of the leg and foot, including all of their bones, cartilages, and ligaments that support and give shape to the body structures. The notes are legible, though not easily understood, unless one is familiar with the skeletal.....
Price: $150.00
Penmanship, Calligraphic Drawing
Concord, New Hampshire: National School of Business, c1900. Printed advertisement for E.L. Glick's National School of Business, with a striking visual: an engraved reproduction of a calligraphic drawing of a horse, made almost entirely of flourishes. Aside from being the proprietor of one of the most successful business schools of.....
Price: $275.00