Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
Illustrated Catalogue, Price List, Undergarments and Hosiery, Fabrics and Textiles
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Young, Smyth, Field Company, 1912. Fall and Winter offerings from Young, Smyth, Field Company. The expansive listing includes...
Price: $100.00
ABAA-RBMS-2023, WWII,Humor, Original Art
[Champaign, Illinois]: 1944. Seven mock-up leaves in pencil and ink manuscript for an unpublished, unrecorded WWII-era satirical serial that appears...
Price: $650.00
correspondence, drawings
1921. A plyaful yet instructive letter from a father to a daughter who presumably is away with her mother. Perhaps...
Price: $85.00
Made by Hand, Napoleon, French History
An unknown artist's naive cut-out rendering of 8 1/2" watercolor Napoleon Bonaparte. Executed in great detail to the individual braids...
Price: $225.00
Made by Hand, Original Art, Prototype
c1940s. This proto-type fireworks packet for children is in celebration of the Fourth of July. It features a child outside...
Price: $65.00
Child Development, Embroidery
c1920. A 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" The Child's Delight No. 2 Embroidery Outfit. Complete and unused with 6 doilies...
Price: $125.00
Camps for Girls, Female Friendship
Elk Lake, Michigan: Chippewa Trails Camp for Girls, 1936. Typewritten/mimeographed menu and toast program for the 1936 Chippewa Trail Banquet...
Price: $85.00
Original Watercolor,Cherry Blossom,Birds,Christmas
United States: 1900s. Christmas greeting card ("Merry Christmas") with original watercolor artwork depicting a pair of song birds perched on...
Price: $45.00
troy kinney, personal Christmas greeting, etchings, drypoints
1930. A grouping of etchings and drypoints of various dancers created by Troy, and used by Troy and his wife...
Price: $950.00
advertising to children, paper dolls, fashion, sewing, sewing patterns, gender...
United States: 1917-1996. In the 1880s companies saw a way of reaching a wider audience by creating advertising material that...
Price: $1,000.00
Pens and Writing, Correspondence, Gibson Girl, Royal Family, Abraham Lincoln...
England and United States: c.1910. A fine collection of one hundred sixty one (161) items relating to the sale of...
Price: $2,800.00
Chromolithography, Social Culture, Visual Culture, Tobacco, Cuba
1850-1880. A varied array of chromolithograph imagery depicting objects found appealing to tobacco smokers of the day. While the dates...
Price: $38,500.00
Paper Fabric Labels, Printing and Publishing, Popular Culture, Social History
[1850-1900]. The collection spanning half a century presents a sampling of over 50 paper fabric labels or "tickets" used to...
Price: $2,200.00
hand finished lithograph valentine, lovely woman rose garaden,
A single-fold printed color lithograph illustration of lovely woman seated in rose garden. Enhanced with watercolor on roses and ivy...
Price: $85.00
Lead Paint,Paint Chips and Samples
United States: National Lead & Oil Company of Pennsylvania, c.1915. Twenty-three (23) color sample swatches of different colors of lead...
Price: $110.00
Cutwork, Made by Hand, Allegory
An intricate little scene comprised of multiple layers of polished and textured paper. A young woman and a sea captain...
Price: $600.00
Victoriana, Beadwork, Playing Cards, Perforated Paper
A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top...
Price: $275.00
Victoriana, Beadwork, Playing Cards, Perforated Paper
A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top...
Price: $275.00
Frederic W. Goudy] [type design
Philadelphia, PA. Lanton Monotype Machine Company, c1930. 15 pp. Paper printed two color cover, includes examples of points and series...
Price: $85.00
made by hand, paper cuts, paper-mosaicks, Mary Delany
An array of intricately cut and decorated tiny colored paper leaves, petals, stems and bows arranged as a floral wreath...
Price: $1,200.00
Cutwork, Devotional, Made by Hand, Watercolor, Scherenschnitte, Canivet
A 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" delicate hand made paper devotional or "Nun Cut" Flaming hearts surrounded by roses and...
Price: $350.00
Cutwork, Silhouette, Made by Hand
[1820]. A 2 1/2" x 6 3/4" cutwork from a single sheet black matte paper depicts a tree, three swans...
Price: $225.00
sewing, women's work, embroidery, rug, rug patterns, catalogue, advertising, women's...
Boston, MA: E. S. Frost & Co.'s Turkish Rug Patterns, 1881. An advertising booklet for E. S. Frost & Co.'s...
Price: $110.00
Disappearing Chinamen,Sam Lloyd,Paper Engineering and Design, Mechanical Advertising Card
United States: 1930s. A clever 1930s advertisement for bicycles utilizing the "Disappearing Chinamen" visual puzzle created by paper engineer Sam...
Price: $300.00