Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
Made by Hand, Love Token, watch Paper
A 1.75" in diameter sawtooth cut watch paper love token. A somewhat naive watercolor basked filed with roses, tulips, anemone...
Price: $275.00
Scroll Puzzle, McLoughlin, Childhood Ephemera, Chromolithography
New York, NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1897. No. 540. A 10" x 8" chromolithograph on heavy cardboard depicting an crying toddler...
Price: $325.00
Engineering and Design, Steam Engines, Elevators
New York, New York: Leonard Atwood, Builder of High & Low Pressure Steam Engines and Safety Hoisting Machinery, 1870s. Bifolium...
Price: $225.00
Liquor and Liqueurs,French,Luxury Products and Advertising
Paris, France: Maison Rocher Frères, c.1900. An attractive chromolithographed folding trade card for the French liquor and liqueur distributors Rocher...
Price: $125.00
cutwork, Cobbold
A 10" x 7 1/2" sheet with a cutwork depicting a woman riding a horse, all cut from a single...
Price: $425.00
Tongue-in-Cheek Advertising,Men's Fashion, Paper with a Secret
Paris, France: Chapeau Henry, 1890s. A tongue-in-cheek 1890s advertising card for a Parisian hat maker, showing a balding man on...
Price: $100.00
drawings, song bird, doodles, cartoons
1924-1925. A album featuring a series of drawings depicting the characters Cho and Patricia, a song bird and pig respectively...
Price: $550.00
Business Archive, Love and Friendship, Valentines, Design and Samples
1850-1906. An important archive of business correspondence and ephemera amassed by the Valentine maker and collector Jonathan King Jr. (1836-1911)...
Price: $9,200.00
Mother's Helper
1920s. A hard cover folio with a watercolor of an elegant lady holding a feather fan on the front cover...
Price: $95.00
Lancaster Mills, Fabric Swatches and Samples
Clinton, Massachusetts: Lancaster Mills, c.1890. An attractive and well-preserved sample of gingham fabric, contained within a lithographed card bifolium with...
Price: $75.00
Reward of Merit, Original Art, Calligraphy
Cheney L'yonne: 1846. A 14 1/2" x 18" paper reward penned in black and green ink. Presented to a young...
Price: $400.00
Educational Material, Pedagogy, Kindergarten, Froebel
Cedar Falls, Iowa: J.S. Latta, Inc., c.1900. A sample set of four (4) sewing cards, housed in the original printed...
Price: $85.00
sewing, sewing cards, women's work, business history,
Cedar Falls, IA; Huntington, WV; Memphis, TN: J. S. Latta Inc., ? A set of four sewing cards were produced...
Price: $85.00
Valentine,Lace Paper,Scrap,Artificial Flowers
UK: Wood, 1850s. A lavishly decorated handmade octavo Valentine made from lace paper, silk artificial flora, real sprigs of flora...
Price: $125.00
Construction, Measurement and Conversion Charts, Moveables and Volvelles
Allentown, Pennsylvania: Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 1920. A handy celluloid volvelle lumber scale with twelve (12) points of information, produced...
Price: $70.00
Christmas, verse
Two (2) stocking shaped pages tied together with string. Written in pencil at the top is "Robert B." The first...
Price: $125.00
Women's Fashion Design
[Hendersonville, North Carolina]: March 23rd, 1908. A letter written to "Dearest" from "Your devoted friend", giving the heartbreaking news of...
Price: $225.00
Love Tokens, Love & Friendship,
United States: 1880s. An accordion-style, heart-shaped folding love token pocket (4.25" by 4.5") with navy ribbon closures at top and...
Price: $175.00
Macramé, Knotting, Victoriana, 1970s, Made by Hand
[1970s]. A 6 3/4" x 8 3/4" sample book with 10 different examples of fine macramé knotting. Worked in white...
Price: $250.00
Mansell, Valentine,
A single fold valentine with intricate embossed lace paper cover. A horn of flowers at center surrounded by symmetrical decorative...
Price: $20.00
Humor,Clubs and Organizations
United States: The Narcisses Club, c.1930s. What appears to be a tongue-in-cheek fictional speech given at a meeting of "The...
Price: $150.00
Reward of Merit, Made by Hand,
May happiness thy steps attend In this role of tears my friend And when this vale of tears is shed...
Price: $75.00
Valentine, Love & Friendship, Courtship
1830s. Single page sheet with two cut-out and applied lithographs of gents; one appearing to be a barber. A rather...
Price: $225.00
Ships, Manuscript, Drawings, Transportation
c1928. A hand crafted paper book with 24 leaves. It includes 10 watercolors of ships throughout the ages from the...
Price: $575.00