Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
WWII, Pearl Harbor, Patriotism
United States: 1940s. A round military patch commemorating Pearl Harbor made in the 1940s from beads, lace, and wool fabric...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $350.00
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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"...
Price: $225.00
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...
Price: $50.00
watercolor folk art, 1880s, Victoriana, friendship album, eclectibles, paper dolls...
Hand Made Birthday Album - A Tribute to Our Grandmother on her Eightieth Birthday, January 12, 1886 from her ever...
Price: $600.00
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...
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...
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...
Price: $175.00
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $150.00