Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
Hair Art, Love and Friendship, School Girl
c1820s. Single-fold 5" x 3 3/4" sheet with sentiment and circle of plaited hair and decorative hand cut paper hearts...
Price: $175.00
Lustres, Reference
15 Page, color illustrated book, “English Gold Lustres,” by John M. Clarke, Director of the New York State Museum, published...
Price: $85.00
Original Artwork,Union Jack,Silk Mesh,Lace Paper,Feathers
England: 1860s. An attractive handmade Valentine featuring fine examples of silk mesh, hand-colored silk, floral lace paper, and real applied...
Price: $110.00
Remembrance,Calligraphy
1843. A nice example of a remembrance token on embossed paper, "In memory of Elizabeth Frantz - Age 18 yers"...
Price: $85.00
Halftone Printing,Sales Dummies,Trade Catalogue Printing and Design,Modern Job Printing
Boston, Massachusetts: S.D. Warren Company, c.1910? "This book was made to be cut up": a trade catalogue of type, initials...
Price: $150.00
Trade Catalogue, Locks and Locksmiths,Prisons
Rochester, New York: Sargent & Greenleaf Inc., 1931. Illustrated trade catalog for prison and vault locks sold by Sargent &...
Price: $325.00
Paper with a Secret, hidden message, mechanical paper
At first glance one sees an artfully executed watercolor stem with leaves topped by blue and yellow polished paper pinwheel...
Price: $450.00
Architecture, History of architecture, Prospectuses and advertisements
New York, New York: Bruno Hessling, Publisher, 1890s. Illustrated bifolium prospectus (10.75" by 7") for the Third Revised Edition of...
Price: $175.00
Punch paper,Love,Bookmark
19th century. A small green silk ribbon bookmark measuring approx. 1" by 5", with a scrap of punch paper reading...
Price: $65.00
Social History, Sewing, Gender Roles, Women's History
NY: Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann Lith. [1880]. A 2 1/2" x 4" paper trade card. It depicts an admiring woman...
Price: $85.00
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
Price: $75.00
Shadow Theater, Victor Hugo, French Art and Culture, Bastille Day...
Paris: Mauclair Dacier, c1903. An ornate, and rather stunning, turn-of-the-century French shadow theater set, housed in a large chromolithographed box...
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...
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