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...
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
samples
Boston, Mass. W. C. Dodge Paper Co, 1910s. Green card stock cover of sample booklet. Contains cover samples with color...
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...
Price: $85.00
Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and...
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Fall & Winter Fashion. Contains...
Price: $95.00
One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes...
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Springtime Fashion. Contains Variations of...
Price: $95.00
Sewing Patterns,Women's Clothing
New York and Paris: 1871-1904. A group of four (4) catalogs of Victorian and Edwardian women's fashion. All are illustrated...
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...
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...
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"...
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....
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...
Price: $150.00
medicine, pharmacy, elixir, medicated wine, schools & universities, Louisville College...
Chicago, IL: J. J. Spalding & Co., 1872. A printed copy of a paper read before the Louisville College of...
Price: $125.00
Tailoring, Clothing Design, Home Economics, Learn to Sew, Stitching...
Addison, New York: c.1920. Twelve (12) hand-sewn examples of stitching by a school girl, Catherine T. Flynn, likely made in...
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...
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...
Price: $275.00