Design
Sewing, Fashion Design, Original Art, Painting and Gouache
France: 1930s. "Pièces de Confection" is a completely unique, handmade book that showcases the skills of an unidentified French tailor or seamstress. Each page features one to three squares of sewn fabric; there are 32 squares of fabric in total. Each square is labeled carefully in black ink, and shows.....
Price: $1,500.00
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 seated on a wall holding an apple. There are 14 interlocked edge pieces and six (6) square pieces at center. Reverse is blank. The 9 1/4" x 7 1/4" paper.....
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 (10.25" by 8") with illustrated advertisement for Leonard Atwood, Builder of High & Low Pressure Steam Engines and Safety Hoisting Machinery on first leaf, company letterhead on second leaf with.....
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 Frères. Lists prices per liter and half liter, with illustrations of twenty-four of the bottles. Promotes the brands as being the most lauded in the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Note.....
Price: $125.00
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 front and the same man inside, but with a stylish hat to cover up his thinning hair. The secret, he says, is Henry, his hat maker. Has pricing and the.....
Price: $100.00
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), maker of some of the most whimsical and fanciful valentines in Victorian England. This archive of King material is notable for its design and draft material, proofs, and notes by.....
Price: $9,200.00
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 image of a fashionable young lady on the front, and an aerial view of the Lancaster Mills factory on the back. Opposite the fabric sample is a description of the.....
Price: $75.00
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, and embossed scrap. The overall effect is of a lavish natural wreath surrounding a bouquet of roses and wildflowers. Measures approx. 7.25" by 5"
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 in 1920 by Lehigh Portland Cement Co. Allows the user to determine quantity of materials needed to make one yard of rammed concrete on the recto, and specific lumber measurements.....
Price: $70.00
Mansell, Valentine,
A single fold valentine with intricate embossed lace paper cover. A horn of flowers at center surrounded by symmetrical decorative devices. Tucked in the card is a die cut page in vibrant geometric pattern and a verse, “My Hope”. Overall excellent. Scrapbook residue on reverse.
Price: $20.00
Dance Cards,German Heritage and Identity,Balls and Masquerades
[Mystic, Connecticut]: Social Society Frohsinn, 1911. Chromolithographed dance card for a February, 1911 masked ball hosted by a German heritage club, complete with attached miniature pencil and featuring an attractive embossed chromolithographed image of a masked woman on the front. Most likely the Frohsinn Hall in Mystic, Connecticut, which was.....
Price: $125.00
Perfume and Toiletries, Women's Fashion, Beauty
United States: Lynas Perfumer, 1920s. "Milady's Toilet": a 6 pp. tri-fold advertising pamphlet with chromolithographed illustrations for Lynas brand perfumes and toiletries, a company that "for over fifty years has been helping to beautify and glorify American women" (p. [1]). Includes descriptions and illustrations of the brand's products, as well.....
Price: $110.00
Tobacco Marketing, Celebrities and Historical Figures, Biographies, Chromolithography
Park Place, New York: Knapp & Company, 1890s. A partial set of miniature chromolithographed biographies (44 present here), published as part of an advertising campaign for Duke Brand Cigarettes. Each was issued in a box of cigarettes in a "collect-them-all"-type marketing ploy. Each measures approx. 3" by 1.5", is approx.....
Price: $2,400.00
Proof,Mezzotint,Etching
London: H.G. & Co., c.1820. Scarce mezzotint proof with etching of "Miss Nelly O'Brien", after the original painting by Joshua Reynolds. Signed "S.W. Reynolds" as engraver. Trimmed, measuring 8.5" by 6" and mounted on thicker card measuring 9.5" by 6.75". Plate mark visible.
Price: $150.00
Art Calendars
Joliet, Illinois: The Garlach-Barklow Co., 1912. Illustrated trade catalogue promoting the 1912 line of art calendars published by the Garlach-Barklow Co. of Joliet, Illinois. Distributed chiefly to stationers, it shows dozens of products newly designed for the 1912 season, offering consumers high art at a low price. Single vol. (8".....
Price: $150.00
Advertising to Children, Children's Books, Estes & Lauriat, Price List
Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1889. Two chromolithographed advertising cards (each 3" by 5") for children's books published by Estes & Lauriat, each designed to resemble a bound book. Each verso lists five publications, available in time for the year 1889. The publisher of these cards, William John Shuey.....
Price: $175.00
Illustrated Trade Catalogue
New York, New York: Spelman Brothers, c.1905. Illustrated trade catalogue for Spelman Brothers, a New York-based shop of eclectic "Bazaar and Bargain Goods". Offers deals on items ranging from clothing, flags, and base balls to fans, handkerchiefs, lace collars, and brooches. Spelman Brothers was most active between the 1880s and.....
Price: $150.00
Gold Leaf, Metal Leaf, Printing and Publishing, Design
New York: Baer Brothers, [1900]. A polished stock wrapper complete with content of fine Metal Leaf Bronze powder. The package boasts "With the Finish Smooth and Bright Just Like Gold Leaf" Instructions for use printed on wrapper. Printed in gold on green paper. Also includes a W. H. Kemp Co's.....
Price: $550.00
advertisement, poster, print, design, event, charity, play
Connecticut: c1925. Two hand-made posters by Anna-Louise (Rudin) Falk. She was an artist who lived in Connecticut and was known for portrait and still-life painting, illustration. These two posters are advertisements for events, the first a play and the second a charity event. "Nothing But The Truth" appears to be.....
Price: $200.00
Typewriters and Typewriting,Glyphs and Symbols,Typographic Design,Humor
United States: 1960s? A veritable "emoji incunable": three sets of whimsical shapes formed by typewriter keystrokes, including: The Parade of the "Wooden Soldiers", "Prussian Guard", and "Peter Rabbit." Note the clever use of quotation marks for rabbit ears and military hat plumes. A nice reminder that people have been making.....
Price: $85.00
Lustres, Reference
15 Page, color illustrated book, “English Gold Lustres,” by John M. Clarke, Director of the New York State Museum, published at Albany, NY in 1908. With four color plates.; Text about the history of lustred pottery, compared to that produced in English factories. Most descriptions are about gold lustres. Condition.....
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 feathers. The hand-colored silk depicts two intertwined flags, one reading "Love and Constancy" and the other a Union Jack. Octavo-sized, measuring approx. 7.5" by 5"
Price: $110.00
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, borders, and illustrations on "Warren's Cameo" brand printing paper "to be used in planning printing, and making dummies for sales purposes". Includes 16 pages on 16 leaves (reverse of each.....
Price: $150.00
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 Meyer's Handbook of Ornament, first published in 1892 by Bruno Hessling. The book is described here as "A Grammar of Art Industrial and Architectural Designing in all its Branches for.....
Price: $175.00