Love; Friendship
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An embossed, die cut, fold down, 10 3/4" by 6" four tier valentine card. Once opened you can see the bright red honeycomb located under the pair of dove birds sitting on a climbing rose bush. To the left is a young girl holding a basket of flowers. In front.....
Price: $50.00
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. The verse reads: "Dear Cousin will you accept this book, Ts all I have to send, And as often as you read it Please Remember your friend. Eliaz Ann Nittleton.....
Price: $175.00
Friendship Token, Plaited Hair, Love & Friendship
Galway: 1851. A 4" x 3 3/4" friendship sentiment with an eternal ring of plaited hair with a pink ribbon at base "In future years when turning to survey, The happy joys of many a well spent day. Recalling scenes of pleasure long gone by. If on this lock of.....
Price: $150.00
International Friendship,Tolerance Through Play
United States: N.G.Y., 1910s. A scarce grouping of twelve (12) uncut paper dolls, each of a different nationality and performing its own "native dance" and encouraging international friendship and tolerance. Each doll has at least two outfits that slip over their heads with accessories and hats. All are girls, and.....
Price: $300.00
Judaism, Weddings, Celebrations, Chatunah
Germany: c.1900. Movable pop-up card made from embossed die-cut chromolithographed Victorian scrap, pink silk cord, and folded tissue paper. Depicts a traditional Jewish wedding, or "nissuin", with the happy couple and family underneath a "chuppah" (wedding canopy), surrounded by doves, against a backdrop of bright blue flower garlands in the.....
Price: $250.00
Remembrance,Calligraphy
1843. A nice example of a remembrance token on embossed paper, "In memory of Elizabeth Frantz - Age 18 yers". On verso "Presented to Maria(?) Frank" in fine blue calligraphic writing. Measures 7.25" by 4.75"
Price: $85.00
Punch paper,Love,Bookmark
19th century. A small green silk ribbon bookmark measuring approx. 1" by 5", with a scrap of punch paper reading "Love" in miniature cross stitch.
Price: $65.00
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 embossed Victorian scrap. Depicts a fairy queen surrounded by flora and birds in flight, above the phrase "Queen of My Heart". The background is an elaborate series of fountains draped.....
Price: $100.00
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An 8” x 5 ½” easel back embossed die-cut valentine. Depicts a Revolutionary era gentleman on bended knee with a large package captioned ‘From Heart to Heart’. It opens to reveal a row of love birds and blue birds amidst vining roses. A small paper honeycomb at front. A verse.....
Price: $100.00
Diecut valentine, sailor
A 10 1/2" x 8" die-cut, embossed, multi- tier valentine is loaded with charm.The first tier has big pink and white flowers in a heart shape design with twolove birdsholding pinkflowers. Under this tier ispink scrap carnations with a sailor holding a heartwith a verse' To My Valentine'. The final.....
Price: $30.00
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. A token of love and friendship, Most likely Pennsylvania Dutch. Endearing.
Price: $350.00
Writers, Valentine's Day, Love and Friendship
London, England: Printed for Mrs. Perks, 1814. A particularly rare Valentine Writer with hand-stenciled Cruikshank frontispiece printed in 1814. Provides sweet and amusing messages to send to your sweetheart, tailored to their profession. Includes messages for every trade from Actor, Fish-Monger, and Tallow-Chandler, to Auctioneer, Tailor, Pastry-Cook and Engraver. The.....
Price: $650.00
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". A lovely token from one friend to another.
Price: $75.00
Comic Valentine, Occupations, Love and Friendship
1838-1842. A single-fold hand colored vinegar valentine or Penny Dreadful with embossed decorative border. It depicts a seated gentleman with a Cossack style-hat and exaggerated nose. He is holding a box of "Blackguard". It is captioned: A Snuffer I abhor? Don't say you me adore. Your presence I abhor, And.....
Price: $60.00
Love and Friendship, Poetry
1829. A single-fold 10" x 8" valentine with a handcolored lithograph image in the shape of a heart. A stately somewhat voluptuous woman amidst large rose blossoms. The verse begins " As roses other flowers excel...Twist happy Man and Wife". Inside pages blank. A crown watermark with "J & M......
Price: $300.00
Christianity, Porn, Premarital Sex, Teenagers, Drinking, Smoking, Texas, Baptist, Lung Cancer
Dallas, Texas: The Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, c.1959. A grouping of seven (7) brochures, five (5) under the title "Teen Talk" presented by the Texas Baptist Christian Life commission and two (2) by the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.....
Price: $275.00
Love and Friendship, Lace Paper
1850s-60s. A 4 1/2" x 7" hinged lace paper on cover only. A somewhat overly decorated lace paper tinted peach colored. There are symmetrical archways on the right and left; each with a gold embellished scrap with a man on bended knee aside a woman. Scrap applied on a purple.....
Price: $75.00
Turner and Fisher, Valentine
Philadelphia; New York: Turner & Fisher, c. 1845. Quarto. hand colored Cupid with bow and arrow rides atop a butterfly. An eight (8) line verse concludes with "And make thy life one long Love's Holiday...With a whimsical decorative border along the top invoking the spirit of playful romance for whoever.....
Price: $150.00
Hand lettered,Calligraphic flourishes,Love Poetry
United States: 1870s. A hand-lettered love poem "To Frederick", with calligraphic flourishes at the foot. Note the lettering, which mimics printed type; replicating letter forms with serifs in ink by hand is harder than it looks, and shows concerted effort. On lined blue paper measuring approx. 5.75" by 5.75" Oh.....
Price: $125.00
Chromolithography, Lace Paper, Children
1870s. A lovely chromolithographed lace paper Valentine, "To My Little Favourite", depicting a young child catching butterflies. Measures 5" by 3.5", and includes three small scraps, two of which are floral. Edges of lace paper have been colored violet.
Price: $65.00
Vinegar Valentines, Humor, Job Printing, Gender, Masculinity, Gender Roles, Family and Domestic Work
London: G. Ingram, 1860s. Two (2) large Vinegar Valentines produced by G. Ingram of London. These particular Vinegar Valentines are quite large compared to others produced at the time; one here measures 25.5" by 9.25", while the other measures 21" by 8.25". Most would generally be about a third or.....
Price: $450.00
Public Health,Syphilis,Gonorrhea,Sexually Transmitted Infections,Quack Medicine
Springfield, Illinois: Illinois Department of Public Health, c.1935. Two (2) public health booklets on sexually transmitted infections (referred to here as venereal disease), covering Syphilis and Gonorrhea, published for the general public by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Describes what the infections are, what dangers they pose, and how.....
Price: $225.00
frances brundage, blue forest, hinged valentine, daisy flower child
An 8” x 6” three-part hinged valentine. Two sections with blue foliage and purple tree trunks, framing die-cut of boy daisy flower child holding a giant feather quill pen and a valentine. An applied heart at front reads To my Valentine. Excellent condition.
Price: $40.00
Love and Friendship, Valentine, McLoughlin Bros.
New York, NY: [McLoughlin Bros.], 1870s. A 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" single fold valentine with color lithograph of a young girl holding her dolly(the girl has the appearance of a McLoughlin paper doll) at top. Embossed floral and filigree border decoration. Verse at base reads This little letter which.....
Price: $50.00