Love; Friendship
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A 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" simple Valentine’s Day card. The card has a shy girl hiding her head. She is dressed in a blue poke-a-dot dress. The young boy is trying to hold her hand and rest his head on her shoulder. He has a striped shirt with knickers.....
Price: $16.00
raphael tuck valentines, raphael tuck & sons, mechanical valentines
A 4 3/4" x 3 1/4" easel back, die cut valentine. This sweet couple is swaying to the music. They are cheek to cheek. She is a ballerina in a black top with a frilly tutu. He is wearing a green clown dress with a black cap. By her feet.....
Price: $24.00
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
charm string, edwardian valentine
A 10 1/2" embossed, die cut, four tier charm string valentine. The first tier is two winged cherubs floating on a cloud. One cherub is playing the horn. The sentiment reads 'Affections Offerings.' The next three tiers are heart shaped with roses vine borders. The second tier is a colonial.....
Price: $35.00
Die-cut valentine, Flower child
An embossed, die cut 3" x 3" girls tucked into a flower.-- flower chidren. The first girl is peeking out of a blue tulip. She has blond hair with rosy checks. The sentiment is 'My Valentine.' The second girl is tucked in the middle of an purple iris. The sentiment.....
Price: $25.00
mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine
Two die cut, 7 1/4" x 5 1/4" mechanical valentine cards. The first couple is sitting on a park bench and she has a serious look on her face. He is trying to give her a valentine card. The sentiment 'I'll Love You Always My Valentine.' In his hand he.....
Price: $34.00
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
mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine, Cupid
A die cut, 6 1/4" x 6" mechanical, hard working cupid. This valentine card shows cupid wearing bib overalls with a red heart on his knee. His left hand has a broken arrow which he is honing for a cleaner landing. The verse is on the saw blade'To My Valentine.'.....
Price: $22.00
mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine
A die cut, mechanical 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" valentine with boy strumming on a banjo. He is sitting on a stool with sheet music at his feet. On the sheets of music you can see hearts. He is wearing blue nickers with a blue tie that is hanging over.....
Price: $22.00
mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine
A die cut, 5" x 3 1/2" valentine card. A small boy is licking a green pop. The verse 'I don't care a "Lick" who knows you're mine so won't you be My Valentine.' The condition is good. Reverse has pencil inscription.
Price: $25.00
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
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 (with the appearance of a McLoughlin paper doll) at top. Embossed floral and filigree border decoration. Verse at base reads Here's a greeting for my little dear, Upon.....
Price: $50.00
Victorian Cookie, Love and Friendship, Oddities
New York: [1890s]. An elaborate cookie created in the shape of a heart with applied cornucopias and a Cupid with a floral garland. Applied gold leaf to bead-shaped border decoration. The cookie was applied to a New York City street map for cooling/stability. The map on the reverse is helpful.....
Price: $450.00
Plaited Hair, Victoriana, Folk Art, Love and Friendship
1870s. A 10" x 8" sheet with a variety of designs of plaited hair from 25 different people held in place with miniature Victorian floral scraps. From a single loop or strands to elaborate weavings of multiple hair chains and loops. Intricate fine weave. Of particular note is that all.....
Price: $750.00
Victorian, Scrap, Prints, Lithography, Hand-colored, Engravings, Prints, Graphic Arts
-1870s. A Victorian scrapbook with fine examples of early (i.e. 1830s and 1840s) scraps, with a range of others that can be dated as late as 1877. Larger lithographic prints have been repurposed as pastedowns, and several other large prints (mostly lithographed, some engraved) have been pasted throughout. Of more.....
Price: $375.00
Valentine, Vinegar Valentine, Pick Pocket
A 9 1/2" x 7" pulp paper comic valentine, also known as Penny Dreadfuls or Vinegar Valentines.It was most likely published by McLoughlin c1900 and illustrated by Charles Howard. It is captioned "A Pick-Pocket" and has a rather demeaning verse. It depicts a woman’s hand reaching into the pocket of.....
Price: $75.00
Rebus, Picture Story, Watercolor, Love Token
A single-fold 6 1/2" x 4 3/4" sheet with a grapevine on the cover titled A Fruitful Theme When opened a hand penned note :Although I've hear you called a "cherry" That notion i Deery. I rather choose to eat you The "apple" of my "eye" But if you only.....
Price: $125.00
carriers greeting, calendar, dolls, paper dolls, love, culture, britian, uk, Buckingham palace, japan, sweden
Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Press, 1910. A three page calendar for the year 1910. The calendar is a Courier Calendar that was produced by the newspaper Cleveland Press. Each page features a doll couple from a different country. The first image of dolls from Britain: the girl doll has blond hair.....
Price: $100.00
transitional art nouveau valentine, good luck, four leaf clover, horse shoe, eclectibles, valentines, parchment and rivet, paper dolls, vintage paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, children's books, folk art, juvenile books
A two part 7” x5” easel back valentine depicting a sweet young girl in yellow and blue finery holding a pink lace trimmed parasol and a basket of roses and daisies. She stands beneath a horseshoe wound with forget me not garland accented with four leaf clovers. Design transitioning from.....
Price: $45.00
valentines, sailor
A 5 3/4" x 5" die-cut, heart shaped, easel backed valentine with applied parchment with floral and leaf design held in place with rivets.The center has an image of a sailor walking with a pretty young girl. The backgroundhas an ocean scene. The final tier has gray stripe edging.The lower.....
Price: $22.00
correspondence, deathbed, morality, death, goodbye
Alexandria, NJ: 1900. In 1900 Annie Pegg wrote a letter to her husband and two children Sarah and James on her supposed deathbed (she would actually live until 1914 and have another child, Elizabeth). It is unknown if she was actually severely ill or just over dramatic, however the letter.....
Price: $50.00
Watercolor, Made by Hand, Genealogy
Wroxham,Norfolk, England: 1972. A large format album reconstructed album illustrated and narrated by Charles Arthur Hannaford. The majority of the content, excluding the narration was created by his father in law and reflected the life of Frank Albert Allchin and his wife Emily Cooper, between the years 1879 and 1929.....
Price: $2,600.00
Children of the World, International Friendship, European Heritage
United States. Dorothy K. Weeblow, 1951. A charming interactive children's book emphasizing international friendship and cultural heritage. The story revolves around six children from European countries (England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway) who are traveling across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The young reader is asked to help.....
Price: $125.00