Paper Playthings & Toys
Magic,Parlor Tricks,Paper Folding and Engineering,Clever Novelties,Transformation
N.pl: 1890s. A clever "magic book" made from simple paper engineering principles: the "book" reveals different images through a cut window depending on how it is unfolded. Made from paper printed with whimsical illustrations secured to pink construction paper "covers" with two scraps as decoration. Each of the images shows.....
Price: $350.00
scrap baby,embossed die-cut scraps
Two 5" embossed, die-cut Victorian scraps of toddlers. Â Each wearing a lacey& dress with blue ribbon. One smiling child is holding a rattle in her left hand and her right hand is to her lips. ;The other is curiously playing with a wooden toy.
Price: $24.00
Made by Hand, Works by Children, Paper Doll, Pretend Play
[1950s]. Two (2) pen and ink and watercolor paper dolls depicting sisters. The older sister is 5" with 9 costumes for school and play. The younger sister is 3 1/4" with 6 costumes. Each includes night ware. Well drawn and colored in an array of 1950s fashions...
Price: $50.00
Paper Plaything, Victorian Scrap, Paper Doll
c1870s. Four (4) different 6" embossed die-cut Victorian scraps of infants or young toddlers. Each with a different flowing gown. Three of the four hold objects. One is in a high chair with the tails of the gown tucked under the legs of the chair. What makes these items particularly.....
Price: $125.00
Pretend Play, Paper Soldiers, Military, France
France: Imagerie de Nancy, Pellerin and Reunies de Jarville Nancy, [1870]. Six (6) different 15.5" by 11.5" uncut French paper soldiers. They include the Artillerie (Artillery), Drapeaux de l'armee francaise (flags of the French army) Dragons, Armee Francaise Turco et Spahi (Regiments), Armee francaise. Artillerie (Artillery) with 170 artillery men.....
Price: $500.00
toy, modular toy, German toy, paper toys
This is one of Germany's most famous classic toys. It is a modular toy system, first designed in the art institution in Rudolstadt by artists, illustrators and architects. One would cut out the doors and place them on the grid provided. There are two pages of uncut figures, with a......
Price: $60.00
Paper Folding and Cutting, Paper Crafting
United States: c.1920. A rare survival: printed guide to paper tearing and folding, including three separate patterns: "Star", "Pilot Wheel", and "Table Cover". Printed in red on thick white paper, measuring 12" by 4.75", verso blank.
Price: $100.00
Color Theory, Composition, Art for Children
Battle Creek, Michigan, and Boston, Massachusetts: General Foods and Artbilt Publishers, 1933. An uncut paper play set poster (30" by 20.75", color-printed, recto only) produced by General Foods that helps young children "Learn, through play, the actual principles of art-- composition, perspective and color-harmony! No artistic ability is required to.....
Price: $325.00
Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series, Board games, dice games, games for girls
New York: McLoughin Brothers, 1870. 16 pp, (including covers) Game of croquet, Game of spider and the fly, Game of pearl fisheries, Game of falconry, Game of fishing, and Game of naval engagement. Each game is a board game, with an illustration. A part of Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series.....
Price: $175.00
paper toys, paper towns, toy towns, paper dolls
1920s to 1930s. A complete set of the paper town 'Bonneville', with four attractive building and twenty five cutout figures. Comes in the original box. Punch-out houses are approx. 3" high The box is slightly soiled and toned due to age. The figures and buildings are unpunched, and each sheet.....
Price: $150.00
Childhood Ephemera, Picture Puzzle, Architecture for Children
1900: Germany. Four (4) different litho on wood jigsaw picture puzzles (Two puzzles printed on both sides). What makes this particularly interesting is that the pieces can also be used to create the architectural elements noted on the inside of the box lid. Housed in a wooden box. Also includes.....
Price: $375.00
Advertising to Children, Children Shoes, Paper Plaything, Pretend Play
Chicago: C.M. Henderson & Co., 1890s. The Little Red School House was a trademark of the C. M. Henderson & Co., and an image of it was stamped on the bottom of one of each pair of shoes it sold. In order to promote the company's 'Red School House Shoes'.....
Price: $85.00
Coloring and Painting Book,Learn to Paint
Germany: c.1900. A charming coloring book for children, printed in Germany for what we presume is the American toy market. The front depicts an artist at his easel painting a pet dog, with a child watching. Inside, the coloring book is comprised of four panels at unfold to reveal two.....
Price: $125.00
Child Development, Embroidery
c1920. A 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" The Child's Delight No. 2 Embroidery Outfit. Complete and unused with 6 doilies , 12 embroidery skeins and 3 embroidery needles. Imagery of little girl happily embroidering on envelope and needle envelope. The paper envelope the kit came in is toned due to.....
Price: $125.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Christmas
Germany: Unknown, c1850s. A 4 1/4" two-sided paper boy doll and his seven (7) two-sided costumes that include background scenes. The boys costumes correlate with occupations/activities and include: Arbalist (crossbowman) scholar with a book a masquerade costume a huntsman a professor with a globe an ice skater recreating with a......
Price: $475.00
advertising to children, paper dolls, fashion, sewing, sewing patterns, gender roles
United States: 1917-1996. In the 1880s companies saw a way of reaching a wider audience by creating advertising material that was directed towards a young audience. The hope was that children might help to direct their parent's spending habits. By the early 1900s, advertisers had perfected this technique and had.....
Price: $1,000.00
Toys, Children, Advertising, Doll Houses
Philadelphia: Ketterlinus, 1895. Uncut sheet (7" by 7"), chromolithograph with foldable furniture for a doll house dining room. Produced by Cosmo Buttermilk Soap Co., it was part of a promotion wherein the customer would send in proof of purchase in exchange for one such dollhouse sets. Each piece promotes a......
Price: $225.00
Dancing Dolls,Women in Magic,Magicians and Magic,Paper with a Secret
Woodside, Long Island: N.p., 1930s. "Never one dull moment" with the Dell O'Dell Dancing Doll, a fun moveable doll that comes alive with just the addition of two fingers: "Thrust fingers thru holes in card. Put on the booties. The rest is up to you! Anyhow, you'll be kept out.....
Price: $300.00
Paper Doll Book,Paper Engineering,Moveable Paper Dolls,Ventriloquism
[Racine, Wisconsin]: Whitman Publishing Co., c.1938. A complete, uncut copy of a paper doll book for children of a ventriloquist doll, "Edgar Bergen's Charlie McCarthy". What sets this paper doll book apart is that it has a movable mouth that can be attached to the doll. There is a second.....
Price: $250.00
Die cut, social situations, wheel barrow, outdoor scene
1870s. Shows a die cut outdoor scene of five children playing with a wheelbarrow. The girl on the left of the scene is also carrying a jump rope. It has the verse written on it: "Merrily pass the sunny hours of our holiday: All amongst the pretty flowers, As we.....
Price: $65.00
Learning Through Play,Farms and Barnyard Animals,Early Learning,Toy Book,Stencil Art
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1953. A delightful book of stencils for children, made from four heavy die cut card stock leaves interspersed with colored construction paper. Encourages imagination by prompting the child to trace different characters from different leaves onto the same leaf, thereby making completely new scenes. Includes.....
Price: $100.00
Paper Play,Dollhouse Furniture
N.pl: Built Right Toys, c.1940s. In original litho on pasteboard box. Heavy stock punch out pieces of furniture with instructions for assembly on reverse. The directions are hidden when the furniture is assembled. Includes Living Room, Bedroom, Dining Room, Bathroom and Kitchen. Box measures 8.25" by 14.25". End apron lacking.....
Price: $175.00
ABAA-HOLIDAY-2025,Early Learning,Froebel Influenced, Weaving,Kindergarten Art
[Germany]: [1855]. A 10.50" by 8.25" card box with applied litho with albumin wash label depicting a mother and children creating braided yarn and braided paper. Applied gold bead scrap border decoration. Within is a form and supplies for creating braided or woven paper. Also paper weaving supplies. Also includes.....
Price: $1,600.00
Peter G. Thomson, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1880s. The paper dolls were part of a series of uncut small format penny paper dolls each with one doll and three costumes with matching hats and a cover. This group includes Alice, Mary Bell, Rhoda, and Sallie. They are all uncut and complete sets. Closed.....
Price: $825.00