Victoriana
Pictorial Lace Paper,Embossed Victorian Scrap,Pastoral and Country Scenes
England: 1850s. A finely produced 12mo Valentine made from embossed Victorian scrap, pictorial lace paper depicting a pastoral country scene, and colored paper affixed beneath the lace paper. Inside is a scrap with motto that reads, "This little tribute which I send I hope you will receive And keep it.....
Price: $50.00
Childhood Sweethearts,Victorian Scrap,Embossed
England: 1860s. A sweet 16mo valentine made from embossed paper bifolium, die-cut victorian scrap, and a decorative lithographed poem scrap that reads, "When to ladyhood, My friend, you grow, Pray don't forget Your little beau". Measures approx. 3.75" by 2.75"
Price: $45.00
Valentine,Lace Paper,Think of Me,Original Envelope,Love and Friendship,Sisterhood
England: 1850s. A handsome and very petite 32mo valentine constructed from pictorial lace paper with decorated paper peeking through and a small book-shaped applique that reads "Think of me still". Housed in the original blank envelope addressed in contemporary ink to "Deborah Ode and Eleanor Ode". The pictorial lace paper.....
Price: $125.00
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
Handmade Paper Doll,Victorian Fashion, Works by Children
United States: c.1870. A charming handmade 5" paper doll, made by hand by a girl around the age of 12. The doll has long brunette hair tied back with black ribbons, and she comes with ten (10) outfits handmade from decorated paper, skillfully cut and completed with tiny pleats, ruffles.....
Price: $250.00
British Monarch, Die-cut Scrap, British History
Eight (8) different approximately 12 1/2" x5" easel back chromollithograph Victorian scraps of British monarchy and royals. They are captioned as follows: Richard . (Coeur de Lion) 1189-1199 Anne Boleyn Wife of Henry VII 1533-1536 Queen Mary 1553-1558 Queen Elizabeth 1558-1603 Charles I. 1625-1649 Queen Ann 1702-1714 George III 1760-1820.....
Price: $600.00
Lace Paper,Marriage
England: 1860s. An attractive 16mo pictorial lace paper valentine measuring approx. 3.75" by 2.75". The lace paper itself depicts a winged cupid reclining on a cloud at the top. Below, a window in the lace paper reveals a hand-colored lithograph depicting a couple kneeling in prayer, being wed. Finished with.....
Price: $35.00
Pastoral and Country Themes,Hand-colored
United States: 1850s. A charming 12mo Valentine, with hand-colored wood engraved image of a young shepherd with two lambs and a young girl in a bright red dress. The message reads, "Ah! could you look into my heart, And watch your image there, You'd own the sunny loveliness Affection makes.....
Price: $65.00
Lace Paper,Courting
England: 1860s. A beautifully produced 16mo lace paper valentine, telling a story: at the head, the lace paper depicts a couple courting in a pastoral setting, and at the foot, they are depicting sitting together at the breakfast table. Features a floral border, and a small printed scrap in the.....
Price: $50.00
Louis Prang,Proofs,Chromolithography
[Boston, Massachusetts]: [Louis Prang], 1880s. A handsome pair of Louis Prang proofs designed using the "awake and asleep" aesthetic theme popular for a time in the Victorian period. The first image shows a little redheaded girl awake and reclining in a bucolic field with a chain of daisies around her.....
Price: $100.00
Vinegar Valentine,Blacksmithing,Penny Dreadful,Comic Valentine
England: N.p., 1860s. A "Blacksmith"-themed Vinegar Valentine, showing a rough-around-the edges blacksmith mid-swing as he pounds what looks like a horseshoe on an anvil. The text below reads: "Mr. Hammer and Tongs, pray go it, sonorous, To that sweet useful tune of the famed 'Anvil Chorus;' Like Vulcan of old.....
Price: $150.00
Illustration Art,Food & Wine,Victoriana
A three-part 19" x 11" charmstring style drop calendar for 1901.Each of the three ovals with thorny vine and rose border decoration a fine chromolithograph illustration of food and/or wine at center with four (4) calendar months. Accompanied by the verse Bounteous Gifts - May the gates of plenty, honor.....
Price: $135.00
Victoriana, Paper Doilies, Social History, Larkin Co.
Buffalo, NY: Larkin Co., c1890s. An 8" circular boxed set of graduated size embossed die-cut linen paper doilies for household decoration and craft design. The box cover has an applied doily replicating the pattern with the addition of the embossed logo and Larkin Co. Buffalo USA imprint. The sizes measure.....
Price: $150.00
Patented Fashion
Waukegan, Illinois: W.P. Yeoman, c.1874. Advertising ephemera issued to jewelers, promoting a patented set of solid gold clip-on earrings for the woman who wants to be both fashionable and practical. Includes two circulars and a matching illustrated advertising cover, each with an illustration of the product, and an image of.....
Price: $525.00
Trade Catalogue, Visiting Cards, Address Cards, Social History
Clintonville, CT: Clinton Brothers, [1880]. A twofold or 6pp brochure with an illustration of the two brothers promoting their "Fashionable Visiting and Address Cards" Special attention will be paid to orders by mail Content includes pricing information for Centennial Chromo, Illuminated Chromo and Water Cards, Glass, Embossed Mourning, French Enameled.....
Price: $225.00
Manuscript,Love Poetry,Valentine's Day,Pastoral
England: Mullard, 1860s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved octavo-sized Valentine, featuring gilt embellished lace paper, embossed Victorian scrap. This example is also notable for the extensive poem inside written in contemporary ink manuscript, beginning, "Where is another sweet as my sweet, Fair of the fair, and shy of the shy.....
Price: $125.00
Victoriana, Beadwork, Playing Cards, Perforated Paper
A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top surface is perforated or punch paper (20 punch holes/inch) with embossed die-cut gilt border. The beadwork design is created using miniature glass and metal beads. The scene depicts a lyre.....
Price: $275.00
Victoriana, Beadwork, Playing Cards, Perforated Paper
A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top surface is perforated or punch paper (20 punch holes/inch) with embossed die-cut gilt border. The beadwork design is created using miniature glass and metal beads. The scene depicts a sword.....
Price: $275.00
Lace Paper,Victorian Scrap,Silk Trim
[Worcester, Mass?]: [Whitney?], 1880s. An elaborate 8vo valentine made from lace paper, Victorian scrap, and silk trim including floral imagery and imagery of children playing outdoors. The decorations have been adhered to the bifolium with strips of paper allowing them to "pop up" or have a 3-D effect. Inside is.....
Price: $55.00
Lace Paper,Embossed Victorian Scrap
England: 1850s. An elaborate, bright and colorful 12mo Valentine made from gilded lace paper, embossed Victorian scrap, and a remarkably modern looking chromolithograph motto on the inside. The motto is titled "To My Beloved" and reads, "Swifter far than the swallow's flight, Homeward o'er the twilight lea; Swifter than the.....
Price: $50.00
Lace paper,Ballerinas,Putti,Weeping Willow
United States: 1850s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved embossed lace paper colored with blue and pink, depicting ballerinas, putti, and swans underneath a canopy of weeping willow branches. Measures approx. 4.5" by 7", for octavo-sized Valentine.
Price: $85.00
Pictorial Lace Paper,Queen Victoria
England: Winslow, 1850s. An elegant 16mo Valentine made from pictorial lace paper and different colored papers. The lace paper depicts an elegant bust of who we presume to be a young Queen Victoria, with another classical scene depicting two women lounging at the bottom. Both are surrounded by putti, wildflowers.....
Price: $125.00
Valentine's Day,Embossed
England: 1870s. An attractive 12mo embossed paper valentine with contemporary Valentine's Day inscription in ink: "I'm sure I love you very much, And I hope that you love me 'Twould make me very happy Love Your Valentine to be." The embossed border mimics lace paper. Bifolium (5.25" by 3.5").
Price: $35.00
Lace Paper,Meek
England: 1850s. An beautifully preserved valentine made from fine lace paper attributed to George Meek, featuring a floral wreath on the front assembled from several small Victorian scraps. Unused. Lace paper bifolium measuring approx. 7.25" by 4.75"
Price: $150.00