Puzzles and Riddles
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
Woven puzzle, Depictions of the Military, Visual Puzzle, World War II
Boston, Massachusetts: Ted, 1940s. A fine, uncut example of Crosspatch Puzzle No. 8, "Can you line up the Rookies?", illustrated with images of rookies in the military. The goal of the puzzle is to weave the ten illustrated strips together in such a way as to reveal a pattern with.....
Price: $300.00
friendship album, quote, quotes, poetry, poems, verse, drawing, sketches, pencil, ink, code,
1907-1912. A friendship album of Marie Campbell consisting of mostly originally poems, a few illustrations, and coded phrases, the majority of which are signed and dated. The album starts in 1907 when Marie departed St. Francis Xavier School and the first half of the album are full of notes from.....
Price: $110.00
magazine, illustrations, short stories,
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1887. 844pp. Green cloth board, stamped in red and black with gilt accents. Volume 3 starts at November 2, 1886 with No. 366 and ends with No. 417 on October 25, 1887. Harper's Young People was a weekly magazine: each issue was 16 pages.....
Price: $135.00
Puzzle Purse, Parlor Game, Amusement
[1860]. A 3" x 3 1/2" folded paper "puzzle purse" of sorts. in that the pages must be folded correctly to return it to its original form which is only the first part of the puzzle. Sawtooth painted boarder decoration on coated stock covers with applied gold scrap. Includes five.....
Price: $750.00
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
The Jolly Jig-Saw Book, jig-saw puzzles, story rhymes, No Dogs Allowed, The Good Ship “Cheese-Straw”, Piggy and the Pantry, The Monkey’s Puzzle and Mouse Mountaineers
The Jolly Jig-Saw Book, Packed with Jig-saw Puzzles and Story-rhymes. John Leng & Co., London. 1939. A hardback book that includes five (5) different rhyming verses with a relevant actual jig-saw puzzles as part of the book. Each has a small black and white illustration of the completed puzzle, that.....
Price: $425.00
Puzzles in Advertising
Carrollton, Illinois: C.E. Underwood's Bakery and Confectionary, c.1900. A delightful puzzle and premium, printed on card and used to advertise C.E. Underwood's Bakery and Confectionary. The directions are as follows: "Place a penny (or any other small article) on any star, move it along a straight line to an opposite.....
Price: $110.00
Trinket Box, Chocolate Box, Childhood Ephemera
1880s. A 3 3/4" x 3 1/2" paper covered pressed board box with applied litho of a young fair haired girl on the cover. Within are eight (8) small boxes each with a portion of the cover litho applied as though the boxes were a puzzle. Although the boxes could.....
Price: $325.00
Jigsaw Puzzle, Farm Life, Childhood Ephemera, Wooden Puzzle
N. Carpenter, c1850s. An 8 1/2" x 12" litho on wood jigsaw puzzle titled "The Life of a Farmer. The puzzle is comprised of 18 captioned vignettes. They are The Farmer and His Family, The Farm House Ricks & Stables, Milking, Churning, Making Cheese, Sheep Feeding, Ploughing, Sowing, Harrowing, Weeding.....
Price: $650.00
Original Art, Comic Art
United Kingdom: c1860s. The tone is set for this album containing 59 pen and ink and/or watercolor drawings by the verbiage on the image on the inside cover of a scroll with a whimsical lad at top reads: In Truth it is not every Book, That's suited to the Mind.....
Price: $750.00
Dorothy N. Knight, interactive
United States: Dorothy K. Werblow, 1951. Take the Children is an unique, interactive story, that involves the reader in a game. 24 pages. It is representative of Dorothy N. Knights signature style. Spiral bound litho on heavy paper covers. The book begins with six children from different lands boarding the.....
Price: $75.00
Little Tom Thumb, Children's Puzzles, H. Jannin, French, Childhood Ephemera
Paris: H. Camus, c. 1870. This six piece wooden puzzle with applied depicts a critical scene in the life of little Tom Thumb. The color lithograph is done by H. Jannin depicts the two parents at a table by a fire with sad expressions, as the caption reveals that the.....
Price: $175.00
friendship albums, rebus
Rahway, NJ: 1874. A friendship album, aptly titled "Album of Friendship", belonging to a woman by the name of Jennie. Her last name is never mentioned. The album is mostly blank, but the entries date from 1874, and when a location is noted, it is Rahway, NJ. One of the.....
Price: $130.00
Early Learning
T. Colmor, c.1950. Self-described as "An Introduction to Puzzles for the Very Young!", "On Time" consists of five illustrated die-cut cards fastened in the center with a metal grommet. Each spins, and the child must spin each card around into place to form the image. The image depicts a little.....
Price: $125.00
Civil War, Optical Illusions, Riddles
United States: c1860s. A curious optical illusion puzzle in two parts: on the recto, a warped image; on the verso, a tongue-in-cheek riddle in verse. To solve, the viewer must either glean the answer from the riddle's clues or view the image from a specific angle to reveal the image.....
Price: $125.00