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...
Price: $375.00
Woven puzzle, Depictions of the Military, Visual Puzzle, World War...
Boston, Massachusetts: Ted, 1940s. A fine, uncut example of Crosspatch Puzzle No. 8, "Can you line up the Rookies?", illustrated...
Price: $300.00
friendship album, quote, quotes, poetry, poems, verse, drawing, sketches, pencil...
1907-1912. A friendship album of Marie Campbell consisting of mostly originally poems, a few illustrations, and coded phrases, the majority...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $325.00
The Jolly Jig-Saw Book, jig-saw puzzles, story rhymes, No Dogs...
The Jolly Jig-Saw Book, Packed with Jig-saw Puzzles and Story-rhymes. John Leng & Co., London. 1939. A hardback book 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...
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...
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...
Price: $650.00
Acrostic Charade, Victorian parlor games, Christmas
1892. A 4 pp. supplement devoted to Acrostic Charade and Character Analysis. The cover illustration is an enactment of Acrostic...
Price: $85.00
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...
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....
Price: $75.00
Works by Children, Children's Periodicals
[1940]. A series of stories and puzzles written by and for children. It is titled "Our Chat" Forty-five total pages...
Price: $850.00
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $125.00